Indie Dance Party

Last night (early this morning) I sat in with Chris McManus on his 'Indie Dance Party' show on CHRW. Because of the late night setting, I had a chance to spin a set of stuff that I would normally play at the club and not on my morning radio show. Here's a list of the songs I played...

VHS or Beta - Night On Fire
The Rakes - Retreat (Phones remix)
Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones disco edit)
Put The Rifle Down - Dragged Across The Gulf
Test Icicles - Circle.Square.Triangle.
Thom Yorke - The Clock
Four Tet - A Joy
Interpol - Public Pervert (Carlos D remix)
Mew - Special

You can listen to it here...
http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWThu0100.mp3

'Pulp Friction' playlist

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

Hour 1

Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Babyshambles - A’rebours
Tin Bangs - He’s So Pretty
Tapes 'n Tapes - Just Drums
Hot Hot Heat - Dirty Mouth
The Walkmen - All Hands And The Cook
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
Mogwai - Travel Is Dangerous
Secret Machines - All At Once (It's Not Important)
Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville
Meligrove Band - Planets Conspire
Sunset Rubdown - Stadiums And Shrines
Duchess Says - Ccut Up

Hour 2

The Rapture - Get Myself Into It
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Put The Rifle Down - Dragged Across The Gulf
Grandaddy - Jeez Louise
Ambulance Ltd. - Heavy Lifting
Raising The Fawn - Carbon Paper
Eagles Of Death Metal - Cherry Cola
Evil Doers - Master This
Kings Of Leon - Razz
Silversun Pickups - Melatonin
The Lovely Feathers - In The Valley
Band Of Horses - The Great Salt Lake

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

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue0900.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue1000.mp3

'Pulp Friction' playlist

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

Hour 1

Soledad Brothers - Truth Or Consequences
Tin Bangs - He’s So Pretty
Dirty Pretty Things - Doctors And Dealers
Radiohead - Sit Down, Stand Up
Air - Surfing On A Rocket
The Flaming Lips - Pompeii Am Gotterdamerung
Tokyo Police Club - Shoulders & Arms
Cities In Dust - Save The Last Dance
Debaser - Idaho
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Ryan Adams - Luminol
Priestess - Lay Down
The Arcade Fire - Une Annee Sans Lumiere
The Lovely Feathers - Frantic
Sonic Youth - Rats

Hour 2

The Walkmen - Good For You’s Good For Me
The Strokes - Fear Of Sleep
Spoon - The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
Pink Mountaintops - Cold Criminals
Destroyer - 3000 Flowers
Elliott Smith - Independence Day
Broken Social Scene - Windsurfing Nation
Bloc Party - 2 More Years
Interpol - Slow Hands
The Canons - Wine
Supergrass - Road To Rouen
Wilco - I'm The Man Who Loves You (live)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fancy

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

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue0900.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue1000.mp3

Canada Day special

If you missed my Canada Day special earlier today on 94.9 CHRW and would like to listen to or download it, here's the link... http://www.chrwradio.com/canadadayspecial.html

Giveaways

This Thursday at GT's, we'll be giving away a bunch of Vines prizes, including CD's and Puma clothing. We'll also be giving away a pair of tickets to the upcoming Dashboard Confessional show on July 1st at the JLC.

'Pulp Friction' playlist

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

Hour 1

Sloan - Snowsuit Sound
Thrush Hermit - From The Back Of The Film
New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Wolf Parade - Modern World
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
Chixdiggit - Great Legs
Chixdiggit - Quit Your Job
Chixdiggit - I Wanna Hump You
Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands
Matthew Good Band - Generation X-Wing
The Dears - Lost In The Plot
Broken Social Scene - Stars And Sons
Sianspheric - Nothing Stands
The Stills - Gender Bombs
Constantines - The Long Distance Four

Hour 2

Kasabian - Processed Beats
The Dandy Warhols - Boys Better
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth
Sonic Youth - Incinerate
Editors - Munich
Doves - Sky Starts Falling
The Vines - Don’t Listen To The Radio
Tapes N’ Tapes - Insistor
Sun Kil Moon - Salvador Sanchez
Placebo - Meds
Tom Vek - If You Want

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

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue0900.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue1000.mp3

Oh Canada!

