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Welcome to the Canadian Music Wiki, an online resource created by CBC Radio 3 and Amanda Ash from the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of MITACS Accelerate.

This project is dedicated to using collaborative and social media to enrich Canada's music scene by creating a comprehensive guide to Canadian music. We welcome your contributions.

The Canadian Music Wiki is a wiki, meaning you can edit nearly any page at any time. This wiki strives to encourage artists, media and fans alike to contribute their knowledge to this digital resource. We hope it will serve as Canada's hub for everything music-related. So don't be shy; head over to the Getting Started page and learn how you can contribute. It's easy and fun!

Here are a few brief guidelines to follow:

1. Please keep a neutral point-of-view when contributing. The wiki pages aren't for opinion or discussion. They're for facts, biographical information and basic knowledge. However, we encourage you to click on the "discussion" links on each page if you want to start a conversation or share your thoughts. We're sure others would love to hear what you have to say!

2. If you see something is wrong—whether it is grammatical, factual, or formatting—be bold and fix it. This is YOUR wiki. Be proud of it.

3. Please don't vandalize. It's really not worth it.

4. The Canadian Music Wiki is free content.

This site is a beta version. If you have any comments or suggestions to improve this wiki, please email amanda_ash@cbcradio3.com.

Ready to contribute? Visit the Getting Started page.

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RADIOGRAHAM - Sunday Shenanigans
Here's the thing about Sundays - they come after Saturdays. It's not ideal. Then again, they also come before Mondays, so maybe we should count our blessings. If you, like me, use Sundays as a day to sit on the couch and do absolutely nothing, then I salute you. I salute you even more if you actually do stuff on Sundays, but I'm also a little mad at you for making the rest of us look bad. Either way, today's edition of RADIOGRAHAM is jam packed with music to make your Sunday one for the [...]

RADIOGRAHAM - Saturdays Of Thunder
Howdy folks! I hope this Saturday finds you well. I'm certainly ready to sink my teeth into another juicy weekend sandwich, and I hope you are too. On the menu today, I'll be featuring a couple of playlists of 'beautiful' music - the kind that makes you feel like falling in love, or taking a long drive for no real reason. As well, I'll have music from the likes of Rich Aucoin , Bry Webb , Islands , and oh so many more! Let's do this thing! And don't forget to follow along on the [...]

R3Weekend: Was 2003 the greatest year for Canadian music?
Hey, welcome to R3 Weekend. It’s Saturday the 28 th of January. Pete here. You can follow along with the show today on our CBC Radio 3 TUMBLR While Madonna & Brittany Spears spent 2003 smooching at the MTV music awards, a musical avalanche was building north of the border. 2003 saw the birth of a herd of fresh faced Canadian bands, who went on to release some of the most significant Canadian albums of the last 20 years. In 2003 The Stills released Logic Will Break Your Heart [...]

New CBC Radio 3 Artists: Jan 28 2012
Hit 'play' to hear all the great new artists who've signed up to Radio 3 this week! If you like what you hear, hit the plus [+] sign to add tracks to your personal playlists. Click on the heart icon to favourite any band that floats your boat or "heart" the entire playlist, if you like. tracks ( From Giants , pictured)

Bahamas, Said the Whale, Rose Cousins and more on today's Appetite for Distraction
As my show name suggests, I have a rather short attention span. If I don’t get something different in my mind at least once a day… well, lets just say you might find me hovering over your desk looking for something - anything - new. So on today’s show, while I share the new songs from Bahamas , Rose Cousins , Hands and Teeth , Said The Whale and Yukon Blonde - why don’t you share with me some of your best new discoveries. Of course I welcome songs and bands, but anything really will [...]

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Disney's Joy Division Controversy, the Future of CBC's Music Archives and Behind the Darcys' 'Aja' in This Week's News Roundup
With another weekend now officially here, we're back again with our news roundup to help make sense of it all. First up this time out, Disney caused a lot of controversy thanks to its "Joy Division-inspired" Mickey Mouse T-shirt , which aped the classic cover of the group's 1979 LP Unknown Pleasures . The offending shirt left the band's surviving members a bit divided over the whole deal, but they didn't have that long to think about things, since Disney quickly pulled the T-shirt from [...]

