This band is a rare one that I discovered not in Canadian campus radio, but at KEXP in Seattle. I tend to listen to KEXP when work is slow, or I have nothing to do at home but clean up the house or play video games. Every time this band came on, I had to stop what I was doing and see what the heck the song was that was playing. Idles, from the UK, are a hybrid of post-punk precision, punk-rock bravado and working class British values. Their second album has a cocky swagger to it that rivals the best of UK 77 punk, and the teary vulnerability of mid 80s UK pop, backed with a wall of sound musicality that would make David Gedge or Mark E. Smith twist up their face a little. Political, raw, loud, unapologetic, unrelenting. They released a thunderous live album in 2019 and are set with a follow up in 2020, which is bound to be in consideration for my albums of the year for 2020.
Best of 2019 is coming next week!
Monday, December 30, 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for December 13, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Righteous Rainbows of Togetherness - Cloud Sea Moonrise* - Astrobiology (Independent)
Cassius - Feeling for You - 1999 (Matador)
Trentemoller - In the Garden - Obverse (In My Room)
Fejka - Olson - Reunion (Ki)
yuutsu - Haze* - Lost (Independent)
JPOD - On the Cusp* - Circadian Rhythms (Addictech)
DJN - Super Nova* - Gartija (Independent)
Cares - Our Problems Are Your Problems* - Control Isn't Real (Communion)
Jakob Rehlinger - Homeward Voyage* - Powehi (Arachnidiscs)
E1sbar - The Replicas* - The Legend Of (Independent)
S.P.O.C.K. - Never Trust a Klingon - Never Trust a Klingon (Energy)
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Righteous Rainbows of Togetherness - Cloud Sea Moonrise* - Astrobiology (Independent)
Cassius - Feeling for You - 1999 (Matador)
Trentemoller - In the Garden - Obverse (In My Room)
Fejka - Olson - Reunion (Ki)
yuutsu - Haze* - Lost (Independent)
JPOD - On the Cusp* - Circadian Rhythms (Addictech)
DJN - Super Nova* - Gartija (Independent)
Cares - Our Problems Are Your Problems* - Control Isn't Real (Communion)
Jakob Rehlinger - Homeward Voyage* - Powehi (Arachnidiscs)
E1sbar - The Replicas* - The Legend Of (Independent)
S.P.O.C.K. - Never Trust a Klingon - Never Trust a Klingon (Energy)
DNTTA Playlist for December 6, 2019 - Outsider Music
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Bloo Boi - Mudbogging* - All Mod Leprechauns (Independent)
Jack Mudurian - Song Medley - Downloading the Repetoire (Arf! Arf!)
Bretton Lee John - Hospital Coffee* - Find Yourself Missing (Independent)
Langley Schools Music Project - Calling Occupants* - Innocence and Despair (Bar/None)
Daniel Johnston - The Spook - Rejected Unknown (Gammon)
Hasil Adkins - The Banana Boat Song - Peanut Butter Rock and Roll (Norton)
Partch Ensemble - Twelve Intrustions (1-2) - Sonata Dementia (Bridge)
Jad Fair and R. Stevie Moore - Evil Eyes - FairMoore (Old Gold)
Half Japanese - Possum Head - Fire in the Sky (Safe House)
Jad Fair and Phono Comb - The Beast Within* - Monsters, Lullabies and the Occassional Flying Saucer (Shake the Record Label)
The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot - Philosophy of the World (Light in the Attic)
David Ivan Neil - I Feel it All* - What is Love (Independent)
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Bloo Boi - Mudbogging* - All Mod Leprechauns (Independent)
Jack Mudurian - Song Medley - Downloading the Repetoire (Arf! Arf!)
Bretton Lee John - Hospital Coffee* - Find Yourself Missing (Independent)
Langley Schools Music Project - Calling Occupants* - Innocence and Despair (Bar/None)
Daniel Johnston - The Spook - Rejected Unknown (Gammon)
Hasil Adkins - The Banana Boat Song - Peanut Butter Rock and Roll (Norton)
Partch Ensemble - Twelve Intrustions (1-2) - Sonata Dementia (Bridge)
Jad Fair and R. Stevie Moore - Evil Eyes - FairMoore (Old Gold)
Half Japanese - Possum Head - Fire in the Sky (Safe House)
Jad Fair and Phono Comb - The Beast Within* - Monsters, Lullabies and the Occassional Flying Saucer (Shake the Record Label)
The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot - Philosophy of the World (Light in the Attic)
David Ivan Neil - I Feel it All* - What is Love (Independent)
DNTTA Playlist for November 29, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Debate Club - Understanding Protocols* - Phosphorescent (Michel)
Actors - Face Meets Glass* - It Will Come to You (Artoffact)
Bombnivores - Watching the Heat Curve* - Metamorphonic (Independent)
Joey Chaos and the Ghosts - Distortion* - Elegy (Bad/Good)
Chunder Buffet - Crash* - Lemon Sleazy (Independent)
Counterfeit Jeans - Osiris* - Good Morning (Kingfisher Bluez)
nehiyawak - Secret* - nipiy (Arts and Crafts)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand - Psychocandy (Warner)
Sandveiss - Dead Inside* - Saboteur (Sexy Sloth)
Bridal Party - Nectarine* - Too Much (Kingfisher Bluez)
The High Dials - Primitve Feelings* - Primitive Feelings (Hook and Prayer)
Corbo - One 4 Dirac - Quatro Treses (Chewing Foil)
Pigface - Little Sisters - Gub (Invisible)
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Debate Club - Understanding Protocols* - Phosphorescent (Michel)
Actors - Face Meets Glass* - It Will Come to You (Artoffact)
Bombnivores - Watching the Heat Curve* - Metamorphonic (Independent)
Joey Chaos and the Ghosts - Distortion* - Elegy (Bad/Good)
Chunder Buffet - Crash* - Lemon Sleazy (Independent)
Counterfeit Jeans - Osiris* - Good Morning (Kingfisher Bluez)
nehiyawak - Secret* - nipiy (Arts and Crafts)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand - Psychocandy (Warner)
Sandveiss - Dead Inside* - Saboteur (Sexy Sloth)
Bridal Party - Nectarine* - Too Much (Kingfisher Bluez)
The High Dials - Primitve Feelings* - Primitive Feelings (Hook and Prayer)
Corbo - One 4 Dirac - Quatro Treses (Chewing Foil)
Pigface - Little Sisters - Gub (Invisible)
DNTTA Playlist for November 22, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Frihavn - Diesel Fumes* - Demo (Independent)
Guadalcanal Diary - Trail of Tears - Standing in the Shadow of the Big Man (Elektra)
Guadalcanal Diary - Watusi Rodeo - Standing in the Shadow of the Big Man (Elektra)
The Safes - Make or Break - Winning Combination (Independent)
Lisel - Hollowmaker - Angels of the Slope (Luminelle)
Sandro Perri - Floriana* - Soft Landing (Constellation)
Babe Rainbow - The Wedge - Today (30th Century)
Sarah Page - Stasis* - Dose Curves (Backwards)
Bob Mould - See a Little Light - Workbook (Warner)
Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock - Sunshine Rock (Merge)
Walrus - Marcel* - Cool to Who (Outside)
Paragon Cause - Drop Me In* - Lies Between Us (Independent)
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Frihavn - Diesel Fumes* - Demo (Independent)
Guadalcanal Diary - Trail of Tears - Standing in the Shadow of the Big Man (Elektra)
Guadalcanal Diary - Watusi Rodeo - Standing in the Shadow of the Big Man (Elektra)
The Safes - Make or Break - Winning Combination (Independent)
Lisel - Hollowmaker - Angels of the Slope (Luminelle)
Sandro Perri - Floriana* - Soft Landing (Constellation)
Babe Rainbow - The Wedge - Today (30th Century)
Sarah Page - Stasis* - Dose Curves (Backwards)
Bob Mould - See a Little Light - Workbook (Warner)
Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock - Sunshine Rock (Merge)
Walrus - Marcel* - Cool to Who (Outside)
Paragon Cause - Drop Me In* - Lies Between Us (Independent)
DNTTA Playlist for November 15, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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METZ - Lump Sums* - Automat (Sub Pop)
Heavy Moon - Wasteland Sunset* - Heavy Moon 14 (Arachnidiscs)
Meltt - Wash Over Me* - Swim Slowly (Wave Phase)
Cup - Soon Will Be Flood - Spinning Creature (Northern Spy)
Sleater-Kinney - Ruins - The Center Won't Hold (Mom and Pop)
Wild Flag - Romance - Wild Flag (Merge)
Ex Hex - Diamond Drive - It's Real (Merge)
Filthy Friends - Windmill - Invitation (Kill Rock Stars)
Jeremy Stewart - New Moon* - II: Immemoriam (Independent)
D.O.A. - Nazi Training Camp* - 1978 (Sudden Death)
D.O.A. - America the Beautiful* - 1978 (Sudden Death)
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METZ - Lump Sums* - Automat (Sub Pop)
Heavy Moon - Wasteland Sunset* - Heavy Moon 14 (Arachnidiscs)
Meltt - Wash Over Me* - Swim Slowly (Wave Phase)
Cup - Soon Will Be Flood - Spinning Creature (Northern Spy)
Sleater-Kinney - Ruins - The Center Won't Hold (Mom and Pop)
Wild Flag - Romance - Wild Flag (Merge)
Ex Hex - Diamond Drive - It's Real (Merge)
Filthy Friends - Windmill - Invitation (Kill Rock Stars)
Jeremy Stewart - New Moon* - II: Immemoriam (Independent)
D.O.A. - Nazi Training Camp* - 1978 (Sudden Death)
D.O.A. - America the Beautiful* - 1978 (Sudden Death)
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Best of 2018 #2: Actors - It Will Come to You (Artoffact Records)
When this album came out in March, I knew it was going to be one of my favourite albums of the year. Actors have the retro precision of classic post punk, but also have a modern post punk sound. It's a modern sound, but not a brutal sound. That isn't to say it's not driving and difficult in places (it is), but it's more melodic, more instrumental and more electronic laced than a lot of modern post punk and noise rock. "Hit to the Head" and "Bury Me" are more the driving style, pummelling, insistent and draining. "Face Meets Glass" is brooding, electronic and dark. This is their debut album, so they brought their best to the table. Their second album will be the test. This is an amazing album that deserves multiple, active listenings.
