Elvis Presley to Clint Eastwood: Fabulous songs from Westerns
Music can be the soul of a good movie. Great westerns often have great, catchy and inspiring music that puts us in the mood and takes us back to the plains and ríos of the Old West. From the beginning...
View ArticleCellist Ariel Barnes: Bach to the future
Vancouver-based cellist Ariel Barnes is the second musician to be featured in what we're calling the Canadian Bach Cello Project. Recorded at CBC Studio One in Vancouver, Barnes tackles Bach's sombre...
View ArticleKatherine Chi looks to Mozart for a sublime experience
Calgary native Katherine Chi is a pianist’s pianist. She champions a wide range of music, from Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev to avant garde works by late 20th century masters like Karlheinz...
View ArticleCovered: Arkells ‘Video Games’ (Lana Del Rey cover)
Lana Del Rey was introduced to the world via her video for “Video Games,” which was compiled of nostalgic Super 8 footage and new shots of the plush-lipped singer. Though she’s been criticized for...
View ArticleMusic that moves me: Tchaikovsky lifts skater Eric Radford
Eric Radford is one-half of the 2012 Canadian national champions in pairs skating. With partner Meagan Duhamel, he won gold at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in January, and he cites the...
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Take A Look At Me Now!: February 15 is Phil Collins Day
Perhaps Valentine's Day generally leaves you a bit disappointed, heartbroken even. And maybe the only thing you feel like doing is eating some discounted pharmacy store chocolates and belting out the...
View ArticleToday in history: Obsessive-compulsive composer Michael Praetorius died in 1621
Michael Praetorius was born on February 15, 1571 then died exactly 50 years later, to the day. Music lovers know Praetorius best for his harmonization of the Christmas carol Es ist ein ros entsprungen...
View ArticleAzari & III: Notes from the underground
“The internet has been a good friend to Azari & III. It’s gotten us out there in a nice timely fashion.” Toronto’s Dinamo Azari, co-founder of Azari & III (pronounced “Azari & Third”) said...
View ArticleCBC host Mark Kelley shares his shuffle playlist
Mark Kelley is a Gemini award-winning journalist, and host of Connect with Mark Kelley. What his official bio won’t tell you is that he once aspired to be a famous rock critic. As he told John Griffin...
View ArticleCBC meteorologist Claire Martin shares shuffle playlist
Everyone knows Claire Martin as the sunny face of the CBC Weather Centre. Surprisingly, Martin’s earliest claim to fame was her appearance in the Pink Floyd video “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II).”...
View ArticleDriving around with Rae Spoon
It’s Thursday and that means Shotgunning with Lisa… my (semi) weekly driving adventure with a music lover. And today’s guest host is singer songwriter Rae Spoon. The former Calgarian who now calls...
View ArticleYour favourite R&B pleading-for-your-love songs
On Valentine's Day, we posted a list of the top five R&B pleading-for-your-love songs. Of course, the five songs were just a starting point. We asked you to contribute suggestions for songs that...
View ArticleAboriginal supergroup Indian City releases first CD: Supernation
Being asked to be play in a supergroup has to be a dream for most musicians, and that dream is currently being playing out on Manitoba’s Aboriginal music scene. A new group called Indian City has been...
View ArticleHow Bob Dylan stopped that pretender, Donovan
In 1965, Bob Dylan was on tour in England. And while he was enjoying his reign as king of folk music, (and in many ways king of all pop and folk culture), everywhere he went he saw magazines saying he...
View ArticleCBC Music’s Lisa Christiansen shares her shuffle playlist
If you’re ever in a karaoke bar at midnight, unable to fight the urge to do a duet, you’ll want to bring someone like Lisa Christiansen along. She’ll know about 90 per cent of the songs in the...
View ArticleDisco revival? Beatportal dishes on the state of disco in 2012
Over at Beatportal, Todd Terje, Greg Wilson, the Mole and others discuss disco in 2012. They asked the current crop of great practitioners about the state of the genre and the answers varied from...
View ArticleArvo Pärt builds a sonic stairway to heaven
This blog posed a rather uncomfortable question recently to some respected musicians: “What music would you choose to listen to on your death bed?” A number of people responded, with considerable...
View ArticleToday in history: Verdi's Un Ballo in maschera opens in Rome
Giuseppe Verdi’s 23rd opera, Un Ballo in maschera, was first performed on Feb. 17, 1859, at the Teatro Apollo in Rome. As a consequence of strict censorship rules and a dicey political situation in...
View ArticleThe R3-30 w/ Eight and a Half, Memoryhouse, & broken-up bands you love!
Last week on The R3-30, we presented your favourite Canadian Indie duets. It was Part One of our Valentine's Diptych. I neither know nor care if "Diptych" is a real word, by the way. This week, we're...
View ArticleCBC’s Diana Swain shares a pop-heavy shuffle playlist
Diana Swain is CBC TV’s senior investigative correspondent. The Gemini award-winning journalist can be seen on CBC’s The National and The Fifth Estate.We asked Swain, if she could choose anyone, what...
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