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episode #272 – Summer Break!

By Megan | Published: June 7, 2012

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A day late, but definitely not a dollar short! This last episode before our summer hiatus is jam-packed with myboytheriotgirl classics, sprinkled with a few new songs and a mingling of some tracks from underplayed albums from some of our favourite artists. What three-hour show would be complete without some New Pornographers, Sparklehorse, Spoon, Fiery […]

Posted in 2012, Public Radio | Also tagged Andrew Bird, Beach House, Billy Bragg, Blitzen Trapper, Camera Obscura, Cat Power, Controller.Controller, Cuff the Duke, Electrelane, Feist, Graham Wright, Great Lake Swimmers, Hefner, Jason Collett, Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins, Jill Barber, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Land of Talk, Laura Veirs, Le Tigre, M.I.A., Mercury Rev, Metric, Ohbijou, Parlour Steps, Sarah Harmer, Sleater-Kinney, Songs: Ohia, Sparklehorse, Spoon, Stereolab, Thao & Mirah, The Books, The Elected, The Fiery Furnaces, The Mountain Goats, The New Pornographers, the owls, Tune-Yards, TV On The Radio, Wintersleep, Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Leave a comment

episode #256 – The Best of 2011

By Megan | Published: December 27, 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. […]

Posted in 2011 | Also tagged Atlas Sound, Bon Iver, Cut Copy, Dan Mangan, Destroyer, Fleet Foxes, Girls, jj, John Maus, Little Scream, Lykke Li, M83, Miracle Fortress, No Joy, PJ Harvey, Real Estate, Sandro Perri, Sloan, Smith Westerns, St. Vincent, The Field, The Pack A.D., The Vaccines, Timber Timbre, Whitehorse | 1 Response

episode #244 – welcome

By Megan | Published: September 14, 2011

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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 […]

Posted in 2011 | Also tagged Billy Bragg, Bon Iver, Colin Stetson, Cults, Dan Mangan, Eleanor Friedberger, Graham Wright, Grouplove, Handsome Furs, M83, Ohbijou, Pat Jordache, PJ Harvey, Sarah MacDougall, Sloan, Smashing Pumpkins, Squaresville, St. Vincent, The Naked And Famous, The National, The Pack A.D., The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Smiths, Whitehorse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You Say Party! We Say Die! | Leave a comment

goin’ back #1

By Mike | Published: August 10, 2011

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We’re using the time machine (aka mbtrg’s eight years of archives) to go back just in time for Halloween 2007, and a slew of completely un-scary tunes from that era. There’s some classic Belle & Sebastian (from a ), Beirut, who just released last week. We’re guessing must’ve come out around then, and there’s , , , […]

Posted in 2011 | Also tagged Apparat, Barzin, Belle and Sebastian, Boards of Canada, Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, Cuff the Duke, Joy Division, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins | Leave a comment

episode #238

By Megan | Published: July 6, 2011

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Back in the summer that the was dissolved, the was released, and was beginning to give way to , we were just ignorant children, unaware of all the great music that we’d have to catch up with when we got into our teens.This week we take a quick look back at some tracks one or […]

Posted in 2011 | Also tagged Arctic Monkeys, Blur, EMA, Hooded Fang, Japandroids, Kelli Schaefer, Land of Talk, Lykke Li, Primal Scream, Scout Niblett, Sparklehorse, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Sugarcubes, The Weakerthans, Weeping Tile | Leave a comment

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