playlist for 8/3/2012

1. The Jam - The Modern World (live) (Live Jam)
2. Said the Whale - Heavy Ceiling (Little Mountain)
3. Oh No! Yoko - Boyhood (PAU PAU)
4. Teen Daze - It Calls Me Under (A Silent Planet)
5. Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds - A Man With the Passion of Tennessee Williams (I'd Rather Die Than Live Forever)
6. Cloud Nothings - Fall In (Attack on Memory)
7. Army Girls - Here It Comes (Close to the Bone)
8. Smoking Popes - Pretty Pathetic (Destination Failure)
9. Obits - New August (Moody, Standard, and Poor)
10. Modest Mouse - Whale Song (No One's First and You're Next)
11. Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers - Brave Women (Bone Soldiers)
12. Marine Dreams - Season in Hell (Marine Dreams)
13. The Weakerthans - Tournament of Hearts (Reunion Tour)
    
    
    

wirtw! playlist for March 1, 2012

“You play with your balls a lot.”
“I do NOT play with my balls.”
”Larry Bird doesn’t do as much ball-handling in one night as you do in an hour!”
”Are you trying to start a fight?”
”No. I’m simply stating a fact. That’s all. You fidget with your nuts a lot.”
”You know what’d make me happy?”
”Another couple of balls, and an extra set of fingers?”

- Planes, Trains & Automobiles

1. Hospital Bombers - Traditional Maori Fight Song #1 (At Bodukan)
2. Wild Nothings - Nowhere (Nowhere)
3. Oxford Collapse - Please Visit Your National Parks (Remember the Night Parties)
4. Django Django - WOR (Django Django)
5. Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong (The Slideshow Effect)
6. Xiu Xiu - Beauty Towne (Always)
7. The Vibrators - Turning Japanese (Turning Japanese)
8. Bry Webb - Zebra (Provider)
9. The Wooden SKy - It Gets Old to Be Alone (Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun)
10. Zachary Lucky - Back in the Fall (Saskatchewan)
11. Moon King - Theme for Moon King (Theme for Moon King)
12. The Ramones - Do You Wanna Dance? (Rocket to Russia)

Playlist for 05/01/2012

* = Canadian

1. Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Speaking in Tongues)
2. Miracle Fortress* - Miscalculations (Was I the Wave?)
3. Maybe Smith* - Hearts Like Bears (Animals & Architects)
4. Marine Dreams* - Yet to See the Sun (Marine Dreams)
5. The National - Abel (Alligator)
6. The Wooden Sky* - (bit part) (If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone)
7. Joel Plaskett* - Jimmie’s Still Jimmie (Joel Plaskett / Shotgun Jimmie 7”)
8. Shotgun Jimmie* - That’s Not Joel (Joel Plaskett / Shotgun Jimmie 7”)
9. Shotgun Jimmie* - Bedhead (The Onlys)
10. Band of Horses - Weed Party (Everything All the Time)
11. The Rolling Stones - Play With Fire (Out of Our Heads)
12. Sexy Mathematics* - Solution (Future Nights)

When Lost At Sea

Kirk Trew guest host / underwater theme

* = Canadian

1. Black Mold* - Underwater Freeway (Crystal Antz is Snow Blindness)
2. We Are Wolves* - Bounty Waterfalls (Invisible Violence)
3. Adam & the Amethysts* - Stupid Ocean (Amethyst Amulet)
4. Animal Collective - Water Curse (Water Curse EP)
5. Low - Walk Into the Sea (The Great Destroyer)
6. The Decemberists - Down By the Water (The King is Dead)
7. Sarah Slean* - Sound of Water (The Baroness)
8. Zeus* - River by the Garden (Say Us)
9. Drive-by Truckers - Drag the Lake, Charlie (The Big To-Do)
10. SLATES* - Dirty Water (SLATES)
11. Kurt Vile - Ocean City (Square Shell EP)
    
12. Miracle Fortress* - Watery Grave (Five Roses)
13. Wooden Sky* - When Lost at Sea (When Lost at Sea)
    

don't fall asleep.

Jenn co-hosted tonight. I can't do this on my own anymore, it seems.

