March 2009
3 posts
The Last Show
Thanks for tuning into Beet Farm! I’ve had a great run here on CJSW over the last 21 months and while I am sad to see the show go we’ve got some great things planned for the Tuesday noon-2 PM time slot. Next week is the premiere of Constance Billard, which I will be hosting on a rotating basis and as always we’ve got plenty of amazing programming everyday, all day so keep your...
Animal Collective - Bluish (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
Jackson C. Frank - Just Like Anything (Jackson C. Frank)
Air Waves - Gems (EP)
Julie Doiron - Tailor (I can Wonder What You Did with Your Day)
Midlake - King Fish Pies (Bamnan and Silvercork)
Anathallo - Dokkoise House (with face covered)
Twin Sister - Ginger (Vampires with Dreaming Kids)
Charles Spearin - Anna (The Happiness...
February 2009
4 posts
Oh No! Oh My! - On the Town (Oh No! Oh My!)
Final Fantasy - The Butcher (Spectrum, 14th Century)
Target Market - The Beat (No Thrills)
Psapp - Part Like Waves (The Camel’s Back)
Sloan - Can’t You Figure It Out (Never Hear the End of It)
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines (The Stand Ins)
La Strada - Sun Song (La Strada)
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & The Amorphous Strums (Dark...
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Through and Through and Through (Three)
The Low Lows - Modern Romance (Shining Violence)
Try Me Bicycle - Two Stern Feet (Voicings)
Julie Doiron - Untitled Bonus Track (Woke Myself Up)
Absentee - Shared (Victory Shorts)
Jon-Rae Fletcher - Maria (Oh, Maria)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - What You Is (Goodnight Oslo)
Pony Up! - Only Feelgood (Make Love to the...
The Swingers - Counting the Beat (Counting the Beat)
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Lift Me Up (Every Night)
Sambassadeur - Kate (Coastal Affairs)
Vulture Whale - Thought Eyes (Vulture Whale)
Tree Wave - May Banners (Cabana EP)
The Robot Ate Me - On Vacation (On Vacation Pt. 2)
Sloan - Marcus Said (4 Nights at the Palais Royale)
Vetiver - Rolling Sea (Tight Knit)
Sandro Perri - Sky...
Tafra - Oh, Daniel (Why Even Bother)
Headlights - TV (Kill THem with Kindness)
The Bicycles - Oh Yes, It’s Love (Oh No, It’s Love)
Royal City - Can’t You (Little Heart’s Ease)
Of Montreal - First Time High (of Chicago Acoustic Version) (Jon Brion Remix EP)
Albert Hammond, Jr. - GfC (Como Te Llama)
Beirut - The Shrew (March of the Zapotec)
Kris Ellestad - November...
January 2009
3 posts
Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling (Oh My Darling)
Forest City Lovers - Song for Morrie (The Sun and the Wind)
Loney Dear - I Was Only Going Out (Dear John)
Bishop Allen - Like Castanets (September)
Herman Dune - I Wish that I Could See You Soon (Giant)
Acid House Kings - Do What You Wanna Do (Do What You Wanna Do EP)
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells (Noble Beasts)
The Acorn - Oh Napoleon...
The Dodos - Red and Purple (Visiter)
Mt. Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire - Who? (Lost Wisdom)
Try Me Bicycle - Lessons on Love and Junk (Voicings)
Joel Plaskett - Love This Town (La De Da)
Eleni Mandell - It Wasn’t the Time (It Was the Color) (Artificial Fire)
Lake - Heaven (Oh, the Places We’ll Go)
Lambchop - National Talk Like A Pirate Day (OH (ohio))
Rokia Traoré...
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
Pants Yell! - The Not So City Life (Asaurus Records EP Club #10)
Akron/Family - Future Myth (Angels of Light & Akron/Family)
Anathallo - Italo (Canopy Glow)
Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected (Vampire Weekend)
Islands - Creeper (Arm’s Way)
Annuals - Hot Night Hounds (Such Fun)
Parlovr - Pen to the Paper (Parlovr)
Vic Chesnutt, Elf...
December 2008
3 posts
Women - Group Transport Hall (Women)
Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Furr)
The Dodos - Jodi (Visiter)
Dr. Dog - The Breeze (Fate)
We Are Scientists - After Hours (Brain Thrust Mastery)
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights (Give Up)
Bromheads Jacket - Turn Me On (On the Brain)
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Penny for Your Thoughts (Ashtray Rock)
She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? (Volume...
