The Zeus Podcast from CBC Radio 3

Zeus are the hosts of CBC Radio 3's 9th Artist Series Podcast. To hear what they wanted to play for you grab the m4a, Mp3 or ogg and if you have some time on your hands, or need to load up the MP3 player for the drive back from Austin, grab the Artist Series podcasts from Torquil Campbell (Stars), Jason Collett, Odario Williams (Grand Analog), Basia Bulat, Becky Ninkovic & Stephen O'Shea (You Say Party! We Say Die!), Lightning Dust, Tegan Quin and
Woodhands!

Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir on CBC Radio 3 Sessions

If you like roots you like Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir - they have all kinds of roots with traces of blues, gospel, bluegrass and folk all played hard and with feeling. This week they're up on the CBC Radio 3 Sessions Podcast.

Download the m4a, mp3 or ogg.

If you've missed any of the sessions podcasts check the list here.

Extended Play #7: Do Music Bloggers Have All the Power

This isn't the first time I've mentioned this but I love Lisa Chritiansen's new CBC Radio 3 podcast extended play. You see, while I spend a great deal of time with music - listening to it, going to shows, thinking about it, writing about it ... - I am not what you'd call a pop culture junkie. I could care less about fashion, I'm not a foodie and likely haven't heard about that new restaurant that you love, that new tv show that everyone's talking about - I probably haven't seen it, and odds are wouldn't like it if I had. I read books, daily. I spend a great deal of time on a few dozen national and international news sites and if you see my walking down the street with headphones on there is a 50/50 chance that I'm listening to music. The other half of the time I'm listening to podcasts from the CBC, NPR, the BBC, How Stuff Works and others on science, technology, politics, history, philosophy, news, film, literature, comedy, etc.,

So, Extended Play's combination of music and the culture that surrounds it - the ideas, philosophies and inner workings of music is a great combo for me.

This weeks show is on music bloggers: how much power they have, whether or not that power is justified, how music blogs compare to traditional media etc.,

You can grab the m4a, mp3 or ogg for that particular episode or just subscribe on itunes (totally worth it).

As for my thoughts on this particular topic:

If the traditional media could really cover music, there would have been no blogs. The reality is that there are too many bands for traditional media to cover them all. In Canada alone I'd estimate that there are 40-50 thousand - even Exclaim doesn't have that kind of time.

I guess one way to think of music blogs is a kind of minor league for music. Music blogs tell you about artists long before most traditional media, most (but not all) of the artists we talk about at NxEW you can still see for a $5-10 cover charge at your local venue. At the same time I was thrilled to see Dan Mangan on CBC television this week.

The reality is that if Dan hadn't been covered by music blogs for the last 2-3 years he likely never would have been on CBC television and being on CBC television now opens him up to a much wider audience. Traditional media coverage is still better, but blogs are now necessary to get to the point where the traditional media is interested (not to mention helping you sell albums, fill seats and pay the bills in the interim.)

In the 80s and 90s there was a music industry and a music press - where big labels pitch their latest offerings to the official media. If you weren't on a major label - forget about the mainstream press. Now we have something of a music ecosystem, with a variety of different parts (fans, bloggers, musicians, media, etc) all playing their role. The big music industry is dying (if the reports I've read are correct EMI lost 1.4 billion last year) and the traditional media is re-defining itself and becoming more responsive to the audience. All in all it's leading to a much better system for most of us, at any rate it's exciting times.

Canadian Stories and Why We Tell Them

I wrote this for my personal blog but since it's music related I thought I'd share it here as well:

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Lisa Christiansen of CBC Radio 3 has a great podcast that she started a few weeks ago called Extended Play which departs a bit from the norm on Radio 3 in that it's not a "music" podcast. Lisa & guests talk about music, issues around music, songwriting etc., but don't actually play music.

On the most recent edition Extended Play looks at Canadian stories and why we tell them with help from Jason Collett, Jenn Grant, Priya Thomas, Jonathan Reichman, Shad and Todd Falkowsky of the Canadian Design Resource Blog. It includes stories about the woman who saved Kensington Market in Toronto. A Jewish family who hijacked a plane to escape Nazi Germany, Pierre Trudeau, WWI and more.

If you haven't you should really check it out here.

