October 17 2008

This week's playlist:

Explosions in the Sky - Home - Friday Night Lights Soundtrack

Two Hours Traffic - Sure Can Start - Little Jabs
We Are Scientists - After Hours - Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist (Sorry; good song, shitty album)
Born Ruffians - I Need Life - Red, Yellow, and Blue

Holy Fuck - Korock - Holy Fuck
Styrofoam - To Simply Lie Here and Breathe - Morr Music Comp
Winter Gloves - Factories - About a Girl

Acid House Kings - Do What You Wanna Do - Sing Along
The Stills - Snow in California - Oceans Will Rise
Bend Sinister - Stories of Brothers - Julianna

Owen - One of These Days - At Home With Owen
Fall Horsie - Even From a Boat - From the Seam of Doors
Fractal Pattern - Ad Infinitum - No Hope But Mt. Hope

Mother Mother - Oh My Heart - Oh My Heart
Novillero - A Little Tradition - A Little Tradition
Everything All the Time - Hooked - Everything All the Time

Octoberman - Walking Time - These Trails are Old and New
Headlights - Your Old Street - Kill Us With Kindness

October 2 and 9 - CKXU FUNDrive!

Okay, for our October 2 and 9 shows, we will not be playing regular programming. These shows mark the beginning and end of the 2008 CKXU FUNDrive, our annual event to raise funds to support your favourite campus/community radio station.

We have wicked sexy incentives from the station, like Friends Cards, T-shirts, Mugs, and Hoodies, but if you listen to our show and donate we're giving away extra gifts to people who donate: MIX CDs!

If you donate to ckxu during our show, we will totally give you some mix CDs of our favourite tracks of all time. But if you don't want them for some reason, donate right now! Go to www.ckxu.com

September 26, 2008

Playlist for the show (* denotes Canadian artist)

Explosions in the Sky - The Sky Above, the Field Below - Friday Night Lights Soundtrack

Plants and Animals* - New Kind of Love - Parc Avenue
The Dears* - Lost in the Plot - No Cities Left
The Walkmen - On the Water - You & Me

Final Fantasy* - Blue Imelda - Spectrum 14th Century
Neil Halstead - Eleveness - Oh! Mighty Engine
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life - I'm Wide Awake it's Morning

Wintergloves* - Let Me Drive - About a Girl
Bella* - Hooray, for Andy Autio - Pretty Mess
Beck - Profanity Prayers - Modern Guilt

Gunther* - Critical Justice - Nuclear Stations
Mammoths Melting out of the Ice?!!??! - Daddy Drinks (cause yr bad) - self-titled

Ohbijou* - Widths and Curves - Swift Feet for Troubling Times
Everything All the Time* - The Only One You Love is You - self-titled
Alaska in Winter - The Homeless and the Hummingbirds - Dance Party in the Balkans

John K. Samson* - Utilities - CBC Radio Sessions vol. 1
Kathleen Edwards* - Hockey Skates - Failer

September 19, 2008

This week's playlist (* denotes a Canadian artist):

Explosions in the Sky - Inside It All Feels The Same - FNL Soundtrack

Belle and Sebastian - I'm Waking Up To Us - Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
Said the Whale* - This Winter I Retire - Howe Sounds
Okkervil River - Lost Coast - The Stand Ins

The Wet Secrets* - Easy Prey vs. Sex Maniac - Rock Fantasy
Magneta Lane* - The Constant Lover - The Constant Lover
Rainer Maria - Catastrophe - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together

Justice - The Party - (Cross)
CSS - Jager Yoga - Donkey
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles

Styrofoam - To Simply Lie Here and Breathe - A Number of Small Things
Readymade* - Nov 30 - All the Plans Resting
Lights Out Asia - x-33 - Eyes Like Brondie

HRSTA* - Gently Gently - Stem Stem Electro
Mogwai - Take Me Somewhere Nice - Rock Action
Woodpigeon* - Knock Knock - Treasury Library Canada

Kaley Bird* - First For Last - Kaley Bird

FNL Trivia Question: Why was Brian "Smash" Williams suspended for three games in the second season of the show?
Answer: He assaulted a guy in a theatre making racist and sexual comments to his little sister and withrdrew his apology.

Sexy stuff. Listen next week.

September 12, 2008

Here's the playlist for the show:

Explosions in the Sky - To West Texas - Friday Night Lights Soundtrack

Sunparlor Player - Bless this City - Hymns for the Happy
Luc - faith(louielouie)enter - peaofthesea
Jose Gonzalez - Down the Line - In Our Nature

Vancougar - Distance - Canadian Tuxedo
The Stills - Everything I Build - Oceans Will Rise
The Hidden Cameras - The Waning Moon - Awoo

Gunther - He-man (by the power of Greyskull)
Fiery Furnaces - Here Comes the Summer - EP
The Shins - Australia - Wincing the Night Away

The Awkward Stage - Sun Goes Down on Girlsville - Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights
Mates of State - Get Better - Re-Arrange Us
Stars - My Favourite Book - Arts&Crafts Sampler

The Abbas Brothers - The Way of the Wanderer - Something Like Nostalgia
Do Make Say Think - If I Only... - Do Make Say Think
Mono - Finlandia - Gone

Azeda Booth - In Red - In Flesh Tones