Tag: Alternative rock

All the Rage no. 76, Jan. 19, 2020: The in-between period

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The best in left-field pop from Canada, Australia & beyond! This week, some great tuneage to kickstart your new year: Dreamy pop from Melbourne (Flyying Colours, Spiral Perm), Sydney (The S-Bends) & Aukland (Na Noise) Canadian electronic tuneage from Smaller Hearts, Molly Drag & Lié. Alien Nosejob and Psychic Void get punky! Edmonton’s Brunch Club and Hobart’s Quivers deliver some exceptional guitar pop. And so much more!

Your setlist:

Greg Dulli
Pantomimia

Dead Little Penny
Talk Show Goth

Flyying Colours
Goodtimes

The S-Bends
Datsun

Molly Drag
Exist

Ramon Chicharrón
Apretao feat. Boogát

Smaller Hearts
Possible Futures

Salad Boys
This Issue

Heir Traffic
Is it to Clamber, to Climb?

Spiral Perm
No Bones

Alien Nosejob
Television Sets

Hockey Dad
I Missed Out

Psychic Void
Sweet Dreams

No Museums
An Engine Submerged

Brunch Club
Dandelion Dreams

Na Noise
Bad Dreams

Quivers
When it Breaks

All the Rage no. 59, December 6, 2019: Batting cleanup on 2018

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Your biweekly source of the best left-field indie pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond.

This week: Some great tuneage from the back end of 2018, from the cool hiphop of Okenyo and the smooth electropop of Gauci to the compelling drone of Negative Nancies and the joyous guitar pop of faves Pale Lips. And so much more.

Yer setlist:

Okenyo, Hang Your Hat

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6IyttRCxu3bChKYCUt8kP2

Gauci, Paradise

Rackett, I Please Myself

Sweater Curse, Mon’s Song
https://www.triplejunearthed.com/embed/6613086

Slag Queens, Waterfall

Negative Nancies, The Dogs

Bloods, No Fun (feat. Girls Rock!)
https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/3VOjrUNhPVDtiyYw4EP1MT

Pale Lips, You’re A Doll

RAT!Hammock, June

Little Desert, Happy

Blessed, Thought

Hexdebt, Covenant

WLMRT, Dark Dollars

Milk Buttons, Some Impression

Sarsaparilla, Postcard
https://www.triplejunearthed.com/embed/7477881

Charlie Collins, Mexico
https://www.triplejunearthed.com/embed/7612901

Contrast, Black Hole
https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2951354323/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=4247329356/transparent=true/

Julia Jacklin, Head Alone
https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=171742989/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/license_id=407/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=308383436/transparent=true/

All the Rage no. 52 – August 30, 2018: Goodbye to the Garden City

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Your biweekly source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: My last show in Canada before crossing the ocean … to Germany! And what better way to mark the occasion than with JuliaWhy?’s garagey sensibility, Nun’s ominous electronic foreboding, Babygirl’s dreampop, Würst Nürse’s punkiness, and so much more.

Your setlist:

Sahara Beck
Here We Go Again
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5s2JcXMkuhkEF8MYeWFrW1

JuliaWhy?
Pocket

Loose Tooth
All the Colours Gone

Phantastic Ferniture
Uncomfortable Teenager

Brian Tamaki and the Kool-Aid Kids
Tunnel Vision

Baby Cages
All U Want

Leathers
Day for Night

Youngblood
Dark Place
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1hMoML8Dc9H1KuZODcUb2L

Sam Taylor-Wood & Pet Shop Boys
I’m In Love With a German Film Star (Radio Edit)
https://embed.music.apple.com/ca/album/im-in-love-with-a-german-filmstar-radio-edit-single/293317675

Nun
Pick Up the Phone

Heathers
Black Moon

Babygirl
Over in No Time

Primo!
A City Stair

Würst Nürse
Hot Doctor

Briggs
Here (feat. Caiti Baker)

All the Rage no. 51 – August 23, 2018: I’m going nowhere

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Back from vacation with another edition of your biweekly(ish) source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: Some mellowness, some hip hop, some punk-inflected pop from Nooky, Tropical Fuck Storm, Billy Moon, Fog Lake, Okin Osan and others. And! The triumphant return of ATR favourite Hello Seahorse!

Your setlist:

Nooky
Black Future

Tropical Fuck Storm
Stayin’ Alive

Metric
Dark Saturday
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0xJRUArUCDBb0tGwo1Std2

Petra Glynt
New Growth

Dilly Dally
I Feel Free

Billy Moon
Dingus
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ol_9QyNRL3g?rel=0

Slowfish
Stringy Bits

Exposure
Erase

Squaring Ciricles
Movement

A Lily
Paint Me With Your Blood Again

Fog Lake
talk

Hello Seahorse!
Son

Okin Osan
I Wanna Be That Girl

All the Rage no. 50 – July 15, 2018: The Half-Century Show

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Your biweekly source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: Episode Number 50! Spotlight on the songs that have made ATR: Martina Topley-Bird, Girls Against Boys and Metric finally get their due. Also: the three quintessential ATR bands. And! As always, plenty of the best new music from Canada and Australia.

Your setlist:

Martina Topley Bird, Too Tough to Die

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0N3DUVHC7gAgVnzfPfmpAY

Girls Against Boys, All the Rage

Heart Beach, Underwater

Laura Sauvage, Alien (Anything Like It, Have You?)

