The Last Rheostatic Set Lists

Well a few details have come out from the last Rheostatics shows Thanks to the Rheosatic email list, Fish Mailin', here are the set lists from the final two shows.

First the set list from The Horseshoe on Thursday

Harmelodia
Aliens (1988) w/ Ardening quotes
Intro Happiness
Christopher
King of the Past
PIN
Mumbletypeg#
Pornography
In This Town
Loving Arms
Wendel Clark*
Song of Flight
Song of the Garden
Radio In Motion >
Blinded WIth Science
Big Leagues (Tom Cochrane)>
Queer>
Saskatchewan (almost 1/2 speed)>
Queer
Chad Krueger AD? (new Dave song about Nickelback and Stephen Harper)
My First Rock Show
The Enemy (DOA)
encore 1
We Went West
Joey 2
Self Serve Gas Station
encore 2
Michael Jackson
Green Sprouts Theme
encore 3
Legal Age Life w/ Peter Elkas, Ben Gunning and no Martin who was having a beer and a chat at the back of the bar for this encore4
Stolen Car
Northern Wish acoustic


# Tim "calling out the chords"
* w Vancouver Town full verse

Now the set list from the final show at Massey Hall on Friday

Saskatchewan
Me & Stupid
Bad Time to be Poor
P.I.N.
Mumbletypeg
IT
Christopher
King of the Past
Northern Wish (Dave Clark on drums, Don Kerr on cello)
Easy To Be With You (DC drums, DK cello)
My First Rock Show
We Went West
Aliens
Feed Yourself
Making Progress
Shaved Head
When Winter Comes

E1:
Self Serve Gas Station>
California Dreamline
Claire (with Chris Brown)
Horses
Stolen Car>
Rock Death America
Dopefiends and Boozehounds>Alomar>Dopefiends

E2:
Legal Age Life
Record Body Count

Sweet Static: The Radio Edition Download For March 30

This is this week's show. The first thirty minutes of the show starts roughly halfway through the first link. The last hour of the show is complete on the second link.

For the complete playlist of the show click here.

Sweet Static-First Thirty Minutes
Sweet Static-Last Hour

The link will be available for thirty days from the original air date.

Sweet Static Playlist 3/30-Rheostatics Tribute Show

Yes today was the all Rheostatics show. Lots of rare stuff and lots I didn't even get to. Probably going to play a couple of more songs next week that I really wanted to play. Thanks to Dave Ullrich for joining the show to talk about The Secret Sessions. I'll post the links for the show later for those who wish to download it.

Voting for the annual CJAM Jammy Awards are now open. Sweet Static is up for best Indie/Rock Show. Go here to check it out and vote.

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

Rheostatics-Crescent Moon from Greatest Hits (DROG-1993) cc
Rheostatics-My Generation from Rare on Rheostatics Live mp3 cc
Rheostatics-Woodstuck from Moose: The Compilation (Moose-1991) cc
Rheostatics-Making Progress from 2067 (True North-2004) cc r
Cuff The Duke-Claire from The Secret Sessions: Rheostatics Tribute (Zunior-2007) cc *
Rheostatics-Green Sprouts from The Whale Music Concert (Zunior-2005) cc
Rheostatics-Crystal Soup from Green Sprouts Meet Xmas Brown on Rheostatics Archive mp3 cc
Rheostatics-RDA (Rock Death America) from CBC Realtime Session on Rheostatics Live cc mp3
Rheostatics-Desert Island Discs from Double Live (DROG-1998) cc
Rheostatics w/Gordon Downie & Ron Sexsmith-Take Me In Your Hand from CBC Realtime Session on Rheostatics Live cc mp3
Rheostatics-The Pooby Song from The Nightlines Session (DROG-1997) cc
Rheostatics-Torque Torque from Whale Music Soundtrack (Sire-1994) cc
Rheostatics-Bad Time To Be Poor from No Mega-CD (No Megacity) (Protest Boy-1997) cc mp3
Rheostatics-Me And Stupid from Introducing Happiness (Sire-1994) cc
Rheostatics-Joey II from Green Sprouts Meet Xmas Brown on Rheostatics Live mp3 cc

Interview with Dave Ullrich (Zunior)

Wooden Stars-Saskatchewan from The Secret Sessions: Rheostatics Tribute (Zunior-2007) cc *
Rheostatics-Horses from Melville (Intrepid-1991) cc
Rheostatics-You Are Very Star from Melville (Intrepid-1991) cc

Sweet Static: The Radio Edition Download For March 23

So of course after saying I was going to make a point of posting the link to my show each week I totally let it slide. Hopefully better late then never.

This is last Friday's show. The first thirty minutes of the show starts roughly halfway through the first link. The last hour of the show is complete on the second link.

For the complete playlist of the show click here.

Sweet Static-First Thirty Minutes
Sweet Static-Last Hour

The link will be available for thirty days from the original air date.

More Rheostatics Links And Don't Forget Dave Ullrich Interview Today

Well today is the big day. The final Rheostatics show tonight at Massey Hall. A few more interesting stuff has popped up around the internet.

Over at radio free canuckistan, the last two installments are up of the excerpts from Have Not Been The Same. Also there are interviews with Dave Bidini from the end of last year, which I mentioned before but not as much as I thought I had. Anyways they're definitely worth looking at go into the ending of the band. All the links below

-Have Not Been The Same part 3
-Have Not Been The Same part 4
-Dave Bidini interview part 1
-Dave Bidini interview part 2

Eye Magazine also had a really nice write up, basically an obituary for the band as well as words of appreciation from some famous friends and fans including Feist, Justin Rutledge, Hawksley Workman and John Southworth.