Personally, the love of Canadian stories and the need to have them told is what has motivated me to run dozens of blogs, Facebook groups and other initiatives without getting paid for any of it.

One of the best things about Canada, to me, is that it is in vary many ways a blank slate. As a country Canada is brand new - while there have been people living here for many thousands of years, and even Europeans for more than 400 years the concept of Canada as an independent, unique and sovereign country is historically very new (there are pubs in the UK that are older than the nation of Canada). It is a vast, mostly empty, land inhabited by people who have come from everywhere and most of those people have stories to tell. Given Canada's reputation as "Our Lady of the Snows" people have to have had a good reason to leave where they were and come here.

All of that contributes to the fact that Canadians have a hard time saying what it means to be Canadian. If you saw that closing ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics the other night you saw every stereotype imaginable pulled out but it still didn't answer the question:

Canoe + Beaver + Poutine + Hockey = ?

English + French / First Nations x Immigrants From Everywhere = ?

The wonderful reality is that we (you and I and everyone you pass on the street) get to decide what Canada is going to be. People may talk about "Canadian Traditions" and "the Canadian Way" but the reality is that our "traditions" are so new (first nations excluded) that most nations on this planet would still consider them fads. None are so intrenched and ingrained that they cannot be changed if we want to enough.

For example, right now people are arguing over taking gender references out of the O Canada. Many are arguing that the traditional song cannot be changed - but the song is only 130 years old and that's the French Version. It wasn't translated into English until 1906 and it didn't officially become the national anthem until 1980. Anything that is 30 years old is not a tradition just a habit. What we lack in our own traditions though we inherit from every country in the world. Although there are only about 33 million Canadians I don't think that there is a country on the planet not represented here.

If Canada has a hard time saying who or what we are it is because the world has the same problem. Go around for awhile and ask people what it means to be from Earth. My guess is that you won't get many definitive answers that everyone can agree on. Unlike the United States Canada does not insist that people assimilate. Not really. People get to keep as much of their own culture as they like and add bits and pieces from whatever other cultures they come into contact with.

I personally believe that that is one of the reasons why Canadian music is currently as good and diverse as it is. The permission to keep your own culture and borrow and experiment with other cultures and from the history of those cultures sounds really good. At least it sounds like human progress.

Back to the subject at hand, we get to decide what Canada is and it can be whatever we want (so long as it's something that all of these people, from all of these cultures can live with.) In order to make that decision though we have to hear one another's stories and ideas. We have to understand where other people are coming from - as many other people as possible. That is why Can-Con is so essential. It is not only important for us. It is important because if we figure it out. If we find a way for millions of people from thousands of cultures and places to live together happily - we will have some incredibly valuable information to share with the rest of the world.

Jill Barber on the Canada Live Podcast

The CBC Radio 2 Canada Live podcast this week features Jill Barber, one of the few artists who can legitimately claim ties to Ontario, Halifax and Vancouver - recorded live at CBC Vancouver's studio 40 as part of the Toque Sessions. Download the MP3 here or press play

Justin Rugledge Live at the Calgary Folk Fest on Radio 3 Sessions

Up this week on the CBC Radio 3 Sessions Podcast is Justin Rutledge recorded live at the Calgary Folk Music Festival:

"The Toronto country-tinged singer performed songs from his 3 CDs with a top notch band including Bazil Donovan from Blue Rodeo on bass, Carroll Burke on pedal steel, Blake Manning on drums and David Baxter on guitar. Geoff Hilhorst from the group, the Deep Dark Woods, also joined in playing keyboards on a few songs."

Justin is an amazing live performer and I don't know if you'll get the full feel from any recording but it'll give you an idea. If you ever get the chance come check him out at the Junction Arts Festival in front of friends and family!

Download the Calgary Folk Fest performance on ogg, m4a,
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CBC Radio 3 Publishes Aboriginal Podcast + pages for Blues, Jazz, World Music and Soul

CBC Radio 3, long known for their work with Canadian independent music, this week published their first Ab-Original podcast featuring music from Canada's First Nations, Metis and Inuit musicians.

