The top 5 buzz bands of Canadian Music Week 2013
South By Southwest just wrapped up in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, and now it’s time for the music world to focus its attention on Toronto for Canadian Music Week, starting today. Although it may not be...
View ArticleRachel Sermanni performs "Eggshells" in Studio Q
Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni performs her song "Eggshells" from her record Under Mountains in Studio Q.
View ArticleCanadian Music Week 2013: in photos
All this week, musicians from across the country and around the world descend on Toronto for what is Canadian Music Week.CMW follows that other weeklong festival down in Austin, and sure, it's not as...
View ArticleThe Tweet is coming from... beyond the grave!
You probably know somebody who can't seem to go five minutes without checking their Facebook, their Twitter, or their Instagram. Every you turn your back, they whip their phone out, desperate to get...
View ArticleSHIFT on March 19th 2013
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 ArticleJunk in the Trunk: Drive Stories Tuesday March 19
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. DRIVE ON DEMAND:...
View ArticleFive Essential Soul Sisters
Had your fill of vocal histrionics from Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey? Done with Auto-Tune? Or maybe the Adele overkill has you reaching for Advil. No matter the problem, your ears deserve a...
View ArticleAdvice you can sing about
[This broadcast originally aired Saturday, March 16, 2013]Where do you go to get advice? Your mum? Your brother, your sister? Maybe your therapist or your best friend?Have you ever received good advice...
View ArticleSXSW with Absolutely Free, part 2: pickles and public urination
Mar Sellars is a music journalist and former CBC Radio 3 producer. She is travelling to SXSW along with Toronto band Absolutely Free, and documenting the whole thing.Day 2 of SXSWThursday was a long...
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up, Wednesday March 20
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 ArticleFive essential soul sisters
Had your fill of vocal histrionics from Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey? Done with Auto-Tune? Or maybe the Adele overkill has you reaching for Advil. No matter the problem, your ears deserve a...
View ArticleLights performs ‘Where the Fence is Low’ in Inuvik
Lights recently travelled up north to Inuvik, N.W.T., to preview some acoustic arrangements from her upcoming Siberia Acoustic album at the igloo church. She brought CBC Music along and we captured...
View ArticleDaniel Taylor hosts This Is My Music
Countertenor Daniel Taylor has a lot on his plate. He's been invited to be head of early music at the University of Toronto, a new position and unique in Canada. His own ensemble, the Theatre of Early...
View ArticleLeontyne Price and Placido Domingo star in 1977 forza del destino
It’s yet more evidence that the course of true love never did run smoothly. Serving up a melodramatic feast in his opera La forza del destino, Giuseppe Verdi’s recipe includes all the melodramatic...
View ArticleStravinsky's The Rite of Spring: a jazz standard?
Do you remember flying through space when you were a kid? Did you see that large meteor crash into the Earth, the one that caused such an epic chain reaction of bubbling and boiling that life itself...
View ArticleFrom Arcade Fire to enemy fire: recording Bassekou Kouyate during the Malian...
With a resumé that includes producing Arcade Fire’s incendiary debut album, Funeral, it’s not surprising to hear that Howard Bilerman seems to attract the heat. Usually the blaze he stokes is made by...
View ArticleStravinsky’s post-Rite jazz
[Return to introduction.]"The Histoire ragtime is a concert portrait, or snapshot of the genre. [...] If my subsequent essays in jazz portraiture were more successful, that is because they showed...
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Jazz’s post-Stravinsky Rites
[Return to introduction.]"When the music changes, so does the dance."— African proverbIn 1971 (coincidentally the same year Stravinsky died), flutist Hubert Laws got together with arranger Don...
View ArticleSHIFT on March 20th 2013
(Will be posted as soon as show is available)Shift on Wednesday March 20th 2013, streamed at your convenience. Press play. Welcome to Shift, where Tom Allen takes you on a daily musical journey from...
View ArticleRear-View Mirror: Big Star, "September Gurls" and the birth of power pop
Every week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. This week, Big Star and "September Gurls."hereListen to the audio version of Rear-View Mirror by...
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