-Part one is the write up
-Part two is the testimonials

Lastly don't forget that Dave Ullrich of Zunior will call in on today's radio edition of the show to talk about The Secret Sessions: Rheostatics Tribute. It will happen around 11am EST. You can listen in live at the CJAM website.

To get you in the mood enjoy this Inbreds classic.

The Inbreds-Round 12 (Live, Calgary 2/97)

As for Rheostatics posts there will probably only be one or maybe two more from me. Probably a post-show wrap up and then one last big, personal one.

The Besnard Lakes In Windsor This Friday

While part of me wishes I was in Toronto this Friday, I am happy that there are a couple of kick ass shows in Windsor.

Current buzz band, The Besnard Lakes, will be playing at The Avalon Front along with The Golden Hands Before God Conducts Incredible Magic Band & The Spirits. There's another show that I'm considering going to (will post on that later) but this should be an amazing show.

To get you into the mood here's a track from The Besnard Lakes album Are The Dark Horse

The Besnard Lakes-"And You Lied To Me"

Interview With D.A. Pennebaker Online

This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show had a second guest (besides Dave Bidini) as filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker joined them. They discussed his 1965 Bob Dylan documentary, Bob Dylan Don’t Look Back, which has just been released on DVD as a deluxe edition.

The interview will be archived for the next thirty days and starts right after the news.

Interview with D.A. Pennebaker

Sweet Static Rheostatic Tribute This Friday To Include Interview With Dave Ullrich

I am happy to announce that this week's radio editon of Sweet Static, which I previously announced would be an all Rheostatics tribute, will also have a live interview with Dave Ullrich.

Dave is of course a former member of The Inbreds, now in Egger, founder of Zunior and was behind the The Secret Sessions: Rheostatics Tribute.

The interview will take place around 11am EST on CJAM 91.5 in Windsor/Detroit. Sweet Static runs from 10:30 to noon and can be streamed online at the CJAM website.

Interview With Dave Bidini Online

This week on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show their guest was Dave Bidini of the Rheostatics to talk about the band's last show at Massey Hall this Friday. If you're a fan of the band it's a definite must listen.

Interview with Dave Bidini

The interview will be up for thirty days from today and starts about half way through the file.

Today's Rheostatic Post

Wednesday is my really busy day (in real life) so probably not too much today Rheostatic-wise. Today some links to great stuff on the internet.

In honour of the last Rheostatics show, CBC has a a photo gallery up with some great pictures of the band spanning the years. Definitely worth seeing and you can check it out here.

For a comprehensive history of the band (well comprehensive up to 2001) you can see Exclaim Magazine's Timeline story here.

Lastly I'm going to point the way to one of my favorite articles of the band of all time. It was originally printed in ID Magazine from 1999 by Michael Barclay of radio free canuckistan. I have a whole bunch of articles I kept over the years and started a website to put them up (Rheostatics Media Archive). I stopped putting stuff up (as well as collecting them). Maybe I'll go back some day and put new stuff up. For now though you should read "License To Confuse" here.

Hopefully more later today (the very least the link to the Dave Bidini interview from CFRU)

Rheostatics-Realtime Session (CBC-1997)

Back again today with one of my favorite Rheostatics shows ever. But first over at radio free canuckistan, part two of the Have Not Been The Same excerpt has been posted along with a review of the Rheostatics show in Waterloo from Sunday. You can read part two right here.

Now a few words on the Realtime session from March of 1997. Realtime was one of the many shows CBC Stereo (later to be known as CBC 2) would use on Saturday night to try and get young people to watch. In 1997, during Canadian Music Week they invited the Rheostatics to do an hour and they in turn brought some of their friends. Those friends would include Kevin Hearn, Tamara Williamson, Gordon Downie, Guh and Ron Sexsmith.

The session was amazing. Some surprising choices ("Onilley's Strange Dream" for sure) and great collaborations. I used to have this on tape but misplaced it over the years. Thankfully it was put up on the Rheostatics Live Archive and I've been able to enjoy it once again. Now is your chance to get this show that is highly recommended.

Here's the set list for the show.

01. Intro 0:57
02. Bad Time To Be Poor 4:10
03. Morotino 4:26
04. R.D.A. 3:28
05. Banter 1:11
06. Sweet Rich Beautiful Mine 5:35
07. Every Irrelevance 4:56
08. Something To Cry About 5:22
09. Take Me In Your Hand 3:23
10. So Young, So Young 4:28
11. More Banter 1:02
12. Onilley's Strange Dream 6:16
13. Dopefiends And Boozehounds 8:03
14. Song Of Flight 0:51

To download the Rheostatics' Realtime Session click here.

You can also get it the Realtime session at the Rheostatics Live Archive here.

Rheostatics Week Continues

Well today a rare song, an upcoming interview and a book excerpt as the Rheostatics farewell countdown continues.

First the interview. This week on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show, Rheostatic Dave Bidini will be on talking about the last show. The interview will take place around 7:30 am this Wednesday on CFRU. I'll provide the link after the interview. For full details go here.

Next the excerpt. At radio free canuckistan, Michael Barclay has an excerpt from his amazing book he co-wrote, Have Not Been The Same, from the Rheostatics chapter. It's a four part post and part one can be seen here.