In celebration of our coming national holiday, the entire first hour of my show on CHRW this Tuesday will be devoted to playing some of my favourite Canadian artists.

Also, this Saturday (July 1st), I've been asked to host a special program - '30 Amazing Canadian Bands of CHRW's Past 25 Years', from 11 am to 1:30 pm.

You can hear both shows live on 94.9 FM locally, or chrwradio.com worldwide!

Guest DJ

Tonight at the club I'll have a special guest DJ in to spin a set. Chris McManus has a radio show on 94.9 CHRW from 12-2 am on Thursday mornings called 'Indie Dance Party', and he's going to bring his great musical taste to GT's for you. You'll find more information on Chris and his show here... http://www.playingitcool.ca/

Also tonight, we'll continue the CD giveaways. We've got copies of the new Cites In Dust and Keane albums to give away all night, plus as always, the best drink deals in town.

Oh, and next Thursday, June 29th, we'll finally be doing that Vines givaway that I was talking about a while back (CD's, clothing, etc.)

'Pulp Friction' playlist

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

Hour 1

Sonic Youth - Incinerate
Jets Overhead - Seems So Far
Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye’d Boy
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
The Futureheads - Fallout
Square Root Of Margaret - Time Machine
Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You’re Dead
Cities In Dust - Chop Chop You’re Dead
Morrissey - You have Killed Me
Tin Bangs - Shake
The Marble Index - Everyone Else
The Raconteurs - Hands
VHS Or Beta - You Got Me
Radiohead - Idoteque

Hour 2

The Blue Van - Revelation Of Love
Gogol Bordello - Immigrant Punk
Meligrove Band - Our Love Will Make The World Go Round
The Walkmen - Louisiana
Destroyer - European Oils
Wilco - War On War
The Rakes - We Are All Animals
Arctic Monkeys - Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Elliott Brood - President (35)
Wolf Parade - You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control

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

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue0900.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue1000.mp3

'Pulp Friction' playlist

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

Hour 1

Bright Eyes - Gold Mine Gutted
Bright Eyes - Old Soul Song (For The New World Order)
Bright Eyes - Light Pollution
Arctic Monkeys - Cigarette Smoker Fiona
We Are Scientists - It’s A Hit
Cities In Dust - Some Of My Best Friends Are Cheaters
Tapes 'n Tapes - Cowbell
The Lovely Feathers - Frantic
The Futureheads - Skip To The End
Put The Rifle Down - Dragged Across The Gulf
Test Icicles - Circle.Square.Triangle.
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations

Hour 2

Safe Home - They Say It
Coralie Clement - Indecise
Pink Mountaintops - New Drug Queens
Tin Bangs - Shake
Kings Of Leon - Wasted Time
The White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers
The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.
Raising The Fawn - Carbon Paper
In Flight Safety - Time & Place
Tokyo Police Club - Citizens Of Tomorrow
The Strokes - Electricityscape
Clothes Make The Man - Tuz
The Flints - Empire Hotel
The Cardigans - Godspell
Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life

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

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue0900.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue1000.mp3

Without Feathers

I'll get straight to the point. The new Stills album is by far the biggest musical disappointment of the year. I'm really glad I had a chance to hear it before spending any money on it.

Anyway, here's the supposed background story... A great band from Montreal releases a really good first album. It gets alot of critical acclaim, makes them moderately popular, and predictably, has it's share of detractors that label them as things like "unoriginal" or "new-new wave". They probably took those criticisms (or themselves) too seriously, so they decide to make some changes. First they kick out their guitarist. Then their drummer, who co-wrote material for the first album says "if you don't let me sing and play guitar, I'll quit"; and they actually agree to this! (thanks Dave Grohl - now every drummer has a huge ego and wants to sing). Then they proceed to make an album full of boring mid-tempo crap. I know, I've played stuff from it on my radio show, but that was just because I needed to fill my Canadian content quota.

