Single Release: MIINA, “Live My Life On Holiday”
Not to wander along on a strange tangent from the offset, but they often say that hindsight is 20/20, right? I must confess that…
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Essential New Releases: Early New Year Cuts
2026 is well underway, and many Canadian artists are already putting the pedal to the metal to get new tunes out into the wilds….
Single Release: Louis-Jean Cormier, “Tu m’aimes-tu (Live)”
Sept Îles, QC singer-songwriter Louis-Jean Cormier has been a long-time favorite Francophone artist here at GDW. Landing on our radar back around 2008 as…
2025 Year End Review: Martin’s 20 Memorable Singles
This task of recalling 20 memorable singles over the last ten and a half months never gets any easier. I often hear a song, fall in love…
Video Vault: Commonwealth Connections – Cool Cuts
While we try to cover as much ground as possible with our focus on Canadian music during these final weeks of 2025, artists from…
Single Release: The Night Owls, “Queen of the Game”
This Montréal-based indie-folk duo of Simon Arsenault and Marianne Bourgeois first came to my attention in early 2022 with the release of their debut ‘self-titled’ single, which earned a…
GDW Jukebox: Indie Arrivals
A fresh bunch of independent 45s just arrived at GDW HQ, so we are loading a selection of Indie Arrivals onto the spindles, ready for your quarters and enjoyment. Well,…
Commonwealth Connections: Ruen Brothers, “Sitting at the Station”
And now for something completely different… Surely, we’ve all had those moments where upon the discovery of a new tune from a previously unknown artist, it very…
Single Release: First Robin, “Spider Veins”
“They’re crawling, creeping, weaving, getting bold / They’re crawling, creeping, eating, getting bold.” When Halloween officially lands on one of our regular GDW posting days (Tuesday and Friday),…
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…