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TweetShare Welcome to another Present Box from Canada! Man, next month will equal a year of me doing this. Pretty stoked to have been Mr. Rockafeller’s friend for much longer than that. Enjoy these tunes. Kathryn Calder You may know her from the group The New Pornographers, but Kathryn also does some pretty rad solo [...]

TweetShare Hello, I’m back from Ride the Tempo to post some Canadian music you certainly must check out. I’m pretty sure I posted about Holy Fuck in Box #5 but there’s just something about this song that keeps me coming back. I played it in a turntable.fm room before Canadians got blocked out of it and [...]

TweetShare Hellooo. Sorry for the late present, been busy with life lately. Today the Polaris Prize Shortlist was announced..and I was way off with my predictions. This year there seem to be more mainstream albums than the usual obscure ones. So, instead of posting the actual list which you probably know already, I’m going to [...]

TweetShare Mmmm… present cake. Oh hello again! Another month, another Present Box from Canada brought to you by Tiana from Ride the Tempo. Since the weather is so nice, let me whip up some Canadian tracks to get you ready for the summer! Spooky Campers Spooky Campers is a perfect touch of upbeat garage rock [...]

TweetShare Rawr! Tiana here from Ride the Tempo here again bringing you some random Canadian tunes. Sorry for the 3-day-late post, I lost track of the date! 2011 has so far garnered some pretty awesome releases and here are some examples. Since these are super great, I’m going to only post 5 instead of 10 [...]

TweetShare Welcome to another edition of PRESENT BOX FROM CANADA brought to you by Tiana from Ride the Tempo where we bring you 10 Canadian tracks you otherwise might not have heard! Boom.. (sorry cat in box not included). Code Pie Code Pie is a new indie rock band from Montreal. They mix a bit [...]

TweetShare Welcome to this month’s edition to PRESENT BOX FROM CANADA brought to you by Tiana from Ride the Tempo where we bring you 10 Canadian tracks you otherwise might not hear! Are you a Canadian artist? Submit your music to tiana.feng@ridethetempo.com and your music may get featured here next month or on Ride the [...]

TweetShare Happy New Year! You’re all probably too busy recovering from new years to be reading this post but welcome to another edition of PRESENT BOX FROM CANADA brought to you by me, teepoo from Ride the Tempo. Each month, I’m here to bring you 10 Canadian tracks you probably would not have heard of [...]

TweetShare Hi, this is Tiana from Ride the Tempo here to bring you another edition of PRESENT BOX FROM CANADA, a collection of at least 10 Canadian tracks that you may not have heard otherwise.  Here we go! Lakefield Lakefield is an indie-power pop band from Vancouver, BC. If you’re a Stars fan you’ll probably [...]

TweetShare Hello Hello it’s that time again. Tiana here from Ride the Tempo bringing you some tracks from a land called Canada.  Just to let you know Ride the Tempo has been going in a new direction and will now contain at least 70% Canadian content, so you can check out more great Canadian tracks [...]

TweetShare It’s that time again! I’m Tiana from Ride the Tempo, the crazy Canadian girl who is here to bring you some Canadian tracks. Last month, the Polaris Music Prize happened and when the rest of the world was streaming it live, nobody who knew who half the artists were. When Karkwa won, I didn’t [...]

TweetShare “Synchronicity” is the number one selling album from The Police. The album was named after Koestler’s “Roots of Coincidence” which talks about Carl Jung’s theory of synchronicity and is highly influenced by the growing genre of reggae music. “I do my best work when I’m in pain and turmoil” Sting had said, and you [...]

TweetShare Hihi, you may know me as the weird girl who appears once in a while to write all the Rolling Stone Top 500 posts that probably nobody reads, or the random blogger from Ride the Tempo. I am Canadian and love the diversity of Canadian music and it has been a semi-focus on my [...]

TweetShare “Cheap Thrills” was the last album that featured Janis Joplin as lead vocalist. “We’re just a sloppy group of street freaks,” Janis would say, but this album was their most coherent, even coming out with “Piece Of My Heart” which was one of her greatest recordings of all time. The album cover is actually [...]

TweetShare “Vitalogy” was the third studio album from Pearl Jam. It was written during the “Vs.“ tour and was much more aggressive and experimental than their older works. The original copies were packaged to look like a medical book from 1920, with the album first released on vinyl. Their first single from the album was [...]

TweetShare Released in 2000, this made the Guiness World Records for one of the fastest selling solo albums ever. In 2001 it won the Grammy for the Best Rap Album and also got a nomination for Best Album of the Year. Of all Eminem’s albums, this was the most personal and serious. The topics were [...]