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 RockAshtray Rock reviews from Plaskett’s [...]
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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 PolarisPolaris reviews nomination, however I’m not completely convinced this album should be considered a solo-album proper. For myself, the backing vocals (I use the [...]
I need to try and get this post up as quickly as possibly, as this computer is likely to get thrown off my balcony if Mr. Federer loses this 5th set. Today’s song is a wicked catchy number from the British Columbia indie-rock quintet Mother MotherMother Mother reviews. Hayloft can be found on the band’s [...]
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 [...]
Tonight’s tune is anotherAnother Year reviews from the Canadian indie-rock artist Joel Plaskett, this time coming from his solo album Three. Three is Plaskett’s third solo album, released on March 24th of 2009. The number three is a common theme throughout the release with the album containing three discs, each disc having 9 songs, and many [...]
