Steven Bowers – “Bad Friend” (video)
Newfoundland-born Steven Bowers earned an East Coast Music Award nomination folk Folk Recording of the Year back in 2008, along with several Music Nova Scotia Award nods, and since then, he’s managed to get his music featured in a few ...
Vissia, Debbie Adshade, Joe Nolan, and Missy Bauman
Gordy the Moose presents some of his favourite new music from the submissions that have arrived in the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox. There was so much this month, we had to give him a bonus column to feature it ...
Tomato Tomato release new single ‘Kite Song’ from upcoming Canary ...
Tomato Tomato, the Saint John, New Brunswick-based roots rock outfit led by Lisa and John McLaggan, will release its new album, Canary In A Coal Mine, on March 1, but fans can get an early taste with the new single, “Kite Song,” ...
Matt Andersen has a new album coming; take a ...
Award-winning Canadian soul-bluesman Matt Andersen has announced the forthcoming release of Halfway Home by Morning, which will be available via True North Records on Mar. 22. Unbridled joy springs eternal from Halfway Home by Morning, Matt’s tenth full-length release. The album was ...
Chris Antonik and Ashley Belmer take Northwood on the road
Three-time Maple Blues Award nominee Chris Antonik has announced a new acoustic tour for fall 2018 with Canadian vocalist and partner Ashley Belmer, called Northwood. After three successful albums and tours across North America and the UK, acclaimed guitarist, singer, ...
Piper and Carson capture sounds of the country on self-titled ...
Piper Hayes is a Toronto-raised musician with a keen interest in grassroots music. Her latest album, Piper & Carson – with partner Carson Ritcey-Thorpe – was released Dec. 8, 2017, and Piper is now preparing to go on tour through ...
The Young Novelists – In City & Country
From the outside, the new record by The Young Novelists, In City & Country, is a lyrical investigation of small town Ontario life and its (in)compatibility with the big city escape hatch. On a deeper level, it’s about not being ...
The LYNNeS – Heartbreak Song for the Radio
Out of Ottawa, here come The LYNNeS, Lynn Miles and Lynne Hanson, bearing a fresh Heartbreak Song for the Radio, an album with an aggressive sound which may propel the already successful award-winning songwriters into a new category of international ...