Lastly the rare song. One of the biggest Rheostatics hits would have to be "Bad Time To Be Poor". Originally on The Blue Hysteria album, it came during Mike Harris and the PC "Common Sense Revolution". People were hurting and the song struck a nerve. At the same time the Ontario government was in the middle of merging all the municipalities of Toronto into the "Mega City". Lots of people didn't like the idea and a benefit album came out to fight it, No Mega-CD, in 1997. On it was a new version of "Bad Time To Be Poor". Not really circulated much I'm sharing it here with you all. Just a straight up mp3 on YouSendIt and the link is below.

Rheostatics-"Bad Time To Be Poor" No Mega-CD version

Back tomorrow with another Rheostatics post.

The New Zunior Compilation Available

Three cheers for the great Zunior compilations that come every two weeks and are free. Nothing better then free music. Anyways this one is pretty sweet. Lots of classic CanCon (Rheostatics, Inbreds, Superfriendz) and some cool new stuff (Clark The Band, Matt Mays, Shout Out Out Out Out). Here's the full listing.

1 Stuck For The Summer - Two Hours Traffic Isolator Two Hours Traffic
2 Girls And Their Boys - The Super Friendz Love Energy Outside Music
3 The Inbreds - Dope Fiends and Booze Hounds - Listen! The Inbreds The Secret Sessions Zunior Label
4 Fish For Friends - CLARK the band Terra Incognita Zunior Label
5 Forever Indebted - Shout Out Out Out Out Not Saying Just Saying Normals Welcome
6 Skipping Stone - The Straggler Torches etc. The Straggler
7 the round-up - Nick Zubeck Hiding Out And Laying Low Nick Zubeck
8 Dust - Ghosts of Modern Man City of No Light Smallman
9 Downtown - Matt Mays Matt Mays Sonic Records
10 Satan is the Whistler - Rheostatics Night of the Shooting Stars Rheostatics

For full details on how to get it go here.

Where To Find SXSW Music

Just thought I'd try to spread the word of a couple of very cool things having to do with the just past SXSW Conference. If you're like me (poor) and couldn't make it to the conference, you had to live vicariously through other sources out there. It was hectic, a lot of bands and a lot of blogs posting stuff. Well now a couple of great sites have helped to ease the confusion.

Largehearted Boy has a page of links to live shows from SXSW, both downloadable and streams. Go here for the full list (that's updated) of acts.

A few of the listings comes from Lulla Byes. On this site they have a bunch of live recordings (going back over the years). From the 2007 SXSW I've checked out The Pippettes recording and it's really fun and recommended.

Rheostatics Week Continues-Green Sprouts Meet Xmas Brown

More Rheostatics stuff now. Thanks to the Rheostatics Live website I was able to reacquaint with the Green Sprouts Meet Xmas Brown tape from 1991. I'm not totally sure of the history of the release but I believe it was a tape, given out to fans in the band's fan club.

Here's the track listing.

01. Crystal Soup (Brave New Waves - Feb 88) 3:37
02. Victoria/Xmas Brown/Stoner Guy/It (CIUT-FM - Dec 89) 5:07
03. What's Going On (The Lab - Oct 88) 4:06
04. The Uptake (Vancouver? - Nov 87) 4:38
05. Sammy's Tiny Fish Market (Tim's Bedroom in Etobicoke - Aug 90) 4:08
06. Woodstuck (Profile Studios Vancouver - Mar 88) 2:35
07. Palomar w/ Tannis Slimmon (Uncle Lew's Sound Emporium - May 90) 4:02
08. Beerbash (Ultrasound Showbar - May 91) 6:08
09. Dope Fiends and Booze Hounds (Royal Albert Hotel - Jul 87) 3:28
10. Interview w/ Jeff Edwards (Coast to Coast CBC - May 91) 1:49
11. Melvilliodramatus (Louis Melville - Mar 91) 1:42
12. Joey Two w/ Steve Woeller, Steve Andrews, and Charlie the Talking Dog(Louis Melville - Jul 90) 3:37

For the Rheostatics Live write up on this go here. You can also download there. I've also uploaded it myself (to save them bandwith) as a zip file on Rapidshare, link below.

Green Sprouts Meet Xmas Brown

Rheostatics Last Show Countdown

With the last Rheostatics show coming up this Friday at Massey Hall in Toronto expect a lot of post this week based on the band. Going to be a mix of videos, stuff from my collection and also some things from the Rheostatics Live Archive.

Today just going to simple with a couple of excellent vidoes.

First off is one for "The Tarleks" feauturing Frank Bonner himself from WKRP.



Next up is "P.I.N", one of my favorite songs from their later years.

Sweet Static Playlist 3/23

Voting for the annual CJAM Jammy Awards are now open. Sweet Static is up for best Indie/Rock Show. Go here to check it out and vote.

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

Final Fantasy-This Is A Dream Of Win & Regine from Has A Good Home (Blocks-2005) cc
Rock Plaza Central-Que Sara from Quantum Butterass (indie-1997) cc
Wayne Petti-Price To Pay from City Lights Align (Outside-2007) cc *
Alun Piggins-Girl Inside from Awaken The Snakes (AML-2003) cc
Son Volt title track from The Search (Columbia Legacy-2007) *
The Arcade Fire-No Cars Go from Neon Bible (Merge-2007) cc *
Peter Elkas title track from Wall Of Fire (Maple-2007) cc *
The National-Fake Empire from An Aquarium Drunkard mp3

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (covers)
Gillian Welch-Black Star (Radiohead) from An Aquarium Drunkard mp3
The Folk Yous-Don't Cry (Guns N' Roses) from Cable & Tweed mp3
Iron & Wine-Love Vigilantes (New Order) from Berkeley Place mp3

