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Sloan's tenth album, The Double Cross

After twenty years as Canada’s Premiere Indie Rockers, Sloan have compiled what they feel is their best album yet. High praise for The Double Cross will validate those feelings of pride and accomplishment, when fans finally get a listen May 10, 2011. Visit Outside Music in Canada, and Yep Roc everywhere else for details. Read more…

Karim Awad’s podcast had its roots in the college radio days of CKMS110.3 Waterloo, but has since found a new home on the web. Tune in for an eclectic mix of Canadian and International indie music.

Featured artists on this week’s Podcast? The Hooby.

 CIAMM Nominated, directed by zoot aloors, for your consideration.

There’s something strangely inspiring about an upstart music blog, whose delusions of grandeur propel them to evermore new fame and glory. Where does all this momentum even come from? You. Vote CIAMM, comrades. Join us in the attack on Top 60!

We Did It! CIAMM makes The Top 60!

UPDATE – Canada Is A Music Mecca has reached The Top 60! Thanks for your votes! Don’t stop! We need your votes!

Adverteyes Debut With A Startlingly Ambitious Experimental Opus

Myopia is taking the world by storm, but unfortunately, nobody knows it yet.

Hailing from the royal city, Guelph, Ontario, Adverteyes are without a doubt one of my favorite discoveries of 2010, and Myopia, independently released in September, may just be the most overlooked album of the year.  Colin Harrington, the lead songwriter, has a keen ear for rhythmic phrasing, haunting melodic lines, and lyrics filled with doubt in society’s current predicament (think early T.S. Eliot) that are both timely and timeless.  But Harrington isn’t alone; five other vastly talented musicians who make perfectly balanced contributions to each song join him on Myopia’s sonic adventure. The accompaniment is vast, dense, and stylistically various, yet it never drowns out Colin’s intelligent and catchy songwriting. The band has spent a lot of time (I heard five solid years) defining a sound that is uniquely theirs, which, if I had to categorize it, falls somewhere between Origins of Symmetry-era Muse and Kid A-era Radiohead. Read more…

The Liptonians Are Marching Back Into the Music Scene with a Sophomore Masterpiece

Release Date- February 8, 2011 (Head in the Sand)

You don’t get very far exploring Winnipeg’s independent music scene without some mention of The Weakerthans’ John K. Sampson and his wife Christine Fellows. This record is no exception as John and Christine have the fingerprints all over it; the album is both being released on their label, Head in the Sand, and the bulk of the recording was done at the studio they frequent, Prairie Recording Co., while production was taken care of by Matt Peters, and Mike Petkau. But this is really about a couple lesser-known Winnipeggers named Matt Schellenberg and Bucky Driedger who, along with a talented collective of Manitoban musicians who leave their ego out of their “song first” instrumentations, put together a cohesive and infectious assortment of pop gems on their sophomore effort, Let’s All March Back Into the Sea. Read more…

CIAMM - CBC Radio 3 Searchlight 2011 nominee

Voting is now underway for Canada’s Best Music Website, the 2011 Searchlight Award, and Canada Is A Music Mecca has defied odds once again, to make the Long List! Somebody out there has been enjoying our stuff, and for that we are very grateful. We may be a tiny little blog amongst giants of the game, but, truth be told, we love to share our interview subjects with you, and their many untold stories of the business. The people in front of the mic, and their audience, all belong here. That’s what we do. We are nothing without you. Read more…

"Analyze This"

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CBC Radio 3 Producer John Paolozzi ran this piece on the main site Thursday, which gives an fascinating glimpse into the trajectories at play for an exciting new indie-pop band’s rise into the national conciousness, and the power of Mainstream Media coverage to assist in that effort. Lakefield took data of the previous year, wherein, they released the popular Sounds From The Treeline LP, and parsed intimate details of their own burgeoning fanbase, and set a precedent for aspiring musicians in search a method of gauging their target audience’s tastes. Admirable, geeky, and fun stuff… surprising this, considering the soulful and earnest timbre of their dreamy pop stylings on record, there is obviously playful side to this band worth exploring.

I’m Your Man, by Leonard Cohen, from the film Barney’s Version

The movie based on Mordecai Richler‘s Giller Prize winning novel features I’m Your Man, by Leonard Cohen as a running theme. Decadent and shmaltzy, I’m Your Man is a fitting choice for Richler’s anti-hero. Read more…

"Cheers!"

CBC Radio3 2010 Fan Of The Year Monica Skorupski gives the traditional Christmas melody her own special spin, for a new classic for indie music fans in Canada. Rocking Around the Radio 3- by Monica Skorupski

Listen in TODAY as Ms. Skorupski co-hosts the Craig Norris Hour on CBC Radio 3.