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A day late, but definitely not a dollar short!  This last episode before our summer hiatus is jam-packed with myboytheriotgirl classics, sprinkled with a few new songs and a mingling of some tracks from underplayed albums from some of our favourite artists.

What three-hour show would be complete without some New Pornographers, Sparklehorse, Spoon, Fiery Furnaces, The Elected, Electrelane, Hefner etc.?  The fact that many of the bands that we built this show on year after year are no longer making new music illustrates part of the reason for this break.  As Mike likes to say, “indie-rock is a young person’s game”.  We don’t have as much time to see late night shows, or listen to music with the attention this show requires.

We haven’t committed to never doing another show, but for now we’re taking a break.  We’re going to be focusing on community, family and weeding!  But before we do that, Mike and I wanted to leave you with a three-hour show that will hopefully find it’s way into your summer rotation.  We think it will sound as good by the lake as it will on a train or in a car or in the garden.  Enjoy!

1. Beach House – The Hours (Bloom)
2. TV on the Radio – Modern Romance (New Health Rock EP)
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (It’s Blitz!)
4. Metric – Youth Without Youth (Synthetica)
5. Sparklehorse – Some Sweet Day (Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain)
6. Joel Plaskett Emergency – Time Flies (Scrappy Happiness)
7. Thao & Mirah – Rubies and Rocks (Thao & Mirah)
8. Jill Barber – Oh My My (Chances)
9. Feist – The Bad In Each Other (Metals)
10. wintersleep – In Came the Flood (Hello Hum)
11. The New Pornographers – Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk (Together)
12. Spoon – Nobody Gets Me But You (Transference)
13. Andrew Bird – Desperation Breeds… (Break It Yourself)
14. The Elected – Greetings in Braille (Me First)
15. Ohbijou – The Dreaming (Metal Meets)
16. Mercury Rev – Spiders and Flies (All Is Dream)
17. Blitzen Trapper – Summer Town (Wild Mountain Nation)
18. Laura Veirs – Make Something Good (July Flame)
19. Cat Power – Metal Heart (Jukebox)
20. Great Lake Swimmers – I am Part of a Large Family (Ongiara)
21. Billy Bragg – 13 Hesitating Beauty.mp3 (And Wilco Mermaid Avenue 1998)
22. The Fiery Furnaces – Even In The Rain (I’m Going Away)
23. Graham Wright – Medicine Hat (The Lakes Of Alberta)
24. Stereolab – So Is Cardboard Clouds (Not Music)
25. Songs: Ohia – Almost Was Good Enough (Magnolia Electric Co.)
26. Cuff The Duke – Smothered In Hugs (Guided By Voices Cover) (In Our Time EP)
27. Le Tigre – On The Verge (This Island)
28. Land Of Talk – Give Me Back My Heart Attack (Some Are Lakes)
29. Controller.Controller – Watch (History)
30. Sleater-Kinney – Oh! (One Beat)
31. The Books – All You Need Is A Wall (The Way Out)
32. the owls – air (Our Hopes and Dreams)
33. Hefner – Eloping (Breaking God’s Heart)
34. Jason Collett – Lake Superior (Rat A Tat Tat)
35. M.I.A. – Paper Planes (Kala)
36. Tune-Yards – You Yes You (W H O K I L L)
37. Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins – Rise Up With Fists!!! (Rabbit Fur Coat)
38. The Mountain Goats – 1 John 4:16 (The Life Of The World To Come)
39. Sarah Harmer – Our Dark Clouds (Bonus Track) (Oh Little Fire)
40. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken (Let’s Get Out Of This Country)
41. Parlour Steps – The Garden (Ambiguoso)
42. Beirut – Postcards From italy (Gulag Orkestar)
43. Electrelane – Going Out Again (The Power Out)

This was meant to be your Victoria Day long weekend playlist, but in true V-day style, the long-weekend festivities spilled out from their three-day container and into real life. We did, however, hear the new Japandroids track a billion times, and we love it (so press play and hear it)!

But fear not, this week’s show is a two-hour, multi-purpose extravaganza billed as the last one programmed just by Mike before we bow out for the summer, and as playlist to it. Hopefully this 29 song show (chock-full of new & timeless Canadian indie tracks) will tide you over until our next and final show, on June 6th, programmed by yours truly.

Check out tracks off new albums by PS I Love You, Best Coast, Patrick Watson, Great Lake Swimmers, & Zeus, and sit back and nod along to Mike’s hometown faves Manitoba, Junior Boys & Luke Doucet. Plus he couldn’t avoid a trip down memory lane with more than a few stops in the 90s.

So join us again in a couple of weeks when we’ll sign off with a three-hour show, giving you five final hours to get you through the long, hot summer!

1. Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built (Celebration Rock)
2. Rush – The Spirit Of Radio (Permanent Waves)
3. Manitoba – Bijoux (Up In Flames)
4. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Don’t Haunt This Place (Hometowns)
5. Zeus – Are You Gonna’ Waste My Time? (Busting Visions)
6. Luke Doucet and the White Falcon – Love and a Steady Hand (Steel City Trawler)
7. PS I Love You – Toronto (Death Dreams)
8. Wolf Parade – Call It A Ritual (At Mount Zoomer)
9. Crystal Castles – Not In Love (Feat. Robert Smith) (single)
10. Ladytron – High Rise (Witching Hour)
11. Curve – Faît Accompli (Pubic Fruit)
12. Sloan – She Says What She Means (Navy Blues)
13. Great Lake Swimmers – I Will Never See The Sun (TTC Version) (New Wild Everywhere)
14. Elliott BROOD – West End Sky (Days Into Years)
15. Iron & Wine – Belated Promise Ring (Around The Well)
16. Mogwai – 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong (Rock Action)
17. The National – Squalor Victoria (Boxer)
18. Rock Plaza Central – Anthem For The Already Defeated (Are We Not Horses)
19. Plants and Animals – Why & Why (The End of That)
20. Best Coast – Let’s Go Home (The Only Place)
21. Elliott Smith – Independence Day (XO)
22. PJ Harvey – C’mon Billy (To Bring You My Love)
23. The Tragically Hip – So Hard Done By (Day For Night)
24. Radiohead – No Surprises (OK Computer)
25. Patrick Watson – Into Giants (Adventures In Your Own Backyard)
26. Belle & Sebastian – Is It Wicked Not To Care? (The Boy With The Arab Strap)
27. Laura Veirs – Snow Camping (Carbon Glacier)
28. Junior Boys – Teach Me How to Fight (Last Exit)
29. Jenn Grant – Stars To Waves (Honeymoon Punch)

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