Dec. 28 - The All-Canada show

Figured we may as well end the year celebrating the music of the Great White North.

Bedouin Soundclash – Dub in the Kalamegdan – Root Fire – Side One Dummy
Tea for the Voyage – Music Found Me – s/t

Destroy All Dreamers – Automne – Wish I Was All Flames – Where Are My
The Book of Lists – Lost Weekend – s/t – Scratch Recordings
Infighter – Silencer – s/t
Spygirl – Come Out to Play – Pieces of Evidence

Basia Bulat – December – Oh, My Darling – Hardwood
The Foreign Films – Distant Star – s/t
Wintermitts – Heartbeat – The Cascadia Fault
Young Galaxy – Wailing Wall – s/t – Arts & Crafts

The Locusts Have No King – Anna’s Smoke – s/t – Sturgeon
Dean Droulliard – What I’m Waiting For – Dust – 57 Songs
Citywide Vacuum – Circlops – Pact – Eleven37 Music

Slap [Unmodified] – Effexor Redux – Auto [repeat] – Architecture of Sound
Numéro# – Hit-Pop – L’idéologie des Stars – Saboteur
Chromeo – Fancy Footwork – Fancy Footwork – Last Gang
Omnikrom – Nahnahnahnah – Troupe Banane! – Saboteur

The Cliks – Soul Black Driver – Snakehouse – Kindling Music
Jets Overhead – Killing Time – Bridges – Microgroove
Certain Breeds – Cold Room – s/t – Global Symphonic

Death From Above 1979 – Blood On Our Hands – You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine –
You Say Party! We Say Die! – Monster – Lose All Time – Paper Bag

Dec. 21 - The Xmas show

Well, partly anyway...

The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir – This World Has No Place for Me – s/t – Bloodshot
Jarvis Cocker – From Auschwitz to Ipswich – Jarvis –

Six Organs of Admittance – Jade Like Wine – Shelter From the Ash – Drag City
Degenerate Art Ensemble – PNX – Cuckoo Crow – Tellous
Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer – Redemption Song – Unearthed – American
Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy – Daniel – The Brave and the Bold – Overcoat

The Most Serene Republic – Humble Peasants – Population – Arts & Crafts
The Winks – Slumber Party Let’s Go – “Birthday Party” – Ache
The Darcys – I’ve Been Sleeping – Endless Water –
Five Blank Pages – She Sleeps Soundly – Last Blush – City Mouse

Weird Al Yankovic – Christmas at Ground Zero – Dr. Demento’s Christmas Hits –
Fear – Fuck Christmas – Christmas Punk –
The Ramones – Mery Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) – Christmas Punk –
The Smugglers – Lonely Christmas – It’s a Team Mint Xmas, Vol. II! – Mint

AKIM & the Teddy Vann Production Company – Santa Claus is a Black Man – A John Waters Christmas – New Line
Tom Waits – Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis – Blue Valentine – Elektra
The Pogues – Fairytale of New York – If I Should Fall From Grace with God – Island
David Bowie and Bing Crosby – Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth

Small Sins – Airport – Mood Swings – Boompa
Static North – Westbound – s/t
HotKid – Get On the Road – Got It to Give – P572
Ancestors – Roman Numerals – s/t

The Murder City Devils – 364 Days – Thelema – Sub Pop
Klaus Nomi – Silent Night

Whatever you celebrate, have a good one!

Dec. 14 - the Monkey Day Show

Today's show is in honour of National Monkey Day, a holiday we can (or should, anyway) all get behind. 'Cause let's face it, monkeys make everything better.

Act 1: La nouvelle musique Canadienne
Spymachine 16 – For the Jocks Who Scream from Cars – How Things Come Apart –
Bang Lime – Kings & Queens – Best Friends in Love – Last Gang

The Love Machine – Godspeed – If You're a Bird –
The Barmitzvah Brothers – Trailblazer – Let's Expres Our Motives – Weewerk
Madcowboys – Gender Rolled – Baby Steps –
The Micronite Filters – Train Robbers – Part Two – Get Bent

The Diableros – No One Wants to Drive – Aren't Ready for the Country – Baudelaire
Certain Breeds – 2 a.m. – s/t – Global Symphonic
The Paperbacks – Things Get Abstract – An Illusion Against Death – Parliament of Trees
Pink Mountaintops – Erected – the CBC Radio 3 Sessions Volume III – CBC Radio 3

Act 2: Too Much Monkey Music
(bed) The Misfits – Kong at the Gates – Famous Monsters – Roadrunner
Big "T" Tyler – King Kong – Loud, Fast and Out of Control – Rhino
Tarantuala Ghoul & the Gravediggers – King Kong – Jungle Exotica – Strip
The Groovie Ghoulies – the King Kong Stomp – Monster Club – Springman
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki Mi O – Henry Lee single – Mute

