DNTTA Playlist for April 16, 2021

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

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Peach Kelli Pop - Close to You* - Lucky Star EP (Lauren)
Bad Hoo - Don’t Like People* - Right as Rain (Independent)
Bike Club - Where Do We Go On* - Find Romance (We Are Busy Bodies)
Wet Cigarette - Speed* - Uncut (Independent)
Mi’ens - Ice Cream Ponies* - Future Child (Kill Rock Stars)
Freak Heat Waves - Dripping Visions* - Zap the Planet (Telephone Explosion)
Teenanger - Touching Glass* - Good Time (Telephone Explosion)
New Fries - Bangs* - Is The Idea of Us (Telephone Explosion)
Pogo Car Crash Control - Qu’est-ce qui va pas* - Tete Bleme (Independent)
Pegboy - Never a Question - Fore EP (Quarterstick)
Dead Kennedys - Chicken Farm - Frankenchrist (Alternative Tentacles)
Mudhoney - Let it Slide - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (Sub Pop)
Ape War - Single Entendre* - EP 2020 (Independent)

Best of 2020: #9 - Crack Cloud - Pain Olympics (Meat Machine)

Vancouver's Crack Cloud were on my radar thanks to two stellar independent EPs, Crack Cloud in 2016 and Anchoring Point in 2017. Both EPs were full of spacy, dense post punk. Their debut full-length was, decidedly, not what I was expecting them to follow up with. It's got the post punk, but it's also mixed in and buried under with dance pop, spoken word, electronic soundscapes and noise rock. The band is a sprawling collective of musicians, performance artists and multimedia artists. The album merely captures the band's musical end: their live performances are a sight to behold, with multimedia to go along with the music and dance routines on stage while the band plays. The members are recovering or recovered drug addicts or people that struggled with mental illness, with performing and making music as a vital part of their healing. This isn't an album, it's a cathartic experience, one that takes you places you didn't think you'd be going when you started listening.

DNTTA Playlist for April 9, 2021

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

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Vanden Dool - The View From Here* - The View from Here (Independent)
Maandala - Hot Funk* - Second Circle (Independent)
Deep Covers - Repeater* - Dark World (Independent)
Die Scum Inc. - Vivisection* - Flight of the Infinite (Independent)
Harga Descending - Dreading Changes* - Communal Scream (Independent)
Mihai Popoviciu - El Classico - Motion Manifold (Poker Flat)
Acid Pauli - Life Polarizer - MOD (Oiue)
Nickelman - Shine - Butterwax (Urbnet)
West Indian Girl - Hollywood - West Indian Girl (Astralwerks)
Stereolab - Au Grand Jour - Switched On (Duophonic)
Microstoria - Per Format - _snd (Thrill Jockey)
Manitoba - Bijoux* - Up in Flames (Merge)

DNTTA Playlist for April 2, 2021

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

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Itchy Self - Reprobate* - Here's the Rub (Celluloid Lunch)
Austra - Mountain Baby* - HiRUDiN (Pink Fizz)
DK5600 - Atmospheres Explosibles - Distancas Katrias 5600 (Bugs Crawling Out of People)
Operators - Control* - Blue Wave (Last Gang)
The Herbaliser - The Missing Suitcase - Very Mercenary (Ninja Tune)
Beck - Cold Brains - Cold Brains EP (DGC)
The Organ - Memorize the City* - Grab That Gun (Mint)
Showbusiness Giants - Vampire Hookers* - Let's Have a Talk with the Dead (Virgin)
Jennifer Castle - NYC* - Monarch Season (Idee Fixe)
Flaming Lips - Dinosaur on the Mountain - American Head (Warner)
Screaming Trees - More or Less - Sweet Oblivion (Universal)
Devastations - Rosa - Yes U (Beggar's Banquet)

DNTTA Playlist for March 25, 2021 - All Covers Show

 

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

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The Von Zippers - Truck Stop Nun (Da Slyme)* Oh Canaduh 2 (Lance Rock)
Apollo Ghosts - Nicolas Bragg (cub)* - Local Delivery Only (Independent)
Apollo Ghosts - Everyday Life (Tough Age)* - Local Delivery Only (Independent)
Apollo Ghosts - The House That Heaven Build (Japandroids)* - Local Delivery Only (Independent)
cub - Cast a Shadow (Beat Happening)* - Betti-Cola (Mint)
King Ropes - Drugs (Talking Heads) - Go Back to Where they Came From (Independent)
Razed in Black - Rapture (Blondie) - Platinum Girl: A Tribute to Blondie (Cleopatra)
Afghan Whigs - Lost in the Supermarket (The Clash) - Burning London (Epic)
White Flag - Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush) - Freedom of Choice (Caroline)
Redd Kross - How Much More (The Go-Go’s) - Freedome of Choce (Caroline)
Possum Dixon - El Mongoloido (DEVO) - We Are Not Devo (Centipede)
Sid Vicious - I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges) - Sid Lives (Jungle)
Penis - Riff Raff (AC DC) - A Punk Rock Tribute to AC/DC (Legacy)
More Fun - Barbra (The Modernettes)* - Oh Canaduh 2 (Lance Rock)
Weird Al Yankovic - Tacky (Pharrell)

DNTTA Playlist for March 19, 2021

 

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

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Shrouded Amps - Embryo* - Make Me Strange (Independent)
Bad Buddy - Stupid Girl* - Bad Buddy (Independent)
Hex Beat - Two Masters* - A Series of Kicks (Mangled Tapes)
No Museums - Beatsongs* - Youth Club is Over (Independent)
Moths and Locusts - Cocaine Kangaroo* - Exoplanets (Noise, Agony, Mayhem)
Mr. Bungle - The Holy Filament - California (Ipecac)
Map 71 - Stitches - Turn Back Metropolis (Foolproof)
Culk - Dichterin - Zersteuen Uber Each (Siluh)
Enon - Marbles Explode - Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence (Touch and Go)
Single Mothers - Engine* - Through a Wall (New Damage)
Milk Lungs - Snail - The Better Button (Arena Rock)
Male Bonding - Mysteries Complete - Endless Now (Sub Pop)

Best of 2020 #10: lie - You Want it Real (Mint Records)

 Two months late, but I'm finally getting into reviewing the best albums of 2020, starting with #10. lie, from Vancouver, play a noisy and dark form of punk. The band's name is pronounced Lee-ay. After a couple of well received indy released, lie made the move to Mint Records, the home of pretty much every great Canadian indy and post punk band on the west coast. Their sound in this album is decidedly more noisy and punky than previous efforts, which have dabbled with new wave and techno. This album chugs along quickly with pummeling guitars, half-screamed vocals and a vicious feminist edge. They have truly come into their own on this record.