This is your (double) life!
You've heard the story. A person is living the dream. A happy family, the house, the kids, the job... everything is just perfect. Or at least it seems that way. And then, it's revealed that the ENTIRE...
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Patti Smith talks Camera Solo
Music icon Patti Smith held court at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario this morning, introducing members of the press to her solo exhibition of 70 photographs and personal mementos.Dubbed Camera Solo,...
View ArticleStompin’ Tom Connors has died at age 77
Canadian musical icon and patriot Stompin' Tom Connors died today at the age of 77. According to an official announcement on his website, the prolific songwriter died of natural causes at his Ontario...
View ArticleThe Stompin’ Tom Connors Hour: Listen to a radio doc remembering the Canadian...
Stompin' Tom Connors died Wednesday at age 77 from "natural causes," according to a spokesman for the artist. No musician did more to bring Canada to the world through song, and the country he sang...
View ArticleCanadian musicians pay tribute to Stompin Tom Connors
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View ArticleThe Stompin’ Tom Connors Hour: listen to a radio doc remembering the Canadian...
Stompin' Tom Connors died Wednesday at age 77 from natural causes, according to a spokesman for the artist. No musician did more to bring Canada to the world through song, and the country he sang about...
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Isabel Bayrakdarian shares the 6 lullabies closest to her heart
I last heard soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian perform in September 2012 at the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra’s season-opening concert. I’m not sure if it was Bayrakdarian’s impeccable taste in gowns or her...
View ArticleThe Background Check: Chills Edition! 10 things you might not know about Jeff...
Every Thursday on CBC Radio 2 Drive, Rich Terfry gives you a chance to win a great prize if you can separate the facts from the fiction about a famous artist. Rich will give you three clues, and one of...
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up, Thursday March 7
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...
View ArticleSearchlight: last day to vote in the regional top 5 lists!
TODAY is your last day to vote in the Searchlight top 5 lists in the 24 different regions across the country as we hunt for Canada's best new artist.On Friday, the finalists from each region in our...
View ArticleCesaria Evora’s Mãe Carinhosa: full album stream
Cesaria Evora was one of the most unlikely of unlikely success stories that music has ever seen. Evora, a.k.a. the “barefoot diva” (she really did perform shoeless on the world’s most famous stages),...
View ArticleIan McDougall’s 12tet Live: full album stream
Victoria trombonist, composer, arranger and bandleader Ian McDougall has had a pretty good 6 months, all things considered. His new CD, The Ian McDougall 12tet Live, features a group of players he says...
View ArticleThe Neighbourhood gets sexy and silly
Most bands don’t try to keep their first show under wraps because they’re already getting label attention, but that was the case when California band the Neighbourhood played their first ever gig last...
View ArticleShannon Mercer hosts This Is My Music
Soprano Shannon Mercer and Monty Python legend Eric Idle seemed to be unlikely collaborators until Idle created his comic oratorio Not the Messiah. Mercer sang in the premiere during the 2007 Luminato...
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Noah23’s Tropical Fruit: EP stream and Q&A
One of Canada’s most incredible MCs, Noah23, is out of retirement and firing on all cylinders on his new EP, Tropical Fruit. You can listen to it here for one week and read a revealing Q&A below....
View ArticleWhat’cha Readin’? Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group by...
Last month we read an oral history about Danko Jones, featuring quotes and testimonials from some amazing and influential musicians. Among them was Ian F. Svenonius, lead vocalist for the Nation of...
View ArticlePrince: rock star and guitar destroyer
The enigmatic rock star Prince showed off his new quartet on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a few days ago. He and his all-female band played the classic "Bambi," as well as his new single...
View ArticleSuccess, sexism and making it in music: Terri Clark, Jill Barber, more share...
March 8 is International Women’s Day, and in honour of the big day we asked some of Canada’s top female musicians two key questions: 1. What is one of the most hilarious, awful, bizarre and/or...
View Article5 things you may not know about Stompin’ Tom: advanced and novice editions
Yesterday, Stompin’ Tom Connors died at 77 years old. To a lot of people, he was a patriotic pioneer, a good ol' boy in the best sense who believed in honouring hard-working musicians and artists who...
View ArticleVancouver's Gold & Youth debut new single, 'Jewel'
Gold & Youth are part of the unabating wave of synth-pop acts surfacing across the country. Like Trust and Purity Ring, the Vancouver-based band create dismal, digitized landscapes perked up by...
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