Tag Archives: PJ Harvey

episode #271 – Mike’s undoing

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This was meant to be your Victoria Day long weekend playlist, but in true V-day style, the long-weekend festivities spilled out from their three-day container and into real life. We did, however, hear the new Japandroids track a billion times, and we love it (so press play and hear it)! But fear not, this week’s show [...]

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episode #256 – The Best of 2011

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This final episode of 2011 reviews our favourites (such as The Pack AD, Smith Westerns, and Beirut) , and consensus picks (such as M83, Bon Iver, and PJ Harvey) from the popular and no-so-popular presses. Having to settle on 24 albums (plus two from 2010) in the independent/alternative oeuvre was far more difficult than it sounds. [...]

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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 #244 – welcome

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It’s the first show of the new season/ school-year and it’s huge!  Like, two hours huge. First off, to new listeners/students at McMaster (home to CFMU), welcome to Hamilton, we’re happy to have you!  Hopefully you had a chance to experience the amazingness of Supercrawl last weekend, and are now totally inoculated and will make [...]

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a different class of diva

First off, a hearty thanks to Winged Beast Outfitters for designing (and outfitting) mbtrg with new banners for the blog! It’s long been a dream to have something , and this series of banners will let us refresh and enliven the webspace every now and again. Three brief pieces of music news in our week [...]

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