Special Guest Host: Jenn Freeze! - June 10, 2010

Yes, the very same Jenn Freeze from Thrice Removed. This came soooo close to being a space themed show, but then Jenn bailed on that. I have us covered, but space is a fun one. I should do it again another time.

* = Canadian

1. Woodpigeon - In The Battle of Sun Vs. Curtains, Sun Loses and We Sleep Until Noon (Treasury Library Canada)
2. Rebekah Higgs* - Mr. Weatherman (Rebekah Higgs)
3. Rah Rah* - Henry (Breaking Hearts)
4. By Divine Right* - All Over It! (Sweet Confusion)
5. Wilco - Hate It Here (Sky Blue Sky)
6. T. Rex - Planet Queen (Electric Warrior)
7. Dan Anerbach - My last Mistake (Keep It Hid)
8. The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down (The White Stripes)
9. Joel Plaskett Emergency* - Cry Together (Down At The Khyber)
10. Meligrove Band* - Halflight (Shivering Lights)
11. Shapes & Sizes* - Tell Your Mum (Candle to Your Eyes)
12. Josh Ritter - The Curse (So Runs the World Away)
13. Ugly Casanova - Lay Me Down (The 180 South Soundtrack)
14. Sports: The Band* - Cast Lots (Sports: The Band)

Punk Rock and cheesy 80s covers - July 15th, 2010

Two weeks week after the very fun Sled Island music festival in Calgary. I wrote an article about it for the Concordian.

Personal highlights:

• meeting InMediaRes after getting drunk and deciding to ditch Dinosaur Jr. to find their show. I used to listen to them when I was in high school in Melfort. I was posting on a forum ran by a guy out of Vancouver who was friends with them. I warmed to them immediately because they sort of sound like David Bazan if he was in a rock band. Their guitarist was intensely awesome.
• Nardwar pinata at the Paper Bag Records party
• seeing other bands that I've liked for years and years and years, Hot Water Music and The Thermals.

Playlist:

* = Canadian

1. In Media Res* - Radio Friendly (Of What Was)
2. Minus the Bear - Thanks For the Killer Game of Crisco (Highly Refined Pirates)
3. Paper Tiger - Medi's Asleep (Get It Right)
4. The Fjords* - Get It Right (Get It Right)
5. The Lawrence Arms - Drunk Mouth Kitchen Smile
6. Sleater-Kinney - Heart Factory (Dig Me Out)
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Eye of the Tiger (Drain the Blood 7")
8. Arcade Fire* Brazil (Cold Wind 7")
9. Duvall - True (Racine 7")
10. The Pack A.D.* - Everyone Looks Like Everyone (We Kill Computers)
11. Tessa Kautzman* - Back to the Yukon (Always Going Home)
12. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing

More nostalgia - July 8th, 2010

Some more tunes from my youth mixed in with new ones.

* = Canadian

1. Dakota/Dakota - Don't Pee In My Bed and Tell Me It's Raining (Shoot in the Dark)
2. The Firebird Band -Beautiful (Setting Sun & It's Satellites)
3. Feral Children* - Illustrate (Currents)
4. Owls - Everyone is My Friend (Owls)
5. Fred Eaglesmith* - Dynamite & Whiskey (Cha Cha Cha)
6. The City Streets* - Irish Rose (The Jazz Age)
7. The Thermals - How We Know (Fuckin' A)
8. The Burning Hell* - Northern Life (This Charmed Life)
9. Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit (Winners Never Quit)
10. Bob Dylan - Slow Train (Slow Train)
11. The Guess Who* - It's My Pride (The Guess Who)
12. Raised By Swans* - Easier (No Ghostless Place)
13. Crystal Castles* - Year of Silence (Crystal Castles)