Today on Fashion Fight Club: Let It Go!
Hey everybody. It's Dave Shumka sitting in for Grant Lawrence or whatever. It's Thursday, and that means we turn our attention to the world of clothing for FASHION FIGHT CLUB. Last week we made...
View ArticleScrappy Happiness: Your thoughts on track one, "You're Mine"
The first track in Joel Plaskett's 10-week "Rock N Roll In Record Time" project is out. You can listen to "You're Mine" here and get caught up on the project here. When it was released earlier this...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Arcade Fire, Jennifer Castle, MYTHS, more!
Watch the NEW Austra video for “Spellwork” (above) Need to get your music into stores such as iTunes? TuneCore finally launches in Canada! Submissions for BreakOut West 2012 opening Feb 13! Arcade...
View ArticleLISTEN: Powers "Last Year"
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/artist/Powers/Last-Year From the ashes of The Ghost is Dancing rises Toronto's Powers. Comprised of just about the entire roster of their former incarnation (less one Alt...
View ArticleMoka Only joins me to talk about his new project, Zzbra
Back on the road again, with Vancouver rapper Moka Only who is riding shotgun with me today in the booth. The incredibly prolific artist has a new project called Zzbra, a collaboration with fellow...
View ArticleTCNH: The X3 Artist Co-Host Initiative w/ Kathleen Edwards!
Today The Craig Norris Hour's Listener Co-Host Initiative gives way to X3 Artist of the Month, Kathleen Edwards! To say that I am excited would be a bit of an understatement. Actually, saying it's a...
View ArticleLouise Burns Guest Hosts Podcast #303 + 5 Awesome Things about Vancouver's Scene
Listen TRACKLIST | DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE Vancouver. How do I miss thee? Let me count the ways ... I've been living in Toronto for the past few months and although I've been having a great time, I'm...
View ArticleScrappy Happiness: The recording industry in the 1950s
Joel Plaskett's ongoing Scrappy Happiness project is inspired in part by the workings of the record industry in the 1950s. So we decided to take a look at the decade and the events which helped birth a...
View ArticleThe R3-30 featuring Grimes!
CHART #276 While that t-shirt up there should explain it all, I'm told that a blog entry should have typing and words in it, so here we go. This week, four new songs debut on The R3-30! One each from...
View ArticleQ&A with Ben Caplan: The perfect place to tour, pining for his kitchen &...
Halifax singer Ben Caplan has strapped on his guitar and hit the road. I caught up with the "rugged, raspy, and roaring with charisma" songwriter to learn about life on the road. Best thing about...
View ArticleLISTEN: The Franco Proietti Morph-tet "Shout Out"
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/artist/The-Franco-Proietti-Morph-tet/Shout-Out Even after the kibosh was put on Kobayashi, saxman Franco Proietti couldn't stop his jazz hands from working on new musical...
View ArticleWriters' Strike and Meaningful Pop Music
I’m a big fan of catchy pop songs. My current fave is one from Flo Rida, this is the chorus: “Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah I get a feeling that I never never never never had...
View ArticleThe Acorn, Snailhouse, Young Rival & more! Tweets of Note
A-Trak @atrak: [PHOTOS] Holy Ship photos, ahoy matey on.fb.me/zK4QSp Snailhouse @snailhouse : I making the musical equivalent of cave paintings. And I like it. The Mountains & the Trees...
View ArticleMove over Oprah, meet my awesome Book Club
Hey Welcome back to R3 Weekend. I'm Pete Morey back for a second crack of the whip this week. Check out our tumblr as the show rolls out for extra radio 3 goodness. Jan 14th 2012 - Book Club weather...
View ArticleNew CBC Radio 3 Artists: Jan 14 2012
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 ArticleRADIOGRAHAM'S SATURDAY SURPRISE!
Alright, I'll be honest with you, theres no surprise. Or, if there is, I'll be just as surprised as you are. Wouldn't that be something? It should come as no surprise to most of you that another...
View ArticleApostle of Hustle in Session in 2005: From the R3 Vaults
Inspired by a 2001 visit to Havana's musical epicentre, El Barrio Santo Suarez, Andrew Whiteman (Broken Social Scene) returned to Toronto to form the quartet Apostle of Hustle and take up a residency...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM - Super Sunday Show!
Man, is it Sunday already? Why, it seems like Saturday was just yesterday... Now that RADIOGRAHAM is settled into it's cozy new Sunday timeslot, it's time to get down to business! The business of...
View ArticleKathleen Edwards Live January 14th 2012: Review
Pete here. Happy Sunday everyone. Leave me a comment below if you want to say hi today. I was lucky enough to watch Kathleen Edwards perform an exclusive concert last night at the CBC in Toronto's...
View ArticleJoel Plaskett's Scrappy Happiness: Track Two -- "Harbour Boys"
Joel Plaskett is recording and producing a song a week for the next ten weeks for his new album, Scrappy Happiness, and debuting them on CBC Radio 2 and Radio 3. The first track, Harbour Boys, will...
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