Tag Archives: Chad VanGaalen

goin’ back #3

Megan and I are back next week with a new show, but this week we’re re-broadcasting one from five years back.  This one features a number of artists from across the pond, including  The Stone Roses, The Smiths, The Clash, and Portishead.  And with an all-star cast of favourites like The Delgados and The Decemberists, […]

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episode #253 – Best Tracks of 2011

This week we take a quick look at some of our favourite songs of the year (and next, in Kathleen Edwards‘ case). Given our tastes, the list is 3/4 Canadiana: people who hail from nearby locales who we’d like to have beers with, and who happen to be musical geniuses. We heard a lot from […]

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episode #236

Some days are rainy, too, so we’ve got a bit more of a low-key episode this week in advance of our two-hour Canada Day special next week (featuring 30 tracks by some of your favourite Canadian indie artists). After being haunted by ‘Hunted By A Freak’ for months, Mike finally presses play on some classic , […]

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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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episode #229

We start off this week’s show with a new track from , a band that had tragedy befall it this past week when bassist Gerard Smith passed away from lung cancer.  Smith was only 36, and some reports state that he found out about his cancer less than two months ago.  Very sad news, indeed, […]

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