EPISODE SIX!!! – 2014 Grab Bag – June 2014

Not everything is from 2014, but this is what I’ve enjoyed thus far in 2014!

The Electric Magpie – Mourning Gloria

Mr Elevator And The Brain Hotel – Infinity

The Vickers – She’s Lost

Temples – Shelter Song

Morgan Delt – Beneath The Black And The Purple

Death – Where Do We Go From Here???

The Gorlons – Stare Into The Sun

Uh Bones – Amess

Street Gnar – Twenty Two, Twenty Two

Mystic Braves – Trippin’ Like I Do

Drinking Flowers – Bite The Hand That Needs You

Psyche Tongues – Remain Unknown

Dead Horse One – I Love My Man

Kikagaku Moyo – Streets Of Calcutta

Los Craters – Barbershop Blues

Jacco Gardner – Clear The Air

The Frowning Clouds – Much Too Much Too Soon

Reggie Watts - Mars

EPISODE FIVE!!! – 2013 Music Grab Bag - November 2013

Dead Ghosts – Can’t Get No

The Growlers – Row

My Drunken Haze – Why Don’t Motherfuckers Dance

Waylon Thornton And The Heavy Hands – Bottomed Out Bill

The Black Angels – The Day

Sonny And The Sunsets – Imagine

White Denim – Distant Relative Salute

Tijuana Panthers – Baby I’m Bored

Ty Segall – Crazy

Glitter Wizard – Worship The Devil

The Memories – En Espanol

The Unwed Teenage Mothers – Forever Until You Are Bones

Travis – Warning Sign

Allah Las – Every Girl

The Crytearions – A New College Suburbia

Mikal Cronin – Turn Away

Space Wolves – Non-Circadian

Night Beats – Love Ain’t Strange (Everything Else Is)

Free Weed And Uncle Funkle – I Wanna Know What Love Is

Fuzz – What’s In My Head

Ten bands. 2 songs per band. These are my favorites from 2013 so far. Some of these tracks are from 2012, but I am still counting them as 2013 songs since that's when I discovered them. If you don't like it, tough shit. :)

Thee Oh Sees - I Come From The Mountain

Thee Oh Sees - Tunnel Time

The Explorers Club - Run Run Run

The Explorers Club - Go For You

The Spyrals - Lonely Eyes

The Spyrals - The Rain

Fuzz - Fuzz's Fourth Dream

Fuzz - You Won't See Me

The Black Angels - Don't Play With Guns

The Black Angels - Twisted Light

Tijuana Panthers - Tony's Song

Tijuana Panthers - Boardwalk

Dead Ghosts - I Want You Back

Dead Ghosts - Roky Said

Shannon And The Clams - White Rabbit (Cover)

Shannon And The Clams - Muppet Babies (Cover)

The Resonars - Tomorrow's Gears

The Resonars - Vanishing People

Mikal Cronin - Change

Mikal Cronin - Don't Let Me Go

To celebrate Canada Day, I put together a mix of Canadian music from the 1990's. Enjoy! Here's the playlist:

54-40 - Cheer Up Peru

Maestro Fresh Wes - Conductin' Thangs

Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day

Organized Rhyme - Check The O.R.

Big Sugar - Better Get Used To It

The Odds - Heterosexual Man

I Mother Earth - One More Astronaut

Dream Warriors - My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style

Ashley MacIsaac - The Devil In The Kitchen

Bruce McCulloch - Daves I Know

Matthew Good Band - Hello Time Bomb

Moxy Fruvous - Stuck In The 90's

Kish - I Rhyme The World In 80 Days

Sloan - The Good In Everyone

Spirit Of The West - And If Venice Is Sinking

Our Lady Peace - Superman's Dead

Snow - Informer

The Tragically Hip - Fifty-Mission Cap

Barenaked Ladies - Lovers In A Dangerous Time

I've provided an audio intro to this short clip. I continue to receive calls from a call centre somewhere in India claiming to be from "Windows Support". After asking them questions to verify their legitimacy, it is clear that these calls are a scam. For example, they claim to want to help me clear out malicious software that I have downloaded onto my PC, but then need to verify if I actually own a PC. When I've asked to speak with a Supervisor, I get hung up on.

I've received about a half-dozen of these calls in the last year. Initially, I pushed back to get info and got hung up on. Then, I started just cussing out the person who called me, and got hung up on again. However, the calls continued, so I finally decided I'd just have fun with these people. Last week, I managed to irritate a guy to the point where he called me a 'motherfucker' and hung up on me. I was very disappointed that I didn't record the call. However, I got another call today and did manage to get a recording! The sound quality isn't great, especially with the person who has called me, because it is just my iPhone on speaker into the computer mic, but I think it's still clear enough to understand what is going on with the call.

Keep in mind that this is not me calling someone for help and acting like a prick, and this isn't a legitimate call that has come my way where I am also acting like a prick; this is a clear scam. I have asked other people if they've received similar calls, and have found out that they are quite common.

Anyway, the clip is about 11 minutes long, with a short intro. I hope you enjoy it!

This is my first attempt at putting a little mix of songs together. It's a very random list of about an hour's worth of 80's music. The only thing these songs really have in common is that they would not normally be heard on your standard 80's set on regular radio, except for once in a blue moon.

As this is my first try, I'm sure the sound levels will be all messed up. My apologies in advance.

The tracks are as follows:

Zapp And Roger - Doo Wa Ditty

Paul Hardcastle - 19

Saga - On The Loose

Missing Persons - Destination Unknown

Romeo Void - Never Say Never

Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love

Gowan - You're A Strange Animal

Mary Jane Girls - In My House

Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way

Gino Soccio - Try It Out

Midnight Star - Operator

Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait

Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes