Playlist for March 31st, 2010

This week we have an exciting shows. Lots of new music to preview, including a new release by Hamilton band The Rest that you can only get a physical copy of if you buy the accompanying novel. It's a crazy promo. Check it out.

Also, we have the debut of a brand new segment, Name that natural disaster. It promises to be irreverent.

Do us a favour and check out the blogs that we get the music from. They work hard so that our show doesn't suck and they know a lot more about indie music than we do anyway. Show them some love (hence the swan photo).

The Playlist:

The Sheepdogs - I Don't Know [myspace]
The Moondoggies - Bogchiel Rain Blues
The Dept. - Relatively [CBC R3]
Knock Knock Ginger - Virginia Black [label site]
The Lava and Ash - unicorn FUCKS unicorn [i♥music]
Wintersleep - New Inheritors [free download]
Laura Marling - Blackberry Stone
The Rest - The Close Western [i♥music]
Amelia Curran - The Mistress
The Morning Benders - Promises [yellowstereo]
Mark Sultan - Don't Look Back
Ghostkeeper - Well, Well, Well [i♥music]
Your Yellow Dress - Paper Planes (M.I.A. cover)
Whoop-szo - Sunshower Clean
The Stutters - Starlight Love [myspace]
Faith feat The Girls Can Hear Us - My Friends Are Famous [free album]


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photo via Flickr

Playlist for March 24, 2010

This week's playlist has, purely by coincidence, a strong presence by musician/producer/magician Danger Mouse, whom you may remember as the skinny part of Gnarls Barkley.

You'll hear Danger Mouse's work in the song Little Girl (which features Julian Casablancas of the Strokes), in the new act Broken Bells (the other half of which is James Mercer, lead singer of the Shins), and in the brand new Black Keys album, which Danger Mouse produced.

That's kablamo!


Playlist: 
Bird & Bear - Bird & Bear
Hayden - Let's Break Up [CBC R3]
Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
Norah Jones - Jesus Etc. (Wilco cover)
Joel Plaskett - Run, Run, Run
Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside
Maybe Smith - You Would Never Survive the Winters in This Province
Metric - Black Sheep [hype]
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Little Girl
Ben Gunning - Take the Hook [CBC R3]
The Hold Steady - How a Resurrection Really Feels
The Black Keys - Tighten Up [hype]

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photo via Flickr

Playlist for March 17, 2010

Is there anything you have been watching obsessively on YouTube lately that you cannot get out of your head? Perhaps the latest Lady Gaga enigma [enema]? We have been enjoying the musical and improvisational stylings of an anonymous YouTube user who loves to sing to people on Chat Roulette. Speaking of things you can't get out of your head, here's our always-catchy playlist.


Playlist:
Giant Hand - You're No Son Of Mine
Daniel, Fred & Julie - The Gambler and His Bride [herohill]
The Deep Dark Woods - Charlie's Is Coming Down

Innes Wilson and His Opposition - Class of Apathy

Share - Et Cetera

Cover Fire: Pomplamoose - Telephone (Lady Gaga)

Forest City Lovers - If I Were A Tree
Danny Michel - Two Hearts

The Warped 45s - Don't Blame the City

Dave Norris & Local Ivan - Look Out!

Ghostkeeper - By Morning

Magneta Lane - Lady Bones

Diamond Rings - All Yr Songs (Green Go Remix)

Parlovr - Sever My Ties Artist - Song Artist - Song [mp3link]
We Were Lovers - Wild Fire
Peaches - Gay Bar (Electric Six cover)

Playlist for March 10, 2010

Hey all. Thanks for stoppin' by. We were excited that someone had sent our show a sample CD but it turns out they had sent it to everybody, which quickly ruined Matthew's excitement (see above).

There aren't as many mp3 links to share this week, but for what it's worth, we still love you. Here's the playlist.

Playlist:

Fanshaw - Dark Eyes
The Michael Parks - It Hurts So Much to Fall in Love [website]
The Hidden Cameras - In the NA
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Dancing in the Dark (cover) [chromewaves]
Eli et Papillon - Train de Vie
Marie-Pierre Arthur - Elle
Ruth Minnikin - Sleeping and Dreaming
Tolan McNeil - One Will Be Late
The Abramson Singers - You Don't Love Me
Yukon Blonde - Rather Be With You
Gigi - Won't Someone Tell Me? [link]
Fan Death - Cannibal
Jon McKiel - Iceman
Sandman Viper Command - Oh Yeah, It's Fusion
Sleepless Nights - Everybody's Dancing [herohill]
Spirits - Open the Door

Playlist for March 3, 2010

Hey everyone! It's been so long. Welcome back. Today was Jessica Biel's birthday, and though that had absolutely no effect on the music, we feel you should know.

