This past weekend marked the end of another Canadian Music Week and on Saturday night the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards were announced at the (super-fancy) Fairmount Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
This year’s performers included The Rural Alberta Advantage, Plants and Animals (pictured above), Great Lake Swimmers and Constantines.
A few of the winners you may [...]

The song “Lewis Takes of His Shirt” is undoubtedly my immediate favourite off of Owen Pallet’s recently released Heartland. And now there’s a video!
I can’t say I really understand it, but it certainly keeps you captivated. I’m serious – you can’t look away!
Images shift here, there, and everywhere, and I’m not exactly sure how it [...]

Oh, how I’ve been waiting for this! Vancouver, BC’s The New Pornographers have released the first single from their upcoming album, Together (Last Gang Records) which will come out in Canada on May 4th.
I was expecting something pretty decent from this new album, and if this first song is any indication, they haven’t disappointed.
“Inspired by [...]

Good news! Broken Social Scene has released a free download of their new song, World Sick. Click here for the download. They’ve also given us a glimpse of the awesome album cover art (above).
The new BSS album, Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts), will be out May 4th and the band have several tour dates [...]

Janeane Garofalo…Winona Ryder…Reality Bites….”My Sharona.” If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here. If you do, you’ll know why that awesome movie-moment is one that I’ve always loved. Partly because it’s a super-cool scene in a super-cool movie, but also because “My Sharona” by The Knack is rightfully one of the most well-known [...]

I cannot express to you how unbelievably excited I was to hear back in January that The Weakerthans were releasing a live album/concert film. Undeniably one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to was The Weakerthans with Lowest of the Low and Billy Bragg (unrelenting energy from each and every act), so I can attest, [...]

I love this! Brooklyn singer/songwriter Alyson Greenfield is “putting her best blog forward” in hopes of getting a slot on the 2010 Lilith Fair line up. “For an emerging feminist singer/songwriter, there is nothing bigger than the return of Lilith Fair.  I’m using the blog as a platform to show why I believe I would [...]