Tag Archives: Los Campesinos!

episode #258

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Twenty-twelve’s already got some new releases, and we play a couple: one by synth-pop duo Chairlift, and another by Calgary’s Rae Spoon. Plus, we peer into a frightening future through an oppressive track from Sleigh Bells’ upcoming Reign of Terror. They’re a duo, too, but apparently of the noise-pop variety (that’s a thing!). We unapologetically err [...]

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episode #252

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Odds and ends; bits and bites; crunch ‘n munch. This week’s full of one-offs and left-behinds, and we’re happy to play them before we get to the more album-heavy end-of-year shows. It’s a Happy Thanksgiving for a lucky American listener because we have a random and brand new Jens Lekman song to throw her way, along [...]

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Hello Sadness

Oh-em-gee!  The ever prolific Welsh group Los Campesinos! are releasing a new album (their 4th in 4 years) next week, and for those of you like us who just can’t wait, NPR is streaming the whole shebang on their site.  The title suggests maybe something a little more melancholy from these usually exuberant 20-somethings, but [...]

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Two-Fifty

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Besides celebrating our 250th podcast of myboytheriotgirl, tonight’s episode also marks the beginning of the ninth season of the show on 93.3FM.  That’s right, almost exactly eight years ago I first went on the air here at CFMU, pulling from the new releases shelf with abandon and spinning a mix of independent “love songs and [...]

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episode #222 – for lovers and fighters

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Post-V-Day episode, For Lovers and Fighters. Classic tracks for the ongoing world revolution, incl. , and ; more tracks for lovers feeling the post-V-Day seratonin drop, incl. , and ; AND, brand new (!), and the . All in one, breezy 31-track episode? How dare they. The Clash – Revolution Rock (London Calling) Arcade Fire [...]

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