1. Telekinesis - You Turn Clear in the Sun (12 Desperate Straight Lines)
2. Cut Copy - Take Me Over (Zonoscope)
3. Teen Daze* - Around (Four More Years)
4. The Lawrence Arms - Boat Less Booze Cruise (Apathy & Exhaustion)
5. The Thermals - A Stare Like Yours (Fuckin' A)
6. Chixdiggit!* - Since You Got a Dog (Safeways Here We Come)
7. The Black Keys - Howlin' For You (Brothers)
   
8. Peter Elkas* - Cruel Thing to Do (Repeat Offender)
9. Slow Down, Molasses* - As Meant to Be (Walk Into the Sea)
10. Doctor Ew* - Let's Make it Legitimate (Gadzooks)
11. Wire - Adapt (Red Barked Tree)
12. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Muscle Relaxants (Departing)

HOMEWORK: click this, get excited.

This place is as good as any.

Matt Stefanson helped out with the show this week. We played some songs about places.

* = Canadian

1. Japanther - Garage Station (Master of Pidgeons)
2. Hollerado* - Americanarama (Record in a Bag)
3. Screeching Weasel - Hey Suburbia (Boogadaboogadaboogada)
4. Telekinesis - Tokyo (Telekinesis)
5. The Riff Randells* - Parker Place (Double Cross)
6. The Stolen Minks* - North End Strangler (High Kicks)
7. Guided By Voices - Big Chief Chinese Restaraunt (Alein Lanes)
   
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
9. The Cure - Fire in Cairo (Boys Don't Cry)
10. Stompin' Tom Connors - Cross Canada (Once Upon a Stompin' Tom)
11. The Deep Dark Woods* - Charlie's (Is Coming Down) (7")
12. The Wooden Sky* - North Dakota (When Lost at Sea)
13. So Cow - Casablanca (So Cow)
14. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Frank AB (Hometowns)
15. Boxer the Horse* - Romania (Would You Please)
16. Dent May - 26 Miles (& His Magnificent Ukulele)
17. Said the Whale - Emerald Lake, AB (Islands Disappear)

Nostalgia

I asked Brett Suwinski which topic he would rather help me host a show about - the past or the future. He chose the past. Nostalgia! We had the Daft Punk soundtrack for Tron playing under our voices while we talked, which made everything a little bit too epic.

* = Canadian

1. The Wooden Sky*- Angst for the Memories (Lost at Sea)
2. Stompin' Tom Conners* - I've Been Everywhere (Live at the Horseshoe)
3. The Deep Dark Woods* - Charlie's (Is Coming Down) (Charlie's 7")
4. The Decemberists - When the War Came (The Crane Wife)
5. Cuff the Duke* - Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo-Jump (Life Stories of the Minimum Wage)
6. The Ataris - San Dimas High School Football Rules (Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits)
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Tornado '87 (Departing)
8. Hey Rosetta!* - Seventeen (Seeds)
9. The Four Tets - Baby I Need Your Loving (Hitsville USA)
10. Iron & Wine - Walking Far From Home (Kiss Each Other Clean)
11. The Weakerthans* - Reconstruction Site (Reconstruction Site)

We found the new RAA and hey Rosetta! albums in the new music library and amended the show to include them, because, awesome.

"No theme" theme.

Just music.

* = Canadian

1. Braids* - Lemonade (Native Speaker)
2. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Merriweather Post Pavillion)
3. Crystal Castles* - Vanished (Crystal Castles)
4. Maritime - We've Got to Get Out (Glass Floor)
5. Cat Stevens - Longer Boats (Tea For the Tillerman)
6. Los Campesinos - A Heat Rash In The Shape Of The Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me To Charlotte (Romance is Boring)
7. Destroyer* - Blue Eyes (Kaputt)
8. Teen Daze* - Neon (Four More Years)
9. Two Bicycles* - Run (The Holy Forest)
10. Low - Try to Sleep (C'mon)
11. Slow Down, Molasses* - Feathers (Walk Into the Sea)
12. Mountains and the Trees* - More & More & More (I Made This For You)

January 27th, 2011

1. New Order - Dreams Never End (Movement)
2. Telekinesis! - Tokyo (Telekinesis)
3. Wilco - Outtasite (Outtamind)
4. Yukon Blonde* - Rather Be With You (Yukon Blonde)
5. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - In the Summertime (acoustic)
6. Owen - Nobody's Nothing (Owen)
7. Make Believe - Say What You Mean (Shock of Being)
   
8. Pearson* - This is not a letter, nor is it a postcard (Clear Thinking on Mixed Feelings)
9. The Provincial Archives* - Sore Eyes (Maybe We Could Be Holy)
   
10. Land of Talk* - All My Friends (Applause Cheer Boo Hiss)
11. Shotgun Jimmie* - Drunkenness (Paint it Pink EP)
12. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
13. The National - Fashion Coat (Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers)

HOMEWORK: give away something that you own.

