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arrowed!

We’re back with a new show next week, but in the meantime, here are a few links to some newly-released, unreleased, and new-ish music from south of the border. They’ve been keeping our heads boppin’ all week long: (1) Heartless Bastards started off their nine-year career in Cincinnati, and are a band built around the distinctive […]

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Philharmonics

It’s a new year, and even though we’re taking a few weeks away from the show (we’ll re-post an oldie next week), we wanted to thank Nicole for recommending Denmark’s Agnes Obel. Her debut album, Philharmonics, was released in 2010, and earned critical and commercial success in Europe, as well as a number of awards in […]

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Almost Christmas…

It’s almost your favourite time of year.  Yes, that’s right the Christmas/Holiday/Festive/Seasonal episode of myboytheriotgirl is nearly complete.  I have a few open spots for any last minute requests, so if you have one let me know (comment below).  In the mean time, here are a couple of past episodes for your listening pleasure: 2010  […]

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Are these the prettiest songs of the year?

We’re going to take a week off in mid-December to give Megan enough time to prepare for the 2hr Indie-rock Christmas Special that will air on the 21st, so that leaves us with three other shows to program in 2011.  Our last show of the year will be the Best Albums of 2011, so we’re […]

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Parallax

We’re lining up a great show for tomorrow featuring a bunch of covers, including that Tracy Thorne cover of The XX’s “Night Time” we mentioned in our 250th Podcast, a Rush cover by Kingston’s P.S. I Love You, and a Morrissey cover by doo-wop darlings, The Bandana Splits. But before tomorrow’s show, I wanted to […]

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