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.
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.
Very much Letterkenny and Shoresy.
Trailer park boys, letterkenny, shoresy
The house hippo
Podcasts:
- Canadaland
- Commons
- Canadian True Crime
- Someone Knows Something
- Uncover
Tv Shows:
- Schitt’s Creek
- Orphan Black
- Son of a Critch
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.
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.
It’s like CFNY of the 80’s…adult alternative, they take requests…
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.
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.
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/
