Author: Megan

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 Toronto’s Hooded Fang, Purity Ring, and RAA this year and reference accordingly, though Kansans (and husband-wife duo) Mates of State also make a more than token appearance. Plus, we rarely play a song thrice, but maybe The Decemberists’ “June Hymn” is most deserving of prettiest song designation.

Some boys are jags and play video games, so Lana Del Ray has to make an appearance. Like a classic video game playing jag, Mike proclaims Ohbijou’s “Niagara” his favourite song of the year on behalf of us both. It’s okay though, because it really is a great song.

Back next week with more of the best of the year–tune in at 93.3FM (Weds overnight, 2am and 6am), or here at the website.

1. Braids – Lemonade (Native Speaker)
2. Mates of State – Palomino (Mountaintops)
3. Purity Ring – Lofticries (Ungirthed 7″)
4. Hooded Fang – Vacationation (Tosta Mista)
5. Young Galaxy – We Have Everything (Shapeshifting)
6. Kathleen Edwards – Change the Sheets (Voyageur)
7. The Decemberists – June Hymn (The King Is Dead)
8. Destroyer – Poor In Love (Kaputt)
9. Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Video Games – Single)
10. Chad VanGaalen – Sara (Diaper Island)
11. The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Breakup (Departing)
12. Imaginary Cities – Hummingbird (Temporary Resident EP)
13. Ohbijou – Niagara (Metal Meets)

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 with similarly freshly squeezed material from fellow Yanks Atlas Sound, and Wales’ Los Campesinos! The Campesinos, it seems, are not happy kids anymore.

A long lost Iron & Wine track goes well with the Great Lake Swimmers playing a classic Grapes of Wrath tune (from a neat compilation that has current Canadian artists covering 90s trailblazers).  And since the XX cover we had last week went down so smoothly, why not another one?

We wind down with some Vaccines, who are well positioned in our collection of year-end favourites, and a neat a cappella version of a Panda Bear tune (the lead track of this year’s Tomboy) that I thought would be good to send us off into the night…

1. Feist – A Commotion (Metals)
2. Eight and a Half – Scissors (s/t)
3. Grimes – Oblivion (Visions)
4. Pattern Is Movement – Crazy In Love (Daytrotter Session)
5. The Antlers – VCR (The XX Cover)
6. Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa (Parallax)
7. Jens Lekman – I Don’t Know What To Do
8. Iron and Wine – California
9. Great Lake Swimmers – What Was Going Through My Head (Have Not Been the Same – Vol. 1)
10. Alanna Gurr – October (Oh, Horsefeathers)
11. Dan Mangan – Jeopardy (Oh Fortune)
12. Mates of State – Total Serendipity (Mountaintops)
13. Los Campesinos! – The Black Bird, The Dark Slope (Hello Sadness)
14. Tomorrows Tulips – Eternally Teenage (Eternally Teenage)
15. The Vaccines – A Lack Of Understanding (What Did You Expect From the Vaccines)
16. Panda Bear – You Can Count On Me (Tomboy [Deluxe ed.])

Fourteen songs today, sprinkled with some covers. Of Rush, of Morrissey, and some by Cuff the Duke, Tracy Thor and more (this season’s free Paper Bag Records sampler is a good one, so we sample with pleasure!).

Mike and I get to a 2003 Yo La Tengo track that fell off the #250th, but not before we hear local crew the Arkells (their video for “Kiss Cam” is nominated for a 2011 Bucky Award). And sticking close to home, we handle a request to play fellow Hamiltonians Thoughts On Air.

Nice re/meeting Sandro Perri and his bandmates on their recent jaunt to Art Crawl last week, so we hear a great long playing selection from his latest, Impossible Spaces, that’s been stuck in our heads since sound check (and, apparently, it’s not just us).

