Electric Blogaloo

Thanks for listening!

2011-07-19T13:27:00.000-07:00

Thanks for listening! It's been a great pleasure to do this show for the past five years, and I will miss coming into CIUT every week.

A big 'thank you' to everybody who helped make the show over the years, including Dan Berube, Carol Barrett, Jeanette Cabral, Siobhan Ozege, Stoney Baker, Lily Ames, Kristian Pedersen, Navi Lamba, Sean MacKay, Simon Borer, Laura-Louise Tobin, and of course, Rob Duffy.

And a special thank you to everyone at CIUT for helping over the years, including Steve Birek, Erik Betlem, Jonathan Hawkes, Michelle Johnson, Binny Colvin, and Ron Burd. Double thanks to Ken Stowar, CIUT's program director and station manager, for believing in the show, and allowing it so much time to develop a unique voice on air.

And thank you for listening! And donating!

Much love,

Chris Berube
Programmer, CIUT 89.5fm
Host & Producer, Electric Boogaloo

Playlist - July 15, 2011 - Last epsiode!

2011-07-16T21:55:00.000-07:00

This week: the final episode of Electric Boogaloo, ever! Featuring special guests Jon Wurster (from Superchunk, Best Show on WFMU), Laura Barrett, Kyle Donnelly, Tim James, our semi-pro music critic in residence Rob Duffy, and Chris's mom Carol Barrett. You can listen to the whole show right here. Thanks for listening everybody, it's been a great run!

Playlist
Final Fantasy - Furniture (from Has a Good Home)
Laura Barrett - Save Your Money While You're Young (recorded over the phone!)
Laura Barrett and Drew Smith - Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore (Harry Nilsson cover)
Feist - It's Cool to Love Your Family (from Monarch)
Boys Who Say No - Atonement (unreleased song)
Sonic Youth - Jams Run Free (from Rather Ripped)
Republic of Safety - Vacation (from Passport EP)
Cuff the Duke - Ballad of a Lonely Construction Worker (from Life Stories for Minimum Wage)
P:ano - Pure Evil (from Brigadoon)
The Strokes - The Modern Age (from This is It)
Forest City Lovers - If I Were a Tree (from Carriage)
The New Pornographers - Moves (from Together)
The Mountain Goats - Birth of Serpents (from All Eternals Deck)
The Deadly Snakes - Gore Veil (from Porcella)

Playlist - July 8th, 2011 - Sondre Lerche, Sheila Heti, Misha Glouberman

2011-07-12T21:52:00.001-07:00

This week: Sondre Lerche stops by our studio to perform songs from his new eponymous record; and Sheila Heti interviews Misha Glouberman about their new book together, 'The Chairs Are Where the People Go'. Podcasts from this week's program are available at our archive website.

Playlist
Bjork - Crystalline (from Biophilia)
Austra - The Choke (from Feel it Break)
Junior Boys - A Truly Happy Ending (from Earmilk)
Foster the People - Helena Beat (from Foster the People)
Pat Jordache - Radio Generation (from Future Songs)
Beirut - East Harlem (from The Rip Tide)
Sondre Lerche - Domino (CIUT Session)
Sondre Lerche - Living Dangerously (CIUT Session)
Sondre Lerche - Private Caller (CIUT Session)
Sondre Lerche - Ricochet (CIUT Session)
Siskiyou - This Land (from Siskiyou)
Passwords - Life After Summer (from Passwords)
Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune (from Oh Fortune)
Fucked Up - Ship of Fools (from David Comes to Life)
Black Lips - Bad Kids (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Slam Dunk - Feral Child (from Slam Dunk)
Hanni El Khatib - Build Destroy Rebuild (from Will the Guns Come Out)
Myelin Sheaths - Everything is Contagious (from Get On Your Nerves)
Thurston Moore - Circulation (from Demolished Thoughts)
Iceage - White Rune (from New Brigade)
Man Man - Knuckle Down (from Life Fantastic)
Hylozoists - Acadia Acadia (from L'Île de Sept Villes)
Torngat - You Could Be (from You Could Be)
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Our Lady of Parc Extension and Her Munificent Sorrows (from Plays 'High Gospel')
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (from The Magic Place)
Tonstartssbandht - Hymn Eola (from Hymn)

Next week: the last Electric Boogaloo ever. :( There will be exciting, surprise special guests throughout the show!

Playlist - July 1st, 2011 - Pride 2011

2011-07-03T20:07:00.001-07:00

This week: we celebrate Toronto Pride in style, with a listener-curated playlist. What did we miss? Comment below, and download this week's show right here.

Playlist
Huggy Bear - Herjazz (from Taking the Rough with the Smooch)
The Blow - Pile of Gold (from Paper Television)
MEN - Off Our Backs (from Talk About Body)
Le Tigre - Hot Topic (from Le Tigre)
Hercules and Love Affair - Painted Eyes (from Blue Songs)
Jamie Principle & Frankie Knuckles - Your Love (from Best of Trax Records)
Big Freedia - Almost Famous (from Big Freedia)
Matmos - Rainbow Flag (from Supreme Balloon)
Gentleman Reg - We're in a Thunderstorm (from Jet Black)
Magnetic Fields - I Thought You Were my Boyfriend (from I)
Pony Da Look - You Make my Day (from Shattered Dimensions)
Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice (from Season of Glass)
Diamond Rings - You & Me (from Special Affections)
Parenthetical Girls - Evelyn McHale (from Privilege)
The Soft Pack - C'Mon (from The Soft Pack)
Austra - Beat and the Pulse (from Feel it Break)
Kids on TV - Breakdance Hunx (from Mixing Business with Pleasure)
Peaches - More (from I Feel Cream)
Light Asylum - A Certain People (from In Tension EP)
Dance Yourself to Death - Cry Out Loud (from Dance Yourself to Death)
Rae Spoon - Come On Forest Fires, Burn the Disco Down (CPI Remix)
Owen Pallett - A Man With no Ankles (from A Swedish Love Story EP)
Tomboyfriend - Skank (from Don't Go to School)
The Hidden Cameras - I Believe in the Good of Life (from Mississauga Goddam)
Hot Springs - Headrush (from Volcano)
Hunx and his Punx - Too Young to be in Love (from Too Young to be in Love)
Hank - Never Have Another Boy in My Life (from The Luck of the Singers)
Go Sailor - Ray of Sunshine (from Go Sailor)
Montag - Lesbian Love (from Alone, Not Alone)
The Flaming Lips - Can't Get you Out of My Head (from Fight Test EP)

Next week: Norwegian singer Sondre Lerche stops in to do a studio session.

Playlist - June 24, 2011 - Reggie Watts, NXNE Wrap

2011-07-03T19:41:00.000-07:00

This week: we review NXNE, and talk to experimental comedian Reggie Watts! Download our show here.

Playlist
Parlovr - Hell, Heaven (from Hell/Heaven/Big/Love)
The Ramones - Slug (from Rocket to Russia)
Meligrove Band - Our Love Will Make the World go Round (from Planets Conspire)
The Dodos - Don't Stop (from No Colour)
Deerhoof - The Greg Saunier Retaliation (from Almost Xiu Xiu, Almost Deerhoof)
Suuns - Gaze (from Zeroes QC)
No Joy - You Girls Smoke Cigarettes (from Ghost Blonde)
Braids - Plath Heart (from Native Speaker)
Duzheknew - Moe (from Duz/Cuz)
Rich Aucoin - Push (from Public Publication)
Modern Superstitions - Visions of You (from All the Things We've Been Told)
Men Without Hats - I Got the Message (from Rhythm of Youth)
Devo - The Day my Baby Gave me a Surprise (from Duty Now for the Future)
Language-Arts - Tuck it in (from Where Were you in the Wild?)
Little Girls - Growing (from Concepts)
Dirty Beaches - Sweet 17 (from Badlands)
Ty Segall - Girlfriend (from Melted)
Reggie Watts - Social Construct (from Why Shit so Crazy?)
The Go-Betweens - Streets of Your Town (from 16 Lovers Lane)
Grimes - Vanessa (from Dark Bloom)

Next week: an ass-kicking gay pride playlist.

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

2011-06-17T20:38:00.000-07:00

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

2011-06-15T21:19:00.000-07:00

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

2011-06-15T21:06:00.000-07:00

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

2011-06-15T21:03:00.000-07:00

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!

2011-06-10T09:30:00.000-07:00

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

Playlist - May 6, 2011 - Hot Docs special!

2011-05-16T19:28:00.001-07:00

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

2011-05-16T19:15:00.000-07:00

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

2011-05-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

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.

Michael Showalter contest.

2011-04-23T13:50:00.001-07:00

Yesterday on the show, we ran an interview with The State + Wet Hot American Summer star Michael Showalter, about his new book, Mr. Funnypants.

If you'd like to win a copy, email us at chris.berube@gmail.com, with the subject line 'Mr. Funnypants'. Contest closes Sunday, April 24th at 11:59pm EST - open only to residents of the GTA.

Good luck!

Thank you!

2011-04-16T17:39:00.000-07:00

Just a quick note to say thank you so much to everybody who donated to the Spring Friends of 89.5 Membership Drive! We were able to raise over $600 from our show alone to keep CIUT 89.5fm operational.

If you haven't donated yet, you still can, and will be entered into our grand prize draw, at http://ciut.fm. Web donations can be made by PayPal or credit card.

Also, a big, big thanks to everyone who helped with the live show Friday, including our surprise special guest Dan Mangan (pictured above)! Couldn't have done it without you.

Thanks for your ongoing support everybody!

Chris

Playlist - April 8, 2011 - Braids, Sharon Van Etten

2011-04-16T17:34:00.000-07:00

This week: Chris interviews Taylor from Montreal buzz band Braids, and we replay a conversation with the lovely Brooklyn singer Sharon van Etten.

Playlist
Braids - Lemonade (from Native Speaker)
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
Bill Callahan - Baby's Breath (from Apocalypse)
Wye Oak - Civilian (from Civilian)
Christine Fellows - Dragonfly (from Femmes De Chez Nous)
PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose (from Let England Shake)
Sharon Van Etten - Give In (from Daytrotter Sessions)
Lower Dens - I Get Nervous (from Twin-Hand Movement)
Sharon Van Etten - Don't Do It (from Epic)
The Mountain Goats - Estate Sale Sign (from All Eternals Deck)
Cryptacize - Track Ten (from Mythomania)
The Luyas - Cold Canada (from Too Beautiful to Work)
Code Pie - Muddy Shoes (from Love Meets Rage)
Ringo Deathstarr - Imagine Hearts (from Colour Trip)
Javelin - Cowpoke (from Canyon Candy)
Toro Y Moi - Still Sound (from Underneath the Pine)
Young Galaxy - We Have Everything (Cotton Mouth Remix)
Thao & Mirah, featuring Tune-Yards - Eleven (Unreleased)
Braids - Plath Heart (from Native Speaker)
Colin Stetson - Fear of the Unknown and the Blazing Sun (from New History Warfare, Volume II)
Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop (from Ravedeath, 1972)

Next week: fundraising! If you love CIUT, please donate today at http://ciut.fm

Playlist - April 1, 2011 - April Fool's, w. Wildlife

2011-04-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

This week: to celebrate April 1st, Chris takes on a co-host...from the world of commercial radio. Plus, Toronto's Wildlife stop by to join in the fun. To hear all of this week's special April Fool's episode, go here!

Playlist
Entire Cities - Coffee (from Deep River)
Destroyer - Poor in Love (from Kaputt)
Wavves - King of the Beach (from King of the Beach)
Rural Alberta Advantage - Stamp (from Departing)
The New Pornographers - Miss Teen Wordpower (from Electric Version)
Superchunk - Digging for Something (from Majesty Shredding)
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets me High (from He Gets me High EP)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water (from The King is Dead)
PS I Love You - Facelove (from Meet me at the Muster Station)
Socalled - (These are) The Good Old Days (from Ghettoblaster)
AC Newman - Take on Me (A-Ha cover)
Wildlife - Stand in the Water (from Strike Hard, Young Diamond)
Wildlife - Sea Dreamer (from Strike Hard, Young Diamond)
Wildlife - Drunken Heart (from Strike Hard, Young Diamond)
C'Mon - Safer When (from Beyond the Pale Horse)
The xx - VCR (Matthew Dear remix)
Woodhands - Electric Avenue (Eddie Money cover)
The Unicorns - Jellybones (single version)
Suicide - The Be-Bop Kid (from Suicide)
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (from Since I Left You)

Next week: things go back to normal, with Chris interviewing Taylor from Montreal band Braids; and Brooklyn's Sharon Van Etten.

Playlist - March 25, 2011 - Kristian Pedersen + Rob Duffy fill in.

2011-04-06T21:26:00.000-07:00

This week: Chris is doing the R3-30 again for CBC Radio 3, so Kristian Pedersen + Eye Weekly's Rob Duffy are here to fill in (and discuss the Junos). With an interview by Chris with Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene.

Playlist
Smith Westerns - Weekend (from Dye it Blonde)
Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness (from Angles)
Strokes - Under Control (from Room on Fire)
Heartbeat Hotel - Windowsill 1 (from Fetus Dreams)
Gay - Asbestos (from 3D in 3D)
Foxes In Fiction - Bathurst (from Foxes in Fiction)
James Blake - CMYK (from CMYK)
Austra - Beat and the Pulse (from Feel it Break)
Ghettosocks featuring Apt - Lemonade (from Treat of the Day)
Caribou - Odessa (from Swim)
Basia Bulat - Snakes and Ladders (from Oh, My Darling)
Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (from Bright Lights)
MGMT - Song for Dan Treacy (from Congratulations)
Wolf Parade - Grounds for Divorce (from Apologies to the Queen Mary)
Broken Social Scene - Art House Director (from Forgiveness Rock Record)
Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt (from Evol)
Bishop Morocco - Townies (from Bishop Morocco)
Warren G Feat Nate Dogg - Regulate (from Regulate G Funk Era)

Next week: Chris returns for an interview with Toronto's Wildlife.

Playlist - March 18, 2011 - Laura-Louise Tobin fills in.

2011-04-06T21:17:00.000-07:00

This week: Chris is away hosting the R3-30 on CBC Radio 3, so Laura-Louise Tobin fills in! Featuring Laura-Louise's interview with New York Times' columnist Randy Cohen ("the Ethicist"), and Chris's interview with film critic Adam Nayman.

Playlist
Kurt Vile - I Know I Got Religion
Austra - The Beat and the Pulse
Surfer Blood - Swim
Abner Jay - Cocaine
Fur Amel - Pink Eyes
Connon Moccasin - It's Choade my Dear
Nancy Dupree- James Brown
Alanna Johnston - Say Yes
Lykke Li - Sadness is a Blessin
Destroyer - Kaputt
Destroyer - This Night
Black Mountain - Rollercoaster
Caribou - Found Out
Land of Talk - Quarry Hymn
Little Scream - The Heron and the Fox
The Raindrops - That boy is Messing up my Mind
The Barbaras - Day at the Shrine
Tonetta - Drugs drugs drugs
Brutal Knights - Take Breaks
The Dutchess & the Duke - Let it Die

Playlist - March 11, 2011 - CMW, with Imaginary Cities

2011-03-15T20:26:00.000-07:00

This week: Canadian Music Week picks for the weekend with Eye Weekly critic Rob Duffy, and an interview with Winnipeg's Imaginary Cities.

Playlist
Memoryhouse - Lately (Deuxieme) (from The Years EP)
Austra - Energy (from Feel it Break)
Rich Aucoin - 10,342 Cuts for the Us (from Personal Publication)
Allie Hughes - Not the Stars (Slang remix)
Kurt Vile - In My Time (from Smoking Ring for my Halo)
Men - Shake Off (from Talk About Body)
Wildlife - Sea Dreamer (from Strike Hard, Young Diamond)
The Sadies - Tiger, Tiger (from Stories Often Told)
Neon Windbreaker - That Night (Those Days are Gone) (unreleased)
RatTail - Green Guitar (from George Mounsey EP)
Cadence Weapon w. Shad - Baby I'm Yours (from Tron Legacy Mixtape)
Digits - Rachel Marie (from Hold it Close)
Gentleman Reg - We're in a Thunderstorm (from Jet Black)
Bombay Bicycle Club - Rinse Me Down (from Flaws)
Heartbeat Hotel - Fins of a Shark (from Fetus Dreams)
Yukon Blonde - Rather be with you (from Yukon Blonde)
Uncle Bad Touch - Sweetest Dream (from Uncle Bad Touch)
Les Breastfeeders - Betty Lou (from Dans le gueule des jours)
The Russian Futurists - It's Not Really Cold When it Snows (from Let's Get Ready to Crumble)
Misteur Valaire - Ave Mucho (from Golden Bombay)
Brent Randall and His Pinecones - Strange Love (Don't By Lazy) (from Strangers in Paddington Green)
Rebekah Higgs - Asleep All Winter (from Little Voice EP)
Little City - Lincoln Learning French (from The Going and the Gone)
Imaginary Cities - Calm Before the Storm (from Temporary Resident)
The Black Keys - 10am Automatic (The Live EP)
Imaginary Cities - Temporary Resident (from Temporary Resident)
Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain (from Without a Sound)

Next week: Chris is going to be away hosting the R3-30, on CBC Radio 3! Guest host Laura-Louise Tobin will be here filling in.