Nathan Coles Outfit-Wife from Twelve Upheavals The Brought The Redwoods To Flight (indie-2005) cc
The Shaky Hands-The Sleepless from Cable & Tweed mp3
Great Lake Swimmers-I Am Part Of A Large Family from Ongiara (Nettwerk-2007) cc *
The Avett Brothers-Die Die Die from Songs: Illinois mp3
Jim Bryson-Death By Vibration from Where The Bungalows Roam (Kelp-2007) cc *
From The Secret Sessions: Rheostatics Tribute (Zunior-2007) cc
-Wooden Stars-Saskatchewan
-Kate Fenner and Tony Scherr-Stolen Car
Black Cabbage-Kelly Liked To Spin from self-titled record (DROG-1993) cc
The Neutron Stars-So Sick From Home's Not Where The Heart Is (indie-2003) cc
Henri Faberge & The Adorables-Ventriloquist Love from self-titled album (indie-2006) cc
The Bicycles-Gotta Get Out from The Good The Bad The Cuddly (Fuzzy Logic-2006) cc
Geoff Berner-Good Luck Now from The Wedding Dance Of The Widow Bride (Jericho Beach-2007) cc *

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois For March 23

Every week on the radio editon of Sweet Static on CJAM 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit, I have the Sweet Static Menage A Trois. Three cover songs that I play and then also put them up here on the blog for download.

As always the songs are in a zip file together on Rapidshare.

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (covers)
Gillian Welch-Black Star (Radiohead) from An Aquarium Drunkard mp3
The Folk Yous-Don't Cry (Guns N' Roses) from Cable & Tweed mp3
Iron & Wine-Love Vigilantes (New Order) from Berkeley Place mp3

To get the Sweet Static Menage A Trois for March 23 go here.

The Menage A Trois can be heard on the Sweet Static radio editon every Friday around 11am on CJAM 91.5 FM.

Interview With Peter Elkas Online

This week's guest on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show was Peter Elkas, formerly of Local Rabbits. He was on to talk about his new album, Wall Of Fire.

Interview with Peter Elkas

The interview will be for thirty days from yesterday (check the date stamp if you're reading this in the future) from the CFRU archive.

Canadian Campus Radio Chart For March 20

Here are the Canadian campus radio charts for the week ending March 20 from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA.

1 Do Make Say Think You, You're A History In Rust Constellation
2 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
3 Apostle Of Hustle National Anthem Of Nowhere Arts & Crafts
4 Julie Doiron Woke Myself Up Endearing
5 Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse Jagjaguwar
6 You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time Paper Bag
7 Peter, Bjorn And John Writer's Block Almost Gold
8 Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara Nettwerk
9 Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Polyvinyl
10 !!! Myth Takes Warp

For the whole national chart go here.

Now the CJAM chart.

1 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
2 Land Of Talk Applause Cheer Boo Hiss Dependent Music
3 Measured In Angles History Of The Engine Tragicomedy
4 Fjord Rowboat Saved The Compliments For Morning Independent
5 The Stooges The Weirdness EMI
6 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver DFA/EMI
7 You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time Paper Bag
8 The (International) Noise Conspiracy Live At Olso Jazz Festival Alternative Tentacles
9 Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Polyvinyl
10 Do Make Say Think You, You're A History In Rust Constellation

For the entire CJAM chart go here.

Time To Vote For The CJAM Jammy Awards

It's time for the annual CJAM Jammy Awards where the station that I'm a part of celebrates each and every year.

The Sweet Static radio show is up for best Indie Rock Show.

If you are interested in voting you can go here.

The actual awards take place on April 14 at The Avalon Front with DJs and live music.

Voting closes April 6.

Rheostatics Tribute Show In Toronto This Friday

Got this email last night and thought I'd share it since I know I've gotten some hits on here lately with the last Rheostatics show coming up. Anyways as the subject says, there's a Rheostatics tribute show this Friday in Toronto. Here's all the details.

Todd Bruder and Last minute productions present

A mighty little tribute to


THE RHEOSTATICS

Featuring the musical stylings of:
Kurt Swinghammer
Selina Martin
Mia Sheard
Tamara Williamson
Justin Rutledge
Jason Wilson
Michael Herring
Chris Tait
David Matheson
Peter Murray
Les Cooper
Paul Linklater
Ryan Granville Martin
And many more

Plus
Surprise Guests

Friday, March 23rd 2007. 8:30p.m.

Hugh's Room 2261 Dundas St. West

Only $12 advance $15 door . Doors open @6:30p.m. (arrive early)

For tickets and dinner reservations call: 416 531 6604

Check www.hughsroom.com for more details.

Pretty sweet if you ask me. Wish I could hit it. Sucks being stuck in Windsor sometimes.

Henri Faberge & The Adorables Video

Well with the earlier post about The Bicycles, I immediately thought about Henri Faberge & The Adorables. Quick search on YouTube and I came across this video for "Ventriloquist Love", my favorite song from them.

So sit back, enjoy and I'm done for the day here.

Sweet Static: The Radio Edition Download For March 16

I've mentioned in my playlist that the radio edition of Sweet Static is downloadable from the CJAM website. However I've been lazy and never actually linked it up to the site. That changes now.

This is last Friday's show. The first thirty minutes of the show starts roughly halfway through the first link. The last hour of the show is complete on the second link.

For the complete playlist of the show click here.

Sweet Static-First Thirty Minutes
Sweet Static-Last Hour

The link will be available for thirty days from the original air date.

