Northwest CanCon has moved to a new home on the web, www.TrilliumMediaServices.com/nwCanCon.
The new address is just one of a number of changes to the site. Some of them are obvious, others less so.
What won’t change is the content: we will continue to bring the latest news from the Canadian music scene to Oregon and Washington, [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 8, 2008
We’ve moved!
August 7, 2008
Free music from the Polaris short list
The Polaris Music Prize honours the best in Canadian music, and now you can have a piece of it for your very own!
There are several ways to pick up free tracks from each of the short-listed artists, but the easiest way is via MySpace.
Here’s the deal: head to the Polaris MySpace page and check their [...]
August 4, 2008
WCMA Nominees, more MTV voting
The awards season keeps rolling on. Today we bring you the nominees for the Western Canadian Music Awards.
Corb Lund and The Weakerthans each received four nominations. Carolyn Mark, who will be playing in Seattle Sept. 20, was nominated for Outstanding Roots Recording, and Spirit of the West will be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The [...]
August 2, 2008
Anatomy of a one-hit wonder: The Kings
Back in 1980, a confidently-named Canadian quartet had a North American hit with “This beat goes on/Switchin’ to glide.” On the strength of that single, The Kings toured with major acts like The Beach Boys, Bob Seger, and Eric Clapton. But although they continue to record and tour, they haven’t been able to reproduce that [...]
August 1, 2008
Awards season continues: TC08, Kerrang!
The nominations and voting never seem to stop these days. This is a little late coming (especially for those of us who haven’t been teenagers for some time), but you still have two days left to vote for the 2008 Teen Choice Awards.
Simple Plan are the only Canadian musicians on the list of nominees this [...]
