The new Zunior sampler features a track from the new Burning Hell album I was telling you about. It also has some Ketch Harbour Wolves, Jenn Grant, Emma-Lee, Laura Borealis, Al Tuck, Benn Ross, and more all for the low price of nothing at all. Grab It Here
Will Currie and the Giant Beaver
Will Currie and the Country French stopped along the roadside in Alberta to file a video diary about the World’s Largest Beaver and celebrate Amada’s 24th birthday. If you’re looking for some listening, grab a copy of CBC Radio 3 sessions podcast with Will Currie and the Country French (one of my all time favorites.)…
If You Download the Terrorists Win
Jennifer Van Evra at Radio 3 has a talent for finding laughably ridiculous studies that people actually paid for and devoted part of their professional lives to. Last week it was the one about sexy music leading to promiscuity, this week she’s found a study from the Motion Picture Association and the RAND corporation that…
Blocks Recording Singles Club
Via CBC Radio 3: Toronto’s artist owned music collective Blocks Recording Club home of Final Fantasy, Bob Wiseman, Fucked Up, Kids on TV, the Phonemes, and others has launched the “Blocks Singles Club”. Everyone who joins the Blocks Recording Club’s new Facebook Group will get two free singles a month from Blocks artists for free.…
Rock Plaza Central Live On Archive.org
Archive.org is obviously one of the best things online. In addition to offering (for free) over 1.2 million text files, over 158 thousand ‘moving images’ (mostly film), and over 300 thousand audio files they have their own version of ‘Concerts on Demand’. The archive currently includes over 58 thousand performances. All of them are embeddable…
Lots of Free Music From Zunior
Have you ever visited publicbroadcasting.ca and seen the little red and white box on the left? It’s on the main page and most of the feed page. Zunior updates it periodically (once a month ish?…) anyway what it tells you is that Zunior has a free sampler and it’s usually a pretty amazing collection. The…
Woodhands – Electric Avenue! Get it Free
The Woodhands are releasing the ‘Dancer’ EP on March 3rd. Dancer will be a “collection of remixes, restylings and reworkings of the killer track ‘Dancer’ from their album ‘Heart Attack’” You can go hear bits of what might be on that right now at myspace.com/woodhands but before you do that: You can go right now…
Free Downloads and New Website from Hot Panda
Edmonton’s Hot Panda has been compared to everyone from the Talking Heads, to Daniel Johnson, Roxy Music and the Flaming Lips. In truth most writers simply get confused trying to describe the sound. This is probably because the band “…have yet to sit down and have the discussion that goes: “So, what should we sound…
Announcing the Green Go Remix Project!
Green Go have been making great sounds emanate from Guelph for a few years now and while they may not be on the tip of everyone’s tongue yet they have certainly gotten noticed by people like indiemusicfilter, I (Heart) Music, Bridging the Atlantic and the the Toronto Star. Whether you know Green Go or not…
Peripheral Visionaries: Young Galaxy’s Blog and Mixtapes
Montreal’s Young Galaxy has a blog up called Peripheral Visionaries (I’ll get it in the aggregators soon). Along with the new blog Stephen Ramsay (vocals and guitar for YG) is posting a monthly mixtape. It is not, like Herohill all Canadian indie stuff, but if you are interested in what Stephen R. likes and is…