Playlist - March 4, 2011 - Marnie Stern, Snowblink guest DJ

2011-03-05T18:37:00.000-08:00

This week: Toronto's Snowblink (Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman) come in to pick an hour of their favourite music; and Chris talks with guitar shredder Marnie Stern. Podcasts of this week's show are available here.

Playlist
Snowblink - Rut and Nuzzle (from Long Live)
Lim Family - Pua 'Olena (from Launa'ole: Unequalled)
Phil Phillips - Sea of Love (single)
John Southworth - Life is Unbelievable (from The Pillowmaker)
Snowblink - Amergris (from Long Live)
Split Enz - One Step Ahead (from Extravagenza)
Bruce Peninsula - Lift 'Em Up (from Lift 'Em Up / Jack Can I Ride EP)
Luxury Pond - Take Cover (from Through a Revolution)
Snowblink - The Tired Bees (from Long Live)
Hey Rosetta! - Yer Spring (from Seeds)
Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say (from Share the Joy)
Slam Dunk - Only Fun (from The Shivers)
Chikita Violenta - Tired (from TRE3S)
J Mascis - Is it Done (from Several Shades of Why)
Shotgun Jimmie - Late Last Year (from Transistor Sister)
My Dad vs. Yours - Carry the Weight (from Little Symphonies)
Jon McKiel - Motion Pictures (from Confidence Lodge)
Marnie Stern - Transformer (from This is it it and I am it and You are it and so is That)
Marnie Stern - Cinco de Mayo (from Marnie Stern)
Marnie Stern - For Ash (from Marnie Stern)
Yo La Tengo - The Story of Yo La Tengo (from I am Not Afraid of You and I will Beat Your Ass)

Next week: a preview of Canadian Music Week, with Imaginary Cities; plus, an interview with comedian Michael Showalter.

Playlist - Feb. 25, 2011 - Jose Gonzalez, Dr. Ew

2011-02-26T21:26:00.001-08:00

This week: Chris interviews Swedish singer Jose Gonzalez about his new band Junip; and Simon Borer speaks with Toronto's Drew Smith, aka Dr. Ew. Plus, new music from the RAA, Panda Bear, and Iron & Wine. Show produced with help from Dan Berube.

Playlist
Jose Gonzalez - Crosses (from Veneer)
Ducktails feat. Panda Bear - Killin the Vibe (from Ducktails III Arcade Dynamics)
Panda Bear - Late Night at the Jetty (from Tomboy)
Grimes - Devon (from Halfaxa)
Sweet Lights - One Day (Sharon Van Etten cover)
Slow Down, Molasses - Feathers (Single)
The Bicycles - Walk Away (From a Good Thing) (from Oh No, It's Love)
Dr. Ew - The House of Many Mansions (from Gadzooks)
Dr. Ew - Be a Dreamer (from Gadzooks)
The Poppy Family - A Good Thing Lost (from Which Way You Goin' Billy)
The Zombies - Tell Her No (from Single)
Rural Alberta Advantage - Stamp (from Departing)
David Vertesi - Mountainside (from Cardiography)
No Gold - Weird Week (from No Gold)
PS I Love You - Little Spoon (from Meet Me at the Muster Station)
Iron & Wine - Godless Brother in Love (from Kiss Each Other Clean)
Katie Moore - Wake Up Like This (from Montebello)
Giant Sand - Graveyard (from Ballad of a Thin Line Man)
O'Death - Bugs (from Outside)
The Wailin' Jennys - Storm Comin' (from Bright Mountain Stars)
Bridget St. John - Song for the Laird of Connaught Hill Pt. 2 (from Songs for the Gentle Man)
Linda Perhacs - Hey, Who Really Cares (from Parallelograms)
Scout Niblett - River of no Return (from This Fool Can Die Now)
Junip - Rope and Summit (from Fields)
Jose Gonzalez - Far Away (single)
Arthur Verocai - Sylvia (from Arthur Verocai Live)
Junip - Always (from Fields)
Elyse Weinberg - What You Call it (from Elyse)
The Sheepdogs - I Don't Know (from Learn and Burn)
The Daredevil Christopher Wright - We're Not Friends (from In Deference to a Broken Back)
Shotgun Jimmie - Mind Crumb (from Still Jimmie)

Next week: Snowblink guest DJ, and Chris interviews guitar shredder Marnie Stern!

Playlist - Feb 18, 2011 - Laurie Brown, Buck 65

2011-02-18T20:20:00.000-08:00

This week: interviews with two hosts from CBC Radio 2. Chris talks to renowned Canadian broadcaster Laurie Brown, host of The Signal; and we replay Kristian Pedersen's chat with racounteur extraordinaire Buck 65. Special thanks this week to Andy Sheppard at the CBC.

Playlist
Tune-Yards - Bizness (from whokill)
Austra - Beat and the Pulse (from Feel it Break)
The Luyas - I Need Mirrors (from The Luyas)
The Radio Dept. - We Made the Team (from We Made the Team)
Braids - Little Hand (from Native Speaker)
Bardo Pond - Don't Know About You (from Bardo Pond)
Owen Pallett - Keep the Dog Quiet (from Heartland)
Christine Bougie - Aloha Supreme (Josh Van Tassel Remix)
Brasstronaut - Hearts Trompet (from Mt. Chimarea)
Buck 65 - Shutterbuggin' (from The Situation)
Buck 65 - Wicked and Weird (from Porch)
Buck 65 - Craftsmanship (from Kidvector's Fruit of the Loon)
Buck 65 - Cries a Girl (from This Right Here is Buck 65)
Ghettosocks - A Song About Breakdancing (from Got Some Friends)
Buck 65 - Square Dance (from Dirt Bike)

Next week: Swedish singer Jose Gonzalez + Toronto's Dr. Ew.

Playlist - Feb 11, 2011 - Mantler, Hannah Georgas

2011-02-13T21:12:00.000-08:00

This week: to celebrate Valentine's weekend, we play some of your picks for the best love/anti-love songs! Plus, Toronto's own crooner Mantler stops by to play guest DJ + love doctor, and we talk with Hannah Georgas about writing emotionally revealing music. Check out this week's show here.

Playlist
Bob Wiseman - Born to Love You (from It's True)
Roxy Music - Love is a Drug (from Siren)
The Mountain Goats - No Children (from Tallahassee)
Rebekah Higgs - Miserably Together (from Little Voice)
Bonjay - Jamelia (from Broughtupsy)
The Bicycles - Can I Keep Calling You Baby? (from The Good, The Bad and The Weird)
Born Ruffians - Foxes Mate for Life (from Red, Yellow, and Blue)
The Morern Lovers - Hospital (from The Modern Lovers)
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken (from Let's Get Out of This Country)
Belle and Sebastian - Don't Leave the Lights on Baby (from Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant)
Hannah Georgas - Lovesick (from This is Good)
Hannah Georgas - Chitchat (from This is Good)
Bahamas - Already Yours (from Pink Strat)
Mantler - Cryin' at the Movies (live at CIUT)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Keep on Walking (Gino Vanelli cover; from Everybody Loves Sunshine)
Keith Hampshire - Big Time Operator (from Canada Gold - 22 Karat Hits)
Grant Green - Down Here on the Ground (from Alive!)
The Guess Who - Sour Suite (from So Long, Bannatyne)
Esther Philips - And I Love Him (from Burnin')
Emile Normand Sextet - Morning (from Ready or Not: Deep Jazz Grooves from the CBC Radio Canada Archive)
Donny Hathaway - A Song For You (from In Performance)
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Love Over and Over (from Love Over and Over)
Mantler - Lately I'm Sad (Live at CIUT)

Next week: we talk with CBC Radio 2's Laurie Brown + Buck 65!

Playlist - Feb. 4, 2011 - Gang of Four, Vikram Jayanti

2011-02-05T21:05:00.001-08:00

This week: an interview with Andy Gill, guitarist and songwriter of British post-punk group Gang of Four. Plus, an in-depth talk with Vikram Jayanti, director of the new film The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector. Produced with help from Dan Berube.

Playlist
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods (from Entertainment!)
Laura Peek - Stay Sharp (from Key)
Jenn Grant - Getcha Good (from Honeymoon Punch)
Apples in Stereo - Tidal Wave (from Fun Trick Noisemaker)
The Ronettes - Be my Baby (from Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes)
Phil Spector - Silent Night (from A Christmas Gift from Phil Spector)
Leonard Cohen - I Left a Woman Waiting (from Death of a Ladies' Man)
The Crystals - He Hit me and it Felt Like a Kiss (Single)
Leonard Cohen - Paper-Thin Hotel (from Death of a Ladies' Man)
John Vanderslice - The Piano Lesson (from White Wilderness)
Les Jupes - Myth #3 (the Moutain) (from Modery Myths)
Young Galaxy - We Have Everything (from Shapeshifting)
Suuns - Up Past the Nursery (from Zeroes QC)
Jon McKiel - Motion Pictures (from Confidence Lodge)
Witchies - The Littlest Death Trip (from Witchies)
Wolf Parade - Secret Knives (from Wolf Parade EP)
ESG - You Make No Sense (from Come Away With ESG)
Gang of Four - Ether (from Entertainment!)
Gang of Four - I Love a Man in Uniform (from Songs of the Free)
Dionne Warwick - I Say a Little Prayer (from The Windows of the World)
Gang of Four - Who am I? (from Content)
Wire - I am the Fly (from Chairs Missing)

Next week: our Valentine's special, with Toronto crooner Mantler answering listeners' romantic questions, and BC singer Hannah Georgas talking about the perfect love song.

Playlist - Jan. 28, 2010 - Maria Bamford, Picnicface, Nick Flanagan

2011-01-30T19:03:00.000-08:00

This week: we take another trip into the world of comedy, as Chris interviews two of the funniest people going: comedian Maria Bamford, and Andrew Bush, member of Halifax sketch comedy troupe Picnicface, and director of their upcoming movie Rollertown. Plus, Laura-Louise Tobin quickly chats with Toronto's Nick Flanagan, and some very funny and off-putting (see: Ween) music. Production help this week from Dan Berube.

Playlist
Das Racist - Rainbow in the Dark (from Shut Up, Dude)
Buck 65 - Centaur (acoustic version) (from This Right Here is Buck 65)
Rich Aucoin - Push (from Public Publication)
Rich Aucoin - Undead Pt. 2 (from Public Publication)
B.A. Johnston - Taste the Shame (from Thank You for Being a Friend)
The Lovely Feathers - Pope John Paul (from Hind Hind Legs)
Brutal Knights - Support Me (from Living By Yourself)
Brutal Knights - We Have a Website (from Feast of Shame)
Carrie Brownstein - Portlandia Theme (from Portlandia OST)
Hot Panda - Masculinity (from How Come I'm Dead?)
Os Mutantes - Hey Boy (from A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado)
Jenny Omnichord - Kings of London (from Cities of Gifts and Ghosts)
The Doers - Doin' Your Taxes (from Gaiety)
Doctor Ew - I'm Getting Fat (from Gadzooks)
Bob Wiseman - Fluke of the World (from It's True)
Ween - Mr. Would You Please Help my Pony? (from Chocolate and Cheese)
The Modern Lovers - Government Center (from The Modern Lovers)
P:ano - Dark Hills (from Brigadoon)
Sparklehorse - Heart of Darkness (from
They Might be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul (from Flood)
Jonathan Coulton - I Feel Fantastic (from JoCo Looks Back)
Loudon Wainwright III - Unrequited to the Nth Degree (from Unrequited)

Next week: interviews with Andy Gill from Gang of Four, and Vikram Jiyanti, director of the new film The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector.

Playlist - Jan. 21, 2011 - The Books, Buke + Gass

2011-01-23T13:49:00.000-08:00

This week: we play some music that's a bit to the left of what we usually have on the show, like Sam Amidon, Nut Brown and Silver Apples. Simon Borer speaks to The Books, and Chris has a conversation with Buke and Gass. This week's show produced with help from Dan Berube, Tamara Lindeman and Sean MacKay.

Playlist
The Books - Take Time (from The Lemon of Pink)
Sam Amidon - How Come That Blood (from I See The Sign)
Emeralds - The Cycle of Abuse (from Does it Look Like I'm Here?)
Mark McGuire - Clear the Cobwebs (from Living With Yourself)
Dirty Projectors - My Offwhite Flag (from The Glad Fact)
Azeda Booth - Big Fists (from In Flesh Tones)
Pietro Sammarco - Act II, Scene I (from Pollination is an Opera)
Loose Fur - Liquidation Totale (from Loose Fur)
Buke & Gass - Medulla Oblongata (from Riposte)
Buke & Gass - Naked Cities (from Riposte)
Construction & Destruction - The Oracle (from Mutatis Mutandis)
Quaker Parents - Evil Deeds (from Huge Mask)
Nut Brown - I Need a Love Like That (from I Really Do)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Emptyhead (from Boo Hoo Boo Hoo)
Bobb Trimble - Glass Menagerie Fantasies (from Iron Curtain Innocence)
The Creeping Nobodies - Cow Ruff (from Fragments 2005-2008)
Arab on Radar - God is Dad (from Yahweh or the Highway)
The Howling Hex - Rocklyn Fortunes (from The Return of the Third Tower)
Captain Beefheart - Autumn's Child (from Safe as Milk)
Black Mold - Fuck Ebay (from Snow Blinding is Crystal Antz)
Simon Frank - B2 Aiman is on Radio (from Unheated Neighbours)
Caroliner - Follow the Mint Brute (from The Cooking Stove Beast)
Cajun Gems - Homeboy (from Richard Byrd at Little America)
Silver Apples - Confusion (from Contact)
Blackout Beach - Three Men Drown in the River (from Skin of Evil)
The Books - It Never Changes to Stop (from Lost and Safe)
The Books - Free Translator (from The Way Out)
Braids - Plath Heart (from Native Speaker)
Destroyer - Kaputt (from Kaputt)

Next week: interviews with comedians Maria Bamford, Nick Flanagan, and Picnicface!

Playlist - Jan. 7, 2011 - Preview 2011

2011-01-23T13:43:00.000-08:00

This week: Chris, Navi, Simon + Kristian talk about the music we are most looking forward to in 2011.

Playlist
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (from Since I Left You)
Aphex Twin - Flim (from Come to Daddy)
Mogwai - Rano Pano (from Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will)
M83 - Run into Flowers (from Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts)
Frederick Squire - We Are All the Middle Child (from March 12)
Wool on Wolves - Ports of Glass Harbour (from Wool on Wolves)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water (from The King is Dead)
Matthew Friedberger - Shirley (from Napoleonette)
Panda Bear - Alsatian Darn (from You Can Count on Me 7")
Parlovr - Big Love (from Hell / Heaven / Big / Love)
Bloodhouse - Magic Tipi (from Bad Vibrations / Bloodhouse split cassette)
Bad Vibrations - Aurora (from Bad Vibrations / Bloodhouse split cassette)
Danielson - Grow Up (from Best of Gloucester County)
Women - Shaking Hand (from Women)
Chad VanGaalen - Bare Feet on Wet Grip Tape (from Soft Airplane)
Destroyer - Chinatown (from Kaputt)
Rebekah Higgs - Little Voice (from Little Voice EP)
Deerhoof - Panda (from Apple O')
Deerhoof - Behold a Marvel in the Darkness (from Deerhoof vs. Evil)
Beth Orton - Shopping Trolley (from Comfort of Strangers)
The Streets - Going Through Hell (Diplo Remix)
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing (from Ritual de lo Habitual)
Suuns - PVC (from Zeroes)
Low - Rope (from I Could Live in Hope)
Battles - Atlas (from Mirrored)
Do Make Say Think - Do (from The Other Truths)

Next week: Chris is off, so we're replaying our favourite interviews from 2010, including Liz Powell's guest DJ set, and our chats with YACHT and The Blow.

Playlist - Dec. 31, 2010 - New Year's Rockin' Eve

2011-01-23T13:37:00.000-08:00

This week: to celebrate the end of another year, Sean MacKay + Navi Lamba from The Varsity stop in to pick their favourite dance and electronic music of the year.

