Live on CBC Radio 3 w/ Grant Lawrence: SEARCHLIGHT 2011! What Should We Be...
Coming up today on Grant Lawrence Live, 2PM ET / 11AM PT on CBC Radio 3's web radio and Sirius 86: Yes, it's that time of year again, to roll out our annual Searchlight contest, seeking out the best...
View ArticleToday on Lanarama - Crush on Canada
If you tuned into The Golden Globes last night you would have heard Paul Giamatti’s acceptance speech, which praised Montreal, where Barney’s Version was shot as an “incredible, beautiful city I dream...
View ArticleMusic Notes: the Late Edition Jan 17 2011
Watch the new Twilight Hotel video for “When the Wolves Go Blind” (above) Unison Benevolent Fund – a brand new fund to provide emergency financial assistance and crisis management to help Canadian...
View ArticleToday on Appetite for Distraction: I Swear
One of the first things you do when deciding to read a classic not in your native language is to check out translations. And it’s no small thing either; a lot is lost if someone working out the meaning...
View ArticleConstruction and Destruction "Nightshade" - Track of the Day for January 18,...
listen DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE The pride of "Porkerville, Nova Scotia," Construction and Destruction are one of the most raw, occasionally primitive folk-rock bands I've ever encountered. They're a duo...
View ArticleWrath of Khanna's National Hum: Stereophonic Festival! Sarah Harmer! The...
Plens and tonne-ty shows going on throughout our frigid land this week, and the National Hum ep is here to set us all straight! About the shows I mean. Not about anything else. Here's a sampling of...
View ArticleToday only! Braiding at the Twilight Hotel, New Scotland.
Good morning, Good Morning! Jay Ferguson of the eventually-to-be-new-releasable Sloan group here. It’s Tuesday, and that could mean a number of things, but most importantly, it means New Release Day....
View ArticleMusic Notes: the Early Edition Jan 18 2011
Broken Social Scene live from Terminal 5 in NYC – tonight, 9pm ET, on YouTube! Arcade Fire & Spike Jonze to release Scenes From The Suburbs, next month. CoS Hear Destroyer’s new album, Kaputt,...
View ArticleLive on CBC Radio 3 w/ Grant Lawrence: Trivia Tuesday! United By Haircuts...
Coming up today on Grant Lawrence Live, 2PM ET / 11AM PT on CBC Radio 3's web radio and Sirius 86: It's YOU vs. Quizmaster Grant in an all out Canadian music trivia battle!! 1-877-955-6565, ex. 1 It's...
View ArticleThe Missing Links for January 17, 2011
System for watching 3D video without glasses stimulates eyes to blink rapidly to generate effect. (I kind of want to call shenanigans on this, or at least suggest that this has to cause eyelid...
View ArticleExtended Play #24 - "Is the Video More Important than the Song?"
listen DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE On this episode of Extended Play I ask: “Is the Video more Important than the Song?” Now before you get all “no way” on me… consider some just released YouTube stats on...
View ArticleToday on Lanarama: Techie Tuesday! Identity Theft, Hackers, Fraud & You
A few week’s back, Singer-songwriter Krista Muir sent me an email. She was in London, had her bag stolen, along with her credit cards and passport. She was asking for money to get on the next...
View ArticleMusic Notes: the Late Edition Jan 18 2011
Geddy Lee offers up some tobagganing advice (above) Rush announces more tour dates. CoS Broken Social Scene live from Terminal 5 in NYC – tonight, 9pm ET / 6pm PT, on YouTube! Canada Games 2011 – Feb...
View ArticleToday on Appetite for Distraction: Tour Diary with The Stanfields
Last time I talked about The Stanfields it was all about helping the band get home. Back in October the Nova Scotia-based band headed West… and then couldn’t get home because of van troubles. Being...
View ArticleAndre Ethier "Never Grow Tired of Me" - Track of the Day for Wednesday,...
listen DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE ToTD guest host, Andrew Moszynski of Quest For Fire picks Andre Ethier's "Never Grow Tired of Me": "This is a track off one of his solo albums on Blue Fog Records, and it's...
View ArticleThe Gertrudes: Recorded Live @ The Vancouver Folk Fest On the Sessions Podcast
listen TRACKLIST | DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE The Vancouver Folk Festival happens every summer along the sunny shores of the former hippie community of Kitsilano. This past summer, The Gertrudes made their...
View ArticleWrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: Native Speaker by Braids!
My Album of the Week is...Native Speaker by a young band called Braids! You knew it didn't you? Because of the blog title right? I am so dumb, you are so smart. I first checked into Braids' music when...
View ArticleTCNH: The Wednesday Weld - Song Titles That Could Be Used As Pickup Lines!...
Well, when almostasian suggested "Song Titles That Could Be Used As Pickup Lines" as a possible Theme Beam for The Wednesday Weld, I had no idea that you would come through the way you all did. Get...
View ArticleMusic Notes: the Early Edition Jan 19 2011
Watch Aidan Knight perform for Giants of the Forest (above) Arcade Fire to headline Coachella 2011, April 15-17, in Indio CA - other performers include Crystal Castles, A-Trak, The Rural Alberta...
View ArticleLive on CBC Radio 3 w/ Grant Lawrence: Rock 'n' Roll Movie Club! A MIGHTY WIND!
Coming up today on Grant Lawrence Live, 2PM ET / 11AM PT on CBC Radio 3's web radio and Sirius 86: Today's Guests: Michael McKean ("Jerry Palter", The Folksmen) LISTEN Jim Piddock ("Leonard Crabbe")...
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