Monday, December 2, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for November 8, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Seoul - Real June* - I Became a Shade (Last Gang)
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (Virgin)
Plains Apparition - Decade’s Trace* - Encrypt (Independent)
A Pact Between Strangers - White Rabbits* - Psalms for Swine (Independent)
Poly Dactic - Money* - Half Nermal (Independent)
Carol C - Looking For - Seven (Si/Se)
Factory Floor - Relay - 25 25 (DFA)
Flying Lotus - More (feat Anderson, Paak) - Flamagra (Warp)
Plaid - Drowned Sea - Plaid (Warp)
4LF - Damn Horses - Cave Paintings (Independent)
Bodywash - Sunspots* - Comforter (Luminelle)
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Seoul - Real June* - I Became a Shade (Last Gang)
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (Virgin)
Plains Apparition - Decade’s Trace* - Encrypt (Independent)
A Pact Between Strangers - White Rabbits* - Psalms for Swine (Independent)
Poly Dactic - Money* - Half Nermal (Independent)
Carol C - Looking For - Seven (Si/Se)
Factory Floor - Relay - 25 25 (DFA)
Flying Lotus - More (feat Anderson, Paak) - Flamagra (Warp)
Plaid - Drowned Sea - Plaid (Warp)
4LF - Damn Horses - Cave Paintings (Independent)
Bodywash - Sunspots* - Comforter (Luminelle)
DNTTA Playlist for November 1, 2019 - Hallowe'en Edition
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Cygnets - Sick Device* - Isolator (Negative Gain)
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween - Twelve Inch Singles (Wax Trax)
Heiki - Hoaxxx* - Tower of Acid (Paper and Sound)
VNV Nation - Electronaut - Futureperfect (Metropolis)
Imperative Reaction - Faded Into One - Ruined (Metropolis)
Penal Colony - Halidified - Scavengers in the Matrix (If It Moves)
The Cramps - I’m Contaminated - Flamejob (Enigma)
Sisters of Mercy - No Time to Cry - A Slight Case of Overbombing (Beggar's Banquet)
Thobbe Englund - Hell Bent for Leather - Hail to the Priest (Spinefarm)
Malhavoc - Cruciform* - The Release (Epidemic)
Skinny Puppy - Tormentor* - Too Dark Park (Nettwerk)
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Cygnets - Sick Device* - Isolator (Negative Gain)
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween - Twelve Inch Singles (Wax Trax)
Heiki - Hoaxxx* - Tower of Acid (Paper and Sound)
VNV Nation - Electronaut - Futureperfect (Metropolis)
Imperative Reaction - Faded Into One - Ruined (Metropolis)
Penal Colony - Halidified - Scavengers in the Matrix (If It Moves)
The Cramps - I’m Contaminated - Flamejob (Enigma)
Sisters of Mercy - No Time to Cry - A Slight Case of Overbombing (Beggar's Banquet)
Fiuran - The Breakers* - Faoinsgeulan (Independent)
Sophist - A Captive of Saturn’s Scythe* - Betrothal to the Stone (Independent)Thobbe Englund - Hell Bent for Leather - Hail to the Priest (Spinefarm)
Malhavoc - Cruciform* - The Release (Epidemic)
Skinny Puppy - Tormentor* - Too Dark Park (Nettwerk)
DNTTA Playlist for October 25, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Pizzarrhea! - Throat Kick to Go* - Laser Bacon Eye Surgery (Independent)
Nihilist Spasm Band - Mature Consideration* - No Borders (Independent)
Yoko Ono - Yangyang - Walking on Thin Ice (Ryko)
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith - Dividing Line - Songs from the Bardo (Smithsonian Folkways)
Fly Pan Am - Distance Dealer* - C'est Ca (Constellation)
Ornette Coleman - Hearing the Feeling - Virgin Beauty (CBS)
Fond of Tigers - Soheb* - Continent and Western (Drip Audio)
Excellent Jacket - Lost Wife* - You'll Do Better Next Time (Independent)
Venetian Snares - Cobra Commander* - Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits (Mu)
Touching God - Vacant* - Profane (And an Earth)
Partch Ensemble - The Street (12 Intrusions) - Sonata Dementia (Bridge)
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Pizzarrhea! - Throat Kick to Go* - Laser Bacon Eye Surgery (Independent)
Nihilist Spasm Band - Mature Consideration* - No Borders (Independent)
Yoko Ono - Yangyang - Walking on Thin Ice (Ryko)
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith - Dividing Line - Songs from the Bardo (Smithsonian Folkways)
Fly Pan Am - Distance Dealer* - C'est Ca (Constellation)
Ornette Coleman - Hearing the Feeling - Virgin Beauty (CBS)
Fond of Tigers - Soheb* - Continent and Western (Drip Audio)
Excellent Jacket - Lost Wife* - You'll Do Better Next Time (Independent)
Venetian Snares - Cobra Commander* - Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits (Mu)
Touching God - Vacant* - Profane (And an Earth)
Partch Ensemble - The Street (12 Intrusions) - Sonata Dementia (Bridge)
Monday, November 25, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for October 18, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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No Museums - Did You Land Your Mark Upon the Sun?* - The Artifact is Nothing (Independent)
Mercvrial - Carnival - The Stars, Like Dust (Independent)
Ex-Softess - Broken Sea* - Hollow Ritual EP (Thankless)
Softess - Bite Back* - Absolute Truth (Thankless)
Rheostatics - Diamonds on Our Toes* - Here Come the Wolves (Six Shooter)
Fawns - Backseat* - I Grew Up Here (Independent)
Hush Hush Noise - Into the Sun* - Hush Hush Noise (Coax)
Tetrix - Lost in Space* - Every House Has a Light On (Independent)
Clara Engel - Metamorphosis* - Where a City Once Drowned (Independent)
Daniel Romano - Hunger is a Dream You Die In* - Mosey (You've Changed)
Absolutely Free feat. US Girls - Currency* - Geneva Freeport (Idee Fixe)
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No Museums - Did You Land Your Mark Upon the Sun?* - The Artifact is Nothing (Independent)
Mercvrial - Carnival - The Stars, Like Dust (Independent)
Ex-Softess - Broken Sea* - Hollow Ritual EP (Thankless)
Softess - Bite Back* - Absolute Truth (Thankless)
Rheostatics - Diamonds on Our Toes* - Here Come the Wolves (Six Shooter)
Fawns - Backseat* - I Grew Up Here (Independent)
Hush Hush Noise - Into the Sun* - Hush Hush Noise (Coax)
Tetrix - Lost in Space* - Every House Has a Light On (Independent)
Clara Engel - Metamorphosis* - Where a City Once Drowned (Independent)
Daniel Romano - Hunger is a Dream You Die In* - Mosey (You've Changed)
Absolutely Free feat. US Girls - Currency* - Geneva Freeport (Idee Fixe)
DNTTA Playlist for October 11, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Death From Above - Losing Friends* - Heads Up! (Last Gang)
The Muffs - Lucky Guy - The Muffs (Reprise)
The Muffs - Sad Tomorrow - Blonde and Blonder (Reprise)
Goon - Critter - Heaven is Humming (Partisan)
Empath - Hanging Out of Cars - Active Listening: Life on Earth (Fat Possum)
Co-Op - Difference* - III (Independent)
The Hex - Too Many Bad Ideas* - Victoria's Secret 2019 (Baffled Octopi)
Little You Little Me - Do Yourself a Favour* - Hard to Say Not Knowing (Independent)
Dri Hiev - Aqua* - Dri Hiev (Independent)
Headache24 - E-Nail* - M for Love (P572)
It’s Always Fuzzy - Tremors* - It's Always Fuzzy (Independent)
Purlicue - Static* - Dip 'n Dot (Independent)
Winona Forever - Heads or Tails* - Feelgood (Kingfisher Bluez)
Devo - Gates of Steel (live) - Now it Can Be Told (Enigma)
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Death From Above - Losing Friends* - Heads Up! (Last Gang)
The Muffs - Lucky Guy - The Muffs (Reprise)
The Muffs - Sad Tomorrow - Blonde and Blonder (Reprise)
Goon - Critter - Heaven is Humming (Partisan)
Empath - Hanging Out of Cars - Active Listening: Life on Earth (Fat Possum)
Co-Op - Difference* - III (Independent)
The Hex - Too Many Bad Ideas* - Victoria's Secret 2019 (Baffled Octopi)
Little You Little Me - Do Yourself a Favour* - Hard to Say Not Knowing (Independent)
Dri Hiev - Aqua* - Dri Hiev (Independent)
Headache24 - E-Nail* - M for Love (P572)
It’s Always Fuzzy - Tremors* - It's Always Fuzzy (Independent)
Purlicue - Static* - Dip 'n Dot (Independent)
Winona Forever - Heads or Tails* - Feelgood (Kingfisher Bluez)
Devo - Gates of Steel (live) - Now it Can Be Told (Enigma)
DNTTA Playlist for Friday, October 4
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Lovely Killbots - It’s Fun to Be Grumpy* - Once Smitten (Independent)
Subtractivelad - Something Like a Star* - Where the Land Meets the Sky (n5MD)
EMK - Infinite Suns, Exploding* - Forest City Series Vol. 2 (A Person Disguised as People)
Pat G - N3* - Forest City Series Vol. 2 (A Person Disguised as People)
Andrew Franey - Never Coming Back* - Transhuman (We Are Droid)
DNDR - Follow - All We Know (AWAL)
Carol C - All My Love - Seven (Si/Se)
Leisure - Falling - Twister (Nettwerk)
Hadouken! - Turn the Lights Out - For the Masses (Nettwerk)
Sweat Boys - I Don’t Love You - Nervous Prayers (Give/Take)
Yeah That’s It - Ghost - Yeah That's It (Independent)
Mr. Merlot - Catch a Feeling* - City Sex Vol. 2 (Toneshenge)
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Lovely Killbots - It’s Fun to Be Grumpy* - Once Smitten (Independent)
Subtractivelad - Something Like a Star* - Where the Land Meets the Sky (n5MD)
EMK - Infinite Suns, Exploding* - Forest City Series Vol. 2 (A Person Disguised as People)
Pat G - N3* - Forest City Series Vol. 2 (A Person Disguised as People)
Andrew Franey - Never Coming Back* - Transhuman (We Are Droid)
DNDR - Follow - All We Know (AWAL)
Carol C - All My Love - Seven (Si/Se)
Leisure - Falling - Twister (Nettwerk)
Hadouken! - Turn the Lights Out - For the Masses (Nettwerk)
Sweat Boys - I Don’t Love You - Nervous Prayers (Give/Take)
Yeah That’s It - Ghost - Yeah That's It (Independent)
Mr. Merlot - Catch a Feeling* - City Sex Vol. 2 (Toneshenge)
Saturday, November 16, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for September 27, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Releveler - Denial* - Incipient (Independent)
Heiki - Con Job* - Tower of Acid (Paper and Sound)
Golden Grey - Five* - Numbers (Independent)
Louver - ca-10* - Carbon Arc (Independent)
Glass Apple Bonzai - Fire in the Sky* - The All-Nite Starlight Electronic Cafe (Artoffact)
Smaller Hearts - Low Orbit* - Honestly (Independent)
Royksopp - This Must Be It - Junior (Astralwerks)
Medicine and Duty - The Tour Guide - Brighter Past Impressions (Foolproof)
Blocktreat - Slow Burn* - After Dark (Independent)
Yoome - Hollywood - The Boredom of Me (The Orchard)
Falling Decibyls - Singapore Station - Sometimes I Close My Eyes (Independent)
Banjo Consortium - Grizzly (Pheek remix)* - A Remixed One (Independent)
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Releveler - Denial* - Incipient (Independent)
Heiki - Con Job* - Tower of Acid (Paper and Sound)
Golden Grey - Five* - Numbers (Independent)
Louver - ca-10* - Carbon Arc (Independent)
Glass Apple Bonzai - Fire in the Sky* - The All-Nite Starlight Electronic Cafe (Artoffact)
Smaller Hearts - Low Orbit* - Honestly (Independent)
Royksopp - This Must Be It - Junior (Astralwerks)
Medicine and Duty - The Tour Guide - Brighter Past Impressions (Foolproof)
Blocktreat - Slow Burn* - After Dark (Independent)
Yoome - Hollywood - The Boredom of Me (The Orchard)
Falling Decibyls - Singapore Station - Sometimes I Close My Eyes (Independent)
Banjo Consortium - Grizzly (Pheek remix)* - A Remixed One (Independent)
DNTTA Playlist for September 20, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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The Kings - Anti-Hero Man* - The Kings Are Here (Warner)
The Cars - Heartbeat City - Heartbeat City (Elektra)
The Cars - Blue Tip - Move Like This (Hear Music)
The Replicants - Just What I Needed - The Replicants (Volcano)
KOKOKO! - Buka Dansa - Fongola (Royal Mountain)
LAL - Wildflowers* - Dark Beings (Coax)
Dong Xi - The Harvest - Out of the Blue (Independent)
Hi-Ranger - Out of Dreams* - Tire Town EP (Independent)
Graftician - The Bitterness* - Mandarins EP (Independent)
Pekoe Cat - Mermaid Season* - Jungle Cop (Light Organ)
Toebow - Golden Hamburger - Themes (Imaginator)
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The Kings - Anti-Hero Man* - The Kings Are Here (Warner)
The Cars - Heartbeat City - Heartbeat City (Elektra)
The Cars - Blue Tip - Move Like This (Hear Music)
The Replicants - Just What I Needed - The Replicants (Volcano)
KOKOKO! - Buka Dansa - Fongola (Royal Mountain)
LAL - Wildflowers* - Dark Beings (Coax)
Dong Xi - The Harvest - Out of the Blue (Independent)
Hi-Ranger - Out of Dreams* - Tire Town EP (Independent)
Graftician - The Bitterness* - Mandarins EP (Independent)
Pekoe Cat - Mermaid Season* - Jungle Cop (Light Organ)
Toebow - Golden Hamburger - Themes (Imaginator)
DNTTA Playlist for September 13, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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All I See is Red - Covert Groove* - All I See is Red (Made with Pencil Crayons)
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field - Best of Volume One (Beggar's Banquet)
Look Sacre - Salade-Secte* - Salade-Secte (Cuchabata)
Nada - Bourdon Joyeux* - L'Ordre de L'Infiniment Nada (Cuchabata)
