CiTR’s FunDrive on now!

CiTR’s FunDrive is on now! Please consider donating and supporting the great work that CiTR does. CiTR is offering a bunch of great swag, including CiTR umbrellas and special FunDrive T-shirts, but if you donate to Duncan’s Donuts specifically, you’ll get an extra special premium: an exclusive local comp! Woo!

Details are still being worked out, but Becky of “This Side of Monday,” Chris-A-Riffic of “Parts Unknown” and I have pulled together some our local favourites. I’m really excited about this. The comp will feature Kidnap Kids!, Apollo Ghosts, Boogie Monster, BASKETBALL, B-Lines, Makeout Videotape, Fine Mist, Bible Belts, Role Mach & more. Whoa!

Today’s episode is an all CanCon special with Amanda Ash, music journalist (Exclaim, CBC Radio3) & friend of the show. Tune in at noon!

Local best of the decade

DiSCORDER Magazine is compiling a list of the best local bands of the last decade. That list will be published in their Jancember issue, on stands in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, here was my contribution:

1. No Kids / P:ano
2. Destroyer
3. They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
4. The Cinch
5. The Evaporators
6. Apollo Ghosts
7. Riff Randells
8. Fanshaw
9. Human Hi-Lite Reel / Chris-A-Riffic / Bible Belts
10. Fine Mist

Today’s show, with guest Janis!

The only video that matters this week.

• Goblins, Sighs
• CANT, Ghosts
• That Ghost, Never Have Fun
• Fool’s Gold, Surprise Hotel
• Toro Y Moi, Blessa
• Built to Spill, Hindsight
• Built To Spill, Car
• Halo Benders, Freedom Ride
• The Fiery Furnaces, Keep Me In the Dark
• The Fiery Furnaces, Waiting To Know You
• The Endless Bummer, Wednesday Night
• Digits, Endgame
• The Flaming Lips, Watching the Planets

Actually, that Flaming Lips’ video is notable as well. Podcast here.

All new stuff! Except for that last song which was a dedication!

God, I love that song.

• PS I Love You, Facelove
• Endless Bummer, If It’s Fact, It’s Fair Game
• Bash Brothers, Party Hat
• Digits, Nonstop
• The Mantles, Don’t Lie
• The Sandwitches, Mary Me
• Thee Oh Sees, I Was Denied
• Dominant Legs , Young at Love and Life
• Bear In Heaven, Wholehearted Mess
• Neon Indian, Ephemeral Artery
• Sleigh Bells, Crown on the Ground
• Cold Cave, Life Magazine
• The Girls At Dawn, Every Night
• Summer Camp, Ghost Train
• Curley Griffin, Rockin’ On My Mind

Podcast is up! Right here!

The Annual Duncan’s Donuts Hallowe’en Spook-tacular!

Happy Halloween!

• Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind, “The Shining” Main Title Theme
• David Candy, Theme from “Rosemary’s Baby”
• Half Japanese, Rosemary’s Baby
• Bauhaus & Disney, Haunted/Bela
• Jeffrey Lewis, If You Shoot the Head You Kill the Ghoul
• North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative, Do They Know It’s Halloween?
• The Misfits, Halloween
• The Shaggs, It’s Halloween
• No Kids, For Halloween
• Animal Collective, Fireworks
• Jan Davis, Watusi Zombie
• Lee Ross, The Mummy’s Bracelet
• Bob & Jerry, Ghost Satellite
• Deadly Ones, Monster Surfing Time
• Robbie The Werewolf, Rockin’ Werewolf
• The Swingin’ Phillies, Frankenstein’s Party

Podcast available here!

The I’m-sick-but-it’s-not-swine-flu-I-swear episode

• The Kingsmen, Louie, Louie
• Mudhoney, Touch Me, I’m Sick
• Elevator to Hell, Killing Myself
• Rose Melberg, Things That We Do
• Yo La Tengo, Periodically Double or Triple
• Little Girls, Tambourine
• Fine Mist, Palm Trees
• Shonen Knife, Super Group
• Atlas Sound, Logos
• Jeremy Jay, Breaking the Ice
• Kidnap Kids!, Seeds
• The Nymphets, I See
• The Gossip, Men In Love
• Pearl Harbour, Luv Goon
• The Endless Bummer, LCAC Country
• Mew, Start

Podcast available here!

A Red Sox lament & a bunch of new stuff

• Jonathan Richman, The Fenway
• The Shangri-Las, He Cried
• The 6ths, The Dead Only Quickly
• Think About Life, Havin’ My Baby
• Neon Indian, Should Have Taken Acid With You
• Makeout Videotape, Heat Wave
• Annie, I Don’t Like Your Band
• The Duchess & The Duke, New Shadow
• The Kinks, Autumn Almanac
• Kurt Vile, The Hunchback (LP version)
• Kurt Vile & the Violators, The Hunchback (EP version)
• Islands, Tender Torture
• The Gossip, Got Body If You Want It
• Pansy Division, Deep Water
• Girls, Life In San Francisco
• Babe Rainbow, Celebrate
• Ghostface Killah, Stay

Podcast here!

The Tyranahorse-live-in-studio episode! CRAZY!

• Archers of Loaf, Web In Front
• Jesus Lizard, Glamourous
• Tyranahorse, Heath Ledger Wolf
• Hank Williams, There’s A Tear in my Beer
• Minor Threat, In My Eyes
• Smith Westerns, Girl in Love
• Hornet Leg, Ruined My Life
• Tyranahorse, Sunny Religion
• Tyranahorse, Hank (Live in studio)
• Kidnap Kids!, Bottle Rocket
• The SSRIs, Honest
• LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out

Thanks to Tyranahorse for coming in! Podcast here.

These past weeks…

That video makes me feel W I S T F U L.

October 1st, 2009

• DJ Mujava, Township Funk
• The Shangri-Las, Heaven Only Knows
• Hornet Leg, Ribbon of Fear
• C.O.C.O., You Knew It
• Memory Tapes, Plain Material
• Cranfield & Slade, Waterloo Sunset
• Girls, Laura,
• Javelin, Vibrationz
• Rick White, Eerieaquaintance
• Kidnap Kids!, God
• CHAR2D2, Some Will Have to Go
• Thee Ahs, Strange Little Scene
• Chris-A-Riffic, KAA
• Adrian Teacher, Selkirk Drive
• You Say Party! We Say Die!, There Is XXXX (Within My Heart)

Podcast here!

September 24th, 2009

• Girls, Lust for Life
• Built to Spill, Joyride
• Mirah, Don’t Go
• fucked up, no epiphany
• reigning sound, call me
• Indian Wars, If You Want Me
• The Fiery Furnaces, Staring At the Steeple
• Spiral Stairs, Maltese Terier
• Vic Chestnutt, Flirted With You All My Life
• John Carpenter, Seasons
• Raekwon, House of Flying Daggers
• David Cross, Although Indigent, Rural Families Have Little To Say In The Matter, Their Meager, Third Rate Public Education Has
• Kept Them Ignorant And Thus, Great Sources Of Ridicule!
• Todd Barry, Scotland
• Steve Martin, Mad At My Mother
• Steve Martin, A Charitable Kind Of Guy
• Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters, Tonight, You Belong To Me

Podcast here!

September 17th, 2009

Live broadcast = failure

• Pet Shop Boys, All Over the World
• Silly Kissers, You Don’t Love Me
• The xx, Basic Space
• The Blow, Fists Up
• YACHT, Psychic City (Voodoo City)
• Some Fine Mist live songs played over Skype
• LCD Soundsystem, Jump Into the Fire
• The Bar-Kays, Ghost House
• Raekwon feat. Ghostface, Peniteniary
• Clipse feat. Kanye West, Kinda Like A Big Deal
• Jay Arner, Bird of Prey
• Wild Nothing, Cloudbusting

Podcast here!

Argh, getting lazy again

I’m spread over too many formats. Sorry blog readers. Here we go, the last three weeks…

September 10, 2009 (feat. Nas interviewing DJ Sabzi)

• Mountain Goats, Jam Eater Blues
• The Beathovens, Summer Sun
• Taken By Trees, Greyest Love of All
• Vashti Bunyan, Autumn Leaves
• Go Team, Acid Autumn
• Death, Politicians In My Eyes
• 39 Clocks, PLO
• The Beach Boys, Wouldn’t It Be Nice (a capella)
• The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby (instrumental)
• No Kids, All That Heaven Allows
• Katie Selmantis, Believe Me
• Final Fantasy, Red Sun (demo)
• DJ Sabzi interview by Nas
• Podcast here

September 3rd (Daniel Johnston feature & special guests, 3/4 of Kidnap Kids!)

• Daniel Johnston, Dream Lover
• Daniel Johnston, Funeral Girl
• Daniel Johnston, Sorry Entertainer
• Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair, I Met Roky Erickson
• Daniel Johnston, Some Things Last A Long Time
• Daniel Johnston, My Life Is Starting Over
• Daniel Johnston, Love Wheel
• Daniel Johnston & Yo La Tengo, Speeding Motorcycle (live)
• All Girl Summer Fun Band, Dear Mr & Mrs Troublemaker
• Cub, Summer Samba
• Girls, Lust for Life
• Go Team, Maverick Summer
• Kidnap Kids, 123
• Kidnap Kids, Lolita
• Half Chinese, Boomerang, May 8
• Tyranahorse, Britney Wolf
• Podcast here

August 27th, 2009 (Smooth Sailing preview)

• Roxy Music, Love Is The Drug
• VIBES, Psychic
• Parenthetical Girls, Song for Ellie Greenwich
• The Ramones, Baby, I Love You
• Daniel Johnston, Freedom
• Islands, Vapors
• Hidden Cameras, He Falls To Me
• No Gold, Hot Bay
• The Fiery Furnaces, Keep Me In the Dark
• The Duchess & The Duke, Hands
• Girls, Solitude
• Yo La Tengo, Here to Fall
• Magnetic Fields, I Thought You Were My Boyfriend
• Podcast here

Thanks for continuing to check this space out! It’s fall now; I’ll do a better job of staying indoors and updating websites.