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Love or hate the Hallmark holiday named after martyrs, it’s awfully hard to avoid the big V-day if you plan on leaving your cave on the 14th. In a mean-spirited (or well-intentioned) effort to draw out the pain (or pleasure) of the day, we’re getting to our two-hour collection of love(?) songs a week early […]
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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. […]
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Still plowing through the glut of new releases, this week we get to material from Canadians Feist, Siskiyou, Bruce Peninsula, Tokyo Police Club and Cuff the Duke. We also sample a Dinner Belles track featured on Everybody Dance Now, the compilation of music by Hamilton artists that is put out by 93.3 CFMU and INDI […]
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Hej iedereen, welkom bij myboytheriotgirl. This week: three tracks off The Pack A.D.’s latest, Unpersons, plus a tip ‘o the hat to 2011 Polaris (& Juno & Grammy & Brit) winners Arcade Fire. And , , and girlbands. Sweden’s goes to Spain, Whitehorse goes to the Emerald Isle, and Brazil’s break the law. Meanwhile, emerges […]
No one right now, but we’ll know in just a few hours! That’s right: the seemingly interminable wait between the announcement of the Polaris Music Prize shortlist and the gala is all but over. Tonight’s festivities will be webcast live thanks to Much Music, starting at 8pm. Though Megan and I don’t have a great […]
