Canadian Music From A-Z

February 15, 2010: A & B!

Azeda Booth - Ran - In Flesh Tones (Calgary)

Air Traffic Control - Only Child - To Be Free (Lunenburg, NS)

Adam & the Amethysts - Stupid Ocean - Amulet (Montreal)

The Acorn - Flood - Glory Hope Mountain (Ottawa)

Artist of the Year - Cake For You - Velour Brigade (Montreal)

Bicycles - B-B-Bicycles - The Good, The Bad & the Cuddly (Toronto)

Matthew Barber - Put Me Back Together (So Delicately) - Means & Ends (Toronto)

Laura Borealis - California - Laura (Toronto)

Brian Borcherdt - The Rain - Coyotes (Toronto)

Broken Social Scene - Stomach Song - Feel Good Lost (Toronto)

Black Mountain - Don't Run Our Hearts Around (Montreal)

Howie Beck - 10 Flowers, 13 Clouds, & A String - Pop & Crash (Toronto)

Bend Sinister - Julianna - S/T (Vancouver)

March 22, 2010: C & D!

Jason Collett - Roll on Oblivion - Here's to Being Here (Toronto)

The Constantines - Dirty Business - Modern Sinner Nervous Man EP (Toronto)

Will Currie & the Country Fresh - Surprising Me - S/T (Waterloo)

Cuff the Duke - Follow Me - Way Down Here(Oshawa)

Chromeo - You're So Gangsta - She's in Control (Toronto)

CFCF - Big Love - Continent (Montreal)

Deadmau5 - Complications - Random Album Title (Toronto)

Dragonette - Don't Be Funny - S/T (Toronto)

dd/mm/yyyy - Jackpot - 777 (Toronto)

Julie Doiron - Dark Horse - Woke Myself Up (Montreal)

The D'Urbervilles - Dragnet - We Are the Hunters (Toronto/Hamilton/Oshawa)

The Doers - Keep Yr Shirt On - Whatcha Doin? (Vancouver)

Luke Doucet & the White Falcon - The Lovecats - Bloods Too Rich (Toronto)

May 24, 2010: E & F!

Elbow Beach Surf Club - The Waltz - S/T (Guelph)

The Evaporators - You Got Me In This, Now You Get Me Out - Gassy Jack & Other Tales (Vancouver)

The Exchanges - Garden - S/T (Toronto)

Karyn Ellis - Four AM Love Song, Ode to a Wooden Floor - Hearts Fall (Toronto)

Kathleen Edwards - Scared at Night - Asking For Flowers (Ottawa)

Feist - One Evening (VV Mix) - Remixes & Collabs (Toronto)

Fidgital - Zeppelin - Departure (Vancouver)

Fur Bearing Animals - Space Shuttle Worn Machine - S/T (Vancouver)

Faunts - Twenty Three (Cadence Weapon Dogcatcher Remix) - Faunts Remixed (Edmonton)

Henri Faberge & the Adorables - Crawl Back - S/T (Toronto)

Fembots - Count Down Our Days - The City (Toronto)

Fancey - Gulf Breeze - Schmancey (Vancouver)

Frog Eyes - Stockades - Tears of the Valedictorian (Victoria)

Forest City Lovers - Sullen Seas - Haunting Moon Sinking (Toronto)

July 12, 2010: G & H! 

The Golden Dogs - Yeah! - Everything in 3 Parts (Toronto)

Gentleman Reg - You Can't Get it Back - Jet Black (Toronto)

Hannah Georgas - Chit Chat - This is Good (Vancouver)

Great Lake Swimmers - The Chrous in the Underground - Lost Channels (Toronto)

Ghostkeeper - Haunted - S/T (Calgary)

Gonzales - Working Together - Soft Power (Toronto)

Green Go - Put Your Specs on Boy - Borders (Guelph)

Holy Fuck - Korock - S/T (Toronto)

Hot Springs - Cellophane - Volcano (Montreal)

Human Highway - The Sound - Moody Motorcycle (Toronto)

High Dials - Killer of Dragons - Moon Country (Montreal)

The Hidden Cameras - Heji - Awoo (Toronto)

Hayden - Home By Saturday - Elk Lake Serenade (Toronto)

Hayden - Woody - Elk Lake Serenade (Toronto)

November 15, 2010: I & J

Immacualate Machine - Thank Me Later - High on Jackson Hill (Victoria)

Islands - No You Don't - Vapours (Montreal)

Insideamind - Whispering Through Windows - Scatterpopia (Ontario)

Junior Boys - Bellona - Last Exit (Hamilton)

Jenocide - Rewind - Machines to Make Us Wet (Halifax)

Jenocide - Boa Contrict Her - Machines to Make Us Wet (Halifax

B.A. Johnston - Sleeping With My Walkman - Call Me When Old & Fat is the New Young & Sexy (Hamilton)

Jenny Omnichord - Gone So Far - Cities of Gifts & Ghosts (Guelph)

Jenny Omnichord - Kings of London - Cities of Gifts & Ghosts (Guelph)

James OL & the Villains - Cross Country Canada - Alive at the Colch! (Windsor)

James OL & the Villains - December - Alive at the Colch! (Windsor)

The John Henrys - Edge of December - White Linen (Ottawa)

January 24, 2010: K & L!

