Green Eggs and Ham: Election Week 2

Another show by the seat of my pants, delving sporadically into the in-station library mid-show more than I have for a long time. But sometimes that's when it all comes together, with musical genres overlapping until the show as a whole is like a musical melting pot; a whirlwind two hours of music that I hope feels like a guided tour of quality creative expression. Or it's just a bunch of songs. Whatever. Here's the playlist:


The Black Angels - "Entrance Song"
The Hold Steady - "Barely Breathing"
Camp Radio - "Alone In A Tent"
Malajube - "Le Blizzard"
Quaker Parents - "Teeshirt"
Twin Sister - "Space Babe"
Ryan Adams - "Rocks"
Poler Bear - "Parachute"
Fleet Foxes - "The Shrine / An Argument"
Marine Dreams - "Visions"
Snailhouse - "Sentimental Gentleman"
Grimes - "Oblivion"
Daft Punk - "Encom Part 2" (Com Truise remix)
Born Gold - "Decimate Everything"
Chixdiggit - "Miso Ramen"
Bayonets!!! - "Space Agency"
Many Metal Mistakes - "Death Proof"
Male Bonding - "Carrying"
B.A. Johnston - "Pep and Ched"
The Cover Girls - "Show Me"   *this week's Slice Of Cheese
Teenburger - "Kill Lincoln" (feat. D-Sisive)
Siskiyou - "Twigs And Stones"
Greg MacPherson - "Ukrainians"
Octoberman - "The Years"
Adam & The Amethysts - "Canadian Tired"

Green Eggs and Ham: Election Week 1

A week off for a rejuvenating house concert with Paper Beat Scissors and Terra Lightfoot, a new job for the provincial election, and here we are: I'm busy and tired as hell. This week's show was fun, though. Everything kind of clicked into place. Here's the playlist:


Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans - "Fell Off The Dock"
The Dodos - "Sleep"
Man Your Horse - "Grass Baskets"
David Francey - "Yesterday's News"
White Ash - "Katie Cruel"
Feist - "Bittersweet Melodies"
Sandro Perri - "Love & Light"
Jason Collett - "The Slowest Dance"
Michael Rault - "The Things You Said"
Feral Children - "Magic Sacred Ritual"
S.C.U.M. - "Amber Hands"
Surfer Blood - "Miranda" (SVIIB Exhalation Remix)
Karlsson & Winnberg - "The Dance"
Casiokids - "Det haster!"
The Barr Brothers - "Beggar in the Morning"
Bruce Peninsula - "Chupacabra"
Aaron Hall - "Curiosity"   *this week's Slice Of Cheese
Socalled - "Work With What You Got"
Painted Palms - "Water Hymn"
The Darcys - "Shaking Down The Old Bones"
Dive - "Sometime"
Ohbijou - "Iron and Ore"

Green Eggs and Ham: Panties by Request

Nothing says "busy life" like an extremely late blog post that amounts to not much more than a copy-and-paste job and little bit of commentary, right? Well, it's been busy. What with all the CFCR-sposored FM-phasis shows, working, and otherwise being lazy, I'm finding it hard to find time for the cool stuff, like this (oh yeah, you can also see what else has been occupying my time at unrealcity.ca). This week was week 2 of FM-phasis, and I actually got 2 (2!) calls from people making pledges. One was a pay-for-play request (that sounds bad, doesn't it?), so I played "Bargain! Shop Panties" by SK's Little Miss Higgins (also Santigold for the other pledge). The rest of the playlist is below:

Blue Peter - "Radio Silence"

Wild Beasts - "Thankless Thing"

The Lazy MK's - "Sled Dogs"

Music Explosion - "A Little Bit O' Soul"

The Beatles - "Money (That's What I Want)"

Beach House - "Walk In The Park"

Les Jupes - "Someone Lit A Fire Under Khruschev"

Hollerado - "Riverside"

SebastiAn - "Embody"

Little Miss Higgins - "Bargain! Shop Panties"

Pat Jordache - "Radio Generation"

The Weather Station - "Everything I Saw"

National Parks Project (Old Man Luedecke, Tony Dekker, Daniela Gesundheit) - "Listen And Profit" 

Corey Hart - "Never Surrender"   *this week's Slice of Cheese

Smith Westerns - "End of the Night"

Dan Mangan - "Post-War Blues"

Blitzen Trapper - "Street Fighting Sun"

Santigold - "L.E.S. Artistes"

Green Eggs and Ham: I can't FM-phasize this enough!

