CBC Radio 3 Podcast
Summary: It launched in June 2005 as one of the world's first music podcasts and has been called ‘Canada’s top podcast’ by Spin Magazine and ‘Canada’s most important podcast’ by Exclaim! magazine. This one-hour show is hosted by Grant Lawrence and features the best in new Canadian rock, pop, hip-hop, singer-songwriters, alt-country, and electronica. If you're looking for a source of amazing new music, look no further.
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- Copyright: CBC Radio 3 2016
Podcasts:
New singles from King Khan and the Shrines, Rose Cousins, Hands & Teeth, Matt Paxton and more, plus an outrageous new song by the Hextalls written all about... Podcast host Grant Lawrence.
Grant Lawrence is back with a bumper crop of new singles for the new year from Great Lake Swimmers, Yukon Blonde, Joel Plaskett, Said the Whale, Islands, John K Samson and many others.
Graham Wright (Tokyo Police Club) brings his Rock & Rock Adventurer's Guide to the R3 podcast - your key to surviving the perils and pitfalls of Rock & Roll fandom. On this week's podcast - crowd surfing!
Guest host Louise Burns pays tribute to her former home base of Vancouver, B.C., with tracks from Ladyhawk, Pink Mountaintops, and Shimmering Stars.
Guest Host Torquil Campbell, outspoken frontman of Stars, shares his list of the country's most mysterious geniuses. Intrigued? We thought so!
Grant Lawrence picks his top ten personal favourite songs of 2011.
Our all-Canadian Christmas music special, featuring new holiday classics from an assortment of artists, including Jeremy Fisher, Hawksley Workman, the Good Lovelies, the Barr Brothers, Doug Paisley and more.
Ten Canadian artists of NOW cover ten Canadian songs from THEN, as inspired by the book “Have Not Been The Same”, including Kevin Drew covering Bob Wiseman, Cuff the Duke covering the Inbreds, the Burning Hell covering Men Without Hats and seven more!
It’s time once again for our 6th annual year-end awards, honouring the best in Canadian independent music from the year that was, in such categories as “Most Canadian Song”, “Lifetime Achievement”, “Sexiest Canadian Artist”, “Top Fan of the Year”, and many more!
All the songs I’ve wanted to play earlier this year but haven’t been able to fit in until now, including tunes by Suuns, Bry Webb (ex-Constantines), Writers' Strike, Hey Ocean, Adaline and more, plus a pictorial Movember wrap-up.
Our X3 Artist of the Month is Halifax musician Rich Aucoin. On this podcast he rolls out his entire EPIC new album, track by track, involving over 500 people. Rich discusses the songs, and the making of one of the most ambitious Canadian albums ever, with host Grant Lawrence.
We continue our series on the Birth of Canadian independent music, this time digging into the roots of the Montreal scene BAC (before Arcade Fire). Also, Bucky Awards nominees and an update on the R3 Movember Team, plus songs from the Stills, Hooded Fang, Louise Burns, Sam Roberts and more.
We bid a special adieu to Broken Social Scene, and play new singles from Hollerado, Kathryn Calder, Whitehorse, Foam Lake, and more.
