The Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s music award for artistic merit, released its long list of this year’s nominees last week. The list is a mixture of award regulars as well as some new faces, and of the 40 acts that made the list, Tuesday Tracks already brought 15 of them to you. So today, to fill […] More »

This week’s collection of Tuesday Tracks celebrates some of the finest home grown sounds you’ll find anywhere online. Be it from rising stars, rock n’ roll royalty, or the relatively obscure, each of these songs demonstrates the true potential of pop music and is more evidence of the already stellar year for music 2010 has […] More »

It’s Tuesday and that means it’s time for your weekly dose of new Canadian music. This week we’re looking at new stuff by west coasters Hot Hot Heat, Manitoban Greg MacPherson and revisiting Shad, who might have just released the best record of the year with TSOL. First: Back in 2002 Hot Hot Heat were […] More »

This week on Tuesday Tracks we’re still trying to play a little bit of catch up to the slew of great Canadian releases in May. But first, a preview of the new Arcade Fire. Last week, Arcade Fire finally let slip the release date of their hotly anticipated third album The Suburbs. Along with announcing […] More »

In this week’s edition of Tuesday Tracks we criss-cross the country from coast to coast, moving from Halifax all the way to Vancouver with a stop in Montreal in between. But while these bands may be separated by several thousand kilometres, each one displays a similar ability to get you out of your seat and […] More »

My first encounter with Kat Burns occurred ten years ago in Whitby, Ont. My family had a spare room in their basement that they were renting out and Kat Burns was a rebellious teenager in need of a roof over her head. She didn’t live there long—a few months at most. We never really knew each other. […] More »

This week Tuesday Tracks gets excited about suburban hip hop, trades in human interaction for some catchy guitar lines, and gets concerned about bratty kids. First: “Yaa I Get It” is the first track off Kenya-born, London, Ont.-raised MC Shad‘s upcoming release TSOL. His previous effort The Old Prince used wit and humour to separate himself […] More »

This edition of Tuesday Tracks is inspired by The Socalled Movie – a film about Ottawa-born, Montreal-based multi-disciplinary artist Socalled. The film premiered at Hot Docs last night and besides being taken by his brazen quest to simply create, I was shocked that despite the level of success he has achieved over the years, I’d never […] More »

As the weather warms up it seems the nation’s music industry is collectively waking up from a wintertime hibernation. Although based on the sheer volume of new releases slated for the next few months it looks like rather than sleeping, the time was spent locked in various recording studios—which is good news for all of […] More »

Michael Bublé might have walked out with the most hardware at last night’s The Juno Awards, and his wins might have prompted more than a few eye rolls from the more progressive listeners in the audience, but awards ceremonies rarely get it right. They rarely reward bravery in artistic expression or experimentation and settle for the […] More »

Admittedly, this week’s addition of Tuesday Tracks a little Toronto-centric. Generally, we like to ensure the cream rises from coast to coast, but the three songs selected this week were so strong it would have been tragic to bump any one of them even for a week. However, while the homebase may be Southern Ontario, […] More »