Playlist
Glasser - Tremel (Jamie XX Remix)
Dakota - Double Party
Po Po - Let's Get Away
El Guincho - FM Tan Sexy
Theophilous London - No Answers
Twin Sister - All the Way Around
Breakbot - I'm Yours Baby
Diamond Rings - Somewhere Else
Chromeo w/ Ezra Keonig - I Could Be Wrong
CEO - Come With Me
Out Hud - It's For You
Caribou - Odessa
Vampire Weekend - White Sky (Bassment Jaxx Rmx)
Robyn - Indestructible (A Trak Rmx)
Chromeo feat. Ezra Koenig - Hot Mess
Cut Copy - Faraway (Bag Raiders Rmx)
The Morning Benders - Excuses (Golden Filter Rmx)
The Drums - Let’s Go Surfing (The Raveonettes Rmx)
Delorean - Warmer Places
Miracles Club - A New Love
Korallreven - The Truest Faith
Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith - Not In Love
Hooray For Earth vs. Twin Shadow - A Place We Like

Next week: a preview of the music of 2011 we're most looking forward to!

Playlist - Dec. 24, 2010 - XMas Eve Special

2010-12-28T15:11:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-19T10:34:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-19T10:21:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-15T21:35:00.000-08:00

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!

2010-12-11T14:49:00.000-08:00

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!

2010-12-10T10:20:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-04T20:07:00.000-08:00

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.

Playlist - Nov 26, 2010 - Correction Line Ensemble, Maylee Todd

2010-11-27T22:46:00.000-08:00

This week: an exclusive session from John K Samson and Christine Fellows' new project, The Correction Line Ensemble! Plus, we replay Simon Borer's interview w/ Toronto's Maylee Todd, and new music from Destroyer, Deerhunter + more! You can listen to the Maylee Todd interview + CIUT session in our podcast archives.

Playlist
Destroyer - Chinatown (from Kaputt 192)
Destroyer - It's Gonna Take an Airplane (from Your Blues)
John Vanderslice - Lay Down (from Green Grow the Rushes)
Rah Rah - Hurt Me Bad (from Breaking Hearts)
Cotton Jones - Gotta Cheer Up (from Paranoid Cocoon)
Kathryn Calder - Low (from Are You My Mother?)
Tennis - Marathon (from Tennis)
Rebekah Higgs - Little Voice (from Little Voice EP)
Maylee Todd - Successive Mutations (from CIUT Session)
Maylee Todd - Tunog Ng Taginit (from Choose Your Own Adventure)
Dr. Ew - Be a Dreamer (from Gadzooks)
Jim Noir - Car (from Zooper Dooper)
Deerhunter - Helicopter (from Halcyon Digest)
Glasser - Mirrorage (from Glasser)
Carnival Moon - The Acrobat's Daughter (Single)
Baths - Pop Song (from Cerulean)
Fujiya & Miyagi - Sixteen Shades of Black and Blue (from Ventriloquizzing)
Austra - The Beat and the Pulse (Single)
Salteens - Last Train from London (from Grey Eyes)
Christine Fellows - The Spinster's Almanac (from Nevertheless)
Correction Line Ensemble - Bartok (from CIUT Session)
Correction Line Ensemble - Yours With Ever Grateful Wonder (from CIUT Session)
Correction Line Ensemble - Petition (from CIUT Session)
Correction Line Ensemble - Stop Error (from CIUT Session)
John K Samson - Heart of the Continent (from City Route 85)

Next week: Sean MacKay interviews the band Real Estate!

Amy Sedaris contest!

2010-11-26T09:27:00.001-08:00

Hey everybody,

Our host, Chris Berube, interviewed author Amy Sedaris for Eye Weekly this week. To celebrate, we're giving something away! For free!

If you email chris.berube@utoronto.ca, with 'Amy Sedaris!' in the subject line, you could win a copy of Amy's new book, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People! We'll be doing the draw tonight (Friday, November 26th), so check back for that.

Playlist - Nov 19, 2010 - Save the Tranzac!

2010-11-23T20:33:00.000-08:00

This week: the Tranzac's in trouble! While the venerable Toronto institution struggling to make ends meet, we talk with two people involved in the Save the Tranzac fundraising effort - first, board member + TO record label proprietor Stuart Duncan drops by to fill us in on the situation, and then Chris Eaton from the band Rock Plaza Central guest DJs the show's second hour. Hear each interview from the program here!

Playlist
Matthew Friedberger - Shirley (from Napoleonette)
The Vaselines - Molly's Lips (from Dum-Dum)
Land of Talk - Blangee Blee (from Cloak and Cipher)
Apollo Ghosts - Things You Go Through (from Mount Benson)
Audible - Sunday Bell (from Sky Signal)
Siskiyou - El Condor Pasa (from Siskiyou)
Young Empires - White Doves (demo)
The Wilderness of Manitoba - Sea Song (from When You Left the Fire)
$100 - Blaze of Glory (single)
Rock Plaza Central - Them That Are Good and Them That Are Bad (from At the Moment of Our Most Needing)
Ohbijou - Thunderlove (from Beacons)
Born Ruffians - First Date Kid (from Plinky Plonk)
Rock Plaza Central - Don't You Believe the Words of Handsome Men (from At the Moment of Our Most Needing)
The Weather Station - East (from The Line)
Metal Kites - Encrusted in an Animal (from Animals)
Dinner is Ruined - Valentine (from Elevator Music)
Rock Plaza Central - My Children, By Joyful (from Are We Not Horses?)
Van Morrison - You Don't Pull No Punches and you Can't Push a River (from Veedon Fleece)
Rock Plaza Central - We've Got a Lot to be Glad For (from Are We Not Horses?)
Olenka and the Autumn Lovers - Odessa (from And Now We Sing)

Next week: John K Samson + Christine Fellows in session!

Playlist - Nov 12, 2010 - Grinderman, The Blow

2010-11-16T22:53:00.000-08:00

This week: interviews with Jim Sclavunos of Grinderman + Khaela Maricich of The Blow; new music from Women, Warpaint, and Akido; and Chris gets angry at cover songs. You can hear this week's episode as streaming audio for a whole week at the CIUT website.

Playlist
Warpaint - Undertow (from The Fool)
Women - Eyesore (from Public Strain)
PS I Love You - Little Spoon (from Meet Me at the Muster Station)
Wolf & Cub - Seven Sevens (from Science & Sorcery)
The Pack AD - BC is on Fire (from We Will Computers)
Despistado - Burning House (from The People of and Their Verses)
Grinderman - Heathen Child (from Grinderman II)
Grinderman - Palaces of Montezuma (from Grinderman II)
Miles Davis - John McLaughlin (from Bitches Brew)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (from Dig, Lazarus, Dig)
Hollerado - Fake Drugs (from Record in a Bag)
Gonjasufi - Duet (from Musicphileosophy)
Salem - Frost (from Audrglint 7")
Akido - Radium Girls (from Gamechanger)
Mum - We Have a Map of the Piano (from Finally we are No One)
Suuns - Arena (from Zeroes QC)
Of Montreal - Coquet Coquette (from False Priest)
Diamond Rings - Something Else (from Special Affections)
Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith - Not in Love (single)
The Blow - True Affection (from Paper Television)
The Blow - Come on, Petunia (from Poor Aim: Love Songs)
Iggy Pop - The Passenger (from Lust for Life)
The Blow - Fists Up (from Paper Television)

Next week: Chris interviews many of the players involved in Toronto's noted Tranzac music club.

Playlist - Nov 5, 2010 - Stephin Merritt, Sharon Van Etten

2010-11-05T19:10:00.000-07:00

This week: Chris interviews Brooklyn singer Sharon Van Etten + Kirthy Fix, director of the new doc 'Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt + the Magnetic Fields'. Also, we replay our interview with Stephin Merritt from this past February. The new record from the latter, Epic, is available now; the latter's film is now screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox starting this week, before expanding across Canada. You can listen to all of these interviews in our podcast archives.

Playlist
Owen Pallett - Scandal at the Parkade (from A Swedish Love Story EP)
Paperplanes and Dragonboats - Tell Me Before You Go (from Tell Me Before You Go single)
Hooded Fang - Too Late Night (from Hooded Fang album)
Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love (from Write About Love)
Meligrove Band - Bones Attack!!! (From Shimmering Lights)
Jim Bryson & the Weakerthans - Decidedly (from The Falcon Lake Inquiry)
Leif Vollebekk - Northernmost Eva Maria (from Inland)
Sharon Van Etten - Give Out (from Daytrotter Sessions)
Lower Dens - I Get Nervous (from Twin-Hand Movement)
Sharon Van Etten - Don't Do It (from Epic)
First Aid Kit - Hard Believer (from The Big Black and the Blue)
Junip - In Every Direction (from Fields)
Arcade Fire - Born On a Train (from KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic)
The Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers (from Holiday)
The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies (from The Wayward Bus)
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe You (from i)
Tommy James & The Shondells - Love's Closin' in on Me (from Tommy James & the Shondells anthology)
Jens Lekman & Tracey Thorn - Yeah! Oh Yeah! (from 20 Years of Merge, the Covers)
The Slits - Typical Girls (from Cut)
Grimes - Beast Infection (from Geidi Primes)

Next week: interviews w/ Jim Sclavunos of Grinderman + Khaela Maricich of The Blow!

Playlist - October 29, 2010 - Halloween Spooktacular, featuring GWAR

2010-10-29T20:28:00.000-07:00

This week: the fourth annual Electric Boogaloo Halloween Spooktacular! Featuring a brand new interview with Beefcake from legendary metal band GWAR, a talk with the cast of 'best worst movie' Troll 2, and an old favourite with Ghost Bees! Plus some scary surprises...

You can listen to highlights from this years Spooktacular here, and the whole show is available at http://ciut.fm starting on Monday.

Also, if you doing a music-based Halloween costume this year, send us photos! chris.berube@utoronto.ca

Playlist
Tasseomancy - Healthy Hands (from Healthy Hands 7")
Jex Thoth - Obsidian Night (from Jex Thoth)
YACHT - The Afterlife (from See Mystery Lights)
P:ano - Pure Evil (from Brigadoon)
Goblin - Tenebre (from Goblin)
Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart (from Fever Ray)
Dragon Boy Suede - You Won't Sass Me Like That When I Can Summon Wolves (from Master of Pheromonies)
Nich Worby - Zombie Guidance Counsellor (from Ghost Bone)
Hank Williams III - Satan is Real (from Straight to Hell)
Buck 65 - Wicked and Weird (from This Right Here is Buck 65)
Gwar - Metal Metal Land (from Lust in Space)
The Misfits - Halloween (from Halloween 7")
Peaches - Trick or Treat (from I Feel Cream)
The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost (from Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?)
Bauhaus - Bela Legosi's Dead (from Bela Lugosi's Dead)
Tracy Jordan - Werewolf Barmitzvah (from 30 Rock OST)

Next week: Brooklyn singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, plus a preview of the new movie Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields.

Thanks everybody!

2010-10-29T20:26:00.000-07:00

Hey team! Thanks to everybody who gave to the Electric Boogaloo fundraising drive for Fall 2010! It was so much fun, and I had a great time. This is the first time we have hit our target during the fundraising show, and it means so much to me that so many people care about the show enough to give money to CIUT.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! Looking forward to many great shows coming up!

Chris Berube
Producer + Host, Electric Boogaloo

CIUT Fundraising!

2010-10-19T21:15:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody!

So, CIUT Fundraising is upon us again. Unfortunately, the station wouldn't let me do a sexy carwash, so we have to raise money the old fashioned way, by asking you for money!

CIUT is a volunteer run organization, with only a skeleton staff. Every dollar we raise goes towards our everday operations at the station. So help us out! Donate now at CIUT-dot-FM using PayPal, or call in during our show Friday, October 22nd, from Noon to 2pm. The number is 416-946-7800 or toll-free at 1-888-204-8976.

Help us out!

Thanks everybody,

Chris Berube
Host + Producer, Electric Boogaloo
http://ciut.fm

Playlist - October 15, 2010 - The Melvins, Bry Webb

2010-10-15T21:26:00.000-07:00

This week: Simon Borer interviews the godfathers of noise, The Melvins; Kristian Pedersen talks to the Constantines' Bry Webb about the origin of one of their best songs; and we replay an interview with Jessie Stein of Montreal band The Luyas.

You can listen to this week's episode of the show in its entirety here until October 23rd.

Playlist
Avey Tare - Lucky 1 (from Down There)
Albatross - Sirens (from Albatross EP)
Siskiyou - Never Ever Ever Ever Again (from Siskiyou)
Chad VanGaalen - Sing Me to Sleep (from Skelliconnection)
Foxes in Fiction - Bathurst (from Foxes in Fiction EP)
Attack in Black - Years (By One Thousand Fingertips) (from Years)
Perfume Genius - Learning (from Learning)
The Luyas - Forget Penzance (from Faker Death)
The Luyas - Cold Canada (from The Luyas)
Tune-Yards - Jamaica (from Bird-Brains)
Romo Roto - Caterpillar (from Unicorn Tsunami)
The Go! Team - Bull in the Heather (Sonic Youth cover)
!!! - Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass (from Strange Weather, Isn't It?)
PS, I Love You - Get Over (from Meet Me at the Muster Station)
Land of Talk - Cloak + Cipher (from Cloak + Cipher)
The Constantines - Hotline Operator (from Tournament of Hearts)
The Black Angels - Telephone (from Phosphene Dream)
Superchunk - Crossed Wires (from Majesty Shredding)
The Melvins - The Savage Hippy (from Nude With Boots)
The Melvins - Honey Bucket (from Houdini)
Wolf & Cub - Steal Their Gold (from Vessels)
Solomon Burke - None of Us Are Free (from Don't Give Up on Me)
Mavis Staples - Don't Knock (from You Are Not Alone)

Next week: CIUT's Fall Fundraising Drive! Featuring an interview with Murray Lightburn of The Dears!

Pop Montreal Podcasts

2010-10-09T21:48:00.001-07:00

Hey everybody! Our Pop Montreal interviews are now online. Listen to them here...

Madeleine Cummings of the McGill Daily interviews Fred Penner

Portland singer-songwriter Laura Viers

The weird and lovely English rocker Scout Niblett

Simon Borer talks with Forest City Lover's frontlady Kat Burns, while Sean MacKay talks to up-and-coming Toronto band Dinosaur Bones

Sessions from Brooklyn's charming Clare and the Reasons and Toronto's crazy Maylee Todd

And, of course, our interview with living legend Van Dyke Parks

Hope you enjoy these! Looking forward to Pop next year...

Playlist - October 8, 2010 - Pop Montreal Recap

2010-10-09T21:38:00.001-07:00

This week: we recap Pop Montreal! Interviews with Portland singer Laura Viers, English oddball Scout Niblett, and...get ready for it...FRED PENNER! Plus, Clare and the Reasons in session, and we give away Gorillaz tickets. Wow! All of our Pop Montreal coverage will be available in the podcast feed by this weekend.

Playlist
Pop Winds - Drowning in the Dark (from The Turquoise)
Silly Kissers - Sweet Adrian (from Precious Necklace)
Charlotte Cornfield - Adrienne Probably Knows (from It's Like That Here EP)
Laura Viers and Mount Analog - The Ocean (from The Land of Ice and Snow: The Songs of Led Zepplin)
Laura Viers - Wide Eyed, Legless (from July Flame)
The Watson Twins - Devil in You (Talking to You, Talking to Me)
Swans - My Birth (from My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky)
Marnie Stern - For Ash (from Marnie Stern)
Parlovr - Hell, Heaven (from Hell / Heaven / Big / Love)
Scout Niblett - Fuck Treasure Island (from Kidnapped by Neptune)
Scout Niblett - Just What I Needed (from Just Do It EP)
Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne (from Fabulous Muscles)
Ghost Bees - Tasseomancy (from Tasseomancy)
Wovenhand - His Rest (from The Threshingfloor)
Clare and the Reasons - You Hurt Me So (from CIUT Session)
Clare and the Reasons - Our Team is Grand (from CIUT Session)
Gorillaz feat. Gruff Rhys - Superfast Jellyfish (from Plastic Beach)
Campfires - Magic Carpet (from Bathetic)
Cotton Mouth - Black Hand (from Cotton Mouth Tour EP)
Evening Hymns - Broken Rifle (from Spirits Guides)
Fred Penner - The Cat Came Back (from The Cat Came Back)
Deerhoof - Wrong Time Capsule (from The Runners Four)
Gobble Gobble - Lawn Knives (from Secret 7")

Next week: Simon Borer interviews influential rock band The Melvins.

Playlist - October 1, 2010 - Kat Burns; Dinosaur Bones

2010-10-09T21:28:00.000-07:00

This week: Chris is away in Montreal, so Sean MacKay + Simon Borer fill in! And they interview Forest City Lovers' singer and primary songwriter Kat Burns, and Toronto indie band Dinosaur Bones.

