Maple Music

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Welcome to Maple Music, a community on the Lemmy.ca instance focused on bringing attention to Canadian music and musicians!

Like everything else, Canada has a rich music culture, spanning from the traditional music of the First Nations to a unique spot in the Punjabi music scene, a rich variety of folk performers to the big names in pop, and established underground music cultures such as the Edmonton hiphop and rap scene to the metal scene in the Atlantic provinces.

This community allows for postings of Canadian music news, covering anything from the local scene to world-renowned names such as Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, and Celine Dion. It also allows for sharing Canadian musicians you wish to give a spotlight to, individual songs and albums by Canadian artists you enjoy, and even a bit of Canadian music history seeing how poorly documented some Canadian music history can be at times.

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Please post albums using odesli.co! It's essentially link tree but for music. This allows people to listen to the song on whichever platform they prefer, assuming that it is available there. This is not strictly required, but is the most ideal way to share music.


Community Rules and Guidelines:

  1. Follow Site-wide rules: We are all guests in lemmy.ca's house. The house has rules that we must follow. We are polite guests.

  2. Formatting: Song and Album posts should follow the this format: "Musician - Title [Genre] (Year) (track length)". Genre, Year, and track length are not required but encouraged. Posts regarding news articles must include the article title in the post's title. Otherwise, make titles relevant to what you are trying to talk about.

  3. On Topic Posts only: All posts must be related to the Canadian music scene to some extent. For example: News about Taylor Swift will be removed. News about Taylor Swift having a Canadian tour will be kept.

  4. French & English Equal: French and English content, posts, and comments are equally welcomed and encouraged.

  5. Self-Made Music Welcomed: Are you Canadian and artistically talented? Feel free to post it here! Please do limit excessive self promotion however.

The No Rules:

  1. No shaming of music tastes: Mumble rap is not for everyone, and neither is country or dubstep. Avoid all "real music" type comments. Refrain from downvoting music that is not your taste, everyone should feel welcome regardless of the genre you enjoy.

  2. No music piracy. Much of the musicians and music shared here are likely small independent acts that deserve fiscal support. If money is an issue, please look into free and/or Creative Commons releases, a list of such titles will be made and built on as the community grows.

  3. No Spam: Please avoid spam. Rather than make individual posts for each song by a musician you like, instead make a singular post bringing attention to the musician. This applies for self-promotion posts as well.

  4. No AI Generated content: AI music posts will be deleted. This community is made to support Canadian talent. An AI cannot be Canadian, nor can it generate truly original content without infringing on countless other artist's copyrights.

  5. No doing stuff that makes me need to make more rules: Moderation reserves the right to take action on anything seen as detrimental to the community. Just cause I didn't write it down here doesn't mean it is necessarily allowed.

Rules are subject to change as the community grows.


Canadian Music News Sources:

Excellent guide for finding/exploring Canadian music by Binzy_Boi!

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PUP is a punk rock band from Toronto that formed in 2010. Their most recent album, Who Will Look After The Dogs? just released this year!

According to eight sources, PUP is primarily a punk rock band, but according to only four sources they are a hardcore punk, pop-punk to three sources, and post-hardcore and indie rock by only one source each. I only include this because this is one of the most over-sourced sentences I've seen on wikipedia.

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P'tit Belliveau est, selon sa page Wikipedia en français, un musicien, producteur de musique, et un Gobelin.

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Okoumé était un groupe actif de 1997 à 2002, avec seulement deux albums sortis. Okoumé était un groupe de 1997 à 2002, avec seulement deux albums sortis. Le groupe n'a pas duré longtemps, mais j'adore leur musique. Les membres restants font maintenant faire partie d'un nouveau groupe «Salebarbes», un groupe de style country. , mais j'adore leur musique. Les membres restants font maintenant partie d'un nouveau groupe «Salebarbes», un groupe de style country.