Atsuko Chiba - Pawn to King II* - Trace (Independent)
Hella - Friends Don’t Let Friends Win - There's No 666 in Outer Space (Ipecac)
Twink with Moths and Locusts - Love Ashore* - Think Pink IV: Return to Outer Space (Noise Agony Mayhem)
Sigil - Ulcer* - Slow Ulcer (Independent)
Sigil - S.L.I.K.* - Slow Ulcer (Independent)
Virtues and Failings - Truth* - 2 EP (Independent)
Little Slugger - You’re on Your Own - I Want to Live Here Forever (Independent)
Daniel Johnston - Funeral Girl = Rejected Unknown (Gammon)
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All I See is Red - Covert Groove* - All I See is Red (Made with Pencil Crayons)
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field - Best of Volume One (Beggar's Banquet)
Look Sacre - Salade-Secte* - Salade-Secte (Cuchabata)
Nada - Bourdon Joyeux* - L'Ordre de L'Infiniment Nada (Cuchabata)
Atsuko Chiba - Pawn to King II* - Trace (Independent)
Hella - Friends Don’t Let Friends Win - There's No 666 in Outer Space (Ipecac)
Twink with Moths and Locusts - Love Ashore* - Think Pink IV: Return to Outer Space (Noise Agony Mayhem)
Sigil - Ulcer* - Slow Ulcer (Independent)
Sigil - S.L.I.K.* - Slow Ulcer (Independent)
Virtues and Failings - Truth* - 2 EP (Independent)
Little Slugger - You’re on Your Own - I Want to Live Here Forever (Independent)
Daniel Johnston - Funeral Girl = Rejected Unknown (Gammon)
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Best of 2018 #3: Low - Double Negative (Sub Pop Records)
Low has been an institution in experimental and indy rock for decades. Recording since 1993 with a trademark style of slow, droning, noisy rock, it's been amazing that they've kept their sound fresh. 2018's Double Negative saw then re-invent themselves, ditching the largely vocal based approach they've been using since 2005's The Great Destroyer, replacing it with a pulsing electronic drone, backed by barely-discernible vocals. Double Negative is a sparce, lo-fi electronics album that lingers in the background of your mind as you listen to it, almost like a Brian Eno album, with Mimi Parker's haunting voice rising up above the ambient noise. Low remain one of the more vital voices in experimental music today, remaining accessible with a disturbing edge to their music.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for September 6, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Beef Terminal - Sick Love Under Toronto* - 20 Goto 10 (Noise Factory)
Le Fly Pan Am - Pas a pas Step Until* - N'Ecoutez Pas (Constellation)
Von Lehbauer - Fluctuations of Colourful Stars* - Filled with Emptiness (Independent)
Some Became Hollow Tubes - Another Bad Subplot About a Boy’s Search for His Father* - Keep it in the Ground (Independent)
feu doux - Le Lac a Gele Devant Nous* - Quatre Climats Habitables (Dare to Care)
Tortoise - Ten Day Interval - TNT (Drag City)
Bennie Maupin - Past is Past - The Jewel in the Lotus (ECM)
Bart - Tomorrow* - Today, Tomorrow and the Next Day (Idee Fixe)
Mauno - Really Really* - Really Well (Tin Angel)
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Beef Terminal - Sick Love Under Toronto* - 20 Goto 10 (Noise Factory)
Le Fly Pan Am - Pas a pas Step Until* - N'Ecoutez Pas (Constellation)
Von Lehbauer - Fluctuations of Colourful Stars* - Filled with Emptiness (Independent)
Some Became Hollow Tubes - Another Bad Subplot About a Boy’s Search for His Father* - Keep it in the Ground (Independent)
feu doux - Le Lac a Gele Devant Nous* - Quatre Climats Habitables (Dare to Care)
Tortoise - Ten Day Interval - TNT (Drag City)
Bennie Maupin - Past is Past - The Jewel in the Lotus (ECM)
Bart - Tomorrow* - Today, Tomorrow and the Next Day (Idee Fixe)
Mauno - Really Really* - Really Well (Tin Angel)
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for August 30, 2019 - All Covers show
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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The Von Zippers - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme)* - Oh Canaduh! 2 (Lance Rock)
Danny Michel - Young Americans (David Bowie)* - Romancing the Alien (Universal)
Eagles of Death Metal - Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band) - Boots Electric (Downtown)
The Replicants - Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)* - The Replicants (Zoo)
Stompin’ Tom Connors - Yellow Rose of Texas (trad.)* - Hanky Panky (Sony)
The The - I’m a Long Gone Daddy (Hank Williams) - Pistol Packin' Mama (Cynda)
Mercury Rev feat. Beth Orton - Courtyard (Bobby Gentry) - Bobby Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited (Bella Union)
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down (Merle Haggard) - Almost Blue (Columbia)
Bonerama - Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin) - Bonerama Plays Zeppelin (Basin Street)
Dread Zeppelin - Bring it on Home (Led Zeppelin) - Un-led-ed (IRS)
Easy Star All Stars - Karma Police (Radiohead) - Radiodread (Easy Star)
Ciccone Youth - Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer) - The Whitey Album (DGC)
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The Von Zippers - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme)* - Oh Canaduh! 2 (Lance Rock)
Danny Michel - Young Americans (David Bowie)* - Romancing the Alien (Universal)
Eagles of Death Metal - Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band) - Boots Electric (Downtown)
The Replicants - Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)* - The Replicants (Zoo)
Stompin’ Tom Connors - Yellow Rose of Texas (trad.)* - Hanky Panky (Sony)
The The - I’m a Long Gone Daddy (Hank Williams) - Pistol Packin' Mama (Cynda)
Mercury Rev feat. Beth Orton - Courtyard (Bobby Gentry) - Bobby Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited (Bella Union)
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down (Merle Haggard) - Almost Blue (Columbia)
Bonerama - Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin) - Bonerama Plays Zeppelin (Basin Street)
Dread Zeppelin - Bring it on Home (Led Zeppelin) - Un-led-ed (IRS)
Easy Star All Stars - Karma Police (Radiohead) - Radiodread (Easy Star)
Ciccone Youth - Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer) - The Whitey Album (DGC)
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for August 23, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Joy Anandasivam - The Unspoken* - Told You So (Independent)
Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian - Moor* - When Will the Blues End? (ECM)
Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell - Near-In - El Corazon (ECM)
Gary Burton and Chick Corea - I’m Your Pal - Crystal Silence (ECM)
Idit Shner - Minerva, Second Dance - Minerva (Origin Classical)
Trio Antipodes - Max Headroom* - Upside Downwards (Independent)
Julien Lourau - Voodoo House - Nu-Jazz (Gramercy)
)Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella, Eivind Aarset - Flood - Lost River (ECM(
Jean Marc Hebert - La Contree Melancolique - L'Attente (Independent)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Joy Anandasivam - The Unspoken* - Told You So (Independent)
Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian - Moor* - When Will the Blues End? (ECM)
Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell - Near-In - El Corazon (ECM)
Gary Burton and Chick Corea - I’m Your Pal - Crystal Silence (ECM)
Idit Shner - Minerva, Second Dance - Minerva (Origin Classical)
Trio Antipodes - Max Headroom* - Upside Downwards (Independent)
Julien Lourau - Voodoo House - Nu-Jazz (Gramercy)
)Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella, Eivind Aarset - Flood - Lost River (ECM(
Jean Marc Hebert - La Contree Melancolique - L'Attente (Independent)
DNTTA Playlist for August 16, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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FDLER - The Foggy Dew* - FDLER (Linus)
Valiska - Numbers 4* - Numbers (Trouble in Utopia)
Mira Martin-Gray - Kissing Infinity* - Kissing Infinity (Arachnidiscs)
Gary Flanagan - The Last Man on Earth* - Son of Parkway (Independent)
Sid le Kid - Speak Sweetly* - Scenic Route (HFN)
Selci - Old Wounds* - Effervescent (Independent)
Rhye - Needed* - Spirit (Last Gang)
Set Up System - Fairy Dust - XL Recordings The Second Chapter (XL)
DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano - Ed Rec Vol. III (Ed Banger)
Lydia Ainsworth - Tell Me I Exist* - Phantom Forest (Independent)
Peter Murphy - Shy - Deep (Vertigo)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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FDLER - The Foggy Dew* - FDLER (Linus)
Valiska - Numbers 4* - Numbers (Trouble in Utopia)
Mira Martin-Gray - Kissing Infinity* - Kissing Infinity (Arachnidiscs)
Gary Flanagan - The Last Man on Earth* - Son of Parkway (Independent)
Sid le Kid - Speak Sweetly* - Scenic Route (HFN)
Selci - Old Wounds* - Effervescent (Independent)
Rhye - Needed* - Spirit (Last Gang)
Set Up System - Fairy Dust - XL Recordings The Second Chapter (XL)
DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano - Ed Rec Vol. III (Ed Banger)
Lydia Ainsworth - Tell Me I Exist* - Phantom Forest (Independent)
Peter Murphy - Shy - Deep (Vertigo)
DNTTA Playlist for August 9, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Cordcalling - Untied* - We Are Still (Independent)
Dri Hiev - Of One* - Dri Hiev (Independent)
Mudhoney - Paranoid Core - Digital Garbage (Sub Pop)
Foals - In Degrees - Everything Not Saved will Be Lost Part 1 (Warner)
Necking - No Playtime* - Cut Your Teeth (Mint)
Outpatient - Fire* - 5 Song Demo (Independent)
The Astounds - Odd Only Grows - Ancient Flying Ghosts (Independent)
YEP - REM* - YEP (Cuchabata)
Rammstein - Radio - Rammstein (Universal)
Gold Frankincense and Myrrh - The Other Side - Oh, the Horror! (Independent)
The Muffs - Red Eyed Troll - Blonde and Blonder (Reprise)
No Museums - Softly Away* - The Artifact is Nothing (Independent)
Odd Beholder - Loneliness - All Reality is Virtual (Sinnbus)
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Cordcalling - Untied* - We Are Still (Independent)
Dri Hiev - Of One* - Dri Hiev (Independent)
Mudhoney - Paranoid Core - Digital Garbage (Sub Pop)
Foals - In Degrees - Everything Not Saved will Be Lost Part 1 (Warner)
Necking - No Playtime* - Cut Your Teeth (Mint)
Outpatient - Fire* - 5 Song Demo (Independent)
The Astounds - Odd Only Grows - Ancient Flying Ghosts (Independent)
YEP - REM* - YEP (Cuchabata)
Rammstein - Radio - Rammstein (Universal)
Gold Frankincense and Myrrh - The Other Side - Oh, the Horror! (Independent)
The Muffs - Red Eyed Troll - Blonde and Blonder (Reprise)
No Museums - Softly Away* - The Artifact is Nothing (Independent)
Odd Beholder - Loneliness - All Reality is Virtual (Sinnbus)
Monday, September 2, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for August 2, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Nathan Shubert - A Beacon, A Pulse* - When You Take Off Your Shoes (Independent)
Cowboy Junkies - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry* - The Trinity Sessions (Latent)
Deadbeat and Camara - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry* - Trinity Thirty (Constellation)
Yves Jarvis - To Say So it Easy* - The Same But By Different Means (Flemish Eye)
Hazmat Modine - Steady Roll - Bahamut (Barbes)
The Kropotkins - The Yankee Rag - Five Points Crawl (Mulatta)
Tangle Eye - Holler - Alan Lomax Remixed (Zoe)
Diemm - Here on the Path* - Ten Thousand Miracles (Independent)
Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line (Wolf remix) - Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre)
Areni Agbabian - The Water Bride - Bloom (ECM)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Nathan Shubert - A Beacon, A Pulse* - When You Take Off Your Shoes (Independent)
Cowboy Junkies - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry* - The Trinity Sessions (Latent)
Deadbeat and Camara - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry* - Trinity Thirty (Constellation)
Yves Jarvis - To Say So it Easy* - The Same But By Different Means (Flemish Eye)
Hazmat Modine - Steady Roll - Bahamut (Barbes)
The Kropotkins - The Yankee Rag - Five Points Crawl (Mulatta)
Tangle Eye - Holler - Alan Lomax Remixed (Zoe)
Diemm - Here on the Path* - Ten Thousand Miracles (Independent)
Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line (Wolf remix) - Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre)
Areni Agbabian - The Water Bride - Bloom (ECM)
DNTTA Playlist for July 26, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Donna Grantis - Elektromagnetic* - Diamonds and Dynamite (E1)
Oginalli - No Littering - Cause and Affection (Independent)
Aedes - Anca* - Aedes (Cuchabata)
Dead Tired - Exhausting People* - Full Vol (New Damage)
Pottery - Lady Solinas* - No. 1 (Royal Mountain)
Lunakin - Day 443* - Lunakin (Arachnidiscs)
Sweater Kittens - Animal* - Good for You (Independent)
Bad Hoo - Banana Split* - What is When (Independent)
Pailhead - Don’t Stand in Line - Trait (Wax Trax!)
