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With one more show to put together before a quick 2-week summer hiatus, Megan and I have been keeping our eyes open for songs to put us in the holiday mood.

Good thing that [wikipop search=”Beirut (band)”]Beirut[/wikipop] and Hooded Fang are both releasing new albums this month, and we’ll be sampling from both.  For now though, here’s a sneak peak at the Beirut track we’ll play tomorrow, recorded at a recent show (thank you for high-quality handheld video cameras!), and you can check out some of Hooded Fang’s new tracks out at their CBC Radio 3 webpage.

Well the year is now halfway through, and what better way to mark the occasion of Canada’s [wikipop search=”Gross (unit)”]gross[/wikipop] birthday than with  two hours of pure CanCon?

Plus, there’s a huge 15-song uninterupted set of old and new stuff, mixing some classics with some new arrivals, as well as highlight a few of the talented folks from the recently released Polaris Longlist.

Featuring a couple of tracks bookending [wikipop]Sloan[/wikipop]’s 20 year career, along with Little Scream, the [wikipop]New Pornographers[/wikipop], and artists from coast-to-coast (including a bunch straight out of our [wikipop search=”Southern Ontario”]backyard[/wikipop]).

Crack a cold one, sit back, relax and from both of us, have a very happy Canada Day!

1. Sloan – Underwhelmed (Smeared)
2. The Pack A.D. – 1880 (We Kill Computers)
3. Rush – Working Man (Gold)
4. Holy Fuck – Casio Bossa Nova (Holy Fuck)
5. Jason Euringer/Sarah Harmer – Summertime (Songs for Clem)
6. Little Scream – Cannons (The Golden Record)
7. Jenn Grant – Heart Of Sticks (Honeymoon Punch)
8. Molly Rankin – Tricky Fellows (She EP)
9. Breagh Potter – I Want Down (Hey There July)
10. Armistice – City Lights Cry (Armistice)
11. The New Pornographers – Streets of Fire (Twin Cinema)
12. Manitoba – Kid You’ll Move Mountains (Up In Flames)
13. Sam Roberts Band – Sang Froid (Collider)
14. The Tragically Hip – So Hard Done By (Day For Night)
15. Jason Collett – Lake Superior (Rat A Tat Tat)
16. Harlan Pepper – Great Lakes (Young and Old)
17. Great Lake Swimmers – Don’t Cry No Tears (Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute To Neil Young)
18. One Hundred Dollars – Waiting On Another (Songs Of Man)
19. The Sadies – Another Day Again (Darker Circles)
20. Arkells – Heart of the City (Jackson Square)
21. Luke Doucet and the White Falcon – Sundown (Steel City Trawler)
22. The Arcade Fire – Une Année Sans Lumiere (Funeral)
23. Sandro Perri – Dreaming (Plays Polmo Polpo)
24. Controller.Controller – Silent Seven (History)
25. Grimes – Crystal Ball (Darkbloom)
26. Austra – Spellwork (Feel It Break)
27. Jim Guthrie – Lone Star (Sword & Sorcery)
28. Sloan – Beverly Terrace (The Double Cross)
29. Stan Rogers – Night Guard (Northwest Passage)

 

Some days are rainy, too, so we’ve got a bit more of a low-key episode this week in advance of our two-hour Canada Day special next week (featuring 30 tracks by some of your favourite Canadian indie artists).

After being haunted by ‘Hunted By A Freak’ for months, Mike finally presses play on some classic [wikipop search=”Mogwai (band)”]Mogwai[/wikipop], followed up with new [wikipop]Chad VanGaalen[/wikipop], who will be playing some festivals this summer in support of his new disc, Diaper Island.

We also hear more from the latest releases by [wikipop]Bon Iver[/wikipop], [wikipop search=”The Antlers (band)”]The Antlers[/wikipop], and [wikipop search=”Gomez (band)”]Gomez[/wikipop], as well as a (possible?) [wikipop]Radiohead[/wikipop] cover of a [wikipop search=”Portishead (band)”]Portishead[/wikipop] tune. The internet throws around a lot of impossible sounding fakery, but that track does sound suspiciously like Thom Yorke in a live setting, no?