You can find out more about that podcast at Radio 3 or you can just download the m4a, mp3, ogg or just press play:


In addition Radio 3 published an Aboriginal Page, a Blues Page, a Jazz Page, a World Music Page and a Soul Page - whether or not any of this signals a change in programming is still unclear. Each of these pages, at the moment, only contain something like the following:

"Welcome to CBC3's new Jazz page. A work in progress, the genre pages are our latest project to better serve Canadian musicians and music fans. In the coming months, we'll be making an effort to better represent many of the genres not currently being played on CBC3, so please stay tuned!"

Download Live recordings from Wooden Sky, Leif Vollebekk and CBC Radio 2

For some reason the CBC Radio 2 Canada Live podcast isn't updating properly on RSS or iTunes - but the podcasts are still being made.

Download: Wooden Sky recorded in front of a packed house at the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield, Quebec.

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Download Leif Vollebekk also recorded at the Black Sheep Inn

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the Woodhands Artist Series Podcast

Over at CBC Radio 3 the latest Artist Series podcast is up with Woodhands (Dan Werb and Paul Banwatt) - they talk about their brand new album Remorscapade and play music by some of the many, many artists that they've toured the world with in the last year.

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If you've missed any of the Artist Series podcasts check out:
Artist Series Podcast # 1 w/ Torquil Campbell
Artist Series Podcast #2 w/ Jason Collett 
Artist Series Podcast #3 w/ Odario Williams
Artist Series Podcast #4 w/ Basia Bulat
Artist Series Podcast #5 w/ Becky Ninkovic & Stephen O'Shea
Artist Series Podcast #6 w/ Lightning Dust
Artist Series Podcast # 7 w/ Tegan Quin

Lisa Christiansen's Extended Play on the Colour of Indie Music (and a few comments)

Lisa Christianen's latest podcast Extended Play is up on CBC Radio 3. Extended Play is the first Radio 3 podcast that is about music rather than a music podcast - that is it is about issues or topics that surround music and features interviews with musicians but not much music (beyond a few clips.) I like Extended Play, it's smart and everyone should listen to it. The topic for this one is "Does Indie Music Have Colour?" - Exploring the whiteness of indie music. I have a few comments on this one that I'll make below but first if you haven't heard it, download it now on m4a, mp3 or OGG or press play:



On this topic I don't really see a race issues here. There is alot of talk about 'indie rock' being for educated, white, middle class people but (and I think this is mentioned) I think this is something that only educated, white, middle class people care about. I agree that 'indie rock' is pretty white, but it is not that way by design - it is not as if people of colour want to go to shows but aren't allowed, or there are alot of people of colour playing indie rock that are being ignored.

All in all I found myself agreeing with Alex Cuba on this show more than anyone. The world is smaller now than it used to be, people are taking all kinds of influences from everywhere and incorporating them into their music. To suggest that white people are stealing from people of colour if they include latin or Caribbean influences into what they do is just silly.

I also can't speak for New York, or Chicago, or Vancouver but I find Toronto shows are becoming less and less white. At least there seem to be more people of asian (including Indian) decent in the audience and on the stage. At one point one of the people from Stuff White People Like says that if you were describing someone in their community and you said 'the Phillipino guy' that everyone would know who you were talking about because there was only one - the same line in Toronto wouldn't get you very far (it wouldn't narrow things down much.)

Overall I think the culture around 'indie rock' or whatever you want to call it is rapidly changing. The Stuff White People Like guys also talked a bit about how indie rock was hard to like, that it was a competition to know more about the latest band than your friends and to constantly be on the cutting edge of who was cool this week. There is still some of that in Toronto but it is on the decline.

When I started NxEW.ca I decided to ignore both the mainstream (heavily over marketed, heavily over produced, auto-tuned) stuff and the "any band you've heard of has obviously sold out" people as I don't think either has a long future. The big labels are dying and the people who expect bands to keep playing music without ever making any money or getting any recognition are naive (and fairly hypocritical). I've moved steadily down the middle, talking about the music I like and not worrying about whether they'd 'sold out' or not. If I like it, I like it and I think most of the nearly 200 contributors to the site feel the same.

