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This past month has been suboptimal at best. But hey at least the music was good! Here's hoping for better in August. Or maybe September.

1. King Creosote - For One Night Only
2. Owl John - Red Hand
3. Death From Above 1979 - Trainwreck 1979
4. Spoon - Rent I Pay
5. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Terrified
6. The Wooden Sky - Saturday Night
7. High Ends - Intoxicated
8. Cold Specks - Bodies At Bay
9. Perfume Genius - Queen
10. Black Rivers - The Ship
11. Tim Bowness - The Warm-Up Man Forever
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Hey, it's some music! Listen to it maybe!

1. Bear In Heaven - Autumn
2. The Phantom Band - The Wind That Cried the World
3. Strand Of Oaks - Same Emotions
4. Jenn Grant - Epic Sweep
5. PHOX - Slow Motion
6. Sia - Free The Animal
7. Kitten - Like a Stranger
8. Austra - Habitat
9. Young Fathers - Get Up
10. Sage Francis - The Place She Feared Most
11. James Black - Man from Mars
12. Fontarabie - Larve Humaine
13. Will Driving West - The Adventure
14. The Provincial Archive - Son…

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1. Gruff Rhys - American Exterior
2. Moist - Mechanical
3. Failure - Come Crashing
4. Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
5. The Beaches - Little Pieces
6. Charli XCX - Boom Clap
7. White Sea - Prague
8. Silkken Laumann - Obvious Water (Yer a kitten)
9. Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
10. Duologue - Bodylog
11. Owen Pallett - The Riverbed
12. Sea Wolf - Bergamot Morning
13. Early Winters - Love Won't Leave Me Alone
14. Telekinesis - This Time Tomorrow
15. Memorial Electric Co. - Trouble In Mind (Fade To Blue)

Mediafire.…

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April was a bit weak for new releases, though that's at least partly because I covered most of them last month and haven't had a lot of time to listen to music this month. The highlights for me were two Tragically Hip-related albums which are both more interesting than anything the Hip have done for a number of years. The extremely long-awaited collaboration between Gord Downie and the Sadies is a great little rock record and Justin Rutledge's album of Hip covers provides interesting re-interpretations of some classics while highlighting the strengths of the originals. And hey, the rest…

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1. Mounties - Pretty Respectable
2. Chad VanGaalen - Where Are You?
3. EMA - Satellites
4. Elephant - Assembly
5. Sia - Chandelier
6. Mr. Little Jeans - Good Mistake
7. Sisyphus - Lion's Share
8. Sage Francis - Vonnegut Busy
9. Wye Oak - The Tower
10. Sharon Van Etten - Taking Chances
11. Ladylike Lily - Bushrette
12. SOAK - Blud
13. Death Vessel - Mercury Dime
14. Jimi Goodwin - Oh! Whiskey
15. Timber Timbre - Run from Me

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Despite its status as the shortest month of the year, February was a banner month for new releases this year. I feel like I didn't have enough time to listen to any one album, as something new was coming out on a biweekly basis! I also found out last month that I missed out on a Faint single and EP in 2012, shortly before I discovered that they have a new album on the way. Exciting times! Their last album came out the year I started graduate school, so that provides my experience with some interesting musical bookends. The…

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New year! New happenings! And of course, new music! 2014 is off to a pretty great start with highly anticipated new releases from Damien Jurado and Beck, along with less-anticipated but still enjoyable offerings from Thumpers, Broken Bells, Alcest, and the Twilight Sad. There are a bunch of random covers on this mix for some reason, but aside from that it's more or less the usual vibe. I've had a rotating selection of songs in my head all day since listening to this during my run this morning so I must be doing something right here. Next month features…

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I found a lot of music to enjoy this year! If I was to narrow things down to a top three albums, I guess I'd go with Basia Bulat's Tall Tall Shadow, Frightened Rabbit's Pedestrian Verse, and The National's Trouble Will Find Me, but there were a lot of strong contenders. Rounding out my top ten would probably be releases from Austra, CHVRCHES, Haim, John Grant, No Bird Sing, Okkervil River, and Tegan and Sara. The rest of the mix includes three of my favourite songs of the year: the Pacific Rim theme (possibly my #1…

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Last mix of 2013! Except the forthcoming "best of." Hooray!

1. Farewell Dear Ghost - Fire
2. Jacquemort - Adieu Mes Chats
3. Matthew E. White - Big Love
4. Sage Francis - Blue
5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Hiding
6. Mr. Little Jeans - Oh Sailor
7. Charli XCX - SuperLove
8. Millicent - Longer
9. Mas Ysa - Why
10. Majical Cloudz - Childhood's End
11. Local Natives - Out Getting Ribs
12. Andy Shauf - Sweet Refugees
13. Okkervil River - Dance Hall Days
14. Low - Stay
15. Villagers & John Grant - My…

Sat 30 Nov – Basia Bulat, Evening Hymns

I missed Evening Hymns in Windsor last winter due to inclement weather so I was glad to hear that he was added to the Basia Bulat bill. Jonas was apparently quite sick at the time of performance, but you wouldn't have known it from listening to him. His voice was great and his playing seemed fine, anyway. The Spectral Dusk material sounded quite different due to the solo nature of the set, but it wasn't an unpleasant kind of different. The fancy looping made up for some of the sparseness, as well.…