Music School

How To Get Blog Love

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2009

The interhole, with its staggering array of retail, distribution, promotional and marketing opportunities, can be a band's best friend. Add...

Copyright Reform

PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2009

Not known to rush into things, we Canadians: the need for copyright reform has been simmering, and occasionally erupting into the public fo...

Charlie Angus

MP Timmins James Bay

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2009

Writer, broadcaster and musician Charlie Angus is a former member of punk pioneers L'Étranger and Juno-nominated Grievous Angels. An...

Geordie Haley

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2009

"Listening to a wide variety of music and actually performing a wide variety of music are two very different things," says guitarist Geordi...

What Distributors Are Looking For

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2009

Music distributors are the link between labels and retailers. Their job is to get records on the racks and make 'em sell. And not just the...

Ghislain Poirier

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2009

You'd be forgiven for assuming that Ghislain Poirier's ground floor apartment does not double as the studio where he's produced the bulk of...

Gordon Monahan

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2009

Since the late '70s, Gordon Monahan has been making a career of extracting the unheard from pretty much anything he can get his hands on. A...

Music Summer School

How Not to Get Press

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2009

If I had a nickel for every time I heard an artist gripe about not getting the cover/story/review they richly deserve, well, I could buy us...