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Aujourd'hui, l'artiste/groupe de la semaine est Lisa Leblanc !

Leblanc est née à Rosaireville, un village en Nouveau-Brunswick, et elle est acadienne. Elle est un artiste bilingue, avec chasons en anglais et Français. Sa musique est connue comme un genre appelé « Trash Folk », mais ses chansons sont un mélange unique de nombreux genres tels que le folk traditionnel, le rock, et le disco. Chaque album est très différent, mais excellent. Née l'année 1990, Leblanc a commencé à chanter en 2004 -- à seulement 14 ans.

Pour plus d'informations sur Leblanc, visitez son site: lisaleblanc.ca


Today, the artist/band of the week is Lisa Leblanc!

Leblanc was born in Rosaireville, a village in New Brunswick, and is Acadian. She is a bilingual artist with songs both in English and French. Her music is a folk subgenre sometimes called Trash Folk, but her songs are a mix of many genres such as traditional folk, rock, and even disco. Each album is very different but very good. Born in 1990, Leblanc started singing in 2004 -- at only age 14.

For more information about Leblanc, visit her site: lisaleblanc.ca

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Pour Venderdi Français !

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Park board says event hosted in John Hendry Park was 'not expected or planned'

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J'ai oublié le Vendredi Français hier ! Désolé, voici une chanson française en guise de pénitence.

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Some Tea Party, a band from Windsor Ontario, to celebrate me moving into Windsor! Was in Amherstburg before, but am now properly living in Windsor.

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Aujourd'hui, c'est le Vendredi français! (19 septembre)

Pour aujourd`hui, postez de la musique franco-canadiennes. Le Français dans les posts n'est pas requis, mais la toune doit être en français ou contenir du français.

La photo, c'est Corbeau, le groupe de la semaine.

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This post contains graphic text pertaining to the 1989 Montreal Massacre, a deadly shooting which resulted in the deaths of 14 innocents and many more wounded.


The Montreal massacre also known as the École Polytechnique massacre, was a radically charged anti-feminist and misogynist mass shooting in the early December of 1989 which led to the death of 14 innocent women, and the injury of 14 others (10 women, 4 men).

Shortly after 5pm on the 6th of December, the perpetrator (may his name be forgotten), entered into a second floor classroom after spending an hour in the lobby. Interrupting an ongoing class, the murderer shot into the air and forced the men and women to separate by gunpoint. He sent the nearly 50 men outside of the classroom. The remaining women were kept in the classroom, and the murderer briefly spoke to them. After a brief argument, the murderer opened fire and summarily executed six of the women (Hélène Colgan age 23, Nathalie Croteau age 23, Barbara Daigneault age 22, Anne-Marie Lemay age 22, Sonia Pelletier age 28, and Annie St-Arneault age 23) and injured the remaining three. Of those three that were injured, Nathelie Provost, was one of the ones that argued with the murderer before he opened fire -- she survived the incident.

After killing the students in the, he left the room and wounded three students in the corridor outside of the door. After, he entered another room and tried to shoot another female student, but his weapon failed to fire. After reloading in the emergency escape stairs, he returned to find the door locked, but blindly shot through the door.

Frustrated, he left and shot at another student in the corridor and continued on to the administrative portion of the building for financial services. There, he murdered the budget clerk (Maryse Laganière age 25) through the door's window.

The murderer then returned to the first floor where he had been earlier, entered the cafeteria and opened fire at around 100 people. There, he killed a nursing student (Barbara Maria Klucznick, age 31) who was near the kitchen and wounded on other. The crowd then scattered, running or hiding. The murderer continued to a storage area connected to the cafeteria and killed two other female students (Anne-Marie Edward age 21, Geneviève Bergeron age 21). Still in the cafeteria, he commanded a male and female student to come out from hiding under a table. He let them flee.

