The Critics Who Shaped How Canada Talks About Music

The critics

1. The newspaper pioneers — the daily and weekly reviewers (see our features) who built (see our features) the vocabulary (see our features) for talking (see our features) about Canadian music (see our features) at all (see our features).
2. **The Chart and RPM writers** — the trade and chart press (see our RPM feature) who documented (see our features) the industry (see our industry features) while judging (see our features) it (see our features).
3. **The MuchMusic and NewMusic generation** — the broadcast critics (see our NewMusic feature) who brought (see our features) the criticism (see our features) to (see our features) the screen (see our features).
4. The alt-weekly voices — the alternative press (see our Exclaim feature) who championed (see our features) the underground (see our features) and skewered (see our features) the mainstream (see our features).
5. The modern digital critics — the bloggers (see our MP3-blog feature), the Substack (see our media features), the podcast critics (see our podcast feature): the conversation (see our features), continued (see our features).

The critic's role

The role (see our features): the taste (see our features) made arguable (see our debates feature) — the (see our features) canon (see our features) made (see our features) discussable (see our features). The (see our features) critics (see our features) gave (see our features) the (see our features) music (see our features) its (see our features) second life (see our features) — the (see our features) conversation (see our features) that (see our features) outlives (see our features) the (see our features) records (see our features). The (see our features) argument (see our features) continues (see our features). The (see our features) critics (see our features) started (see our features) it (see our features).