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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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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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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 […]
First off, a hearty thanks to Winged Beast Outfitters for designing (and outfitting) mbtrg with new banners for the blog! It’s long been a dream to have something , and this series of banners will let us refresh and enliven the webspace every now and again. Three brief pieces of music news in our week […]
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New music abounds this August. In anticipation of a spectacular harvest, we get to tracks by , , and . We can’t get off our minds as the Polaris clock counts down, plus we play the latest from fellow Canadians (and a catchy Lou Canon cover of “Close to Me”). and Sweden’s next week–send us your end-of-summer […]
