Okay WHAT is up. This week’s post is a special all-Canadian edition, because that’s what I feel like doing right now. The main mess I want to share with you today comes from CBC Radio 1′s Vinyl Cafe. It’s not one, but actually FOUR jams, or what I like to call a quadro-bangulation. Vinyl Cafe shows always showcase talented Canadian artists, and quite often they even get a few to perform ALL-THE-WAY LIVE in between the acts of Stuart Mclean’s original-gangsta stories.

Reid Jamieson – Fields of Gold (Live: Vinyl Cafe July 5th, 2008 -”The Train Show”, ) – At different times during this recording, you can hear a faint creaking sound because this song was performed inside a moving train car. Don’t try to tell me that’s not indie out the butt.

Nathan – The Wind (Live: Vinyl Cafe Feb. 21st, 2009 – “Turlington’s Dog”) – The quality on this one is a bit jankity, I don’t remember if that’s my fault for encoding it wrong, or if the podcast came through that way. Either way I’m man enough to take the blame. Sorry! It’s still fire!

Nathan – Discarded Debris (Live: Vinyl Cafe Feb. 21st, 2009 – “Turlington’s Dog”) – Same deal with this one, but make sure to still give a listen because it’s got a theremin, and theremins are raw.

Tanya Davis – Art (Live: Vinyl Cafe, I forget when) – This “Art” sounds like a lucky guy. hur hur hur. Here’s a video of the album version:

Bonus Drippings

I also want to share a rad mixtape by called Farming the Steps, by a Victoria dubstep DJ called Gobe.

Internet drama update: I had been following a blog called Hypetrak until the author shut it down to apparently focus on studying for his bar exam, so now I’ve supplemented it with WeDoItRight, and they’ve been consistently supplying new jams for me while I’m at work. SUCH AS:

K-Os – I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman – Any excuse to listen to that OC theme without having to watch the show, right boyss?

Anecdotes + Stream of consciousness time:

The Birthday Massacre – Video Kid (Live) – this isn’t the video I wanted to link to for this post,  but in the one I initially chose, you could hear the girl with the camera singing along. It was hilarious, but also irritating in a way.

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead, and I’ve also been hearing Metric‘s “Help I’m Alive” everywhere I go. When you think about the song in a zombie-survival context, the lyrics totally work. You can get an acoustic version of Help I’m Alive from the Metric website. I suggest using a fake email address.

Well I gotta go, I got blueberry jam on my bath towel.