2016 Favorites: Ontario
Given the great year in Canadian music generally, it would be dead easy to focus on the bigger artists working on Ontario (and there were…
Given the great year in Canadian music generally, it would be dead easy to focus on the bigger artists working on Ontario (and there were…
As we continue to explore a banner year in releases province by province, we come to Alberta and Manitoba. Once again, I’ve found a…
I had already decided to continue on our theme of favorites-by-province when Music/Musique NB released their 2016 releases poll, so I was happy to…
My love for Canadian music began with a trip to Montréal in 1999 that happened to coincide with the Francofolies festival. My first introduction…
BeatRouteBC’s “best of Vancouver” releases list prompted me to spend some time digging through 2016 releases from British Columbia. It seems only fair, since…
Recently Saskatchewan Music posted their 2016 longlist for voting, complete with a Spotify playlist containing many of the nominated projects. Because I was mostly…
With this release, Hamilton-based Katie Bulley has delivered a set of songs that evoke the atmosphere indicated by the album’s title. As I have…
I’m the first to admit that, at least musically, I didn’t enjoy the 1980s so much the first time around. My tastes were so…
Thank heaven for CBC – I can honestly say that I would probably not have so many of the things I’ve enjoyed most in…
I first became aware of Gordon Pinsent through his work on “Due South” – for the longest time, the only Canadian television to which…