The New Balearic

The big four oh! Looks like the podcast is approaching that hill… hopefully there’s no mid-life crisis awaiting on the other side. It’s hard to believe it’s already been forty episodes. Way back on May 18, 2006, Episode One was released. Over f...

So apparently getting a Masters degree requires a lot of work. These past few weeks have been a mere blur, but I’ve recently found myself in a rare break from the work and thus…. Episode 39! Oddly enough, the music industry doesn’t take many breaks either. Some...

The time has come for another fantastic ninety odd minutes on The New Balearic. Summer is over, classes have started, but thankfully, the music always continues… This episode is happy to welcome back some familiar sounds. ...

I realize a overwhelming majority of these spotlights are on Canadian artists, and while this wasn’t intentional, it is welcomed. Canada is bursting at the seems with amazing talent. Recently, I’ve written about Montreal’s Our Book and the Authors, and Calgary’s Jordan Klassen. It’s a...

Yes indeed! The behind the music festival Transmission have kindly asked to include the podcast on their shiny new monthly newsletter called transmitNOW. What is Transmission you ask...

Summer’s are typically slow at The New Balearic. I am always moving between two places. The last two summers I was moving between Seoul and Vancouver, while this summer most of my time has been spent moving across Canada to Halifax. ...

I love it when new albums pleasantly surprise. Based in Montreal, Our Book And The Authors is lead singer, songwriter and keyboardist Gabriel D’Amour and programmer Jean-Christian Arod. Their first full length self-titled album was released only two weeks ago, on May 13th 2009. ...

Hello there friends. It’s good to have you back for another thrilling 90 minutes of the best new music in the world. The 36th episode of The New Balearic is a folky affair. Electro-folk. Freak-folk. Indie-folk. Folk punk. Folk pop. Ambient folk. ...

During the past three years of the New Balearic’s existence, I have gotten a lot of questions of some bands I’ve played that are harder to find on the internet, but one artist has been requested far more than the rest. No...

Wow. Nick Bertke . Remember that name. The last time I read about Nick, he was nineteen years old and had just released a fantastic EP called Wonderland under his alias Pogo. That was half a year ago...

Erwan Castex is the mastermind behind his relatively new musical alias, Rone. For the past few years, Castex spent his time as a filmmaker and constructing music for advertisements, TV shows, and the like...

Hello there. Welcome to the thirty-fifth installment of The New Balearic. Apologies for being a little late on this one. Lydia and I are wrapping up our time in South Korea, and I’m preparing to go to grad school in Eastern Canada, so things have been a little hectic lately. ...

I’ve been meaning to do this more. The idea behind The New Balearic was to promote music without giving away free mp3s without the bands permission, however, more and more (usually new) bands seem to be embracing the idea of handing out one or two tracks in order to promote their new release. ...

Hello there. Thank you for joining me on another trip around the globe with The New Balearic podcast! Today we are headed for many fantastic sounds around the planet, featuring France and the U.S., as well as some more music from Finland, Mexico, Canada, Norway, Poland, Australia, and more...