Playlist for 24-April-2012

Who cares if its raining? It just gives you a good reason to stay inside and listen to great Canadian music. Here is what we listened to today: Lioness, The Golden Killer, Tastefully Obscure; The Archers, Much More Than Merry Men, The Sun Will Rise; Brother Octopus, Yukilo, Underwater Mysteries; Chains of Love, Strange Grey Days, Mistake Lover; Mon Electric Bijou, Terror at the Gates, Red Mascara; Teenage Kicks, Be On My Side, Shook Our Bones; Learning, Live in a Living Room, Guns Around Here; Paul Rushka Quintet, As It Happens, Indivisible; Elizabeth Shepherd, Rewind, Love for Sale; Leonard Choen, The Best of Leonard Cohen, Last Year's Man; A. David MacKinnon, The Past Is a Foreign Country, Time vs The Sylvan Apartments; Steph MacPherson, Bells & Whistles, Bent & Unkind; The Sturgeons, The Wood Shop, Get Over It; Stompin' Tom, Believe in Your Country, Alberta Rose; Linda McRae, Rough Edges & Ragged Hearts, Hope It Lasts Through Supper; The Gunsmith and Mohit, Conquest, Bollywood Star; Kashoo, Kashoo, Water Prayer; Alex Silas, Catania, Cigar Smoke; Perfeck Strangers, Series Premiere, Perfeck; Thanks for listening! Apologies for formatting of this entry - blogger has changed it's look, and mine along with it. Remember to read the info as Band name first, Album/CD title next, and finally the Song title. I'll try to get this properly formatted by next week. - Figgy -

Playlist for 17-Apr-2012

It's always planting season in the music industry (where the seeds for new songs are never far from the minds of musicians), and luckily it's also always spring, when the strains of new music bud to life and fill the air waves of the radio ... for you and I. Here's what we listened to today:
Rheostatics, Live 1993, Record Body Count;
The Seahags, Gospel, Rivers of Jordan;
Patrick Watson, Adventures In Your Own Back Yard, Step Out for a While;
Geist, Fissures, A Tonal Eclipse of the Sun;
The Now Feeling, The Now Feeling, War Song;
MKL, Roots, Tears in the Snow;
The Pygmies, The Pygmies, Death of the Party;
The Deadly Hearts, The Deadly Hearts, (Come Down Off Your) Space Horse;
Joel Miller, Swim, Teeter Totter;
Ralf Buschmeyer, Jazzspeak (3 Meetings with a Common Language), Black Babber;
Roger Chong, Send a Little Love, Laugh Out Loud;
Avi Granite's Verse, Snow Umbrellas, Wayne Winks At the Radio;
Clinton St. John, Storied Hearts and the Three Assimilations, Where Speeding Ships Pass;
John Carroll & The Epic Proportions, Everybody Smokes in Hell, Frontal Lobotomy Blues;
Lucky Sonne, Lucky Sonne, El Vagabondo;
Lucky Sonne, RR One, Jeannie (Love is not a Business);
Lucky Sonne, Trailer, You in the Dark;
Skydiggers, Northern Shore, Deep Water (31 Mile Lake);
Brandon Quigley, Thread, Old Oak Casks;
Radio Radio, Havre De Grȃce, Gong Hotel;
Pigeon Breeders, Nocturnal Reveries, Light Clutter;
Steve Strongman, Natural Fact, Haven't See It Yet;
The Lonesome Weekends, Songs from a Barstool, Tonight the Highway is Looking Good;
The Bitterweed Draw, Heart of the Old West, Leavin Hinton;

Thanks for supporting community/campus radio by listening to the awesome programs available to you right here on CJSR (88.5 fm in Edmonton, www.cjsr.com around the globe).

Playlist for 10-Apr-12

Some days just conspire to give you beautiful music and beautiful weather, such as today. Here's what happened today, conspiring for such a great show:
The Counters, This Doesn't Mean We're Friends, Death Won't Slow Me Down;
Rick Reid, Reid Sings Loree, Money Tree;
Ken Tizzard with Bad Intent, The Goodness of Bad Intent Vol.II, If You Were Wrong;
Foam Lake, Force and Matter, Baggage;
The Just Barelys, Mad Bits, Ok Yeah Ok;
Elfin Saddle, Devastates, The Power and The Wake;
Camouflage Nights, Camouflage Nights, United Airlines;
Kirk & Dreamaura, Interesting Strange...ers, Omninaut;
Bocce, Future 1.0, X-Ray Specs;
Mr. Lucky, Coming Home, Blues Jones;
Brandon Isaak, Bluesman's Plea, A Little Wine;
Guitar Not So Slim, Bailout, You Call It Lazy;
Harpdog Brown with Graham Guest, Naturally, Ain't Misbehavin';
Benoit Delbecq & Francois Houle, Because She Hoped, Because She Hoped;
Karl Jannuska, The Halfway Tree featuring Sienna Dahlen, Million Miles Away;
The October Trio, New Dream, You've Been Flirting Again;
Graham Nicholas, Bury Me Beneath the Dance FLoor, Bury Me Beneath the Dance Floor;
Eric Bickerstaffe, New Day, From the Shore;
J.R. Louis, Talk is Cheap, Whiskey Costs Money; Where's My City;
Ewan Dobson III, Ewan Dobson III, The Pickle Jar;
Sweet Alibi, Sweet Alibi, Trial;
Rose Cousins, We Have Made a Spark, The Shell;
Petunia & The Vipers, Petunia & The Vipers, The Cricket Song;

Live music extends life expectancy ... and don't forget to dance!

Playlist for 03-Apr-12

Great music and Canada make such a good pairing, it's like choosing the right wine to go with your entree - Sooooo tasty!!!!!
Here's what we listened to today:
Yukon Blonde, Tiger Talk, Radio;
Ghost House, The Present Tense, Not Everything Ends;
Money in the Banana Stand, Giant Steps II, Korean Radio Blues;
Ariane Moffatt, Ma, In Your Body; (Figgy's comment: shades of Lisa DalBello)
Safety Show, O'Burro, Dive;
Silent Movie Type, Broken Horses, Lungs;
Alistair Christl, 8 Songs by Alistair Christl, Troubles to the Train;
Thea Neumann, Lady and the Tramps, Convenience Store;
James Danderfer Trio, Swingin' at the Patricia, Swingin' at the Patricia;
James Danderfer Trio, Swingin' at the Patricia, The Song I Wrote For You;
Karl Jannuska, The Halfway Tree, Four Leaf Clover;
Thea Neumann, Lady and the Tramps, Vancouver;
Colleen Brown, Foot in Heart, New Perfume;
Dwayne Cannan, All Those Years, The Cheapest Drink Around;
Canary Mine, Between a Rock and a Heartybreak, Orion's Belt;
Leonard Cohen, Old Ideas, Come Healing;
Price, Light Work, Ear to the Streets;
TGramz, Built 4 Tha Streetz, Tha Game;

Plus we listened to about 20 minutes of an interview with Corin Raymond - the Canadian Tire Money guy - You can hear another clip from this interview on Thursday's Soul of the City at noon on www.cjsr.com or 88.5fm, and I will also play the second half next week.
Thanks for listening!!