100 Years of “Crazy Blues”: The Story Behind Mamie Smith’s Classic
Recorded in 1920 and released by Okeh Records, “Crazy Blues” stands out as possibly the very first vocal blues record made by an African American woman.
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“Creepin’ Fuzz” by The Krystals (Labrador City, 1971)
The Krystals formed in 1966 when a young Dutch engineer relocated to Labrador City for work in his field, but soon found himself resuming a role in his other area of expertise: rock n’ roll.
Full Album Stream: Kyle Gryphon – Isolation (2020)
Stream the full length debut of Kyle Gryphon’s dark Newfoundland neofolk masterpiece.
Track Premiere: “Cold Iron Stare” by Kyle Gryphon
Folk songwriter Kyle Gryphon debuts his new album with a haunting ballad of the broken working Newfoundlander: “don’t think, don’t feel, get back to work.”
Watch Bawnie Oulton perform “These Days” on Kinda Kountry in St. John’s (1978)
Bawnie Oulton effortlessly croons a smokey rendition of “These Days” by Jackson Browne on an episode of CBC’s Kinda Kountry filmed in St. John’s circa 1978.
Watch: “Shootin’ The Gift” by Hip Club Groove
Recognize one of these rappers? Before being simply known as Cory on the Trailer Park Boys, Cory Bowles was dropping bars as Cheklove Shakil of Truro, Nova Scotia’s Hip Club Groove.
Canadian Supergroup Anyway Gang are Auctioning Off Their Album’s Test Press for Charity
The new Cancon supergroup consisting of Sam Roberts, Chris Murphy of Sloan, Dave Monks of Tokyo Police Club and Menno Versteeg of Hollerado are donating the proceeds of their album’s test press to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Premiere: Stream SMOLY HOAX ‘LIVE at Almon Billiards’
“The music and the sounds beneath were captured that night on this exclusive “Live at Almon Billiards” recording, almost not having seen the light of day due to the sound equipment having almost been drenched in a pitcher of cheap beer when a drunkard sloppily fell after having one too many shots of Jameson.”
Video Premiere: The Making of Joe Grizzly’s ‘Saturday Night Prime Time’
On the May 24th weekend of 2018, members of Joe Grizzly broke their brief hiatus and made trek from St. John’s to central Newfoundland with hopes of laying down a new record at a family cabin in Green Bay.