New Video From The Bicyles

So I was checking out the Zunior page and they mentioned that a favorite of mine, The Bicycles had a new video. So I headed over to YouTube, found out that just using "The Bicycles" isn't really a good idea for a search. Eventually found the video. Glad I did. Really funny, a little disturbing but totally The Bicycles. Check it out below.



Also to get the song click below

The Bicycles-"Gotta Get Out"

They're heading out on a tour with The Old Soul soon. Fingers crossed that they find the way to Windsor.

The Two-Minute Miracles

Last week's post on the interview with the The Two-Minute Miracles got me in the mood to highlight some of their awesome music.

London's campus radio station CHRW, has an archive of London music going back through the years. In it they have one of the Miracles albums, 2003's The Silence Of Animals. To check out the whole whole album you can go here but in the meantime I'd recommend these songs.

The Two-Minute Miracles-"I'm Getting A Feel"
The Two-Minute Miracles-"The Silence Of Animals"

Germans

When I was doing my radio show this week I wanted to play a song from the Bellwoods compilation and decided to play a track from the Germans record. I remember seeing them posted on radio free canuckistan so thought I'd give it a try. Really enjoyed the song and ended up asking the music director if we had their album. Turns out it was right beside the Bellwoods so I played a track from it two songs later and liked it too.

So went back to canuckistan and checked out the post and the article he wrote for Eye and checked out this video for "I Am The Teacher". It's pretty sweet so thought I'd throw it up here. Really looking forward to hearing more from Germans in the near future.

New Rheostatics Tribute Album Out

Good news as some of Canada's best bands have come together to pay tribute to Canada's best band (in my opinion) the Rheostatics as their final show approaches at the end of the month.

The songs were all recorded early this year and the album is being put out on Sweet Static favorite Zunior. Here's the track listing

1. The Weakerthans - Bad Time To Be Poor from the album The Blue Hysteria
2. Stephen Stanley & Carla MacNeil - Take Me In Your Hand from the album Introducing Happiness
3. Weeping Tile with Chris Brown - Public Square from the album Greatest Hits
4. The Wooden Stars - Saskatchewan from the album Melville
5. The Inbreds - Dopefiends and Boozehounds from the album Whale Music
6. King Cobb Steelie - Seven Stars Remix a reworking of Night Of The Shooting Stars and Music Inspired By The Group Of 7
7. Barenaked Ladies with Tim Mech and Jason Plumb - Legal Age Life At The Variety Store from the album Whale Music
8. The Golden Seals - Loving Arms from the album Harmelodia
9. Cuff The Duke - Claire from the album Introducing Happiness
10. Kate Fenner and Tony Scherr - Stolen Car from the album Double Live
11. By Divine Right - Shaved Head from the album Whale Music
12. Dylan Hudecki - Satan Is The Whistler from the album Night Of The Shooting Stars
13. The Local Rabbits - Record Body Count from the album Melville

For the full official details from the Zunior site go here.

The Rugs Don't Work also has some details which you can see here.

As a huge Rheostatics fan I'm really pumped to hear this. Some notable reforming going on for the album including Weeping Tile, Local Rabbits and The Inbreds. Yes Weeping Tile reforms every year for a Christmas show but for these three bands this is the first time I've heard of them recording anything new in years.

More on this and the Rheostatics final show to come.

Sweet Static Playlist 3/16

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

Shotgun & Jaybird-Borrowed Mini Vans from Trying To Get Somewhere (Sappy-2006) cc
The Arcade Fire-Antichrist Television Blues from Neon Bible (Merge-2007) cc *
Music For Mapmakers-Carnival from .02 (Grenadine-2001) cc
The Besnard Lakes-For Agent 13 from Are The Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar-2007) cc *
Son Volt-Beacon Soul from The Search (Sony Legacy-2007) *
Jon-Rae And The River with Anne Lindsay-It Shone from B(oot)log mp3
Drive-By Truckers-Outfit from Decoration Day (New West-2003)
The Neutron Stars-Lonesome Harbour from Home's Not Where The Heart Is (indie-2003) cc

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (cover songs)
Clem Snide-"Hopelessly Devoted To You" (Olivia Newton John) from Berkeley Place mp3
Bruce Springsteen-"Twist And Shout" (The Isley Brothers) from Cable & Tweed mp3
The Mountain Goats-"The Sign" (Ace Of Base) from You Ain't No Picasso mp3

Land Of Talk-Street Wheels from Applause Cheer Boo Hiss reissue (Maple-2007) cc
Germans-Nature's Mouth from Friends In Bellwoods (indie-2006) cc *
Devo-Girl U Want from Greatest Hits (Warner-1990)
Germans-So It's Out from Cape Fear (Arena Rock-2007) cc *
Tom Waits-The Black Rider from Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years (Island-1998) r
Peter Elkas-Paid Back from Wall Of Fire (Maple-2007) cc *
Jim Bryson-The Wishes Pile Up from Where The Bungalows Roam (Kelp-2007) cc *
Meat Puppets-Disappear from Stereogum mp3
Jarvis Cocker-Fat Children from Jarvis (Rough Trade-2007) *
Friday Morning's Regret-Darker Streets Than Mine from When Lost At Sea (indie-2007) cc *
Ohbijou-The Woods from Swift Feet For Troubled Times (indie-2007) cc *

Interview With The Two-Minute Miracles Online

This week's guest on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show from CFRU in Guelph was Andy Magoffin of The Two-Minute Miracles. It's a really fun interview and for extra sweetness there are two new songs from the forthcoming Volume IV album, due in May hopefully.

