Grandaddy – “A.M. 180”
(This month Grandaddy announced that they were making a new album. It was the perfect excuse to go back through their discography and rediscover some great songs that I forgot about. Under the Western Freeway and The Sophtware Slump are the two albums you want.)
The New Pornographers – “Use It”
(I don’t listen to the New Pornos a lot, but when I do I really get into it for…
Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Woman Who Won This Year’s Polaris Music Prize
The annual Polaris Music Prize goes to the Canadian artist who made the best album of the year, and this year it went to Buffy Sainte-Marie for her 2015 record Power in the Blood.
Truth be told I never heard of Buffy Sainte-Marie before this week, yet I recognized every other act who was also nominated for this year’s prize (Drake, Tobias Jesso Jr., The New Pornographers, BADBADNOTGOOD &…
