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This might be the only Leap Day episode we’ll ever get, so it’s go big or go home, one week before the CFMU Fundraiser. Megan did a blog-scour this week and happened across a bunch of rare-enough’s for a rare-enough February 29th, including Royal Wood injecting some slight winter light into a classic Sam Roberts […]
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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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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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This week myboytheriotgirl is positively brimming with new releases from Canadians, including Elliott BROOD, Christine Fellows, Kelowna’s Yukon Blonde and the captivating Emm Gryner. Also, a new song from Montreal’s Coeur de Pirate, who will be releasing her latest, Blonde, on November 7th. Mike’s been waiting a while now for the sophomore album from Real […]
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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 […]
