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 [...]

My favourite up-and-coming band The Joy Formidable have just released some exciting news in the form of a lead single from the debut album!

The single is available on iTunes now. Entitled “Popinjay”, it will also be released as a very limited edition 7″ vinyl from April 5th. I have included the usual links below. There is [...]

Hi! My name is Desirée and I’m new here at BIYL. It may take a post or two for me to get into my groove, but I’m excited to be able to share with you some of the awesome music that crosses my path each and every day.
I grew up in various cities just outside [...]

I was reading an interesting article by Alexis Petridis on The Guardian discussing whether you should try to influence your kid’s tastes in music. I don’t have kids myself, though as I’ve mentioned before I do have a 12 year old niece with very strong opinions on music. But this idea of should I or [...]

I make a habit of tuning into the radio whenever I’m in the car. I often get stuck on NPR (especially if it’s a Saturday and there’s a double-feature of Car Talk/Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me), but I do venture out onto traditional stations. It’s easy to get trapped in nicheland when you blog, so [...]

When I used to DJ every week at a dirty club in central Phoenix, there was this nice old gal who’d be there from around 8PM-10PM, just sitting around the bar and shooting the breeze with the bartenders & locals. She was a little rough, with a smoker’s voice and the occasional bout of Sailor’s [...]

So I recently updated to Wordpress 2.8, and somehow it caused my sidebar widget to go funny. So the videos, Tumblr, Twitter & Blogroll have all disappeared. I’m working on it! There’s some kind of conflict caused between that and my featured posts section. I really don’t want to switch themes AGAIN, especially after all [...]