I don’t want to hold the actions of the orange rapist against American artists who mostly all hate him anyway and deserve better, but let’s promote our own first.
A lot of the more popular ones have been listed already but here’s a couple that I loved that are a bit more off the beaten path:
Tv:
- Little Bird - drama, if you want to cry your eyes out and watch a fantastic story about the consequences of the 60s scoop
- Late Bloomer - comedy by YouTuber Jasmeet Dutta
Music (indigenous):
- snotty nose Rez kids - rap/hiphop
- anachnid - electronic, I guess?
Nonindigenous:
- kimmortal - alt hiphop
- shad - alt hiphop
- mother mother - indie rock
- said the whale - indie rock
- the Jerry cans - folk (Inuktitut language and style)
Podcast:
- Stolen - true crime
Adding video games too:
- Don’t starve (and any Klei game actually)
- crypt of the necrodancer
- starbound (s/o even though I think they’re UK based not Canadian)
Would you classify the jerry cans as indigenous? I know they sing in Inuktitut, but I’m pretty sure most of the members are not Inuk.
Also, you have to mention Tanya Tagaq.
Oh you’re very right about that, I hadn’t looked into it properly.
I’ve only heard collabs with Tanya Tagaq, but I’ll check out more of her work, thanks!
Trailer park boys, letterkenny, shoresy
The house hippo
Maybe if the Americans had had house hippos we wouldn’t be in this mess
Sometimes there’s shit. On the outside. Of the torlet.
If you think that’s bad, you should see the urinus
Podcasts:
- Canadaland
- Commons
- Canadian True Crime
- Someone Knows Something
- Uncover
Tv Shows:
- Schitt’s Creek
- Orphan Black
- Son of a Critch
I came here to say schitts creek! Took me 3-4 tries to really get into it but I’m glad I did.
Very much Letterkenny and Shoresy.
Gary and his Demons
Schitt’s Creek and Kim’s Convenience.
Never heard of Kim’s convenience, thanks!
Schitt’s creek is just great, just started rewatching it.
I’m old(er), and living near the border allowed for access to some great children’s programming back in the day.
Mr Dressup and Friendly Giant in particular. (side note, if you have access, check out the excellent documentary about Mr Dressup on Prime).As for music, again, being near the border, with one of the best alternative radio stations in the 90s (89-X), I was turned on to many excellent artists. To name a few…
24 Gone
The Tragically Hip
The Pursuit of Happiness
Bootsauce
Odds
Amanda Marshall
Moist
The Grapes of Wrath
and so many more. Most of these bands could still easily edge out anything new on the radio today.Moist… There’s a band I haven’t played in a while.
My favourite Canadian shows
- Kids In The Hall
- Red Green Show
- Loading Ready Run
Fuck yeah Loading Ready Run! I’ve started to be able to catch some Watch + Plays live which had been a delight.
As someone who grew up in South Canada (US PNW), The Red Green Show will always be special to me.
- Orphan Black - spectacular SciFi
- Travelers - SciFi, Can/US mixed
Omg orphan black was so friggin good. I can’t believe Tatiana is not more popular than she is, just a fantastic actor.
Corner Gas! (Not the cartoon)
North of North is great too.
I found sooo few people who appreciate Brent Butt like they should.
If you like Corner Gas you’ll like Letterkenny.
If I like letterkenny will I like corner gas? I think I was too young when I first saw that show but it looked so dull
Probably, it’s a different vibe and captures a different part of that small town life
Trailer Park Boys!
This is George Green fuck off!
Dated and off the wall - Kids In The Hall (1988-1995) … (with probably the most awesome intro song ever)
Even more dated and off the wall - SCTV (1976-1984)
Kids! Loved them then. Loving re watching!
If you want continuous music streaming (that is, it’s not on-demand, and you’ll listen to whatever’s playing), Stingray Music (formerly Galaxie) gets the job done.
I also use CBC Listen, primarily to stream their radio stations, but they’ve got loads of podcasts and music playlists as well.
It’s like CFNY of the 80’s…adult alternative, they take requests…
Also big shout-out to local community radio
Seriously, if you have a station in town, tune in. Listen, learn the hosts names, follow them on social media if you use it, subscribe to their RSS feeds, share their stuff, throw some money their way if you can. If this moment is inspiring you to break away from American media and hegemony, let it inspire you to uplift those creators around you.
Special thanks to 91.3 CJTR in Regina, I’ve learned about some weird cool music from y’all
Obligatory link dump. There’s also https://www.campus-fm.com/ - made by an American, but he’s a nice guy, and he added a lot of Canadian college stations to this frontend.
Tons of others of course, but find myself coming back to these ones the most.
I very much do! Also NTS is a great app that some fine person here on Lemmy introduced me to. Very eclectic stuff. https://www.nts.live/
I’m torn on dumping apple music for Spotify.
On the one hand, they’re not US based. On the other they keep giving Joe Rogan dump trucks filled with cash.
Sailing the seas is free
It’s been a long time since I’ve unfurled my sails. I wouldn’t even know the good places to look.
In the long days ago had a bot that would crawl google for mp3 filetype files, then bulk download entire directories full of music. Then that got turned into a honey pot.
Actually I miss when the internet was ammenable to bots… used to have a bunch, but eventually things like Twitter turned off the taps and everyone removed their RSS and json APIs.
Lidarr and Prowlarr
ReBoot and Beast Wars
Captain Star and Undergrads
Clone High and Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Mudoch Mysteries and Wayne and Schuster
Paw Patrol and Mecha Builders
Kids in the Hall and Rare Earth
Johnny Strides and Jim Carrey
Austin Powers and Michael Ironside
Sharon, Lois and Bram
Great Big Sea and Scott Pilgrim
Sue Johannson and Under the Umbrella Tree
Telephone and Basketball
No particular order