I hope that people, from time to time, find new artists they like on the site. That's part of the point. I also hope that they find information on artists they already like. I don't care about being exclusive, I don't care about being 'the first to know' and I think this middle road is being embraced by more and more people. The Stuff White People Like people say it's "hard work" keeping up on all the latest - but it shouldn't be. It is for me because I devote alot of time to this site but as a fan who doesn't run a music site - if it's work you're doing it wrong (or taking it way too seriously). Relax a bit. Listen to what you like. If there is really good stuff out there that you don't know about - you'll find out eventually. Knowing first doesn't matter. No one is keeping score.

Chris Page hosts second edition of the KelpCast

Via Kelp Records: Chris Page, whose new album “A Date with a Smoke Machine” is out tomorrow hosts the second KelpCast with about 30 minutes of music that has inspired him to make and keep making music.

Kelpcast 2 - What's in that Smoke Machine? by kelprecords

Luke Doucet on the Radio 3 Sessions

This week's CBC Radio 3 Sessions features Luke Doucet recorded live off the floor at 2009s Dawson City Music Festival.

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You can find a full list of the Sessions Podcasts to date here.

Corb Lund on the CBC Radio 2 Canada Live Podcast

Corb Lund and the Hurtin Albertans bring their unique brand of unpolished country to the Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg Manitoba and play songs from their latest offering "Losing Lately Gambler"

Dan Mangan, Hey Rosetta and K'naan on the Radio 3 Session Podcast

Recorded at the Canadian Blast event at the Canadian Consul General's residence in Los Angeles this week's CBC Radio 3 sessions podcast features Dan Mangan, Hey Rosetta! and K'naan as well as Leonard Cohen's speech from the event.

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Killbeat Podcast 23 w/ Martha and the Muffins, We Are the City, Postdata & more

Killbeat is a publicity company but they also do their own podcast with music, news and interviews. Some might say that's a conflict of interest, but who cares? If the interviews are interesting, the music is good and the news is true what does it matter? This is music after all, not politics. This has been a constant part of NxEW's philosophy.

So here is Episode 23 of the Killbeat podcast. It is hosted by Hosted by Michael Elves, UMFM Program Director - University of Manitoba. On this one

"..a track from Martha and the Muffins first studio album in eighteen years. We will also hear tracks from Kelowna products Yukon Blonde and We Are The City, a track from Postdata (aka Paul Murphy from Wintersleep) and an interview with The Paperback's Doug McLean about their new double disc."

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CBC Radio 3's Extended Play #4: The Olympics, the Artists and the Rules

On Episode 4 of Extended Play CBC Radio 3's Lisa Christiansen looks at the Olympics and the rules around them and asks what rules are artists willing to play by?

"As that big winter sporting event gets ever closer to descending upon us we’re all looking at the our new splashy venues, street closures and cultural events wondering if it will all be worth it.

But you won’t hear this kind of questioning from any of the artists coming to play the Cultural Olympiad – the arts component to the Winter Olympics. Not that they don’t want to ask, they just can’t. Their contract makes that clear."

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Bandwidth with USS, Cherry Chapstick and More

Someone has once again uploaded this week's episode of Bandwidth - this one features an interview with Ash Buchholz and Jay Parsons, a 90 second egg with Kingston's Cherry Chapstick, and music from Lazybones feat. Jill Barber, Hawksley Workman, Kate Maki, Peter Katz and Sarah Slean plus a contest to win a Hockey Day in Canada hat!

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Tegan Quin hosts CBC Radio 3's Artist Series Podcast

Tegan Quin, one half of Tegan and Sara is the host of the latest in CBC Radio 3's Artist Series podcasts. Previous hosts, in case you've missed any, have included Artist Series Podcast # 1 w/ Torquil Campbell, Artist Series Podcast #2 w/ Jason Collett, Artist Series Podcast #3 w/ Odario Williams, Artist Series Podcast #4 w/ Basia Bulat, Artist Series Podcast #5 w/ Becky Ninkovic & Stephen O'Shea, Artist Series Podcast #6 w/ Lightning Dust.

For the latest, and to hear the music that you might hear at Tegan's house, download the m4a, mp3, ogg or Press Play:

Women on the CBC Radio 3 Sessions

Hana Bi {Giulia Mazza}

Calgary's Women, who's self titled debut was recorded by Chad Van Gaalen are up on this week's CBC Radio 3 Sessions Podcast:

With a band name like Women you think there would be a few xx only chromosomes in the band, but not with this Calgary quartet.

