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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)

We’re lining up a great show for tomorrow featuring a bunch of covers, including that Tracy Thorne cover of The XX’s “Night Time” we mentioned in our 250th Podcast, a Rush cover by Kingston’s P.S. I Love You, and a Morrissey cover by doo-wop darlings, The Bandana Splits.

But before tomorrow’s show, I wanted to share with you another new album worth a listen.  Atlas Sound’s Parallax was recently released to solid reviews, and if you’re a fan of Bradford Cox’s work in Deerhunter, or Atlas Sound’s 2008 and 2009 releases, then you shan’t be disappointed.

The New York Times is streaming Parallax now on their website.  Give it a listen.

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.

Oh-em-gee!  The ever prolific Welsh group Los Campesinos! are releasing a new album (their 4th in 4 years) next week, and for those of you like us who just can’t wait, NPR is streaming the whole shebang on their site.  The title suggests maybe something a little more melancholy from these usually exuberant 20-somethings, but I’m posting this before I even have a chance to give it a full listen, so I can’t/won’t spoil it for you!

We’re not sure if we’re doing a show this week because we’re still grappling with real-life following our massive 250th podcast, last week, but if we do, we’ll try our best to get a track from Hello Sadness on it!

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)

Fans of Toronto’s Sandro Perri have reason to rejoice!  The talented multi-instrumentalist has a new album out next week, and he’ll be coming to Hamilton next month for November 11’s Art Crawl on James Street North!  Sandro is well known for his numerous side-projects, most notably Polmo Polpo, and through his collaborations with other musicians such as Great Lake Swimmers and Barzin.

The first time Megan and I saw him live, he was playing to the enraptured guests of a Hamilton house party.  A very spookily-lit living room provided the perfect setting for his ambient, hazy and experimental music.  At the time, I think his first album under his own name, Plays Polmo Polpo, was a newer release, so the songs were both familiar to Polmo Polmo devotees like us, but still vivid in their organic reinterpretation.

We haven’t heard much from Sandro since 2007’s Tiny Mirrors (maybe because he focused on producing music for a few years?), but Megan and I both look forward to hearing Impossible Spaces in its entirety when it’s released on October 18th.  But for now, here’s the song “Love and Light”, from the new record:

Love And Light – SANDRO PERRI by Constellation Records

Music is just pouring from the sky these days as labels push releases out in time for them to become holiday presents or so that sullen teenagers can spend their first semester brooding over them.  That’s fine by us (as far as we’re concerned, there’s no such thing as too much independent pop), and this week we jump right in to the new stuff and lead off with an undeniably catchy pop song from Dum Dum Girls. FYI: These ladies play Toronto on October 16th.

Next up, “Change the Sheets” is a taste from Kathleen Edwards‘ upcoming (as in 2012) release, Voyageur,  and “Amanaemonesia” is a curious and funky single from Chairlift who are also due to release an LP in the new year (and you gotta check out the song’s 80s-style video for the song on their website).

Along with supergroup Wild Flag, (featuring members of Sleater-Kinney and The Minders), we also play some new music from The Drums, Bjork, Real Estate and Ohbijou.  But enough words: music is for listening.  Press play, already!

1. Dum Dum Girls – Bedroom Eyes (Only in Dreams)
2. Kathleen Edwards – Change the Sheets (Voyageur)
3. Dan Mangan – Rows Of Houses (Oh Fortune)
4. Real Estate – Green Aisles (Days)
5. St. Vincent – Dilettante (Strange Mercy)
6. Samantha Savage Smith – The Score (Tough Cookie)
7. Brave Irene – River to Sea (s/t)
8. The Drums – What You Were (Portamento)
9. Male Bonding – Year’s Not Long (Nothing Hurts)
10. Little Girls – White Night (Cults EP)
11. Mother Mother – Oleander (Eureka)
12. Chairlift – Amanaemonesia (Amanaemonesia – Single)
13. Wild Flag – Future Crimes (Future Crimes b/w Glass Tambourine 7″)
14. Ohbijou – Echo Bay (Metal Meets)
15. Bjork – Mutual Core (Biophilia)