country, folk/roots, pop, single releases2 May 2023<2 May 2023 Essential New Releases: Five Songs You May Have Missed Spring is here! We’re enjoying these longer daylight hours, seeing the buds and blooms burst into life around us, and hearing a cacophony of…
concert recaps, folk/roots10 April 2023<10 April 2023 The Hello Darlins: Live at The Aeolian When learning late last year that Matt Andersen was taking his band, The Big Bottle of Joy, on a cross-Canada spring tour, I promptly…
country, folk/roots, pop31 December 2021<31 December 2021 Martin’s Top Four Canadian Albums Of 2021 Following my list last week that chronicled what I consider to be my twenty favorite albums from Canada through 2021, this year proved difficult…
folk/roots, reviews, rock29 June 2021<29 June 2021 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? …
folk/roots, pop, single releases, soul6 April 2021<6 April 2021 Snappy Singles: April Beats, Alberta Treats The GDW email inbox for music submissions still shows no sign of slowing down, and has been at the ‘critically overflowing’ stage for these…
folk/roots, rock, single releases16 October 2020<16 October 2020 Snappy Singles: Sharing Our Kind Of Oktoberfest Mixer Pack For music lovers, October is here. For beer drinkers/lovers, Oktober is here. Don’t mind me, but I’ll pass on the pumpkin flavored ales though…
folk/roots, single releases15 June 2020<15 June 2020 New Single: The Hello Darlins (feat. Matt Andersen), “Still Waters” We know that there are thousands of great Canadian musicians out there, hundreds of great Canadian bands too, but how often do we find…