Dec 3, 2007

Well, today was my last show before the new year. This Thursday, I depart for an adventure in Antarctica for a couple of weeks, and then I am off to Salt Spring to spend the holiday with my family. Two different Ryans will be filling in for the next four weeks, so be sure to treat them well. See you in January!

*Square Root of Margaret - In my hands
*The Diableros - Telepathic Love
*HRSTA - Holiday
*The 6ixty 8ights - Nothings the same
Ghosts of the Russian Empire - Mandroid
*Secret Broadcast - Spells
Dinosaur Jr. - Yer Son (B-side)
Derek Webb - The very end
The Rapture - Crimson Red
*Five Blank Pages - The Great Canadian Winter
*Himalayan Bear - The City Wind
*Cuff the Duke - By Winter's End
*Uncut - Kiss Me
*Jenny Omnichord - Skeletal Love Song
*Laura Barrett - Deception Island Optimist Club
Mantella - Cherry Red
*Undes Byen 0 Samme Stof Som Stof
Chairs in the Arno - Input Delay
Cosmic Starfish - Halo Operadora
Liz Durrett - The One I Love (REM cover)
Antony & the Johnsons - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Dylan cover)
*Plants and Animals - Trials and Tribulations
Oakley Hall - No Dreams
Dri - Meet Me Out
DNTEL - The Distance (Motronomy Remix)

November 26th

Coldcut - Soundmirrors
*Moses Mayes - Flow
*Tegan and Sara - Living Room
*Michelle Boudreau Band - Carry Me Away
*Imacculate Machine - Who Is We Are?
Ani DiFranco - Subconscious
*The Organ - Steven Smith
*Kinnie Starr - Walking Away
*Montag - Perfect Vision
*Stars - The Vanishing
*Great Lake Swimmers - Moving Pictures Silent Films
Joanna Newsom - Emily
*Feist - Mushaboom (KOs Mix)
*Death From Above 1979 - Little Girl (MSTRKRFT Edition)
Nine Black Alps - Cosmopolitan
*The Strokes - Under Control
Belle & Sabastian - Is It Wicked Not To Care?
*Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Killing the Light
Electrelane - After the Call
The Blow - The Love that I Crave (Strategy's Strata Club Remix)
*Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Tomas Barfod Mix)
*Laura Barrett - Robot Ponies
*Dragonette - True Believer
*Wooden Stars - Outlaws

Nov 19 Playlist

*A Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda
*No Birds - How Can I Say "I Love You" After Hearing You Say "I Love You" (local)
*Matthew Barber - Morning Light
Midlake - Roscoe
Nancy Sinatra - Don't Mean Nothing [upon request]
*The Weakerthans - Letter of Resignation
*Joel Plaskett - Snowed In/Cruisin'
*Rachelle Van Zanten - Take Me Right Back
*Magneta Lane - Daggers Out!
Peaches - Boys wanna be her
*Hot Springs - Headrush
Echobelly - Great Things
Palomar - How to beat dementia
*Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir
The Notwist - One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand
*The Postal Service - This Place is a Prison
Franz Ferdinand - Words so leisure
*The Dudes - Love is dangerous
*The Dears - Ballad of Humankindness
Regina Spekton - Lady
*Immaculate Machine - No Way Out
*Chad VanGaalen - Sing me 2 sleep
*Nassau - Captain
Pedro the Lion - A Mind of her own

Nov 12 playlist

To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - The Patron
*Holy Fuck - The Pulse
Clutch - Pure Rock Theory [by request]
*Dietche V. & the Abominable Snowman (aka DVAS) - You're Amazing
The Octopus Project - Mmaj
*Femme Generation - Orlando Boom (RAC Mix)
*Europe in Colour - Last Flight to Paris
Of Montreal - Du og meg
The Rentals - Last Romantic Day
Saturday Looks Good to Me - When I lose my eyes
Club 8 - In the Morning
Polynya - Paper Planes
Orbo Squara - So Comfortable
Luke Temple - Medicine
*Sandro Perri - Family Tree
*Neil Young - Boxcar
Flight of the Conchords - Robots
*Himilayan Bear - Sounds are birds
Grizzly Bear - Knife covered by CSS
*Fond of Tigers - Hebvark
*Kevin Drew - TBTF
*C'mon - I want it all
*Arrows - Knives are falling from the sky
*DDMMYYYY - White Lies
Black Lips - Veni Vidi Vici
The New Amsterdams - Revenge

