Wicked Guilty Pleasures

Last year, Polaris Prize-winning artist Debby Friday released yet another great electronic album, The Starrr of The Queen of Life .  Debby i...

Part of me really feels terrible pulling out more francophone content when most of my audience is English-speaking. Part of me knows that 2 ...

You thought you were getting away with no Carly Rae Jepsen this March? Nope.   But we went OLD.  We went to her debut album, from the pre-...

 I find myself coming back to the Hip more the older I get.    And why wouldn't I?  They're clear Canadian music royalty. And this s...

Daniel Caesar is a great up-and-coming R&B singer who happens to be from Toronto.   And by "up-and-coming", I mean multiple Gr...

Well, here we go.  It's everyone's favorite Canadian cringecore queen, Sophie Powers.  What else do you want me to say here?  That s...

Emmanuelle Querry's website says the following about her: "Emmanuelle Querry est une autrice-compositrice-interprète émergente de l...

It was important to me that I start this post like I have started no other in this blog's history - leading with the music.  In his life...

I did not have a new Rheostatics album on my 2025 bingo card.  I didn't have a GREAT Rheostatics album on it, at all.  You see, I wasn...

Honestly, I knew there was gonna be a Lights song come March.  Probably today, but because things happened, I had to rearrange.   Because I ...

Told ya. Yes, the band named after their neighborhood in old Toronto is probably just gonna be posted here every year now.   No, seriously, ...

Saya Gray was born in 1995 and grew up in the Beaches neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Yes, the same neighbourhood as a group we...

Shad is just a great guy.  Born in Kenya, but raised in London, Ontario, Canada, he has built a fun and engaging style. You may remember we...

What happens when you mix electropop and great storytelling? You get Baby Nova, the stage name for Kayleigh O'Connor, who has been signe...

This six-piece collective that originally started off as a bunch of street performers in 2004 ended up staying together for seven years, rel...

Marie Davidson's 2025 album City of Clowns was shortlisted for the 2025 Polaris Prize.  And rightly so.  Not only was it an innovative ...

This is the 2000th post on Wicked Guilty Pleasures. And it had to be an artist that was special..... a song we were saving for this month.  ...

OK, I know I'm pushing it with the francophone content.  I promise I'll post an English-language song tomorrow.... from someone poss...

You would not think it based on my native language, but our March francophone content really traditionally does well.   Now, I don't usu...

Told ya. This is a live performance of Lou-Adriane Cassidy's song "Ariane" WITH Ariane singing, too! Ariane also appears on t...