Playlist - Dec. 24, 2010 - XMas Eve Special

This week: it's Christmas time around CIUT! Our XMas Eve show, with special well wishes from Amy Sedaris, Mick Foley, and a special guest from the North Pole...

Playlist
Garfunkel and Oates - Present Face (from Present Face single)
Magnetic Fields - Everything is one big Christmas Tree (from Realism)
Evening Hymns - Just Like Christmas (from Ho Ho Ho: Canada Deux)
Fucked Up + friends - Do They Know It's Christmas? (from DTKIC single)
Parlvor - I'm Santa (from Festivus Celebration compilation)
Shonen Knife - Space Christmas (single)
Young and Sexy - Santa Claus Likes Rich Kids Better (from It's a Team Mint XMas)
Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Were Christmas Today (single)
Best Coast / Wavves - I've Got Something to Show You (from The Christmas Gig)
Mayer Hawthorne - Christmas Time is Here (from Mayery Christmas to All)
The Pogues - Fairy Tale of New York (from If I SHould Fall from Grace With God)
Snailhouse - Believer (from Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada Deux)
Bob + Doug MacKenzie - 12 Days of Christmas (from The Great White North)
Superions - Fruitcake (YACHT Remix)
Blackalicious - Toy Jackpot (from The Christmas Gig)
Mixalodian - Inappropriate Christmas Song (from Festivus Celebration compilation)
Phil Ochs - No Christmas in Kentucky (from Home for Christmas)
Irene - Christmas on the Beach (single)
Ohbijou - Last Christmas (from Egg Nog compilation)
Kristian Noel Pedersen - Rob Duffy Cuddle Christmas (from A Kristian Kinda Christmas, Vol. 2)
The Flaming Lips - Christmas at the Zoo (from NAME)
Bob Dylan - Must be Santa (from Christmas in the Heart)
Sufjan Stevens - Christmas in July (from Songs for Christmas, Vol. 5; Peace!)
Captain Beefheart - Hothead (from Doc at the Radar Station)

Next week: summing up the best in electronic and dance music for New Year's Eve 2010.

My Favourite Music of 2010

This seems pretty superfluous now, given the number of 'best of' lists already out there, however, here are my personal favourites of 2010! I think I've played all of these on the show at one point or another.

I think I knew the 'race' for album of the year was over in January when I first heard Heartland by Owen Pallett. This was a terrific year for concept records, but this is one of the few that works in both concept and execution. I think I've listened to each song fifty times.

What's missing? Leave comments, I would appreciate the feedback! - Chris

Top Ten of 2010
1. Owen Pallett - Heartland
2. Land of Talk - Cloak and Cipher
3. The Books - The Way Out
4. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me From a Rope in the Sky
5. Beach House - Teenage Dream
6. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
7. Caribou - Swim
8. Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph
9. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
10. Katherine Calder - Are You My Mother?

Honourable mentions: Jonsi, Go; Sharron Van Etten, epic; Tallest Man on Earth, The Wild Hunt; PS I Love You, Meet me at the Muster Station

Favourite Songs
1. Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company (from Have One on Me)
2. Deerhunter - Helicopter (from Halcyon Digest)
3. The Vaselines - I Hate the 80s (from Sex with an X)
4. Caribou - Leave House (from Swim)
5. Buke & Gass - Medulla Oblongata (from Riposte)
6. Big Boi - Shutterbug (from Sir Luscious Leftfoot...)
7. No Age - Glitter (from Everything in Between)
8. Wavves - King of the Beach (from King of the Beach)
9. Superchunk - Digging for Something (from Majesty Shredding)
10. Swans - Eden Prison (from My Father Will Guide me...)

Playlist - Dec 17, 2010 - Year in Review 2010 w/ Jon Wurster

This week: a panel discussion on the Year in Music 2010! With guest panelists Jon Dekel (Spinner, MSN), Melody Lau (AUX), Rob Duffy (Eye Weekly) and Lauren Schreiber (local super-promoter, runner of the No Shame series). PLUS, an interview with Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster.

Playlist
Best Coast - When I'm With You (from Crazy for You)
Sister - Wishbone (from Sister)
The Morning Benders - Promise (from The Big Echo)
Surfer Blood - Swim (from Astrocoast)
The Wilderness of Manitoba - Evening (from Hymns of Love and Spirits)
Steven McKay - Fast Forward (from Steven McKay)
Foxes in Fiction - Bathurst (from Swung from the Branches)
Diamond Rings - You & Me (from Special Affections)
Superchunk - Rosemarie (from Majesty Shredding)
Caribou - Odessa (from Swim)
Janelle Monae feat. Big Boi - Tightrope (from The ArchAndroid)
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes off his Shirt (from Heartland)
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (from The Suburbs)
Robyn feat. Royksopp - None of Dem (from Body Talk)
Beach House - Norway (from Teen Dream)
Hooded Fang - Laughing (from Album)
The Black Keys - Tighten Up (from Brothers)
The Walkmen - Angela Surf City (from Lisbon)
Bonjay - Frawdulent (from Broughtupsy)

Next week: our Christmas Eve special! With special guest Santa Claus!

