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episode #260 – ventricular, vainglorious valentine’s day

Love or hate the Hallmark holiday named after martyrs, it’s awfully hard to avoid the big V-day if you plan on leaving your cave on the 14th. In a mean-spirited (or well-intentioned) effort to draw out the pain (or pleasure) of the day, we’re getting to our two-hour collection of love(?) songs a week early […]

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episode #254 – Potent Notables

Twenty-eleven seems to have been a really, really good year for independent music. In programming these three best of 2011 shows, it became apparent that it would be more difficult than ever before to pick out those few albums that stood head and shoulders above the rest of the pack. So this week we look […]

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episode #252

Odds and ends; bits and bites; crunch ‘n munch. This week’s full of one-offs and left-behinds, and we’re happy to play them before we get to the more album-heavy end-of-year shows. It’s a Happy Thanksgiving for a lucky American listener because we have a random and brand new Jens Lekman song to throw her way, along […]

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episode #249

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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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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