And before we get to a couple of tracks off this hard-to-miss album by [wikipop search=”Cults (band)”]Cults[/wikipop], we hear from The Dodos, who were in Toronto last week for NXNE, and the Polaris long-listed [wikipop]Miracle Fortress[/wikipop].

Yes, the Polaris nominations are out, and we’re happy to see so many of the artists that we listen to on that illustrious list of the best artistic accomplishments in Canadian music. You’ll be sure to hear plenty of samples of their music next week on our Canada Day show, featuring tracks by [wikipop]Luke Doucet[/wikipop], [wikipop]Jenn Grant[/wikipop], Little Scream, [wikipop search=”Sloan (band)”]Sloan[/wikipop], and many, many more!

1. Mogwai – Hunted By A Freak (Happy Songs For Happy People)
2. Chad VanGaalen – Peace On the Rise (Diaper Island)
3. Swans – Reeling The Liars In (My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky)
4. Connan Mockasin – It’s Choade My Dear (Please Turn Me Into The Snat)
5. Emiliana Torrini – Nothing Brings Me Down (Fisherman’s Woman)
6. Bon Iver – Towers (Bon Iver)
7. The Antlers – No Widows (Burst Apart)
8. Radiohead(?) – The Rip (Portishead Cover)
9. Gomez – Options (Whatever’s On Your Mind)
10. Miracle Fortress – Everything Works (Was I the Wave?)
11. Grandaddy – Summer…It’s Gone (Just Like The Fambly Cat)
12. EMA – Milkman (Past Life Martyed Saints)
13. The Dodos – Sleep (No Color)
14. Cults – Abducted (Cults)
15. Cults – Go Outside (Cults)

Branches bursting to bloom (in the boom) are on my mind as Megan and I begin putting together our Canada Day show, airing June 29th. If you have a favourite Canadian long-weekend track that we should play, send us an email or fill out the request form on this website ASAP and we’ll try to include it!

We played this track off the latest Decemberists album (The King is Dead) a few months back, but it deserves another listen now that we’re finally seeing everything that June has to offer.

We’re back at it this week, getting by with a little help from our friends through requests. Things start off with Iowa-via-Montreal’s Little Scream. The Golden Record has been renting a lot of time in our heads lately, so give it a listen.

Continuing the ladies’ rock out is Kelli Schaefer, who was recommended by Michael. She’s a west-coast indie with the voice and cadence reminiscent of Bjork, and her Ghost of the Beast is one of those rare albums that creeps up on you and quietly blows you away.

Megs stumbled upon this cool Adult Swim Singles Project, and we play a track featuring [wikipop search=”Chairlift (band)”]Chairlift[/wikipop]’s Caroline Polachek with [wikipop]Washed Out[/wikipop], along with the other side to a release by the mysterious Purity Ring.

Leading with a track sent along to us by Amy, we even fit in a summer pop set with some LA artists, and play a fantastic track by [wikipop]Family of the Year[/wikipop], as well as a track by Seattle’s [wikipop]The Cave Singers[/wikipop], an off-shoot of [wikipop search=”Pretty Girls Make Graves (band)”]Pretty Girls Make Graves[/wikipop].

Next week: [wikipop search=”Gomez (band)”]Gomez[/wikipop], [wikipop]Chad VanGaalen[/wikipop], [wikipop]Miracle Fortress[/wikipop], and [wikipop search=”Cults (band)”]Cults[/wikipop].

