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episode #271 – Mike’s undoing

This was meant to be your Victoria Day long weekend playlist, but in true V-day style, the long-weekend festivities spilled out from their three-day container and into real life. We did, however, hear the new Japandroids track a billion times, and we love it (so press play and hear it)! But fear not, this week’s show […]

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episode #264 – Port of Nowhere

We’re back following  a post-fundraising break (you can still DONATE to CFMU 93.3FM, and we encourage you to do so if you haven’t yet!), and begin by flexing our late-night-radio muscles.  Since we can do pretty much whatever we want at 2am on our ad-free, 95% music podcast, Mike and I decided to sample from […]

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episode #257

Kathleen Edwards is everywhere, and we’re no exception (gotta love that cover art too), plus Rich Aucoin, the Decemberists, and Agnes Obel, on the first show of the new year. We wish the real one would end, but the War on Drugs is pretty good, but I guess Kurt Vile’s like that. Megan hunts down a […]

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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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Are these the prettiest songs of the year?

We’re going to take a week off in mid-December to give Megan enough time to prepare for the 2hr Indie-rock Christmas Special that will air on the 21st, so that leaves us with three other shows to program in 2011.  Our last show of the year will be the Best Albums of 2011, so we’re […]

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