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Vancougar, Hey Ocean to Drop CDs on Vancouver Friday
If you live in Vancouver you have a tough call for Friday but one thing’s for sure. You can’t stay home. Vancougar AND Hey Ocean! At the Biltmore Cabaret starting at around 8 p.m. Vancougar will be dropping their new disc ‘Canadian Tuxedo’ with the help of the Transmitors, Master Apes and Los Tycoons. Herohill…
RVT – Rebekah Higgs – Parables
The new video for the lovely song Parables by Rebekah Higgs. If you like you can vote for it to be in the Much Music Top 10 and make Rebekah very happy. Of course if you were in her Facebook Group you’d already know that. (In case you missed it that’s called a hint) ;…
Please Support YellowBird Project
Yellow Bird Project sells t-shirts, but not just any t-shirts. They have exclusive, original T’s featuring and in some cases designed by some of your favorite bands. The bands then choose a charity, and the proceeds from the shirts go to that charity. Their most recent addition is a shirt designed by The New Pornographers…
Polaris Short List Announced
As just announced live on CBC Radio 3 the short list for this year’s Polaris Music Prize: Plants And Animals:: Parc Avenue Basia Bulat :: Oh My Darling Two Hours Traffic :: Little Jabs Stars In Our Bedroom After the War Shad :: The Old Prince Kathleen Edwards :: Asking for Flowers The Weakerthans ::…
East Coast vs. West Coast and the Winner is No Coast at All
Most Canadians can tell you how many years it has been since Lord Stanley’s Cup came north of the border. Even people who are generally very pro-American will express some resentment at wealthy American teams taking the cup every year (and will remind you that most of their players are Canadian anyway.) What most people…
the Better Reasons Festival recap
Kids on TV, on their MySpace blog, have posted a recap of the Better Reasons Festival. The festival combined the talents of Toronto record labels Blocks Recording Club, Fuzzy Logic, and Out of This Spark for a three day event at the Tranzac and featured such acts as Prarie Cat, Peter Project, Lilly Frost, Laura…
Whoa, the Jetlag…
I finally got back into Ottawa yesterday morning from an overnight flight from Vancouver Island, where I was happily priviledged to attend a wedding in the family. Those of you already following my home blog will have noted some of the posts I’ve set up, as well as some of the photography I took during…
Live on Your Computer: Nathan Lawr, Hawksley Workman, Bison and Vancougar
Coming up on Wednesday the podcast (mp3) version of Vancougar‘s session will be up on the Radio 3 site. But as posted yesterday on the Radio 3 site. There are new full sessions up that you can listen to (but not download) from Hawksley Workman, Nathan Lawr, and Bison as well as Vancougar. If some…
publicbroadcasting.ca Turns 1,000 (posts that is)
This is the 1000th blog post on this site. This particular blog started sometime after the site was launched but publicbroadcasting.ca itself will be 3 years old in mid August. So, this seemed like a good time to pause and reflect on why the site exists. Not so long ago large media companies were the…