1. Little Scream – Red Hunting Jacket (The Golden Record)
2. Kelli Schaefer – City Morgue (Ghost of the Beast)
3. Papercuts – Do What You Will (Fading Parade)
4. Smith Westerns – Still New (Dye It Blonde)
5. The Vaccines – Norgaard (What Did You Expect From the Vaccines)
6. Purity Ring – Lofticries (Ungirthed 7″)
7. Junior Boys – Kick the Can (It’s All True)
8. Washed Out feat. Caroline Polachek – You and I (Adult Swim Singles Project)
9. Broadcast – Black Cat (Tender Buttons)
10. Foster the People – Houdini (Torches)
11. Family of the Year – Let’s Be Honest (Songbook)
12. Grouplove – Naked Kids (Grouplove)
13. The Cave Singers – Swim Club (No Witch)
14. No Joy – You Girls Smoke Cigarettes (Ghost Blonde)
15. CJ SLEEZ – Hammer Down (Rock Action)

You don[‘]t appreci[a]te a pro[p]erly working k[ey]board until it'[s] t[oo] late.

Busy travel schedules consumed this week’s show, but we’ll be back next one with music from our dispatches.

In the meantime, here’s a bit of the soundtrack that followed me through the airports. The P’s, at least…

 

Papercuts – Do What You Will: Ignore the video, but listen to the song. It’ll be your head-muzak for a while…

Primal Scream – Accelerator: Turn up the bass, and go back a few years.

Pantha du Prince – Stick to My Side: While the bass is cranked, start giving this brilliant German artist’s 2010 release the appreciation it deserves.

So, I’m nearly 30.  Mike tells me that from his two weeks of experience, that it isn’t all that bad.  As noted a few weeks ago, it’s tradition at myboytheriotgirl, that we each get to program our respective birthday show, disregarding all rules and standards for playlist formatting.  As Mike opted for a bunch of Rilo Kiley, I’ve taken this opportunity to play a bunch of new tracks from one of my favourite artists, [wikipop]Darren Hayman[/wikipop] of [wikipop search=”Hefner (band)”]Hefner [/wikipop]’fame’.

I also took this opportunity to play some of my favourite tracks by[wikipop] the Mountain Goats[/wikipop], [wikipop]Sarah Slean[/wikipop],[wikipop search=”Hooded Fang (band)”] Hooded Fang[/wikipop] and the [wikipop]Yeah Yeah Yeahs[/wikipop].  And just because we like you, some new stuff from [wikipop]Bon Iver[/wikipop] and Little Scream.

Also, Zooey Deschanel from [wikipop search=”She and Him”]She & Him[/wikipop], has a new sit-com out this fall, and seeing the trailer reminded me that I like the music and should play some for you.  Cheers!

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock (It’s Blitz!)
2. Sarah Slean – Sweet Ones (Night Bugs)
3. Destroyer – Blue Eyes (Kaputt)
4. Little Scream – Guyegaros (The Golden Record)
5. Bon Iver – Holocene (Bon Iver)
6. Martha Wainwright – Baby (I Will Internalize)
7. The Mountain Goats – San Bernardino (Heretic Pride)
8. Hooded Fang – Green River (Hooded Fang – Album)
9. Metric – Grow Up And Blow Away (Grow Up And Blow Away)
10. Florence And The Machine – Dog Days Are Over (Lungs)
11. She & Him – Don’t Look Back (Volume 2)
12. Darren Hayman – My Dirty Widow (January Songs)
13. Darren Hayman – My Miniature Band (January Songs)
14. Darren Hayman – I Know I F****d Up (January Songs)

Thanks to the weather gods (Thor, is that you?) a potentially washed out long-weekend ended up being super, and I think we all need a few days to recover.  As such, we’ve tried to load this week’s show up with some mellower music, while still sustaining a bit of that pre-summer momentum.

Things start off with a brand new track from the [wikipop]Junior Boys[/wikipop]’ soon-to-be-released It’s All True. After being uninspired by the first song the Boys released from the new disc, “Second Chance” is literally that, and it doesn’t disappoint.  We also hear a track from Toronto’s Digits who encroach (ever friendlily) on the Junior Boys’ turf in more ways than one: Digits will be playing the Casbah Lounge this upcoming Saturday, and the Junior Boys will be launching their tour June 8th at Leander Boat Club.

