LISTEN: Bad Passion "Get Results"
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/artist/Bad-Passion/Get-Results Like the Big Bang that created the universe, the demise of The Ghost is Dancing has resulted in giving us stellar groups from the stardust of...
View ArticleToday on The Shumka Chunk: Non-Stop Awards Season
Hey gang! It's Dave Shumka sitting in for Grant Lawrence for one more week. Don't panic. Last night, the flurbety-flirth annual Golden Globe Awards were held at the Hollywood Sheraton or whatever. It...
View ArticleMusic Notes: City and Colour, Arcade Fire, Deadmau5, more!
Watch the NEW Snowblink video for “The Tired Bees” (above) After making "This Movie is Broken" (bringing Broken Social Scene to the big screen), director Bruce McDonald's new movie to based around...
View ArticleLana Del Rey and the internet hype machine
In the wake of the already-notorious Lana Del Rey performance on Saturday Night Live two days ago, it might be instructional to look up the actual definition of Hype: “To publicize or promote,...
View ArticleTCNH: The Monday Music Meld ("One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on...
The office seems a little emptier these days, what with a lot of people taking vacations. The post-Christmas, southward exodus is on as people look for respite from the winter! Some of them are headed...
View ArticleThe many concepts of Joel Plaskett, from Ashtray Rock to Scrappy Happiness
Joel Plaskett is holed up in his Dartmouth recording studio pumping out a song a week until his new album Scrappy Happiness is finished. After almost two decades in the music industry, Plaskett knows...
View ArticleMoka Only recommends...
By any measure, Moka Only is a busy man. Since 1995 he’s released 50+ solo albums, and 13 collaborations. His most recent project, called Zzbra, is a collaboration with fellow Hip Hop artist, Evil...
View ArticleLISTEN: Slow Learners "Grocery Store"
listen Take a dash of fuzzy power pop, a few sprigs of surf punk and simmer it in a broth of early '90s Mudhoney and you've got the recipe for "Grocery Store." Vancouver's Slow Learners, featuring...
View ArticleWATCH Louise Burns' video for "Drop Names Not Bombs"
Check out Louise Burns new video for her song "Drop Names Not Bombs". The Vancouver, now based in Toronto, singer/songwriter and sometimes Radio 3 host, released her debut album Mellow Drama last...
View ArticleToday on The Shumka Chunk: Your Town's Claim to Shame
Hey guys. It's Dave Shumka sitting in for Grant Lawrence once again. Today, my hometown of Vancouver is an icy, slippery mess and it's really emphasizing how nobody in the city knows how to drive. I'm...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Plants and Animals, Octoberman, Joel Plaskett, more!
Watch Joel Plaskett make an appearance on Mamma Yamma (above) Paper Bag Records offers up The Paper Bag Sessions Vol. 1 as a free download, get it now! UrbNet Records kicks-off 2012 with a new series...
View ArticleWATCH: "Change The Sheets" by Kathleen Edwards
This past Saturday, a handful of very lucky Kathleen Edwards fans were treated to an exclusive show at CBC Toronto's Studio 211. The small, but packed room, got to hear Kathleen perform songs from her...
View ArticleLISTEN: Demetra Penner "I Am Written"
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/artist/Demetra-Penner/I-Am-Written Hailing from the geographical centre of the nation comes Winnipeg's Demetra Penner with I Am Written off of Lone Migration. With the help of...
View ArticleWatch your Words
One of my favourite questions artists ask when they sit down for an interview is “can I swear?” My usual answer is, “we’re the CBC.” And by that I mean: no, we have standards here. Or sort of. Because...
View ArticleTCNH: New Releases from Kathleen Edwards, Demetra, Hands & Teeth, & Jokers of...
It would seem that the bottleneck of the holiday season has loosened just enough to let some New Releases through! After a couple of months of an arrid new release landscape, a light rain has begun to...
View ArticleBanff Centre Releases Indie Band Residency Documentary
As September became October in Banff, three independent bands from across Canada were asked to come to the Banff Centre to work on new music. The bands were: Mis En Scene from Winnipeg, Doldrums from...
View ArticleLISTEN: Zaac Pick "Whitewater"
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/artist/Zaac-Pick/Whitewater Previously lending his voice to Doubting Paris, Vancouver's Zaac Pick continues his solo adventure with Whitewater from the Whitewater EP....
View ArticleToday: Kathleen Edwards in Concert!
Hey everybody. It's Dave Shumka sitting in for Grant Lawrence once again. Today at 3PM Eastern / Noon Pacific we will be running the Kathleen Edwards' concert that was recorded this past Saturday at...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Leonard Cohen, K'naan, Said the Whale, more!
Watch the NEW Nightbox video for “Relocate You” (above) Jarvis Cocker interviews Leonard Cohen about his first album in eight years – Guardian Help Kingston honour their most successful sons, The...
View ArticleLISTEN: The Luyas "What Mercy Is"
listen "Listen to me so that I can speak" The Luyas' 2011 album Too Beautiful To Work lives up to its name to an almost unbelievable degree. Singer Jessie Stein and company have captured the kind of...
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