J.C. Davis – Monkey – Jungle Exotica – Strip
The Meltdowns – Monkey Grip –
The Cramps – Monkey With Your Tail – Big Beat from Badsville – Vengeance
The Mummies – (You Must Fight to Live) On the Planet of the Apes – Death by Unga Bunga!! – Estrus
Deadbolt – October in Zimbabwe – Zulu Death Mask – Cargo/Headhunter

The Specials – Monkey Man – s/t – 2 Tone
The Tijuana Bibles – Gorilla Stomp – Apartment Wrestling – Trophy
Turbonegro – Monkey On Your Back – Apocalypse Dudes – Epitaph
Jughead – Monkey and the Hammer – Uncorked – On Tap

Don & Dewey – Koko Joe – Loud, Fast and Out of Control – Rhino
The Damned – Bad Time for Bonzo – The Collection – Castle Communications
The Ramones – My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg) – Hey Ho! Let's Go! – Rhino

Epilogue
Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - Rocket "88" - Loud, Fast and Out of Control

Dec. 7 - the mostly roots show

Los Perros del Pueblo Nuevo – Corrido de César Chávez – Rolas de Atzlán: Songs of the Chicano Movement – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Rodriguez y Gabriela – Vikingman – s/t – Rubyworks

Robert Plant and Alison Kraus – Killing the Blues – Raising Sand – Rounder
Neko Case – Wayfaring Stranger – The Tigers Have Spoken – Mint
Luke Doucet – Vanessa – Aloha, Manitoba – Six Shooter
Megan Hamilton – Saint Francis – How We Think About Light –

Emily Jane White – Sleeping Dead – Dark Undercoat – Double Negative
Flogging Molly – Within a Mile of Home – Within a Mile of Home – Side One Dummy
Dougie MacLean – Eternity – Live from Mountain Stage – Blue Plate Music
Andrew MacFayden – Dòmhnall Iain Duibh (Donald of Black John)

The Sadies – Yours to Discover – New Seasons – Outside
The Lonesome Valley Singers – There Are Ghosts in These Places – Corpse Circus Review – Self Righteous
Lee Hazlewood – Run Boy Run – Trouble is a Lonesome Town – Smells Like
Minnie Driver – King Without a Queen – Seastories – Trampoline

Emm Gryner – Southern Drreamer – Science Fair – Dead Daisy
Shivaree – Cold Blooded – Tainted Love: Mating Calls and Fight Songs – Zoe
Insurgent – Dissolving Behaviour – CBC Radio 3: New Music Canada vol. 1 – CBC

Einstürzende Neubauten – Alles Weider Offen – Alles Weider Offen – Ryko
The Tear Garden – LAMENT – Crystal Mass – Nettwerk
The Triffids – Tender is the Night (The Long Fidelity) – Born Sandy Devotional – Domino


Wax Mannequin – You and All Your Friends – CBC Radio 3 Presents: Breaking New Sound

Nov. 30

Martin Atkins China Dub Soundsystem – Tibetans Vs. Dirty Girl – Made In China – Bloodshot

Plasticines – Lost in Translation – LP1 – Caroline
The Libertines – Time For Heroes – Time for Heroes: The Best of – Rough Trade
Tokyo Police Club – Nature of the Experiment – A Lesson in Crime – Paper Bag (request)
Attack in Black – The Love Between You and I – Marriage – Dine Alone

The Foreign Films – Clouds Above Radio Towers – Distant Star
The 6ixty 8ights – Yes You Did – Pica Electric Armada – Back House
The Pipettes – ABC – We Are… - Cherrytree/Interscope
Pulp – Something Changed – Different Class – Island
Joy Division – These Days (live) – Closer – Rhino

Caribou – Skunks – Pink Room Session
Tea for the Voyage – A New Low – s/t
Go Ghetto Tiger – Tiger Park Motel – s/t
Infighter – The Actor – s/t

Sonic Youth – Kool Thing – Goo – Geffen (request)
The Afghan Whigs – Debonair – Unbreakable (A Retrospective 1990-2006) – Rhino
Calexico – Alone Again Or – Convict Pool – Quarterstick
New Order – Ceremony – Substance – Qwest (yeah, I know I played Joy Division and New Order in the same show… it's my show, you can't stop me!)

Joey Ramone – 1969 – Don't Worry About Me – Sanctuary
Iggy Pop – Funtime – The Idiot – Virgin
Brian Eno – Baby's On Fire – Here Come the Warm Jets – EK

Stars – Life Effect – Heart –
The Evaporators – St. Roch – Gassy Jack and Other Tales – Mint
The Evaporators – Nardwuar vs. Courtney – Gassy Jack and Other Tales - Mint