November 5th, 2007

Johnny Cash - Sea of Heartbreak
The Bird and the Bee - I'm a Broken Heart
*The Golden Dogs - Dynamo
Emilie Simon - I wanna be your dog
Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Dog
*Chad VanGaalen - Wind Driving Dogs
Ben Folds Five - Dog
Animal Collective - Doggy
Ben Folds - Give Judy My Notice
*The Heartstrings - Big Black Boots
*Shuyler Jansen - Rivals
*The Deep Dark Woods - Redwood Forest
*Steve Dawson - Photograph
*Nathan - Let them look
*Christine Fellows - Let Us Have Done with the Umbrella of our contagion
*Polmo Polpo - Farewell
Mum - A little bit, sometimes
Iron and Wine - Resurrection Fern
*Kinnie Starr - Grandma's Bicycle
*Bella - We Said Goodbye
*Basia Bulat - I was a Daughter
*Swan Lake - All Fires
Spoon - Rhythm & Soul
*Junior Pantherz - On and Off
The Grey Race - Dust
Chris Bathgate - A Flash of Light Followed by...

Halloween Playlist

Imogen Heap - Getting Scared
Chris Garneau - Halloween
Emily Jane Powers - Devil's Symphony
DJ Shadow - Giving up the Ghost
Explosions in the Sky - Welcome Ghosts
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Ghosts on the Radio
*Wolf Parade - Same Ghost Every Night
The White Stripes - Little Ghost
Emiliana Torrini - Dead Things
*Organ - No One Has Ever Looked So Dead
*The Luyas - Play Dead
Bjork - Play Dead
*The Dudes - Cup of Blood
Pixies - I Bleed
TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Cat Power - Werefolf
CocoRosie - Werewolf
Petra Haden - Thriller
Sufjan Stevens - They Are Zombies!! They are Neighbors!! They Have come back from the dead! Ahhh!!!!
*Tegan and Sara - Walking with a Ghost
*The North American Halloween Prevention Initiative - Do They Know it's Halloween?
*The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost
*Caroline Keating - Ghost
Badly Drawn Boy - Another Devil Dies

Spirits of the Dead (1827) by Edgar Allan Poe

(Since I didn't get around to reading it on air, here you go, in case you're interested)

Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy.

Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness–for then
The spirits of the dead, who stood
In life before thee, are again
In death around thee, and their will
Shall overshadow thee; be still.

The night, though clear, shall frown,
And the stars shall not look down
From their high thrones in the Heaven
With light like hope to mortals given,
But their red orbs, without beam,
To thy weariness shall seem
As a burning and a fever
Which would cling to thee for ever.

Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish,
Now are visions ne'er to vanish;
From thy spirit shall they pass
No more, like dew-drop from the grass.

The breeze, the breath of God, is still,
And the mist upon the hill
Shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken,
Is a symbol and a token.
How it hangs upon the trees,
A mystery of mysteries!

Tune in next week for a Hallowe'en-theme music special!

Oct 22, 2007

Sea Wolf - Black Dirt
*Octoberman - Run from Safety
*Shotgun Jimmie - Bedhead
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot (live)
*Bend Sinister - Yours Truly
*The Details - Underground
Boys Noize - Shine Shine
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart it Races, as played by Hey Willpower!
Eulogies - One Man
*Plants and Animals - A L'Oree Des Bois
*The Most Serene Republic - Present of Future End
Robert Wyatt - Just As You Are
*Peter Katz and the curious - I Do.
*The Superfantastics - The Only One I C++ is U++
*Bella - No One Will Ever Know
*The Luyas - Forget Penzance
*Lonely Hunters - For True
*Mathias Mental - 555LOVE
*Lesbians on Ecstasy - Sisters in the Struggle
*Wendy McNeil - Where the Living Was Wild
*Sunset Rubdown - Up on your Leopard, Upon the End of you Feral Days
Les Savy Fav - Come & Goes
*The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
*Basia Bulat - The Pilgriming Vine

