Author: Megan

This week is a quick look back at some of the new music from 2012 that has been lingering on our iPods and ringing in our ears an awful lot.  As you might have guessed from their regular appearances on the show, we can’t stop listening to Chairlift, Sleigh Bells and Shearwater, three American bands that put out very, very listenable discs earlier this year.

From closer to home, there’s Kathleen Edwards’ Voyageur, and Toronto’s Bahamas to keep us occupied. We also hear a track from Winnipeg’s Royal Canoe, via a recommendation from Music Between Friends / Indilicious on 93.3 CFMU. Those myboytheriotgirl fans looking to find other sources of indie-pop after we close up shop in June should look to Katie and Sasha for all their music needs.

We also hear some songs off of albums released late last year that are still growing on us, like those from Wilco and Underworld (going strong since before we were born!). And of course, sprinkled throughout are some classic tracks from local-boy Caribou, and a fave of Megan’s by Modest Mouse.

We’re off next week, but will be back in time for Mike’s sole-sourced birthday show. Just a few episodes left, so make your requests while you can, and thanks for listening!

1. Shearwater – You As You Were (Animal Joy)
2. Chairlift – Wrong Opinion (Something)
3. Underworld – Always Loved A Film (Barking)
4. Caribou – The Barn (Marinoaudio)
5. Royal Canoe – Hold on to the Metal (Extended Play)
6. Field Music – Just Like Everyone Else (Plumb)
7. Andrew Bird – Near Death Experience Experience (Break It Yourself)
8. Kathleen Edwards – Going to Hell (Voyageur)
9. Bahamas – Where You Go (Barchords)
10. Sleigh Bells – Demons (Reign Of Terror)
11. Grandaddy – Hewlett’s Daughter (The Sophtware Slump)
12. Wilco – I Might (The Whole Love)
13. Lykke Li – Unrequited Love (Wounded Rhymes)
14. Modest Mouse – Bukowski (Good News For People Who Love Bad News)

The impending summer hiatus of myboytheriotgirl has made a priority out of stuffing as much music as we can into shows, so behold, 57+ minutes of music glory for your ears’ pleasure.

Starting off with the lead track off of Atlas Sound’s 2011 disc Parallax, we then get to a track from the highly anticipated album from secretive Canadian duo Purity Ring. The Halifax/Montreal band will be releasing Shrines on July 24th, and we can’t wait for it!

And speaking of acts out of Montreal with albums you can’t wait for: Polaris winner Patrick Watson and band have just released their latest (yesterday). Having listened to it a few dozen times on the CBC Music website, we can’t get enough of this delicately crafted pop, so we end the show with the first three tracks off the disc.

Before that, though, we get to a couple of dedications (New Order to Brendan,  and Land of Talk to Regan), some Screaming Females followed by a female screaming, and classics by the Fiery Furnaces, Peter Bjorn & John, and The Besnard Lakes (more Montreal!)

Also, since this video is just so darrrrling, you should take five minutes and watch it to behold the talent that is Patrick Watson & co.

1. Atlas Sound – The Shakes (Parallax)
2. Purity Ring – Obedear (Shrines)
3. New Order – Ceremony (Substance)
4. The Fiery Furnaces – Bird Brain (Blueberry Boat)
5. Blitzen Trapper – Below the Hurricane (Destroyer of the Void)
6. Blur – Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club (Think Tank)
7. The Drums – I Don’t Know How To Love (Portamento)
8. Screaming Females – Expire (Ugly)
9. Noisettes – Bridge To Canada (What’s The Time Mr. Wolf? (Retail))
10. The Besnard Lakes – Devastation (The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse)
11. Land of Talk – Blangee Blee (Cloak and Cipher)
12. Peter Bjorn And John – Start To Melt (Writer’s Block)
13. Patrick Watson – Lighthouse (Adventures In Your Own Backyard)
14. Patrick Watson – Blackwind (Adventures In Your Own Backyard)
15. Patrick Watson – Step Out for a While (Adventures In Your Own Backyard)

Getting ready for the long goodbye, we play bunch of new music on this week’s show, including Beach House, Sweden’s jj, and Sun Kil Moon. And, of course, new music is always well complemented by old favourites by The Cure, Le Tigre, and Broken Social Scene.

The music probably says more than the words can, so give us a listen while you can: there are only a few episodes of myboytheriotgirl left before we go on a nice long summer hiatus following our ninth season on air.

