Single Release: Raine Hamilton, “Love Has Come For Me”
As we celebrated Pride Month over these past few weeks, I’m reminded of this quote from Dan Levy, creator of the lovingly accepting CBC…
folk/roots
2021 Half Year-End Album Round Up
It is already the end of June! Summer is officially here! Can you believe that we are at the midway point of 2021 already? …
“DUST” – New Single & Video Release From Andrea Ramolo
“Don’t ever forget me, don’t ever change / And if I hurt your feelings, I’m sorry love is strange / Your eyes they spoke…
Blue Rodeo Live From The Danforth (Virtual Concert)
One commonly asked question we receive from new visitors to our blog is about our name. Great Dark Wonder – what is that? Where…
Single Release: Zach Kleisinger, “Nothing Special”
“There is a throbbing / In the middle of his chest / As he stares out into the distance / Into the deepness of…
Snappy Singles: More June-O’s, Anybody?
The 2021 JUNO Awards winners have finally been announced, but fear not, if you are still craving more great Canadian music, then we’ve got…
Review: Reid Zoé, “Shed My Skin”
Ontario based singer-songwriter Reid Zoé, who may be better known as a member of the folk-roots trio, Sleeping Bees, releases her debut solo EP,…
Single Release: The Fretless (ft. Dan Mangan), “Troubled Mind”
When I learned that JUNO Award winning folk music quartet, The Fretless, were sharing their latest single just last week, I recalled very fond…
Single Release: Tennyson King, “Sheng Ming De Jin Du”
It is hard to believe that six months have passed since we first discovered music from Chinese-Canadian folk artist Tennyson King, whose single, “Garden…
Review: Parler bien, “histoires du comté d’essex”
Every once in a long while, you stumble upon a piece of music that immediately moves. In a matter of moments, it reaches from…