Next week we’ll hear songs off the new Atlas Sound and Los Campesinos albums. Maybe a double-feature show?  Ooooh…

1. PS I Love You – Subdivisions (Figure It Out)
2. The Bandana Splits – Everyday is Like Sunday ((Morrissey Cover))
3. Siskiyou – Fiery Death (Keep Away the Dead)
4. Arkells – Kiss Cam (Michigan Left)
5. Real Estate – It’s Real (Days)
6. The Cave Singers – Distant Sures (No Witch)
7. Yo La Tengo – You Can Have It All (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)
8. Tracey Thorn – Night TIme (The XX Cover)
9. The Walkmen – Paper House (Lisbon [B-sides])
10. Cuff The Duke – Always Looking (Dum Dum Girls Cover)
11. Coeur de Pirate – Adieu (Blonde)
12. Miracle Fortress – Tracers (Was I the Wave?)
13. Thoughts On Air – warm parka (Psongs)
14. Sandro Perri – Wolfman (Impossible Spaces)

According to his website, Sandro Perri’s latest release “is a collision of new compositional ideas, electronics, singing, and extensive studio processing beyond the scope of any of his previous efforts.”  Released last month on Constellation, Impossible Spaces has been collecting accolades from all corners.  Pitchfork rated the album 8.3, and named the opening track, Chances, as one it’s Best New Tracks.  OneThirtyBPM gave it a (strangely) similar 82%.

Yesterday as I was driving to work, listening to CBC Radio 3, Vish Khanna was talking about the Breakfast Club session he had with Perri last week.  After again expressing how much he loved the album, he excitedly noted that he was going to see Sandro in Guelph on Thursday, and then mentioned the two shows at Tranzac, in Toronto, this weekend.  What he failed to mention, and I made sure I told the radio so, is that Sandro Perri is playing our lovely city of Hamilton this Friday night, as part of Art Crawl.  From the promoters:

The New Harbours 2011 series wraps up with a killer double bill – beautiful avant pop from SANDRO PERRI and cosmic synthscapes from STEVE HAUSCHILDT of EMERALDS fame ~~~ Both are celebrating the release of new albums – Sandro’s “Impossible Spaces” on Constellation and Steve’s “Tragedy and Geometry” on Kranky

The show takes place at Christ Church Cathedral, 252 James Street North.

Impossible Spaces is becoming a go-to album around these parts: it is relaxing without being boring, and I wouldn’t be shocked if it makes it onto many ‘Best of 2011’ lists, including ours.  So check out the album, check out the show(s) and if you’re looking for a quick Sandro Perri fix, check out the video below.

sandro perri · love and light from Pedro Maia on Vimeo.

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 fight music,” along with old favourites and material from Canadians and up-and-coming female artists.

Mike joined me a year or so later, and we were the first show at CFMU to begin podcasting our shows, mostly just to test out the technology. After graduation, when we moved from daytime to the overnight spot we still fill, our podcasts became the easiest way for listeners to hear the show, and our recent relaunch of myboytheriotgirl.com has only helped listeners connect. Over the past few years we’ve jacked up our CanCon, added theme shows, and have fundraised a few hundred dollars for CFMU, despite being on between 2 and 7am.

So instead of reciting the many, many artists featured in tonight’s show (except for maybe the Rural Alberta Advantage, who will be playing Hamilton Place with Sam Roberts next week), I’d just like to say thanks for listening, and that it’s been fun filling the 93.3’s late-night airwaves with music you might not hear anywhere else on the radio dial.

