DNTTA Playlist for September 26, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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Run Chico Run - Part of My Brain is Working Against Me* - Shashbo (Boompa)
Dub Rifles - Face Up* - No Town No Country (Sundowning)
Sounds of Sputnik - Light Scheme (Mind Moves Remix)*
M185 - Soon - Everything is Up (Siluh)
Slight Birching - Beacon Hill* - Cultural Envelope (Independent)
The Wax Girl - Departure* - Anosmic (Independent)
Static People - Stars Fall - Rare Creatures (Mass Ants)
Cygnets - Modern Youth* - Isolator (Independent)
Coronado - Burning Bright* - Give Up Nothing Vol. 1 (Independent)
Deerhoof - Rainbox Silhouette - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
The Unicorns - Child Star* - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (Alien8)

DNTTA Playlist for September 19, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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Dave Robbins Electric Band - Carboniferous* - Zap! (Cellar Live)
Peter Epstein Quartet - Tiny Expanding Universe - Polarities (Songlines)
Kartet - Binoculars - Grand Laps (Songlines)
The Westerlies - You Were Just Here - Wish the Children Would Come Home (Songlines)
Brahja Waldman Quartet - Boundless* - Sir Real Live at Resonance (Independent)
Pulsarus - Hieratic - Bee Itch (For-Tune)
David Mott and Jesse Stewart - Earthtones* - Anagrams (Art Stew)
Downing/Lewis/Occhipinti - Solar* - Bristles (Independent)
Up Bustle and Out - Ninja's Principality - One Color Just Reflects Another (Ninja Tune)
Kids Eat Crayons - Two Children Die in House Fire* - Dogs at Play Among the Ruins (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for September 12, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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Death from Above 1979    Losing Friends* - Heads Up (Ache)
The Hydrothermal Vents    Neptune's Grave* - Secrets of the Deep! (Independent)
Reykjavictim    Illusion* - Xiao Di Fang (Metal Postcard)
PS I Love You - Bad Brain Day* - For Those Who Stay (Paper Bag)
Freeman - Covert Discretion - Freeman (Partisan)
The Raincoats - Don't Be Mean - Looking in the Shadows (Geffen)
Shimmering Stars - Shadow Visions* - Bedrooms of the Nation (Almost)
Future of the Left - Sorry Dad, I Was Late for the Riots - The Plot Against Common Sense (Xtra Mile)
Eagulls - Yellow Eyes - Eagulls (Partisan)
B-Lines - Normal Again* - Opening Band (Shake!)
B-Lines - Distractions* - Opening Band (Shake!)
Lab Coast - Pictures on the Wall* - Pictures on the Wall (Shake!)
Lab Coast - Radio* - Pictures on the Wall (Shake!)
Small Teeth - Dishwashers* - Small Teeth (Independent)
The Flaming Lips - Battling Forces from Beyond - 7 Skies H3 (Warner)

Best of 2013 #1: Savages - Silence Yourself (Matador Records)

When Sleater-Kinney went on hiatus in 2006, it left a huge hole to fill in music. Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss filled that void with their awesome Wild Flag project, but the band quickly broke up. Corin Tucker's solo work has been good, but a touch too melodic and folky to really be the next Sleater-Kinney. What we needed was another group of women to come in and make kick ass indy rock and post punk. Enter Savages. Hailing from the UK, their debut album, Silence Yourself, was bruising, uncompromising and exactly what the world needed. The band has been described as "deadly serious post-punk", which is an apt description. This is serious music for serious people. The band is just a couple of years into their career and they have the perfect balance of young punkish brashness and the polished precision maturity of a long running band. After listening to their album, you realize that this band won't be ignored.

Or maybe it's like a friend said to me, I just like women who play loud and scream...

DNTTA Playlist for August 5, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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Manitoba - Kid You'll Move Mountains* - Up in Flames (Leaf)
Lee Negin - Janus Half-Baked - The Cheeze Chronicles Vol. 5 (Passing Phase)
Dan Deacon - True Thrush - America (Domino)
Dwntwn - Missing You - Dwntwn (Julian)
The Knife - A Tooth for an Eye - Shaking the Habitual (Mute)
Young Liars - Tidal Wave* - Tidal Wave (Nettwerk)
Animalia - Forgotten* - Mouth Full of Teeth (Independent)
Sylvan Esso - Dreamy Bruises - Sylvan Esso (Partisan)
Atomzero - Build Decay* - Symbiosis (Independent)
Mark Mills - Irish French Immersion* - Triple Fire Sign (Independent)
Gary Numan - I Nearly Married a Human (live at the BBC) - The BBC Sessions (Beggar's Banquet)

Best of 2013 #2: Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe (Virgin)

Scottish band Chvrches (pronounced Churches) produced one of the most stunning debuts of the year, plus the best pure electronic albums this year. The band is just three years old, but their debut full length album displays a fully realized sound brimming with maturity. They have an unapologetically 80s synth-pop sound. Like quite a few bands I've loved in the past (Parallels, Crystal Castles) , this band has a solid retro electronic backing sound with a crisp female voice fronting the band. It'll be interesting to see if the sophomore curse hits this band.

DNTTA Playlist for August 29, 2014 - All Covers!

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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All-Covers Show!

Zeus - Vasoline (Stone Temple Pilots)* - Cover Me! (Arts and Crafts)
Sonic Youth - Superstar (The Carpenters) - If I Were a Carpenter (A&M)
Les Thugs - Moon Over Marin (Dead Kennedys) - Virus 100 (Alternative Tentacles)
The Doughboys - Why She's the Girl from the Chainstore (Buzzcocks)* - Something's Gone Wrong Again: A Tribute to the Buzzcocks (C/Z)
It's OK - Wishing (A Flock of Seagulls) - Freedom of Choice (Caroline)
Steve Earle and Reckless Kelly - Reconsider Me (Warren Zevon) - Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon (Artemis)
The Proclaimers - My Old Friend the Blues (Steve Earle) - Sunshine on Leith (Columbia)
Neil Young - Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)* - A Letter Home (Third Man)
Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen)* - Pump Up the Volume (MCA)
Trampled By Turtles - Where is My Mind? (The Pixies) - Live on First Street (Thirty Tigers)
The The - My Heart Would Know (Hank Williams) - Hanky Panky (Sony)
Weird Al Yankovic - Handy (Iggy Azalea) - Mandatory Fun (RCA)
Tankhog - I Woke Up in Love This Morning (The Partridge Family)* - House of Beauty (Zulu)