Life is all about timing.

Time theme.

1. The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow (Lola vs Powerman)
2. Jim Guthrie - Time is a Force (Now, More Than Ever)
3. Summer Camp - Ghost Train (Summer Camp EP)
4. The Sadies - Another year Again (Darker Circles)
5. Elvis Perkins -Doomsday (In Dearland)
6. Collapsing Opposites - Time = Zero (In Time)
7. Golden Isles - You Look Good (Golden Isles)
8. Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up (Bone Machine)
9. The Burning Hell - The Berlin Conference (Baby)
10. Kathryn Calder - A Day Long Past It's Prime (Are You My Mother?)
11. Brazilian Girls - Good Times (New York City)
12. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Moving Clocks Run Slow (These Four Walls)
    

HOMEWORK: worry less.

The Great Return

Me and Rich are back from Winnipeg, having learned everything the town has to offer. Lesson one: handmade organic sticky buns are awesome.

1. Del Barber - If I Told You That I Loved You (Love Songs For the Last 20)
   
2. Bruce Springsteen - Hungry Heart (The River)
3. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark (Born in the U.S.A.)
4. Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown (Born in the U.S.A.)
5. Al Tuck - That's How She Goes (All Time Favourites)
6. Mountains & the Trees - Make Amends (I Made This For You)
7. Plumtree* - Thrilled to be Here (The Day Won't Last At All)
8. No Joy* - Hawaii (Ghost Blonde)
9. Boats! - Haircuts For Everybody ("Cannonballs, Cannonballs")
10. Beekeper* - Sudden Cuckoo (Be Kept)
11. Fuji Hakayito - Sylvia Plath Pool Party (Great Canon)
12. Wool on Wolves* - The Distance Between Us (Grey Matter)

HOMEWORK: practice your Springsteen dance moves.

30/12/2010

When this aired I was on a train travelling to Winnipeg, recording clips for next week's show.

* = Canadian

1. Treelines* - Summersong (Young Man EP)
2. Bad Fate* - Brain Enthusiast (Olympic City)
3. Iggy Pop - Some Weird Sin (Lust For life)
4. The Radio Dept. - 1995 (Lesser Matters)
5. Volcano Choir - Island, IS (Unmap)
6. Wavves - Take on the World (King of the Beach)
7. The Besnard Lakes* - Albatross (The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night)
8. Menomena - Taos (Mines)
9. No Age* - Fever Dreaming (Everything In Between)
10. Frederick Squire* - It Is In the Water (March 12)
11. Sam Amidon - How Come That Blood (I See the Sign)
12. The National - Anyone's Ghost (High Violet)

HOMEWORK: save the resolutions for the spring (or, better yet, never) and have some fun on the 31st.

So many requests.

Co-host Vicky Loessin on this one, mostly requests.

* = Canadian

1. Foggy Notions* - Valentine (demo)
2. Male Bonding - Crooked Scene (Nothing Hurts)
3. Olenka & the Autumn Lovers* - Odessa (And Now We Sing)
4. Del Barber* - Home to Manitoba (Love Songs For the Last 20)
5. Zachary Lucky* - O' Ontario (Come & Gone)
6. Shooting Guns* - The Last Land (Holy Mount/Shooting Guns)
7. The Town Pants* - Trains Not Taken (Shore Leaves)
8. The Balconies* - Lulu (The Balconies)
9. Menomena - Dirty Cartoons (Mines)
10. Woodhands* - I Wasn't Made For Fighting (Heart Attack)
11. Devo - Girl U Want (Freedom of Choice)
12. Dan Mangan - Sold (Nice, Nice, Very nice)
    

December 9th, 2010

1. Small Sins - Why Won't You Believe Me?
2. REM - Catapult (Murmur)
3. The Winks - Water Park (Twilights)
4. Austra - Beat and the Pulse (Beat and the Pulse)
5. PS I Love You - 2012 (Meet Me At the Muster Station)
6. Spirits - When the Sun Gets In My Eys (Spirits)
7. The Moas - Of Mice (live demo)
8. The Dudes - Terrified (Blood. Guts. Briuses. Cuts.)
9. Olenka & the autumn Lovers - Clean (And Now We Sing)
10. Shotgun and Jaybird - Hindsight (There Are Days and There Are Days)

Wikileaks? More like WikiThanksForTellingUsTheTruth

Post titles are getting progressively worse.