Playing their own brand of new wave psychedelia, Women was formed in 2007 by two brothers, Patt and Matt Flegal and Chris Reinner and Mike Wallace, two old schools friends.In 2008 the band released their debut self-titled album.
Recorded  by Chad Van Gaaleen in his basement studio it took just 4 months on a ghetto blaster an old tape machine an outdoor culvert to put the sounds and feel of the album together. 
The boys of Women came by our radio 3 studio to perform a few new songs and add some new twists on older ones.

Remember if you think you might have missed any episodes of the Sessions Podcast there is a full list and download links here.

Download Women in Session on m4a or mp3 or ogg or just press play:

The Arkells on the CBC Radio 3 Sessions

The pride of Hamilton Ontario, the Arkells (arkells.ca) are up on this week's CBC Radio 3 Sessions podcast. It is billed as a "blend of Springsteen-esque rock with a dash of motown" and I've included a video (below) that shows just how Springsteen-esque they can be. The podcast features tracks like "John Lennon", "Ballad of Hugo Chavez", and "Champagne Socialist". If you've missed any previous sessions there is a full list with download links at nxew.ca/sessions.html.

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Arkells - Dancing in the Dark - House9 Hockey Foundation 29/08/09

Extended Play #3: Who Killed Country and Hip Hop?

The third episode of the Extended Play podcast from CBC Radio 3's Lisa Christiansen examines the impact of the major labels on country and hip hop with help from Corb Lund and Abdominal.

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National Post: In Studio with Elliott Brood

Elliott Brood is on the latest In Studio Podcast from the National Post. Playing music and talking about their film sountrack for "Grown Up Movie Star". You can read more about it at the National Post or you can just download it.

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Elliott Brood - Soundcheck from June, 2008

Radio 3 Sessions: Little Girls, Japandroids and Zeus at the Halifax Pop Explosion

This week the CBC Radio 3 Sessions Podcast features performances recorded live off the floor at Halifax Pop with Japandroids, Zeus and Little Girls and it even has Craig Norris.

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Annabel Chvostek on the Canada Live Podcast

This week on the CBC Radio 2 Canada Live Podcast it's Annabel Chvostek (ex Wailin' Jennys) recorded at the Segal Centre for Routes Montreal in October of 2009. Annabelle is joined for a few songs by her friends Lake of Stew.

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Cuff the Duke on the Radio 3 Sessions Podcast

Newly minted Blue Rodeo member Wayne Petti and his band Cuff the Duke (Paul Lowman, Dale Murray, and Corey Wood) performing songs from their album Way Down Here. If there are any Sessions Podcasts you've missed check out this list and catch up.

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Extended Play: CBC R3's Lisa Christiansen asks if Technoligy Has Made Music Better?

Has technology made music better? It's a hard question. Certainly music seemed more sacred 30 years ago when vinyl discs spun one side at a time on our turntables. At the same time technology has made it possible for tens of thousands of people to record music who wouldn't have been able to afford it 30 years ago and once you've recorded a song you can upload it in Toronto and have it playing from speakers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Rio, Tokyo, Beijing and London within minutes.

At any rate this is the question the CBC Radio 3's Lisa Christiansen takes on in episode two of her Extended Play podcast.

"On this episode we ask: Has Technology Made Music Better? If you’ve had a chance to take in the new guitar-geek doc It Might Get Loud, you’ll know that Jack White certainly has an answer, and it’s no.

But we check in with some other folks, and their thoughts may surprise you. By way of the magic of radio, you’ll hear a discussion on how technology has affected music with legendary musician and songwriter Buffy Saint-Marie and The Russian Futurist Matthew Adam Hart."

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For information on subscribing to this podcast visit http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2010/1/Extended-Play-2-Has-Technology-Made-Music-Better

Podcast: Rose Cousins on Canada Live

I should have posted this earlier, but I didn't - It was the holidays and stuff happened, but in case you haven't already heard: Last Friday's CBC Radio 2 Canada Live podcast features Rose Cousins recorded live at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

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Lightning Dust on the Radio 3 Artist Series Podcast

Vancouver duo Lightning Dust, a spinoff from Black Mountain are up on the CBC Radio 3 Artist Series podcast this week playing their favorite spinnoff bands.

