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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 #251

Fourteen songs today, sprinkled with some covers. Of Rush, of Morrissey, and some by Cuff the Duke, Tracy Thor and more (this season’s free Paper Bag Records sampler is a good one, so we sample with pleasure!). Mike and I get to a 2003 Yo La Tengo track that fell off the #250th, but not […]

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Two-Fifty

Besides celebrating our 250th podcast of myboytheriotgirl, tonight’s episode also marks the beginning of the ninth season of the show on 93.3FM.  That’s right, almost exactly eight years ago I first went on the air here at CFMU, pulling from the new releases shelf with abandon and spinning a mix of independent “love songs and […]

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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 #228

We spite the cold weather with some springy pop tunes this week, including your doctor recommended dose of Swedish pop (now with vitamin-D)! We’ve got some new and , as well as some by listener request (now pronounced 100% more accurately, thanks Michael!). Also, in anticipation of a new album (Was I the Wave? due […]

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