Maple Music

This week's featured artist is Good Kid!

Our second artist from Toronto, Good Kid is an indie rock act that's established themselves well as a major face in the genre.

While their titling of their EPs may be unimaginative, simply slapping the band name on them followed by their order number, the contents of those EPs is anything but. Every song of every EP soothes the ears with smooth vocals, sensual strings, and lovely lyrics.

Of all things to make them popular, they found their popularity shoot up as their music was featured in Fortnite streams, making a good portion of their music DMCA-free in response to fans receiving automated copyright claims for using their catalogue.

To choose a singular must-listen track is impossible, if you can spare the time, please listen to their whole discography as it certainly will be worth your while.

As always, suggestions for new featured artists are always welcome in the comments of this post!

From Vancouver, MDK delivers an incredible hardcore sound with this track, which is much expected from him and his experience in the genre.

Joey Nowyuk hails from a small town by the name of Pangnirtung in Nunavut. This track does an amazing job combining traditional Inuit music with modern pop, creating a beautiful upbeat song anybody will love!

Hey all! This here is a list of Canadian music websites that will slowly grow over time as more sites are found and added. These websites will all be a great resource for users to follow, share, and discover Canadian music, music events, and perhaps even a bit of music history.

If you have any sites you are aware of that aren't listed here, please feel free to leave a comment pointing them out! While this post will not be pinned to the community, it will be added to the sidebar as a helpful pointer to Canadian music resources to new community members and those passing by.

THIS LIST WILL GROW AS MORE RESOURCES ARE DISCOVERED

Digital Music Magazines:

• Exclaim! - Canada's biggest music magazine! On top of having a digital publication, one can find print copies of Exclaim! for free all around Canada.
• HipHop Canada - Canada's go-to digital magazine for Canadian hiphop and rap news. These people give the Canadian hiphop scene the true attention it deserves as Canada has a huge pool of undiscovered hiphop talent. Please give them your readership.
• Roots Music Canada - Your go-to stop if you love roots music and want to give Canadian talent your listening ear. Please feel free to support them with a donation or volunteer writing as they are independent and donor-funded.

Canadian Music News:

• CBC Music - The CBC has it's own section of it's website dedicated solely to music news! Please, of all the music news listed, your readership here is appreciated as the CBC is publicly funded with your tax dollars. Put those tax dollars to use by reading the excellent news provided here!
• CityNews' "The Music Beat - Centred specifically on Calgary, The Music Beat is a segment of CityNews' programming that gives attention to Canadian music and the Canadian music scene as it pertains to Calgary.

Other Publications with Music Segments:

• Calgary Guardian's "Five Minutes With" series - The Calgary Guardian does a weekly "Five Minutes With" segment in which they highlight music talent in a five-minute interview with the artist. While artists typically are Calgarian themselves, interviews also include other artists throughout Alberta.

Canadian Music Databases & Directories:

• Calgary Cassette Preservation Society - the Calgary Cassette Preservation Society (CCPS) is a small preservation group based in Calgary focused on preserving Calgary's local music history. One can discover older music recordings from cassettes and records, as well as links to download rips of these historical tunes.
• Alberta Music - Alberta Music is a website and organization that seeks to expand the reach of Albertan music talent. Alberta Music has incredible resources, such as a directory of Alberta-based musicians, Alberta-centric music news, and a list of resources for growing music acts in Alberta.
• Indigenous Music - Indigenous Music is a music organization based out of Manitoba, highlighting the rich presence of Indigenous music the province has to offer. Included in their website is a directory of Indigenous musicians based in Manitoba, a listing of upcoming live music events, and music resources for aspiring indigenous musicians in Manitoba.
• Museum of Canadian Music (MOCM) - Canada's largest private music archive, started by Robert Williston in 2005. Features over 700,000 sound recordings by 3,500 musicians.
• Canadian Music Centre - Perfect for fans of classical and orchestral music, the Canadian Music Centre has an extensive music library and list of Canadian music composers.
• MusicNB - MusicNB is an organization for music in New Brunswick. With the province of New Brunswick having both English and French as their official languages, this site is available in both. They provide music news, resources for musicians, and a directory of musicians, festivals, venues, and more amongst other things.