Numb - Headcrash* - Death on the Installment Plan (Metropolis)
Public Image Ltd. - Love Hope - That Which is Not (Virgin)
Okilly Dokilly - Vegetables - Howdiddly Doodily (Independent)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Donna Grantis - Elektromagnetic* - Diamonds and Dynamite (E1)
Oginalli - No Littering - Cause and Affection (Independent)
Aedes - Anca* - Aedes (Cuchabata)
Dead Tired - Exhausting People* - Full Vol (New Damage)
Pottery - Lady Solinas* - No. 1 (Royal Mountain)
Lunakin - Day 443* - Lunakin (Arachnidiscs)
Sweater Kittens - Animal* - Good for You (Independent)
Bad Hoo - Banana Split* - What is When (Independent)
Pailhead - Don’t Stand in Line - Trait (Wax Trax!)
Numb - Headcrash* - Death on the Installment Plan (Metropolis)
Public Image Ltd. - Love Hope - That Which is Not (Virgin)
Okilly Dokilly - Vegetables - Howdiddly Doodily (Independent)
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Salmon Arm Roots and Blues 2019 Review
Another year of the Salmon Arm Rootsand Blues Festival, about my 12th to date I think. It's
always a lot of fun and always has tonnes of great music.
My experience began about 3:30 PM on
Saturday. The first concert of the day was Ostwelve, a young First
Nations rapper from the coast. His set was quite simple, just rapping
over files he had saved on a laptop. His work is a fascinating look
at how hip-hop, a genre always known for highlighting issues of
social injustice, has been adopted by First Nations youth to address
reconciliation and poverty in the First Nations community. He had a full
dance floor going in front of the stage by the time he was done.
Luke Wallace was up next at the Shade
Stage. Wallace is a hard-touring musician rooted in the protest folk
of the 60s, with a modern indy rock sensibility to the music. Wallace
played a fun, high energy set of folk rock with a lot of social
commentary, and a lot of really catchy tunes. He had a lot of great
stories about living in the Gulf Islands and a few energetic
singalongs took place.
I took in a few songs from Jack Semple
at the Barn Stage, who played a rock-based style of blues, complete
with guitar heroics and long solos. Then off to the Main Stage for
the night's headliners.
Ireland's Dervish have more than 30
years together as a band, and their live show certainly shows their
experience. Dervish play traditional Celtic and Irish folk. The band
is made up of a guitar, mandolin, flute, hornpipe, accordion plus
harmonies and percussion. The band mixed high energy instrumentals
with spirited vocal based songs. This band is fun and extremely
musically tight, and a rare time to hear authentic Irish music live
here in Canada.
A legend in Canadian blues, Sue Foley,
lit up the stage next. Foley is a stellar blues guitarist, with a
no-nonsense approach to playing. She's a consummate musician, soloing
effortlessly and flawlessly, treating the guitar as an extension of
herself. As just a trio, her band had a full sound. Foley also played some instrumental flamenco style acoustic guitar during her set. Foley has
a classic blues growler voice and a driving, gritty blues sound. Her
hour long set went by in a blink of an eye.
Finishing up the Main Stage line up
for Saturday was Jamaica's Third World, a legendary reggae band
active since the early 70s. This band played a laid back style of
reggae, steeped in the long history of the genre. They played a mix
of classic hits along with quite a bit of new material from their
latest album. The guitarist was amazingly versatile, playing electric
and acoustic guitar, along with an instrumental set with an electric
cello, as well as singing. There was a nice set of dancehall rapping
too.
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Sunday morning brought two workshops
at the Barn Stage. First, a Celtic set with Dervish hosting the
session, along with BC's Quinn and Qristina Bachand and Toronto's
Anne Lindsay. The workshops always have the most interesting bits of
music, with musicians playing off of each other, each one not knowing
what they other has planned. The Bachands, a brother/sister duo of
guitar and fiddle, played some French Canadian folk, which played
seamlessly into Dervish's Celtic folk. Anne Lindsay's fiddle playing,
of course, worked well with Dervish's style, and she also played some
fast bluegrass styles.
Workshop #2 saw the Birds of Chicago
lead a singer/songwriter showcase with Alberta's John Wort Hannam,
Sue Foley and Toronto's Danny Michel. Overall, this was mostly
individual songs with an occasional jump in from other musicians. Sue
Foley's two songs were joined in by Steve Dawson, a stalwart
guitarist who was playing with Birds of Chicago, who played acoustic
lap steel, playing off of Foley's acoustic guitar. John Wort Hannam's
three songs were earnest, sparce and lyrically deep, earning him two
standing ovations.
Off to the Blues Stage for Toronto's
Al Lerman. The Blues Stage was especially packed, with little space
to settle into in the crowd. Lerman played the guitar and blues harp.
Lerman's style borrowed heavily from the Southern US style, with
gritty guitar and hard-loving, hard-working themes.
Steve Pineo, from Calgary, brought a
four piece blues band to the stage next. His style was a basic,
no-nonsense style of blues. Nothing fancy, just straight ahead
classic blues with classic lyric themes, refreshing in a time where
artists try to do a little too much with their music. This was a
great set.
To the Shade Stage for a solo set with
fiddler Anne Lindsay. Lindsay played a wide variety of fiddle tunes
and sang, the music ranged from country to bluegrass to Celtic. She
also played a couple of tracks on piano, including a Gershwin tune.
She also had an instrument called a nyckelharpa, a traditional
Swedish folk instrument sort of like a fiddle. It had four strings,
along with several sympathetic strings, and was held like a guitar,
but played with a bow. The notes were changed by pressing buttons on
the neck of the instrument, which caused a clacking sound when they
were pushed. She played two songs on the nyckelharpa, a unique
experience to hear for sure.
Greg Blake returned this year as a
member of a different band, Tracy Lynn and the Savage Hearts, a trio
made of Blake on guitar, Tracy Lynn on guitar and Annie Savage on
fiddle. They played a set of traditional country, American folk and
bluegrass. Blake was just as good as he was last year, and the whole
band were very tight, playing a nice mix of originals and covers.
The Main Stage's entertainment for
Sunday was hosted by legendary BC folk musician Valdy, who,
surprisingly, was attending his very first Roots and Blues festival.
First up were one of the big international bands at this year's
festival, The Garifuna Collective from Belize. Canadian Danny Michel
invited this band to the Festival, and he had recorded an album with
them a couple of year ago. Michel started with a few of his original
songs, then slowly brought out the Collective during his set. By the
fifth song, the entire band were on stage, which was made up of two
guitars, three drummers and two vocalists. They played a ramshackle
style of rock and roll combined with traditional Central African
folk, with Michel providing extra guitar work. They were engaging and
incredibly high energy. Another great opportunity to hear a style of
music usually not heard in Canada.
Birds of Chicago are a cross-border
collaboration between Canada's Allison Russell, former member of Po'
Girl and current member of Our Native Daughters, and her husband,
American JT Nero. Their style is Americana, roots and folk, with
Russell on banjo, clarinet and saxophone, and Nero on guitar, and
both on vocals. They also brought along Vancouver's guitar legend
Steve Dawson, who played guitar and lap steel. Their music was
earnest, soulful and reflective and they put in a solid set of folk
and roots.
Ending the festival was Irish/Canadian
Irish Mythen, who was a standout at 2017's Roots and Blues Festival.
Irish was immediately engaging, cracking jokes and interacting with
the crowd. She told stories inbetween her high emotion folk rock, and
called up many guest stars throughout her set, from American soul
band The Hamiltones, fiddler Anne Lindsay, Luke Wallace and Valdy.
She had the Hamiltones play an original track, along with backing her
up on one of her songs. Lindsay played about three songs, all with
stellar fiddle solos. They encored with a huge singalong, doing a
cover of Scott Wood's “Pass it Along”. She was a great
entertainer and excellent choice for finishing off a great 2019
festival.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Best of 2018 #4: Freak Dream - Into the Sun (Artoffact)
Vancouver's Freak Dream are just a few years old, but have already established hefty credentials in the experimental rock world. Frontman Elliot Langford has already clocked time with many great Vancouver bands, including The SSRIs, The Rebel Spell, Spring and Big Evil. Into the Sun is their first for Artoffact Records, another Canadian label that has been filling their roster with Canadian and international talent. The album is a indescribable mess of post-punk, electro-punk, synth-pop, disco and noise. Some songs verge into almost melodic 80s pop fare, some are straight up electro-noise. "8 Billion" especially is a good display of their range, starting from a brutal hardcore punk riff, into a death metal scream fest, then ending with pummeling break-beats. This is one of the most innovative bands I heard in 2018.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Best of 2018 - #5: Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader (Mint)
Peach Kelli Pop are a wonderful 60-style garage rock band centred around former White Wires drummer Allie Hanlon. The band is mainly her with touring musicians. Formed around 2010, they put out three EPs (2 on the California based label Burger), before putting out an EP single, Which Witch, on Mint, then following up a month later with Gentle Leader. Peach Kelli Pop are kind of like a mix between Canadian indiepop legends cub, The Supremes and The Muffs: soulful, gruff and cute. The almost only clocks in around 30 minutes, but you don't need much more of what they give you. Fantastic pick up for Mint, and another in a long line of fantastic bands they've discovered.
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Best of 2018: #6 - Alpha Strategy - The Gurgler (Antena Kryzku)
It's been a long time since we've seen a noise rock band approach the genre with the wild disregard that the Jesus Lizard used to. Toronto's Alpha Strategy seem worthy enough to take up the mantle. Lead singer Rory Hinchley has David Yow's demented, howling scream down pat, and the band takes noise to the extreme, brings it back to quiet, then back to the extreme again. Add in the noise rock pedigree of Steve Albini in engineering the record, and you've got one of the best noise recordings of 2018.
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Best of 2018 #7: Superorganism - Superorganism (Domino)
I love a fascinating band formation story, and Superorganism has one. Lead singer Orono Niguchi was a teenage exchange student in Maine in the US, but travelled back to Japan on a trip. She found one of her favourite bands, The Eversons, were playing a concert there, so she went and connected with the band. Through the internet, they began making music, which turned into the first Superorganism songs. The band was split up between the US, UK and Australia, but now all live in London in the UK. Their music is an oddball pastiche of corny pop, electronica, disco, lo-fi indy rock and slacker funk. It has a wonderful innocence and naiveity to it as well. This is their debut album and it's excellent!
