Where I Find Fantastic Music

I am a huge music lover as many of you (or all 3 of you) may already know, because I'm assuming you're reading this blog page cause you listen to my radio show every Friday on KICK FM. I'm always on the lookout for the next great indie artist, and although being a DJ at KICK helps me discover some truly great music, the biggest contributor to the broadening of my music knowledge comes from CBC.

A couple of years ago after obtaining my first iPod, I discovered these great little things called podcasts. From there I found a weekly podcast from CBC Radio 3 host Grant Lawrence and downloaded it almost religiously. From there I found CBCradio3.com and newmusiccanada.com
veritable gold mines of great music. So, while I recommend listening to KICK FM, if you're looking for another source for your insatiable indie fix, I would strongly recommend you do one or more of these three things:

1) Download Grant Lawrence's podcast from iTunes, new episodes released weekly.
2) Go to CBCradio3.com and listen to their web radio and search for your fave Canadian band.
3) Acquire a Sirius Satellite Radio and listen to their station on Channel 94.

Now you know my secret, my source. Go forward music freaks, and listen to your heart's content!

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More Canadiana! Feb. 26/08

Continuing the trend of fantastical Canadian Indie music, this week's band comes from possibly the most Canadian city in the country, (probably cause it's our capital) Ottawa, Ontario. The Acorn have made huge inroads in the Canadian music scene since the release of their latest album Glory Hope Mountain in the fall of 2007 and are now touring in the States with some planned tour dates in Manitoba for the Folk Festival. I got the opportunity to listen to an advance copy of their album last year and instantly fell in love with it. Although I had been a fan of Rolf Klausener and the rest of his band mates since I discovered them on a CBC Radio 3 Podcast in 2005, I was unsure of what they would be able to bring to the table in their next album. I need not fear, however, because The Acorn brought beautiful, thoughtful lyrics (based on the life of Klausener's Honduras-born mother Gloria Esperanza Montoya) and varying musical themes to make a simply solid album. This week's Killer Tunage Track brings some traditional aboriginal music themes and blends them with an upbeat tempo and simply sublime guitar. Please enjoy Flood Pt. 1.

The Acorn Official Site
The Acorn MySpace
The Acorn Band Page at CBC Radio 3

Songs of the Week 2/15 and 2/22

Apologies to the 3 people who read this blog regularly, I had been having problems logging into my Blog account, but it seems those problems have now been resolved. Without further ado, here are the Killer Tunage Tracks of the Week from the last two weeks.

February 22: I noticed that my last 3 songs of the week had all been imports, and that is not acceptable, since there are so many great Canadian bands out there, so here is the first Canadian band, and certainly not the last, to make it to my song of the week. Malajube is a band based in Montreal, Quebec and despite performing only in French, have made huge inroads in English Canada and even the US. They have had their song featured in two commercials in Canada, and a Radio Shack commercial in the States. (yowza!) This week's song of the week, Montreal -40, was featured in a Rogers Wireless commercial, and is being played this week as a tribute to our recent cold snap, and the Festival du Voyageur. He Ho!

Malajube Official Site
Malajube MySpace

February 15: This band has been on my iPod and in my head for a couple of months now, and thanks to that I now own all six of their albums and four EPs. Spoon started in 1993 in Austin, Texas. They've had their music played on shows like The O.C. and have played on late night shows like Conan O'Brien, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson. Their latest album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, was released in July of 2007 and debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, and they've also had a song featured on the Will Ferrel movie Stranger Than Fiction. That song is called The Book I Write, and is this week's Killer tunage track of the week.

Spoon Official Site
Spoon MySpace

Join me this Friday for another Canadian tune, cause they deserve the most play time.

-The Minister of Indie Music

Song of the Week: February 8/'08

Another week has passed and because of that, it's time for another killer tunage track of the week. This week's band was formed in 2003 in Brazil. Their band name, CSS or Cansei de Ser Sexy, comes from a quote from Beyonce, who reportedly said she was "tired of being sexy." This song of the week is an older one, it had been used for iPod touch commercials back in 2007 and made it to number 12 on Billboard magazine's Canadian Hot 100.

This week's song of the week is Music is My Hot Hot Sex. Download it, it's great.

CSS MySpace
CSS on iTunes