October 15th, 2007

Let's Go Sailing - Come Home Safely
*Jorane - Stay
*Sarah Slean - Wilderness
*Ember Swift - H2O
Peggy Honeywell - Deadly Boredome
*Cuff the Duke - Blackheart
*Language. Arts. - Piece of the Pie
Anni Rossi - Machine
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - When You Go Out
*Pink Mountaintops - Erected
*The Paperbacks - Translations
Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko - Alien
Patrick Wolf - To the Lighthouse
The Beta Band - Round the Bend
Whitest Boy Alive - Inflation
*The Meligrove Band - Isle of Yew
*Benoit Pioulard - Sous La Plage
*Small Sins - Morning Face
Tunng - Surprise Me
Hot Chip - Arrest Yourself
Le Tigre - I'm So Excited
*The Stolen Monks - Fight!
Beirut - A Sunday Smile
Akron/Family - Running, Returning
*Ghost House - Origami Nightmare

October 8, 2007

The Mountain Goats - This Year
Cat Stevens - Father and Son
Dashboard Confessionals - A Plain Morning
*Carbon Dating Service - Gift Horse
*Bellevue - Pretend
*Share - Silhouette
Sahara Hotnights - Mind Over Matter
M.I.A. - World Town
*The Most Serene Republic - Sherry and her Butterfly
*Love and Mathematics - A Fight between a Crow and a Seagull
Eels - Going Fetal
Los Campesinos! - It started with a mixx
*Peter Elkas - Build a Harmony
*The Wet Secrets - Secret March
*Young Galaxy - Golden Coin
*Blue Sky Addicts - End of the Beginning
The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime #2
*Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow
The All Seeing I - The Beat Goes On
Paolo Nutini - Loving You
New Buffalo - Cheer Me Up Thank You
Blonde Redhead - Spring and by Summer Fall
*Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine
*Amy Seeley - Carriere
*Ora Cogan - China Doll

Oct 1, 2007

*Dan Mangan - Fabulous
*Carolyn Mark - Pink Moon and all the Ladies
*The Sadies - The Trial
*Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs - Footsteps
Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
*The Acorn - Glory
*Eekwol & Mils - The Tree
Billie Holiday (Lady Bug vs. Lady Day Remix) - Spreadin' the Rhythm
The Bird and the Bee - Polite Dance Song
The GO! Team - Grip Like a Vice
*The Doers - Art for $
Shout Out Louds - Normandie
Liars - Sailing to Byzantium
*The Clip - Darko
*6ixty8ights - And I walk
*The Russian Futurists - Precious Metals
*Remote Kid - Step
Chris Garneau - Baby's Romance
Mirah and the Spectratone International - Community
Tara Jane O'Neil - Partridge Song
*Wintersleep - Dead Letter and the Infinite Yes
The Shins - New Slang
Deerhoof - +81
*Girl Nobody - Sniffin' Glue
*Handsome Furs - Can not get started
White flight - The condition
*The Unicorns - Jellybones
The Cinematic Orchestra - Time and Space

The winner...

Patrick Watson's album 'Close to Pardise'

Sept 24 - Polaris Music Prize Nominees

On today's show, I played all 10 artists/albums nominated for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize. The winner will be announced tonight, so check out polarismusicprize.ca for more details. We started the show off with some of last year's nominees and the winner. Thanks again to everyone who donated to FM-phasis!