Saturday, July 20, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for July 19, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Nicholas Krgovich - Goofy* - Ouch! (Tin Angel)
Bart - Heritage Moment* - Today, Tomorrow and the Next Day (Idee Fixe)
LAPS - Soon* - Soon Not Often In it (Independent)
l.n. baba - Cloud of Data* - Rubber Eye (Independent)
Longboat - Miss Friday - Album 14 (Independent)
Christopher Hill and the Stardust Crush - Pink Hat - Make America All Better Again (Independent)
Mr. Bungle - Retrovertigo - California (Reprise)
Flying Saucer Attack - Standing Stone - Further (Drag City)
Mac DeMarco - Preoccupied* - Here Comes the Cowboy (Royal Mountain)
Dinner is Ruined - Snow White* - Love Songs from the Lubratorium (Raw Energy)
Doomsquad - Emma* - Let Yourself Be Seen (Independent)
Chevalier Avant Garde - Minutes* - Fixture Records Sampler 4 (Fixture)
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Nicholas Krgovich - Goofy* - Ouch! (Tin Angel)
Bart - Heritage Moment* - Today, Tomorrow and the Next Day (Idee Fixe)
LAPS - Soon* - Soon Not Often In it (Independent)
l.n. baba - Cloud of Data* - Rubber Eye (Independent)
Longboat - Miss Friday - Album 14 (Independent)
Christopher Hill and the Stardust Crush - Pink Hat - Make America All Better Again (Independent)
Mr. Bungle - Retrovertigo - California (Reprise)
Flying Saucer Attack - Standing Stone - Further (Drag City)
Mac DeMarco - Preoccupied* - Here Comes the Cowboy (Royal Mountain)
Dinner is Ruined - Snow White* - Love Songs from the Lubratorium (Raw Energy)
Doomsquad - Emma* - Let Yourself Be Seen (Independent)
Chevalier Avant Garde - Minutes* - Fixture Records Sampler 4 (Fixture)
DNTTA Playlist for July 12, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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respectfulchild - Glitter* - Searching (Coax)
Longwalkshortdock - Watch Your Step* - How Can You Just Pretend? (East Van Digital)
DJ Oxide - Sundae* - Dig Your Roots: Electronic Dance (Independent)
Tender - Bottled Up - Fear of Falling Asleep (Partisan)
WYVZ - Ghost This Body* - Sine (Independent)
Jaguar Knight - Lying in Bed* - Rock Your Boxes (Partysauce)
TR/ST - Grouch* - The Destroyer Part 1 (Royal Mountain)
Melted Mirror - Escalator* - Past Life (Independent)
MM Crone - Fish for Breakfast* - 2 EP (Independent)
Hollowlove - Reset* - Hollowlove (Independent)
Silica-Gel - Master of the Game - Noisy Children Party (Wifflefist)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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respectfulchild - Glitter* - Searching (Coax)
Longwalkshortdock - Watch Your Step* - How Can You Just Pretend? (East Van Digital)
DJ Oxide - Sundae* - Dig Your Roots: Electronic Dance (Independent)
Tender - Bottled Up - Fear of Falling Asleep (Partisan)
WYVZ - Ghost This Body* - Sine (Independent)
Jaguar Knight - Lying in Bed* - Rock Your Boxes (Partysauce)
TR/ST - Grouch* - The Destroyer Part 1 (Royal Mountain)
Melted Mirror - Escalator* - Past Life (Independent)
MM Crone - Fish for Breakfast* - 2 EP (Independent)
Hollowlove - Reset* - Hollowlove (Independent)
Silica-Gel - Master of the Game - Noisy Children Party (Wifflefist)
DNTTA Playlist for July 5, 2019
| Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca -- Animal Slaves - Contemporary Armor* - A Fine End (Spiral) SIRR - The Stranger* - Time Machine (Independent) Look Vibrant - Jail My Son* - Cherish Everything (Independent) Deep Covers - Mirror World* - Deep Covers (Independent) Yves Jarvis - Dew of the Dusk* - The Same But By Different Means (Flemish Eye) Quaker Parents - No Travel* - Our Drawing Club (Independent) Snake River - A Clean Stone* - Tread On to the Seaside (Independent) Weed - Puncture* - Running Back (Lefse) Lungbutter - Vile* - Honey (Constellation) Heart Attack Kids - The Driver* - Bad Luck Like Gold (New Damage) Joseph Michel - Back Street Alley* - Year of the Solo (Independent) Ape War - Blank Territory* - War Ape (Independent) The Evaporators - Ripple Rock* - Ripple Rock (Mint) |
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DNTTA Playlist for June 28, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Black Mountain - Horns Arising* - Destroyer (Dine Alone)
Dub Trio - World of Inconvenience - The Shape of Dub to Come (New Damage)
The Melvins - Goose Freight Train - Stoner Witch (Warner)
Dumb - Content Jungle* - Club Nites (Mint)
Gold Punks - Cold Water* - Gold Punks (Partysauce)
Cursing and Swearing - Double the Heartbreak* - Cursing and Swearing (Partysauce)
Shearing Pinx - Pump Knot* - Poison Hands (Independent)
Sean Luciw - Curvatures* - Beautiful Guitars (Ulusulu)
Problem Patient - ECT* - Patient Problems (Independent)
The Shiverettes - Trust* - Real Shrill Bitches (Independent)
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - A Star Over Pureland* - YT/ST (Psychic Handshake)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Black Mountain - Horns Arising* - Destroyer (Dine Alone)
Dub Trio - World of Inconvenience - The Shape of Dub to Come (New Damage)
The Melvins - Goose Freight Train - Stoner Witch (Warner)
Dumb - Content Jungle* - Club Nites (Mint)
Gold Punks - Cold Water* - Gold Punks (Partysauce)
Cursing and Swearing - Double the Heartbreak* - Cursing and Swearing (Partysauce)
Shearing Pinx - Pump Knot* - Poison Hands (Independent)
Sean Luciw - Curvatures* - Beautiful Guitars (Ulusulu)
Problem Patient - ECT* - Patient Problems (Independent)
The Shiverettes - Trust* - Real Shrill Bitches (Independent)
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - A Star Over Pureland* - YT/ST (Psychic Handshake)
Thursday, June 27, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for June 21, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Intermix - Seeds of Harmony* = Modern Primitives (Attic)
Efrim Manuel Menuck and Kevin Doria - Do the Police Embrace?* - Are Sing, Singk, Sing (Constellation)
Siskiyou - Temporary Weakness* - Not Somewhere (Constellation)
Light Conductor - When the Robot Hits the Water* - Sequence One (Constellation)
Hush Pup - Dahlias* - Flower Power (Independent)
Living Hour - Before You Leave* - Softer Faces (Kanine)
Toth - Copilot - Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help When Needed (Northern Spy)
Prince Shima - KTV Blues* - PS, I Love You... (Independent)
Gone Cosmic - Turbulent* - Sideways in Time (Independent)
Ladytron - Turn it On - Light and Magic (Emperor Norton)
Elisa Thorn - Sea Marrow* - Selenotropic (Independent)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Intermix - Seeds of Harmony* = Modern Primitives (Attic)
Efrim Manuel Menuck and Kevin Doria - Do the Police Embrace?* - Are Sing, Singk, Sing (Constellation)
Siskiyou - Temporary Weakness* - Not Somewhere (Constellation)
Light Conductor - When the Robot Hits the Water* - Sequence One (Constellation)
Hush Pup - Dahlias* - Flower Power (Independent)
Living Hour - Before You Leave* - Softer Faces (Kanine)
Toth - Copilot - Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help When Needed (Northern Spy)
Prince Shima - KTV Blues* - PS, I Love You... (Independent)
Gone Cosmic - Turbulent* - Sideways in Time (Independent)
Ladytron - Turn it On - Light and Magic (Emperor Norton)
Elisa Thorn - Sea Marrow* - Selenotropic (Independent)
DNTTA Playlist for June 14, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Kiwi Jr. - Wicked Witches* - Football Money (Mint)
The Electric Cows - Bernice Says* - Wheatfield Fuzz (Dub Ditch)
The Electric Cows - I Hear Blue* - Wheatfield Fuxx (Dub Ditch)
The Tubuloids - Mink’s on the Loose* - It's Getting Weird (Beer City)
The Tubuloids - Couch Surfin’* - It's Getting Weird (Beer City)
The Pink Noise - Goodbye Charlie Brown* - Avenue (Not Unlike)
Pale Red - International Waters* - Heavy Petting (Independent)
Land Line - I See You* - Land Line (Independent)
Gold - Taken By Storm - Why Aren't You Laughing? (Artoffact)
Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies - Matador at 15 (Matador)
The Hunter and the Potter - The Wire* - Innocent Guns (Independent)
Lusco e Fusco - The Bright Aseptic Room* - Harsh Treatment (Arachnidiscs)
Gojira - Yama’s Messengers - The Way of All Flesh (Relapse)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Kiwi Jr. - Wicked Witches* - Football Money (Mint)
The Electric Cows - Bernice Says* - Wheatfield Fuzz (Dub Ditch)
The Electric Cows - I Hear Blue* - Wheatfield Fuxx (Dub Ditch)
The Tubuloids - Mink’s on the Loose* - It's Getting Weird (Beer City)
The Tubuloids - Couch Surfin’* - It's Getting Weird (Beer City)
The Pink Noise - Goodbye Charlie Brown* - Avenue (Not Unlike)
Pale Red - International Waters* - Heavy Petting (Independent)
Land Line - I See You* - Land Line (Independent)
Gold - Taken By Storm - Why Aren't You Laughing? (Artoffact)
Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies - Matador at 15 (Matador)
The Hunter and the Potter - The Wire* - Innocent Guns (Independent)
Lusco e Fusco - The Bright Aseptic Room* - Harsh Treatment (Arachnidiscs)
Gojira - Yama’s Messengers - The Way of All Flesh (Relapse)
DNTTA Playlist for June 7, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Frankie Sparo - Hospitalville* - Welcome Crummy Mystics (Constellation)
13th Floor Elevators - You’re Gonna Miss Me - Nuggets (Elektra)
Roky Erickson and the Aliens - Red Temple Prayer - Sounds of the Seventies: Punk and New Wave (Time Life)
Pond - Hand Mouth Danger - Tasmania (Interscope)
As the Poets Affirm - Thalia* - I Want to Tell My Heart to You, But I Cannot Say English (Independent)
Olivia Sea - Colour Forms* - Purposeful Movements (Inservice)
Future Womb - Chemicals* - Babygirlgalactic (Independent)
Claypool Lennon Delirium - Easily Charmed by Fools - South of Reality (ATO)
FFS - Save Me from Myself - FFS (Domino)
Crones - Surf Detective* - Aghast (Good Egg)
Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen* - Rabies (Nettwerk)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Frankie Sparo - Hospitalville* - Welcome Crummy Mystics (Constellation)
13th Floor Elevators - You’re Gonna Miss Me - Nuggets (Elektra)
Roky Erickson and the Aliens - Red Temple Prayer - Sounds of the Seventies: Punk and New Wave (Time Life)
Pond - Hand Mouth Danger - Tasmania (Interscope)
As the Poets Affirm - Thalia* - I Want to Tell My Heart to You, But I Cannot Say English (Independent)
Olivia Sea - Colour Forms* - Purposeful Movements (Inservice)
Future Womb - Chemicals* - Babygirlgalactic (Independent)
Claypool Lennon Delirium - Easily Charmed by Fools - South of Reality (ATO)
FFS - Save Me from Myself - FFS (Domino)
Crones - Surf Detective* - Aghast (Good Egg)
Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen* - Rabies (Nettwerk)
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Best of 2018: #8 - Plains Apparition - Adrift (Independent)
I've stated and re-stated the importance of following unknown and obscure artists, because what you find can be startling. Plains Apparition are an enigmatic electronic group (or possibly an individual) from somewhere in Alberta. Adrift is an almost perfect series of ambient electronic compositions that seamlessly flow into each other. Think Brian Eno, but much much shorter. One of the best electronic albums of 2018.
