This is Juno Awards week in Hamilton. There are events and concerts happening all around town, capped by prize ceremonies on the weekend at TD Coliseum. It's a multi-day celebration of the Canadian music industry.

Since we're talking about Canadian music, let's ask this brain teaser: Is there a Canadian sound that's easily identifiable? In other words, can you tell a song's Canadian just by hearing it?

Alan Cross is the host of The Ongoing History of New Music podcast and the man behind A Journal of Musical Things. If there's a discussion to be had about music - particularly Canadian music - he's the man with which to have it.

In this episode of Placeline Hamilton we talk to Cross and try to answer those questions, assess the impact of politics in awards voting and figure out whether we're in a golden age of Canadian music right now. Among many other things.