1. The Mountain Goats – Oceanographer’s Choice (Tallahassee)
2. Caribou – Melody Day (Andorra)
3. No Joy – Maggie Says I Love You (Ghost Blonde)
4. LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum (Sound Of Silver)
5. Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again (The Singles 86 – 98 )
6. jj – ecstasy (jj n° 2)
7. Jenn Grant – Baby’s Been Away (Honeymoon Punch)
8. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Rush Apart (Hometowns)
9. The Pack A.D. – 8 (Unpersons)
10. Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire (Post-Nothing)
11. Luke Doucet and the White Falcon – The Ballad of Ian Curtis (Steel City Trawler)
12. Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (Permanent)
13. Lykke Li – Complaint Department (Youth Novel)
14. A.C. Newman – Come Crash (The Slow Wonder)
15. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken (Let’s Get Out Of This Country)
16. Miracle Fortress – Next Train (Five Roses)
17. Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet (The Moon And Antarctica)
18. The XX – Crystalised (XX)
19. Sarah Slean – Climbing Up The Walls (Universe)
20. PJ Harvey – This Mess We’re In (Stories from the city, stories from the sea)
21. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Contender (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart)
22. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Way Out (Show Your Bones)
23. Parlour Steps – World As Large (Ambiguoso)
24. The Delgados – Coming in from the Cold (Hate)
25. Sarah Harmer – Basement Apt. (You Were Here)
26. Molly Rankin – Way Home (SHE EP)
27. The Fiery Furnaces – don’t dance her down (Gallowsbird’s Bark)
28. Cat Power – Metal Heart (Moon Pix)
29. Sleater-Kinney – One More Hour (Dig Me Out)
30. Broadcast – Michael a Grammar (Tender Buttons)
31. Portishead – All Mine (Portishead)
32. Jill Barber – Chances (Chances)
33. Emiliana Torrini – Nothing Brings Me Down (Fisherman’s Woman)
34. Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats (Veneer)
35. Neko Case – Hold On, Hold On (Fox Confessor Brings The Flood)
36. Sufjan Stevens – Concerning the UFO Sighting (Illinois)
37. Beth Orton – She Cries Your Name (Trailer Park)
38. Hefner – Good Fruit (We Love The City [Limited Edition])
39. Le Tigre – Mediocrity Rules-6 (From the Desk of…Mr. Lady)
40. Los Campesinos! – Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s) (Sticking Fingers Into Sockets – EP)
41. Hooded Fang – Laughing (Hooded Fang – Album)
42. Belle & Sebastian – Waiting For The Moon To Rise (Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant)
43. Aphex Twin – Nannou (Windowlicker)
44. Joanna Newsom – Emily (Ys)

We’re taking a quick break this week, so we go to the archives for almost exactly five years back and get a show chock full of favourites. After a dreamy opening with Mum and Boards of Canada, we hear selections from 2006 discs from The Dears, The Decemberists, and Junior Boys, among others. Plus some rarely-referred-to Great Lake Swimmers.

Two hundred and fifthieth all-nighter mega-podcast next week, featuring tracks from eight years of myboytheriotgirl (namely, Caribou, Cat Power, Jill Barber, Built to Spill, No Joy, Modest Mouse, and a lot more.

October 19, 2006

1. Múm – Green Grass of Tunnel (Finally We Are No One)
2. Yann Tiersen – La Valse d’Amélie (Amélie Soundtrack)
3. Boards of Canada – Constants are Changing (The Campfire Headphase)
4. The Decemberists – Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) (The Crane Wife)
5. Born Ruffians – This Sentence Will Ruin/Save Your LIfe (Raised Huns)
6. Beck – Elevator Music (The Information)
7. The Dears – Find Our Way to Freedom (Gang of Losers)
8. Mew – Circuitry of the Wolf (And the Glass Handed Kites)
9. TV On the Radio – Wolf Like Me (Return to Cookie Mountain)
10. Joy Division – Dead Souls (Permanent)
11. Junior Boys – So This is Goodbye (So This is Goodbye)
12. Low – Just Stand Back (The Great Destroyer)
13. The Mountain Goats – Woke Up New (Get Lonely)
14. Great Lake Swimmers – Where in the World Are You (The Sound the Hare Heard)
15. Ben Folds – Army (Ben Folds Live)

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 Estate, and Days doesn’t disappoint and has been getting positive reviews.  We get to a quick track from it, along with a song by fellow New Jersey natives Ducktails (the cute video for “Hamilton Road” will make you crack a smile–thanks to Soundcheck for posting it!). Also imported from the US of A is the lead track from Wilco’s latest, The Whole Love.