Monday, June 17, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for May 24, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Cygnets - Victim of the Modern Age* - Bleak Anthems (Independent)
Deadbeat and Camara - Misguided Angel* - Trinity Thirty (Constellation)
Nasti Weather - Slice* - Nasti Weather EP (Independent)
New Buffalo - No Party - The Last Beautiful Day (Arts and Crafts)
Orville Peck - Turn to Hate* - Pony (Royal Mountain)
Moondle - I Forget Your Name* - Moondle (Independent)
Nov3l - Take You For* - Novel (Flemish Eye)
Kristen Witko - How Am I Feeling?* - Zone of Exclusion (Kingfisher Bluez)
Pynner - The Problem* - 2081 (Independent)
Polyphonic Spree - Two Thousand Places - Together We're Heavy (Good)
Kinski - Passed Out on Your Lawn - Alpine Static (Sub Pop)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Cygnets - Victim of the Modern Age* - Bleak Anthems (Independent)
Deadbeat and Camara - Misguided Angel* - Trinity Thirty (Constellation)
Nasti Weather - Slice* - Nasti Weather EP (Independent)
New Buffalo - No Party - The Last Beautiful Day (Arts and Crafts)
Orville Peck - Turn to Hate* - Pony (Royal Mountain)
Moondle - I Forget Your Name* - Moondle (Independent)
Nov3l - Take You For* - Novel (Flemish Eye)
Kristen Witko - How Am I Feeling?* - Zone of Exclusion (Kingfisher Bluez)
Pynner - The Problem* - 2081 (Independent)
Polyphonic Spree - Two Thousand Places - Together We're Heavy (Good)
Kinski - Passed Out on Your Lawn - Alpine Static (Sub Pop)
DNTTA Playlist for May 17, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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METZ - Rats* - METZ (Sub Pop)
Bob Bell - Necropolis II* - Necropolis (Telephone Explosion)
Elura - Sleep in the Brambles* - West Arm (Baffled Octopi)
NoMeansNo - Mr. In Between* - All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt (AntAcidAudio)
The Dog Indiana - Bleach and Lemonade* - Fractured, Murky and Liquid (Independent)
Blessed - Rolled in Glass* - Salt (Independent)
The Jump Off - Knot* - Concrete (Independent)
Map 71 - Gyrate Formidable Receptors - Ex-Socialite Needs a New Invention (Foolproof)
Red Mass - Crooked* - Kilrush Drive (Label Etiquette)
Crashing Into Things - Larger Than Life* - Smaller Than Death (Independent)
Tsunami Brothers - Stink Bug* - Tsunami Brothers (Independent)
Royal Trux - Get Used to This - White Stuff (Fat Possum)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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METZ - Rats* - METZ (Sub Pop)
Bob Bell - Necropolis II* - Necropolis (Telephone Explosion)
Elura - Sleep in the Brambles* - West Arm (Baffled Octopi)
NoMeansNo - Mr. In Between* - All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt (AntAcidAudio)
The Dog Indiana - Bleach and Lemonade* - Fractured, Murky and Liquid (Independent)
Blessed - Rolled in Glass* - Salt (Independent)
The Jump Off - Knot* - Concrete (Independent)
Map 71 - Gyrate Formidable Receptors - Ex-Socialite Needs a New Invention (Foolproof)
Red Mass - Crooked* - Kilrush Drive (Label Etiquette)
Crashing Into Things - Larger Than Life* - Smaller Than Death (Independent)
Tsunami Brothers - Stink Bug* - Tsunami Brothers (Independent)
Royal Trux - Get Used to This - White Stuff (Fat Possum)
Thursday, June 13, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for May 10, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Mannequin Depressives - Sweet Disease* - Girls Are Evil (Independent)
Joni Void - Low-Ender* - Mise en Abyme (Constellation)
Light Conductor - Far from the Warming Sun* - Sequence One (Constellation)
Download - 23 Years* - Unknown Room (Artoffact)
Glenn Love - Switch* - Cheetah EP (Sonic-X)
Croom - My End - Belladonna (Independent)
Munya - Some More* - Munya (Luminelle)
Aspen King - Take Me Down* - Say Something (Independent)
T3tra - Angel’s Wings - Lightswitch (Independent)
The Spacer - Volcano
Up Bustle and Out - Running Rude - One Colour Just Reflects Another (Ninja Tune)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Mannequin Depressives - Sweet Disease* - Girls Are Evil (Independent)
Joni Void - Low-Ender* - Mise en Abyme (Constellation)
Light Conductor - Far from the Warming Sun* - Sequence One (Constellation)
Download - 23 Years* - Unknown Room (Artoffact)
Glenn Love - Switch* - Cheetah EP (Sonic-X)
Croom - My End - Belladonna (Independent)
Munya - Some More* - Munya (Luminelle)
Aspen King - Take Me Down* - Say Something (Independent)
T3tra - Angel’s Wings - Lightswitch (Independent)
The Spacer - Volcano
Up Bustle and Out - Running Rude - One Colour Just Reflects Another (Ninja Tune)
DNTTA Playlist for May 3, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Body Lens - Fixing* - Body Lens EP (Independent)
Acid Horse - No Name No Slogan - No Name No Slogan (12") (Wax Trax)
Ministry - Cold Life - 12" Singles (Wax Trax)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Leathersex - Sexplosion! (Wax Trax)
KMFDM - Thumb Thumb - UAIOE (Wax Trax)
Cyberaktif - Temper* - Tenebrae Vision (Wax Trax)
Doubting Thomas - Yowtch* - The Infidel (Wax Trax)
Prieur and Landry - For Once I Breathe in Control* - Surreal Memories (Bonzai)
I.R. Robot - Unknown* - Spore (Independent)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Body Lens - Fixing* - Body Lens EP (Independent)
Acid Horse - No Name No Slogan - No Name No Slogan (12") (Wax Trax)
Ministry - Cold Life - 12" Singles (Wax Trax)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Leathersex - Sexplosion! (Wax Trax)
KMFDM - Thumb Thumb - UAIOE (Wax Trax)
Cyberaktif - Temper* - Tenebrae Vision (Wax Trax)
Doubting Thomas - Yowtch* - The Infidel (Wax Trax)
Prieur and Landry - For Once I Breathe in Control* - Surreal Memories (Bonzai)
I.R. Robot - Unknown* - Spore (Independent)
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Best of 2018 #9: Confidence Man - Confident Music for Confident People (Heavenly)
For a band that came from kind of a one off joke, they turned out to make some really enjoyable music. Confidence Man formed in Brisbane, Australia in 2016 from three other indy rock bands to make silly dance music. Once they realized they had something more than a joke, the band really came into it's own. Confident Music for Confident People is a wonderful dance/electronic record, channeling parts of the groove-ridden style of Daft Punk, the off-kilter disco of Dee-Lite and the surreal groove of Beck. Highlights are the goofy swagger of "Don't You Know I'm in a Band" and the ultra-infectious "Boyfriend (Repeat)" This is one of the most solid dance and electro-pop albums of 2018
Monday, May 13, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for April 26, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Paul Tynan - Swirl* - quARTet (Origin)
Mats Eilertsen - Albatross - And Then Comes the Night (ECM)
Yonathan Avishai - Joy - Joys and Solitudes (ECM)
Brittany Anjou - Hard Boiled Soup - Enamijo Reciprokataj (Origin)
Michael Davidson/Dan Fortin - Berlin IV* - Clock Radio (Elastic)
John Zorn - The Big Gundown - The Big Gundown (Elektra)
Cameron Graves - Fixing a Hole - Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper (Impulse)
Leah Hokanson - Let it Be Wrong* - Facets (Independent)
Apollo Suns - Passing By* - Dawn Offerings (Independent)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Paul Tynan - Swirl* - quARTet (Origin)
Mats Eilertsen - Albatross - And Then Comes the Night (ECM)
Yonathan Avishai - Joy - Joys and Solitudes (ECM)
Brittany Anjou - Hard Boiled Soup - Enamijo Reciprokataj (Origin)
Michael Davidson/Dan Fortin - Berlin IV* - Clock Radio (Elastic)
John Zorn - The Big Gundown - The Big Gundown (Elektra)
Cameron Graves - Fixing a Hole - Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper (Impulse)
Leah Hokanson - Let it Be Wrong* - Facets (Independent)
Apollo Suns - Passing By* - Dawn Offerings (Independent)
DNTTA Playlist for April 12, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Crystal Castles - Kerosene* - III (Last Gang)
Corinthian - 20 Miligrams* - Big Fridays Sessions 2018 (Independent)
VT100 - NotMono - The Burden of Irrational Optimism (Independent)
Radiant Baby - Do It* - Restless (Lisbon Lux)
Alt-J - In Cold Blood (feat. Pusha T) (Twin Shadow Version) - Reduxer (Atlantic)
Adult. - People You Can Confuse - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
Twitch - Instructions to Your Revolution (Digital Winter – Dug a Hole version)* - Instructions to Your Revolution (Independent)
Jay Slay - Keep on Lovin’* - All Night Long and Remixes (Independent)
Spume - Traumhaus* - Planetfall (Arachnidiscs)
Terrace - Hold Fast* - Criterion (Independent)
Ugly Animal - Splutterpunch - Unco-ordinating (Foolproof)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Crystal Castles - Kerosene* - III (Last Gang)
Corinthian - 20 Miligrams* - Big Fridays Sessions 2018 (Independent)
VT100 - NotMono - The Burden of Irrational Optimism (Independent)
Radiant Baby - Do It* - Restless (Lisbon Lux)
Alt-J - In Cold Blood (feat. Pusha T) (Twin Shadow Version) - Reduxer (Atlantic)
Adult. - People You Can Confuse - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
Twitch - Instructions to Your Revolution (Digital Winter – Dug a Hole version)* - Instructions to Your Revolution (Independent)
Jay Slay - Keep on Lovin’* - All Night Long and Remixes (Independent)
Spume - Traumhaus* - Planetfall (Arachnidiscs)
Terrace - Hold Fast* - Criterion (Independent)
Ugly Animal - Splutterpunch - Unco-ordinating (Foolproof)
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for April 5, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Anemone - Memory Lane* - Beat My Distance (Luminelle)
The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - 2-Tone: A Look at Ska (EMI)
Scott Walker - Phrasing - Bish Bosch (4AD)
Nirvana - Territorial Pissings - Nevermind (Geffen)
Trevor Sloan - I am a Stranger Today* - Cicada Songs (Independent)
Chain Wallet - Final Testament - No Ritual (Independent)
Icicle - Carry it On* - Provenance (Herd)
Daniel Ouellette - My Love is a Dead, Dead Rose - Water Witching EP (Independent)
The Cosmic Range - Breathing Water* - The Gratitude Principle (Idee Fixe)
The Great Sabatini - Dog Years* - Goodbye Audio (No List)
Bad Bounce - Chains* - Lift Off (Independent)
Cowbo Morshe - Options* - Cowboy Miracle (Independent)
The Houses (Where We Grew Up) - Y.S.A.* - Dy//ng (Independent)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Anemone - Memory Lane* - Beat My Distance (Luminelle)
The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - 2-Tone: A Look at Ska (EMI)
Scott Walker - Phrasing - Bish Bosch (4AD)
Nirvana - Territorial Pissings - Nevermind (Geffen)
Trevor Sloan - I am a Stranger Today* - Cicada Songs (Independent)
Chain Wallet - Final Testament - No Ritual (Independent)
Icicle - Carry it On* - Provenance (Herd)
Daniel Ouellette - My Love is a Dead, Dead Rose - Water Witching EP (Independent)
The Cosmic Range - Breathing Water* - The Gratitude Principle (Idee Fixe)
The Great Sabatini - Dog Years* - Goodbye Audio (No List)
Bad Bounce - Chains* - Lift Off (Independent)
Cowbo Morshe - Options* - Cowboy Miracle (Independent)
The Houses (Where We Grew Up) - Y.S.A.* - Dy//ng (Independent)
DNTTA Playlist for March 29, 2019 = All Covers Show
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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The Von Zippers - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme)* - Oh Canaduh! 2 (Lance Rock)
Total Imaginary Mind Experience - Hopes Go Astray (Northern Pikes)* - Got it Covered Vol. 2 (Independent)
Rev. Shawn Amos - Whip It (DEVO) - Kitchen Table Blues Vol. 1 (Independent)
Julian Lage - Tomorrow is the Question (Ornette Coleman) - Love Hurts (Mack Avenue)
The Pursuit of Happiness - On and On and On (ABBA)* - Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
Mystic Bowie - Pulled Up (Talking Heads) - Talking Dreads (Independent)
2Cellos - Eye of the Tiger (Survivor) - Let There Be Cello (Sony Masterworks)
