Exclusive premiere: Raine Maida’s creepy ‘Montreal’ video
Raine Maida's "Montreal" is currently the top song on CBC Radio 2, so we decided to premiere the video right here on CBC Music. Check it out in the video player above.The video sees Maida making his...
View ArticleInside the Archives: The Lesser Known Stories, including Louis Armstrong,...
As winter comes to a close, Inside the Music has been busy with spring cleaning. We're embracing the thaw by re-releasing old shows unavailable until now. Each week we'll release a batch of classic...
View ArticleThe Sheepdogs channel Elvis at Sun Studio
There’s a famous studio in Memphis, Tenn. It’s now called Sun Studio, and some people call it the birthplace of rock 'n' roll. Back in 1953, a man named Elvis Presley walked into that studio for the...
View ArticleLula Lounge to Café Zimmermann: does classical music belong in bars?
Beginning April 15, Toronto's Lula Lounge will feature Euphonia as its newest house band. Sounds normal, except that Lula Lounge is a bar, and Euphonia is an ensemble that performs classical music....
View ArticleIt’s Water Cooler Wednesday!
Aaah, how is it Wednesday already?! As Mama Gay often says, the days are long, but the months and years are short. To get over the hump that is hump day, lets talk about some fun things found on the...
View ArticleNikki Yanofsky’s jazz advice for newbies
One definition of musical prodigy? Singer Nikki Yanofsky. As a little girl she sang along with Ella Fitzgerald recordings, matching the scat solos. Her debut performance at the age of 12 was in her...
View ArticleAdonis Puentes’s Sabor a Café: full album stream
Cuban-Canadian Adonis Puentes’s new album, Sabor a Café, comes out on April 23 and CBC Music is happy to stream it until that date. The music on this recording speaks for itself: it's fun, inviting and...
View ArticleSHIFT on April 10th 2013
Click to Listen to Full Broadcast of SHIFT from April 10thWelcome to Shift, where Tom Allen takes you on a daily musical journey from the stalwarts of Classical music to the cutting edge of...
View ArticleEverything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask (bands)...
Remember your first crush? All those weird feelings, feelings you'd never felt before. It was confusing! It was exciting! It was terrifying! How do you tell someone how you feel when you're not even...
View ArticleKacey Musgraves on country music's 'femininity crisis'
If you ask Kacey Musgraves, country music is overdue for a revolution, and she's just the type of singer to bring it."I knew some of the ideas I sing about would be a little different than the norm,...
View ArticleJunk in the Trunk: Drive Stories Wednesday April 10
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 ArticleHeart’s Ann & Nancy Wilson in Studio Q
The rock icon sisters, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart make a triumphant return to Studio Q in advance of their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and just after their rousing performance...
View ArticleThe runaway success of Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case
(With files from CBC's Beth Macdonell)Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case, our Searchlight finalist from Corner Brook, N.L., are winning over voters far beyond their corner of the country. In fact,...
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Music + hockey = love (and lust)
What's your favourite hockey team? How much do you love them? Do you own their jersey? Do you love them enough to post sexy pictures of yourself WEARING said jersey on the internet for the world to...
View ArticleSoundstreams launches SoundMakers website and iPad app
Exciting news: Our friends at Soundstreams, the Toronto-based music presenter that commissions, develops and showcases the work of contemporary Canadian and international composers, have launched a...
View ArticleChet Doxas’s Dive: full album stream and photo gallery
With a critically acclaimed debut (Sidewalk Etiquette, 2006) and a Juno-nominated followup (Big Sky, 2010) to stand on, saxophonist Chet Doxas is taking the plunge from new heights (and hoping for a...
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up, Thursday April 11
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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Opera spotlight: soprano Aleksandra Kurzak sings Rossini
Here's your Opera spotlight for April 13, 2013. Each week CBC Radio 2's Saturday Afternoon at the Opera looks at new opera releases and selects one that you'll want to know about. Artists: Soprano...
View ArticleBassoonist George Zukerman hosts This Is My Music
George Zukerman has brought the bassoon out of the orchestra and into the spotlight. In the course of 40 world tours, Zukerman has played his bassoon in major cities and far-flung locales, from Rome to...
View ArticleAwesome and awkward: Canadian bands + choreographed dance moves
Who says choreography has to live in the land of pop? Sure you can’t beat a great moonwalk in life (RIP M.J.) but it seems that some Canadian indie artists are no longer shooting videos by the train...
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