Playlist - Favourites from 2010

On Monday, December 13th, I filled in for Olivia Shortt's program 'Life on Mars' on CIUT. I used that timeslot as my opportunity to put together a 'favourites of 2010' playlist. I'll be putting up oon, but for now, here's the list. Happy holidays everybody! - Chris

Playlist
Caribou - Leave House (from Swim)
Flying Lotus - Do the Astral Plane (from Cosmogramma)
Doldrums - (from Parrot Talk)
Braids - Lemonade (from Native Speaker)
Suuns - Arena (from Zeroes QC)
Tobacco - Fresh Hex (from Maniac Meat)
Woodhands - Dissembler (from Remorsecapade)
Swans - My Birth (from My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky)
Frog Eyes - Lear in Love (from Paul's Tomb: a Triumph)
Buke & Gass - Medulla Oblongata (from Riposte)
PS I Love You - Get Over (from Meet Me at the Muster Station)
No Age - Glitter (from Everything in Between)
Superchunk - Crossed Wires (from Majesty Shredding)
Wavves - King of the Beach (from King of the Beach)
The Books - Thirty Incoming (from The Way Out)
Kathryn Calder - Low (from Are You my Mother?)
Land of Talk - Cloak and Cipher (from Cloak and Cipher)
Beach House - Real Love (from Teen Dream)
Lower Dens - I Get Nervous (from Twin-Hand Movement)
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes off his Shirt (from Heartland)
Ghostkeeper - By Morning (from Ghostkeeper)
Dr. Ew - Be a Dreamer (from Gadzooks)
The Tallest Man on Earth - Burden of Tomorrow (from The Wild Hunt)
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company (from Have One on Me)
Brasstronaut - Slow Knots (from Mt. Chimaera)
Jonsi - Boy Lilikoi (from Go)

Playlist - Dec 10, 2010 - Authors Special!

This week: our pre-holiday authors special, featuring interviews with three writers best known for their day jobs. Interviews w/ CBC Radio 3 host Grant Lawrence, Onion AV Club writer Nathan Rabin and pro wrestler Mick Foley! This week's show produced by Chris Berube + Kristian Pedersen.

Playlist
Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped up in Books (from Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
Giant Hand - Books (from Starting as People)
Chad VanGaalen - Phantom Anthills (from Soft Airplane B-sides)
The Smugglers - Rock and Roll was Never This Fun (from In the Hall of Fame)
The Smugglers - Larry, Where are you? (from Mutiny in Stereo)
The New Pornographers - Adventures in Solitude (from Challengers)
Jill Barber - Starting to Show (from For All Time)
Avey Tare - Ghost of Books (from Down There)
Reading Rainbow - Euphoria (from Coasting Split)
Solange Knowles - Sandcastle Disco (from NAME)
Snailhouse - Dollar Signs (from Lies on the Prize)
Hot Chip - Wrestlers (from Made in the Dark)
Frightened Rabbit - The Wrestle (from NAME)
The Books - Free Translator (from The Way Out)

Next week: the year in review, 2010! Featuring an interview with Jon Wurster of Superfunk!

Giveaway - My Year of Flops!

You could win a copy of Nathan Rabin's very funny new book, My Year of Flops! To enter, email chris.berube@utoronto.ca w/ 'Free Book' in the subject line.

Nathan Rabin is one of America's most noted pop culture critics, and this book is essential reading for anybody who cares about movies, culture, and failure.

Playlist - Dec 3, 2010 - Real Estate, Little City

This week: Sean MacKay speaks with Martin from New Jersey's Real Estate; Rob Duffy talks to Toronto band The Ruby Spirit about the anatomy of one of their new songs; and Chris Berube talks to Shaun from Little City! Plus, new music from PJ Harvey, Atlas Sound, and Ryan Adams.

Playlist
PJ Harvey - Written on the Forehead (from Let England Shake)
Reading Rainbow - Always on my Mind (from Reading Rainbow)
Lower Dens - Tea Lights (from Twin-Hand Movement)
Bankrobber - The End (from Midjuly)
Michael Rault - Lay Right Down and Die (from Ma-Me-O)
Ryan Adams - Destroyers (from Carindals III/IV)
Tanya Davis - Please Bless (from Clocks and Heart Keep Going)
Little City - Lincoln Learning French (from The Going and the Gone)
The Wooden Sky - Oh My God (It Still Means a Lot to Me) (from If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone)
Mountains & the Trees - More & More & More (from I Made This for You)
The Tallest Man on Earth - Like the Wheel (from Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird)
Salt Chunk Mary - Won't Know if I Don't Try (from Demos 1992-93)
Sparklehorse - Some Sweet Day (from Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain)
Superchunk - Crossed Wires (from Majesty Shredding)
PS I Love You - Butterflies & Boners (from Meet me at the Muster Station)
Zach Hill - Memo to the Man (from Face Tat)
Black Tambourine - For Ex-Lovers Only (from Black Tambourine)
Atlas Sound - Avoid the Void (from Logos unmastered)
Paper Lions - Lost The War (from Trophies)
Twin Sister - All Around and Away we Go (from Color Your Life)
Real Estate - Black Lake (from Real Estate)
Real Estate - Out of Tune (from Real Estate)
Birthday Girls - Balcony (from Birthday Girls)
Tonetta - King Robbie (single)

Next week: our holiday authors episode! With CBCR3's Grant Lawrence, the AV Club's Nathan Rabin + pro wrestling legend Mick Foley.