Wicked Guilty Pleasures

I have mentioned the Spotify DJ here many times. One day recently, the Spotify DJ decided it was the right time to send this song to me.    ...

I've been really bad at updating this blog because I have been consumed with work and, really, the Canadian election that's coming i...

I lied.  But for a good reason.  I am all about bookends. We opened this month with Sophie Powers . Great. I end with Pixl Girl, but really,...

OK, fine, one more.  But I promise you, I'm not writing anything else for March.  This is the last one until tomorrow.  (Edit: I changed...

With literally one day left in #MapleLeafMarch, I just could NOT ignore this guy.  He won a JUNO Award last night - the FAN'S CHOICE awa...

It was two weeks ago today that I got all maudlin about how much of a bummer this March had been.  Normally, I am spending the month enjoyin...

We've giving you a bonus post today, because no one has won more Juno Awards than Anne Murray, with 26.  This Canadian Music Hall of Fam...

Well, here we are.  Nearing the end of March and we've got the JUNOS tonight.    I might be the American most excited about this Canadia...

Oh, by the way, there was a new LŪN single out last week - a collaboration with British Columbia DJs The Funk Hunters. When the hell does Li...

I love discovering new artists I have never heard.   LŪN is not an artist like that.  You see, I accidentally discovered LŪN last year, when...

Sum 41 is being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame this year. They deserve it. I have to admit, I've never really been a fan ...

I told my sister when she saw The Beaches last month that I'd be posting this one so I guess I have to.  Nah, the song is great.  I was ...

Yep. I know what you're saying. You did this one, jackass .   Yep, but I did it half-assed. And this song being such a Canadian classic,...

I thought about not posting any Cœur de Pirate this year.   Then I remembered that I LITERALLY OPENED the first Maple Leaf March with three ...

I told you this month was gonna be huge.  I bet you didn't know this song was Canadian.  But yes, it is.  This Montreal pianist had a #3...

This is a woman who did it all.    Actress. Cooking show hostess. And, of course, musician.   This was her debut single, in 1988.  It ended ...

CBC Music has been a great resource for this blog for several years.   Just this week, they released a list of songs that were hits ONLY in ...

This folk group from Newfoundland and Labrador had a few hits in the 1990s - hits that you wouldn't know if you didn't live in Canad...

Let's talk a little about Wesley Williams.   In 1989, he released his debut album, Symphony In Effect .  He would release this classic a...

THIS might be the biggest oversight of this page so far.  This song, when I first heard it on CFNY in the early 1990s, changed my life.  It ...