Roots Music Canada
June 18, 2003 7:58 AM Subscribe
Roots Music Canada (warnings: music, mucho flash) gives you access to independent Canadian folk/country/world/etc music for free. It's fairly new, so there's not a ton of stuff there yet, but Canadians are free to submit their music (it's run by the CBC). A good application of publicly-owned media, no? (Eh, and for the more electronically-minded, there's also a New Music Canada.)
Very nice, but it does have one major flaw: the Arrogant Worms are categorized as country. Blasphemy!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 8:56 AM on June 18, 2003
posted by DrJohnEvans at 8:56 AM on June 18, 2003
Allow me to add Noah23 to Marquis' list. Excellent hiphop.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 9:38 AM on June 18, 2003
posted by soundofsuburbia at 9:38 AM on June 18, 2003
Cool, though an astounding lack of Blues. Sigh.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:47 AM on June 18, 2003
posted by five fresh fish at 9:47 AM on June 18, 2003
New Music Cda is a RealPlayer site. Major suckage.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:48 AM on June 18, 2003
posted by five fresh fish at 9:48 AM on June 18, 2003
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New Music Canada's terrific - you'd all be well to look up reedy-voiced Danny Michel's peculiar songs, the Nebraska-era-Bruce-Springsteen-meets-Joe-Strummer that is Greg MacPherson, the wondrous Nick Drake-like attic songs of Julie Doiron, the classic hardcore of Furnaceface, the needs-no-introduction Hot Hot Heat, the folk-drone of Molasses, the aforementioned Neko Case-fronted pop sensation that is The New Pornographers, the beautiful folk-punk of The Weakerthans (now signed to Epitaph), the mathy instrumentals of Weights & Measures, the slinkystrange Unicorns (for lovers of the Microphones), Beck-meets-the-Strokes Boy (listen to "French Diplomacy"), the lulling summersongs of P:ano, the heavy-hyped, ultra-awesome, broken pop songs of Broken Social Scene (skip the tracks from Feel Good Lost, mind you), shambling burnished folk from Royal City, moody and symphonic pop courtesy of The Dears, and holy shit for sure my friends The Diskettes (springfresh ukelele boy-girl pop).
posted by Marquis at 8:46 AM on June 18, 2003