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episode #272 – Summer Break!

A day late, but definitely not a dollar short!  This last episode before our summer hiatus is jam-packed with myboytheriotgirl classics, sprinkled with a few new songs and a mingling of some tracks from underplayed albums from some of our favourite artists. What three-hour show would be complete without some New Pornographers, Sparklehorse, Spoon, Fiery […]

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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 #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 #240 – Is This It

We can’t believe it’s been a decade since The Strokes uttered their famous statement/question(?), , and Stereogum has issued a downloadabe tribute album that is worth a bit of a listen. As such, we hear a couple of the stronger tracks in the collection by , and , (the former having recently released a new disc, and the […]

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