(2006 Polaris)
*Wolf Parade - It's a Curse
*The New Pornographers - Three or Four
*The Deadly Snakes - 200 Nautical Miles
*Final Fantasy - Many Lives > 49Mp (2006 Polaris Music Prize Winner)

(Other)
Knock Knock Ginger - (The tragic love affair of) Kasey and Jamie
Joanna Newsom - Peach Plum Pear

(2007 Polaris Nominees)
*Patrick Watson - Luscious Life
*The Dears - I Fell Deep
*Joel Plaskett Emergency - Nothing More to Say
*Junior Boys - The Equalizer
{*Etienne Rawlyk - Twinkle Twinkle Little Brown Star Fish. (This was just my 2-year-old nephew singing...he's just very cute, and was here visiting this weekend, and I'm a geek and recorded him.)}
*The Arcade Fire - Intervention
*Miracle Fortress - Have You Seen In You Dreams
*Chad Van Gaalen - Wing Finger
*Julie Doiron - The Wrong Guy
*The Besnard Lakes - Disaster
*Feist - The Water

Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life (Other)

Sept 17th - FM-Phasis

All artists this week were Canadian and members/guests of Broken Social Scene. Thank you to everyone who donated!

*Broken Social Scene - Windsurfing Nation
*Valley of the Giants - Westworld
*Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere
*Raising the Fawn - Top to Bottom
*The Dears - Fear Made the World Go 'Round
*Metric - Rock me now
*Emily Haines and the Soft Skeletons - The Lottery
*Fembots - the City
*Amy Milan - Baby I
*Stars - Look Up
*Reverie Sound Revue - the AM
*Bob Wiseman - two
*Do Make Say Think - In Mind
*the Hidden Cameras - The Fear is on
*Feist - 1234
*The Weakerthans - Hymn of Medical Oddity
*K-Os - CatDieseL

Sept 10, 2007

Chemical Brother - Hold tight London
Hot Chip - Boy from school
Bjork - Earth Intruders
Le Tigre - Don't Drink Poison
*Junior Boys - In the morning
Boy Kill Boy - On my own
*Wolf Parade - You're a runner and I am my father's son
Architecture in Helsinki - Hold Music
*Islands - Rough Gem
*K-os - The Rain
DJ Shadow - Building steam with a grain of salt
Pete Yorn - Vampyre
*Greatest Explorers in the World - The Matchlock gun
*Blinker the Star - Kiss me, I'm alive
*Destroyer - The way of perpetual roads
*Neil Young - Far from home
*The Sadies - Why be so curious
The Section Quartet - Crooked Frame
Bettie Seervert - Painted Word
*Jen Lane - coming down
Emiliana Torrini - Thinking out loud
*Parkas - filthy rich kids
The Notwist - Consequence
Yo La Tengo - Sometime I don't get you

September 03, 2007

*Moses Mayes - Being
*Shout Out Out Out Out - They tear down houses don't they?
Rinocerose - Le Rock Summer
!!! - heart of hearts
*Magneta Lane - 22
Yeah Yeah Yeah - Miles away
*Surface - September
Ella Fitzgerald - September Song
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - September
Raymond and Maria - Reden Idag
*Feist - I feel it all
Sister Vanilla - Pastel Blue
*Great Aunt Ida - Macarena
Rilo Kiley - Does he love you?
*Emm Gryner - Nowhere
*Coldcut - Man in a garage
*The Acorn - Plates and saucers
Pete Yorn - Splendid Isolation
*Pete Samples - Standing upon the shoulders of giants
Sufjan Stevens - We are what you say
*Broken Social Scene - hotel
Spoon - I turn my camera on
Tom Vek - CC (You set the fire in me)
Lou Reed - Perfect day
*Tegan and Sara - Relief next to me

August 29, 2007

*Girl Nobody - I'll Shake It
Tara Jane O'Neil - The Louder
Thievery Corporation - 'Desert' by Emilie Simon
*Junior Pantherz - Death by life
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
*Matthew Barber - We're Gonna Play
Annie - Helpless fool for love
*Bella - Didn't mean to break our love
Hot Chip - Over & Over
*P:Ano - ...says 'Round Ever Corner'
*Organ - Brother
*Bedouin Soundclash - Music my Rock
The Cribs - the Scenesters
Mirah and Spectratone International - luminescence
*Matt Mays - When the Angels Make Contact
*Adelade - All in due time
*Andrew Vincent - Brown Bike
Cat Power - Good Woman
*Caribou - Andorra
Nada Surf - Blankest Year
Ryan Adams - Come pick me up
Calexico - Wave
PJ Harvey - Oh My Lover
*Nathan - Stranger
Micheal Franti - Oh my God