Diamond Joel Plaskett unleashed his most ambitious work to-date last year with his 3-disc, 27-song, epic Three.  With the help of Ana Egge and Rose Cousins on accompanying vocals, Plaskett found himself  with another album shortlisted as the best full-length Canadian release of the year; the other album was Ashtray Rock from Plaskett’s full-band project [...]

Today’s song comes in from Toronto-based singer/songwriter/producer Royal Wood and his second full-length album A Good Enough Day, released via Canadian Dead Daisy Records in 2007.  The album follows-up on Wood’s 2004 debut LP Tall Tales, and has since been followed-up by a 2009 EP titled The Lost and Found EP.  This past November, Wood supported [...]

Gone, Gone, Gone is another number from the pride of Nova Scotia, Joel Plaskett, and his 3-disc magnus opus Three.  Released in March of this year, Plaskett’s 3rd full-length solo effort captured his 2nd Polaris nomination, however I’m not completely convinced this album should be considered a solo-album proper.  For myself, the backing vocals (I use the word [...]

Congratulations to the Toronto, Ontario hardcore punk band Fucked Up, whose album The Chemistry of Common Life took home the 4th installment of the Polaris Prize last night.  As promised, here are my thoughts on the show last night; In point form of course, as proper sentence transitions are for suckers.

Whoever decided to have all [...]

The highly anticipated short-list for this year’s Polaris Music Prize was released this week, viewable here.  I chose to ignore this until today as I was quite disappointed that my prediction regarding the Japandroids‘ Post-Nothing was completely incorrect.  However, I am now over it and would like to highlight one of the artists that did make [...]