Bicycles!

My bike and I at the Atlantic Ocean in Halifax. I took it on the train with me there and back from Saskatoon.

I recently got this same bike tuned up and started riding it, since the weather has gotten nice again. The first ride had me feeling ultra giddy and I decided to finally do a bicycle themed show. This episode included some bicycle stories told by various friends.

* denotes Canadian

1. Kraftwerk - Tour de France (Tour de France Soundtrack)
2. Coco Love Alcorn* - I Got A Bike (Joyful)
3. The Inbreds* - Derailleur (Hilario)
4. Bell Orchestre* - Icicles/Bicycles (As Seen Through Windows)
5. Kimya Dawson - My Bike (Knock Knock Who?)
6. A Gentle Forest* - Broken Bicycle (Our Phenomenal First Flight)
7. Aidan Knight* - The Sun (Versicolour)
8. Mum - Slow Bicycle (Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Was Okay)
9. The Bicycles* - B-B-Bicycles (The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)
10. Abdominal* - Pedal Pusher (Escape From The Pidgeonhole)
11. Oh No! Oh My! - I Have No Sister (Oh No! Oh My!)
12. This Bike is a Pipe Bomb - Murder Bike (Dance Party)
13. Bruce Cockburn* - The Bicycle Trip (Bruce Cockburn)
14. Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling (Peel Sessions)
15. The Bouncing Souls - Streetlight Serenade (To No One) (How I Spent My Summer Vacation)

Playlist for March 18th, 2010

I cannot recommend the All Citizen's Centre as a venue enough. I've been there a few times now, each well worth the drive. An intimate and cozy little place run by one of the nicest guys in Canada.

We were there to see the Burning Hell and Wax Mannequin, and the show was excellent. CBC Radio 3's Vish Khanna was on tour with them providing percussion. Check out All Citizen's upcoming shows calendar and make it out to one of them!

1. Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today (All We Could Do Was Sing)
2. Woodpidgeon* - My Denial In Argyle (Die Stadt Muzikanten)
3. Slow Down Molasses* - I'm An Old Believer (I'm An Old Believer)
4. The Wrens - Faster Gun (The Meadowland)
5. The Hold Steady - Massive Night (Boys and Girls in America)
6. Eamon Mcgrath* - Desperation, Alberta (13 Songs of Whiskey and Light)
7. Surfer Blood - Swim (Astro Coast)
8. Born Ruffians* - Sole Brother (Say It)
9. Hexes and Ohs* - This and Other Distances (Goodbye Friend, Welcome Lover)
10. Sigur Ros - Hjomalind (Hvarf/Heim)
11. Wax Mannequin* - Volcano God (And Black Blood)
12. Shuyler Jansen* - Don't Ask Why (Today's Remains)

This week's homework: get out to Bruno for a concert.

A trip to Toronto.

I was in Toronto last week! This show is sort of an overview of that, surrounded by a bunch of songs that are neat.

I had a delicious and quite filling "How To Fight Loneliness" sandwich at a Wilco themed sandwich shop. Ingredients: turkey, apple slices, bacon.

Vinyl shopping: Burl Ives' Women, Neil Young's Comes a Time, and a Fats Domino 7".

1. Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness (Summerteeth)
2. Dan Mangan* - Basket (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
3. Local Natives - Stranger Things (Gorilla Manor)
4. Ghostkeeper* - Tea and Cree Talking (Ghostkeeper)
5. Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You're Gone (Blood on the Tracks)
6. Tom Waits - All the World was Green (Blood Money)
7. Neil Young* - Human Highway (Comes a Time)
8. Burl Ives - The Chivalrous Shark and the Woman (Women)
9. Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill (7")
10. The Fjords* - Mine (The Fjords)
11. Brasstronaut* - Lo Hi Hopes (Mt. Chamaera)
12. Boats* - Sunshine on the Muffin District ("Cannonballs, Cannonballs")

Toronto actually has a muffin district! Well, of sorts. Three cupcake shops all call a section of Queen East their home.

I also saw Zeus play an instore. My view:

It sounded pretty good, at least. I wonder how many things were stolen...

Spring REDUX

Included some holdover requests from last week's spring show as well as some other songs that aren't related to that at all.

1. Broken Social Scene* - 7/4 Shoreline (Broken Social Scene)
2. Yeasayer - I Remember (Odd Blood)
3. Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Tram (Dark Days/Light Years)
4. Elliott Brood* - T-Bill (Mountain Meadow)
5. Old Man Luedecke* - At the Airport (Hinterland)
6. Greg Macpherson* - Travelling Style (Mr. Invitation)
7. Brian Borcherdt* - Connected/Disconnected (Torches)
8. Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You (The Winter of Mixed Drinks)
9. The Radio Dept. -
10. Kate Maki* - In Comes the Light (Two Song Wedding)
11. The Acorn* - Spring Thaw (Tin Cup)
12. The Ghost is Dancing* - Greatlakescape (The Darkest Spark)

Spring

The weather was incredible on the 25th, so I dedicated the show to making everyone's collective will keep it that way. These are some spring songs.

* = Canadian

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1. Said the Whale* - BC Orienteering (Islands Disappear)
2. Yukon Blonde* - Kumiko Song (Yukon Blonde)
3. The Pinecones* - M'Marigold (Sage)
4. Japandroids* - Young Hearts Spark Fire (Post-Nothing)
5. Lifetime - It's Not Funny Anymore (Hello Bastards)
6. We Are Wolves* - Palamo (Invisible Violence)
7. Bruce Springfield - Buffalo Arrows (Retrospective)
8. Polymaths* - Lumberjacks (So Long, Castle Road)
9. The Zombies - Care of Cell 44 (Odyssey and Oracle)
10. Jason Collett* - I'll Bring the Sun (Idols of Exile)
11. Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From (Right Back Where We Started From)
12. A Gentle Forest* - Broken Bicycle (Our Phenomenal First Flight)
13. Eric's Trip* - Spring (Love Tara)

HOMEWORK: think warm thoughts. Together, we can make spring happen.