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episode #256 – The Best of 2011

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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episode #252

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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episode #247

Music is just pouring from the sky these days as labels push releases out in time for them to become holiday presents or so that sullen teenagers can spend their first semester brooding over them.  That’s fine by us (as far as we’re concerned, there’s no such thing as too much independent pop), and this […]

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episode #244 – welcome

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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episode #239

Requests, dedications and the first chunk of the new album, Tosta Mista. Imagine that. We start with some old music by , new music from Sweden’s , and a whackload of Polaris shortlisters, including , , and extra exclamation! Plus some , just cus’.   New Order – Regret (Republic) Little Dragon – Ritual Union […]

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