Playlist - May 6, 2011 - Hot Docs special!

This week: our Hot Docs special! We re-run an interview from last year with new documentary subject Jose Gonzalez, plus an interview with Kerthy Fix, director of 'Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour', a film about the band's last concerts.

Playlist
Fleet Foxes - Montezuma (from Helplessness Blues)
The Antlers - Every Night my Teeth are Falling Out (from Burst Apart)
Jennifer Castle - Neverride (from Castlemusic)
Snailhouse - Sentimental Gentleman (from Sentimental Gentleman)
Monogrenade - Ce Soir (from Tantale)
Six Organs of Admittance - Hold But Let Go (from Asleep on the Floodplain)
Junip - Rope and Summit (from Fields)
Arthur Verocai - Sylvia (from Arthur Verocai Live)
Junip - Always (from Fields)
Pat Jordache - Phantom Limb (from Future Songs)
You Say Party - Love Makes the World go Round (from True Blue compilation)
Young Galaxy - Open Your Heart (from True Blue Compilation)
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours! (single)
Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes (from Last Summer)
The Joy Formidable - Whirring (from A Balloon Called Moaning)
Ponytail - Easy Peasy (from Do Whatever you Want, All the Time)
The Pack AD - Crazy (from We Kill Computers)
Duchess Says - Babies' Got the Rabies (from Begging the 3 Ts)
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl (from Bikini Kill EP)
Le Tigre - Keep on Livin' (from Feminist Sweepstakes)
Le Tigre - Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
Junior Boys - Banana Ripple (from It's All True)

Next week: Chris needs a week off! So we're playing two of our most requested interviews from the show - music legend Van Dyke Parks, and Toronto's Snowblink.

Playlist - April 29, 2011 - Toro Y Moi, Monotonix

This week: Kristian Pederson stops by to co-host and spin some music we're excited about for summer 2011. Plus Navi Lamba talks to Toro Y Moi, Kristian interviews Toronto's Heartbeat Hotel, and Chris talks with Ari from notorious Israeli rock trio Monotonix.

Playlist
Mantler - Fresh and Fair (from Monody)
Digable Planets - Where I'm From (from Reachin' [a New Refutation of Time and Space])
Shad - A Good Name (from TSOL)
Heartbeat Hotel - Windowsill 1 (from Fetus Dreams)
Cherry Chapstick - The Line (from Cherry Chapstick)
Karl Blau - Celebrate by Singing (from Max)
Beach Fossils - Time (from Time)
Monotonix - Try Try Try (from Not Yet)
Monotonix - Before I Pass Away (from Not Yet)
TV on the Radio - Will Do (from Nine Types of Light)
Toro Y Moi - Blessa (from Causes of Time)
James Blake - Unluck (from James Blake)
Guided by Voices - Unspirited (from Isolation Drills)
Maritime - Tearing Up the Oxygen (from We the Vehicles)
Caribou - Melody Day (from The Milk of Human Kindness)
Toro Y Moi - Freak Love (from Causers of This)
Chad VanGaalen - Sara (from Diaper Island)
Cults - Go Outside (from Cults 7")
Little Scream - Cannons (from The Golden Record)
Austra - Lose It (from Feel It Break)
Tune-Yards - Es-So (from Whokill)
Lifeguards - Paradise is Not so Bad (from Waving at the Astronauts)
Young Governor - Bedroomeyes (from Bedroomeyes 7")

Next week: our Hot Docs special! We re-run an interview with Jose Gonzalez, and talk to the director of 'Who Took the Bomp: Le Tigre on Tour'.

Playlist - April 22, 2011 - Michael Showalter, Tommy Wiseau

This week: Michael Showalter talks about his new book, Mr. Funnypants. And Will Sloan comes by to discuss the phenomenon behind our other interview subject, Tommy Wiseau, director of the "worst movie ever made", The Room.

Playlist
Panda Bear - Last Night at the Jetty (from Tomboy)
Grimes - Vanessa (from Dark Bloom)
Purity Ring - Ungirthed (single)
Handsome Furs - What About Us (from Sound Kapital)
Junior Boys - ep (from It's All True)
Fucked Up - A Little Death (from David Comes to Life)
Malajube - Synethesie (from La Caverne)
The Dodos - When Will you Go (from Spring, or the Love in Between)
French Kicks - Sex Tourists (from Swimming)
Wye Oak - The Alter (from Civilian)
Memphis - I Want the Lights on After Dark (from Here Comes a City)
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (from War)
Christine Fellows - The Spinster's Almanac (from Nevertheless)
Shotgun Jimmie - King of Kreuzberg (from Trasistor Sister)

Next week: new interviews with Monotonix, Toro Y Moi, and Heartbeat Hotel.