Canadian Music Streaming:

• CBC Listen - CBC Listen provides music playlists and live music radio for free to Canadians. Again, please utilize this resource extensively as you pay for it with your tax dollars! Put those sweet dollars to good use!
• Nikamowin - A music streaming platform for indigenous artists, by indigenous artists. There is endless indigenous talent to be found here, please check it out!

Music Publication Archives:

• RPM Weekly via World Radio History - An archive of RPM Weekly, a weekly music publication that was published in Canada from 1964 to 2000.

Canadian Music Awards:

• The Junos - Canada's single largest and most important music awards. The Junos are held every year with a wide variety of categories artists can be nominated for. It is always a blast, please be sure to follow them closely as you may find incredible new music based on the nominations.
• CCMA Awards - The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) does a yearly music awards ceremony in which they recognize Canadian country music talent. If you're a country music love, tune in!
• The Canadian Folk Music Awards - Canada has an incredibly rich folk music scene, indicated by the countless folk music festivals that occur around the country each year. These awards give recognition to the cream of the crop in a deep pool of music ability.
• The Polaris Music Prize - This award is for the best album of the year based purely on artistic merit, not sales, genre, or label.

Useful, Non-Canadian Resources:

• MusicBrainz/ListenBrainz - MetaBrainz is a non-profit organization based out of California that seeks to create the world's ultimate music information database. MusicBrainz is their primary project, which serves as an incredible resource by providing users the option to search for music talent based on area. One can find musicians throughout Canada, in specific provinces, or specific cities or towns. ListenBrainz is a joint project which serves as a music tracker much in the same way lastfm is. ListenBrainz's radio feature allows users to find musicians utilizing specific tags, such as the country they're from, the genre they specialize in, or both.
• ReverbNation While owned by Singaporean company BandLab Technologies, ReverbNation's search feature allows one to find musicians within certain countries and localities using their Location search.
• BandCamp - BandCamp, while American, has incredible search features to help one find Canadian music and musicians. One can combine genre tags and the area in which they wish to find musicians. BE CAUTIOUS: sometimes non-Canadian music will appear in results as they are posted on the pages of Canada-based music publishers. Big example of this is non-Canadian electronic musicians appearing in results due to their music being published on the pages of a record label based in Canada, such as Monstercat.

Band hails from Mississauga! Dog Drive Mantis' music category is a wonderful listen if you're big into fusion instrumental music.

Pegmode hails from Edmonton! Please give the album a full listen, it's incredible!

Cousin Harley is a wonderful Blues band that hails from Vancouver! Please give their stuff a listen, it's genuinely all incredible.

Sorry for the inconvenience! This week we're skipping the weekly discussion post in order to regularly schedule them on Mondays. After this however, there shouldn't be any gaps for the foreseeable future.

Band hails from Burlington, Ontario.

Welcome to the first iteration of a weekly series in this community called Artist Spotlight! In this series, once a week, a Canadian musician will be featured to showcase their outstanding talents. The first musician to be featured this week is Femtanyl, but please, if you have any suggestions for next week, leave them in the comments where they will be reviewed!

Femtanyl is a music producer hailing from Toronto! She has had numerous releases in the breakcore and dnb genres, and has created an underground culture based around her style of music.

A trans woman, she creates the art for her own releases, and focuses the themes of her music on her struggles in being trans.

Please give her works a listen if you haven't already. Outside of her talents in music, she's very talented with comedy and down-to-Earth conversation and is a lovely individual.

DijahSB is a great non-binary musician from Toronto. Give the full album by them a listen!

Band is based out of Regina.

Two names for the same musician, hence why there's only one person in the music video. Usually makes "Canadian Parody" music, but this song is an original work by him. Based out of Hanna, Alberta.

Wonderful pop song, artist appears to be based out of Montreal.

Love this type of music. Came across Underscore here on BandCamp and am loving what she has to offer. She's from Ottawa.

Incredible song by Unleash the Archers, a Metal band that hails from Vancouver.

Sole album release by a defunct band from Fredericton named The Names and Faces. Great music.

Give the song a listen, it's genuinely a banger.

Came across this band working on MusicBrainz a while ago. Appears they put out some stuff since I last added their works to the MusicBrainz database. Liked this song especially.

Band hails from Calgary.

RIP to a star in the Canadian HipHop scene.