The Neighbourhood Council - Grow Up/She Brave Soul
Jill Barber - Chances (Chances)
The New Pornographers - Entering White Cecilia (Challengers)
Twi the Humbe Feather - Finale (Music for Spaceships and Forests)
Death Vessel - Peninsula (Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us)
Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir - Go Back Home (One Ten Hundred Thousand)
Eisley - Golly Sandra (Room Noises)
Los...
Chad Van Gaalen - TMNT Mask (Soft Airplane)
Born Ruffians - Knife (Grizzly Bear)
Sufjan Stevens - The Henney Buggy Band (The Avalanche)
The Whispertown 2000 - Done with Love (Swim)
The Notwist - Boneless (The Devil, You + Me)
Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out)
Fleet Foxes - Meadowlark (Fleet Foxes)
Belle and Sebastien - Judy and the Dream of Horses...
November 2008
5 posts
The Close Lobsters - Just Too Bloody Stupid (Foxheads Stalk This Land)
Loney, Dear - I Am John (Loney, Noir)
The Campbell Apartment - Afterthought (Insomniac’s Almanac)
The Dodos - The Season (Visiter)
The Consonant C - Distance (A Sound Experiment: Live Sessions from CJSW 90.9 FM)
Michael Rault - Pretty Thing (Crash! Boom! Bang!)
Mates of State - My Only Offer (Re-Arrange Us)
...
Honeybear - 400 Miles (Nothing On But Your Radio: Live Sessions from CJSW 90.9 FM)
Rosie Thomas - Say Hello (These Friends of Mine)
Basia Bulat - Pilgriming Vine (Oh My Darling)
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s. - German Motor Car (Animal!/Not Animal)
Tom Thumb - Providence (The Taxidermist)
Jim Guthrie - Time Is A Fore (Now, More Than Ever)
Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs -...
The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave (HLLLYH)
Joel Plaskett - Absentminded Melody/Happen Now (La De Da)
Silver Jews - Strange Victory Strange Defeat (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
Cam Malcolm - The Thing About Us (A Little Bit of History)
The Whispertown 2000 - Down with Love (Swim)
Crystal Stilts - The Dazzled (Alight of Night)
The Dears - Disclaimer (Missiles)
Birdmonster - Janine...
P.S.
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We all look forward to bringing you another year of amazing, earnest, serious, informative,...
Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping (Ash Wednesday)
The Acorn - Antenna (Glory Hope Mountain)
The Dodos - Winter (Visiter)
Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Furr)
The Explorers Club - Do You Love Me? (Freedom Wind)
Brian Wilson - Forever She’ll Be My Surfer Girl (That Lucky Old Sun)
Sufjan Stevens - The First Full Moon (B-Sides & Demos)
Magic Arm - Outdoor Games (Outdoor Games EP)...
October 2008
3 posts
ELO - Mr. Blue Sky (Out of the Blue)
Fleet Foxes - Meadowlark (Fleet Foxes)
Lambchop - Of Raymond (OH (ohio))
Grizzly Bear - Little Brother (Yellow House)
Prints - Blue Jay (Prints)
Land of Talk - Yuppy Flu (Some Are Lakes)
Vampire Weekend - M79 (Vampire Weekend)
The Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers (Holiday)
Women - Sag Harbor Bridge (Women)
Sleeping in the Aviary - Write On...
Two Hours Traffic - No Advances (Little Jabs)
Department of Eagles - Herringbone (In Ear Park)
The War On Drugs - Taking the Farm (Wagonwheel Blues)
Sunset Rubdown - For the pier (and dead shimmering) (Random Spirit Lover)
Cloud Cult - Purpose (The Meaning of 8)
Tobias Froberg - Slipping Under the Radar (Turn Heads)
Fits - Ball of Twine (Near Fits)
Karl Blau - It’s the Stars...
Iron & WIne - Resurrection Fern (The Shepherd’s Dog)
Department of Eagles - Around the Bay (In Ear Park)
The Pica Beats - Poor Old Ra (Beating Back the Clas of the Cold)
Two Hours Traffic - Sure Can Start (Little Jabs)
TV On the Radio - Halfway Home (Dear Science,)
Pink Mountaintops - Can You Do That Dance? (Pink Mountaintops)
The Magnetic Fields - A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off...
September 2008
5 posts
Built To Spill - Goin’ Against Your Mind (You In Reverse)
Azeda Booth - Kensington (In Flesh Tones)
Panda Bear - Bros (Person Pitch)
Your Heart Breaks - I Could Say Ark (Love Is A Long Dark Road (Love Is All You Need))
Mother Mother - Burning Life (Oh My Heart)
Karl Blau - Before Telling Dragons (Nature’s Got Away)
These United States - Pleasure and Pain and Pride and Me...
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Nowhere With You (Make A Little Noise DVD)
Tokyo Police Club - Cut Cut Paste (Smith EP)
Pavement - Western Homes (Wowee Zowee - Sordid Sentinels Edition)
Andy Dixon - Save Your Names (The Mice of Mt. Career)
Bishop Allen - Vain (February)
The Broken West - Perfect Games (Now Or Heaven)
Birdmonster - New Country (From the Mountain to the Sea)
Royal City - Space...
Ra Ra Riot - St. Peter’s Day Festival (The Rhumb Line)
Horse Feathers - Curs In the Weeds (House with No Home)
David Vandervelde - Someone Like You (Waiting for the Sunrise)
Arms - Tiger Tamer (Shitty Little Disco)
Death Vessel - Bruno’s Torso (Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us)
Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship - Sure Enough (Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship)
Beirut -...
Whiskeytown - 16 Days (Strangers Almanac)
Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)
Band of Horses - The Funeral (Everything All the Time)
Kimya Dawson - Louie (Alphabutt)
Grand Archives - Torn Blue Foam Couch (The Grand Archives)
Architecture In Helsinki - Maybe You Can Owe Me (In Case We Die)
The Mountain Goats and Kaki King - Thank You Mario But Princess Is In Another Castle (Black Pear Tree...
Dr. Dog - The Ark (Fate)
Billie the Vision & the Dancers - Summercat (Summercat) Veda Hille - Lucklucky (This Riot Life) The Curse of Company - The Parade Devine (Leo Magnets Joins A Gang)
Last of the Blacksmiths - Autumn Vacation (Young Family Song) Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh (Fevers & Mirrors) Human Highway - My Beach (Moody Motorcycle)
Cameron Latimer - Empty Saddle...
August 2008
4 posts
Nick Lowe - Crying In My Sleep (Pinker & Prouder Than Previous)
Shelly Short - The Sunny Side (Captain Wild Horse Rides The Heart Of Tomorrow)
David Vandervale - I Will Be Fine (Waiting for the Sunrise)
Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah (Night Falls Over Kortedala)
M. Ward - Here Comes the Sun Again (Transistor Radio)
Laura Marling - Cross Your Fingers (Alas, I Cannot Swim)...
Jim Guthrie - Problem with Solutions (Now, More Than Ever)
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines (The Stand Ins)
The Moondoggies - Ain’t No Lord (Don’t Be A Stranger)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Details of the War (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
Beirut - Un Dernier Verre (Pour La Route) (The Flying Club Cup)
Final Fantasy - Flare Gun (Esopus #8: Spam)
Jeff Hanson - Night (Madam Owl)
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The Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk to Dream (Distortion)
Bark Hide and Horn - Quake & Crumble (National Road) Akron/Family - Gone Beyond (Meek Warrior) David Karsten Daniels - That Knot Unties? (Fear of Flying)
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (Live) Mariee Sioux - Friendboats (Faces in the Rocks) The Stills - Everything I Build (Oceans Will Rise)
The Mountain Goats - This Year (The Sunset Tree) Dark...
Battles - Leyendecker (Mirrored)
Deerhunter - Dr. Glass (Fluorescent Grey EP) The Notwist - Alphabet (The Devil, You + Me) Women - Group Transport Hall (Women)
Department of Eagles - Ghost in Summer Clothes (Demo) (The Cold Nose) Courtney Marie Andrews - It’s Okay, I Understand (Urban Myths) Bon Iver - Flume (For Emma, Forever Ago)
Laura Marling - Ghosts (Alas, I Cannot Swim) Blitzen Trapper -...