Knock Knock Ginger - Love Renee - Based on a True Story - Dadmobile (Waterloo)

King Khan & the Shrines - Torture - The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines - Vice (Montreal)

King Khan & the Shrines - Took My Lady to Dinner - The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines - Vice (Montreal)

Kids on TV - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off - Mixing Business With Pleasure - Blocks Recording Club (Toronto)

Lesbians on Ecstasy - Party Time (a Womyn's Luv) - We Know You Know - Alien8 (Montreal)

The Lovely Feathers - Pope John Paul - Hind Hind Legs - Equator Records (Montreal)

Library Voices - Hunting Ghosts - Hunting Ghosts (& Other Collected Shorts) - Young Oul Records (Regina)

Lightning Dust - Listened On - S/T - Jagjaguwar (Vancouver)

Lightning Dust - When You Go - S/T - Jagjaguwar (Vancouver)

Lightning Dust - Wind Me Up - S/T - Jagjaguwar (Vancouver)

Land of Talk - Sea Foam - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss - Maple Records(Montreal)

Language Arts - White Socks in Birkenstocks - Where Were You in the Wild? - IND (Toronto/Vancovuer/Halifax)

Lake of Stew - I Am Violent - Ain't Tired of Lovin - Woodhog Recording Company (Montreal)

Ladyhawk - Fear - Shots - Jagjaguwar (Vancouver)

Lazersnake - Future, Tonight - Oceanic - IND (Edmonton)

March 28, 2011: M!

Amy Millan - I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Masters of Burial - Arts & Crafts (Montreal)

Memphis - Time Away - A Little Place in the Wilderness - Good Fences (Vancouver)

Magenta Lane - Bloody French - Gambling With God - Last Gang (Toronto)

The Mark Inside - Metal Monsters - Static/Crash - Vampire Dance (Toronto)

The Meligrove Band - Ages & Stages - Planets Conspire - V2 (Toronto)

Mother Mother - Burning Pile - O My Heart - Last Gang (Vancouver)

The Most Serene Republic - Ca-thar-sis Boo - ...And The Ever Expanding Universe - Arts & Crafts (Milton)

The Mohawk Lodge - Cold Hearts - Crimes - White Whale (Toronto)

Matthew Barber - Ghost Notes - Outside Music (Toronto)

Dan Mangan - The Indie Queens Are Waiting - Nice, Nice, Very Nice - Arts & Crafts (Vancouver)

Catherine Maclellan - Sorrows Drown - Water in the Ground - True North (Halifax)

Malajube - Le Crabe - Trompe L'Oeil - Dare to Care (Montreal)

May 30, 2011: N & O!

Ninja High School - My Purpose Not My Plan (Sex Nerds Mix) - Young Adults Against Suicide - IND (Toronto)

Novels - This Wouldn't Be the Last Time - S/T - IND (Toronto and more!)

Novels - Mr Foster's Teenage Daughter - S/T - INd (Toronto and more!)

No Kids - For Halloween - Come Into My House - Tomlab (Vancouver)

The New Pornographers - Crash Years - Together - Last Gang (Vancouver)

AC Newman - Miracle Drug - The Slow Wonder - The Blue Curtain (Vancouver)

AC Newman - Drink To Me, Babe, Then - The Slow Wonder - The Blue Curtain (Vancouver)

NQ Arbuckle - Part of A Poem by Alden Nowlan called Ypres: 1915 - XOK - Six Shooter (Toronto)

Numero - Hit-Pop - L'Ideologie Des Stars - Saboteur (Montreal)

National Parcs - Powerline - Timbervision - Audiogram (Montreal)

Ohbijou - Cannon March - Beacons - IND (Toronto)

Olenka & the Autumn Lovers - Mary's Song - And Now We Sing - IND (London)

The Organ - Memorize The City - Grab That Gun - Mint (Vancouver)

Old Man Luedecke - Wrong Side of the Couuntry - Hinterland - Black Hen (Chester, NS)

Orphan Choir - New Ritual - S/T - IND (Windsor)

