Tag Archives: Austra

episode #254 – Potent Notables

Twenty-eleven seems to have been a really, really good year for independent music. In programming these three best of 2011 shows, it became apparent that it would be more difficult than ever before to pick out those few albums that stood head and shoulders above the rest of the pack. So this week we look […]

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episode #243

End of summer keeps on rolling, and we visit some musical laboratories in Canada and abroad, and umm, probably across time. New is at least catchy, and a neat-o Diamond Rings remix of a track in time for Supercrawl (be there!). We’d play it next week, but we’re off for McMaster Welcome Week festivities. Then quick […]

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episode #239

Requests, dedications and the first chunk of the new album, Tosta Mista. Imagine that. We start with some old music by , new music from Sweden’s , and a whackload of Polaris shortlisters, including , , and extra exclamation! Plus some , just cus’.   New Order – Regret (Republic) Little Dragon – Ritual Union […]

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episode #237 – Gross Canada Day!

Well the year is now halfway through, and what better way to mark the occasion of Canada’s birthday than with  two hours of pure CanCon? Plus, there’s a huge 15-song uninterupted set of old and new stuff, mixing some classics with some new arrivals, as well as highlight a few of the talented folks from […]

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episode #233

Thanks to the weather gods (Thor, is that you?) a potentially washed out long-weekend ended up being super, and I think we all need a few days to recover.  As such, we’ve tried to load this week’s show up with some mellower music, while still sustaining a bit of that pre-summer momentum. Things start off […]

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