Music Notes: Oct 11, 2011
Watch the NEW Ohbijou video for “Niagara” (above) Chart Attack returns! Read all about it! Congratulations to Katie Moore, winner of the 2011 ECHO Songwriting Prize! Exclaim! Feist duets with Mickey...
View ArticleTechie Tuesday! Corporate Cults, Superbrands, and Remembering Steve Jobs
Last week, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died at age 56. I was quite saddened by this. The man who created the gadgets that changed the way I live, the way I experience music, was gone. As I read obits,...
View ArticleToday on Appetite for Distraction: Tour Diary Tuesday - The Deluxe Edition
It is Tuesday (though yes, it sure does feel like Monday), and that means Tour Diary Tuesday. And today is the deluxe edition. Not only do I talk to Seth Smith of Dog Day, but also filmmaker Xan Aranda...
View ArticleBorn Ruffians "The Ballad of Moose Bruce" - Track of the Day for October 12,...
listen DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE Guest hosts, Aron D'alesio and John Smith of Young Rival: "We love this song. We love watching them play it night after night. It has a really nice build to it and we hope...
View ArticleBruce Peninsula recorded live off the floor at NxNE on this week's Sessions...
listen TRACKLIST | DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE Multi-musician ensemble Bruce Peninsula put on a killer show at this year's NxNE festival and CBC was there to record the event for your listening pleasure on...
View ArticleWrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: The Barr Brothers
Here's a lovely new record by Montreal's the Barr Brothers, an eclectic ensemble rooted in folk tradition, yet really adventurous in the sounds they employ in their songs. There's an even temper in...
View ArticleTCNH: The Wednesday Weld ("Hatred is a very underestimated emotion." ~Jim...
When MusicSoop pitched the Weld Theme "Songs That You Hate", it seemed rather harmless, sort of innocuous and potentially very fun! However, it sparked a debate on whether or not we should use the word...
View ArticleBest Song Of The Year? Katie Moore Wins ECHO Songwriting Prize
Yesterday it was announced that "Wake Up Like This", a song by Montreal singer songwriter Katie Moore, has won SOCAN's annual ECHO Songwriting Prize for $5000, beating out Arcade Fire, Austra, the...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Oct 12, 2011
Watch the NEW Sandro Perri video for “Love & Light” (above) Arcade Fire’s “Rebellion (Lies)” makes the NME’s 150 Best Songs of the last 15 years list, coming in at #2! MM Toronto’s The Cameron...
View ArticleElliot Brood hits the road with guests, One Hundred Dollars on CBC Radio 3...
Elliott Brood are heading west, then back east on a fall tour with special guests, One Hundred Dollars to promote their new album Days Into Years out on Paper Bag records. Find out if they're playing a...
View ArticleToday on Lanarama: Music Magazines
Years ago I was talking with a radio host who had been in the field for decades. I made a joke about how you used to be able to fax in a video request to Much Music (remember?!) and he told me a story...
View ArticleDan Mangan's "Oh Fortune" Full Album Roll Out on Podcast #291
This week on the CBC Radio 3 podcast with Grant Lawrence, we're going to shake things up a bit - we're going to feature every single track from Dan Mangan’s new album, Oh Fortune, plus a...
View ArticleToday on Appetite for Distraction: A New List!
It’s been a good day for music lists, and that inevitably means it’s a good day at CBC Radio 3. Next to debating the merits of applied economics, there’s nothing I like more than a good subjective...
View ArticleBlack Mountain 'Druganaut (extended)', Track of the Day for Oct 13, 2011
listen DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE Black Mountain just revealed their next release will come in the form of a soundtrack to a “post-apocalyptic surf film” called “Year Zero”. As soon as I heard the news this...
View ArticleWrath of Khanna: The Breakfast Club with D.O.A.!
listen TRACKLIST | DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE Who doesn't enjoy hearing from legendary music pioneers? I'm stoked about my guests this week: Joey "Shithead" Keithley and "Dirty Dan Sedan" Yaremko of...
View ArticleTCNH: Listener Co-Host Initiative w/ Emma "emmagodmere" Godmere!
Hey CBCR3 listeners! I'm Emma Godmere, perhaps better known smushed-together as "emmagodmere" on the blog. On today's show, you'll get to hear Craig cracking me up and more importantly, some excellent...
View ArticleOver 125,000 Tracks Now Available on CBC Radio 3!
So there we were, heads down, doing our thing when somebody noticed that our track counter had hit the 125,000 mark, and this, just over a year after we'd hit the 100,000 mark! From it's humble...
View ArticleFashion Fight Club! Handsome Furs...?
It's time once again for the Fashion Fight Club, our examination of the ever colliding worlds of fashion and rock 'n' roll, and today... a topic that rears its fuzzy head every couple of years... the...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Oct 13, 2011
Watch the NEW Dirty Beaches video for “Lone Runner” (above) Music historian, Alan Cross, joins AUX! Chad VanGaalen reveals he is presently working on 11 new records which will be released digitally...
View ArticleToday on Lanarama: Record Collection Takeover!
I became a bit crazy about The Smiths around my high school years. From there, I went on to buy every Morrissey record I could find. Now, since digitizing my collection, the ‘M’ and ‘S’ categories in...
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