Playlist
The Walkmen - Angela Surf City (from Lisbon)
Fresh and Onlys - Waterfall (from Play it Strange)
No Age - Life Prowler (from Everything in Between)
Male Bonding - Weird Feelings (from Nothing Hurts)
Women - Narrow in the Hall (from Public Strain)
No Joy - Heedless (from Ghost Blonde)
Dinosaur Bones - Royalty (from Dinosaur Bones EP)
Laurel Halo - Metal Confection (from King Felix)
Zola Jesus - Sea Talk (from Stridulum II)
Kathryn Calder - Slip Away (from Are You My Mother?)
Diamond Rings - Something Else (from Special Affections)
Sufjan Stevens - From the Mouth of Gabriel (from All Delighted People EP)
Maximum Balloon feat. Lucky Dragon - If You Return (from Maximum Balloon)
The Blanket - I'm On Fire (from Be Your Own Boss)
Musk Ox - '72-'76 (from Musk Ox)
Anagram - Everything I Have (from The Lights Went Up)
The Creeping Nobodies - Fragment (from Stop Movement Stop Loss)
Baby Eagle - Days of Our Departing (from Baby Eagles)
Fred Squire - What's That Over There, a Dead Rainbow? (from Fred Squire)
Forest City Lovers - Minneapolis (from Carriage)
Gris Gris - Raygun (from The Gris Gris)
Daniel Romano - Working for the Music Man (from Working for the Music Man)
Julie Doiron - Borrowed Minivans (from I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day)
Eric Chenaux with Ryan Driver - New Boon Harp (from Warm Weather)

Next week: Chris returns from Montreal, and brings with him interviews with Scout Niblett, Laura Viers, and many more!

Pop Montreal - this week!

2010-09-27T21:57:00.001-07:00

Exciting news: Chris Berube, the host + one of the producers of this show, is going to be at a few days of Pop Montreal this weekend!

You can listen to Chris' festival preview here, and an interview with Pop headliner Van Dyke Parks right here.

We'll be posting interviews with festival performers all week at our podcast site, and you can follow Chris' thoughts at his Twitter account.

Have a great week everybody!

Podcast #172 - Jonathan Safran Foer

2010-09-27T21:51:00.000-07:00

Last week, I had a chance to speak with acclaimed author Jonathan Safran Foer, he of Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud + Incredibly Close, and now Eating Animals, which just came out in paperback.

You can hear our interview here, and can see Mr. Foer on Wendesday, September 29th at the George Ignatieff Theatre at the University of Toronto. More details are available on his website.

We're also doing a giveaway! If you would like to win tickets to see JSF + a copy of his latest book, email me at chris.berube@utoronto.ca We'll do a draw Tuesday morning.

TIFF 2010!

2010-09-27T21:43:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody,

Since I reused many of my TIFF interviews for the CBC (hope you were reading my blogging for them!), I wasn't allowed to use the audio for my own show until now, one week after TIFF's conclusion. Even though the Toronto Intn'l Film Festival is doubtlessly well out of mind now, here are my interviews from the festival this year!

Mike Mills, director of Beginners + lots of great music videos

Richard Ayoade (pictured above), director of Submarine + well-known British comedian

Lynn Hershman Leeson, director of the doc ! Women, Art Revolution

Romain Gavras, controversial music video director + maker of the new film Our Day Will Come

Ludivine Sagnier, French film star!

Hope you all had a lovely festival.

Playlist - September 24, 2010 - Pop Montreal preview, w. Van Dyke Parks

2010-09-25T10:52:00.001-07:00

This week: a look ahead to next week's Pop Montreal. We interview legendary festival headliner Van Dyke Parks, whose past collaborators include The Beach Boys, Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, The Byrds, Robert Altman + Joanna Newsom. Also, we talk to the McGill Daily's Naomi Endicott for a local perspective on the festival, and Rob Duffy gloats about his successful Polaris prediction.

We'll be covering Pop Montreal throughout the festival, right here! Look out for new interviews, reviews, and more.

Playlist
Doldrums - Tantrum Pt. 1 (from Parrot Talk)
Gobble Gobble - Becoming Legion (Becoming Legion 7")
The Winks - Ohio (from Chorus Girls)
Think About Life - Wizzzard (from Family)
Karkwa - L'Acouphene (from Les Chemins des Verres)
Shapes and Sizes - Tell Your Mum (from Candle to Your Eye)
Imaginary Cities - Temporary Resident (from Temporary Resident)
Braids - She Brave Soul (from Set Pieces EP)
Grimes - Dark Heart (from Grimes EP)
Gotan Project - La Gloria (from Tango 3.0)
Big Freedia - Gin in my System (from Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1)
Danielson - Animal in my Corner (from Animal Hartz)
The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains (from Smiley Smile)
Van Dyke Parks - The Attic (from Song Cycles)
Inara George + Van Dyke Parks - Oh My Love (from An Invitation)
Joanna Newsom - Cosmia (from Ys)
Paolo Conte - Dancing (Live)
Harry Nilsson - Sweet Pee's Lullabye (from Popeye Demos)
Harry Nilsson - He Needs Me (from Popeye OST)
Van Dyke Parks - Manzanar (from Tokyo Rose)

Next week: Chris is away at Pop Montreal, so Simon Borer + Sean MacKay are going to fill in. This could get ugly.

Meet the Nominees for Polaris 2010

2010-09-20T09:35:00.001-07:00

With the fifth annual Polaris Music Prize being awarded tonight, it's an appropriate time to quickly catch up on some of the nominated artists. Luckily, we've had a chance to interview quite a few of the Polaris nominees on this year's list on Electric Boogaloo. Check 'em out!

The Besnard Lakes (in session) - Podcast #152

Caribou - Podcast #126

Karkwa - Podcast #166

Dan Mangan - Podcast #93, and then he Guest DJed Podcast #116

Owen Pallett - Podcast #69

Shad - Podcast #40

Ohad Benchetrit (from Broken Social Scene) in Session

Liz Powell (from Broken Social Scene) - Podcast #136

Playlist - September 17, 2010 - Polaris Preview, with Karkwa

2010-09-20T09:15:00.000-07:00

This week: our Polaris Prize extravaganza! Our panel of music journalists (Exclaim Magazine's Nicole Villeneuve, and Eye Weekly's Chandler Levack + Rob Duffy) weigh in with their picks; we interview Montreal's Karkwa; and we re-run conversations with three other nominees, Caribou, Dan Mangan, and The Besnard Lakes. You can listen now to the roundtable discussion at the EB podcast page.

Playlist
Caribou - Hannibal (from Swim)
Caribou - Leave House (from Swim)
Owen Pallett - Oh Heartland, Up Yours (from Heartland)
Besnard Lakes - Albatross (CIUT Session)
Besnard Lakes - Devestation (CIUT Session)
Dan Mangan - The Indie Queens are Waiting (from Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
Dan Mangan - Robots (from Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
Broken Social Scene - Highway Slipper Jam (from Forgiveness Rock Record)
Tegan and Sara - Alligator (from Sainthood)
Mantler - In Stride (from Monody)
Misteur Valaire - Ave Mucho (from Golden Bombay)
Radio Radio - Guess What? (from Belmundo Regal)
Karkwa - Les Chemins de Verre (from Les Chemins de Verre)
Karkwa - Marie tu Pleures (from Les Chemins de Verre)
The Sadies - Another Day Again (from Darker Circles)

Next week: our Pop Montreal preview, featuring an interview with American music legend Van Dyke Parks.

Playlist - September 10, 2010 - Back to School, with Shad

2010-09-20T09:03:00.001-07:00

This week: it's back to school! Sean MacKay offers study tips, while Polaris Prize nominated rapper Shad gives students radical money-saving advice. You can listen to our interview with Shad in Podcast #40.

Playlist
Beach Boys - Be True to Your School (from Little Deuce Coup)
Braids - Lemonade (from Native Speaker)
Buke and Gass - Medulla Oblongata (from )
Marnie Stern - Transparency is the New Mystery (from )
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Bright Lit Blue Skies (from Before Today)
The Golden Dogs - Permanent Record (from Cost of Arms)
Bravestation - White Wolves (from Bravestation EP)
Twin Shadow - Slow (from Forget)
Harlem - Friendly Ghost (from Hippies)
Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped up in Books (from Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
Owen Pallett - A Man With No Ankles (from A Swedish Love Story EP)
Crystal Castles - Babtism Age (No Age Remix)
Dirty Projectors & Bjork - On and Ever Onward (from Mount Wittenberg Orca)
Foxes in Fiction - Bathurst (from )
Zeus - Kindergarten(from Say Us)
Boats - Chrome Eyelids (from Cannonballs, Cannonballs)
Male Bonding - Franklin (from Nothing Hurts)
Happy Birthday - Perverted Girl (from Happy Birthday)
The Magnetic Fields - California Girls (from Distortion)
Fang Island - Daisy (from Fang Island)
Winter Gloves - Jump (from All Red)
Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars (from )
Japandroids - Heavenward Grand Prix (from Heavenward Grand Prix)
Jenny Omnichord - The Old Prince (from Charlotte or Otis)
Shad - The Old Prince Still Lives at Home (from The Old Prince)
Shad - Yaa, I Get It (Oddisee Remix)
Abraham Inc. - It's Not the Same (Figure it Out) (from Tweet Tweet)
El Guincho - FM Tan Sexy (from Pop Negro)
Rich Aucoin - It (from Public Publication)

Next week: Polaris Prize Preview (now say it five times fast), featuring Montreal's Karkwa.

Playlist - September 3, 2010 - Fall Music Preview, with Interpol

2010-09-05T20:55:00.000-07:00

This week: the EB team previews the new music season! Plus, Navi Lamba interviews Sam Fogarino, the drummer from NYC's Interpol. Remember them? Yeah, you do! Plus plus, Chris gives away Vampire Weekend/Beach House/Dum Dum Girls tickets! (Congrats to our winners, Graham, Dan, Chris, and Jano!) Special thanks for Ronan O'Leary for setting up the ticket giveaway.

Playlist
The Naked and Famous - Young Blood (from the Young Blood 7")
Chromeo - Night by Night (from Business Casual)
The Postelles - White Night (from Daytrotter Session)
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone (from You Are Not Alone)
Eric Chenaux - Rest Your Daylights (from Sloppy Ground)
Superchunk - Digging for Something (from Majesty Shredding)
Dum Dum Girls - Bhang Bhang I'm a Burnout (from I Will Be)
Beach House - Silver Soul (from Teen Dream)
Of Montreal - Sex Karma (from False Priest)
PS I Love You - Scattered (from PS I Love You EP)
Rae Spoon - Death by Elektro (from Love is a Hunter)
Interpol - Lights (from Interpol)
Interpol - Obstacle One (from Turn on the Bright Lights)
No Age - Glitter (from Everything in Between)
Swans - Eden Prison (from My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky)
Women - Eyesore (from Public Strain)
Sufjan Stevens - Enchanting Ghost (from All Delighted People EP)
John K. Samson - Cruise Night (from City Route 85)
Land of Talk - Swift Coin (from Cloak and Cipher)
Hot Panda - Mindlessnesslessness (from How Come I'm Dead?)

Next week: we're back to school! Interviews with the bands playing at UofT's frosh week concert.

Playlist - August 27, 2010 - Summer Dance Party!

2010-09-01T22:31:00.000-07:00

This week: Chris Berube + Navi Lamba wrap up summer with a bang! Plus, two hosts disagree on Robyn, and Chris previews upcoming interviews on the show. Podcast of this week's show can be found here.

Playlist
!!! - The Most Certain Sure (from Strange Weather, Isn't It?)
Holy Fuck - SHT MTN (from Latin)
Health - In Heat (Javelin Remix)
Holy Ghost - I Know, I Hear (from Holy Ghost!)
Chromeo - Don't Turn the Lights on (from Business Casual)
Neon Indian - Sleep Paralysist (from Psychic Chasms)
Hail Social - Heaven (from Heaven 7" Single)
Robyn - Dancing on My Own (from Body Talk, Part One)
Beach House - Lover of Mine (Roman Ruins Remix)
Dale Earnheardt Jr. Jr. - Vocal Chords (from Horse Power EP)
Gobble Gobble - Seizure to the Metronome (from Secret 7")
Woodhands - Electric Avenue (Eddie Money cover)
Manitoba - Crayons (from Up in Flames)
Cults - Go Outside (from Cults 7")
The Drums - Let's Go Surfing (from Summertime!)
Cadence Weapon feat. Final Fantasy - Mini TVs (CBC Fuse recording)
Busdriver - Man Baby (Single)
Flying Lotus - Do the Astral Plane (from Cosmogramma)
Tor - The CN Tower Can Work it Out (Final Fantasy/Q-Tip Mashup)
Memory Tapes - Bicycle (from Seek Magic)
Janelle Monae - Cold War (Wondamix)
Thunderheist - Sweet 16 (from Thunderheist)
Fever Ray - Seven (Martyn's Seventh Remix)
Parallels - Needless to Say (from Visionaries)
Matthew Dear - Dog Days (from Leave Luck to Heaven)
Le Tigre - Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
Lykke Li - Little Bit (Autoerotique Remix)
MIA v. Aphex Twin - Windowlickin' (Tevar Remix)
MIA - XXXO (Modek remix)
Venetian Snares - Ghetto Body Buddy (from Chocolate Wheelchair Album)

Next week: EB's producers preview the records of the fall, and an interview with Sam Fogarino from Interpol.

Playlist - August 20, 2010 - Sally Seltmann, Maylee Todd, Sheezer

2010-09-01T22:12:00.000-07:00

This week: interviews with three lovely women - Australian singer Sally Seltmann (previously know as New Buffalo), Toronto's Maylee Todd (interviewed by Simon Borer), and Laura Barrett, talking about her new project Sheezer (all-female Weezer cover band made up of indie rock stars - you're welcome, world). Also, new music from Of Montreal, Frazey Ford, and Deerhunter. Podcasts coming soon!

Playlist
Best Coast - Boyfriend (from Best Coast)
Gramercy Riffs - Oh Linda! (from It's Heartbreak)
Peter Wolf Crier - Crutch and Crane (from Inter-Be)
Forest City Lovers - Pocketful of Rocks (from Carriage)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Come Undone (from Hawk)
Weezer - The Good Life (from Pinkerton)
Kathryn Calder - Arrow (from Are You My Mother?)
Frazey Ford - Firecracker (from Obadiah)
Sally Seltmann - Set Me Free (from Heart That's Pounding)
New Buffalo - I've Got You and You've Got Me (from The Last Beautiful Day)
Laura Stevenson and the Cans - Holy Ghost (single)
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - I Remember Learning How to Dive (from Prospect Hummer EP)
Tame Impala - Solitude is Bliss (from Innerspeaker)
Of Montreal - Hydra Fancies (from )
Deep Cotton - Self! (from )
Lemonade - Lifted (from Pure Moods EP)
Rae Spoon - You Can Dance (from Love is a Hunter)
Deerhunter - Revival (from Revival 7" single)
Wolf Parade - Cloud Shadow of the Mountain (from Expo 86)
Dominant Legs - Clawing Out at the Walls (from Young Love and Life)
Maylee Todd - A Lullabye for my Fictitious Children (CIUT Session)
Maylee Todd - Hooked (CIUT Session)
Maylee Todd - Successive Mutations (CIUT Session)
Giant Hand - Books (from Starting as People)
Antony & The Johnsons - Thank you For Your Love (from Swanlights)

Next week: the EB end of summer dance party!

An announcement.

2010-08-06T12:11:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody,

A couple of weeks ago on the program, I announced that Electric Boogaloo would be coming to an end July 30th. This was based on my intention to move away from Toronto for grad school.

However, three weeks ago, everything changed for me. My father passed away suddenly after an accident. It was a real surprise, and the last few weeks have been the most difficult of my life.

While there aren't really any positives to this situation, I will be staying in Toronto, which means I will be continuing the radio show. There are going to be some major changes, however, which I will elaborate on next week.

I just want to say thank you so much to everyone who has been regularly listening to the show. It means the world to me that I can return to making something I am incredibly proud of every week. I really appreciate everybody's support during the last little while.

Much love,

Chris Berube
Host and Producer, Electric Boogaloo

Playlist - August 6th, 2010 - TuneYards, Frog Eyes

2010-08-06T12:05:00.000-07:00

This week: Chris returns with a brand new show! Merrill Garbus from TuneYards discusses cultural appropriation in music, and Carey Mercer from Frog Eyes talks about, among other things, the band RATT. Podcasts will be posted of each of these interviews here.

