Tag Archives: The Pack A.D.

episode #263 – raise ya voice!

Every year, CFMU 93.3FM turns to the Hamilton community to help support the station’s operating expenses through donations. Whether it’s $5, $30, or $200, it’s all greatly appreciated, and it all goes to keeping independent, community programming on our local air-waves. We here at myboytheriotgirl think that an investment in community radio is a no-brainer: […]

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episode #256 – The Best of 2011

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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Two-Fifty

Besides celebrating our 250th podcast of myboytheriotgirl, tonight’s episode also marks the beginning of the ninth season of the show on 93.3FM.  That’s right, almost exactly eight years ago I first went on the air here at CFMU, pulling from the new releases shelf with abandon and spinning a mix of independent “love songs and […]

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episode #245 – Unpersons

Hej iedereen, welkom bij myboytheriotgirl. This week: three tracks off The Pack A.D.’s latest, Unpersons, plus a tip ‘o the hat to 2011 Polaris (& Juno & Grammy & Brit) winners Arcade Fire. And , , and girlbands. Sweden’s goes to Spain, Whitehorse goes to the Emerald Isle, and Brazil’s break the law. Meanwhile, emerges […]

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and the winner is…

No one right now, but we’ll know in just a few hours! That’s right: the seemingly interminable wait between the announcement of the Polaris Music Prize shortlist and the gala is all but over. Tonight’s festivities will be webcast live thanks to Much Music, starting at 8pm. Though Megan and I don’t have a great […]

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