Four disturbing Canadian murder ballads that will keep you up ...
To hell with late-night screenings of Friday the 13th movies and visiting haunted houses this Halloween. If you really want to be creeped out to no end, you should hear the darkly disturbing lyrics a few Canadian singer-songwriters have managed ...
Here are your 2018 Maple Blues Award nominees
Nominees for the 22nd annual 2018 Maple Blues Awards have just been announced. The awards will be handed out Monday, Feb. 4 at Koerner Hall, in Toronto. The event will be hosted by actor and musician Raoul Bhaneja. You can ...
Buckman Coe premieres new video and announces album release date
Vancouver roots musician and social activist Buckman Coe premiered his new single and video “Gathering Storm” earlier this month. The track is the first single and title track from his new full-length album set for release on Feb. 22. “Gathering Storm,” the single, ...
Jean-François Bélanger – Les Entrailles de la Montagne
Music is poetry and poetry is music. This much is entirely evident in the recent work of Montreal’s Jean-François Bélanger, the multi-instrumentalist author of this CD, Les Entrailles de la Montagne. Loosley translated, the title means the entrails of the ...
Ben Sures has turned a beloved story-song into a children’s ...
Fans of Ben Sures first heard the story of Leo Day in Ben’s song “The Boy Who Walked Backwards Through the Snow” on his brilliant album Gone to Bolivia. Now, Ben has recounted the story again in the form of ...
Ann Vriend launches new single and video for ‘It’s Happening’
Award-winning soul singer Ann Vriend (AV) releases a new video and single today entitled “It’s Happening.” Commissioned for a school fundraiser, the song features the students of the Sifton Elementary School Choir accompanying AV on this empowering and gritty, inner-city ...
Nova Scotia songwriter Jesse Thomas, a.k.a. Awolk, has found his ...
I once read that if you follow your passion, you’ll find your purpose. If there’s one thing Jesse Thomas has done, it’s that; he’s found his purpose in song-writing. Jesse grew up in the small town of Truro, NS, where ...
Canadian blues giant Harpdog Brown shares video for ‘Reefer Lovin’ ...
Vancouver-based blues artist Harpdog Brown has long been called a blues evangelist, and that’s a very fitting moniker. “I speak the blues like it’s the truth, and it is”, he said. “I do feel like I’m a servant of the ...
The Bombadils in ‘condo-cert’ – a review of a special ...
The Bombadils, a Halifax-based folk duo, are ramping up their music career following a short hiatus to spend time with their new baby. Kicking off their activities this fall was a short Ontario tour, the highlight of which was a ...
Emily Jean Flack – “Another Year Gone By”
Emily Jean Flack’s name may not sound familiar but the names of her relations sure will. She’s the daughter of Denise Flack of Leahy. But don’t let that pedigree fool you. Her debut EP, Throwing Shapes, ain’t no neo ...