The Radness of Shad!

Playlist for January 17, 2011
Son the Father by Fucked Up
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead by Crash Test Dummies feat. Ellen Reid
The Ballad of Hugo Chavez by the Arkells
Good Day at the Races by Hollerado (live)
Live Forever by Dallas Green and Shad
Electric City feat. Shad by Grand Analog
Black Hand by Cadence Weapon
Challenge by Japanther
Hollowpoint Sniper Hyperbole by USS
Oublie Pas by Karkwa
Ironic by Alanis Morrissette
Make Out by Jesse Matheson and the Midnight Snacks
Baby by Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris
Check the O.R. by Organized Rhyme

Yikes, what a tasty week! As always we brought you all over this great country bringing you aural pleasures from coast to coast.

Music Notes:

• This week was the debut of Hollerado's newest "Good Day at the Races". It's off their newest, "Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning" which is available at their shows on vinyl with a free bottle of hot sauce. Perfect for nachos. Mmmm. For a free download of some golden oldies, "Juliette" and "Fake Drugs" head over to their website.
• Shad rules! Shadrach Kabango was born in Kenya but grew up in London, Ontario. We played two tracks featuring this tasty dude--one with Dallas Green, and one with Grand Analog. He shines on both tracks and you should deffo check em out. Click either link in the playlist to hear the songs. The DG track is raising money for Skate 4 Cancer. Shibby. Not the last you'll be hearing from him on the show, that's a straight up guarantee. Shad'll be playing The Indies this Canadian Music Week along with fellow CV darlings Hollerado. WHEW!
• USS has been teasing with dispatches from the studio. Follow the Twitter as you wait for the next record...
  

Cantastic Voyage, Stardate: October 26, 2010

TGIT! Another Tuesday, another Cantastic Voyage! This here blog's where you can catch up on all our hella sweet playlists, show listings, stories, links to videos of cats jumping into and out of cardboard boxes...Don't mind our appearance, we are under construction...Escalator temporarily stairs...I'll be pimping this shit out in the next few weeks until you recommend all your acid-dropping friends eschew "The Wall" and just trip balls on the CV blog.

Today's show was the best yet, and I don't think we had a single listener! That's all right, because I tuned in and had a helluva time. Here's what played:

1. Coax Me by Sloan (Requested by Brett )
2. Underwhelmed by Sloan (Requested by Tristan)
3. Everybody knows this is Nowhere by Neil Young (Requested by Jake Boyd)
4. This Mourning by Wide Mouth Mason
5. Oublie Pas by Karkwa
6. Montreal -40C by Malajube
7. Make out by Jesse Matheson and his Midnight Snacks (Requested by Philipe)
8. Electric Heart by Rebel Emergency (Cantastic Voyage EXCLUSIVE, hewas!)
9. Let your Backbone Slide by Maestro Fresh Wes (Request from Trung)
10. Love Songs for the Last Twenty by Del Barber
11. Hello Time Bomb by Matthew Good Band (requested by (e)Jay)
12. Americanarama by Hollerado
13. Mavericks by USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker) feat. Ashley MacIsaac (requested by Jaime, but I was already gonna spin that shet!)
14. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk (Deadmau5 remix)
15. How Much Longer? (French Version) by Sugar Jones (requested by Brett)
16. Sundance by Sam Roberts (requested by James Dean)
17. Around this Town by Grand Analog

HOT TITS, that's a tasty Canadian mosaic of tuneskies! Provinces represented: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba...

SHOW LISTINGS!
November 11 Hawksley Workman at the Great Hall for a G20 Legal Defense Benefit...fifty bones, but Hawksley's such an incredible performer I'm sure it'll be worth every penny!
November 11 Remembrance day seems to be a good day for charity shows, because the Peace.Love festival goes down at the Guv, featuring Big Boi and our friends in the peg, Grand Analog...It's gonna be tasty and the proceeds go to stamping out violence, so you might wanna hit that shit like a whore on Christmas....instead of actually hitting a whore on Christmas, which would be violent. $37.50
November 13 Two Hours Traffic at Horseshoe Tavern
November 19 Bedouin Soundclash at the Sound Academy $26
November 19 Woodhands at Lee's Palace $13.50
December 9 & 10 Broken Social Scene at Sound Academy, $31.50
December 11 Justin Rutledge at Lee's Palace $18
Tickets for all the above shows can be purchased from the kind folks at Rotate This!

Also, those fine Hamiltonians, Arkells, will be slinking across Quebec and my home province, so if you wanna be there to go "HEY-HEY-HEY!" check it out!

November 24: The Belmont in Montreal, Quebec
November 26: Zappa's in Kingston, Ontario
November 27: The Red Dog, Peterborough, Ontario (my all-time favourite!)
December 2: Cowboy's in London, Ontario
December 3: Phoenix Concert Hall, Toronto, Ontario
December 9: The Studio at Hamilton Place, Hamilton, Ontario

TIMBITS
More Canadian music nooz-you-can-use:

• You'd think if you have a great song with a fantastic video featuring Etobicoke's own Dave Foley and a lot of hot ladies in scanty-panties, you could just leave well enough alone. Hollerado puts balls to the walls with this 2010 update, it's got a lot of what the bloganistas call 'buzz', and rightly so...it's more fun than a bucket of Manoticks. It was mentioned in the first show but we had no blog then...
• Reigning idiot-kings Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker were recently chosen as Canada's curators for the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange project, and I hit their going away party with a fresh-from-the-hospital Jenicka Wynne. They just came back from frickin' India, and they're heading back on November 27 to swap with India's party master Nikhil Chinapia. I hope they fill that crate back up with a million more shirts like this one...I'd give my third chakra to lick a mango lassi off that man...whoops...did I type that out loud? Photo credit and love to Jenicka Wynne, who has a billion great pictures on her flickr account right here. We played USS's newest on the show last week, Mavericks, featuring Ashley MacIsaac. The week before we played Sleepy Maggie, but now that you can get the chanson from KT8 on its own or bundled with a t-shirt, we can play the real collabo! Good luck in India, boys, don't trust just any Maharishis...but if you do, be sure to get a great song like Sexy Sadie out of it!
• Rebel Emergency has kept me laughing the last coupla weeks with their updates from the road...The fellers just killed their first cross-Canada tour in true Rebel fashion. Check their twitter or facebook for all the pants-down, ipad pianisting, ear-fisting fun! They'll be having a huge winter show announcement very soon, and I'll let ya know all the deeters as soon as I know 'em! Nothing says Christmas like the smooth Island sounds of Rebel!
  

Be sure to tune in tomorrow at 5 on radio glendon! We should get the podcasts up within the next few weeks!

toques, bongs, and maple syrup,
linda j xoxo