That’s the quest CBC Radio 3 is undertaking with the 2011 Searchlight competition. Longlist
VOTING IS NOW OPEN. CBC Radio 3 host Grant Lawrence wants your pick for the single best independent Canadian online source for music – websites, blogs, live performance sites, label or artist sites, photo blogs and video blogs.
The Searchlight top 60 has been revealed! Read more about the list
here.
3 AM Revelations
33 Mag.com
A.S.A.P Music Blog
Acoustic Roof
Aidan Knight
AUX tv
Awmusic.ca
Backstage Rider
Beatroute
Broken Speaker
Buying Shots for Bands
Ca Va Cool
Calgary Cassette Preservation Society
Canada is a Music Mecca
CFUV
Can Con, The
Chartattack
Christine McAvoy Photography Blog
Chipped Hip
Chrome Waves
Coke Machine Glow
Compact DISCcovery
Dan Mangan Music
Discorder
Earbuds and Ticket Stubs
EhBSeasides
Eric's Head
Exclaim
From Blown Speakers
Gallery AC
Getgrounded.tv
Go North to Detroit, South to Windsor
Hero Hill
Hillside Festival
Hollerado
Home County Music Festival
Holy F*ck
I Heart Music
Indie Craft Attack
Indie Files, The
Indie Music Filter
Island SoapBox
Jim Bryson
Joel Plaskett
Juice Box
Karkwa
Last Gang Records
Live Music Project
Mabye Smith's Twitter Feed
Matthew Good
Mechanical Forest Sound
New Pornographers
Midnight Poutine
Mint Records
Morning Noon Light
Music Nerd Chronicles
Music Nova Scotia
Mutek
My Ottawa Listings
Naked Jams
Nardwuar
Noisography
North by East West
Painting Over Silence
Panic Manual
Paper Bag Records
PhotogMusic
Plants and Animals
Polaris Music Prize
Punk Radio Cast
Punk News.org
Punk Ottawa
Quick Before It Melts
Radio Free Canuckistan
Rave.ca
Royal City Scene
Said the Gramophone
Said the Whale
Scruffy The Yak
Shad
Singing Lamb
Seripop
Skeleton Crew Quarterly
Slowcoustic
Soundscapes
Southern Souls
SPUN
Sticky Magazine
Streaming Cafe
Sucktastic
Swim Drink Fish Music
Tegan and Sara
Thorny Bleeder Records
Treepot.tv
Turn Up My Photo.ca
Underground Arts Railroad
Urbnet
Vancouver is Awesome - Independent Music
Violent Kin
Weird Canada
Winnie Cooper
Winnipeg Folk Fest
You Are My Symphonic
Zoilus
Zunior
Searchlight is a yearly contest from CBC Radio 3 that seeks out the best of what Canada has to offer musically. Through thousands of fan votes, CBC Radio 3 has so far declared the Best Independent Record Store in Canada (Meow Records, Prince George BC, 2008), the Best Live Venue in Canada (the Phog Lounge, Windsor ON, 2009), and most recently, the Best Music Festival in Canada (Evolve, in Antigonish, NS, 20 10)
SEARCHLIGHT 2010 - Canada's Best Music Festival
WINNER - Evolve
FINALISTS
ArtsWells Festival of All Things Art
Folk on the Rocks
Hillside
Ottawa Blues Fest
Shambhala
Shelter Valley Folk Festival
Sled Island
Stan Rogers Folk Festival
Vancouver Island MusicFest
SEARCHLIGHT 2009 - Canada's Best Live Music Club
WINNER: Phog
Lounge, Windsor ON
FINALISTS:
Aeolian Hall, London ON
Amigo's
Cantina, Saskatoon SK
Baba's Lounge, Charlottetown PE
Call
The Office, London ON
The Capital Bar, Fredericton NB
George's
Fabulous Roadhouse, Sackville NB
The Grad Club, Kingston ON
Starlight Social Club, Waterloo ON
Zaphod
Beeblebrox, Ottawa ON
Searchlight 2008 Top 5 Record Stores:
- Taz
Records, Halifax, NS
- Sound Connection, Edmonton, AB
- Meow Records, Prince George, BC
- Backstreet
Records, Fredericton, NB
- Back Alley Music, Charlottetown, PE
