Buck 65 to Kanye West: 10 goriest music videos from the least likely artists
WARNING: graphic and potentially offensive material ahead. Like the nice guy living next door who turns out to be a serial killer, there’s a glut of great, gory music videos from bands you’d never...
View ArticleSHIFT on October 30
Welcome to Shift, where Tom Allen takes you on a daily musical journey from the stalwarts of Classical music to the cutting edge of Contemporary tunes. Join us here on CBC music for a round-up of the...
View ArticleBucky Award 2012: nominations open for ‘#SocialButterfly’ (Best use of social...
Do you remember what your life was like in 2007? It was the time before the Facebook takeover, before Twitter, when “hashtag” sounded like a game involving a breakfast food. Oh, how times have changed....
View ArticleTastes of the Tour Bus: Dan Griffin of The Arkells on the rough and the...
For a band on tour, what's the next most important thing to performing? Eating, of course! Every band that has hit the cold roads of Canada has its favorite restos, diners, coffee shops and...
View ArticleWatch Corb Lund get buried alive in new video
Alberta honky-tonker Corb Lund, who usually dresses in his best plaids and tops it off with a white cowboy hat, gets down and dirty in his new video for "Dig Gravedigger Dig." Given the nature of the...
View ArticleDragonette on Q
Dragonette stopped by Studio Q to play songs from their new album Bodyparts. They also sat down for a chat about the new record and how the success of their massive hit Hello has changed their...
View ArticleMarc-André Hamelin's superhuman pianism for the people
pi-a-nism (n.): technical skill or artistry in playing piano, or in composing piano music. (Oxford Dictionaries) Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin has pianism in spades. That’s abundantly clear. At...
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up, Tuesday October 30
Each day, Radio 2 Morning starts your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Now, you can follow along at home. Here are the stories we're talking about today....
View ArticleBucky Awards 2012: nominations open for 'Best Reason To Learn French'...
Busy times, these. Not only is it New Release Day on The Craig Norris Hour, it's also day 2 of nominations for The 2012 Buckys - R3's year-end listener choice awards! You will hear some new music on...
View ArticleTrent Severn: full album stream and Q&A
Today on CBC Music, we’re streaming the self-titled debut album by Trent Severn. The folk/old-time country trio features singer-songwriter Emm Gryner, Juno-nominated songstress Dayna Manning and violin...
View ArticleMurley, Bickert and Wallace's Test of Time: full album stream
Ed Bickert, one of the most revered figures in Canadian jazz, turns 80 on Nov. 29. Bickert hasn’t played professionally since 2001. That is what makes this news particularly thrilling: there’s a new Ed...
View ArticleQ&A: Cuba's godfather of Afro-Cuban jazz, Chucho Valdés
For fans of Afro-Cuban jazz, no name or man is bigger than piano virtuoso Chucho Valdés, Cuba's "godfather of jazz." The 72-year-old founder of Irakere, one of Cuba’s most famous Latin jazz bands,...
View ArticleDelerium's Music Box Opera: full album stream
Out today is the brand new record from Vancouver electronic duo Delerium, called Music Box Opera. Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber are behind the duo, and they released their debut, Semantic Spaces, in 1995,...
View ArticleAzari & III go back to basics: full album stream
It’s only just come out, but the self-titled debut record from Azari & III was already nominated for the 2012 Juno Awards and Polaris Music Prize. Play Azari & III (One-day stream) Azari...
View Article'What Am I Doing Here?' Blue Rodeo and Great Big Sea play Hurricane Sandy
Great Big Sea braved a great big storm to help Blue Rodeo celebrate their 25th anniversary, performing a rousing rendition of "What Am I Doing Here?" for a packed house at CBC's Glenn Gould Studio...
View ArticleJunk in the Trunk: Drive Stories Tuesday October 30
Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Here are the stories we're talking about today. FEATURES:...
View ArticleBucky Awards 2012: your nominations for Hottest Pipes (Best Vocals of the Year)
It's time to continue collecting your nominations for the CBC Radio 3 Listeners Choice Awards, otherwise known as the Buckys, honouring the best Canadian music of 2012! Today I'd like you to let me...
View ArticleChoral Concert classics: the best of the last 4 years
This week on Choral Concert, Peter Togni brings us the Choral Concert classics.Togni has been hosting the show for four years now, and over that time the Choral Concert team has built up a list of...
View ArticleJoin us for some Evening Hymns
Nowadays, in Canadian indie rock, there's an awful lot of sharing, collaboration, and cross-pollination going on. Collectives like Broken Social Scene and all of its derivates provide one of the best...
View ArticleWhitney Rose evokes country classics on self-titled debut
Whitney Rose has classic country music in her blood. Perhaps that’s because, at 26 years old, she’s already been performing it for more than 20 years. “My grandparents ran a bar in P.E.I. and hosted a...
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