July 2008
5 posts
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Us (Pig Lib)
Castlemusic - For My Friends (You Can’t Take Anyone)
The Magnetic Fields - I Don’t Believe in the Sun (69 Love Songs)
The Decemberists - Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right (Billy Liar)
Lownote - Overheard (No Place for Romance)
Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
Magic Arm - Outdoor...
The New Pornographers - Speed of Luxury
Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir - Go Back Home (Ten Thousand)
Silver Jews - Candy Jail (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New (Get Lonely)
The Golden Hands Before God Conducts Incredible Magic Band & The Spirits - The Ladder (Here)
Band of Horses - Islands on the Coast (Cease to Begin)
Beija Flor - Sunny Boy (The...
Sunset Rubdown - The Mending of the Gown (Random Spirit Lover)
Jeremy Jay - Alpha Rhythm (Alpha Rhythm 7” Single)
Target Market - The Beat (No Thrills)
Middle Distance Runner - Naturally (People In Flames)
Robert Pollard - The Original Heart (Robert Pollard Is Off To Business)
Andrew Bird - Skin Is, My (Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs)
Stephen Malkmus - Freeze the...
Architecture In Helsinki - Beef In Box (Like It Or Not EP)
Port O’Brien - I Woke Up Today (All We Could Do Was Sing)
Vells - Blue, Blue Bones (Vells EP)
Pomegranates - In the Kitchen (Everything Is Alive)
Dosh - If You Want To, You Have To (Wolves and Wishes)
Born Ruffians - Red Elephant (Red, Yellow and Blue)
Sigur Rós - Við spilum endalaust (Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust)
...
Mates of State - Help Help (Re-Arrange Us)
Chet - By Night Into Paradise (Fight Against Darkness)
Bottle Up and Go - All My Trials (These Bones EP)
I Heart Hiroshima - Stop That (Tuff Teef)
Orillia Opry - You Should Tell Me So (Lighthouse For Stragglers’ Eyes)
The War On Drugs - Buenos Aires Beach (Wagonwheel Blues)
Akron/Family - Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music for Moms (Love Is...
June 2008
4 posts
Of Montreal - I Was Never Young (The Sunlandic Twins)
Fleet Foxes - Quiet Houses (Fleet Foxes)
Yo La Tengo - Sometimes I Don’t Get You (I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)
Grizzly Bear - Owner of A Lonely Heart (Sorry for the Delay)
Robert Pollard - Gratification to Concrete (Robert Pollard Is Off to Business)
The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave (HLLYH)
No Age - Sleeper Hold...
Wolf Parade - An Animal In Your Care (At Mount Zoomer)
Young and Sexy - Saucerful of Fire (The Arc)
Westpoint - In Her Twenties (Goodbye Rocket)
The Futureheads - Walking Backwards (This Is Not the World)
Little Beirut - She’s A Martyr (High Dive)
The Apples In Stereo - Ruby (Her Wallpaper Reverie)
Princeton - Ms. Bentwich (Bloomsbury)
Apollo Sunshine - Bed (Apollo Sunshine)
Young...
Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook (Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust)
Grizzly Bear - Marla (Yellow House)
My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy (A Thousand Shark’s Teeth)
Peter & the Wolf - The Fall
No Age - Eraser (Eraser 7” Single)
Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack (Drum’s Not Dead)
Women - Group Transport Hall (Women)
Immaculate Machine - Won’t Be Pretty...
Lykke Li - Little Bit (Youth Novels)
Low vs. Diamond - Don’t Forget Sister (Low vs. Diamond) Polytechnic - PEP (Demo) International Falls - The Old Inhabitants (The Plateau)
The Explorers Club - Last Kiss (Freedom Wind) Crystal Stilts - Crippled Croon (Crystal Stilts EP) Forest City Lovers - Song for Morrie (The Sun and the Moon)
Apollo Sunshine - Phyliss (Apollo Sunshine) Murder By Death...
May 2008
4 posts
The Hives - You Got It All…Wrong (The Black and White Album) Two Hours Traffic - Heroes of the Sidewalk (Little Jabs) Woodpigeon - Thoughts on the One Who Got Away by the One He Left Behind (Houndstooth EP) Wilco - Muzzle of Bees (A Ghost Is Born) Bellevue - Friendship (The Road to Recovery) Bowerbirds - In Our Talons (Danger At Sea) Tap Tap - Way To Go, Boy (Lanzafame) Pattern Is Movement...