Hit the Cinema with 'The Grey,' 'One for the Money,' 'Tyrannosaur' and More in Our Film Roundup
If the announcement of this year's Oscar noms has you feeling cinematic, let Exclaim! guide you through the best (and worst) movie offerings out this week. Read full reviews of the following highlights and more in our Recently Reviewed section. First up, Liam Neeson leads a group of crash-landed oil drillers in Joe Carnahan's survival thriller The Grey (pictured). Marooned in the Alaskan wilderness, the oil-rig roughnecks battle the elements, a wolf pack and each other, in this grim [...]

DZ Deathrays Sign to Dine Alone, Announce 'No Sleep' EP
Having recently released the debut album from Australia's the Jezabels, Toronto label Dine Alone Records will once again be bringing Canadian audiences some rock from Down Under, as they just signed highly touted duo DZ Deathrays. The record company will drop the band's No Sleep EP on March 6 through digital retailers. The collection was recorded with Richard Pike and Neil Coombe at the White Room Record Studio near Mt. Nebo, Australia. You can hear the noisy, garage-y title track streaming [...]

Nneka Unveils North American Tour in Support of 'Soul Is Heavy'
Nneka's star has been rising for some time now, and this March, the Nigerian-German R&B singer will continue to spread the word by hitting our shores for a North American tour in support of her latest album, Soul Is Heavy , which is due out in our continent February 28 via Yo Mama's Recordings/Decon Records. Nneka's third LP was originally dropped last year overseas, but is only now getting a proper North American release. According to the press release, it contains a "combination of hip-hop [...]

Franco Falsini's 'Cold Nose' Unearthed by Spectrum Spools
In 1975, Polydor Records released Cold Nose , a soundtrack by Italian composer Franco Falsini. The music was originally recorded for a film called Cold Nose Story that never saw a wide release. Still, Falsini's soundtrack has become a cult favourite, which is why we're pleased to report that it will be receiving a proper reissue via the ever-consistent Spectrum Spools imprint. Best known for his work with the prog group Sensations' Fix, Cold Nose was Falsini's first solo work. As a press [...]

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MP3 Roundup: New music from Memoryhouse, War and Wild Nothing
Memoryhouse -“Walk With Me” With glistening slow-motion '80s synths accompanied by some softly-focused crooning from Denise Nouvion, the new Memoryhouse single sounds like a Kathleen Edwards contribution to the Drive soundtrack. The laid-back, wintery tune is the second track from the Ontario dream-pop duo's full-length debut The Slideshow Effect , which is hitting shelves (and torrents) on February 28 via Sub Pop. War - “Somme, Maggio” War is a Danish punk band comprised [...]

WATCH: Tyler, The Creator performs “Orange Juice” with BADBADNOTGOOD
A few months ago we shared videos of young jazz prodigies BADBADNOTGOOD collaborating with Tyler, The Creator on his tracks “Fish” and “Seven” during OFWGKTA’s tour stop in Toronto. Now here's another brand new video from that session, in which Tyler joins the band for a performance for “Orange Juice” from OFWGKTA’s mixtape Radical. BBNG caught Tyler's attention with their Odd Future Sessions , in which they performed experimental jazz interpretations of Odd Future songs, as well as their [...]

WATCH: A clip of James Murphy acting in The Comedy has surfaced!
This year’s Sundance Film Festival found LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy in not one, but two separate films, one of which is the previously reported on Shut Up, and Play the Hits , a documentary on the titular group’s final show. The second is Rick Alverson’s new film The Comedy , which features Murphy in a supporting role, alongside Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show! fame). The Comedy details the life of an aging New York hipster (Heidecker), who is emotionally [...]

WATCH: Young Magic - “Night in the Ocean” official music video
Coastal landscapes and morphing geometry make up Young Magic’s new music video, the follow up to their previous, equally striking clip for “Sparkly” . Their second go at it, directed by Andrew De Freitas, departs from the clean look of time-lapses and slow motion, and goes into an abstract performance of shape and pattern – on bodies, and over nature. The video takes foggy, spotted footage of cliffs and forests, and combines them with an intimate view of a couple applying lines and [...]

YouTube/Google rejects Perfume Genius' mildly homoerotic video ad; R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe reacts
In an offensive effort to be inoffensive, Google/YouTube has rejected a 15-second ad for Seattle singer-songwriter Perfume Genius’ hotly anticipated follow-up Put Your Back N 2 It , insisting it “contains non family safe material.” The ad, which depicts Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas and gay porn star Arpad Miklios embracing shirtless, was promptly rejected by YouTube after Matador attempted to upload the video this past week. After which, Matador received from YouTube a rather glib response, which [...]

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