Murray Darling, Don’t Say You’re Moving to Melbourne

Moody Beaches, Guns

Dark Fair, Off Into My Head

Ramon Chicharron, Los Monos Están Berracos

Fingerless, Out There

Little Ugly Girls, Tractor

New War, Get in the Boot

Rebel Yell, Toxic

Johnny Headband, Hot Button Topic

Metric, Lost Kitten

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6fNr1CSeK84DIW932nV3c3

All the Rage no. 48 – June 17, 2018: Soft, loud, melancholic

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Your biweekly source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: We get mellow with Future States, punch with Lié and Surf Dads, and end with a Tropical Fuck Storm of despair. Let’s go.

Your setlist:

Shaun Carlo & Jeepz, Earn

Future States, Heaven

Phantastic Ferniture, Fuckin’ and Rollin’

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/00F5GpqtjDr750q3M2Bkfm

Chromatics, Black Walls

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/UwigmMTsM-Y?rel=0

Smaller Hearts, Summertime III

Asta Rangu, Plastiscine

Lié, Country Boys

Surf Dads, Hold Onto Me

The Dollar Bill Murrays, The Shape You Take

Squaring Circles, Anima

 

Tropical Fuck Storm, Rubber Bullies

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_fhOUfxIvgY?rel=0

All the Rage no. 47 – May 27, 2018: A great indie compilation and so much more

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Your biweekly source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: Multiple songs from Hamilton’s Haolin Monks and Grey Records’ excellent Grey Matter compilation. Also, the answer to the question, if someone pitches me a band that sounds like “Pet Shop Boys meets My Bloody Valentine at a Stereolab concert,” am I going to play it. Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes, I will.

Bonus spoiler: The band in question (Smaller Hearts) delivers.

Yer setlist:

Ubik, Lost and Later

Cold Meat, Love in a Void

Heart Beach, Need

Smaller Hearts, Chipper

Zöe Fox and the Rocket Clocks, Warrior Princess

Spiral Perm, Santa at NASA

Eekwol feat. Boogey the Beat

Haolin Munk, Deep Space Float (f. Lee Reed)

Navy Gangs, Housekeeping

Speedy Ortiz, Lucky 88

Shirley & the Pyramids, More than the Sun

Great Earthquake, Learn to Love the Ordinary

Orlando Furious, Rage

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/arD_5YGJdQ0?rel=0

The Garrys, Swamp Stomp

Nylex, Fascinate

Haolin Monk, Astro’s Revenge (f. Emay)

Sightlines, Love Ethic

IV League, Superstar

All the Rage no. 44 – March 28, 2018: Left-field Lorde!

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Your biweekly source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: A superstar like Lorde may not be left-field pop, but I think she’s just great. And because she’s coming to town (with Run the Jewels! And Mitski!) at the end of the month, that’s a good enough excuse to break out a couple of nifty remixes, in addition to the usual awesome sounds of the underground.

Your setlist:

Lorde, Supercut (El-P Remix) (f. Run the Jewels)

Miesha and the Spanks, Lost Boy

Kaptur, Pixel

US Girls, Poem
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/7CXnfHxC8sWdITHr4fFbnq

True Crime, Everything

Mint Field, Quiero Otoño de Nuevo

Caroline No, Alex

Omar Musa, Lak$a

Childsaint/CALMLY, Used Up
https://www.triplejunearthed.com/embed/5481141

Mod Con, Neighbourhood

The Ancients, I Need You

Cursed Arrows, Jumpers

Lorde, Green Light (Chromeo Remix)

All the Rage no. 43 – March 3, 2018: Working through the issues

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Your biweekly source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: Using music to process a bad month for the concept of justice for Indigenous Canadians. As Superchunk (also on this week’s show) ironically put it, What a Time to Be Alive.

Your setlist:

Tropical Fuck Storm, Back to the Wall
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/05HLtkxNPaKGrs0nHYmNPe

Tram Cops, stolen land

US Girls, Incidental Boogie
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5DZBl18zByeRXwRotKcVvF

A.B. Original, Dead in A Minute (f. Caiti Baker)
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/19i9XNvAlpkudulpAHuEHo

Cable Ties, Tell them Where to Go
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/2OHVppPPqySVNEWQ99iDfV

Sook, I’m Not Your Woman

Boat Show, Fake It ‘Til You Make It

Booji Boys, Mr. Nazis on the Beat

Quick Fix, Always Was

Donny Benét, Santorini

Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks, Fists

bedside., Get it Right

Deafcult, Secret Wisdom

No Museums, The Twin Tone Market

Wax Chattels, Stay Disappointed

Superchunk, Reagan Youth

Jess Locke, Border Security

All the Rage no. 42 – Feb. 14, 2018: So. Much. Excellent. Tuneage.

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Your biweekly source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: A surprising number of best-of-2018 contenders, and it’s only February. It’s going to be a good year for music.

Your setlist:

The Nude Dogs, We’re Girls, We’re Here

Rackett, Ready or Not

Wild Meadows, First Exit

Booji Boys, Pissicine Perfect

Civic, New Vietnam

Loveproof, Sister Moonlight

Dream Girl 88, Hits Me Like a Thunder

Chromeo & The-Dream, Bedroom Calling
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/c1cvDqM_CMg?rel=0

Kimmortal, 88 and Beyond

Persons, Got Nothing For Ya

Tia Gostelow, Hunger

Siamese, Slaughterhouse

Blaire, Youth

The Double Happiness, City

Camp Cope, How to Socialise & Make Friends