* = Canadian

1. Kathryn Calder* - Castor & Pollux (Are You My Mother)
2. Maritime - For Science Fiction (Heresy & the Hotel Choir
3. Port O'Brien - Don't Take My Advice (All I Could Do Was Sing)
4. The Asexuals* - So Alone (Be What You Want)
5. The Thermals - Our Trip (Fuckin' A)
6. Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs Bad Arms (The Midnight Organ Fight)
7. The Hold Steady - Barfruit Blues (Almost Killed Me)
8. Broken Social Scene* - Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl (You Forgot it in People)
9. Siskiyou* - It's All Going to End (Siskiyou)
10. Winter Gloves* - Jump (All Red)
11. Hot Panda* - It's Worth 8 Dollars (Volcano, Bloody Volcano)
12. Huey Lewis & the News - Respect Yourself (Soulsville)
13. The Russian Futurists* - Register My Firearms? No Way! (The Weight's on the Wheels)
14. Wavves - Loser Year (Wavves)

The shoegaze-y post-rock-y show

Snow day! Time for a shoegaze glaze.

* = Canadian

1. Valleys*- Killer Legs (Sometimes Water Kills People)
2. Cocteau Twins - Iceblind Luck (Heaven or Las Vegas)
3. Pearson* - King of the Deep Night (Clear Thinking on Mixed Feelings)
4. Yo La Tengo - Gentle Hours (Dark Was the Night)
5. Hollowphonic* - Sad to Feel (Hollowphonic)
6. Spirit Family Reunion - Alright Prayer (Spirit Family Reunion)
7. Caves* - No Birds in the Sky - Caves
8. Beach House - Norway (Teen Dream)
9. RedSayNo* - Open Spaces Nothing Holy! (RedSayNo)
10. Young Galaxy* - Outside the City (Young Galaxy)
11. Mean Red Spiders* - Secret (Stars and Suns)
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Malls Well that Ends Well

I just quit my mall job, so I thought I would celebrate these iconic urban spaces with a themed show. Cynicism about rampant consumerism, cultural references (Mallrats! Dawn of the Dead!), complaints about mall food, and hilarious mall facts included free of charge.

1. Old Man Luedecke* - I Quit My Job (Hinterland)
2. Collapsing Opposites* - Working, Shopping, Working, Shopping (In Time)
   
3. The Constantines* - Credit River (Kensington Heights)
4. Against Me - Pretty Girls (Searching For a Former Clarity)
5. The Pinecones* - Four More Days (Til I Open My Music Shoppe)
6. Daniel Ramano* - Workin' For the Music Man (Workin' For the Music Man)
7. Cuff the Duke* - Take My Money and Run (Cuff the Duke)
8. You Say Party!* - Lonely Lunch
   
9. Maybe Smith* - Dinner is Served (Second Best Death)
10. Modest Mouse - King Rat
11. B.A. Johnston* - You Will Miss Me When the Zombies Come (Stairway to Hamilton)

Double Bill and a Half! Two and a Half Hours!

How incredibly exciting.


When Insects Take to the High Seas and Steal Treasure


(I covered Pirate Radio)

(Adam Ant dressed as a pirate)

* = Canadian

1. Dan Mangan* - Sold (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
2. Northcote* - Energy (Borrowed Chords, Tired Eyes)
3. The Hold Steady - Hurricane J (Heaven is Whenever)
4. In media Res* - Shakeher (Of What Was)
   
