On this week’s New Music Releases we got a lot more great new music to review from recent releases of Katy Perry, Drake and Elisapie! Let’s get started! What Makes A Woman This is one of Katy Perry’s newest tracks off of her upcoming 5th studio album. Katy describes the song about how to truly […]
A new Canadian music company has launched by Coalition Music in partnership with The Aboriginal People’s Network (APTN). Red Music Rising is owned, managed and operated entirely by Indigenous individuals, with a mission to help develop robust, sustainable, life-long careers for Indigenous artists and industry members. RMR will not only sign, release and market music from […]
“The Spark” has captured top honours for Winnipeg-based singer-songwriter William Prince, as the winner of the 2020 SOCAN Songwriting Prize. “The Spark” is a single on Prince’s highly acclaimed sophomore album, Reliever, the followup to his Juno-award winning debut album Earthly Days. Prince will receive the $5,000 first prize, a Yamaha Keyboard, and a $500 […]
Award-winning Anishinaabe singer-songwriter Ansley Simpson got tired of shopping her music to traditional labels, so the Toronto based artist decided to do something about it. She started a record label of her own called Gishiiwemusic, which is an Anishinaabe word for speaks with, or sings with a loud voice. Q: What experiences led you to […]
It was a performance at the legendary Toronto music venue The Orbit Room just over twenty years ago that led to Staggered Crossing signing with Warner Music Canada. It was spring 1999 and my friends Jeremy Elliott and Danny Goodtimes and me were somewhere on the east coast of Canada just rambling around. We set off with some of our instruments […]
Music NL Country Artist of the Year winner Carolina East admits she would rather be on the road touring and promoting her latest album, but for now she’s settled at her home in St. John’s Newfoundland, waiting out the coronavirus pandemic. Her fourth album is called, Soaked in Whiskey, featuring her powerful, soulful vocals. Q: […]
Sure, summer officially began on the solstice, but I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that summer doesn’t really begin until school’s out (even during the pandemic) and July starts! Now that summer is indisputably here, here are three favourite tracks to get the good vibes going: Princess Nokia, “Orange Blossom” This laid-back track […]
Adrian Sutherland’s music video, “Politician Man” has garnered him his first award. The lead singer for Midnight Shine won the Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan for Best Performing Arts & Entertainment. Sutherland wrote the song after a controversial comment from an Ottawa politician in August of 2019, when northern Ontario […]
Today is an important day. It is Juneteenth otherwise known as “Black Independence Day”. I am a black man with indigenous roots and I am an independent artist. It just so happens that today my new album “The Ridge” officially gets released into the world and I am proud of the story it tells. LISTEN […]
The Polaris Prize Long List is here, including 40 of Canada’s finest artists and their albums. The amount of talent is overwhelming, but it means even more music to dive into this summer! We hand-picked 10 of the albums we’ve enjoyed this past year along with a short synopsis of each. You can see the full […]