Le Loup - Breathing Rapture (The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millenium General Assembly)
Animal Collective - Water Curses (Water Curses EP)
Architecture In Helsinki - The Owls Go (Fingers Crossed)
Annuals - Around Your Neck (Wet Zoo)
The Culls - If Your Horse Returns (If Your Horse Returns)
Kings of Leon - King of the Rodeo (Aha Shake Heartbreak)
Tokyo Police Club -...
Sloan - I’m Not A Kid Anymore (Parallel Play)
Destroyer - The Very Modern Dance (Streethawk: A Seduction)
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (Evil Urges)
Brendan Canning - Hit the Wall (Something for All of Us)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Boring Fountain (Pershing)
Nana Grizol - Tamborine-N-Thyme (Love It Love It)
Jason Collett - These Are the Days (Idols of Exile)
Los...
Jim Noir - All Right (Jim Noir)
Clinic - Tomorrow (Do It!)
Eli “Paperboy” Reed and the One True Loves - (Doin’ the) Boom Boom (Roll With You)
The Slackers - Don’t Have To (Self Medication)
The Okmoniks - Teenage Timebomb (Party Fever)
The Kooks - Do You Wanna (Konk)
The Long Blondes - Guilt (Couples)
Creature - Who’s Hot, Who’s Not (No Sleep At All)
...
April 2008
5 posts
Foals - Red Socks Pugie (Antidotes) Fleet Foxes - Oliver James (Fleet Foxes) Johnny and the Moon - The Ballad of Scarlett Town (Johnny and the Moon) Ghostkeeper - Lady of the Sky (And the Children of the Great Northern Muskeg) The Dodos - God? (Visiter) Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - Bag of Hammers (We Brave Bee Stings and All) Belle and Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher (Dear...
Thanks again to Devin for filling in for me today! Here is his playlist: Yo La Tengo - Decora (Electr-o-Pura) Bouncing Souls - Hopeless Romantic (Hopeless Romantic) Lemuria - Yesterday’s Lunch (Get Better) The Ponys - Shadow Box (Celebration Castle) Destroyer - Rivers (Trouble in Dreams) Chisel - The Town Crusher (Set You Free) The Ergs! - Introducing Morissey (Split w/Lemuria) Deerhunter -...
Many thanks to Barnaby, Neil and Jamey of The Tetraktys for coming into the studio for a live performance! Check out The Tetraktys at http://www.myspace.com/thetetraktys and be sure to catch their CD release shows on Sunday, 20 April at Hillhurst United Church (all-ages) and Wednesday, 23 April at The Marquee Room (+18). Born Ruffians - Badonkadonkey (Red, Yellow and Blue) Micah P. Hinson - The...
The Dodos - Fools (Visiter) The Neighbourhood Council - Vince Goes Home (Live at CJSW EP) Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out (Street Horrrsing) Animal Collective - Fireworks (Strawberry Jam) Parts & Labor - Knives and Pencils (Mapmaker) Matthew Barber - Sleep Please Come to Me (Ghost Notes) Basia Bulat - In the Night (Oh My Darling) The Mountain Goats - If You See Light (Get Lonely) The National - The...
Many thanks to Devin for filling in on Beet Farm today! Here’s what he played: Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey (Fluorescent Grey EP) Mr. T - Mr. T’s Commandments (Mr. T’s Commandments) Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Walk Into the Mirror (Real Emotional Trash b-side) Aaron Booth - Voice in the Night (Back Stories) Destroyer - The State (Trouble in Dreams) Oneida - Winter Mind...
March 2008
4 posts
The Summerlad - City of Noise (City of Noise Single)
Midlake - King Fish Pies (Bamnan & Silvercork)
Lucinda Black Bear - All She Wanted (‘capo my heart’ and Other Bear Songs)
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Swimming Pools (We Brave Bee Stings and All)
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Rowboat (What Is Free To A Good Home?)
Adele - Tired (19)
Belle & Sebastian -...
Destroyer - Introducing Angels (Trouble In Dreams)
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground & Nico) Prints - Meditation (Prints) Plants and Animals - Guru/Sinnerman (with/avec EP)
Miwa Gemini - Picnic (This Is How I Found You) Tafra - Oh, Daniel (Why Even Bother) Basia Bulat - A Secret (Oh My Darling) The Consonant C - Distance (A Sound Experiment: Live Sessions from...