Playlist
The Books - Thirty Incoming (from The Way Out)
Mixylodian - Make Me (from Wild in Church)
Panda Bear - Slow Motion (from Tomboy)
Toro Y Moi - Minors (from Causers of This)
Grinderman - Heathen Child (from the Heathen Child EP)
Black Mountain - The Hair Song (from Wilderness Heart)
Wolf Parade - Palm Road (from Expo 86)
Frog Eyes - Rebel Horns (from Paul's Tomb, A Triumph)
Abner Jay - I'm So Depressed (from One Man Band)
Frog Eyes - The Sensitive Girls (from Paul's Tomb, A Triumph)
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (from The Suburbs)
Blonde Redhead - Here Somethings (from Penny Sparkle)
Flying Lotus - Do the Astral Plane (from Cosmogramma)
Javelin - Intervales Theme (Steinski Remix)
Crystal Castles - Empathy (from Crystal Castles)
Future Islands - Inch of Dust (from Evening Air)
Fanshaw - Diana (from Dark Eyes)
CocoRosie - The Moon Asked the Crow (from Grey Oceans)
Tune-Yards - Jumping Jack (from Bird-Brains)
Thomas Mapfumo - Marandu (from Hokoyo!)
Tune-Yards - I Really Taught Me to Watusi (intenet single)
Dirty Projectors - Two Doves (from Bitte Orca)
Spiritualized - Any Way You Want Me (from Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space)

Next week: the best of Electric Boogaloo. We replay guest DJ sets with Dan Mangan + Veda Hille.

Playlist - July 9, 2010 - Buck 65, The Luyas

2010-08-06T10:19:00.000-07:00

This week: Kristian Pedersen interviews Rich Terfry, aka Buck 65, the Canadian rapper turned radio host. And Chris chats with Jessie Stein of Montreal band The Luyas, whose new record is forthcoming.

Playlist
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee (from Shadows)
Dirty Projectors + Bjork - On and Ever Onward (from Mount Wittenberg Orca)
CocoRosie - The Moon Asked the Cow (from Grey Oceans)
Nina Nastasia - You're a Holy Man (from Outlaster)
Grooms - Dreamsucker (from Rejoicer)
School of Seven Bells - Windstorm (from Disconnect from Desire)
Treasure - Canada (from Canada)
The Luyas - Dumb Blood (from Faker Death)
The Luyas - Tiny Head (from The Luyas)
Novels - Big Run (from Novels)
Clem Snide - Desire (from The Meat of Life)
The Beauties - Wastin' Time (from The Beauties)
Buck 65 - Wicked and Weird (from Porch)
Buck 65 - Craftsmanship (from Kidvector's Fruit of the Loon)
Buck 65 - Cries a Girl (from This Right Here is Buck 65)
Ghettosocks - A Song About Breakdancing (from Got Some Friends)
Shad - Yaa, I Get it (from TSOL)

Playlist - July 2, 2010 - EB Comedy Spectacular!

2010-07-02T10:28:00.000-07:00

This week: to celebrate the coming Just for Laughs Toronto festival, we present a show of interviews with comedians, and songs we find amusing. Navi Lamba and Chris Berube talk to Patton Oswalt about the KFC Double Down, and Demetri Martin about making the transition to television, while Lily Ames speaks with Toronto's Nick Flanagan about plying his trade in Toronto. Watch this blog for more coverage throughout Toronto Just For Laughs, including more interviews with festival headliners.

Playlist
The Unicorns - Jellybones (single)
Jenny Omnichord - Kings of London (from Cities of Gifts and Ghosts)
Gravity Wave - Kumquat (from Gambol)
Dizzee Rascal feat. Lily Allen - Wanna Be (from Maths + English)
Demetri Martin - Some More Jokes (from These Are Jokes)
Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra - Salt Peanuts (from Musicraft 518)
Prairie Cat - It Began/Ended With Sparks (from It Began/Ended With Sparks)
Sloan - Chester the Molester (from
P:ano - T. Hatch Says 'Round Every Corner' (from Ghost Pirates Without Heads)
Patton Oswalt - I Will Kill George Lucas With a Shovel at Midnight (from Werewolves and Lollipops)
TV on the Radio - Halfway Home (from Dear Science)
Buck 65 - The Centaur (from ZeD: Live off the Floor)
Flight of the Conchords - Carol Brown (from I Told You I Was Freaky)
Matt Berry - Jet Setter (from Opium)
The Ditty Bops - Wishful Thinking (from Ditty Bops)
Bob Wiseman - Kissproof (from The Legend)
Adam Green - Jessica (from Friends of Mine)
Brutal Knights - You're Fired, I Quit (from Feast of Shame)
Brutal Knights - Support Me or Deport Me (from Feast of Shame)
Brutal Knights - I Do Nothing (from Feast of Shame)
The Lovely Feathers - Rod Stewart (from Hind Hind Legs)
Ninja High School - By Purpose Not by Plan (from Young Adults Against Suicide)
Shad - Yaa I Get it (from TSOL)
Socalled - These Are the Good Old Days (from Ghettoblaster)

Next week: in-studio with Buck 65, and an interview with Jessie Stein from Montreal's The Luyas!

Playlist - June 25, 2010 - NXNE Wrap Up, w. Neutral Uke Hotel + Steven MacKay

2010-07-02T09:14:00.000-07:00

This week: our expert panel reviews the week that was NXNE 2010! Also, Kristian Pedersen interviews Neutral Uke Hotel, and Chris interviews Toronto Steven MacKay. Find podcasts of this week's show here.

Playlist
PS, I Love You - Starfield (from Starfield)
Best Coast - When I'm With You (from Best Coast)
Japandroids - Younger Us (from the Younger Us 7")
Kid Sister - Life on TV (from Ultraviolet)
Wavves - King of the Beach (from King of the Beach)
The Balconies - 300 Pages (from The Balconies)
Inlets - In Which I, Robert (from Inter Arbiter)
Little Girls - Thrilles (from Concepts)
Grooms - Dreamsucker (from Rejoicer)
Mathemagic - High (from Mathemagic EP)
Slam Dunk - Feral Child (from Slam Dunk)
Neutral Uke Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 (blog recording)
Neutral Uke Hotel - Two Headed Boy (CIUT Session)
Golden Bloom - Rhyme the Reasons (CIUT Session)
Steven MacKay - Slow Down (from Steven MacKay)
Steven MacKay - Emma Comes Home (from Steven MacKay)
Forest City Lovers - Light You Up (from Carriage)
The Acorn - No Ghost (from No Ghost)
Tennis - Marathon (from Tennis)
Montag - No My Aloha (from Des Casettes et un Walkman Jaune)

Next week: the Electric Boogaloo Comedy Spectacular! Interviews with comedians Patton Oswalt, Demetri Martin, and Nick Flanagan. And songs that are funny!

Playlist - June 18, 2010 - The Raveonettes, Bruce MacDonald, Eagles of Death Metal + the Besnard Lakes

2010-06-18T10:33:00.000-07:00

This week: it's our mid-NorthbyNorthEast show, featuring music from bands playing the festival, and interviews with Sharin from The Raveonettes; director Bruce MacDonald, whose Broken Social Scene collaboration This Movie is Broken is debuting at the festival; and Jesse Hughes from The Eagles of Death Metal. Also, an exclusive session from Montreal's Besnard Lakes. To hear podcasts of these interviews, check out our podcast archive here!

Playlist
Asteroid #4 - Flowers of Ours (from These Flowers of Ours)
Ruby Coast - More Than Television (from their EP)
The Magic - No Sound (from The Magic EP)
Indian Jewlery - Excessive Moonlight (from Totaled)
Broken Social Scene - Art House Director (from Forgiveness Rock Record)
Stars - Bitches in Tokyo (from In Our Bedroom After the War)
Besnard Lakes - And This is What We Call Progress (CIUT Session)
Besnard Lakes - Devastation (CIUT Session)
Besnard Lakes - Albatross (CIUT Session)
The Mountains and the Trees - More & More & More (from I Made This for You)
Pete Samples - Bobby Raindrop (from The Jumper Cables)
Hannah Georgas - Chit Chat (from This is Good)
Zola Jesus - Night (from Stridulum)
Japandroids - Wet Paint (from Post-Nothing)
Women - Upstairs (from Women)
Freindo - Oversees (from Cold Toads)
Savoir Adore - Bodies (from Bodies)
Cut Throat Britva - Pink Pills (from their EP)
Eagles of Death Metal - Solid Gold (from Death by Sexy)
Wavves - Post Acid (from Green Label Sound)
CoCoComa - You Better Beware (from Things Are All Right)
The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound (from Chain Gang of Love)
The Raveonettes - Bang! (from In and Out of Control)
The Bitters - Travellin' Girl (from East General)
The Craft Economy - The Tonic (from Is On Your Side EP)
Les Savy Fav - Pots and Pans (from Let's Stay Friends)
Iggy Pop - I'm Bored (from The Idiot)

Next week: our NXNE Wrap-up, featuring interviews with Buck 65 and Free Energy.

NXNE 2010 Tip Sheet!

2010-06-16T22:47:00.000-07:00

With the 2010 NXNE Festival upon us, Electric Boogaloo is going to be in the streets covering the whole thing. Our preview show is available for download here, as well as an insightful interview with Exene Cervenka from one of the headlining bands, X.

For those unsure of what to see, here's a handy guide to the best of each day at the festival this year. The recommender of each band is in brackets - CB = Chris Berube (Host of Electric Boogaloo), RD = Rob Duffy (EYE WEEKLY), KP = Kristian Pedersen (Battlehip), NL = Navi Lamba + SM = Sean MacKay (The Varsity)

Keep checking this site for daily coverage of the festival!

Thursday

6pm Free Energy Dundas Square (RD, KP)
8pm Friendo The Great Hall (CB)
10pm X Yonge-Dundas Square (CB)
10pm Bad Tits Drake Underground (KP)
10pm Donlands and Mortimer Whippersnapper Gallery (CB)
11pm Warpaint Horseshoe (RD, CB)
11pm Buck 65 Rivoli (KP)
12am The Coast Gladstone (RD)
12am Diableros The Comfort Zone (KP)
12am CoCoComa The Great Hall (CB)

Friday

9pm Avi Buffalo Great Hall (RD, CB)
9pm Neutral Uke Hotel The Painted Lady (KP)
9pm Inlets Whippersnapper Gallery (CB)
9pm Grooms Lee's Palace (KP)
11pm Best Coast Garrison (RD, KP)
11pm WAVVES Lee's Palace (SM)
11pm Wooden Wand Whipersnapper Gallery (RD)
11pm Silly Kissers Silver Dollar Room (CB)
12am Rich Aucoin El Mocambo (KP, RD CB)
12am Diamond Rings Wrongbar (NL, RD)
12am The Soft Pack Garrison (RD)
12am By Divine Right Silver Dollar Room (KP)
12am Japandroids Lee's Palace (SM)
12am Man or Astro-Man? Horseshoe (CB)
1am PS I Love You Lee's Palace (SM)
1am Boats The Painted Lady (CB)
2am Women Silver Dollar Room (CB)

Saturday

5pm DD/MM/YYYY Yonge-Dundas Square (SM, CB)
8pm The Raveonettes Yonge-Dundas Square (RD, CB)
9:30pm Iggy and the Stooges Yonge-Dundas Square (CB)
10pm The Grates Wrongbar (CB, NL)
11pm The Asteroid #4 (RD, KP)
11pm The Magic Sneaky Dee's (KP, CB)
12am Surfer Blood Wrongbar (RD, SM)
12am Jeff the Brotherhood The Garrison (KP)
12am Pete Samples Cameron House (CB)
1am Ruby Coast Sneaky Dee's (RD)
1am Les Savy Fav Wrongbar (SM)
2am Classixx Drake Underground (KP)

Sunday

7pm Phenomenal Handclap Band Dundas Square (RD, KP, CB)
8pm Kid Sister Yonge-Dundas Square (KP, CB)
9:30pm De La Soul Yonge-Dundas Square (CB, NL)
1am OPOPO Wrongbar (KP)

Playlist - June 11th, 2010 - NXNE Preview, w. X

2010-06-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

This week: our NXNE preview show, featuring our expert panel, and an interview with Exene Cervenka from punk band X. Each show can be downloaded as a podcast here.

Playlist
Bruce Peninsula - Crabapples (from Mountain is a Mouth)
Free Energy - Dream City (from Stuck on Nothing)
Best Coast - Sun Was High (And So Am I) (from Best Coast)
Young Galaxy - Disposable Time (from Invisible Republic)
The Soft Pack - Answer to Yourself (from The Soft Pack)
Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet (from James and the Quiet)
By Divine Right - Soul Explosion (from James and the Quiet)
Rich Aucoin - Watching, Wishing, Wanting (from Personal Publication)
Diamond Rings - On Fire (from Wait and See)
Surfer Blood - Twin Peaks (from Astro Coast)
The Raveonettes - Last Dance (from In and Out of Control)
Man or Astro-Man - Universe City (from 1000X)
De La Soul - Me, Myself and I (from 3 Feet High and Rising)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20 (from The Phenomenal Handclap Band)
Buck 65 - Kennedy Killed the Hat (from Secret House Against the World)
X - Nausea (from Los Angeles)
X - Sex and Dying in High Society (from Los Angeles)
X - Motel Room in My Bed (from Under the Big Black Sun)

Next week: more coverage from NXNE 2010!

Polaris Prize underdogs

2010-06-07T12:21:00.000-07:00

With Polaris ballots due tomorrow, much of the long list is already determined, whether it's the logical favourites (previous winners Owen Pallet and Caribou have each turned in their best work this year), the illogical ones (the National Post Ampersand podcast mentioned Billy Talent, one hopes in jest), or the sentimental (You Say Party! We Say Die! are among the favourites, though not undeservedly, after the tragic passing of their drummer Devon Clifford earlier this summer).

With this in mind, I can only hope Polaris voters remember these dark horses when casting their initial ballot. If one even makes it to the shortlist, I will consider this year a roaring success!

Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb, A Triumph
While not Frog Eyes' best record, Carey Mercer is well past due for this kind of critical recognition. Also, Paul's Tomb is refreshing, full of the manic energy we're grown used to from Mercer's distinct songcraft.

Giant Hand - Coming Home
Kirk Ramsay is a bit of an unpolished talent, but the high points of his first proper record show tremendous promise. If just for the chilling "Coming Down from the Mountain", it would be a nice vote of confidence to see him mentioned. Listen to Giant Hand's mini-performance and interview at CMW on our show here.

Language-Arts - Where Were You in the Wild?
The, ahem, distinct voice of Vancouver's Kristen Cudmore has made this band divisive among critics and music fans. However, the band's second record, full of Cudmore's sing-raps and classical guitar, is a wildly inventive salute to the endless variety of the pop music form. Listen to Language-Arts' interview on our show here.

The Peter Project - Fresh Soap EP
Sure, I'm featured briefly in one of the tracks, and, as such, would expect royalties if this somehow won the $20,000 (sorry Peter). However, the fact remains that Peter Chapman packs more ideas into a slim six track EP then some DJs do in their entire discographies. Listen to Peter's appearance on the show last winter here.

Reverie Sound Revue - S/T
While Lisa Lobsinger has been largely seen as a utility player in Broken Social Scene - where she frequently fills in when her more famous compatriots in the band are unavailable - her first full-length record as RSR is a great collection of sprightly pop tunes. Hopefully a longlist inclusion will bring her some more much deserved credibility as more than just a pale substitute for Amy Millan.

I WISH they qualified: The Luyas' new self-titled record, and Rich Aucoin's Personal Publication. The fact that both of these new albums are still looking for a label to call home indicates to me that not all is well in the world of Canadian indie rock. Hopefully both find a distributor, and an audience, in time for next year's voting.

Early favourite to win: Shad - TOSL
Other logical favourites: Jason Collett, Dan Mangan, Zeus

Playlist - June 4, 2010 - Socalled; Slim Twig Guest DJs

2010-06-06T18:36:00.000-07:00

This week: EB goes off the deep end a bit - an interview with klezmer-hip hop star Socalled (a documentary about him opens next week in Toronto), and the return of Toronto's Slim Twig as a guest DJ (his picks are *ed below). Podcasts up shortly at our archive site.

Playlist
Slim Twig - Tormen (from Vernacular Violence)
*Pretty Things - Alexander (from Philippe DeBarge)
*Gonjasufi - Deadnd (from A Sufi and a Killer)
*Lee Hazlewood - Rainbow Woman (from Rainbow Woman single)
*Slim Twig - Unreleased (from unreleased Sight Unseen OST)
*Tropics - Leather Pepperette (unreleased)
*Zacht Automatt - Glad U Agree (from Zacht Automatt)
*Roxy Music - Pyjamarama (from Pyjamarama single)
*Serge Gainsbourg - Flash Forward (from Integrale Vol. 7)
*Kevin Ayers - Town Feeling (from Toy of a Joy)
*Onakabazien - Trans (from unreleased session of Neil Young remixes)
Micachu - Vulture (from Jewelery)
Nifty - Tune Into You (from A Sparrow! A Sparrow!)
Fol Chen - Winter, That's All (from Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made)
Cotton Jones - Where You Stop for a Minute (from Rio Ranger EP)
Parenthetical Girls - A Song for Ellie Greenwich (from Entanglements)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wawa (from Press Colour)
Experimental Dental School - Cheap Wine River (from Forest Field)
Socalled - You Are Never Alone (from Ghettoblaster)
Socalled - Told Me So (from upcoming album)
Busdriver - Man Baby (single)

Next week: our NXNE coverage begins! An interview with Exene Crevenka from the legendary punk band X, and a panel discussion about what to see and what to skip at Northby 2010.