We round things out with some new material from Canadians [wikipop search=”Zeus (band)”]Zeus[/wikipop], the Sam Roberts Band, [wikipop]Chad VanGaalen[/wikipop], and Snowblink, and cap it all off with a great 2003 cover of the Velvet Underground by [wikipop]Keren Ann[/wikipop] and [wikipop]Barði Jóhannsson[/wikipop] (aka [wikipop search=”Lady and Bird”]Lady & Bird[/wikipop]).

1. Junior Boys – Second Chance (It’s All True)
2. Austra – Beat and the Pulse (Feel It Break)
3. The Field – Over The Ice (From Here We Go Sublime)
4. Digits – Lost Dream (Lost Dream)
5. Sam Roberts Band – The Last Crusade (Collider)
6. Zeus – permanent scar (Permanent Scar / The Darkness 7″ Series Vol. II)
7. Tune-Yards – You Yes You (W H O K I L L)
8. Tortoise And Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Calvary Cross (The Brave And The Bold)
9. The Grates – Sukkafish (Gravity Won’t Get You High)
10. Chad VanGaalen – Burning Photographs (Diaper Island)
11. Snowblink – Ambergris (Long Live)
12. Camera Obscura – Houseboat (Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi)
13. Lady & Bird – Stephanie Says (Lady & Bird)

Thanks to another CFMU show’s wonderful blog, Music Between Friends, I am now aware of the exciting fact that [wikipop]Clap Your Hands Say Yeah[/wikipop] will be releasing their long-awaited follow up to 2007’s Some Loud Thunder this fall!

CYHSY are the consummate indie band, having self-released their acclaimed [wikipop search=”Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (album)”]self-titled debut[/wikipop] in 2005.  Check out a promo video for the new album via Music Between Friends here, and take a listen to a personal favourite track, below:

A treasured tradition at myboytheriotgirl, every year we each get to program our respective birthday show, disregarding all rules and standards for playlist formatting, and just programming the show with absolute abandon.  This year, Mike’s opted to take a trip in the time-machine/closet back ten years to 2001 to re-listen to a personal favourite album.

So, along with a tracks off the newly released LPs from [wikipop]The Vaccines[/wikipop], [wikipop search=”The Antlers (band)”]The Antlers[/wikipop], [wikipop]Okkervil River[/wikipop], and EMA, you’re going to hear three tracks off of [wikipop]Rilo Kiley[/wikipop]’s 2001 debut album, Take Offs and Landings. The band is now on hiatus (probably forever), but their ability to pen catchy pop songs helped launch the solo careers of [wikipop]Jenny Lewis[/wikipop] and [wikipop]Blake Sennett[/wikipop] (aka The Elected), two of our favourite artists.

Mike dedicates this show to Rory, the first person to recommend the band to him: “You were right, buddy!”

1. The Vaccines – If You Wanna (What Did You Expect From the Vaccines)
2. The Arcade Fire – Month of May (The Suburbs)
3. Metric – Black Sheep (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
4. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Higher Than The Stars (Higher Than The Stars EP)
5. Rilo Kiley – Go Ahead (Take Offs and Landings)
6. Okkervil River – The Valley (I Am Very Far)
7. The Antlers – No Widows (Burst Apart)
8. Thao & Mirah – Folks (Thao & Mirah)
9. Rilo Kiley – Plane Crash in C (Take Offs and Landings)
10. Saturday Looks Good To Me – Make A Plan (Fill Up The Room)
11. EMA – California (Past Life Martyed Saints)
12. Jenn Grant – Parliament Of Owls (Honeymoon Punch)
13. Rilo Kiley – Salute My Shorts (Take Offs and Landings)
14. Andrew Bird – The Happy Birthday Song (Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs)