Canada Day Special

Tune in to 94.9 CHRW (or chrwradio.com) this Saturday from 11am to 1:30pm to hear me host the Canada Day weekend special broadcast for the second straight year. The show will feature 25 of the best/most well known covers of Canadian songs done by international and Canadian artists. The list was compiled based on votes submitted by listeners, to the station's website.

I should also mention that someone will be filling in for me on this week's Pulp Friction show, as I finish preparing info for the special. I'll be back on the air hosting Pulp Friction on July 6th with previews of new albums from Interpol and Spoon, as well as a special live in-studio performance from Alexandra Krakus.

'Pulp Friction' playlist

Here's the playlist from today's show on 94.9 CHRW...

3:30-4:30

Spoon - Don't Make Me A Target
Travis - Selfish Jean
Two Hours Traffic - Nighthawks
The National - Mistaken For Strangers
Maximo Park - Russian Literature
Modest Mouse - We've Got Everything
The Two Koreas - The Helicopter Spies
The Postage Stamps - Autumn + Everything
Tokyo Police Club - Box
Put The Rifle Down - My Industrial Park
Duchess Says - Black Flag
Queens Of The Stone Age - Sick, Sick, Sick
The Horrors - Count In Fives
Pride Tiger - Let 'Em Go

4:30-5:30

Feist - I Feel It All
Immaculate Machine - Roman Statues
The Rosebuds - I Better Run
The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
Clinic - If You Could Read Your Mind
Kings Of Leon - My Party
Ryan Adams - Halloweenhead
Ryan Adams - Two
Ryan Adams - Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
Ryan Adams - The Sun Also Sets
Wilco - Impossible Germany
They Shoot Horses Don't They? - One Last Final Push
Frog Eyes - Idle Songs
The Cribs - Girls Like Mystery

5:30-6:00

The Rakes - We Danced Together
Kaiser Chiefs - The Angry Mob
Said The Whale - Live Off Lamb
Said The Whale - This Winter I Retire
Elbow Beach Surf Club - The Letter

If you missed it, you can download and/or listen to the show here...

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1530.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1630.mp3
Hour 3: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1730.mp3

'Pulp Friction' playlist

Here's the playlist from yesterday's show on 94.9 CHRW...

3:30-4:30

Spoon - Don't You Evah
Frog Eyes - Stockades
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It
Kings Of Leon - Black Thumbnail
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Penny For Your Thoughts
Two Hours Traffic - Stuck For The Summer
The Two Koreas - U-Boat Commander
Klaxons - Atlantis To Interzone
Kasabian - Stuntman
Sianspheric - To Myself
My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
The Gruesomes - Cave-in!
Elbow Beach Surf Club - The Letter
The Detroit Cobras - As Long As I Have You
The Stolen Minks - Stop Talking

4:30-5:30

The Machines - Snatching Defeat (From The Jaws Of Victory)
The Kooks - Eddie's Gun
Mando Diao - Killer Kaczynski
The Rosebuds - Cemetery Lawn
Bloc Party - We Were Lovers
Tom Vek - If You Want
Wayne Petti - Moment By Moment
Peter Elkas - Wall Of Fire
The White Stripes - Bone Broke
The White Stripes - 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
The White Stripes - Little Cream Soda
The White Stripes - A Martyr For My Love For You
The White Stripes - I'm Slowly Turning Into You
The Black Keys - Your Touch
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Need Some Air

5:30-6:00

The Arcade Fire - Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
Fjord Rowboat - Taking The Pass
A Northern Chorus - The Millions Too Many
Immaculate Machine - Old Flame
Jeff Buckley - So Real (live)
The National - Ada

If you missed it, you can download and/or listen to the show here...

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1530.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1630.mp3
Hour 3: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1730.mp3

Five O'Clock Album Previews

There are lots of good album previews coming up on Pulp Friction...

On today's show, I'll preview the new White Stripes album, 'Icky Thump'. The album will be in stores on June 19th, and the band are playing a sold out show at the JLC on July 7th.

Next week's show (June 22nd) will feature a preview of Ryan Adams' new album 'Easy Tiger'. That one will be in stores on June 26th.

On July 6th, I'll preview two albums - Spoon's 'Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga', and Interpol's 'Our Love To Admire'. Both of those albums will be in stores on July 10th. I have yet to hear the entire Interpol album, but the first single is great. As for Spoon, I've been listening to the album quite a bit, and so far I love it.

And, on July 13th I'll preview tracks from the new Editors album, 'An End Has A Start'. It will be in stores in the UK on June 25th, but not until July 17th here in Canada.

This Thursday night

This Thursday night (June 14th) at GT's, we'll be doing a release party for the new Queens Of The Stone Age album, 'Era Vulgaris'.

We'll have lots of copies of the album to give away. I'll also play a bunch of songs from it, as well as their past records.

'Pulp Friction' playlist

Yesterday's show on 94.9 CHRW started out with 1 1/2 hours of really long, electronic songs, just for the hell of it. When I got sick of that, I played shorter rock n' roll songs for the rest of the show. Here's the playlist...

3:30-4:30

Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
Lynx And Ram - Ghost Ship
Junior Boys - In The Morning (Hot Chip remix)
The English Premiership - In Transit
Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa (Torske remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Us v Them
Chromeo - My Girl Is Calling Me (A Liar)
!!! - Bend Over Beethoven

4:30-5:30

!!! - Break In Case Of Anything
Hot Chip - No Fit State
The Chemical Brothers - Do It Again (Extended mix)
Chris Jongkind - North West Tokyo
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
Art Brut - Direct Hit
Wooden Stars - Orphans
Frog Eyes - Stockades
Germans - Nature's Mouth
You Say Party! We Say Die! - DTMG, AKR!

5:30-6:00

Elliott Smith - Going Nowhere
Feist - Sealion
Camouflage Nights w/ Kevin Drew - Celebration Guns
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Cold Wind
Kings Of Leon - Charmer
The Rosebuds - Get Up Get Out

If you missed it, you can download and/or listen to the show here...

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1530.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1630.mp3
Hour 3: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1730.mp3

'Pulp Friction' playlist

Here's the playlist from yesterday's show on 94.9 CHRW...

3:30-4:30

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Took Out A Loan
The Subways - I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say
Wooden Stars - Pretty Girl
Tokyo Police Club - Citizens Of Tomorrow
The Cribs - Girls Like Mystery
Kaiser Chiefs - Highroyds
Pulp - Common People
Sufjan Stevens - Free Man In Paris
The Most Serene Republic - Ageless Beauty
Elbow Beach Surf Club - The Letter
Oh! The Pretty Things - Jet Plane
Joel Plakett Emergency - Drunk Teenagers
The National - Mistaken For Strangers

4:30-5:30

The Rosebuds - Get Up Get Out
Data Rock - Fa-Fa-Fa
Jamie T - Salvador
Cuff The Duke - The Ballad Of Poor John Henry
Raising The Fawn - Carbon Paper
The Electrocult - Disappearing Act
Art Brut - Nag Nag Nag Nag
Art Brut - Pump Up The Volume
Art Brut - Direct Hit
The Bravery - Every Word Is A Knife In My Ear
Mando Diao - Long Before Rock 'n Roll
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
Air - Mer Du Japon
Lynx And Ram - Plan Of Attack

5:30-6:00

Spoon - The Underdog
Wilco - Shake It Off
Travis - 3 Times You Lose
The Old Soul - Nectar Of The Nitwit
Albert Hammond, Jr. - Bright Young Thing
The Arcade Fire - My Body Is A Cage

If you missed it, you can download and/or listen to the show here...

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1530.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1630.mp3
Hour 3: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1730.mp3