We round things out with some dreamy noise pop from Sleigh Bells, Colleen Green, and M83, who just formally released Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, and it is awesome. There’s no new episode next week in advance of November 2nd’s 250th Podcast, but stay tuned for a blast-from-the-past from our archives, and keep sending in requests for the big two-five-oh!

1. Elliott BROOD – If I Get Old (Days Into Years)
2. Christine Fellows – Mlle-Steno (Femmes De Chez Nous)
3. Real Estate – Wonder Years (Days)
4. Ducktails – Hamilton Road (Ducktails III)
5. Slow Club – Never Look Back (Paradise)
6. Wilco – Art of Almost (The Whole Love)
7. Emm Gryner – Ciao Monday (Northern Gospel)
8. Coeur de Pirate – Adieu (Blonde )
9. Handsome Furs – The Radio’s Hot Sun (Plague Park)
10. Yukon Blonde – Fire (FIRE//WATER)
11. Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill (Treats)
12. Colleen Green – Dance the Night Away (4 Loko 2 Kayla)
13. M83 – Reunion (Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming)
14. The Antlers – I Don’t Want Love (Burst Apart)
15. Junior Boys – Itchy Fingers (It’s All True)

Still plowing through the glut of new releases, this week we get to material from Canadians Feist, Siskiyou, Bruce Peninsula, Tokyo Police Club and Cuff the Duke.  We also sample a Dinner Belles track featured on Everybody Dance Now, the compilation of music by Hamilton artists that is put out by 93.3 CFMU and INDI 101FM (and you can download the whole two-disc collection here).

Beyond that, Mike and I also get to new music from Portland’s Blitzen Trapper, a muffled cry in the night by Sweden’s ever-mysterious jj, and a favourite from Spoon.

And, of course, we’re excited to hear some new music from Toronto’s Sandro Perri (once upon a time, Polmo Polpo), and hope you agree. We’re looking forward to seeing him play Christ’s Church Cathedral down here on James St. North on November 11th as part of the monthly Art Crawl.   ‘Till then, enjoy the show, and keep sending us requests for the 250th Podcast, coming next month!

1. Feist – The Bad In Each Other (Metals)
2. Siskiyou – Twigs-and-Stones (Keep Away the Dead)
3. Adam & the Amethysts – Prophecy (Flickering Flashlight)
4. Bruce Peninsula – Pull Me Under (Open Flames)
5. Tokyo Police Club – Long Distance Call (Covers)
6. Cuff The Duke – Count On Me (Morning Comes)
7. Dinner Belles – Every Time I Put That Bottle Down (Everybody Dance Now 6 Disc 1)
8. Blitzen Trapper – Love the Way You Walk Away (American Goldwing)
9. Girls – How Can I Say I Love You (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
10. Cut Copy – Take Me Over (Zonoscope)
11. The Grates – Storms and Fevers (Teeth Lost, Hearts Won)
12. Spoon – Believing Is Art (Girls Can Tell)
13. Sandro Perri – Futureactive Kid (Part 1) (Impossible Spaces)
14. jj – You don’t know how much it would hurt me if you said that you were in love with me (TBA)

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 [wikipop search=”Girls (band)”]Girls[/wikipop], [wikipop]Little Girls[/wikipop], and girlbands.

Sweden’s [wikipop]Tallest Man on Earth[/wikipop] goes to Spain, Whitehorse goes to the Emerald Isle, and Brazil’s [wikipop search=”CSS (band)”]CSS[/wikipop] break the law. Meanwhile, [wikipop]DJ Shadow[/wikipop] emerges from years in the dark with the truth: The Less You Know, The Better.

All this in one hour? You betcha.