Playlist - May 28, 2010 - Fyfe Dangerfield; The Morning Benders

2010-05-28T10:49:00.000-07:00

This week: a salute to pop music, with two of the best musicians making it. Interviews with Chris from The Morning Benders, and Fyfe Dangerfield, leader of Guillemots and now solo artist. Also, my mom reviews Iron Man! You can listen to the show for a week as streaming audio at http://ciut.fm

Playlist
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Single)
Toro Y Moi - Blessa (from Causers of This)
Secret Cities - Pink Graffiti (from Pink Graffiti)
Broken Social Scene - All to All (from Forgiveness Rock Record)
Morning Benders - Excuses (from Big Echo)
Boyz II Men - Thank You (from II)
Elephant Stone - Strangers (from The Glass Box EP)
The Bitters - The New Real Way (from East General)
Dirty Projectors - Ascending Melody (from Ascending Melody 7")
The Acorn - Restoration (Four Tet Remix)
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill (from Treats)
Beach Fossils - Youth (from s/t)
City of Glass - Big Ideas (from Equations EP)
Dog Day - Rome (from Concentration)
Caribou - Cellophane (from tour CD)
Junip - Rope and Summit (from Rope and Summit EP)
Brasstronaut - Requiem for a Scene (from Old World Lies EP)
Guillemots - Trains to Brazil (from Through the Window Pane)
Fyfe Dangerfield - Faster Than the Setting Sun (from Fly Yellow Moon)
Super Furry Animals - Juxtaposed With You (from Rings Around the World)
The Concretes - Good Evening (from WYWH)
Bill Callahan - Bowery (from Rough Travel for a Rare Thing)

Next week: EB goes off the deep-end - Slim Twig returns to DJ an hour of music, and an interview with Montreal klezmer-rap superstar Socalled.

Playlist - May 21, 2010 - Sharon Jones + The Dap Kings, Land of Talk

2010-05-21T20:22:00.001-07:00

This week: Liz Powell from Land of Talk guest DJs an hour of her favourite music (Liz's picks are *ed below); also, an interview with Gabriel Roth, bandleader for Sharon Jones + The Dap Kings. Podcasts with both interviews will be up this week at our podcast archive site.

Playlist
Land of Talk - May You Never (from Fun and Laughter EP)
*Big Star - Thirteen (from #1 Record)
*Eisley - Just Like We Do (from Room Noises)
*Sparklehorse - Heart of Darkness (from Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot)
Land of Talk - Sixteen Asterix (from Fun and Laughter EP)
*Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio (from Ghosts of the Great Highway)
*Gillian Welch - Wayside/Back in Time (from Soul Journey)
Land of Talk - Ghost (from Hiss Boo Cheer Applause EP)
Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull (from Fortress)
Japandrois - To Hell With Good Intentions (from Saucony Originals compilation)
Rah Rah - Hurt Me Bad (from Breaking Hearts)
Young Rival - Ghost in the Park (from Young Rival)
Mark Sultan - I'll Be Lovin' You (from $)
King Khan and the Shrines - Welfare Bread (from King Khan and the Shrines)
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (from 100 Days, 100 Nights)
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Better Things (from I Learned the Hard Way)
Sun Wizard - You Had the Answer (from Maybe They Were Right)
Deerhunter - Never Stops (from Microcastle)
The National - Conversation 16 (from High Violet)
Sing Leaf - The Watch (from The Watch)
Jenny Omnichord - Skeletal Polyamory (from All Our Little Bones)

Next week: interviews with Fyfe Dangerfield from Guillemots + The Morning Benders.

Hot Docs!

2010-05-18T20:03:00.001-07:00

I've finally posted all of my interviews from the 2010 Hot Docs festival as podcasts! Hooray!

Check these out:

-Podcast #127, with Socalled, the klezmer rap superstar, and star of the new Socalled Movie.

-Podcast #131, with Kerthy Fix, director of Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields.

-Podcast #132, with director Celine Danhier, and editor Vanessa Roworth from the film Blank City, about the rise of no wave film-making in New York City in the 70s.

Each of these three films is opening in Toronto late summer or early fall. Enjoy!

Playlist - May 14, 2010 - Holy Fuck; Dr. Dog

2010-05-15T20:26:00.000-07:00

This week: more summer music, as picked by Sean MacKay + Navi Lamba (music bloggers for The Varsity student newspaper at UofT), and interviews with two artists celebrating new records: Graham Walsh from Toronto's Holy Fuck, and Scott McMicken from Philly's Dr. Dog.

Playlist
The Drums - Let's Go Surfing (from Summertime!)
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La (from Dum Dum Girls)
Happy Birthday - Girls FM (from Happy Birthday)
Plants and Animals - Tom Cruz (from La La Land)
We Are Wolves - Reaching for the Sky (from Invisible Violence)
LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change (from This is Happening)
Holy Fuck - Silva and Grimes (from Latin)
Holy Fuck - PIGS (from Latin)
MNDR - Fade to Black (from MNDR)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Time of the Assassins (Matthew Dear remix)
Neon Indian - 6669 (from Aislyn Remix)
The New Pornographers - Silver Jenny Dollar (from Together)
Still Flyin - The Hott Chord is Struck (from Never Gonna Touch the Ground)
Magic Kids - Hey Boy (from Hey Boy)
Tune-Yards - News (from Bird-Brains)
Broken Social Scene - Meet Me in the Basement (from Forgiveness Rock Record)
The Big Pink - Velvet (from A Brief History of Love)
Silly Kissers - You Could Even Like Me (from Precious Necklace)
Dr. Dog - Heart it Races (from Heart it Races single)
Dr. Dog - Mirror, Mirror (from Shame, Shame)
Dr. Dog - Shadow People (from Shame, Shame)
The Whitsundays - Silent in the Wind (from Saul)
Ryan Bourne - Love and Death (from Supermodern World of Beauty)
Grand Trine - Magnet (from Sunglasses)
Thee Oh Sees - Ghost in the Trees (from The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending the Night in)
Sleigh Bells - On the Ground (from Treats)

Next week: Liz Powell from Land of Talk stops by to guest DJ an hour; and an interview with the bandleader from Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings.

Playlist - May 7, 2010 - Summer Music Preview

2010-05-15T20:18:00.000-07:00

This week: a panel of experts discuss the records, and shows in Toronto, set to dominate this summer. Featuring Rob Duffy (from Eye Weekly), John Spence (keyboard player from Donlands and Mortimer), and Sean MacKay + Navi Lamba (from The Varsity student newspaper at the University of Toronto). You can hear the show as a podcast now.

Playlist
Warpaint - Elephants (from Exquisite Corpse)
Tokyo Police Club - Wait Up (Boots of Danger) (from )
Born Ruffians - What to Say (from Say It)
Doldrums - Unreleased Track (from Parrot Talk)
The Futureheads - Struck Dumb (from The Chaos)
Surferblood - Swim (from The Astrocoast)
She and Him - In The Sun (from Volume Two)
Yuka - Dirty Bird (from Yuka)
Forest City Lovers - Light You Up (from Carriage)
Woods - Suffering Season (from At Echo Lake)
Zeus - Kindergarten (from Zeus)
Deer Tick - Twenty Miles (from The Black Dirt Sessions)
Inlets - In Which, I, Robert (from Inter Arbiter)
Avi Buffalo - What's In It For? (from Avi Buffalo)
Wolf Parade - What Did My Lover Say? (from Expo 86)
Robert Pollard - I Can See (from We All Got Out of the Army)
Crystal Castles - Not In Love (Platinum Blonde cover) (from Crystal Castles - 2010)
Holy Fuck - Latin America (from Latin)

Next week: more summer music, and interviews with two people with big summer records: Graham Walsh (from Holy Fuck) + Scott McMicken (from Dr. Dog).

Rerun Show - April 30, 2010

2010-05-15T20:15:00.000-07:00

Hey, Chris is out with wisdom tooth surgery this week, so we're going to replay two classic hours of Electric Boogaloo! Chris' interivew with Jordan Morris (pictured above, eating something) from the podcast Jordan, Jesse, Go!, and Lily Ames' interview with Liz Worth, the author of Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto. Enjoy! Next week, a summer music preview show.

Playlist - April 23, 2010 - Caribou; Taken by Trees

2010-05-15T20:05:00.000-07:00

This week: Dan Snaith talks about math, songwriting, and his life as Caribou; and Victoria Bergsman from Taken by Trees discusses recording in Pakistan. Podcasts will be posted in our archives shortly.

Playlist
Plants and Animals - Swinging Bells (from La La Land)
The Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain (from The Wild Hunt)
Dog is Blue - Alligator Song (from Makes Ghost Noises)
The Pinecones - Tea Tonight (from Sage)
Mark Sultan - Misery's Upon Us (from $)
Dr. Dog - Where'd All the Time Go? (from Shame, Shame)
Hannah Georgas - Bang Bang You're Dead (from This is Good)
Taken by Trees - Watch the Waves (from East of Eden)
Taken by Trees - My Boys (Animal Collective cover) (from East of Eden)
Taken by Trees - Anna (from East of Eden)
CocoRosie - Lemonade (from Grey Oceans)
JJ - CEO Birthday (from JJ No. 3)
Four Tet - She Just Likes to Fight (from There is Love in You)
Liars - Scissor (from Sisterworld)
Liars - Mr. You're on Fire Mr. (from They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top)
Ghostkeeper - Well Well Well (from Ghostkeeper)
Sleigh Bells - A/B Machines (from Treats)
Tobacco feat. Beck - Fresh Hex (from Maniac Meat)
Frog Eyes - Lear in Love (from Paul's Tomb: a Triumph)
Dum Dum Girls - Pay for Me (from Dum Dum Girls/Male Bonding 7-inch)
Caribou - Yeti (from The Milk of Human Kindness)
Caribou - Leave House (from Swim)
Owen Pallett - Oh Heartland, Up Yours (from Heartland)
Caribou - Jamelia (from Swim)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Heart of Gold (from XXXX)

Next week: Chris is getting wisdom tooth surgery, so it's a re-run week! New show May 7th.

Playlist - April 16, 2010 - Quasi; Language Arts

2010-05-15T19:46:00.000-07:00

This week: Janet Weiss (once of Sleater-Kinney, now of Quasi and The Jicks) talks about her career, then and now; and the folks from Language Arts stop by the studio to discuss the Olympics and other stuff! Podcast coming soon...

Playlist
Language-Arts - Running at Sunset in the Moonlit Town (from Language-Arts)
Prairie Cat - It Began/Ended with Sparks (from It Began/Ended with Sparks)
Snailhouse - Dollar Signs (from Lies on the Prize)
Hellsongs - We're Not Gonna' Take it (Twisted Sister cover) (from Pieces of Heaven, a Glimpse)
Sally Seltmann - Book Song (from Heart That's Pounding)
Language-Arts - Where Were You in the Wild? (from Where Were You in the Wild?)
Taken by Trees - Anna (from East of Eden)
Four Tet - As Serious as Your Life (from Rounds)
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt, Dan Deacon Remix (from Lewis Takes Off His Shirt)
Memory House - Sleep Patterns (from The Years EP)
Broken Social Scene - World Sick (from Forgiveness Rock Record)
Pony Da Look - Slashstick (from Shattered Dimensions)
The Pack AD - Crazy (from We Kill Computers)
The Black Keys - Tighten Up (from Brothers)
Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers (from The Woods)
Quasi - Repulsion (from American Gong)
The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard (from The Seeds)
Quasi - Little White Horse (from American Gong)
The National - Afraid of Everyone (from High Violet)
Caribou - Jamelia (from Swim)

Next week: interviews with Dan Snaith (aka Caribou) + Victoria Bergsman from Taken by Trees.

Playlist - March 26, 2010 - YACHT; The Electric Six

2010-03-26T14:51:00.000-07:00

This week: Dick Valentine from The Electric Six plays 20 Questions; Jonah and Claire from YACHT tell us about cults, alienation, and the secret world order.

This episode will be up as a podcast soon. You can hear the whole show as streaming audio on the CIUT website starting on Saturday, March 27th for a week.

Playlist
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio (from High Violet)
Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself (from Dear God, I Hate Myself)
Kurt Vile - Hunchback (from Childish Prodigy)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Me and Jane Doe (from IRM)
The Besnard Lakes - Albatross (from The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse)
The Lovely Feathers - Pope John Paul (from Hind Hind Legs)
Electric Six - Dance Commander (from Fire)
Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage! (from Fire)
We Are Wolves - Blue (from Invisible Violence)
The Evangelicals - Party Crashin' (from The Evening Descends)
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company (from Have One on Me)
Flying Lotus - And The World Laughs With You (from Cosmogramma)
Holy Fuck - Latin America (from Latin)
Javelin - Vibrationz (from No Mas)
Bonjay - Gimmee Gimmee (from Gimmee Gimmee EP)
Piorier - Marathon (from No Ground Under)
The Blow - Pile of Gold (from Paper Television)
Yacht - I'm In Love With a Ripper (from See Mystery Lights)
X - Nausea (from Los Angeles)
Yacht - The Afterlife (from See Mystery Lights)
Mantler - Fresh and Fair (from Sadisfaction)
Another Electronic Musician - Fields and Axioms (from States of Space)

Next week: the Best of Electric Boogaloo! Some of our best interviews from the past twelve months, including Woodhands, St. Vincent, and more!

Playlist - March 19, 2010 - Dan Mangan; Stuart Berman on SXSW

2010-03-19T14:46:00.000-07:00

This week: Vancouver troubadour Dan Mangan introduces us to some super-cool new music as our Guest DJ in hour one; and Pitchfork writer + Eye Weekly editor Stuart Berman gives us a perspective on the ground from SXSW 2010. Also, a tribute to Alex Chilton of Big Star, who passed away Wednesday.

Podcasts forthcoming; this show can be heard as streaming audio on the CIUT website from this Saturday to March 27th.

Playlist
Dan Mangan - Road Regrets (form Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
Aidan Knight - Altar Boys (from Versicolour)
Yukon Blonde - Brides Song (from Yukon Blonde)
Raghu Lokanathan - Theme Song (from Blue Girl)
Timbre Timber - Demon Host (from Timber Timbre)
The Daredevil Christopher Wright - We're Not Friends (from In Deference to a Broken Back)
Dan Mangan - The Indie Queens are Waiting (from Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
Plants and Animals - Tom Cruz (from La La Land)
Brasstronaut - Slow Knots (from Old World Lies EP)
La Patere Rose - La Marelle (from La Patere Rose)
Still Life Still - Pastel (from Girls Come Too)
Diamond Rings - Wait and See (from Special Affections)
Boats - TV Scientist (from Cannonballs, Cannonballs!)
DD/MM/YYYY - I'm Still in the Walls (from Black Square)
Here We Go Magic - Collector (from Pigeons)
Kings Go Forth - One Day (internet release)
Big Star - Give Me Another Chance (from #1 Record)
Big Star - Take Care (from Third/Sister Lovers)

Next week: Dick Valentine of the Electric Six plays 20 Questions; YACHT talk about cults.

Playlist - March 12, 2010 - LIVE from Canadian Music Week

2010-03-12T15:46:00.000-08:00

This week: LIVE from the Royal York Fairmount Hotel in downtown Toronto, the headquarters of Canadian Music Week 2010. With special guests Giant Hand, Ghostkeeper, and Shayna Zaid and The Catch, and our good friend Rob Duffy.

You can listen to this episode on-demand as streaming audio starting Saturday at the CIUT website, for one week. The whole episode will also be made available as a downloadable podcast over the weekend.