Playlist

Systems Officer - Pacer
Bill Callahan - Day
Plants & Animals - Tom Cruz
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Something Somewhere Sometime
Shotgun Jimmie - Waist Deep in the Water
The Beauties - Wastin' Time
Pony Up! - Matthew Modine [i♥music]
Sarah Jaffe - Perfect Plan
Pomplamoose - Don't Want to Miss a Thing [website]
Born Ruffians - Sole Brother [pastaprima]
One for the Team - Hard for You
Local Natives - Sun Hands [yellowstereo] 
Styrofoam Ones - O.T.T.A.P. [i♥music]
The Zolas - You're Too Cool [herohill]

*IMPORTANT: The lead singer from the Zolas, Zachary Gray, is in Saskatoon at the moment to act in Persephone Theatre's Billy Bishop Goes to War, now playing.

Playlist for February 24th, 2010

Tonight, great new songs including ones by She & Him and Broken Social Scene. Also, the two segments that have become so popular that the term "Beatlemania" comes closest to describing them: Cover Fire (see picture above) and Ishmael Don't Know Slang.

Here's this week's playlist.

The Playlist

The Drums - Let's Go Surfing [mp3]
Class Actress - Let Me Take You Out [KEXP podcast]

We Are Wolves - Paloma

Woodhands - Dissembler [chromewaves]

New Moscow - 99 Problems (Jay-Z Cover) [website]

L. Poushinksky - Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter [myspace]

She & Him - Thieves [mp3]

Steve Poltz - Digging For Icicles

Broken Social Scene - World Sick

Totally Nebular - Green Tops

Zeus - Marching Through Your Head [mp3]

Thrush Hermit - From the Back of the Film

The Stance - Jenny Jitters [mp3]

Postdata - Tobias Grey

Banjo or Freakout - Left it Alone

Electric Six - I Buy The Drugs

JEFF the Brotherhood - Heavy Days [KEXP podcast]

We are now technologically retrofitted to 1 1/2 years ago

So, ishmael created a twitter feed for the show, presumably in response to my cajollery. It's basically like I created it. If you're looking for new songs, links to good blogs and solid info about music around Saskatoon, check it out.

@pantsblog

Playlist for Feb 17th, 2010

We've got a truly awful show planned for you tonight. It's so bad that we actually decided to scrap it and do a good show. On the menu: A new "Cover Fire" and a special installment of everyone's favourite game: Ishmael don't know slang.

The Playlist

Laura Veirs - Shadow Blues [iguessimfloating]
Josh Ritter - Change of Time [download here]
Jim Guthrie - If Bears Were Chairs
Destroyer - Leopard of Honor
One for the Team - Every Little Thing [theyellowstereo]
Sarah Jaffe - Clementine [iguessimfloating]
The United Steel Workers of Montreal - For Love and Your Mother's Sake
Boo Hoo - Married to the World

Poker Face (Lady GaGa cover) - Orba Squara [indiemuse]

Eels - Mansions of Los Feliz

Phosphorescent - Wolves

Jay Arner - Nightclubs [i♥music]

The King Khan and BBQ Show - Invisible Girl

Yukon Blonde - Kumiko Song

Vampire Weekend - Cousins [AWmusic]

Tor - The CN Tower Can Work It Out [mediafire] lshdsh

Playlist for Feb 3, 2010

Hello everyone. Before you steal all the music, remember that the Rural Alberta advantage are playing (with The Wooden Sky and The Great Bloomers) Amigos on February 10, next Wednesday. Be there.

Playlist:

Joanna Newsom - '81 [cavacool]
Spring Breakup - Young Love
John K. Samson - Heart of the Continent
Peasant - Into the Woods
Rural Alberta Advantage - Eye Of The Tiger [coverlaydown]
Land of Talk - May You Never [recordlabel]
The Zolas - Marlaina Kamikaze
Glossary - Save Your Money for the Weekend
Pinback - Subbing for Eden
Prizzy Prizzy Please - Large Hadron Collider
Woodhands - P'iss [recordlabel]
French Horn Rebellion - Up All Night
Pomplamoose - If You Think You Need Some Lovin [video below]
YACHT - Psychic City [download]
Jenocide - 28 Mansions
Wakey! Wakey! - Twenty Two [myspace]