5. Guided By Voices - Skills Like This (Isolation Drills)
6. Male Bonding - Nothing Remains (Nothing Hurts)
7. No Age - Glitter (Everything In Between)
8. DEVO - The Super Thing (New Traditionalists)
9. Deerhoof - Wrong Time Capsule (Runners Four)
10. Shapes and Sizes* - Sing Them Songs (Candle to Your Eyes)
11. Small Sins* - Drunk E-Mail (Mood Swings)
12. Born Ruffians* - The Ballad of Moose Bruce (Say It)
13. The Provincial Anthem* - Sore Eyes (Maybe We Could Be Holy)
14. Sarah Slean* - Sweet Ones (Night Bugs)
15. Daniel Romano* - Poor Girls of Ontario (Workin' for the Music Man)
16. Cameron Scott Fraser* - We Could Have It All (Promised Land)
17. The Rolling Stones - Get Off My Cloud (Got LIVE If You Want It!)
18. Mohawk Lodge* - Cold Hearts (Crimes)

1. Timber Timbre* - Demon Host (Timber Timbre)
2. The Von Bondies - Only to Haunt You (Love, Hate, and The There's You)
3. Falklands* - Hell Is Up (Think About It)
4. The Decemberists - Shankill Butchers (The Crane Wife)
5. Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming (Bone Machines)
6. Ladyhawk* - Fear (Shots)
7. The Smiths - How Soon is Now (Hatful of Hollow)
8. Man Man - Feathers (Six Demon bag)
9. SSRIs* - Certain Set Configuration (Effeminate Godzilla-Sized Windchimes)
10. Ghostkeeper* - Haunted (Ghostkeeper)
11. Jonathan Coulton - re: Your Brains (Thing a Week)
12. B.A. Johnston - You Will Miss Me When the Zombies Come (Stairway to Hamilton)
13. Collapsing Opposites - Time = Zero
    

Double Bill, Two Hours!

50 Cent's twitter feed is hilarious.

* = Canadian

1. The Gaslight Anthem - Stay Lucky (American Slang)
2. Ride Til Dawn* - Hard Logic (Hearts of Worlds Forgotten)
3. Male Bonding - Weird Feelings (Nothing Hurts)
4. Rah Rah* - Ghosts (Breaking hearts)
5. Shotgun Jimmie* - Onomatopoeia (The Onlys)
6. Mates of State - Fraud in the 80s (Bring it Back)
7. Dan Mangan* - The Indie Queens Are Waiting (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
8. Kathryn Calder* - Castor and Pollux (Are You My Mother?)
9. Corb Lund* - It's Hard to Keep a White Shirt Clean (Losin' Lately Gambler)
10. B.A. Johnston* - Love = NBA Jam (Thank You For being a friend)
11. Local Rabbits* - Never Had to Fight (This is it Here We Go)
12. Jets to Brazil - Morning New Disease (Orange Rhyming Dictionary)

When Ants Crawl Inside of Leonard Cohen's Brain and Control Him From the Inside in a Plot to Dominate the World from Within the Systems of Man

(I covered Faster Leonard Cohen Die! Die! for Jay)

1. Sunset Rubdown* - They Took a Vote and Said No (Shut Up I Am Dreaming)
2. Gobble Gobble* - Mountains of Flesh (Neon Graveyard)
3. We Are the City*- There Are Very Tiny Beasts In the Ground
4. Wintersleep* - Home (Wintersleep)
5. The Acorn* - Strange Animal (Gowan cover)
6. Woodhands* - In the Woods (Heart Attack)
7. Slates* - Dirty Water (Slates)
8. Sisters - Sky (Ghost Fits)
9. The Asexuals* - Take a Look Around You (Be What You Want)
10. Owen Pallet* - Scandal in the Parkade (Swedish Love Story EP)
11. Neil Young* - Sign of Love (Le Noise)

FM-Phasis Deux

This happened during FM-Phasis.

1. Wintersleep* - Sore (Wintersleep)
2. The National - Abel (Alligator)
3. The Vaselines - Such a Fool (Sex With an X)
4. Hey Rosetta!* - Handshake the Gangster (Into Your Lungs)
5. Hot Panda* - Pools (How Come I'm Dead?)
6. B.A. Johnston* - I Am Doing Better In A Parallel Universe (Thank You For Being a Friend)
7. Japandroids* - Rockers East Vancouver
8. Ladyhawk - STHD
9. Holy Fuck - Casio Bossa Nova
10. Winter Gloves - Strange Love
11. Pack AD - BC Is On Fire
12. The Kinks - Come On Now (Kinda Kinks)