Parallels - Age of Consent (New Order)* - Civilization EP (Independent)
Big Black - The Model (Kraftwerk) - Songs About Fucking (Touch and Go)
The Delays - Ride it On (Mazzy Star) - Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before (Rough Trade)
The Didjits - Police Truck (Dead Kennedys) - Virus 100 (Alternative Tentacles)
D.O.A. - Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)* - Hardcore 81 (Sudden Death)
Juicy Bananas - Pablo Picasso (Modern Lovers) - Repo Man OST (MCA)
Polysics - My Sharona (The Knack) - Vista (MySpace)
Weird Al Yankovic - Polkarama (A bunch of them) - Poodle Hat (EMI)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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The Von Zippers - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme)* - Oh Canaduh! 2 (Lance Rock)
Total Imaginary Mind Experience - Hopes Go Astray (Northern Pikes)* - Got it Covered Vol. 2 (Independent)
Rev. Shawn Amos - Whip It (DEVO) - Kitchen Table Blues Vol. 1 (Independent)
Julian Lage - Tomorrow is the Question (Ornette Coleman) - Love Hurts (Mack Avenue)
The Pursuit of Happiness - On and On and On (ABBA)* - Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
Mystic Bowie - Pulled Up (Talking Heads) - Talking Dreads (Independent)
2Cellos - Eye of the Tiger (Survivor) - Let There Be Cello (Sony Masterworks)
Parallels - Age of Consent (New Order)* - Civilization EP (Independent)
Big Black - The Model (Kraftwerk) - Songs About Fucking (Touch and Go)
The Delays - Ride it On (Mazzy Star) - Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before (Rough Trade)
The Didjits - Police Truck (Dead Kennedys) - Virus 100 (Alternative Tentacles)
D.O.A. - Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)* - Hardcore 81 (Sudden Death)
Juicy Bananas - Pablo Picasso (Modern Lovers) - Repo Man OST (MCA)
Polysics - My Sharona (The Knack) - Vista (MySpace)
Weird Al Yankovic - Polkarama (A bunch of them) - Poodle Hat (EMI)
Monday, April 15, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for March 22, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Shhh - Mansion Fantasy* - 32 Original Drawings (Independent)
Justin Haynes - Birder (excerpt)* - Birder (Barnyard)
Talk Talk - Hate - The Party's Over (EMI)
The Cure - The Lovecats - Greatest Hits (Elektra)
Praises - Welcome Home* - In This Year: Ten of Swords (Hand Drawn Dracula)
Fenne Lily - What’s Good - On Hold (Independent)
Pale Son - Feel at Home* - Get Outside (Independent)
Yves Tumor - Licking an Orchid - Safe in the Hands of Love (Warp)
James Blake - Into the Red - Assume Form (Polydor)
Golden Grey - Honkey Pong* - 8-Bit Machine (Independent)
Kira Skov - I Celebrate My Life (Trentemoller mix) - Harbour Boat Trips 02: Copenhagen (HFN)
The World Provider - Everything* - Old Dreams EP (Ting Dun)
Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca
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Shhh - Mansion Fantasy* - 32 Original Drawings (Independent)
Justin Haynes - Birder (excerpt)* - Birder (Barnyard)
Talk Talk - Hate - The Party's Over (EMI)
The Cure - The Lovecats - Greatest Hits (Elektra)
Praises - Welcome Home* - In This Year: Ten of Swords (Hand Drawn Dracula)
Fenne Lily - What’s Good - On Hold (Independent)
Pale Son - Feel at Home* - Get Outside (Independent)
Yves Tumor - Licking an Orchid - Safe in the Hands of Love (Warp)
James Blake - Into the Red - Assume Form (Polydor)
Golden Grey - Honkey Pong* - 8-Bit Machine (Independent)
Kira Skov - I Celebrate My Life (Trentemoller mix) - Harbour Boat Trips 02: Copenhagen (HFN)
The World Provider - Everything* - Old Dreams EP (Ting Dun)
DNTTA Playlist for March 15 - TRU International Days Special
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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vinu-vinu (Canada) - Mountains* - Echoes from Afar (Independent)
Neon Saturdays (Latvia) - Restless - Freaks in the Ocean (Independent)
Kaelan Mikla (Iceland) - Andvaka - Nott Eftir Nott (Artoffact)
Skald (France/Scandanavia) - Krakumal - Vikings Chant (Decca)
Schulz (Canada/Germany) - Envision* - What Apology (Sudden Death)
Baaba Maal (Senegal) - Sehil - Wango (Stern's Africa)
Elisapie (Canada) - Lead Me On* - There Will Be Stars (Independent)
Juracan (USA) - Inequidad - Nino (Independent)
Severed Heads (Australia) - Dead Eyes Opened - City Slab Horror (Nettwerk)
Os Mutantes (Brazil) - Panis et Circenses - Anything Can Happen (Luaka Bop)
Sigh (Japan) - Hands of the String-Puller - Heir to Despair (Candlelight)
Polysics (Japan) - Hot Stuff - Hey! Bob! My Friend! (Asian Man)
Takako Minekawa (Japan) - Flow in a Tide - Fun9 (Emperor Norton)
Culk (Austria) - Chains of Sea - Culk (Siluh)
Strat Andriotis (Canada/Greece) - Can’t Wait* - Night Manager (Independent)
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vinu-vinu (Canada) - Mountains* - Echoes from Afar (Independent)
Neon Saturdays (Latvia) - Restless - Freaks in the Ocean (Independent)
Kaelan Mikla (Iceland) - Andvaka - Nott Eftir Nott (Artoffact)
Skald (France/Scandanavia) - Krakumal - Vikings Chant (Decca)
Schulz (Canada/Germany) - Envision* - What Apology (Sudden Death)
Baaba Maal (Senegal) - Sehil - Wango (Stern's Africa)
Elisapie (Canada) - Lead Me On* - There Will Be Stars (Independent)
Juracan (USA) - Inequidad - Nino (Independent)
Severed Heads (Australia) - Dead Eyes Opened - City Slab Horror (Nettwerk)
Os Mutantes (Brazil) - Panis et Circenses - Anything Can Happen (Luaka Bop)
Sigh (Japan) - Hands of the String-Puller - Heir to Despair (Candlelight)
Polysics (Japan) - Hot Stuff - Hey! Bob! My Friend! (Asian Man)
Takako Minekawa (Japan) - Flow in a Tide - Fun9 (Emperor Norton)
Culk (Austria) - Chains of Sea - Culk (Siluh)
Strat Andriotis (Canada/Greece) - Can’t Wait* - Night Manager (Independent)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for March 8, 2019 - International Women's Day Special
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Immaculate Machine - C’Mon Sea Legs* - Fables (Mint)
Buildings and Food - Slow to Reverse* - Quick Beat Save (Number F)
Mid Pines - Illusion* - Corpse Pose (Independent)
Niki and the Dove - Mother Protect - Instinct (Sub Pop)
Ursidae - Come No Closer* - Almost/Closer EP (Independent)
Sexy Mathematics - Breeding* - Electronics (Independent)
Robyn - Between the Lines - Honey (Konichiwa)
Terrace - Plaza* - Criterion (Independent)
Pugs and Crows - Wind Up Flying Away* - Uncle! (Independent)
Tallies - Not So Proud* - Tallies (Kanine)
All Hands on Jane - Jack the Lad* - Animal Worship (Independent)
The Peptides - Travel the World* - Galapagos Vol. 1 (Independent)
Patti Smith - White Rabbit - Twelve (Columbia)
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Immaculate Machine - C’Mon Sea Legs* - Fables (Mint)
Buildings and Food - Slow to Reverse* - Quick Beat Save (Number F)
Mid Pines - Illusion* - Corpse Pose (Independent)
Niki and the Dove - Mother Protect - Instinct (Sub Pop)
Ursidae - Come No Closer* - Almost/Closer EP (Independent)
Sexy Mathematics - Breeding* - Electronics (Independent)
Robyn - Between the Lines - Honey (Konichiwa)
Terrace - Plaza* - Criterion (Independent)
Pugs and Crows - Wind Up Flying Away* - Uncle! (Independent)
Tallies - Not So Proud* - Tallies (Kanine)
All Hands on Jane - Jack the Lad* - Animal Worship (Independent)
The Peptides - Travel the World* - Galapagos Vol. 1 (Independent)
Patti Smith - White Rabbit - Twelve (Columbia)
DNTTA Playlist for March 1, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Destroyalldreamers - Automne* - A Coeur Leger Sommeil Sanglant (Where Are My)
Meic Stevens - Byw yn y Wlad (Living in the Country)
Daniel Romano - The Long Mirror of Time* - Finally Free (You've Changed)
nehiyawak - Copper* - starlight EP (Arts and Crafts)
Seas - Ritual Language* - Rituals (Dine Alone)
Hickoids - It’s a Beautiful Thang - Corn Demon (Saustex)
Did You Die - Like I Care* - Royal Unicorn (Blew//Rose)
The Mandates - On the Run* - Dead in the Face (Teenage Rampage)
Earl Donald - Shadow Visions* - Where You Know Yourself (Independent)
Love of Diagrams - Confrontation - Mosaic (Matador)
Oldfolks Home - In No Way* - Black and Blue (Head in the Sand)
Collapsing Opposities - Bullies* - Inside Chance (Independent)
The Corey Hotline - Crowsnest Pass* - Please Hold (Independent)
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Destroyalldreamers - Automne* - A Coeur Leger Sommeil Sanglant (Where Are My)
Meic Stevens - Byw yn y Wlad (Living in the Country)
Daniel Romano - The Long Mirror of Time* - Finally Free (You've Changed)
nehiyawak - Copper* - starlight EP (Arts and Crafts)
Seas - Ritual Language* - Rituals (Dine Alone)
Hickoids - It’s a Beautiful Thang - Corn Demon (Saustex)
Did You Die - Like I Care* - Royal Unicorn (Blew//Rose)
The Mandates - On the Run* - Dead in the Face (Teenage Rampage)
Earl Donald - Shadow Visions* - Where You Know Yourself (Independent)
Love of Diagrams - Confrontation - Mosaic (Matador)
Oldfolks Home - In No Way* - Black and Blue (Head in the Sand)
Collapsing Opposities - Bullies* - Inside Chance (Independent)
The Corey Hotline - Crowsnest Pass* - Please Hold (Independent)
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for February 22, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Bear Mountain - Congo* - XO (Nettwerk)
Ryan Hemsworth feat. Ambre Perkins - The Butterfly Effect* - Elsewhere (Last Gang)
Socalled - Chippin’ In* - The Season (Dare to Care)
Jerome 50 - Weke n Beke* - Le Hierarchill (Grosse Boite)
Northern State - At the Party - Dying in Stereo (Startime)
Ghost Cartridge - 808bit* - Episode 1 (Independent)
Tush - Oh My* - Do You Feel Excited? (Do Right!)
Harrison - Believe in Love* - Apricity (Last Gang)
The Reluctant Cosmonaut - Valentina* - The Reluctant Cosmonaut (Independent)
KPT - Open - Alive By Machines (Give/Take)
Psychic Pollution - Messages des Morts* - Nuit de la Mort (Eat Glass)
Ken Nordine - A Whistler - Best of Word Jazz (Independent)
Ken Nordine - Green - Best of Word Jazz (Independent)
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Bear Mountain - Congo* - XO (Nettwerk)
Ryan Hemsworth feat. Ambre Perkins - The Butterfly Effect* - Elsewhere (Last Gang)
Socalled - Chippin’ In* - The Season (Dare to Care)
Jerome 50 - Weke n Beke* - Le Hierarchill (Grosse Boite)
Northern State - At the Party - Dying in Stereo (Startime)
Ghost Cartridge - 808bit* - Episode 1 (Independent)
Tush - Oh My* - Do You Feel Excited? (Do Right!)
Harrison - Believe in Love* - Apricity (Last Gang)
The Reluctant Cosmonaut - Valentina* - The Reluctant Cosmonaut (Independent)
KPT - Open - Alive By Machines (Give/Take)
Psychic Pollution - Messages des Morts* - Nuit de la Mort (Eat Glass)
Ken Nordine - A Whistler - Best of Word Jazz (Independent)
Ken Nordine - Green - Best of Word Jazz (Independent)
DNTTA Playlist for February 15, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Phil Western - No Help* - The Escapist (Map)
David Byrne - Every Day is a Miracle - American Utopia (Nonesuch)
Beck - Dear Life - Colors (Capitol)
Weird Al Yankovic - Hardware Store - Poodle Hat (Scotty Bros.)
Waax - Nothing is Always - Weak and Wild EP (Independent)
Neavv - Lone Wolf* - Fall Hard/Get Sad (Independent)
Pang Attack - Bow Down Frailty* - Sleepy Fell Down (Independent)
Autogramm - Jessica Don’t Like Rock and Roll* - What RU Waiting 4? (Nevado)
Busker Du - Super Hero Sounds* - Mrs. Kensington and Other Delights (Independent)
Golden BC - I Can’t Help You* - I Don't Want to Be This (Independent)
The High Dials - Foreverish* - Foreverish EP (Independent)
Joseph Michel - I Aim to Displease* - More of Me (Arachnidiscs)
Fade - Fall in Love - Fall in Love (Luminelle)
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Phil Western - No Help* - The Escapist (Map)
David Byrne - Every Day is a Miracle - American Utopia (Nonesuch)
Beck - Dear Life - Colors (Capitol)
Weird Al Yankovic - Hardware Store - Poodle Hat (Scotty Bros.)
