The Tragically Hip: Fully Completely Read Alex Robert Ross’ review of the album.

babe wake up…the hip just got a 9.4 on pitchfork.

Lili Fatale - Podcast Episode · Big in Canada · 2025-08-26 · 1h 1m

thrilled to have @nojoy.bsky.social on @bigincanada.bsky.social this week to discuss "Mimi" by Lili Fatale, Katy Perry, Musique Plus, the long shadow of France, clown and lots more.

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Bass is Base - Podcast Episode · Big in Canada · 2025-07-08 · 1h 7m

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YouTube video by bread420 bass is base - i cry - electric circus

Last week went deep on Bass is Base, which featured celebrity chef Roger Mooking mostly beat boxing.

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Amanda Marshall: Part 1 - Podcast Episode · Big in Canada · 2025-07-15 · 1h 2m

A little epsiode catch up to do here...starting with out latest epsiode about the early career and debut album from Amanda Marshall.

The Virgin and Chad meme but with Simon and Milo of the Canadian cartoon pop group Prozzak

I made this purely to amuse myself and maybe dozens of other Canadians

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Sky - "Love Song" Big in Canada · Episode

New @bigincanada.bsky.social talking Sky, “Love Song”, phat bass, confused aesthetics, Karl Wolf, Mandy Moore, and more

My heart will go on….to California

It's All Gonna Break: Revisiting Indie Rock's Canadian Invasion In the latest SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS B-side, veteran Toronto journalist Stuart Berman takes me back to that early 2000s moment when seemingly every cool new indie rock band was from Canada

In the latest B-side from the forthcoming book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion, author @chrisdeville.bsky.social speaks to veteran Toronto music journalist @stuberman.bsky.social about indie's early 2000s Canadian invasion:

Did anyone else wake up with every Down With Webster album forcibly downloaded to your CBC Gem app??

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A Spotift playlist I created that just has two songs: If I had a million dollars by the Barenaked Ladies If I had a rocket launcher by Bruce Cockburn

Inside of you are two Canadian classic rock songs

Jock, Moist sucks! I'm sorry.

There are good 90s CanCon rock bands and we will get to them. Stick around if you can stomach it. Thanks for listening ✌️

Keshia Chanté - Podcast Episode · Big in Canada · 2025-04-22 · 1h 10m

NEW EP!

Keshia Chanté redefined Canadian R&B before she could even get her driver's license. We discuss her career, her hits and what made her such a game changing figure in Canadian R&B.

Plus: The CFL, the soft sounds of 90s R&B in Canada, teen stardom and more

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Down With Webster - Podcast Episode · Big in Canada · 2025-04-15 · 1h 13m

We take a big sip from our red solo cups and dive into the life and times of rap party rockers Down With Webster. But beware: the floors are sticky, the morals are questionable, the neon is bright, the outfits are bad and there are so many dudes in this band.

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Here's a LiveJournal page for what was played on every episode of MuchMusic's the Wedge up until it ended in 2010 thewedge.livejournal.com

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Next week on Big in Canada: Down With Webster

Where Art Thou, Tate McRae?: Junos 2025 Recap Podcast Episode · Big in Canada · 2025-04-08 · 41m

We (sort of) watched the Junos so you didn't have to. We dig into the big winners, the best performances and the fake awards. Cancon is alive and well at the Juno Awards.

We talk Sum 41, Anne Murray, Nemahsis, Bublé, Peach Pit, Deantha Edmunds, Good Charlotte and of course, our friend, Tate McRae.

Chantal Kreviazuk - Podcast Episode · Big in Canada · 2025-04-01 · 1h 7m

Before she changed the words of "O Canada" at the Big Game, Chantal Kreviazuk was, somehow, kinda everywhere. A solo artist, writer of '00s pop smashes and scene setter for the most significant Canadian hip-hop album of all-time. How the hell did this happen?

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Jann Arden - Podcast Episode · Big in Canada · 2025-03-25 · 1h 10m

Oh Jann-ada. Mac, Laura and certified Jann Fann Dorothea Paas discuss the beauty, the humour, the sacred and the profane of one of Canada's greatest Adult Contemporary Musicians/Comedians, @jannarden.bsky.social.

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Tomorrow, it's Big in Jann-anada.

Bedouin Soundclash - "When the Night Feels My Song" feat. Elamin Abdelmahmoud Big in Canada · Episode

EPISODE 007 out now! Known feeler of song @elamin.bsky.social joins the show to talk about Kingston, Ontario's foremost rudeboys, Bedouin Soundclash and what makes their unforgettable track "When the Night Feels My Song" a modern Cancon standard.

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Do this every Saturday amid no tariff tensions and you’ve got a pretty good idea

If every Canadian producer did this, all they’d be left with down there is Rubin.

Shawn Desman - "Shook" Big in Canada · Episode

EPISODE 005 is now out! From Portuguese-language phenom to MuchMusic dominating pop star, Shawn Desman has endured. Did he pave the way for pop sustainability in Canada?

Listen here:
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Bonus Thursday: An Interview with the Hosts of New Music Podcast "Big In Canada", Mac Cameron and Laura Stanley Your Worst Song... with Alex Southey · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/5E84... a quick chat with the folks behind the @bigincanada.bsky.social pod!

From Avril Lavigne to Feist, these 17 monumental Canadian albums shaped the sound of the 2000s The Canadian albums that defined the aughts stretch from Nelly Furtado's 2000 debut to Drake's breakout mixtape in 2009.

For 2000s week, I took a stab at compiling a list of the Canadian albums that shaped the sound and culture of the aughts.

Take a stroll down memory lane 👇

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