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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 #246 – Silent Shout

It’s undeniable: from Cootes Paradise at the edge of the valley to the Red Hill Valley in the east, the leaves are turning colours, and Megs and I think we’ll be in for quite a show this fall. So, to get into that “light a fire and pass me my sweater” mood, we’ve got a […]

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episode #231

was formed in 1991 and twenty years later they’re still putting out catchy, punchy pop tunes that make you stop and listen. This week we tip our hats to the four boys from Halifax who are celebrating their platinum anniversary with The Double Cross (2 X, get it???) by playing the first three tracks off […]

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episode #230

Well, it’s not all bad news in Ottawa today (although maybe we should have saved our track for this week…), so here’s a sunny, orange-coloured setlist arranged back when the results were still pundit-projections and bad guesses. Maybe we should have aimed for a majority of Canadian artists, but nonetheless, we turn to Quebec to […]

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Helplessness Blues & more

We’ll be putting up this week’s podcast later this evening, but in the meantime, you might want to take a listen to the upcoming album from the . Helplessness Blues is currently available via the National Public Radio website, so take a listen. I’m on my second listen-through of the new disc, and have nothing […]

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