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Masculathon, a webseries Directed by Josh Levy

Canadian-Born Director Josh Levy has announced that the first episode of Masculathon, starring, and co-written with Kids In The Hall writer/mascot Paul Bellini is online!
CIAMM first reported on the production of Masculathon in our exclusive interview with Levy for Oct. 2010.

You can read that interview here. Read more…

 Jam Jam Radio have compiled an array of immaculate playlists, for free downloads! Thanks, dudes! Newest in the series is called Mysterious Like Money and features The Luyas, Hooded Fang, The New Pornographers, The Deadly Snakes, and Leonard Cohen. Enjoy!

Montreal is in shock over the devastating loss of one of their brightest young lights, with the sad and sudden passing of Paul Frappier, aka Bad News Brown.

One of our own, Bad News Brown was destined for a great music career. Recording for the influential Fontana label, he was on an incredible run of world-beating tours and had developed a self-made style that set him miles apart from the pack. His b-boy stance mingled beautifully with his musician heart, and he expressed his muse in an unforgettable new way. He will be missed, not only by his many fans, but also, by the poor kids who will never enjoy his essence first-hand.

Watch Reign, By Bad News Brown

More details are emerging, but details are still under investigation.

Femme Intensity with Fist City!!!! Yarg!

Check out this awesome brand new video from hard-driving lo-fi Alberta band Fist City – Debbie Get Yr Boa (we’re goin sex’n!), Directed by Colin Eskey!

Formed from the ashes of Lethbridge’s Endangered Ape(Drink! Destroyer reference!) and The New Danger Kids,  Fist City will hit hard in 2011 to reclaim their place on Canadian playbills in your town.

Thanks, akolade! Mammoth Cave Recording Co. / Dead beat Records

Hosted by venerable T.O. eccentric Pink Eyes, MuchMusic‘s newly resurrected Alt-music videocast The Wedge premiered as a live-to-air affair, one that harkened back to the good ol’ days of  free-wheeling days of yore. For all the slagging this writer has foisted on Much lately, I would be remiss is I didn’t acknowledge this attempt to return to form. Rap City made a long-awaited return too, so…The New Music next? Wouldn’t that be nice!

This comprehensive site is a treasure trove of all things related to Canada’s broadcasting history, spanning from the first terrestrial AM radio stations of the 1920s to the satellite superstations beamed from on high. Learn of the many improbable circumstances that occurred to shape this country’s national self-identity. Impressively curated for decades by industry giants, this site is accurate and  beautifully detailed, and is a testament to an immensely creative sector of Canadian society.

Here are the nominees for this year’s award for Album of the Year, to be presented in Charlottetown, PEI Jan 21, 2011.

Boxer the Horse – Would You Please
Haunted Hearts – Howdy
Meaghan Blanchard – Chasin’ Lonely Again
Paper Lions – Trophies
Richard Wood – A Change of Reasons

The festivities kicked off this weekend, and will continue throughout the week.

‘sup, y’all?

Last night, after a few snifters of imported Cognac (OK, air plane glue) and a fine Cuban cigar (OK, dirt weed), I started imaging the whole of the world melting away, leaving behind only the solid rock of Canada, alone, floating on a psychedelic sea of poutine gravy.

Colleen pulled me out from under the Christmas tree, where I had been hiding from the creepy-crawlies, and plunked me in front of the computer screen, to send me upon a vision quest -“Find that image burned into your head, that of a subsumed planet, and of a new world order in the making.” Read more…

Vish Khanna Presents: A CBC Radio 3 Christmas Carol

“Oh, come on! Another little paid vacation eh, Craig!?!

 I can’t believe all you people, with your ‘Christmas vacations‘, scamming the GREAT CORPORATION that gives us all our livelihood!”

-Ebeneezer Vish, bemoaning the season as a whole.

Vish Khanna, host of the Wrath Of Khanna Show, and the What’cha Readin’? Book Club presents: a CBC Radio 3 Christmas Carol, a hilarious send-up of the Charles Dickens classic tale. It stars luminaries of the Radio 3 universe, musicians Al Tuck, Magali Meagher and Dallas Wehrle, plus some more special guest stars,  including Buck 65 as the humble narrator.