Live on CBC Radio 3 w/ Grant Lawrence: SEARCHLIGHT 2011! What is the BEST...
Coming up today on Grant Lawrence Live, 2PM ET / 11AM PT on CBC Radio 3's web radio and Sirius 86: Today's Guest: Jonas Colter, Evolve Music Festival Today is the day! It's time to roll out our annual...
View ArticleThe Missing Links for January 27, 2011
Sampled Room from Mateusz Zdziebko. (Via Andrew Sullivan) Remember those 5,000 blackbirds that fell dead out of the sky in Arkansas last month? The cause of death has been determined to be blunt...
View ArticleToday on Appetite for Distraction: Story Telling with Interpol's Daniel Kessler
One of the best parts about a book is that it has a beginning, middle and an end. In between, cut up into lots of chapters, things happen. Depending on the genre, there could be murder, romance,...
View ArticleMusic Notes: the Late Edition Jan 27 2011
Watch the new Braids video for “Plath Heart” (above) Watch the trailer for the new Meligrove Band doc called "Ages and Stages". AUX Dinosaur Bones to release a new album called My Divider, on Dine...
View ArticleTariq's Basement Studio: What's the Buzz?
As we near the end of January, music fans across the country are content to mark time with new releases from their favorite artists. From what I can see, there’s a lot of new music to look forward to...
View ArticleTrack of the Day for January 28, 2011: Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy: "True Love...
listen DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE Country songwriters aren't at all shy about expressing deep feelings of regret…in a funny, poetic sort of way. And the first time I heard Guelph, Ontario’s Tacoma Hellfarm...
View ArticleDestroyer, Peter Elkas, No Joy, Jenn Grant Inteview, Podcast #266
listen TRACKLIST | DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE We'll rock, we'll pop, we'll talk, we'll schlock... welcome to this week's CBC Radio 3 Podcast with Grant Lawrence! This week on the show: :: You'll hear the...
View ArticleWhat’cha Readin’? Book Club: Alex Ross Answers your Questions about Listen to...
An exciting What'cha Readin' Book Club show for you this week, if I do say so myself. First off, we're saying farewell to January's book, Listen to This, and its author Alex Ross (look at him, looking...
View ArticleToday on The Shumka Chunk: It Takes Two
In honour of Death From Above 1979’s planned Coachella reunion, the band was named the greatest duo in AuxTV’s list of the Top 10 Two-Piece Bands. The list is all right, but they missed a few, so on...
View ArticleMusic Notes: the Early Edition Jan 28 2011
Watch the new Sadies video for “Another Day Again” (above) CRTC revokes Ryerson’s broadcasting license after the Commission received complaints about the station’s management, programming and ability...
View ArticleLive on CBC Radio 3 w/ Grant Lawrence: Top 5 Must See Live Gigs and... What...
Coming up today on Grant Lawrence Live, 2PM ET / 11AM PT on CBC Radio 3's web radio/Sirius 86: Today's guests: Jenn Grant, The Olympic Symphonium It's time for our weekly Top Five Must See Live Gigs!...
View ArticleToday on Appetite for Distraction: Glee Gleaning
I don’t think it’s an understatement to call Glee a cultural phenomenon. What begin a couple of years ago as just a television show about a glee club in an Ohio high school, it’s now has a cult...
View ArticleTariq's Basement Studio: Your Weekend Wordplay
I’m currently compiling as many photos of storefront puns as I can. For example, here on Main street in Vancouver, there’s a place called “Bedcetera”. Groan, I know, but catchy. More examples? Okay!...
View ArticleThe R3-30: Blintzes and Rolls
CHART #227 Good Day, dear listeners. I trust today finds you well? I am fine, thank you. Today my producer, Pedro Mendes, and I are putting on a show. It's called The R3-30 and it's CBC Radio 3's chart...
View ArticleNew CBC Radio 3 Artists: Jan 30 2011
Hit 'play' to hear all the great new artists who've signed up to Radio 3 this week! If you like what you hear, hit the plus [+] sign to add tracks to your personal playlists. Click on the heart icon to...
View ArticleJon McKiel "Monster of the Miramichi" - Track of the Day for January 31, 2011
listen DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE Guest Host, music blogger Jonathan Briggins, of The Broken Speaker picks Jon McKiel's "Monster of the Miramichi": "His songs are dark and haunting, yet not depressing."
View ArticleWrath of Khanna's Q & Hopefully A: The Working Life
As I said on Friday, I will not be on the blog much at all this week, as I'm heading to Vancouver today to attend the Radio 3 Summit. This is the mostly annual gathering of R3 staff to discuss our work...
View ArticleThe Long And The Short Of It...
Good Monday morning everyone! Jay Ferguson of the careerist rock and roll act Sloan here with you. So, on the eve of Sloan’s 20th anniversary, I’ve been thinking about artists with exceptionally long...
View ArticleMusic Notes: the Early Edition Jan 31 2011
Watch the new Lindi Ortega video for “Angels” (above) Arcade Fire to open for U2 in Moncton, July 30, Magnetic Hill. CoS Slow Down, Molasses announces tour dates and the sophomore release of their...
View ArticleToday on The Shumka Chunk: "I used to get mad at my school..."
It's Dave Shumka, sitting in for Grant Lawrence, who will return later this week. Last week, a Canadian by the name of Mary-Lu Zalahan became the first ever graduate of the Master of Arts Beatles...
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