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Here is a list of bona fide Canadian Music Blogs. Do you have a hobby music blog? Feel free to add yours Here...

Top Canadian Music Blogs

Chromewaves

Bry Webb and Doug Tielli at The Music Gallery in Toronto
Frank YangIt probably amounts to some sort of Can-rock heresy, but I think I actually like Bry Webb on his own more than I ever did with Constantines. I fully acknowledge why many hold the Cons up as one of the greatest Canadian rock acts of the past however many years/decades/centuries – I’ve seen them [...]

Kathleen Edwards covers Tom Petty
AmazonFlashback: 2004. Ottawa singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards has made a bit of a name for herself with her debut album Failer the year before, and perhaps seeking to solidify the lucrative “people-who-buy-their-CDs-while-buying-coffee” demographic, contributes a song to the Starbucks/Hear Music-assembled Sweetheart: Love Songs compilation. This places her alongside artists like Aimee Mann and Josh Ritter in [...]

CONTEST – Veronica Falls @ The Garrison – February 14, 2012
Frank YangWho: Veronica Falls What: English-Scottish foursome who on their self-titled debut, resurrected the spirit of ’80s indie-pop and gave it a dark, zombie-like edge. Found love in a graveyard, indeed. Why: They toured North America in the Fall supporting The Drums – Toronto was lucky enough to get our own headlining show – but [...]

CONTEST – Die Antwoord @ The Phoenix – February 14, 2012
Ross GarrettWho: Die Antwoord What: South African hip-hop outfit as dedicated to shock and spectacle – and viral videos – as beats and rhymes. Why: Their second album Ten$ion is set to come out on Tuesday and they are wasting no time in taking it on the road in North America. When: Tuesday, February 14, [...]

Ty Segall and White Fence to get Hair-y
Ruth SwansonSeeing San Francisco’s Ty Segall at Halifax Pop Explosion 2010 was one of the most unexpectedly rowdy/violent shows I’ve ever been in the middle of, which was a bit surprising considering that as rough and garage-y as his stuff is, it’s not all that heavy. Certainly not the obvious soundtrack for the bedlam that [...]

Herohill

A Song About Falling Down Drunk At A Party
The end of the week has finally arrived, and I think we all want the same thing right about now: to watch a video of Old Man Luedecke playing a song in his bathtub. Well the folks at the very impressive Nova Scotia-based video site Analog Songs have you covered in fine style. So here’s [...]

Teenage Kicks – Middle of the Night
I shant lie to you, I pretty much loved Teenage Kicks last EP, Rational Anthems, and so any news from the band is welcome on my cyber doorstep. And there appears to be TK news aplenty right now, as not only will they be playing in Halifax on March 30th (Michael’s with Wildlife and Glory [...]

One Hundred Dollars – Ties That Bind Video Premier
It’s no secret that I love the visceral country songs One Hundred Dollars delivers each and every time out. The band hits like a sledgehammer; sure any country purist will soak up the melodies, but Simone Schmidt refuses to settle for cheap cliches and tried and true imagery. Her pen cuts deep as she tells [...]

Reuben Bullock – Man Made Lakes
It’s fitting that Calgary’s Reuben Bullock describes his state of mind, and musical perspective, as simply going where the river takes him. In a time when most folk/roots acts feel as natural as salmon fishing in the Yemen, Bullock lets go of any expectations and floats with the current. Bullock is a self-admitted work in [...]

Boxer The Horse – Rattle Your Cage
If you had taken a poll a few years ago, when PEI was spitting out awesome young bands like they were some new form of hybrid potato (a PEI/potato ref, unexpected right?), around which band would end up having the most interesting body of work over their career, the winner would likely have been Boxer [...]

NXEW

Rococode shine on debut full-length “Guns, Sex and Glory”
Artsy but accessible, badass yet beautiful, sexy and still sweet? Perhaps a few fitting adjectives describing the contrast inherent to the Vancouver indie-pop group known as Rococode, who have just released their long-awaited debut full length record Guns, Sex and Glory on Head in the Sand Records. With driving guitar work and plenty of synthesizer [...]

Hamilton's Drew Smith Outsources New Video “Smoke and Mirrors” to India
Making videos is expensive and Canadian musicians are, generally, poor. So when Drew Smith needed a new video he did what any good businessman would do he outsourced it to India.

New Video: Haley Stark covers Springsteen's “Dancing in the Dark”
Toronto's Haley Stark ( Twitter - Facebook ) covering Springsteen's classic tune. You can catch them at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto with a full band on Monday, Feb 6 - more info here.

Album Review: Marie-Pierre Arthur – Aux alentours
She has played bass with some of the biggest exports of Quebec in the mid-2000's and collaborated with Buck 65. Yet, rural Gaspésie native Marie-Pierre Arthur is not a household name. After releasing her first album in 2009, she did obtain critical success and enjoyed some radio airplay. Marie-Pierre Arthur showed amazing skills when it came [...]

Papermaps Release Music Video for “Complicate Things”
Toronto band Papermaps grew last year to become a 5 piece band. Band still consists of Dean Marino, Wendy Leung, Todd Harrison and Bobby Lee. With newly added Betty Dimo. Papermaps are busy working on their album release this year but they decided to tease us with their video release "Complicate Things". Title of the [...]

Quick Before It Melts

How I pray
The City Streets are a band on a mission. A few missions, actually. The Montreal-based band (originally from Edmonton) has two new full length albums in the pipelines: Winter Lightning was recorded with Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wolf Parade) at Montreal’s almost legendary Hotel2Tango studios, and Sawdust & Rum, recorded by [...]

QUiCK HiT: Cobra & Vulture “Station Agent of Change” video
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Time to remember
Back row (from left to right): Carl Johnson (Library Voices), Megan Bonnell, François Cloutier, Becky Ninkovic (You Say Party), Daniel Lee (Hooded Fang), Brandon Chandler, Stephen O’Shea (You Say Party), Amy Eligh (Casablanca Media Publishing), Nils Edenloff (The Rural Alberta Advantage), Charles F (Winter Gloves); Front row: Jana Cleland (Casablanca Media Publishing), Lance Schibler (engineer), [...]

Cuff The Duke cover Guided By Voices
Cuff the Duke are getting set for the U.S. release of last year’s Morning Comes album (available to our neighbours to the south on February 28), and are doing so with a new five-song EP of covers called In Our Time. The band have been premiering one of the new tracks each week at Filter [...]

Are you looking at me
I have a couple cats, and they both like to hang around my desk when I’m blogging. I don’t mean curl up at my feet or sleep on the floor kind of hanging out, I mean up on the desk, sprawled out between me and the keyboard basking in the glow of the monitor kind [...]

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