And after that, who knows! Due to the time constraints of life, we’re thinking of taking a break from the weekly show format.  Because indie-pop is a young person’s game, it’ll be good to clear the way for some new blood on the airwaves at CFMU 93.3FM in the autumn, but we’re considering the possibility of a less-frequent (bi-weekly? monthly?) podcast available here on our website, along with our annual Christmas and Best-of-the-Year shows.

So. What do you think, oh dear listeners?

1. Beach House – Myth (Bloom)
2. Daniel Rossen – Silent Song (Silent Hour / Golden Mile – EP)
3. The Cure – Just Like Heaven (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me)
4. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Man on Fire (Here)
5. Broken Social Scene – Almost Crimes (You Forgot It In People)
6. Heyward Howkins – The Raucous Calls of Morning (Hale & Hearty)
7. The Ettes – Teeth (Wicked Will)
8. Sun Kil Moon – UK Blues (Among The Leaves)
9. Demetra Penner – I Am Written (Lone Migration)
10. jj – Beautiful Life (jj nº 4)
11. Simian Mobile Disco – Seraphim (Seraphim)
12. Le Tigre – Deceptacon (Le Tigre)
13. Band of Skulls – You’re Not Pretty But You Got It Goin’ On (Sweet Sour)
14. Cuff The Duke – Always Looking (In Our Time EP)

Your weekly dose of indie pop and rock is in, and it’s a satisfying melange of new and classic tracks, with a healthy helping of Canadian artists.  We start things off with a set dedicated to a long-time fan, hearing from a couple of Vancouver electronic artists (Teen Daze & Little Chords) that she’s in love with.

We also get to a cute little track from buzz-band Hospitality, and an old favourite by Sparklehorse that should bring back memories.  Things wind down with some material of Andrew Bird’s latest, a track from a Guelph duo called Memoryhouse, and another timeless-sounding nod back to the 90s courtesy of Boards of Canada.

After Rae Spoon destroys London, we let Dan Bejar’s Destroyer play us out with the lead-track off his wonderful 2006 release, Destroyer’s Rubies.  We’ll be back next week, so send us your requests, recommendations and hit-lists, and tune back in next Wednesday!

1. Teen Daze – Treten (All Of Us, Together)
2. The Radio Dept. – The Worst Taste In Music (Pet Grief)
3. Sloan – Coax Me (Twice Removed)
4. Chairlift – Guilty As Charged (Something)
5. Little Chords – New Town (Afterlife)
6. Hospitality – Betty Wang (Hospitality)
7. Bahamas – I Got You Babe (Barchords)
8. Sparklehorse – Someday I Will Treat You Good (Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot)
9. Forest City Lovers – Tell Me, Cancer
10. Andrew Bird – Lusitania (Break It Yourself)
11. Memoryhouse – Little Expressionless Animals (The Slideshow Effect)
12. Boards of Canada – Roygbiv (Music Has The Right To Children)
13. Rae Spoon – London Destroyer (I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets)
14. Destroyer – Rubies (Destroyer’s Rubies)

Hamilton Place’s Studio Theatre is quickly becoming one of our favourite concert venues in Hamilton, and last night’s Sandro Perri show only reinforced that belief. The show started at a reasonable time, and for a bucks more than you’d pay at one of our city’s great club venues, the (seated & intimate) audience was treated to almost two hours of music from a fantastic songwriter and very talented bandmates.

So in tribute to Sandro’s quiet, unspoken style, let’s get straight to this week’s music, featuring a great new tracks from upcoming releases by Dirty Projectors, and M. Ward; plus Juno-winner Feist, Toronto’s The Wooden Sky, and a neat John Maus track created for Record Store Day (on April 21st).

So without any further ado, here’s this week’s show. Thanks for listening!

1. Hospitality – Friends of Friends (Hospitality)
2. Hooded Fang – Almost Done (Album)
3. Years – The Major Lift (Years)
4. Dirty Projectors – Gun Has No Trigger (Swing Lo Magellan)
5. Feist – The Undiscovered First (Metals)
6. John Maus – No Title (Molly) (Smuggler’s Way)
7. Air – Seven Stars (Le Voyage Dans La Lune)
8. Sleigh Bells – Crush (Reign Of Terror)
9. Charli XCX – I’ll Never Know (TBA)
10. M. Ward – Primative Girl (A Wasteland Companion)
11. John K. Samson – Taps Reversed (Provincial)
12. Pulp – Dishes (This Is Hardcore)
13. Mogwai – Killing All The Flies (Happy Songs For Happy People)
14. The Wooden Sky – Child of the Valley (Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun)
15. Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent) (Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks)

So now that twitter has stopped buzzing about South by Southwest (SXSW), it’s time for us late-to-the-party music lovers to share some of the goodies that surfaced from the festival.