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If you've missed any of the artist series podcasts download here:

Lightning Dust
You Say Party! We Say Die!
Basia Bulat
Odario Williams
Jason Collett
Torquill Campbell

One Last Blast of Christmas Music: Halifax is Burning

I've recently discovered the blog/podcast and CKDU radio show Halifax is Burning and somehow, over the holidays, neglected to mention it, but although Christmas is over, you might want to grab a copy of the Christmas edition which features the Superfantastics version of Do They Know It's Christmas?, the Tom Fun Orchestra doing Merry Christmas From Me To You, BA Johnston doing BA Johnston Sings A Christmas Song and Wintersleep performing We Three Kings (amoung a bunch of other stuff). Visit http://halifaxisburning.blogspot.com/2009/12/halifax-is-burning-s01e013-christmas.html to get the full track list and download the episode!

New CBC Radio 3 Podcast Series

The folks at CBC Radio 3 launched a new podcast series on Dec. 22 and while I really should have posted this on the day I thought, with a few other things going on in late December, I'd hold off a few days and then send up a flag for people who may have been busy for the last several days.

The new podcast is called Extended Play and features Ms. Lisa Christiansen - the regular host of Appetite for Distraction on Radio 3 and the most frequent fill in for anyone missing from the regular R3 roster. While I don't really share Lisa's enthusiasm for metal and hard core she has always struck me as a smart lady and is an excellent choice to host Radio 3's first podcast that is about music but not musical.

According to the Radio 3 blog you should

"Think of it as a current affairs show featuring artists instead of politicians – but still talking about cultural events that are newsworthy and relevant...

Every two weeks you can expect an Extended Play episode that includes a question. Some upcoming shows include: Should bands just stop touring? How has technology affected music? What is a Canadian story? What is the Sweet Spot?

But we’d like to hear from you as well. If you have any questions that need answering, or any guests you think we should talk to, let us know - add your comment here or email us at [email protected]. You folks are pretty up on this stuff, I’ve come to learn."

The debut episode asks if it's still possible to write a Christmas classic and Lisa talks to songwriters to get their input on the question before making an attempt to do it herself.

You can download the M4a, MP3, Ogg or just press play below. (For information on how to subscribe visit: http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2009/12/A-New-CBC-Radio-3-Podcast-Extended-Play.

CBC Radio 3 Sessions Best of 2009

To wrap up the Sessions Podcast for 2009 the folks at CBC Radio 3 have edited together hilihts of some of the best from the past year. It's loaded with stuff from Brian Borcherdt, Thunderheist, Sloan, the Great Lake Swimmers, K'naan and more:

If you feel like you might have missed a session or two in 2009 (or before) click here for the full list.

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the Good Lovelies on the Canada Live Podcast

This week the CBC Radio 2 podcast features the Winners of the 2009 New Emerging Artist Award at the Canadian Folk Music Awards - the Good Lovlies. The trio just released a new album Under the Mistletoe on December 6 so you can hear some tunes from that and, if you're in the mood you can still catch them at the Pearl Company in Hamilton tonight, in Thornhill, Ontario tomorrow (Saturday, Dec. 19) and at the Lebovic Centre for Arts and Entertainment in Stouffville Ontario on Dec. 23. See goodlovelies.com for details.

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Lake of Stew on the Canada Live Podcast

On this weeks CBC Radio 2 Canada Live podcast it's Montreal's Lake of Stew recorded at The Segal Centre in Montreal performing their unique brand of alt-bluegrass-quasi-country-folkish tunes about life in Montreal.

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Listen to the very first Kelp Cast

Jon Bartlett at Kelp Records has recorded the first Kelp Cast. For the first one Jon plays music that has been introduced to him by Mr. Andy Swan and even previews some forthcoming Swan material. Give it a listen and download some free Andy Swan stuff here.

Kelpcast 1 - 6 Reasons to Thank Andy Swan by kelprecords

Jets Overhead Acoustic Performance on Canada Live Podcast

Victoria B.C.'s Jets Overhead are up this week on the CBC Radio 2 Canada Live podcast. This special acoustic set was recorded at the Telus Theatre.

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