Playlist
Soft Copy - Hot Cakes (from Vicious Modernism)
Will Currie and the Country French - Push Pins (from split 7" with Sloan)
The Balconies - Serious Bedtime (from The Balconies)
Born Ruffians - Sole Brother (from Say It)
Giant Hand - Coming Down from the Mountains (Live on CIUT)
Giant Hand - Catacombs (from Coming Home)
Dan Mangan - Robots (from Roboteering EP)
Brian Borcherdt - Torches (from Torches)
Julie Fader - Goodbye Before Hello (from Outside In)
Language Arts - Where Were You in the Wild? (from Where Were You in the Wild?)
Shayna Zaid and The Catch - Take Your Time (from Au Fait EP)
PS I Love You - Facelove (from Diamond Rings/PS I Love You Split 7")
Zeus - Marching Through Your Head (from Say Us)
The D'Urbervilles - Magic Arrow (from Friends in Bellwoods II)
Boats - Chrome Eyelids (from Cannonballs, Cannonballs!)
New Buffalo - Recovery (from Last Beautiful Day)
Woods - The Dark (from Captured Tracks 7")
Think About Life - Wizzzard (from Family)
Postdata - Tobias Grey (from s/t)
Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger (from Sweet Dreams)
Ghostkeeper - By Morning (from Ghostkeeper)
Ghostkeeper - Three More Springs (from Children of the Great Northern Muskeg)

Next week: new interviews with The Electric Six and YACHT, and updates from SXSW 2010.

Canadian Music Week coverage

2010-03-10T01:13:00.001-08:00

Hey everybody,

In Toronto, Canadian Music Week 2010 is starting tommorrow (Wednesday) around the city. I've always felt somewhat ambivalent about CMW because, while it is a blatantly corporate music industry event, it also brings dozens of great acts to Toronto from abroad, and highlights great local music as well.

That being said, I'm going to be covering the hell out of it this year! Here are a few of the highlights:

- The podcast-only CMW Preview show is now available for download here. Thoughout the episode, I and guests Rob Duffy and Kristian Pedersen from Battlehip go over each night in CMW, looking for the best bets.

- On Friday, March 12th, Electric Boogaloo is going to be broadcasting live from the Royal York Fairmount hotel, home of CMW headquarters. Listen live, from Noon to 2pm, on CIUT, or as streaming audio after the broadcast. Special guests will be announced as they are confirmed...

- Throughout the week, I will be posting interviews with CMW guests, including Woodhands, RJD2, and Speech Debelle, on the podcast site.

Keep checking this blog for more details...have a great CMW everyone!

Playlist - March 5, 2010 - Speech Debelle, RJD2

2010-03-09T15:43:00.000-08:00

This week: our CMW preview show, featuring interviews with two of the festival's more prominent special guests, Mercury Prize-winning English rapper Speech Debelle, and pioneering hip hop producer (and prominent nerd) RJD2. Podcasts up soon...

Playlist
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Baby (from The Phenomenal Handclap Band)
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim feat. Santigold - Please Don't (from Here Lies Love)
Duck Sauce - Anyway (from Duck Sauce)
Hexes & Ohs - You're a Hologram (from Bedroom Madness)
CFCF - How Bizarre (from The Paper Bag Records Covers Compilation)
Aceyalone & RJD2 - Beautiful Mine (from Mad Men Season One OST)
RJD2 - Ghostwriter (from Deadringer)
RJD2 - Let There be Horns (from The Ghostwriter)
Blockhead - Which One of You Jerks Drank my Arnold Palmer (from The Music Scene)
Four Tet - Plastic People (from There is Love in You)
Gorillaz feat. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon - Plastic Beach (from Plastic Beach)
Phantogram - When I'm Small (from Eyelid Movies)
Peter Project feat. More or Les - Unorthadox (from Fresh Soap EP)
Cadence Weapon feat. Owen Pallett - Mini TVs (from Seperation Anxiety mixtape)
Islands - Where There's a Will, There's a Whalebone (from Return to the Sea)
Grand Analog feat. Shad - Electric City (from Metropolis is Burning)
Speech Debelle - Spinnin' (from Speech Therapy)
Speech Debelle - The Key (from Speech Therapy)
Sade - Soldier of Love (from Soldier of Love)
Speech Debelle - Searching (from Speech Therapy)
Woodhands - Dissembler (from Remorsecapade)

Next week: Electric Boogaloo broadcasts live from Canadian Music Week. More details to come...

Playlist - February 26, 2010 - Parallels, Liz Worth

2010-03-09T15:33:00.000-08:00

This week: Toronto's Parallels stop by on the eve of their CD debut. Also, Lily Ames talks to Liz Worth, author of the new book, 'Treat Me Like Dirt, An Oral History of Punk Music in Toronto'. Also also, my mom reviews (and hates) Cop Out. Podcasts forthcoming.

Playlist
Parallels - Vienna (from Visionaries)
Parallels - Find the Fire (from Visionaries)
Hounds of Hate - Tumble Down Slow (single)
Parallels - Counterparts (from Visionaries)
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (from Psychic Chasms)
Chromatics - Hands in the Dark (from After Dark)
AA - Suicide Fever (from Eternal Entertainments EP)
Parallels - City of Stars (from Visionaries)
Teenage Head - Picture my Face (from Teenage Head)
The Curse - Shoeshine Boy (from Teenage Meat)
B-Girls - Fun at the Beach (from Who Says Girls Can't Rock)
The Viletones - Screamin' Fist (from A Taste of Honey)
The Diodes - Noise (from Tired of Waking Up)
Teenage Head - You're Tearin' me Apart (from Teenage Head)

Next week: CMW preview, with Mercury Prize-winner Speech Debelle, and hip hop DJ RJD2.

Playlist - February 19, 2010 - Woodhands, The Duchess + The Duke

2010-03-09T15:19:00.000-08:00

This week: Paul Banwatt from Woodhands stops by to discuss their new record, and the ongoing fued with Danko Jones. Also, The Duchess and The Duke live at CIUT.

Playlist
Woodhands - Pockets (from Remorsecapade)
Library Voices - Step Off the Map and Float (from Library Voices)
Warp 11 - Trekkie Girl (from Red Alert)
Woodhands - When the Party is Over (from Remorsecapade)
Arkells - Heart of the City (from Jackson Square)
Ohbijou - Make it Gold (from Beacons)
Gentleman Reg - We're in a Thunderstorm (from Jet Black)
Final Fantasy feat. Q-Tip - The CN Tower Can Work it Out (Tor Mashup)
Caribou - Odessa (from Swim)
High Places - On Giving Up (from High Places vs. Mankind)
Pattern is Movement - Light of the World (from a tour only CD)
The XX - VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)
Parenthetical Girls - Evelyn McHale (from Priviledge Pt. 1)
PS I Love You - Facelove (from Diamond Rings/PS I Love You 7")
The Winks - Ohio (from Chorus Girls)
Sunparlour Players - Battle of 77 (from Wave North)
Duchess and the Duke - Let it Die (CIUT session)
Duchess and The Duke - Never Had a Chance (CIUT Session)
Duchess and The Duke - Mary (CIUT Session)
Duchess and The Duke - Hand (CIUT Session)
Joanna Newsom - '81 (from Have One on Me)
Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra - Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag) (from Kollapz Tradixionals)

Next week: Parallels play guest DJ, and Liz Worth, the author of 'Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto' talks to Lily Ames about the city's secret history.

Playlist - February 12, 2010 - I'll Love You Until My Veins Explode

2010-03-09T15:11:00.000-08:00

This week: we celebrate Valentine's Day with the two most romantic guests we could think of - Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, and...Andrew WK. Also, a playlist created by listeners, with songs about love, hate, and everything in between. Listen to the Stephin Merritt episode as a podcast here.

Playlist
The Free Design - I Found Love (from Kites are Fun: The Best of the Free Design)
The Blow - True Affection (from Paper Television)
Beach House - Lover of Mine (from Teen Dream)
The Paper Cranes - I'll Love You 'Till Your Veins Explode (from The Paper Cranes)
Jonathan Richman - When She Kisses Me (from Having a Party With Jonathan Richman)
Adam Green - Jessica (from Kokomo)
Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill (from Oh You're So Silent Jens)
Andrew WK - She is Beautiful (from I Get Wet)
The Lovely Feathers - I Really Like You (from Hind Hind Legs)
The Mountain Goats - No Children (from Tallahassee)
The Ditty Bops - Bye Bye Love (from Moon Over the Freeway)
The Hidden Cameras - Ban Marriage (from A Smell of Our Own)
Gentleman Reg - All My Love (from Darby and Joan)
Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling (from Oh My Darling)
Bahamas - Lonely Loves (from Pink Strat)
Old Man Luedecke - At the Airport (from Hinterland)
Henri Faberge and the Adorables - Our of Your League (from Henri)
The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies (from The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees)
The Magnetic Fields - From a Sinking Boat (from Realism)
The Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas in London (from Get Lost)
The Shondells and Tommy James - Love's Closin' in on Me (from Tommy James and the Shondells Anthology)
The Magnetic Fields - Nothing Matters When We're Dancing (from 69 Love Songs)
Elliott Smith - Miss Misery (from Figure 8)
The Cure - Love Song (from Disintegration)

Next week: Woodhands stop by to pick their favourite tunes. Also, The Duchess and the Duke in session.

Playlist - February 5, 2010 - Wavelength 500

2010-03-09T15:00:00.001-08:00

This week: a celebration of the 500th, and final, Wavelength Sunday. First, the newly reunited Toronto pop band The Bicycles stop by to talk about coming back together. Then, Jonny Dovercourt, Kevin Parnell and Doc Pickles discuss the role of Wavelength in Toronto, and what's coming up after the end of the Sunday series. Listen to both episodes as podcasts here!

Playlist
The Russian Futurists - Paul Simon (from Me, Myself & Rye)
The Bicycles - Walk Away from a Good Thing (from Oh No, It's Love!)
Hooded Fang - Land of Giants (from Hooded Fang EP)
The Elwins - Time to Kill (from The Elwins EP)
Woodhands - Dissembler (from Remorsecapade)
Maylee and the Pegwee Power - Tunog Ng Taginit (from Choose Your Own Adventure)
The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows (from A Good Thing Lost)
The Bicycles - Can I Keep Calling You Baby? (from Oh No, It's Love!)
Pony Da Look - You Can Make My Day (from Shattered Dimensions)
Danger Bay - Teleportation Babe (from Non-Canonical EP)
Bruce Peninsula - 2nd 4th World War (from A Mountain is a Mouth)
Diamond Rings - All Yr Songs (from EP)
The Fembots - Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (from Small Town Murder Scene)
Laura Barrett - Bluebird (from Victory Garden)
Rockets Red Glare - Empire State (from Rockets Red Glare)
The Constantines - Nighttime/Anytime (It's Alright) (from Shine a Light)
Mean Red Spiders - First and Only (from Still Life Moving Fast)

Next week: a Valentine's Day spectacular! With Stephin Merritt from The Magnetic Fields, and the most romantic man alive, Andrew WK.

Playlist - January 29, 2010 - Teenage Riot

2010-03-09T13:08:00.000-08:00

This week: an interview with the legendary Sonic Youth axeman Lee Ranaldo (you can download that interview as a podcast here). Also, Toronto pop stars Everything All the Time stop by to pick an hour of music, and Rich Aucoin explains his new record.

Playlist
Everything All the Time - Take Stock (from Everything All the Time)
Arthur Russel - That's Us/Wild Combinaton (from Calling Out of Context)
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (from Remain in Light)
St. Vincent - Just the Same But Brand New (from Actor)
The Band - Wait a Minute (from The Best of The Band)
Everything All the Time - Lazy Days (from Everything All the Time)
Rich Aucoin - The Estranged Become Reconciled (from Personal Publication)
Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather (from Experimental Jet Set)
Land of Talk - Sixteen Asterix (from Fun and Laughter)
Little Girls - Youth Tunes (from Concepts)
Duchess Says - Rabies, Baby's Got the (Begging the 3 Ts)
Uncut - Understanding the New Violence (Those Who Were Hung Hang Here)
Women - Lawncare (Women)
Tonstartssbandht - Black Country (An When)
Sonic Youth - Rats (Rather Ripped)
Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip (Daydream Nation)
Hush Arbours - Devil Made You High (Yankee Reality)
Sonic Youth - Mote (Goo)

Next week: a salute to Wavelength 500; with Jonny Dovercourt, Doc Pickles, and the newly re-united The Bicycles.

Playlist - January 22, 10 - Brian to live

2010-03-09T12:43:00.000-08:00

This week: an interview with the accomplished Brian Borcherdt, of Holy Fuck, and now his own project, Field of Fur. Also, a salute to Out of This Spark Records on the occasion of their third anniverasry. And saying goodbye to three belated artists.

Playlist
The Magnetic Fields - You Must be Out of Your Mind (from Realism)
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes His Shirt Off (from Heartland)
Field Music - Measure (from Measure)
Taken by Trees - My Boys (from East of Eden)
Jonsi - Boy Lilikoi (from Go)
Brian Borcherdt - While I Was Asleep (from Coyotes)
Woods - To Clean (from Songs of Shame)
Brian Borcherdt - Crime Scene (from Torches)
Lisa Bozikovic - Phone Card (from Lost August)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (from IRM)
Eels - End Times (from End Times)
Katie Stelmanis - Believe Me (from Friends in Bellwoods II)
Timber Timbre - Magic Arrow (from Timber Timbre)
Forest City Lovers - Don't Go (from Haunting Moon Sinking)
Evening Hymns - Dead Deer (from Evening Hymns)
Jenny Omnichord - The Old Prince (from Charlotte or Otis)
Vic Chestnutt - I've Flirted With you all my Life (from At The Cut)
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Heart Like a Wheel (from The McGarrigle Sisters)
Jay Reatard - Frances Farmer Will Have her Revenge on Seattle (single)

Next week: an interview with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo!!!! Also, Everything All the Time guest DJ.

Playlist - Jan. 8, 2010 - Album Preview 2010

2010-03-01T22:42:00.001-08:00

This week: Rob Duffy fills in. With special guests The Wilderness of Manitoba, Kristian Peterson of Battlehip.com, and author Dave Proctor.

Playlist
Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes (from Astro Coast)
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Action (from Heartland)
Besnard Lakes - Albatross (from The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night)
Vampire Weekend - Cousins (from Contra)
Think About Life - Sweet Sixteen (from Family)
Taken by Trees - Anna (from East of Eden)
Holy Fuck! - Tonebank Jungle (from Holy Fuck EP)
The Constantines - Arizona (from The Constantines)
Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready to Crumble (from Me, Myself and Rye)
Broken Bells - The High Road (from Broken Bells)
Hot Chip - Take It In (from One Life Stand)
El Perro Del Mar - Change in Heart (from Love is Not Pop)
Fucked Up - Crooked Head (from The Chemistry of Common Life)
Wilderness of Manitoba - Dreamcatchers (from Hymns of Love and Spirits)
Wilderness of Manitoba - Evening (from Hymns of Love and Spirits)
Beach House - Norway (from Teen Dream)
Basia Bulat - Gold Rush (from Heart of My Own)
The Strokes - Under Control (from Room on Fire)

Next week: Chris is away again, so Take 5's Matthew Kupfer fills in.

'Oughts' Nostalgia.

2009-12-31T14:15:00.000-08:00

Feeling nostalgic about the 00s? You have a few options:

1. Wake up hung over at noon tomorrow to listen to the 'You Ought to Remember Dance Party', with personal favourites picked out by Sean MacKay and Navi Lamba. Noon to 2pm, http://ciut.fm

2. Download their playlist now! http://bit.ly/8dajkg

3. Download a SECOND favourites of the 00s dance party, with tracks selected by me! http://bit.ly/54n1kW

Get it out of your system - it's going to be the 10s soon.

Electric Boogaloo '10 - SONIC YOUTH - ANVIL - ANDREW WK - JOHN K SAMSON

2009-12-31T13:54:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year!

As we wind down 2009, Electric Boogaloo is getting prepared for a great 2010. We have some of the best interviews lined up on the show YET.

Here are some of what you'll be hearing on EB in January and February:

-Lee Ranaldo, guitarist from Sonic Youth, talks about longevity.

-Steve 'Lips' Kudlow from underdog Canadian metal band Anvil, star of the revelatory documentary from this year.

-Party rocker Andrew WK will answer your burning questions about life...and love.

-Weakerthans' songwriter John K Samson discusses the perils of writing about Winnipeg.

-Brian Borcherdt, leader of Toronto's Holy Fuck, talks about his record collection.

-Toronto's Woodhands, Everything all the Time, and Parallels come by our studio.

-A special surprise guest for Valentine's Day (I'm just confirming the details, but it's going to be huge!)

-Tributes to the 500th Wavelength Music Night, and the anniversary of Out of This Spark Records.

Chris is going to be away on January 8th and 15th, but rest assured: Rob Duffy (Eye Weekly, EB's Official Semi-Professional Music Critic), and Matthew Kupfer (CIUT's Take Five) will be there to fill in.

So there you have it; send your feedback to chris.berube@utoronto.ca, and keep listening!

