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Herohill, a Canadiana blog based out of Halifax, has warmed my Kanuk heart on this fine CANADA DAY with an ambitious project they released today in honor of one of our greatest Canadian folk heros, Gordon Lightfoot, the man behind anthems like "The Great Canadian Railroad Trilogy" and "If You Could Read My Mind". Gordie's the bomb and so are his timeless songs, so it's rad that Herohill commissioned severa l Canadian artists (+ one American) to record original covers of his songs they then collected into a compilation album titled Turning Back The Pages Of My Sweet Shattered Dreams, a [...]

Last Sunday I pulled together a list of links to year-end posts from blogs and online magazines alike just before I posted my own Favourite Albums of 2010 list on Monday, but I failed to give you links to two very important (albeit different) posts, one which hadn't been posted yet, and one that slipped by my radar undetected. The first, and latest posting of year-end favourite lists comes courtesy of our good friends Herohill in Halifax, who spread their list of favourite Canadian LPs out over three [...]

• Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill

This evening I threw on a couple albums to keep me entertained as I finished up some work. I figured a few of them for good candidates to provide a song of the week that I could post when the day-job was finished. Little did I know what I was getting myself into, as Rah Rah 's Going Steady was among those chosen and there was no way the Regina band's highly enjoyable debut was going to settle for a simple one-song post. Diverse, melodic and engaging throughout, it became very clear to me as [...]

• Rah Rah - Tentacles