Are the winners of the 2023 Canadian Live Music Awards
The Canadian Live Music Awards, another part of Canadian Music Week, was held yesterday in Toronto. Here are the winners. VENUE AWARDS FESTIVAL AWARDS GENERAL LIVE MUSIC AWARDS
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Here are the nominees for the 2023 Indie Music Awards
Canadian Music Week is coming up in Toronto next month and, as usual, part of the festivities include the Canadian Indie Music Awards. Here are your nominees. Public voting can be done here.
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The Onyx Experience celebrates Black Canadian rockers
There have always been Black musicians in Toronto, but they’ve never been brought together quite like this before. Premiering today (June 9) at Canadian Music Week and available on CBC Music starting Friday,
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Chuck D to receive Social Justice Honours Award at CMW
Who better meets the moment and cuts through the noise than Chuck D? The influential rapper and one of the elder statesmen of the hip hop and social justice movement will be recognized
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Here are your winners for CMW’s 20th annual Jim Beam INDIE Awards
A bit late–sorry–but here’s who won what this year. INDIES Hall of FameKim Mitchell ALBUM OF THE YEARJuly Talk – Pray for It ARTIST OF THE YEARGrimes – Miss Anthropocene COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF
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Random music news for Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Well, if this would save my life in an emergency, okay. Let’s do it. Meanwhile, there’s some music news for May 18, 2021. Remember the story of six strands of Kurt Cobain’s hair
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Canadian Music Week announces the nominees for the Indie Awards
One of the big events of Canadian Music Week is the Indie Awards. The 20th anniversary edition is set for May 30. Here’s who’s up for what. Note all the noms for Grimes,
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Coming up: A panel on the intersection of cannabis and music.
Gee, you think music and cannabis share space? Duh. But with legalization in Canada, we can talk more about what the two have in common and, more important, how they can help each
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Canadian Music Week is back for 2021 with a virtual conference and festival
Last year’s Canadian Music Week–the biggest gathering in this country’s music industry–was washed out because of COVID-19. While it’s still not safe to congregate like in the Before times, there will be a
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Random music news for Thursday, March 11, 2021
Warp drive is possible! (And we didn’t need Zefram Cochrane, either.) Can First Contact be far behind? Let’s zip over to music news for March 11, 2021. If you’re a Canadian musician working
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Random music news for Friday, June 26, 2020
https://globalnews.ca/news/7102112/black-neutron-star-ligo-hole/The sun is setting on Uranus! (Sorry. Juvenile of me. But you can see a Uranus sunset here.) Okay, let me make that up to you. Try reading this while listening to Soundgarden.
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