Jonny Greenwood, Krzysztof Penderecki release collaboration
At his home in Krakow, Poland, the venerable 79-year-old avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki has a custom built garden maze – a place to wander and wonder the world’s strange twists and turns....
View ArticlePinchas Zukerman to leave NACO in 2015
The National Arts Centre announced today that Pinchas Zukerman, music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra since 1999, will step down from his position on August 31, 2015. “The NAC has...
View ArticleMa Petite picks this week's Vancouver Is Awesome playlist
This week on the Vancouver Is Awesome playlist, Christine McAvoy taps Ma Petite a.k.a. Indiana Avent to share some songs from her favourite Vancouver artists. The Melborne born musician brought her...
View ArticleEmm Gryner covers Hall & Oats on new ep [STREAM]
On March 6, Canadian singer-songwriter Emm Gryner will release a new EP of songs written by Daryl Hall and John Oates. Called "She's Gone: A Tribute to Hall & Oates" (Dead Daisy Records/Outside...
View ArticleSchoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire turns 100
The Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg started work on Pierrot Lunaire 100 years ago this month, on March 12, 1912. It was one of the most dramatically new-sounding pieces of the 20th century and...
View ArticleListen now: ‘Avec Mes Mecs’ by Humans
listen Ever since watching Grounded TV's interview with Humans this weekend, I've had their 2010 release, "Avec Mes Mecs" in heavy rotation in my head. Specifically the refrain "Who knew that all...
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CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe shares her shuffle playlist
To celebrate the launch of CBC Music, we’ve asked CBC hosts and personalities across the country to share their musical tastes with us. Today, the CBC Weather Centre’s Johanna Wagstaffe puts her iPod...
View ArticleQ&A: Ian Thornley and his relationship with the blues
Back in 2002, fans of Boston’s Big Wreck were taken by surprise at the announcement the quartet had pulled the plug after only two albums. The band’s sudden implosion left many – particularly in...
View ArticleOld Radio 3 site shuts down Tuesday afternoon
It’s been nearly one month since the launch of Radio 3’s new home on CBC Music. We’ve kept things running on the old site, a.k.a. “The Basement” to help everyone adjust while we work out some of the...
View ArticleLadyhawk explode on stage [Photo Gallery]
Kelown rock 'n' roll outift Ladyhawk recently played a killer show in Vancouver, performing new songs from their recently released album, Shots. CBC Radio 3 designer/photographer Ben Didier was at the...
View ArticleSusie Arioli Sets a new standard with All The Way
Montreal-based vocalist Susie Arioli recently launched a 13-song CD that mines the musical richness of the American Songbook, and it's terrific. The CD's title, All the Way, refers to one of the tunes...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Said The Whale, Feist, Neil Young, more!
Winning America (Said The Whale Going Away Concert) airs on CBC TV April 7 at 9am PT - NME Is Feist among Canada’s greatest of all time? Globe & Mail Neil Young files trademark patent for a new...
View ArticlePop News, April 4th, 2012
Katy Perry goes 3D, U2 moving in a boy band direction and John Fogerty remakes old material.Katy Perry is heading right for you this July. Katy Perry: A Part of Me 3D, a concert movie and live...
View ArticleGreat Lake Swimmers' world-premiere performance
Toronto-based Great Lake Swimmers just dropped their fifth full-length album, New Wild Everywhere. To celebrate the occasion, CBC Music enticed the band to come and perform their new record in Glenn...
View ArticleWhy Baby Eagle? Steve Lambke explains... sort of
It’s Tour Diary Wednesday. I hope that’s not to confusing but it’s a short week. And on today’s show I’ll be joined by Steve Lambke, aka Baby Eagle. He just released Bone Soldiers and is on the road...
View ArticlePS I Love You debut ‘Princess Towers’ from new album
PS I Love You recently released a track from their upcoming album, Death Dreams, for download. It’s called “Princess Towers” and you can get it through SoundCloud.The Kingston, Ont., indie rock duo...
View ArticleJoel Plaskett has the #1 song on Radio 3
For the 5th time in as many years, Joel Plaskett has risen to the top of our weekly music chart. listenHis track "North Star" from Scrappy Happiness is also in the top ten of songs Most Added to...
View ArticleCadence Weapon and The Elwins on this week's Sessions Podcast
On this week’s podcast we’ve got another sun-drenched set from the SxSW music festival in Austin, Texas, but this time it’s a different kind of stage performance. On not much more than 8 square feet of...
View ArticleOne Direction and disposable boy band style
For those of you who missed the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards this past weekend, you have another opportunity to catch the latest boy band sensation One Direction on Saturday Night Live this weekend....
View ArticleSaturday Night Blues, April 7: Dawn Tyler Watson, Paul Delauriers, Geoff Mulaur
In Hour One, we bring you a concert from a blues duo made in heaven…or Montreal, actually, which is close. Dawn Tyler Watson is an amazing and soulful singer, who’s a six-time consecutive winner of the...
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