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Here it is! The hilarious high ground! The no cap knee-slap! The ‘$10K Funniest Canadian’ Top Ten! Check out comedy stylings from talent across the country below – then vote for your favourite by clicking the corresponding button below your preferred video. Hit ‘ENTER’ to make your vote count! You can place your picks once daily up until the end of the voting period on Thursday, March 21st.

Had enough of the winter yet?

Ireland’s most crucial exports…Guinness, gingers…and bands named U2.

When The Prodigy released their classic album The Fat of the Land in the summer of 1997, rock was in trouble. Pundits predicted that guitar rock was in its death throes with its corpse about to be devoured by things like the crab on the front of that record. Electonica was the future. Bands like The Prodigy would see to it. While that never happened–rock rebounded nicely with the indie rock revival that started a few years later–electronica found its niche and blossomed into the larger EDM scene.

Alan Cross Corus Radio I can’t remember the last time I received anything from Pembroke, Ontario, but here we are. (I do have a soft spot for bands that come from smaller centres). This is the first single from their sophomore EP by the duo of Brandon Kennedy and Christopher Chartrand (he was the live drummer for Crystal Castles). There’s definitely an 80s electro feel to what they do. Interesting video, too. (That’s Brandon in the video, by the way.)

Picture Parlour is a four-piece originally from Liverpool and now working out of London (one of the four member is named Katherine Parlour) who were formed out of the boredom of the pandemic. Things have been going after just a couple of singles. They’ve already opened for Bruce Springsteen, The Strokes, and Noel Gallagher. One to watch, methinks. VIDEO © 2023 Corus Radio, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.

If you’re listening to me on an FM radio, you’re listening in stereo. But FM wasn’t the first type of stereo broadcast. The first one broadcast was made ion AM back in 1925 by an experimental station run by the BBC. T hey broadcast a classical music performance from Manchester in a weird sort of way. The sound from the right channel came from this station while the sound from the left side came from a local BBC station. It was awkward, but it worked.

The fact that we listen to virtually all our music in stereo these days goes back to a guy named Sidney Frey, the founder and president of a company called Westrex. Westrex made machines that cut master plates from which vinyl records were pressed. After demonstrating the first stereo disc In December 1957, he offered a free copy of that disc to anyone in the industry who wrote to him on company letterhead.

Here’s a little grammar lesson regarding all the forms of the verb “rock.” You know, “He rocks!” “That song rocks!”–that kind of thing. The usage of the word “rock” in this way can be traced back a hundred years to the early years of jazz and R&B. A band or a singer that performed so energetically was said to make the house or the club rock on its foundations.