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August 6

Week 117: “Second Hand” by errunriv

I’ve always been interested in song titles. When I first heard this song, I assumed…

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July 9

Week 113: “Sit Still” by Christopher Stopa

The first few months of 2012 were pretty strange for Christopher Stopa. A baker with…

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June 18

Week 110: “Funk For Joy” by The Extremities

One of the best things about the mp3 age is the phenomenon of iPod serendipity.…

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April 16

Week 101: “Beneath It All” by The Slakadeliqs feat. King Reign & Shad

The Slakadeliqs are not actually a band, but one man, the talented and extravagantly-named Slakah…

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April 9

Week 100: “The Badger” by The Tea Party

The Tea Party is a Canadian band that gained a healthy following in Canada in…

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February 13

Week 92: “Every Little Thing” by Good Lovelies

In an effort to be inclusive, one of my goals with this blog has been…

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February 6

Week 91: “Hallelujah” by k-os

Canada is not a country that would spring to most people’s minds as a hotbed…

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September 12

Week 70: “Dors Dans Mon Sang” by Karkwa

As we saw a few weeks ago, the French are really good at sadness. In…

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August 29

Week 68: “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl” by Broken Social Scene

For several years, I lived just up the street from a major university. And every…

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August 8

Week 65: “Freeways or Flight” by Paper Lions

I often think that people would be nicer to each other if we all lived…

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July 25

Week 63: “Turn the Koala” by Red Blue Green

Most circles of friends include at least one person who is the musical know-it-all of…

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July 4

Week 60: “It May Take Forever (but time is running out)” by The Outlanders

Composing original music that is actually original is very difficult, especially within the jazz genre.…

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May 16

Week 53: “Comme Des Enfants” by Coeur De Pirate

This week marks this blog’s first birthday. They grow up so fast, don’t they? Before…

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March 14

Week 44: “Big Baby” by Joey Wright

There’s a radio show in Canada called “The Vinyl Café”. Aired weekly, it features the…

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February 14

Week 40: “Vittoria” by Charles Spearin

The Happiness Project was a brilliant experiment in the music of everyday life, created by…

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January 3

Week 34: “Dynamite Walls” by Hayden

In an earlier post (this one) I declared Sarah Harmer’s song “Lodestar” to be the…

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October 4

Week 21: “The Water” by Feist

In the span of about 18 months, Leslie Feist when from being just another face…

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September 6

Week 17: “By The Way” by Big Wreck

There are two things that Canadian musician Ian Thornley is really good at: rocking out…

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August 16

Week 14: “The First Ride” by Don Ross

By the time I was 18, I thought I was getting pretty good at playing…

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August 9

Week 13: “My Invitation” by Sarah Slean

Although she’s often categorized as folk, Sarah Slean is infinitely more musically talented than most…

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