Playlist - June 17, 2011 - Twin Shadow, Chad VanGaalen

This week: it's Canada's biggest music festival, NXNE, here in Toronto. We talk to a couple of the festival's headliners - Twin Shadow, as interviewed by Navi Lamba, and Chad VanGaalen, as interviewed by Chris - and play some of the bands worth seeing this weekend. Plus, Simon Borer co-hosts, and tells a story about how the show has helped, and hindered, his dating life.

Listen to interviews from this week's show on our podcast page!

Playlist
Cults - Adbucted (from Cults)
Duzheknew - Came out the Other Side, ok (from Duzheknew)
Royal Bangs - My Car is Haunted (from Let it Beep)
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (from )
Wildlife - Sea Dreamer (from Strike Hard, Young Diamond)
No Gold - Weird Week (from No Gold)
No Joy - Indigo Child (Stereolab remix)
Twin Shadow - I Can't Wait (from Forget)
K-Ci and Jo Jo - All My Life (from Love Always)
Twin Shadow - Castles in the Snow (from Forget)
Land of Talk - Quarry Hymns (from Cloak and Cipher)
Bruce Peninsula - The Swimming Song (from The Bruce Trail Fire Sale)
Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best (from Badlands)
Makeout Videotape - Only You (from Ying Yang)
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze (from Golden Haze EP)
Entire Cities - Don a Veil (from I Hope You Never Come Home)
Horse Feathers - Drain You (from Thistled Spring)
Secret Cities - Pink Graffiti Part One (from Pink Graffiti)
Heavy Cream - Watusi (from Danny)
Chad VanGaalen - Peace is on the Rise (from Diaper Island)
The Oh Sees - Castlemania (from Castlemania)
Chad VanGaalen - Clinically Dead (from Infiniheart)
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (from Rhythm of Youth)

Next week: a NXNE wrap-up show, and an interview with 'comedian' Reggie Watts.

Playlist - June 10, 2011 - NXNE Preview, w. Deerhoof

This week: a preview of next week's NXNE film festival, featuring Rob Duffy, Navi Lamba, and Kristian Pedersen. Also, Chris interviews John Deitrich, guitarist for the band Deerhoof.

Playlist
One Hundred Dollars - Waiting for Another (from Songs of Man)
Tanika Charles - Silly Happy Wild (from What! What? What?!)
Monogold - Spirit or Something (from The Softest Glow)
Ell V Gore - Horn (from The House 7-inch)
Cousins - Anxious (from Out of Town)
Thrust - So Amazing (from Superrappin Volume II)
Harper Blynn - Every Impulse (from Harper Blynn)
Beekeeper's Society - House of Frost (from Plastic on the Furniture)
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets me High (from Dum Dum Girls)
Twin Shadow - Slow (from Forget)
The Pharcyde - Drop (from Labcabincalifornia)
Imaginary Cities - Temporary Resident (from Temporary Resident)
Grimes - Rosa (from Geidi Primes)
Rusty - Soul for Sale (from Soul for Sale)
Anagram - Around Again (from After Dark)
Deerhoof - Behold the Marvel in the Darkness (from Deerhoof vs. Evil)
Oki Dub Ainu Band - Konkon (from Sakhalin Rock)
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (from Offend Maggie)
Prince Rama - Golden Glow (from Zetland)
Lower Dens - I Get Nervous (from Twin-Hand Movement)
Devo - Gut Feeling (from Q: Are we Men? A: We are Devo!)

Next week: our second NXNE special, with Chad VanGaalen, and Twin Shadow.

Playlist - June 3, 2011 - Richard Ayoade, Mike Mills

This week: the summer movies special! We have interviews w. directors Richard Ayoade (Submarine, opening June 10) and Mike Mills (Beginners, opening June 17) from last year's Toronto International Film Festival. Also, new music from the Handsome Furs, and a salute to Gil Scott-Heron. You can hear both of this week's interviews in our podcast archive.

Playlist
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (from Twin Cinema)
Jonny - Candyfloss (from Jonny)
Fair Ohs - Eden Rock (from Everything is Dancing)
Crystal Stilts - Half a Moon (from In Love with Oblivion)
Teen Daze - Surface (from A Silent Planet)
Memory Tapes - Wait in the Dark (from Player Piano)
Handsome Furs - Repatriated (from Sound Kapital)
Alex Turner - It's Hard to get Around the Wind (from Submarine OST)
Stephin Merritt - Forever and a Day (from Obscurities)
Giant Hand - Adult Education (from HeroHall and Oates)
Chad VanGaalen - Freedom for a Policeman (from Diaper Island)
Miracle Fortress - Miscalculations (from Was I the Wave?)
Ash Black Buffalo - Misery is the Pilgrim's Pasture (from Andasol)
The Luyas - Tiny Head (from Too Beautiful to Work)
Damon and Naomi - Walking Backwards (from False Beats and True Hearts)
Nifty - Tune into You (from A Sparrow! A Sparrow!)
Blonde Redhead - Top Ranking (from 23)
Bill Callahan - Riding for the Feeling (from Apocalypse)
Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle (from Winter in America)

Next week: our NXNE preview show, with John Deitrich from the band Deerhoof.

Playlist - May 20, 2011 - Hanson, Danielson

This week: interviews with Taylor Hanson (from Hanson!) and brother Daniel from Danielson! Plus, Simon Borer cohosts, and we discuss Christianity in pop music, Tyler the Creator, and some other stuff. Download this week's interviews at our podcast website.

Playlist
Bon Iver - Calgary (from Bon Iver)
Chad VanGaalen - Peace on the Rise (from Diaper Island)
One Hundred Dollars - Waiting on Another (from Songs of Man)
Drive-By Truckers - Mercy Buckets (from Go-Go Boots)
Jim Guthrie - Lone Star (from Sword and Sorcery)
Grimes - Devon (from Grimes)
Danielson - Grow Up (from The Best of Gloucester County)
Robert Wyatt - Sea Song (from Rock Bottom)
Danielson - Did I Step on Your Trumpet? (from Ships)
Tegan and Sara - Alligator (from Sainthood)
Tune-Yards - Doorstep (from Whokill)
The Superfantastics - Push You Away (from Places to Roam)
Sloan - Follow the Leader (from The Double Cross)
Small Sins - Why Don't You Believe Me? (from Pot Calls Kettle Black)
The Elwins - Time to Kill Time (from The Elwins)
Rah Rah - Arrows (from Going Steady)
Shannon and the Clams - Sleep Talk (from Sleep Talk)
Hanson - Been Thinking 'Bout Something (from Shout it Out)
Cee-Lo Green - Forget You (from The Lady Killer)
Deerhoof - Behold the Marvel of the Darkness (from Deerhoof vs. Evil)
Little Scream - Red Hunting Jacket (from The Golden Record)

NXNE wristband contest!

Hey! Hey, want to attend NXNE 2011 for free???

We're giving away two wristbands for this year's festival, with full access to all of the shows happening next weekend.

To enter our draw, email CHRIS.BERUBE@GMAIL.COM with:

a) Your name.
b) Who you are excited to see at NXNE 2011.
c) An email address we can get use to get in touch.

Entry closes tonight, June 10th, at midnight EST.

Good luck!

-Chris