Basia Bulat has just returned with her third album, Tall Tall Shadow, which was out at the beginning of October. In her short career, Basia has already found critical success with her eclectic folk sound, with her first album landing...
Fresh off supporting Ellie Goulding at the iTunes Festival in London is young indie pop starlet Laura Welsh. I said it before, but the track Undiscovered is a little poppier than the music I typically listen to, but I was...
This morning, the Polaris Prize announced their short list of nominees, chopping down the long list from 40 to a short list of 10. These 10 albums will now be voted on to determine the Polaris Prize winner, which recognized...
Feist Wins 2012 Polaris Prize Last night, Toronto played host to the 2012 Polaris Prize, which recognizes the best Canadian album based on “artistic merit without regard to genre, sales history or label affiliation.” Oh, so this is why Justin...
S.S. Coachella – Cash Cow or More Fun for Everyone? Coachella famously expanded from one weekend festival to two in Indio, California this past year. Now they are moving from the desert to the sea – promoters Golden Voice have...
With their fourth album, Lost Channels, Toronto folk rock band, Great Lake Swimmers continued to find critical success. What they might not have expected to find was they would still have to do interviews for terrible blogs a nomination for...
2011 Polaris Prize Goes to….(drum roll)….Arcade Fire When there are awards given out, there are generally favourites, close seconds, dark horses, and underdogs. Although awards can generally be won by people out of left field, deep down I think everyone...
From what was once 40 is now 10. No, I’m not talking about some crappy Jennifer Garner movie. ChartAttack has the 2011 Polaris Prize Short List announcement, which I have pasted below. “A jury of over 200 music journalists, bloggers,...
Rebecca Black’s Friday video has been taken down from YouTube. This is unrelated to recent possibly related riots in cities such as Vancouver, but it is because of legal disputes. Amazingly, it is NOT a copyright issue, with regards to...