Click on the link below to get the interview. It starts right after the news.

Interview with Andy Magoffin of The Two-Minute Miracles

The interview will be up for thirty days from last Wednesday. More on The Two-Minute Miracles this weekend.

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois For March 16

Every week (except last week, on hiatus for a week) on the radio editon of Sweet Static on CJAM 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit, I have the Sweet Static Menage A Trois. Three cover songs that I play and then also put them up here on the blog for download.

As always the songs are in a zip file together on Rapidshare.

Clem Snide-"Hopelessly Devoted To You" (Olivia Newton John) from Berkeley Place mp3
Bruce Springsteen-"Twist And Shout" (The Isley Brothers) from Cable & Tweed mp3
The Mountain Goats-"The Sign" (Ace Of Base) from You Ain't No Picasso mp3

To get the Sweet Static Menage A Trois for March 16 go here.

The Menage A Trois can be heard on the Sweet Static radio editon every Friday around 11am on CJAM 91.5 FM.

Canadian Campus Radio Charts For March 12

Once again here are the Canadian campus radio charts for the week ending March 12 from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA.

1 Do Make Say Think You, You're A History In Rust Constellation
2 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
3 Apostle Of Hustle National Anthem Of Nowhere Arts & Crafts
4 Julie Doiron Woke Myself Up Endearing
5 Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Polyvinyl
6 Peter Bjorn & John Writer's Block V2
7 Mother Mother Touch Up Last Gang
8 Bloc Party A Weekend In The City Vice
9 Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse Jagjaguwar
10 Secret Mommy Plays Ache

For the whole national chart go here.

Here now are the CJAM charts.

1 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
2 Trans Am Sex Change Thrill Jockey
3 Do Make Say Think You, You're A History In Rust Constellation
4 Air Pocket Symphony Astralwerks
5 Deerhoof Friend Opportunity Kill Rock Stars
6 Apostle Of Hustle National Anthem Of Nowhere Arts & Crafts
7 The Shins Wincing The Night Away Sub Pop
8 Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara Nettwerk
9 Germans Cape Fear Arena Rock
10 The Fussy Part Ben Forward Music Group

For the entire CJAM chart go here.

Lonely, Dear

Been a little slow this week posting but I figure most of the world is in Austin for SXSW (or so they'd have us believe) so not a big deal.

Just wanted to bring up another band that I've been enjoying lately. Read something about Sweeden's Lonely, Dear in Under The Radar and was intrigued. Another record that I started playing on my the radio edition of Sweet Static and have really grown to love the album. Sub Pop had really had some great albums lately and Lonely, Noir is another one of them.

The Sub Pop site has a free song up and it's probably my favorite on the album. Check it out below.

Loney, Dear-"I Am John"

First Hillside Festival Bands Surface

One of the fun things every year is searching around the interweb and trying to see who's playing the Hillside Festival. For those who don't know, Hillside is a festival in Guelph, Ontario that really is something special. Two and a half days of music and excellent workshops that bring different types of artists together. This year the festival is on July 27, 28, 29, 2007.

As I said above, the last few years I've kept an eye on the online concert listings to get an idea of who's playing and to fill my friends in. Sometime in the last week the first two names popped up. They are...

-Blackie & The Rodeo Kings
-Do Make Say Think

Stay tuned as I'll keep an eye on this

The Last Town Chorus

Part of the fun is seeing something on a band you've never heard of before, getting interested and then finding out that they're pretty good. Allow me to mention The Last Town Chorus.

I was on Chart Magazine's website and ran across a story of them. I thought they sounded pretty interesting and checked out and did really like what I heard.

Apparently others do to since I've gotten a couple of comments about them on one of my playlist posts. Now I haven't heard the whole album, just a few songs that I've played on my show but it is really good.

Checking out their website I found these fun covers for download.


The Last Town Chorus-"Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" live
The Last Town Chorus-"Modern Love" live

To read the original article that peaked my interest go here.

New Polyphonic Spree News

Thanks to the folks over at Pitchfork, news on the new Polyphonic Spree album is out. Coming in June, The Fragile Army will be out on TVT. I've heard a couple of tracks that they put on the Wait EP last year and it sounds promising.

For the whole article go here.

While poking around the official Spree site I found this mp3 for their version of "Little Boxes" from the excellent tv show Weeds.

The Polyphonic Spree-"Little Boxes"

Newest Free Zunior Compilation Now Available

Another two weeks have gone by and here's the info on the latest free compilation from Zunior. Honestly not a lot here I know about. Hawksley Workman and The Violet Archers are really it. Still should be interesting to check out. Here's the full track listing.

1 Cameras On - The Yoko Casionos These Are The New Old Times Boompa Records
2 Killing Time - Jets Overhead Bridges Jets Overhead
3 Co-ordinates - The Violet Archers The End of Part One Northern Electric
4 Kitten vs. Pegasus - Windom Earle Gold Wave Windom Earle
5 Skies of Grey - Po' Girl Home to You Nettwerk
6 I Can Hear You - bontempi what keeps us awake Zunior Label
7 Blindness - Hawksley Workman My Little Toothless Beauties Isadora Records
8 Series Of Seasons - Tradition Tradition Blocks Music
9 Tanz Mit Uno - My Dad Vs Yours After Winter Must Come Spring My Dad Vs Yours
10 Down By the River - Rodney DeCroo Rodney DeDroo and the Killers Northern Electric

For information on how to get the newest Zunior free sampler go here.