Trying desperately to get pledges this morning (as part of the annual funding drive FM-Phasis), I came up with bupkis (except a $75 donation from... my dad). I even had concert tickets (Ghostkeeper! PS I Love You!) to give away... no taker. Oh well, tomorrow is another day. This show also saw my tributes to C'mon, who just announced they are breaking up, and Arcade Fire for their Polaris win, in the form of the Cadence Weapon song "The Suburbs". Here's the playlist:


Share - "Awake At Dawn"
Dawn Golden & Rosy Cross - "White Sun"
Drive-By Truckers - "The Living Bubba"
Arctic Monkeys - "Don't Sit Down 'Caus I've Moved Your Chair"
Jason Bajada - "Panama"
The Drums - "Book Of Revelation"
The Danks - "No Radio"
Jeans Boots - "Money"
LOOM - "Wholesome"
N.A.S.A. - "Money"
Active Child - "Ivy"
Cadence Weapon - "The Suburbs"
Rebekah Higgs - "Lazy Mornings"
Blood Orange - "Sutphin Boulevard"
Ghostkeeper - "By Morning"
Mr. Mister - "Hunters of the Night"   *this week's Slice of Cheese
PS I Love You - "Starfield"
C'mon - "From Where We Started"
Adam and the Amethysts - "Gitchee Gumee Yeah Yeah"
The Beets - "Doing As I Do"
Nordic Nomadic - "Bite To Chew"

Green Eggs and Ham: Tales of Future Past

This morning's show was spent examining the growth of different bands over their careers, in a "then-and-now" 2-song format. 'Twas fun. I made sure to take a dance break (during which Peter Henderson tapped me on the shoulder, causing me to shit myself), but otherwise it was an all-nostalgia trip down memory lane. Plus, Weird Al. Awesome. Here's the playlist:


Sloan - "Beverly Terrace"
Sloan - "Pretty Voice"
Radiohead - "Codex"
Radiohead - "Bones"
The Deep Dark Woods - "Sugar Mama"
The Deep Dark Woods - "This Town Has Got Me Down"
Junior Boys - "Neon Rider"
Junior Boys - "Banana Ripple"
The Dears - "Autonomy"
The Dears -  "Stick w/ Me Kid"
Siriusmo - "Fermonikon"
Young Galaxy - "Cover Your Tracks" (Dunez remix)
New Look - "The Ballad"
R.E.M. - "Überlin"
R.E.M. - "I Am Superman"
Shuyler Jansen - "Wedding Band"
Old Reliable - "Forever In Blue"
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Whatever You Like"   *this week's Slice Of Cheese
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "This Is The Life"         *this week's other Slice
Hey Rosetta! - "Seventeen"
Hey Rosetta! - "Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Memphis - "What Is This Thing Called?"
Memphis - "East Van"

Green Eggs and Ham: Flirting with the Locals

A two-hour chunk of good times this morning. Tipped the hat off to newly christened Born Gold, played songs sung in French (Yelle) and Finnish (Regina) and managed to fit in 3 local acts without even trying. The Flirts took a turn at being Slice Of Cheese with the full 12" mix of their song Danger, and Madam Raz from Kingston, ON truly impressed. Here's the playlist:


Mother Mother - "Original Spin"
Handsome Furs - "Memories of the Future"
Yelle - "C'est pas un vie"
Memoryhouse - "Sleep Patterns"
Regina - "Unessa"
Brock Tyler - "Because You Live"
Ha Ha Tonka - "Lonely Fortunes"
The Karpinka Brothers - "Tether Ball"
Bruce Peninsula - "Salesman"
Elliott Brood - "Owen Sound"
Jacuzzi Boys - "Libras and Zebras"
Father Figures - "Are You Dead"
M83 - "Midnight City" (Big Black Delta Remix)
Junior Boys - "Banana Ripple" (Stay+ Remix)
Born Gold - "Alabaster Bodyworlds"
Madam Raz - "Kingston Smell"
Slow Animal - "Heatwave"
Male Bonding - "What's That Scene?"
Zammuto - "Yay"
Reform Party - "The Cables"
The Flirts - "Danger"     *this week's Slice of Cheese
Digitalism - "Forrest Gump"
Obits - "Everything Looks Better In The Sun"
The Golden Seals - "The Year Things Fell Apart"
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - "Asking Price"
The Antlers - "French Exit"
Ringo Deathstarr - "Imagine Hearts"

Today's Tune: Sea Oleena - "Milk"

I admittedly know very little about Montreal's Sea Oleena. I know her name is Charlotte. I know she makes ethereal tunes that punch you in the solar plexus, leaving you breathless. I know her song "Milk", my favourite from her EP Sleeplessness, is a heady mixture of hip-hop-worthy swagger and drawing-room piano. I know she is touring with BRAIDS, which will see her gracing the stage of the Roxy Theatre on September 18th. I also know I have a crush on this music.