Brooklyn NY’s Hospitality is a lovely indie pop crew with the same infectious hooks that the New Pornographers do so well.    The group made a number of ‘best of SXSW’ lists, and the video (below) for the catchy Friends of Friends features the hilarious Alia Shawkat from Arrested Development fame.

Sticking with the Strong Female Lead, Charli XCX is a “British goth-pop upstart” rumoured to be releasing both a debut EP and LP in the coming months.  Here’s a taste of what to expect, her third and latest released track, I’ll Never Know:

Back here in the great white (?) north, artists from across the country gathered in Toronto for Canadian Music week.  We’re going to refer you to this entry, where Torontoist offers their retrospective along with some pictures and reviews.

One of the most highly reviewed performances at Canadian Music Week was John K. Samson & The Provincial Band.  Samson released his first (and only?) solo album earlier this year.  We couldn’t find a video of the CMW performance, so here’s a live version of “When I Write My Master’s Thesis” recorded for Exclaim tv.

In other news, one of our favourite artists, M. Ward, has a new album coming out in April (his first solo since 2009 – although he’s been keeping busy with She & Him).  Here’s the first video from A Wasteland Companion:

Watch for these and other new tracks on the next episode of myboytheriotgirl.

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: for the price of a couple of lattes, you can keep a slice of the airwaves safe for unique local programming like CFMU’s Sunday, a smorgasbord of cultural programming, from Lithuanian to Latin American.

This year, a $30 donation gets you a Friends of CFMU card, good at a variety of Hamilton venues, businesses and attractions like This Ain’t Hollywood, Dr. Disc and the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

And of course, you’ll also keep shows like ours, or Indie-licious, on-air, playing independent music from around the block and around the world. No top-40 or corporate playlists, just a mix of music you won’t hear anywhere else on the dial.

So without further ado, we present this year’s fundraising show, featuring a preview of the new Andrew Bird album, Break It Yourself. As always, we also have a sampling of new and upcoming releases (Band of Skulls, Dirty Ghosts, Sun Kil Moon), and old favourites (Hayden, Doves).

As always, thanks for listening, and for raising your voice by supporting CFMU!

1. Chairlift – Met Before (Something)
2. PS I Love You – Sentimental Dishes (Death Dreams)
3. Wild Flag – Electric Band (Wild Flag)
4. Hayden – Dynamite Walls (Skyscraper National Park)
5. Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour (Sweet Sour)
6. Whitehorse – Passenger 24 (Whitehorse)
7. Dirty Ghosts – Ropes That Way (Metal Moon)
8. Forest City Lovers – Keep the Kids Inside (Rainy Day Version) (Exclaim! TV)
9. Breathe Owl Breathe – Own Stunts (Magic Central)
10. Sun Kil Moon – Sunshine in Chicago (Among the Leaves)
11. Sharon Van Etten – We Are Fine (Tramp)
12. Andrew Bird – Desperation Breeds… (Break It Yourself)
13. Andrew Bird – Polynation (Break It Yourself)
14. Andrew Bird – Danse Carribe (Break It Yourself)
15. Andrew Bird – Give It Away (Break It Yourself)
16. Zoey Van Goey – We Don’t Have That Kind of Bread (The Cage Was Unlocked All Along)
17. Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You (Partie Traumatic)
18. Mike O’Neill – This is Who I Am (Wild Lines)
19. Elliott BROOD – Lindsay (Days Into Years)
20. Erin Passmore – Downtown (Downtown EP)
21. The Pack A.D. – Positronic (Unpersons)
22. Shearwater – Pushing The River (Animal Joy)
23. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust (Kingdom Of Rust)
24. School Of Seven Bells – The Night (Ghostory)
25. Kodacrome – Modern Man (Perla)
26. Zelium Quang – Madness in the Air (Madness in the Air/Radio Eye)
27. Handsome Furs – Serve The People (Young Galaxy Remix) (Young Galaxy Versus)
28. Gorillaz – DoYaThing