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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

It’s streaming day in Canada with new albums from Memoryhouse, The Wooden Sky, Trust and more
Vanessa HeinsIt’s gotten to the point where the Tuesday before an album is officially released is as much a day to look forward to as the day an album is actually released. That’s because it’s standard practice these days to make any record anyone might care to buy available to stream at least a week [...]

Slow Club and Air Waves at The Rivoli in Toronto
Frank YangIt’s said that for bands seeking exposure, television is the new radio as far as reaching a mass audience is concerned. Sheffield’s Slow Club can probably speak a little to that, having done pretty well as far as advert and show soundtracking goes. Not having cable or watch much/any broadcast TV, I had no [...]

Review of Perfume Genius’ Put Your Back N 2 It
Angel CeballosI’ll say up front that I never got around to listening to Learning, the first album from Seattle’s Mike Hadreas who performs as Perfume Genius, when it came out in 2010. While his short set of voice and piano didn’t get drowned out in the lineup of guitar-heavy rock at Matador 21 but rather [...]

Slow Club covers Chad VanGaalen
Frank YangUsually when it comes time to post one of these weekly covers – which would be every week – at least half of the equation is a famous or at least notable artist with a significant backstory to them. That that is not so much the case this week should not take anything away [...]

CONTEST – Teitur @ The Great Hall – March 6, 2012
FacebookWho: Teitur What: Faroe-born, Copenhagen-based singer-songwriter Teitur Lassen is something of a star in Denmark thanks to his strummy, sad songs of broken hearts and such. Why: His fourth English-language album Let The Dog Drive Home came out in 2010 and though it didn’t get a proper North American release, that doesn’t mean he can’t [...]

Herohill

Ghettosocks, Muneshine, Timbuktu & Jeff Spec – The Mustard Station (feat. Moka Only)
Dunno about you, but I enjoy this playful, McEnroe-directed video for this classic, can-rap posse cut. And why wouldn’t I? I like all the MC’s featured here: Halifax Legend the Grand Wizard Ghettosocks, Toronto representatives Timbuktu and Muneshine, as well as Vancity’s Jeff Spec (the 4 of whom are reportedly working on a group project [...]

Quick Hitters:: The Cable-knits
It’s with a hint of sadness I bring you the frantic stylings of The Cable-knits. Technically, the Calgary duo – LeeJay Dunphy and Nate Waters – write pop songs; the infectious guitar melodies and harmonies are often hidden or obfuscated by fragmented blasts of noise and droning waves of sound, but they are the building [...]

Cadence Weapon – 88
Ever wondered what a Grimes-produced Cadence Weapon track would some like? I suppose you might have done that very thing today, considering she has turned a (another, ha!) very popular blog into Grimes Vs. Bear for the day. Well, the Montreal enigma has graced Rollie with a snapping, hissing electronic backdrop for the throwback-themed 88, [...]

KRS-One – I Can’t Wake Up
What say we wrap up this Monday in Old School style, shall we? I mentioned KRS-One’s excellent-yet-odd “I Can’t Wake Up” last week in my review of mikedecline’s new album/mixtape. This Preemo-produced cut appeared on KRS’ 1993 debut solo album, and featured the Blastmaster telling a tale of a nightmare which revolved around a dream [...]

Paradise Animals – Coastal Lines
It’s very rare that I pay attention to any project that adds the words “synth pop” to their bio, but over the last few years Guelph’s Green Go offered up some fantastic reworkings of the biggest names in the Canadian indie scene. The EPs were stellar; imaginative and well thought out remixes that helped the [...]

NXEW

Sketch Troupe Plum Thunder release tribute to Toronto's single guys and the Pet Shop Boys
Toronto's legendary (at some point in the future) sketch comedy troupe Plum Thunder have released their ode to being single and lonely in Toronto "Boys Without Girls" check it out below and grab an MP3 for yourself at Boys Without Girls. You can find more from Plum Thunder on Twitter, Facebook or at PlumThunder.ca - [...]

Alaclair Ensemble, Julien Sagot and the Francophone releases of 2012
Alaclair Ensemble – America Quebec Hip Hop collective uses imagery from it's home province history. After giving away a triple album last year, the « Lower Canada post rigodon » act presents « America », a double album including remixes, new songs and acapellas. While their traditional Quebecer esthetic might be annoying, « America » is worth the listen for the [...]

TORONTO INSTITUTION SNEAKY DEE'S GOES VEGAN — NOW SERVING DAIYA CHEESE ON ALL YOUR FAVOURITE MENU ITEMS
Vegan Torontonians rejoice! Longstanding Toronto institution Sneaky Dee's Restaurant and Concert Venue has announced the addition of Daiya cheese to their kitchen, which means more vegan-friendly options on the already beloved Tex-Mex menu. Simply swap out traditional cheese from Sneaky Dee's favourites such as the King's Crown or Quesidillas with this new dairy and soy-free [...]

MONTREAL'S CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD SET FOR EXTENSIVE CANADIAN TOUR IN SPRING 2012
The ever-talented singer-songwriter Charlotte Cornfield isn't one to let a few months of cold, snow and rain turn her away from life on the highway. Cornfield will set out on an extensive Canadian tour following her trip to South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas and will perform in Anais Mitchell's Hadestown in March [...]

CASH Music Builds Free, Open Source, Tools for Musicians
This site is dedicated to Canadian arts and culture, however sometimes there are things that transcend borders and are of value to artists regardless of where they live, work and play. Recently Kristen Hersh (of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave) called my attention to CASH Music, an non-profit organization she co-founded. CASH Music aims [...]

Quick Before It Melts

Guess what?
Three years ago, if you told me that a hybrid hip-hop album made by a trio of Acadians from Quebec would simultaneously consume me with obsession, disdain, and love, I would have said you were trés fou. That’s exactly what happened to me two years ago, when Radio Radio were shortlisted for the Polaris Music [...]

Nightmusic
Claire Boucher has been brewing electronic music in her bedroom since 2010 under the name Grimes, “post-internet” music, as she describes it, that bends the conventions of pop music around experimental atmospherics. On her first two albums, the pop was buried and hidden under blankets of reverb and texture, but it’s finally percolated up to [...]

Man turns to sunshine
Happy Family Day, Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan; To my friends in PEI, Happy Islander Day; To my Manitoban friends here’s wishing you a joyeux Louis Riel Day; I can’t forget to wish all the Yukoners a blissful Heritage Day in advance of this coming Friday. It’s also President’s Day in the U.S. (I don’t think [...]

QUiCK HiT: The Darcys “Don’t Bleed Me” video
The Darcys – Don’t Bleed Me by Arts & Crafts Facebook: The Darcys Twitter: The Darcys

Evolution of heartbreak
It’s Friday, friends, and the weekend (a long weekend for some of us) is just about here, and I am in desperate need of a battery recharge. I wasn’t planning on posting anything at all today, but after seeing the new video from Daniel Romano, well I just couldn’t not post it. “Time Forgot (To [...]

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