Photos and a Review of Ottawa Bluesfest 2025 Night One (part 2)
[There are a couple of teams on the ground to cover this year’s Bluesfest. This report is from Zachary Resnick, Ross MacDonald, and Melody Maloney. – AC] The 2025 edition
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Photos and a review of Ottawa Bluesfest Night One (part 1)
[There are a couple of teams on the ground to cover this year’s Bluesfest. This report is from Karen Coughtrey, Ross MacDonald, and Melody Maloney. – AC] Ottawa Bluesfest 2025
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The Short List for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize is out
The story thus far: Around 200 music boffins from across the country nominated albums for consideration. Those 200-ish albums were then subjected to a vote, resulting in the Long List.
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Hamilton’s Supercrawl 2025 reveals its lineup
One of Canada’s most epic annual music events is Supercrawl in Hamilton, Ontario. This year’s festival will be held along James Street North in the downtown section of the city
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The Long List for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize is out
The first round of voting is complete for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize. Some 200 professional music nerds from across the country (myself included) first nominated albums for consideration. Voting
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Ottawa’s Canada Day 2025 lineup has been announced
Canada Day is always a big deal in the nation’s capital, but given all the noise, abuse, and disrespect we’ve had to endure from south of the border, this year’s
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And the winner of Eurovision 2025 is…
Eurovision, the nuttiest campiest, bash*t crazy musical competition in this section of the galaxy, wrapped up in Basel, Switzerland, yesterday. If you stuck it out through the sensory overload of
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Ottawa CityFolk 2025 announces its lineup.
[Ottawa correspondent Ross MacDonald covered the announcement. – AC] Ottawa has two summer music festivals every year. July has Bluesfest, but closing out the summer is Ottawa CityFolk Festival. And
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REM is back with a new EP! (Well, sort of…)
One of the first things we heard from REM was a track called “Radio Free Europe” back in 1981. Now, 44 years later, the single has been reissued on a
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Spotify just released its Q1 financial results. They’re pretty good.
After years and years of losing money, Spotify is finally turning a profit. Today (April 29), the company revealed its Q1 financial results that showed record highs. Here are the
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It’s Polaris Music Prize season again
What? Already? Yep. Music boffins (of which I am one) from across Canada have been suggesting albums for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize since suggestions for the 2024 prize closed
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