DNTTA Playlist for April 20, 2018

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

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DS Lori - Tender Seal* - DS Lori (Independent)
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt - The Body, the Blood, the Machine (Sub Pop)
The Thermals - Returning to the Fold - The Body, the Blood, the Machine (Sub Pop)
Mike Mikus - Plastic Veggies* - Mike Mikus (Independent)
Pizza Bath - North Star* - You Are What You Eat (Independent)
Ponctuation - Nada Brahma* - Mon Herbier du Monde Entier (Blow the Fuse)
Anmls - No Nos Ven - Anmls (Slovenly)
Hyness - Resistor* - The End of Music (Independent)
Actors - Face Meets Glass* - It Will Come to You (Artoffact)
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dark Waters* - Dirt (Paper Bag)
Suuns - Baseline* - Felt (Secret City)
Bort - Hello Mr. Thompson* - Crossing the Desert (Independent)
The Cars - Sad Song - Move Like This (Hear Music)

DNTTA Playlist for April 13, 2018

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

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KLM - You Didn’t Do It* - Chamber Music (Independent)
Rhye - Count to Five* - Blood (Last Gang)
Kellarissa - Black Sea* - Ocean Electro (Mint)
Texture and Light - Merlin* - Eat Magic (Independent)
M.M. Crone - Broken Moment* - M.M. Crone (Independent)
H. de Heutz - Receiver* - The Natural World (E-Tron)
Lemonade - Ice Water - Diver (True Panther Sounds)
Twink - Ostrich Hop - Happy Houses (Independent)
Cadence Weapon - Don’t Talk to Me* - Cadence Weapon (E1)
Grand Analog - Mutations* - Survival (Independent)
Egyptrixx - Disorbital* - A/B Til Infinity (Night Slugs)
Holzkopf - Hold Me Down* - House of Aud (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for April 6, 2018

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

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Humans - Boys and Girls* - The Feels (Haven Sounds)
Do Make Say Think - Her Eyes on the Horizon* - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)
A Tribe Called Red - The Virus* - We Are the Halluci Nation (Pirates Blend)
Alvvays - Dreams Tonight* - Antisocialites (Royal Mountain)
METZ - Mess of Wires* - Strange Peace (Royal Mountain)
Blue Hawaii - Versus Game* - Tenderness (Arbutus)
Kid Koala feat Emiliana Torrini - Fallaway* - Music to Draw To: Satellite (Arts and Crafts)
Lucid Structure - Loss Without Form - We Were Never Here (Independent)
Helena Deland - Body Language* - Altogether Unaccompanied Vols. 1 and 2 (Chivi Chivi)
Krista Muir - On the Cities Lips* - The Tides (Hypo)
Disconnected Genius - About Nothing - Nirvikalpa Meow (Independent)

Best of 2017 #8: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (DFA)

A 2016 tour fueled the buzz around American Dream in 2017, LCD Soundsystems first album in more than 5 years. American Dream showed up on many critics Top 10 lists, often at #1, and for good reason. This wasn't just a comeback for nostalgia's sake. This was a full blown return, with all creative juices flowing. American Dream captures both the classic electro-rock sound of James Murphy's earliest work under the LCD name, but an update of the sound for the 2010s. It also channelled Murphy's deep love for the New York new wave scene, with many tracks looking back in love and detached horror to the stuttering new wave funk of the Talking Heads, the unhinged experimentation of Suicide and the crisp disco sheen of Blondie. LCD are back and better than ever.

Best of 2017 #9: Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent (Domino)

Detroit's Protomartyr made a huge splash on the college radio scene with their last album, 2014's The Agent Intellect. 2017's Relatives in Descent sees the band pulling back a bit, becoming more moody and textured, but no less caustic. This is pure post-punk, insistent, dark, noisy and disturbing. Singer Joe Casey is a near dead ringer for Mark E. Smith, if he were American. Casey is as pointed and accusing as MES, but a touch more smooth and less deadpan. The music is driving, moody and repetitive. Snarly and demanding your attention. Great album.

Best of 2017 #10: Gun Control - Volume 1 (Independent)

Getting a late start to the Top 10 albums countdown and review, but we're at it anyway...

Gun Control are a brand new group from our of Vancouver. Self-described as a noise-rock band, they're much more than that. They've got a melodic take on indy rock, merging that with a grungy, sloppy punk sound. Looking for bands they sound like: think early R.E.M, but with clearer vocals, The Thermals, complete with oddball Hutch Harris style vocals, The Connells, ("City of No" sounds a lot like "Stone Cold  Yesterday"), the melodic side of Sleater-Kinney maybe?

Volume 1 is available on Bandcamp at a the "Name Your Price" option, so give them some cash so they can keep making music!

DNTTA Log for August 25, 2017 - All Covers Show

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

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Von Zippers* - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme) - Oh Canaduh 2 (Lance Rock)
Talking Heads - Take Me to the River (Al Green) - Sand in the Vaseline (Warner)
Dread Zeppelin - Bring it on Home (Led Zeppelin) - Un-Led-Ed (IRS)
The Pixies - Sweet Honey Pie (The Beatles) - Live at the BBC (4AD)
The Pursuit of Happiness* - On and On and On (ABBA) - Brave New Waves Sessions (Artoffact)
Men Without Hats* - S.O.S. (ABBA) - Adventures of Women and Men Without Hate... (Mercury)
John Martyn - Singing in the Rain (Gene Kelly) - Head and Heart (Universal)
The Cramps - She Said (Hasil Adkins) - Bad Music For Bad People (IRS)
The Ex-Pistols - Pretty Vacant (The Sex Pistols) - The Swindle Continues (Restless)
Tankhog* - I Woke Up in Love This Morning (Partridge Family) - House of Beauty (Zulu)
Clinique Delay* - We Are Weapons (Lesbo Vrouven) - Je Re-Reviens Genevieve (Independent)
Sleeper Wave  - A Present for Those Who Are Present (Jerome's Dream) - It's More Like an Homage to You (Zegema Beach)
Anthrax - Got the Time (Joe Jackson) - Persistence of Time (Metal Blade)
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga - Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin)