Essential New Releases: Rapid Fire Roundup
We found ourselves having to disable the ‘new email notification’ chime from the GDW inbox – because it’s worse than an overly sensitive smoke detector right now. New music requests and…
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Ariane Moffatt: Live In Ottawa
Oh, social media algorithms! How often you help determine our future travel plans. During a visit to Ottawa back in the spring, Lesley and I were grabbing some lunch at one…
Video Vault: Mini Movies from Montréal (and one from Toronto too)
We’re sharing a bunch of recent videos from Canadian Indigenous artists all month long with our Wednesday social media features, but the Video Vault is still packed with…
Review: Rachel Cousins, “What Hasn’t Killed Me”
Rightfully dubbed a raw and vulnerable coming of age project, “What Hasn’t Killed Me” is the third studio album from Rachel Cousins – and…
Single Release: Katie Schurman, “The Next”
Releasing your first single is like standing on the sidewalk and holding your underwear drawer open for the world to see. It’s like tattooing…
Single Release: Beau Nectar, “Lion’s Mane”
It was probably around the summer of 2023 when we first heard music from Montréal-based electronic-pop duo Beau Nectar – and likely found on…
Commonwealth Connections: An Interview with Rachel Croft
While our focus here at GDW remains primarily towards Canadian folk-roots music, we are always willing to stretch those geographical boundaries in our pursuit…
Commonwealth Connections: Rachel Croft, “A Mind Made Of Sky”
While it is always exciting to discover new music through the conventional means – radio airplay, streaming algorithms, YouTube recommendations – for me personally,…
Video Vault: Fresh Franco Female Finds
We made a commitment to include frequent French language music into our broader coverage here at GDW, and it was during the long drive…
GDW Jukebox: Essential Summer Singles
Crazy! If asked (once again) to summarize the amount of new music releases from across Canada this season, crazy is the first metaphor that…