The album is called 'Without Feathers'. I guess this an attempt to further distance themselves from the first album, which has feathers all over the cover. As if the music doesn't do that enough! In trying to be different, they went too far away from their original sound, while also ignoring everything that worked for them in the past. It sounds like a completely different band; and that's not a good thing in this case.

'Pulp Friction' playlist

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

Hour 1

Radiohead - Electioneering
Grandaddy - Jeez Louise
Destroyer - 3000 Flowers
Editors - Someone Says
Metric - Dead Disco
The Futureheads - Fallout
Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere And It’s Now
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Let It Ride
The Meligrove Band - Planets Conspire
Islands - Rough Jem
Hard Fi - Feltham Is Singing Out
Cities In Dust - Chop Chop You’re Dead
Put The Rifle Down - Random Selector
New Order - Krafty

Hour 2

The Raconteurs - Intimate Secretary
Soledad Brothers - Downtown Paranoia Blues
Tin Bangs - Shake
Priestess - Lay Down
The Illuminati - Run And Hide
Wolfmother - Dimension
The Walkmen - Lost In Boston
Pink Mountaintops - Cold Criminals
The Dandy Warhols - Nietzche
Secret Machines - All At Once
M1 - Supersymmetric
Nada Surf - Do It Again

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

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue0900.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue1000.mp3

'Pulp Friction' playlist

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

Hour 1

Arctic Monkeys - Space Invaders
Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams Of Pavement
The Diableros - Olympic Island
Interpol - Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down
Mew - Why Are You Looking Grave
The Early Morning - I Won’t Forget This
Tapes ‘N Tapes - Insistor
Elliott Brood - Second Son
Ambulance Ltd. - New English
The Vertical Struts - The Chief Fox
The Raveonettes - Love In A Trashcan
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mysteries
From Fiction - Patterns In Similar Static
Cities In Dust - Some Of My Best Friends Are Cheaters
Placebo - Drag

Hour 2

The Walkmen - All Hands And The Cook
Jets Overhead - Seems So Far
The Stills - Helicopters
Grandaddy - Elevate Myself
The The Flaming Lips - It Overtakes Me
Pink Mountaintops - New Drug Queens
Television - Friction
Morrissey - In The Future When All's Well
Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
Doves - Almost Forgot Myself
Tokyo Police Club - Be Good
The Raconteurs - Store Bought Bones
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain't No Easy Way

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

Hour 1: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue0900.mp3
Hour 2: http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWTue1000.mp3

Tokyo Police Club

I just found out that following the CHRW Top 30 Countdown tomorrow, I'll be interviewing a great new band from Toronto called Tokyo Police Club. The countdown starts at 11am, and the interview will likely start shortly after 1:00pm. Later on tomorrow evening, they'll be playing a show at the Alex P. Keaton. Sweet!

Upcoming giveaways!

Over the next few weeks, we're going to be giving away a lot of free CD's at the club...

This Thursday, we're giving away copies of the new Angels & Airwaves album, 'We Don't Need To Whisper'. Bright Eyes will be in town in June for a show at Centennial Hall, so on June 1st and 8th, we'll have a bunch of copies of his last two albums to give away. On June 15th, we'll have copies of the new Sonic Youth album, 'Rather Ripped' and the new AFI album, 'Decemberunderground'. And, on June 22nd, we'll give away copies of the new albums from Keane, and a great band from Toronto called Cities In Dust.

So, there's somthing for everyone's musical tastes there. Personally, I'm most excited about the new Sonic Youth and Cities In Dust albums. All you have to do for a chance to win is come see me at the DJ booth, and fill out a ballot.

Oh, and the Vines giveaway that we were going to do this week has been postponed until sometime in late June. I'll post the exact date here when I know.