The murderer continued to the third floor, taking an escalator, where he then shot two male students and one female student in the hallway at the top of the escalator. On the same floor, the murderer entered a classroom, commanded all the men to exit, shot and wounded a female student who was at the front of the classroom giving a presentation. In the panic, the rest began to flee or hide. He murdered two female students in the front row (Maud Haviernick age 29, Michèle Richard age 21) as they tried to flee. Discharging the rest of his ammunition, he wounded 3 more female students and killed another (Annie Turcotte age 20). After reloading a 30 round high-capacity magazine, the murderer moved to the front of the classroom and shot in random directions in the classroom. The student who was shot at the front of the room during her presentation asked for help, and the murderer took out a hunting knife and stabbed her three times, killing her (Maryse Leclair age 23).

After killing his last victim, he takes off his cap and coat, wrapped it around his rifle. The murderer last said "Oh shit" before killing himself by shooting himself in the head. He left behind 60 rounds on the table in front of him, and had fired about 100 rounds overall.

PolySeSouvient is a gun control advocacy group formed by the survivors of the massacre, one notably being Nathalie Provost. Nathalie Provost survived 4 gunshot wounds in the first room when the shootings first started. Since then, she has been politically active, running on strong anti-gun platforms. In 2025, she was voted in to be a member of parliament for Châteauguay—Les Jardins-de-Napierville, Quebec, with 45% of the vote. She was also appointed to be the Secretary of State (Nature), under the Minister of Canadian Heritage, by Mark Carney.


Montreal, the song.

The song itself was written shortly after the massacre, in 1991, and was originally meant to be part of the 1991 Road Apples album. The song was only performed once in 1991 but never recorded. It wouldn't be until 2000 for the anniversary of the massacre that the band played the song once more. There was still no official recording of the song, but a few bootleg recordings made its rounds from the 2000 playing. For the longest time, this was the only way to hear the song. Since 2021 however, the Tragically Hip have included Montreal in their Saskadelphia album, the album which was released 4 years after the death of lead singer Gord Downie, featuring all unreleased songs from the 1991 Road Apples recording session. Along with the release of the album, the band made a music video later that same year which donated all proceeds to PolySeSouvient.


Information for this post came from a multitude of sources, but the primary ones are hipmuseum.com, a online website featuring in depth research regarding the Tragically Hip by superfan Stephen Dame, who has been running the site since 2005. Regarding the events of the massacre itself, I referred to the wikipedia article, which itself is based on the book "Because They Were Women" written by Josée Boileau.

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Les Vulgaires Machin étaient un groupe punk-rock de Gransby au Québec. Ses paroles sont faciles à écouter, même quand t'es un débutant en français. C'est comme un Green Day français.

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Aujourd'hui, c'est le Vendredi français! (12 septembre)

Pour aujourd`hui, postez de la musique franco-canadiennes. Le Français dans les posts n'est pas requis, mais la toune doit être en français ou contenir du français.

La photo, c'est Vulgaires Machins, le groupe de la semaine.

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Aujourd'hui, c'est le Vendredi français ! (5 septembre)

Pour aujourd`hui, postez de la musique franco-canadiennes. Le Français dans les posts n'est pas requis, mais la toune doit être en français ou contenir du français.

La photo, c'est Tex Lecor, le musicien de la semaine.

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Finger Eleven is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, and has been active since 1990 -- although it wasn't until 1997 that the band renamed itself to Finger Eleven as they are known today. The band playing with scaling success throughout the years, opening for a variety of renowned bands such as the Tragically Hip and Evanescence. In 2007, the band released its more well known song "Paralyzer" which is perhaps one of the most recognizable alternative rock songs in the world. For reference, the song has nearly half a *billion listens on spotify.

This song is perhaps the most recognizable and iconic of all the songs I grew up with, and is very influential in my music tastes to this day. Finger Eleven has a new album coming out later this year in November, Last Night On Earth, and are going to be playing at the Windsor Coliseum this upcoming December.

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One of my favourite new songs from this August

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