TCNH: The Wednesday Weld ("Dancing is the poetry of the foot" ~John Dryden)
Thanks to a great suggestion from marie_curious,this week's edition of The Wednesday Weld is all about things that we walk on: Underfoot! Gettin' on the good foot with us this week is zammachus, left...
View ArticleLISTEN: King Khan "I Got Love"
ListenAs the days get shorter and the nights get longer it's going to take a lot more rock to get you going in the morning.So we can all be happy that Montreal's King Khan is back with some more freaky...
View ArticleCity and Colour recorded LIVE at the Calgary Folk Festival on this week's...
listen TRACKLIST | DOWNLOAD | SUBCRIBE City and Colour started out as a side project of Dallas Green, lead singer of recently dispanded Alexis On Fire, and has since gone on to great things. Poignant...
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2011 BUCKY AWARD NOMINATIONS!
Happy 75th Birthday, CBC! In honour of such an occasion, it is now time to officially launch the 2011 edition of the Bucky Awards,CBC Radio 3's annual salute to the best Canadian music of the year!...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Nov 2, 2011
Watch the NEW Shooting Guns video for “Public Taser” (above) Light Organ Records announces the release of a new holiday compilation called Light Organ Record… With Bells On, coming Nov 15th; see...
View ArticleLISTEN: Marine Dreams "Fold The Sky"
listen Sackville, New Brunswick might be small, but it continually punches above its weight. The latest artist to take up residence there is Marine Dreams, aka Ian Kehoe, formerly of Attack in Black....
View ArticleToday on Lanarama: The Feist Broadcast preshow, and Happy 75th Birthday CBC!
Today marks the 75th anniversary of CBC’s first broadcast! On November 2, 1936, the Canadian Broadcasting Act replaced the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission with a Crown corporation known as...
View ArticleTONIGHT! Feist in Concert from CBC's Glenn Gould Studio
Coming up at 7pm ET, 4pm PT, CBC celebrates 75 years as the national public broadcaster with a one hour special broadcast of Feist's October 8th performance in the Glenn Gould Studio, featuring songs...
View ArticleToday on Appetite for Distraction: Pennysmash!
Yes, it's true: art and commerce can go together, and in a most Canadian way! Maybe it's the 75th Anniversary of the first CBC broadcast, or maybe it's just that sense of being a good, patriotic...
View ArticleWrath of Khanna: The Breakfast Club with Sandro Perri!
listen TRACKLIST | DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE I would dare to say that Sandro Perri's new album Impossible Spaces is my favourite record of 2011. I know, I know, it just came out and perhaps the heat of the...
View ArticleLISTEN: Bedouin Soundclash - Brutal Hearts (feat. Coeur de Pirate)
listen We're not sure if they're still an item, but you sure wish they'd keep making beautiful music together - Bedouin Soundclash's 'Brutal Hearts (featuring Coeur de Pirate)' was the song Most Added...
View ArticleTCNH: Listener Co-Host Initiative w/ Steve "stevierayk" Knox!
Hey everybody, it's Steve Knox here, AKA stevierayk, AKA the guy on the blog who's in Craig's band. Usually the blog picture on The Listener Co-host Initiative uses the magic of Photoshop to put Craig...
View ArticleLISTEN: Chains of Love "You Got It"
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/band/Chains-Of-Love/You-Got-It I was raised on Motown music and Hungarian food (an underrated combo, really). When it comes to checking out bands, that might explain why I...
View ArticleQ&A with Cuff the Duke: Helping strangers and making fans
Toronto's Cuff the Duke are currentlyl on tour supporting their new album Morning Comes, and we recently caught up with the band at the halfway point. You can catch Cuff the Duke in Edmonton on Friday...
View ArticleMOVEMBER STARTS NOW! Join the Radio 3 Moustache Team!
It's back! Yes, it is once again offically the month of Movember. All around the western world, men are growing moustaches to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. On my hockey team alone...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Nov 3, 2011
Watch the NEW Organized Rhyme video for “Check the OR Redux” 2011 Reunion (above) Don’t miss this! The Sleepwalk Guitar Festival: Nov 4-6, the Great Hall in Toronto, featuring The Sadies, Ian...
View ArticleToday on Lanarama: Who are you in the crowd? Plus, interviews with “The Tall...
My friend Becky is a dancer. Not classically trained by any means, but if a band is playing anything with a remotely fast beat, she is shaking her groove thing (thang?) on the dance floor. She has no...
View ArticleLISTEN: Bry Webb "Rivers of Gold"
listen This is one of those songs you hope is playing on the radio when you're driving down a dark country road all by yourself late at night. If you're lucky, it's raining, and the windshield wipers...
View ArticleToday on Appetite for Distraction: Shotgunning with Wayne Petti of the Cuff...
Kicking off a new feature here at Appetite for Distraction, and most excited to say that it's Wayne Petti of Cuff the Duke that first called "Shotgun" when we dreamed up this item. Essentially Studio...
View ArticleThe CBC Radio 3 Podcast Salutes 75 Years of CBC
listenTRACKLIST | DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE ... sort of. After hearing the rest of CBC celebrating 75 years of the Mother Corp, it certainly got us feeling reflective, and we didn't want to be left out. On...
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