Sweet Static Playlist 3/9

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

Camera Obscura-Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken from Let's Get Out Of This Country (Merge-2006)
The Most Serene Republic-Where Cedar Nouns And Adverbs Walk from Underwater Cinematographer (Arts & Crafts-2005) cc
Lonely, Dear-I Am John from Lonely, Noir (Sub Pop-2007) *
Andrew Bird-Yawn At The Apocalypse from Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum-2007) *
Illinois-Screendoor from Wolf Notes mp3
The Polyphonic Spree-I'm Calling from Wait ep (Good-2006)
Of Montreal-Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider From Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl-2007) *
Geoff Berner-Weep, Bride, Weep from The Wedding Dance Of The Widow Bride (Jericho Beach-2007) cc *
Lucinda Williams-What If from West (Lost Highway-2007) *
Whiskeytown-16 Days from Strangers Almanac (Outpost-1997)
Uncle Tupelo-We've Been Had from Anodyne (Sire-1993)
Ox-LA City from Dust Bowl Revival (Maximum-2004) cc
Jon-Rae And The River-Just One More from Knows What You Need (Baudelaire-2006) cc mp3
Lindy-Picture Of You from Suspension Of Disbelief (Orange-2004) cc
The 1900s-When I Say Go from My Old Kentucky Blog mp3
Violence-Self Defense from Friends In Bellwoods (Indie-2006) cc *
Jarvis Cocker-Disney Time from Jarvis (Rough Trade-2007) *
Dylan Here's A Who-Oh, The Things You Can Think! mp3
Ohbijou-Raccoons from Swift Feet For Troubling Times (indie-2007) cc *
The Arcade Fire-Keep The Car Running From Neon Bible (Merge-2007) cc *

Radio Appearance With Cadence Weapon/Interview With The Arcade Fire Online

Double the goodness this week on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show on CFRU in Guelph.

For most of the show, rapper (hopefully that's not a derogatory term) extraordinaire Cadence Weapon was a guest host. Talking about what's going on, including signing to Epitaph in the US and playing music, including some an exclusive remix he did.

At the start of the second hour they have Jeremy Gara of The Arcade Fire on for an interview.

Cadence shows up around halfway through the first hour and the interview starts right after the news in hour two. They will be up for thirty days from the original broadcast date, March 6.

Hour One-Cadence Weapon guest hosts

Hour Two-Interview with Jeremy Gara (The Arcade Fire) and more Cadence Weapon

Interview With The Kramdens Online

Last week on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show the guest was Craig Norris of Guelph's The Kramdens.

I haven't listened to the interview but it will be up for 30 days after it originally aired, February 28. It'll start right after the news.

Interview with Craig Norris (The Kramdens)

Jon-Rae & The River

On Tuesday when I went to get the new Arcade Fire album I also happened to grab the latest record from Jon-Rae And The River, Jon-Rae and the River Knows What You Need.

Last year I had the pleasure of seeing Joe-Rae solo opening for The Barmitzvah Brothers here in Windsor. I had really liked his 2005 album, Old Songs For The New Town. So much so it was my third favorite record of the year.

So I've been been really looking forward to the new one's release. The record came out last year but the CJAM never got a copy and I had only heard a couple of songs. I saw the record while doing a quick look after grabbing Fire's album and decided to get it.

Well I've hardly been listening to Neon Bible at all the last couple of days. Partly this is because I've been listening to the record for the last month quite a bit. Mostly though, it's because I'm really enjoying the new River album. They're on tour across Canada with The Constantines this month so check them out if you get the chance.

They have a free download on their website for you to sample yourself. It's down below.

Jon-Rae And The River-"Just One More"

Also there's an excellent article on Jon-Rae And The River from Exclaim last year go here.

Canadian Campus Radio Charts For March 6

Here are the Canadian campus radio charts for the week ending March 6 from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA.

1 Do Make Say Think You, You're A History In Rust Constellation
2 Julie Doiron Woke Myself Up Endearing
3 Apostle Of Hustle National Anthem Of Nowhere Arts & Crafts
4 The Arcade Fire Neon Bible Merge
5 Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Polyvinyl
6 Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara Nettwerk
7 Mother Mother Touch Up Last Gang
8 Peter Bjorn & John Writer's Block V2
9 Deerhoof Friend Opportunity Kill Rock Stars
10 The Good, The Bad And The Queen The Good, The Bad And The Queen Virgin

For the whole national chart go here.

Now the CJAM charts.

1 Apostle Of Hustle National Anthem Of Nowhere Arts & Crafts
2 Friday Morning's Regret When Lost At Sea Independent
3 Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse Jagjaguwar
4 Clinic Visitations Domino
5 Do Make Say Think You, You're A History In Rust Constellation
6 The Charms Strange Magic Wicked Cool
7 Ohbijou Swift Feet For Troubling Times Independent
8 Explosions In The Sky All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone Temporary Residence
9 Beirut Lon Gisland Ba Da Bing!
10 Lisa Gerrard Best Of 4AD

For the entire CJAM chart go here.

Obvious Arcade Fire Post

So in case you've been asleep the last couple of months or so, The Arcade Fire's Neon Bible came out yesterday. I've been sick as hell since Friday (hence the lack of posts the last few days) but even I pulled myself out of bed to make the trip to get the album. Really enjoying the real version better then the leaked edition I didn't have (sorry any record people reading but I couldn't wait). Not sure how it'll rate with Funereal but I'm enjoying it.

A couple of things to check out Arcade Fire-wise.

