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Welcome to the Canadian Music Wiki, an online resource created by CBC Radio 3 and Amanda Ash from the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of MITACS Accelerate.

This project is dedicated to using collaborative and social media to enrich Canada's music scene by creating a comprehensive guide to Canadian music. We welcome your contributions.

The Canadian Music Wiki is a wiki, meaning you can edit nearly any page at any time. This wiki strives to encourage artists, media and fans alike to contribute their knowledge to this digital resource. We hope it will serve as Canada's hub for everything music-related. So don't be shy; head over to the Getting Started page and learn how you can contribute. It's easy and fun!

Here are a few brief guidelines to follow:

1. Please keep a neutral point-of-view when contributing. The wiki pages aren't for opinion or discussion. They're for facts, biographical information and basic knowledge. However, we encourage you to click on the "discussion" links on each page if you want to start a conversation or share your thoughts. We're sure others would love to hear what you have to say!

2. If you see something is wrong—whether it is grammatical, factual, or formatting—be bold and fix it. This is YOUR wiki. Be proud of it.

3. Please don't vandalize. It's really not worth it.

4. The Canadian Music Wiki is free content.

This site is a beta version. If you have any comments or suggestions to improve this wiki, please email amanda_ash@cbcradio3.com.

Ready to contribute? Visit the Getting Started page.

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    Charlottetown P.E.I rockers Paper Lions are set to release their sophomore LP My Friends on August 20 . To whet your appetite, they're offering the album's first single "Philadelphia" as a free download. This slow building rocker conjures up teenage memories of family road trips, and summer nights spent aimlessly roaming the neighborhood. Fans can expect more of the same from the album, which is billed as "a Polaroid of Prince Edward Island twenty-something years ago where the band grew [...]
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    Washed Out Returns with 'Paracosm' Album
    Following 2011's artistic step-up Within and Without , Ernest Greene has announced he will be resurrecting his Washed Out project for a new full-length. Titled Paracosm , the record will arrive on all the usual formats on August 13 via Sub Pop, with a UK/European release to drop the day before on Weird World. The album was produced by previous studio collaborator Ben Allen in Georgia, and according to the press release, we can expect another big shift from Greene, who is embracing the [...]
    Remy Shand Finally Returns with New Music
    Remember Remy Shand? He's a Winnipeg R&B singer who signed to Motown Records and scored a hit with his 2002 album The Way I Feel (including songs like "Take a Message" and "Rocksteady"). It looks like Shand may finally be venturing out from the "where are they now?" pile, since he's recently uploaded a few new tracks to YouTube. As Soul Bounce points out, Shand posted a soulful new tune called "Where Are We Going?," along with a vintage-looking found footage video. According to the caption [...]
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    SNFU to Return with 'Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You'
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