Caribou, the winner of the 2008 Polaris Music Prize is this week’s featured artist on the CBC Radio 3 Sessions with reworks of some of his award winning tunes – you’ll never hear these songs done this way anywhere else. You can grab a copy of it at http://www.cbc.ca/radio3/podcasts/sessions/CBCR3Sessions_2009-01-14.mp3. Also, if you missed it, yesterday’s…
Testing the Strength of the Radio 3 Community
Those of you who aren’t Radio 3 listeners and weren’t Fuse Listeners will likely get sick of hearing about this but what’s the point of having your own website if you can’t rant about whatever you like. One of the things that has always drawn me to Radio 3 is the radio by community concept.…
Said the Whale Joins the Fight for Putzy
Vancouver’s Said the Whale has joined the call to get Amanda Putz reinstated on CBC Radio 3. They have sent out messages via Facebook and Myspace urging their fans to write in. From their Myspace Blog today: “Dearest friends and enemies, At the risk of involving ourselves with politics and the inner workings of CBC’s…
Will Currie and the Country French in Session
When I first launched Publicbroadcasting.ca more than three years ago one of the first bands to approve putting their music in the download section of the site was Will Currie and the Country French who I stumbled across on Myspace one day by accident. Things have gone well for them since then. First there were…
Waiting for the Putz
Last summer the CBC decided to pull the plug the plug on Fuse much to the sadness of any music fan in this country with any sense of adventure. Now the host of Fuse, Amanda Putz, is also gone from CBC Radio 3, her morning time slot was taken over this morning by Vish Khanna.…
The Rest of the Bucky Winners
So, the other day I mentioned the 2008 CBC Radio 3 Bucky Award winners. I also mentioned that there were a few awards left to go, but I never put them up. So watch the video below to get the last few – most notably at all Laura Barrett was voted the ‘Sexiest Canadian Musician…
Winners: Bucky Awards and Scarves
Most of the CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards for this year were announced this afternoon (a few categories will be announced on the next episode of the Radio 3 TV video podcast. Only a few of my picks made it, but my sincere congratulations to everyone who took one home. :: Best Road Trip SongWINNER:…
Triple Album Coming from Joel Plaskett
CBC Radio 3 is reporting that Joel Plaskett is currently busy producing a new Two Hours Traffic disc. But come February (exact date unknown) he will release a three CD set entitled “Three” – each of the three discs will have 9 songs on it (3 x 3 songs = 9 x 3 CDs =…
Laura Barrett in Session
There are alot of “Sessions” on the CBC Radio 3 site, but once a week they take one of them and put it out as a podcast. This week’s is Laura Barrett (regular readers of this blog will, rightly, detect some favouritism). You can download the Laura Barrett Session here you can also, if you…
Bucky Award Time (and some constructive criticism)
It is time to vote for the Bucky awards again, this is CBC Radio 3‘s annual music award thing. So my main point here is that you should go vote at http://radio3.cbc.ca/polls/?pollId=25. I actually won one of these last year and am now probably going to kill my chances at a repeat. First though I…