-AOL has an article up by Michael Barclay of radiofreecanuckistan. You can read it here (with a promises of the unedited interviews up later).
-Idolator covered the hype with a good sense of humour. Lots of good stuff to check out on there page so just head over.

A couple of songs from the live show last month in New York. These are on You Send It for a change, so they'll be available for seven days.

The Arcade Fire-"My Body Is A Cage" live in New York 2/17

The Arcade Fire-"No Cars Go" live in New York 2/17

Canadian Campus Radio Charts For February

Here is the national Canadian campus radio charts for the month of February from Earshot, the official publication of the NCRA.

1 Julie Doiron * Woke Myself Up Endearing
2 Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Polyvinyl
3 Deerhoof Friend Opportunity Kill Rock Stars
4 Swan Lake * Beast Moans Scratch
5 The Shins Wincing The Night Away Sub Pop
6 Neko Case Live From Austin TX New West
7 Clinic Visitations Domino
8 Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards Anti
9 Apostle Of Hustle * National Anthem Of Nowhere Arts & Crafts
10 Menomena Friend And Foe Barsuk

The link for the top 200 isn't up yet but I'll edit this when it is.

Sweet Static Playlist 3/2

You can listen to Sweet Static, every Friday from 10:30am to noon on 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit. Or you can tune in on the internet at
-http://cjam.ca, under listen or
-opening a url on whatever player you use and put in http://137.207.3.11:8050/

New and improved broadband stream from the station, as well as the original lo-fi stream.

The show is archived for a month at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php with a new, easier to navigate layout.

as always...

cc-canadian content
*-in rotation
r-request
mp3-from an mp3 blog (link on the mp3)

The Shins-Red Rabbits from Wincing The Night Away (Sub Pop-2007) *
Ohbijou-St. Francis from Swift Feet For Troubled Times (indie-2006) cc *
Jill Barber-Two Brown Eyes from For All Time (Baudelaire-2006) cc *
The Last Town Chorus-Boat from Wire Waltz (Hacktone-2007) *
Andrew Rodriguez-Astonished Heart from Here Comes The Light (Baudelaire-2007) cc *
Elk City-Cherries In The Snow from Wolf Notes mp3
The Apples In Stereo-7 Stars from New Magnetic Wonder (Yep Roc-2007) *
The Arcade Fire-My Body Is A Cage from Neon Bible (Merge-2007) cc *

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (cover songs)

Indie Blokedappella-Rebellion (Lies) (Arcade Fire) from Inkiostro mp3
Kelly Hogan and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts-Papa Was A Rolling Stone (The Magnetic Fields) from An Aquarium Drunkard mp3
Marissa Nadler-Cortez the Killer (Neil Young) from Pitchfork mp3

Friday Morning's Regret-North Dakota from When Lost At Sea (indie-2007) cc *
Menomena-My My from Friend And Foe (Barsuk-2007) *
The Indelicates-Waiting For Pete Doherty To Die from My Old Kentucky Blog mp3
Julie Doiron-Yer Kids from Woke Myself Up (Endearing-2007) cc *
The Besnard Lakes-Ride The Rails from Are The Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar-2007) cc *
Feist-One Two Three Four from Shameless Complacency mp3 cc
Loney, Dear-I Am John from Loney, Noir (Sub Pop-2007) *
Olav Larsen & The Alabama Rodeo Stars-We'll Never Lose Our Minds from Songs: Illinois mp3
They Might Be Giants-Devil Spawn from Wired mp3
They Might Be Giants-Ring Ring Ring from Wired mp3
Dean & Britta-Crystal Blue R.I.P. from Back Numbers (Zoe/Rounder-2007) *
Great Lake Swimmers-Your Rocky Spine from Ongiara (Nettwerk-2007) cc *

Run Fast Again-More New Feist Tracks Online

Last week saw the first track of Feist's new album, The Reminder, come into the mp3 blog world. Well this morning when I was trying to find the quickly disappearing tracks from yesterday's Run Fast (yeah I'm creating a tag and naming it) post on the new Wilco tracks, I found three new songs up on Shameless Complacency. Once again I'd go quick if you want to sample it before it's gone.

Here's the direct link for the post.

The Sweet Static Menage A Trois (Cover Songs) For March 2

Every week on the radio editon of Sweet Static on CJAM 91.5 FM in Windsor/Detroit, I have the Sweet Static Menage A Trois. Three cover songs that I play and then also put them up here on the blog for download.

As always the songs are in a zip file together on Rapidshare.

Kelly Hogan and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts-Papa Was A Rolling Stone (The Magnetic Fields) mp3
Indie Blokedappella-Rebellion (Lies) (Arcade Fire) mp3
Marissa Nadler-Cortez the Killer (Neil Young) mp3

To get the Sweet Static Menage A Trois for March 2 go here.

The Menage A Trois can be heard on the Sweet Static radio editon every Friday around 11am on CJAM 91.5 FM.

They Might Be Giant Ringtones For Free

Well there is one thing I love is free stuff. Better when you can get it legit and thanks to Wired and They Might Be Giants there are some sweet free ringtones available.

If you go to this page here they have free, original TMBG songs that can be used for ringtones. There are eight all together but here are my favorites.

They Might Be Giants-"Phone Phone Phone"
They Might Be Giants-"Devil Spawn"
They Might Be Giants-"Ring Ring"

Run Fast...New Wilco Online

Let the leaking begin. Indietastic has three songs from the forthcoming Wilco album, Sky Blue Sky. I'm sure the songs will be gone soon so get there fast if you want a sneak peak of the records.

Click here to get to the new Wilco songs.