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The Friday of the May long weekend is my favourite day of the year. Not only do we get an extra day off, but this marks the unofficial beginning of the Canadian summer, meaning that months of possibilities stretch in front of us. New Music Friday will hopefully make things even better. Singles 1. Featurette,…

There are many godfathers in music. The Godfather of Rock? Well, there’s the King, Elvis Presley, but Chuck Berry is probably a more accurate choice…the Godfather of Funk and Soul? James Brown. The godfathers of hip-hop? DJ Kool Herc was the O.G. Run-D.M.C. should be in there, too, along with Afrika Bambaataa, Spoonie Gee, and…

Our last look at radio frequencies involves looking up. WAY up.

What radio frequencies are there beyond AM and FM?

Not everyone listens to the same radio frequencies as we do in North America.

Staging a music festival is an extremely risky thing. Everything works on a knife’s edge. And while a promoter can make an insane amount of money from a festival, everything has to go just right. But if things start to go wrong at any point, the failures can cascade into a disaster, financial and otherwise……

Sorting out how radio frequencies are allocated around the world can be confusing.

The Five Songs You Must Hear list welcomes back Dirty Heads and Hollerado, reminds us of Gay Nineties, and offers two new discoveries,

Think your radio will work everywhere in the world? Think again.

Now that we’ve gone through the top alt-rock one-hit wonders of the last 50 years, what’s next? The mistakes, that’s what.