
If you think cover bands are lame, you clearly haven’t seen Sheezer in action. Sheezer is an all-girl tribute band to legendary ‘90s pop-rock band Weezer. Th...

As we start off a new year, it seems fitting to feature the band whose 2009 was arguably better than any other Canadian outfit's: Toronto's the Rural Alberta Advantage, or RAA...

To celebrate 10 years as a band, the Constantines put together a mini-tour, including 3 official shows and 1 secret one in Toronto. They brought along some of their favourite bands to play with them: John K...

There are many Canadian media outlets that have tried to claim that Canadians don't care about Canadian content. They usually make this claim when trying to get the CRTC to soften Can-Con rules...

Stephanie Johns at the Coast has written a great piece about the Halifax Music scene and the things that have made it work over the last decade...

AUX TV has been releasing staff top ten lists all week and we've just posted our final 10 best albums of 2009 on our new music blog. It wasn't hard to include five amazing Canadian albums on the list. AUX TV's Top Ten Albums of 2009.

A new interview in Guitar International starts with "If the name Joel Plaskett doesn’t ring a bell, you’re probably not from Canada, ..." which sums things up pretty nicely. If...

A few months ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Said the Whale and Hannah Georgas in Waterloo, Ontario before a show.One live in studio Hannah Georgas song and three from Said the Whale with Hannah doing backup vocals plus an interview with everyone are available for your listening pleasure:To...

According to Aux.TV's blog We Like Your Band Toronto and Montreal are still pretty much kicking butt, even according to CBC Radio 3...

Phog Lounge Presents:Al Tuck & No Actionw/Kenneth MacLeod & The Windsor SaltTuesday, December 29, 2009*ALL AGES* 9:00 PM STARTBorn and raised on PEI, Al's reputation as a gifted, hardworking musician arose in the midst of his fellow Halifax musician's fame as pop masters...

Recorded by Mitch Fillion for southernsouls.caMOTHER MOTHER - Arms Tonite from Mitch Fillion on Vimeo.

Over on the Woodpigeon Songbook blog there are two MP3s, one live and one demo version of Woodpigeon covering Bjork's Aurora:"Each January, our intrepid Kenna Burima puts together a festival called The Midway, held adjacent to the annual High Performance Rodeo here in Calgary...

The folks at CBC Radio 3 launched a new podcast series on Dec. 22 and while I really should have posted this on the day I thought, with a few other things going on in late December, I'd hold off a few days and then send up a flag for people who may have been busy for the last several days...












