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Forget an EGOT, if a) we’re giving Patrick Watson’s score some of the credit for The Girl Who Cried Pearls getting the 2026 Oscar for best short film, and b) he wins a Juno Award next week in the adult-alternative category for his album Uh Oh, Watson will accomplish the so-rare-it’s-never-been-done-before POJIA. Which is… x […]
We feel like Canadian music scenes are having a real cultural flashpoint moment right now with the continued success of the NTBTSTM movie and the upcoming Mile End Kicks film (by former Polaris juror Chandler Levack). These are classic Toronto vs. Montreal culture war entities, though. If we really want to do this romanticizing-Canadian-music-culture soft […]
The Polaris Music Prize, presented by CBC, has announced the key dates for its 2026 season, including the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony, powered by FACTOR, at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. Returning to Massey Hall for the fourth consecutive year, the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony will once again feature a […]
The 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominees list came out recently and features a traditionally great cross-section of some of the biggest acts in the world (Iron Maiden, Sade, Joy Division/New Order, Phil Collins, Wu-Tang Clan, etc). They’re all great in their way, but for the more a flag-waving hall of fame experience […]
To catch you up on some important developments this week: – Sask Music’s Metal Summit is this weekend in Saskatoon. – MusicPEI Week starts on Saturday. – The Women In Music Global Summit happens next week in Toronto. – Osheaga has announced their lineup. – Ottawa Blues Fest has announced their lineup. – Somafest in […]
Hey, did you know that past nominees Born Ruffians are part of the Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie universe? We mention that mostly to create flimsy justification to use this week’s Release Roundup to reaffirm how important and valuable Canadian made art is, how we’re pretty sure the last great era of the […]
JOB POSTING – PRODUCER, POLARIS FESTIVAL Polaris Music Prize Contractor Full-Time ABOUT POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE The Polaris Music Prize is a registered charity that annually honours and rewards artists who produce Canadian music albums of distinction. A select panel of music critics judge and award the Prize without regard to musical genre or commercial popularity. […]
We usually calibrate the Release Roundup to highlight the newest albums, but we have the SOCAN Polaris Song Prize now and we need to talk about “Generation,” the first single from the late Gord Downie’s forthcoming live collab album with The Sadies. “Generation” is both a Fucked Up cover and might be the single most […]
Who else has got that Olympic fever right now? Like, whoa, that Poseidon can really swim, Ares has the wrestling competition locked and don’t get me started about Apollo’s archery game, and oh… right, go Canada go. Perhaps because they’re pursuing their own gold, or perhaps because it’s a Bandcamp Friday we have a juicy […]
It’s not often the case that a hit TV show’s original soundtrack has legions of fans around the world clamouring for an official album release – but that’s what happened with the signature sound of Peter Peter’s compositions for the queer hockey romance Heated Rivalry. Less than two months after the series premiered, the hotly […]
