Searchlight top two: The Good Ol’ Goats vs. Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous...
The votes have been counted and the results are in! We started with almost 3,000 artists... now we're down to two.Your final pairing in the Searchlight competition for Canada's Best New Artist is...The...
View ArticleSHIFT on April 8th 2013
TBA Click to Listen to Full Broadcast of SHIFT from April 8thWelcome to Shift, where Tom Allen takes you on a daily musical journey from the stalwarts of Classical music to the cutting edge of...
View ArticleJunk in the Trunk: Drive Stories Monday April 8
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:Rear-View...
View ArticleShould cellphones be banned from concerts?
If you've been to a concert in the last decade, and you've looked around you, you've seen the sea of little lights. People holding up their cellphones, taking pictures and filming the band. But some...
View ArticleWillie Nelson and Family’s Let’s Face the Music and Dance: full album stream
For the last several decades, Willie Nelson has been known to do things his own way in the music business. So when the country legend announced his latest album would consist predominantly of pop...
View ArticleA Guide to the Slide: what every music lover needs to know about the slide...
The exotic scent of the slide guitar first wafted up from the Mississippi Delta back in the early 1900s. The sound was all liquid, and haunting, not at all the familiar chunk-a-chunk strumming guitar...
View ArticleAlbum stream: OSM, Nagano and Gerhaher perform Orchesterlieder by Mahler
On April 16, l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and music director Kent Nagano will release their latest recording, a collection of lieder by Gustav Mahler sung by German baritone Christian Gerhaher....
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up, Tuesday April 9
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 soundtrack: our finalists pick their top 5 songs from the...
The Searchlight finals feature our last one-on-one matchup: in the Kootenays corner, the Good Ol’ Goats from Cranbrook, B.C., and over on the Rock, Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case from Corner...
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Odonis Odonis’s Better EP: full album stream
Toronto industrial surfgaze trio Odonis Odonis is on the verge of releasing the Better EP, a seven-song collection due out on April 16. But from now until then, CBC Music is streaming it for free right...
View ArticleOlly Murs’s Right Place Right Time: full album stream
Olly Murs is on the verge of becoming a huge star in North America. The British blue-eyed soul singer has had four number one singles in the U.K. and sold five million records worldwide, all without...
View ArticleGroenland’s The Chase: advance album stream
“One year slightly of losing track, I wasted much I cannot get back,” Sabrina Halde sings on “Superhero,” a song she says is about “letting go and moving on,” about simply not being afraid to take...
View ArticleThe Belle Game's Ritual Tradition Habit: advance album stream
When Vancouver’s the Belle Game debuted in 2009 with an EP called Inventing Letters, their brand of folk-pop, captured perfectly on lead single “Tiny Fires,” was fun and breezy, just summery enough to...
View ArticleReal Housewives of Vancouver star Mary Zilba on her new country-pop single
Mary Zilba’s on a train from Windsor to Toronto when she calls CBC Music. It’s the day before the season two finale ofThe Real Housewives of Vancouver, the reality series that’s brought the former pop...
View ArticleSHIFT on April 9th 2013
(Link will be here) Click to Listen to Full Broadcast of SHIFT from April 9thWelcome to Shift, where Tom Allen takes you on a daily musical journey from the stalwarts of Classical music to the cutting...
View ArticleJanina Fialkowska wins 2013 BBC Music Magazine Award
Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska has won the award for best instrumental CD of 2012 at the BBC Music Magazine Awards for her ATMA Classique release entitled Chopin Recital 2. The announcement was...
View ArticlePhoenix perform "1901" in Studio Q
French electro-pop quartet, Phoenix, perform their pan-galactic hit "1901" from their audaciously titled record "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" in Studio Q.
View ArticleJunk in the Trunk: Drive Stories Tuesday April 9
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:Rear-View...
View ArticleLights goes dog sledding and performs 'Toes' 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. Every Wednesday until the album's April 30...
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up, Wednesday April 10
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...
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