1. The Pack A.D. – Haunt You (Unpersons)
2. The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Deathbridge in Lethbridge (Hometowns)
3. Girls – Alex (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
4. The Tallest Man On Earth – King Of Spain (The Wild Hunt)
5. The Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (The Suburbs)
6. Ladytron – White Elephant (Gravity the Seducer)
7. Little Girls – Daydream (Cults EP)
8. The Pack A.D. – Seasick (Unpersons)
9. EMA – Breakfast (Past Life Martyed Saints)
10. Apparat – Sweet Unrest (The Devil’s Walk)
11. DJ Shadow – Run For Your Life (The Less You Know, The Better)
12. Cansei De Ser Sexy – Partners In Crime (La Liberación)
13. The Weakerthans – Tournament of Hearts (Reunion Tour)
14. Whitehorse – Emerald Isle (Whitehorse)
15. The Pack A.D. – Hear Me Out (Unpersons)

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 many trips downtown over the course of your degree–remember, Westdale is nice, but there’s way more to Hamilton, and most of it is across the 403.

We’re Megan and Mike, and this is myboytheriotgirl, a weekly music digest that mixes tracks by new and independent artists with indie/alt favourites (see the tag cloud in the sidebar to get an idea of the artists we play—->). Our show is podcasted most Wednesdays, and we do our best to focus on Canadian and female artists. We also love requests, so don’t be shy!

This week we start off by firmly closing the door on summer by re-listening to a few of our favourite tracks from artists who released new albums this year, including a track from [wikipop]PJ Harvey[/wikipop]’s Mercury Award-winning Let England Shake. Since she’s the first artist to win two of the prestigious awards, we’ll hear some other material from her long and glittering recording history.

We also get to new music from Canadians [wikipop]Dan Mangan[/wikipop], [wikipop]Ohbijou[/wikipop], and Hamilton’s own husband-and-wife duo Whitehorse (who we managed to catch live as they prepared to tour across Canada).

Things wrap up with another recent fave from Vancouver’s [wikipop]The Pack A.D.[/wikipop], who just released their latest, Unpersons, yesterday.  It rocks, and because it does, we’ll be doing an album feature on it for next week’s show.

In the meantime, hit that little play button at the top of the post, and join us for a couple of hours as we gleefully consume some indie-rock.  I think by mid-terms we’ll be good friends!

1. Cults – Abducted (Cults)
2. Grouplove – Colours (Grouplove)
3. Sloan – Unkind (The Double Cross)
4. Beirut – Santa Fe (The Rip Tide)
5. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong (Belong)
6. Bon Iver – Towers (Bon Iver)
7. PJ Harvey – England (Let England Shake)
8. The National – Abel (Alligator)
9. Handsome Furs – Cheap Music (Sound Kapital)
10. You Say Party! We Say Die! – Stockholm syndrome part one (Hit the floor!)
11. You Say Party! We Say Die! – Stockholm syndrome part two (Hit the floor!)
12. Sarah MacDougall – sometimes you lose, sometimes you win (The Greatest Ones Alive)
13. The Naked And Famous – Young Blood (Passive Me, Aggressive You)
14. M83 – New Map (Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming)
15. Pat Jordache – Phantom Limb (Future Songs)
16. Colin Stetson – Red Horse (Judges II) (New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges)
17. Ohbijou – Anser (Metal Meets)
18. Pj Harvey & John Parish – Cracks In The Canvas (A Woman A Man Walked By)
19. Whitehorse – Killing Time Is Murder (Whitehorse)
20. Dan Mangan – Post-War Blues (Oh Fortune)
21. Graham Wright – Medicine Hat (The Lakes Of Alberta)
22. Squaresville – Girl (Not if you were the last square on earth)
23. Eleanor Friedberger – Early Earthquake (Last Summer)
24. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (Strange Mercy)
25. Billy Bragg – Accident Waiting To Happen (Don’t Try This At Home)
26. The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual (Meat Is Murder)
27. PJ Harvey – Joe (Dry)
28. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Black Tongue (Fever To Tell)
29. Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock (Siamese Dream)
30. The Pack A.D. – Sirens (Unpersons)