Happy new year,

-Chris

The Schedule
1/1 - New Year's Dance Party w/ Navi Lamba, Sean MacKay
1/8 - Chris away; Rob Duffy fills in.
1/15 - Chris away; Matthew Kupfer fills in.
1/22 - Brian Borcherdt, Out Of This Spark anniversary
1/29 - Sonic Youth (Lee Ranaldo), Everything All the Time

2/5 - Anvil!, A tribute to Wavelength 500
2/12 - Parallels, (Very Special Guest TBA)
2/19 - Woodhands, Ask Andrew WK
2/26 - John K Samson

Playlist - Dec. 25, 09 - Christmas in the Heart

2009-12-31T13:38:00.000-08:00

This week: we celebrate Christmas with a special party! Chris is joined by Eye Weekly music critic Rob Duffy, Podcast of Champions' Brandon Hackett, and CINSSU's Tom Cardoso. You can download this whole episode here: http://bit.ly/8RocJh

Playlist
1. Patton Oswalt - My Favourite Christmas Memory (from "Feeling Kinda Patton")
2. The Flaming Lips - Christmas at the Zoo (from "Clouds Taste Metallic")
3. Julian Casablancas - I Wish it Was Christmas Today (from "Phrazes for the Young")
4. Ohbijou - Last Christmas (from "Egg Nog")
5. The Rosebuds - Get Up Get Out (from "Night of the Furies")
6. Young and Sexy - Santa Claus Likes Rich Kids Better (from "It's a Team Mint Xmas!")
7. The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick (from "Christmas Harmonies")
8. Sufjan Stevens - Get Behind Me, Santa! (from "Songs for Christmas Volume V")
9. The Ramblin' Ambassadors - Don't Fear the Reindeer (from "It's a Team Mint Xmas!")
10. RUN DMC - Christmas in Hollis (from "A Very Special Christmas")
11. Belle and Sebastian - Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto (from "Belle and Sebastian Peel Sessions")
12. Camera Obscura - The Blizzard (from "The Blizzard" single)
13. Steve Martin - Five Christmas Wishes (from SNL)
14. Spinal Tap - Christmas With the Devil (from "This is Spinal Tap")
15. The Temptations - A Christmas Song (from "The Temptations Christmas")
16. Lightning Dust - Ho Ho Ho (from "The Eggnog Experience")
17. Hawksley Workman - Sweet Hallelujah (from "From Him and the Girls")
18. Garfunkel and Oates - Present Face (from "Present Face" single)
19. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart - Can I Interest You in Hannukah? (from "Stephen Colbert Christmas Special OST")
20. Blitzen Trapper - Christmas is Coming Soon (from "Christmas")
21. Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (from "Christmas in the Heart")
22. Fucked Up - Do They Know It's Christmas? (from "Do They Know It's Christmas?" s
single)

Next week: we celebrate the new decade by eulogizing the old one. Sean and Navi from The Varsity stop by to pick some of the best dance party tracks from the 'oughts'.

My Favourites of 2009

2009-12-22T21:18:00.000-08:00

Here it is! My favourite records of the year. Thanks for following the show - looking forward to a great 2010.

My Ten Favourite Records
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. St. Vincent - Actor
3. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
4. Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
5. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
6. Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project
7. Dan Deacon - Bromst
8. Think About Life - Family
9. Micachu & The Shapes - Jewelry
10. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

Honourable Mentions
Jason Lytle - Your Truly, The Commuter
Ohbijou - Beacons
Pony Up - Stay Gold
Taken by Trees - East of Eden
Akron Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Green Go - Borders
Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
DD/MM/YYYY - Black Square
Atlas Sound - Logos
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman, A Man Walked By
Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
Various Artists - Friends in Bellwoods 2

Favourite EPs
Land of Talk - Fun and Laughter
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Dan Mangan - Roboteering
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane B-Sides

Big in 2010? (Answer: yes)
Giant Hand
Reverie Sound Revue
Diamond Rings
Rich Aucoin's new album

Rob Duffy's Favourites of 09

2009-12-22T21:09:00.000-08:00

More 2009 coverage. Here are Rob Duffy's favourite records of the year. Rob is a writer for EYEWEEKLY, and appears regularly on the show as our 'semi-professional music critic'.

Joel Plaskett - Three
Girls - Album
Animal Collective - Meariweather Post Pavillion
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
Danger Mouse - Dark Night of the Soul
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker/God is saying this to you
The Antlers - Hospice
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t

Lauren Schreiber's Favourites of 09

2009-12-22T20:56:00.000-08:00

On this year's Faves of 09 show, one of our panelists was Lauren Schreiber (pictured above in comic form), a local promoter and general music lover in Toronto.

Here's Lauren's favourites of the year list (in playlist form) for your perusal...

Think About Life – Johanna (MONTREAL)
This song was on repeat the entire 6 hour drive back from Pop Montreal. The addition of Kayla to the band was brilliant – that girl has pipes like whoa and gives 100% everytime. TAL has gone from my favorite live band to my favorite much music video dance party; I’m regressing, and I love it.

Thunderheist - Jerk It (TORONTO)
What can i say? Isis is young, sexy and the song is badass. It’s like peaches, only I feel really hot listening to it, instead of just dirty.

Green Go - Put Your Specs On Boy (GUELPH)
GG are old hat to me - I feel like this album has been out for about twelve years. But the fact that I’ve heard their songs for ages shouldn’t touch the fact that they are great... really really great songs from a really really great album. Get a drink in me and put this on, and I still squeal THEY’RE PLAYING MY SONG! Every time.

Everything All The Time - Lazy Days (TORONTO)
Britney and Beyonce move over. Catchy as fuck quality pop has a new face, and it’s EATT. Welcome to the only indie pop band I know who has a real singer. Plus I love each and everyone of them... just delightful people.

Sports The Band - Castlots (TORONTO)
Between the harmonies and the basslines and the interband drama, I always forget just how good Sports are. Until I walk into a room where they’re onstage and all I can do is beam.

Dirty Projectors - Remade Horizon (USA)
I had to move to the front of the sold out room to understand exactly what the hell was happening. Is it a keyboard? A guitar? No... its vocals. Wait, what?! Motown in a meatgrinder - groundbreaking.

Gentleman Reg - You Can’t Get It Back (TORONTO)
Either you like his voice or you don’t, but there’s no denying guy can write a song. It’s like I couldn’t pick between my favorite frontman, and my favorite front woman, so I got both. Reg is sassy like a pop diva, he’s the best of all worlds.

Pick A Piper – Rooms (TORONTO)
You’re a summer festival, you’re a boy with slight B.O., you’re a joint rolled in cinnamon rolling paper. I love you, let’s stare at the stars.

Akron/Family – Everyone is Guilty (USA)
I drove to Hamilton to see these guys because I’m didn’t grab tickets to their sold out 2 night stand at Sneaky Dees with Born Ruffians. Worth It.

Animal Collective - Brother Sport (USA)
Every time Fez from Green Go spins this at a party, I get all ‘This is great! Who IS this?’ And it’s always Animal Collective. I actually bought this album in a store.

Patrick Watson - Beijing (MONTREAL)
When his first album came out, I described my heart school heartthrob as creating music that sounds like Montreal. Cinematic, decadent, urgent and idiosyncratic. And endlessly romantic. Somewhere between the pots and pan percussion and the lush string arrangements is my hometown.

Portico – The Battle of Duck Lake (VANCOUVER)
My favorite songs of the 90s are reborn in this CBC radio 3 hit.

The Darcys – The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead (TORONTO/HALIFAX)
Sure it’s a cover, but what a cover! This is how you do covers, people, pay attention. Just listen to that guitar solo! This is a cover enough to build an entire tour around... which is exactly what they did. I expect big things from The Darcys in 2010.

Great Bloomers - Speak of Trouble (TORONTO)
Full disclosure; I manage these guys. But there’s a reason – they are The Band as arranged by Queen, epic twangy roots rock with charm and soul for miles. The album is a slow burn – I like it more with each listen, and young frontman Lowell Sostomi will be writing songs for the rest of his life. I can’t wait to see where he goes from here.

Evening Hymns – Dead Deer (PETERBOROUGH)
I had to wait a year from the first time I heard these songs until the album was released. They almost didn’t make the 2009 cut off... Jonas! Way to build suspense. As expected, you were worth the wait.

Peter Wolf Crier – Down Down Down (USA)
A last minute discovery and one I’m still digesting. But the Minneapolis duo’s superlative Inter-Be may be my favourite album of the year.

Wooden Sky - Oh My God (It Still Means A Lot To Me) (TORONTO)
For petty personal reasons, I REALLY didn’t want to love this album. But I do, and how. My opinion of Gavin Gardiner remains the same as the first time I heard him open his mouth... it’s a crime he’s not famous worldwide yet – every teenage girl should be mooning around her bedroom to this.
Wilderness of Manitoba – Evening
I wasn’t expecting to find one of my favorite albums in a backyard shed on Delaware street north of Bloor, but I did. And even though the music was coming from people I already knew and loved, I never could have predicted the delicate beauty of this album. Wilderness of Manitoba give me hope.

Timber Timbre – Demon Host (TORONTO)
His Halifax pop showcase was legitimately frightening. Taylor’s talent is otherworldly...

NOTES

I would have included the Rural Alberta Advantage, Tune Yards, Olenka and The Autumn Lovers and Parlovr, but though they really saw acclaim this past year, their albums were originally released in 2008. And I would’ve included Bruce Peninsula, but I don’t think the recording of Mountain is a Mouth , lovely as it is, reflects how magnificent they really are.

Heartthrob of the year
The Burning Hell’s Mike Duguay. Rowr.

In Memoriam
Sister Suvi +The Bicycles

High hopes for 2010 include Steve McKay

Playlist - Dec. 18, 09 - Year in Review 2009

2009-12-22T20:16:00.000-08:00

This week: we recap the year that was in music. Chris talks with special guests Rob Duffy (EYE WEEKLY) and Lauren Schreiber (a local promoter responsible for the great No Shame shows in Toronto). We talk about favourites, disappointments, and RIPs (see you later, The Bicycles). Full podcasts up shortly.

Playlist
Patrick Watson - Beijing
Dirty Projectors - Remade Horizon
Timber Timbre - Will Find Out
Handsome Furs - Evangeline
Gentleman Reg - You Can't Get it Back
The Bicycles - BBBicycles
Joel Plaskett - Pine, Pine, Pine
Charles Spearin - Anna
The Wilderness of Manitoba - Evening
Peter Wolf Crier - Down Down Down
Kurt Vile - Beach on the Moon
Think About Life - Johanna
Florence and the Machine - Dog Days are Over
The Wooden Sky - Oh My God (It Still Means a Lot to Me)
Bill Callahan - Jim Cain
Julian Casablancas - Eleventh Dimension
Pick a Piper - Rooms
Girls - Lust for Life
Animal Collective - Brother Sport
St. Vincent - Laughing with a Mouthful of Blood
Green Go - Put Your Specs On Boy

Next week: the Electric Boogaloo Christmas Special!

Playlist - Dec. 11, 09 - A Kish Kash Mish Mash

2009-12-17T18:18:00.000-08:00

This week: Chris interviews Felix from Basement Jaxx about Autotune, humble beginnings and the meaning of their art; and Toronto singer-songwriter-engenue Daniel Gray helps DJ the first hour (his picks are *ed). Podcasts on the way...

Playlist
Daniel Gray - Bad Dream
*The National - Ada
Daniel Gray - Dog Day
*Slowdive - Melon Yellow
*Caribou - I've Lived on a Dirt Road All my Life
*Belle and Sebastian - The State I Am In
Daniel Gray - In the Morning
*Final Fantasy - The Butcher
DJ Champion - So Big
CFCF - Big Love
Vitamins4You - No Cars Go (Arcade Fire cover)
Digits - Sarah
Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back to Your House
Basement Jaxx feat. Dizzee Rascal - Lucky Star
Basement Jaxx feat. Lightspeed Champion - My Turn
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
Solange - Stillness is the Move (Dirty Projectors cover)

Check it out!
Daniel Gray
Basement Jaxx's Raindrops video
CFCF

Next week: the year-in-review episode, with our resident semi-professional-music-critic Rob Duffy and local music promoter Lauren Schrieber.

Playlist - Dec. 4, 09 - Monsters in Space!

2009-12-09T09:19:00.000-08:00

This week: Chris interviews Oderous Urungus, lead yeller for monster metal superstars GWAR! Also, I interview Nils from Canada's break out band of 2009, The Rural Alberta Advantage. Podcasts forthcoming.

Playlist
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Even Heroes Have to Die
Fanfarlo - Luna
Red Mass - 1 Saturn
Young Galaxy - Destroyer
Shearwater - Castaways
Land of Talk - Sixteen Asterix
Bon Iver - Bloodbank
The Rural Alberta Advantage - In the Summertime
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place
Wax Mannequin and Black Blood - Everything and Everyone
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes - Home
Kings of Convenience - Renegade
Here We Go Magic - Fangala
Black Hat Brigade - Signal Fire
Charlotte Gainsboug - IRM
Tune-Yards - Sunlight
Elfin Saddle - The Bringer
Slim Twig, feat. D-Sisive - This Night's Untold
Slim Twig - Tormen
Gwar - Damnation Under God
Liars - Clear Island
Do Make Say Think - Other Truths

Check it out!
GWAR!!!
Rural Alberta Advantage
Red Mass

Next week: Felix from Basement Jaxx, and singer Daniel Gray stops by the studio to guest DJ an hour!

Playlist - Nov. 27, 09 - Fuzzy Thinking

2009-12-09T09:02:00.000-08:00

This week: two of our friends from Fuzzy Logic records - Peter Chapman, aka The Peter Project, and Ken from Gravity Wave - stop by the studio to talk about their joint tour, the hospitality of Bruno, Saskatchewan, and cartoons. That joint interview will be available as a podcast shortly. Also on the show, EB correspondant Sean MacKay interviews LA fuzz core band Crystal Antlers.

Playlist
Japandroids - Wet Hair
Little Girls - Youth Tunes
Dinosaur Bones - Royalty
Still Life Still - Neon Blue
Cold Cave - Life Magazine
Bibio - Lovers' Carvings
Luke Temple - Tunnelvision
Thee Fair Ohs - Summer Lake
Suckers - Out on the Water
Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
Crystal Antlers - Owl
Crystal Antlers - Andrew
Mika Miko - Basterds in Love
Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts
Peter Project - Fair and Square
Peter Project - Simply Fresh
Peter Project - The Quest for Extreme Personal Fitness
Gravity Wave - Kumquat
Gravity Wave - Popular People
Gravity Wave - Bangs

Check it out!
Peter Project
Gravity Wave
Crystal Antlers

Next week: Chris interviews The Rural Alberta Advantage and monster metal superstars Gwar!

Year/Decade in Review?

2009-11-23T13:56:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody,

So I've been getting a lot of questions about my plans for the obligatory year/decade in review stuff on the show. So here's the plan:

-December 18th will be the annual Year-in-Review roundtable with some expert panelists.
-December 25th there will be no show due to Christmas.
-January 1st I will be doing a special "Faves of the 00s" New Year's dance party, with help from Sean and Navi of The Varsity.

Throughout that, I'm going to be putting out the usual 'Faves of 09', 'Local 09' and 'Underrated in 09' lists, and maybe even a personal reflection-on-the-decade post. But don't expect any comprehensive 'best 50' lists - NPR already has that more than capably covered. Also, the Onion AV Club just put out a pretty thorough Best of the 00s list - though they left The Flaming Lips and Cat Power off. Oh well. Better luck next decade, I suppose.

In the meantime, please, tell us what you think. What have been your personal favourites of the year? The decade? What has been unfairly overlooked?

Thanks all!

-Chris

Playlist - Nov. 20, 09 - Into the Furnace

2009-11-23T13:39:00.000-08:00

This week: Chris lives out a long-standing dream, by interviewing Eleanor from The Fiery Furnaces from her Brooklyn flat. We discuss the band, sheet music and the possibility of a Fiery Furnaces opera! (Yes, this may happen; no, we didn't talk about the Radiohead feud business because I recorded it before that broke - sorry) Also, Martin from Think About Life returns to the show to play twenty questions, and new music galore!

Playlist
The Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets
Little Girls - Thrills
Language-Arts - White Socks in Birkenstocks
Miike Snow - Burial
The Hidden Cameras - He Falls to Me
The Fiery Furnaces - Straight Street
The Fiery Furnaces - Here Comes the Summer
The Fiery Furnaces - The End is Near
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Junior Boys - Parallel Lines
Parallels - Vienna
Memory Tapes - Easy Pert Moms
Big Spider's Back - Warped
Chad VanGaalen - Stuffed Animal
Think About Life - Havin' My Baby
Think About Life - Set You on Fire
Lou Reed & John Cale - Slip Away (A Warning)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Air
Beck - Harry Partch

Check it out!
The Fiery Furnaces feud with Radiohead, kinda
Beck responds for some reason
Beck's response song

Next week: The Peter Project and Ken from Gravity Wave stop by for a double-fun interview. Also, Sean MacKay interviews Crystal Antlers.