Here is the Long List for the 2026 Polaris Music Prize
The Polaris Music Prize, now more than 20 years old, is an annual effort to determine the best Canadian album of the year without any regard to genre of commercial success. Each year
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This unofficial World Cup anthem for the Scottish side might be the best of the bunch. It’s certainly funny and clever.
FIFA has its own picks for World Cup anthems, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of people from writing their own and posting them on social media. JJ Bull is a football writer, contributing
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Random music news for Saturday, June 13, 2026
Here’s the title of a new HBO documentary: Bang My Box. Guess what it’s about? Now move to music news or June 13, 2026. BONUS: Let’s end this episode the way we began.
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If you can’t get enough of the clips from the Rush reunion tour, watch this multi-camera edit of “2112”
Let’s call it. Geddy and Alex are two-for-two in recruiting drummers for their band. Neil did okay taking over for John Rutsey in 1974. Now the consensus is that Anika Nilles is nailing
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The One Minute Music Book Club: Bowie’s Bookshelf–The 100 Books That Changed David Bowie’s Life by John O’Connell
David Bowie was a voracious reader. He’d read about everything, absorbing knowledge and opinion and then transmuting that into music. John O’Connor has compiled a fascinating list from Bowie’s library and calls it
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Here’s another trailer for the Green Day-inspired comedy road movie NIMRODS
We’ve been hearing about NIMRODS for the better part of a year now, and the release date is almost here. The movie tells the story of a naive indie band who somehow become
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First, there was the Facebook movie The Social Network. Now there’s a sequel called The Social Reckoning
Back in 2010, Aaron Sorkin directed The Social Network, the story of the founding of Facebook, which starred Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg. Much has happened in the world of social media, so
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Another Canadian music festival bites the dust: Goodbye, Rifflandia
There have been 15 Rifflandia festivals over the last 18 years in Victoria, BC. There will be no more. This week, organizers made the difficult decision to fold the festival. And yes, it’s
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Here’s a running list of artists who have sold some or all of their song catalogues to a new breed of company. (Updated as required)
[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is being shaken by the actions of a growing group of companies which are
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Here’s the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. Streaming stats, too. (11 June 2026)
Time for another check on how CDs and vinyl are selling in Canada. Luminate also supplies streaming numbers, too. Streaming numbers:
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Ongoing History Daily: Does music sound better in the car?
There’s nothing like having the window open or the top down on a great day with tunes blasting from the car stereo. Chances are you’ve got your favourite driving song, if not a
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