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 [...]

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 [...]