Canadian Indie Music, Wi-Fi Speed Spray

Not too long ago, a Korean MSN correspondent of mine asked me what Canadian music was like. My favourite band is by far The Beatles, with classical music, soundtrack music, and other forms of 60's and 70's rock holding up the rest of my playlist. I sent the Korean some Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive, but that isn't very representative of current Canadian artists. This is when I realized that I'm not very Canadian in my music listening choices. I don't listen to the radio much (kind of hard considering the esoteric stuff that I listen to), and it seems like most of the big bands I have heard of are from the States or from the UK. The only "current" stuff that I could think to send was Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band, and Nickelback, and even those weren't yet sitting on my hard drive at the time. Keeping a Canadian identity is very important for our society, especially with the proximity of the heavy-weight American media, and I decided that I needed to change that. I did some research on Canadian Music over at Wikipedia to get some ideas, and am trying out some of the suggestions from there. Today I found out about the CBC Radio 3 Podcast, and am currently listening to show #2. As a point of interest, Grant Lawrence, the DJ for the podcast, claims that the CBC Radio 3 podcast is the first ever public radio podcast with "pod safe" music, which means that the artists approved their music to be played over the podcast (first show, 30 seconds into it). I'm not going to fact check if it is the first legal music podcast in the world, but it wouldn't surprise me. So go check out the podcast, add it to your syndicator programs and be prepared to get blown away by the Canadian underground!

On another note, I've gone ahead and ordered three boxes of Wi-Fi Speed Spray (in case I should buy a Wi-Fi system in the future), and I would urge all of you to do the same. I mean, how can you go wrong with those equations?!