December 5, 2011: Q & R

Quest for Fire - Strange Waves - S/T - Tee Pee Records (Toronto)

qr5 - Fallen Tree - There is No Path Not Taken - IND (Toronto)

Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing - Paper Bag (Toronto)

Rah Rah - Beaches - Breaking Hearts - Young Soul (Regina)

Russian Futurists - Hurtin 4 Certain - Me, Myself and Rye (Toronto)

Run With The Kittens - Tell Me to Take It Now - Cad Gold Jr. (Toronto)

Royal Wood - It Weighs on Me - The Lost & Found EP - Dead Daisy(Toronto)

Raised By Swans - Capable of Cruelty - Codes & Secret Longing - 1101 IND (London)

The Riderless – Neutrals - Atelier Gild - King Haxi (London/Toronto/Hamilton)

Josh Reichmann Oracle Band -Plant Words - Life is Legal - Paper Bag (Toronto)

Travis Reitsma - Beggars - Outside Factory Gates - IND (Windsor)

Jackie Robitaille - When I Was A Little Girl - Take a Step Closer - IND (Windsor)

April 16, 2012 : S!

Said the Whale - Sandy Bay Fishing Song - New Brighton - Hidden Pony (Vancouver)

Rae Spoon - When I Said There Was An End To Love - I Can't Keep all of our Secrets - Saved By Radio (Montreal)

Siskiyou - Keep Away the Dead - Keep Away the Dead - Constellations (Vancouver)

Spiral Beach - Kind of Beast - Ball - IND (Toronto)

Sleepless Nights - Godspeed You Deathwolf - EP Masters - IND(Halifax)

Shout Out Out Out Out - Chicken Soup for the Fuck You - Not Saying Just Saying - Nrmls Wlcm (Edmonton)

Sports - Slacking Scholar - Sports - IND (Toronto)

Stars - One More Night - Set Yourself on Fire - MapleMusic (Montreal)

The Stills - She's Walking Out - Without Feathers - Vice (Montreal)

Sunparlour Players - If the Creeks Don't Rise - Hymns for the Happy - Baudelaire (Toronto)

Ron Sexsmith - Poor Helpless Dreams - Exit Strategy of the Soul - Warner (Toronto)

The Sadies - Idle Tomorrows - Darker Circles - Outside Music (Toronto)

Katie Stelmanis - Join Us - Join Us - Blocks Recording Club (Toronto)

September 3, 2012: T!

Tangiers - Classless & Green - The Family Myth – Frenchkiss (Toronto)

The Telepathic Butterflies - Breakfast in Suburbia – Rainbow Quartz International (Winnipeg)

Tegan & Sara - I Bet It Sung - 5 Songs From Phoenix – Vapour (Calgary)

Tin Bangs Shake! - Heavy Handed Darling – IND (Toronto)

Tokyo Police Club - Be Good - A Lesson in Crime – Paper Bag (Newmarket)

Timber Timbre - Too Old To Die Young - Creep On Creepin On – Arts & Crafts (Brooklin, Ont)

Thomas - Maypole - Self Help – IND (Toronto)

Tiga - Shoes - Ciao! - Turbo (Montreal)

Thunderheist - Jerk It - S/T – Big Dada (Toronto/Montreal)

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Hiccup - Boo Hoo Hoo Boo – Kill Rock Stars (Vancouver)

These Electric Lives - Wake Me Up -S/T – IND (Toronto)

Mike Tod & the Buffalo Lake Kid - Take This Bread - Live - IND (Calgary)

November 5, 2012: U & V!

The Unicorns - Emasculate the Masculine - The Unicorns: 2014 - Suicide Squeeze (Montreal)

The Ugly Ducklings - The Blues Fell This Morning - Thump & Twang - Pacemaker (Toronto)

United Steel Workers of Montreal - For Love and Your Mother's Sake - Three on the Tree (Montreal)

The Unsettlers - Two Dead at the Five and Dime - Oil & Blood - S/T (Montreal)

The Urban Aesthetics - Dead End/Street Scene - S/T (Ottawa)

Chad Vangaalen - Dead Ends - Skelliconnection - Flemish Eye (Calgary)

Andrew Vincent & the Pirates - Girlfriends Dog - A Short Trip With the Pirates - Kelp (Ottawa)

Jane Vain & The Dark Matter - These Ghosts - Love is Where the Smoke Is (Calgary)

The Vertical Struts - Fun is Not Fun - The Vertical Struts - Pop Echo (Edmonton)

Vancougar - (I Hope Your) Money (Keeps You Warm - Canadian Tuxedo (Vancouver)

Vex - Machine - Cosmic - Machine - Royce Recording (Windsor/Detroit)

Chad Vangaalen - Sara - Diaper Island - Flemish Eye (Calgary)