Waax - Nothing is Always - Weak and Wild EP (Independent)
Neavv - Lone Wolf* - Fall Hard/Get Sad (Independent)
Pang Attack - Bow Down Frailty* - Sleepy Fell Down (Independent)
Autogramm - Jessica Don’t Like Rock and Roll* - What RU Waiting 4? (Nevado)
Busker Du - Super Hero Sounds* - Mrs. Kensington and Other Delights (Independent)
Golden BC - I Can’t Help You* - I Don't Want to Be This (Independent)
The High Dials - Foreverish* - Foreverish EP (Independent)
Joseph Michel - I Aim to Displease* - More of Me (Arachnidiscs)
Fade - Fall in Love - Fall in Love (Luminelle)
Monday, March 11, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for February 8, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Strange Advance - World’s Away* - Over 60 Minutes With... (A&M)
The Clash - Four Horsemen - London Calling (Columbia)
Astral Swans - Strange Prison* - Strange Prison (Saved by Vinyl)
The Pxrtals - Wild as the River* - Un Jour (Independent)
Alicia Hansen - Tied to the Post* - Before You (Independent)
Joshua Van Tassel - Rebirth* - Crossworlds (Backward)
Marker Starling - Ancestor* - Trust an Amateur (Tin Angel)
Pip Blom - Pussycat - Singles (Independent)
In Hock - Meeting People is Easy* - In Shock (Cuchabata)
Dreams - Young Minds - No One Defeats Us (Astralwerks)
Ivory Towers - Marshmallow* - Queller (Independent)
Exdreams - Bodybang - Physical Contact (Independent)
Pig - Hamstrung on the Highway - Sin-Sation (Nothing)
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Strange Advance - World’s Away* - Over 60 Minutes With... (A&M)
The Clash - Four Horsemen - London Calling (Columbia)
Astral Swans - Strange Prison* - Strange Prison (Saved by Vinyl)
The Pxrtals - Wild as the River* - Un Jour (Independent)
Alicia Hansen - Tied to the Post* - Before You (Independent)
Joshua Van Tassel - Rebirth* - Crossworlds (Backward)
Marker Starling - Ancestor* - Trust an Amateur (Tin Angel)
Pip Blom - Pussycat - Singles (Independent)
In Hock - Meeting People is Easy* - In Shock (Cuchabata)
Dreams - Young Minds - No One Defeats Us (Astralwerks)
Ivory Towers - Marshmallow* - Queller (Independent)
Exdreams - Bodybang - Physical Contact (Independent)
Pig - Hamstrung on the Highway - Sin-Sation (Nothing)
DNTTA Log for February 1, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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The Judys - Judy’s Got a Big Mouth* - The Best of The Judys (Independent)
Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep - Our Guide*
Gang of Four - At Home He’s a Tourist - Return the Gift (V2)
Heathers - Black Moon* - Midnight is a Place (Independent)
Jock Tears - Not Yr Sweetheart* - Bad Boys (Inky)
Jock Tears - Nasty Boy* - Bad Boys (Inky)
The Meringues - Blended Together* - The Meringues (Independent)
Priors - Lonely Mind* - New Pleasure (Slovenly)
Purlicue - Whoops* - Sip 'n Dip (Independent)
Suicide Helpline - X Youth* - Pink Jazz (Independent)
Mclusky - Rock vs. Single Parents - My Pain and Sadness Are More Sad and Painful Than Yours (Too Pure)
Crack Cloud - Philospher’s Calling* - Anchoring Point EP (Independent)
Flatbed - Grunter* - Drug Mom (Slaughter House)
Flatbed - On the Slow* - Drug Mom (Slaughter House)
Northern Haze - Tukisi* - Siqinnarrut (Aakuluk)
The Houses (Where We Grew Up) - We Will Break/Up Someday* - single (Independent)
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The Judys - Judy’s Got a Big Mouth* - The Best of The Judys (Independent)
Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep - Our Guide*
Gang of Four - At Home He’s a Tourist - Return the Gift (V2)
Heathers - Black Moon* - Midnight is a Place (Independent)
Jock Tears - Not Yr Sweetheart* - Bad Boys (Inky)
Jock Tears - Nasty Boy* - Bad Boys (Inky)
The Meringues - Blended Together* - The Meringues (Independent)
Priors - Lonely Mind* - New Pleasure (Slovenly)
Purlicue - Whoops* - Sip 'n Dip (Independent)
Suicide Helpline - X Youth* - Pink Jazz (Independent)
Mclusky - Rock vs. Single Parents - My Pain and Sadness Are More Sad and Painful Than Yours (Too Pure)
Crack Cloud - Philospher’s Calling* - Anchoring Point EP (Independent)
Flatbed - Grunter* - Drug Mom (Slaughter House)
Flatbed - On the Slow* - Drug Mom (Slaughter House)
Northern Haze - Tukisi* - Siqinnarrut (Aakuluk)
The Houses (Where We Grew Up) - We Will Break/Up Someday* - single (Independent)
Monday, February 18, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for January 23, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Purveyors of Free Will - Rose in Razor Wire* - If They Mention My Name in Hell, Just Keep Runnin' (Baffled Octopi)
Bijou Noir - Cruel Trick - We Are Alone Together (Give/Take)
Francis Harris - Song for Aguirre - Trivial Occupations (Scissor and Thread)
Demonstration Synthesis - Rich Man* - DS-21 (Dionysan Tapes)
Wish Lash - Abra* - In Transit (Independent)
Mallsex - Taffy* - Discreet Services (Independent)
C. Samms - Celebration* - Synthetic Properties (Independent)
Ryan Playground - Almost Died* - 16/17 (Last Gang)
Robyn - Because It’s in the Music - Honey (Konichiwa)
Buildings and Food - Motherwell on the Stairs* - Quick Beat Save (Number F)
Austra - Utopia* - Invisible Channel (Independent)
The Rentals - Please Let That Be You - Return of the Rentals (Maverick)
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Purveyors of Free Will - Rose in Razor Wire* - If They Mention My Name in Hell, Just Keep Runnin' (Baffled Octopi)
Bijou Noir - Cruel Trick - We Are Alone Together (Give/Take)
Francis Harris - Song for Aguirre - Trivial Occupations (Scissor and Thread)
Demonstration Synthesis - Rich Man* - DS-21 (Dionysan Tapes)
Wish Lash - Abra* - In Transit (Independent)
Mallsex - Taffy* - Discreet Services (Independent)
C. Samms - Celebration* - Synthetic Properties (Independent)
Ryan Playground - Almost Died* - 16/17 (Last Gang)
Robyn - Because It’s in the Music - Honey (Konichiwa)
Buildings and Food - Motherwell on the Stairs* - Quick Beat Save (Number F)
Austra - Utopia* - Invisible Channel (Independent)
The Rentals - Please Let That Be You - Return of the Rentals (Maverick)
Thursday, February 7, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for January 18, 2019 - Best of 2018 Part II
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Mystic Bowie - Once in a Lifetime - Talking Dreads (Independent)
Body Lens - Value* - Body Lens EP (Independent)
Cope - Mother Russia* - EPs (Norwegian Blue)
Co-Op - Second View* - 2nd View (Independent)
Bruce Haack - Little Things* - Preservation Tapes (Telephone Explosion)
Severed Heads - Harold and Cindy Hospital - Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
Phleg Camp - Hog Bottom* - Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
cub - Cast a Shadow* - Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
Theoretical Girls - You Got Me - New York Noise (Soul Jazz)
Pete Shelley - Homosapien - Homosapien (Arista)
The Fall - How I Wrote “Elastic Man” - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (Beggar's Banquet)
ba:zel - Marschfield - Scene 7 (Independent)
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Mystic Bowie - Once in a Lifetime - Talking Dreads (Independent)
Body Lens - Value* - Body Lens EP (Independent)
Cope - Mother Russia* - EPs (Norwegian Blue)
Co-Op - Second View* - 2nd View (Independent)
Bruce Haack - Little Things* - Preservation Tapes (Telephone Explosion)
Severed Heads - Harold and Cindy Hospital - Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
Phleg Camp - Hog Bottom* - Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
cub - Cast a Shadow* - Brave New Waves Session (Artoffact)
Theoretical Girls - You Got Me - New York Noise (Soul Jazz)
Pete Shelley - Homosapien - Homosapien (Arista)
The Fall - How I Wrote “Elastic Man” - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (Beggar's Banquet)
ba:zel - Marschfield - Scene 7 (Independent)
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for January 11, 2018 - Best of 2018 Part 1
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Dumb - Hard Sea* - Seeing Green (Mint)
Confidence Man - Boyfriend (Repeat) - Confident Music for Confident People (Heavenly)
Plains Apparition - Frozen Belief* - Adrift (Independent)
Superorganism - Something for Your M.I.N.D. - Superorganism (Domino)
Alpha Strategy - I Smell Like a Wet Tent* - The Gurgler (Antena Kryzku)
Peach Kelli Pop - Black Magic* - Gentle Leader (Mint)
Freak Dream - Stray from the Path* - Into the Sun (Artoffact)
Low - Always Trying to Work it Out - Double Negative (Sub Pop)
Actors - Bury Me* - It Will Come to You (Artoffact)
Idles - Danny Nedelko - Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)
Idles - Love Song - Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)
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Dumb - Hard Sea* - Seeing Green (Mint)
Confidence Man - Boyfriend (Repeat) - Confident Music for Confident People (Heavenly)
Plains Apparition - Frozen Belief* - Adrift (Independent)
Superorganism - Something for Your M.I.N.D. - Superorganism (Domino)
Alpha Strategy - I Smell Like a Wet Tent* - The Gurgler (Antena Kryzku)
Peach Kelli Pop - Black Magic* - Gentle Leader (Mint)
Freak Dream - Stray from the Path* - Into the Sun (Artoffact)
Low - Always Trying to Work it Out - Double Negative (Sub Pop)
Actors - Bury Me* - It Will Come to You (Artoffact)
Idles - Danny Nedelko - Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)
Idles - Love Song - Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
DNTTA Playlist for January 4, 2019
Artist - Song - Album (Label) * indicates Canadian Content
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Alexandra Streliski - Changing Winds* - Inscape (Secret City)
Ian William Craig - Mass Noun* - Thresholder (130701)
Manoid - Forests - Truth (HFN)
Michael Feuerstack - Where Are You Now?* - Natural Weather (Forward)
Hello Blue Roses - Mausoleum* - Trade Winds (Jaz)
Autogramm - Sea of Regret* - What RU Waiting 4? (Nevado)
Castlecomer - Fire Alarm - Castlecomer (Concord)
Frigs - Chest* - Invisible Channel (Independent)
Did You Die - Never Gonna Be So Cool* - Royal Unicorn (Blew//Rose)
Harrow - Scarred Mountainsides* - A Fire in the Mountains (Independent)
Birmani - Ton Corps Blanc* - EP2 (Cuchabata)
Chocolate Watch Band - Let’s Talk About Girls - Nuggets: 40th Anniversary (Elektra)
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Alexandra Streliski - Changing Winds* - Inscape (Secret City)
Ian William Craig - Mass Noun* - Thresholder (130701)
Manoid - Forests - Truth (HFN)
Michael Feuerstack - Where Are You Now?* - Natural Weather (Forward)
Hello Blue Roses - Mausoleum* - Trade Winds (Jaz)
Autogramm - Sea of Regret* - What RU Waiting 4? (Nevado)
Castlecomer - Fire Alarm - Castlecomer (Concord)
Frigs - Chest* - Invisible Channel (Independent)
Did You Die - Never Gonna Be So Cool* - Royal Unicorn (Blew//Rose)
Harrow - Scarred Mountainsides* - A Fire in the Mountains (Independent)
Birmani - Ton Corps Blanc* - EP2 (Cuchabata)
Chocolate Watch Band - Let’s Talk About Girls - Nuggets: 40th Anniversary (Elektra)
Monday, January 7, 2019
Best of 2018: Dumb - Seeing Green (Mint)
Dumb have only been around for three years now, and already have 3 EPs and 3 full length albums to their credit. Part of the vibrant Vancouver scene, Seeing Green was a solid effort and breakout for the band, their first album for the always forward-looking Mint record label. They call themselves a punk band, but they're more a demented mix of classic, sloppy garage rock and lo-fi indie. Think The Evaporators meet Devo.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Who we lost in 2018
Each year, I try to make a decent list of notable musicians who died in the past year. I also try to focus on lesser known musicians from alternative music as well as Canadian musicians. Links provided to music too.
Bill Hughes
Johnny Coswell*
Steve Foster
Mickey Jones (Kenny Rogers)
Craig MacGregor (Foghat)
Roy MacDonald*
Claudia Fontaine (Afrodiziak)
John “Jabo” Starks (James Brown)
Danny Kirwan (Fleetwood Mac)
DJ Fontana (Elvis Presley)
Conway Savage (Nick Cave)
Max Bennett (LA Express)
Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane)
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