
Happy 144th Birthday, Canada. The QBiM tradition of a homegrown party soundtrack continues with the latest edition of RADiO QBiM. Here's hoping all my North American friends have themselves a super and safe long weekend. (cover star: Stompin' Tom Connors) tracklisting: 01 Sloan "Unkind" 02 Handsome Furs "Repatriated" 03 The Rest "John Huston" 04 Caribou "Melody Day" 05 Kalle Mattson "Good Morning, Goodnight" 06 The Details "Weightless in the Dark" 07 City and Colour [...]

May 31, 2011 marks the end of another Polaris Music Prize voting year. I'm finalizing my ballot for this year's long list, and decided that instead of a boring sequence of posts about what I'm considering, I'd use the opportunity for another episode of RADiO QBiM to give you a taste of what I'm thinking. (cover star: Katie Stelmanis of Austra ) tracklisting: 01 Austra "Beat And The Pulse" 02 Destroyer "Chinatown" [...]

...and it's back! RADiO QBiM had to retreat and gather the troops for a bit in order to get our house in order, and we couldn't think of a better way to make a return than to have Daniel Romano give a guided tour of his top 10 favourite songs of all time. You might recall in my last post about Romano that I mentioned his new album Sleep Beneath the Willow reminded me of the now-defunct CHOW AM country music station from Welland (and if you don't [...]

tracklisting: 01 The Russian Futurists “Hoeing Weeds Sowing Seeds” 02 Shad “A Good Name” 03 The Love Language “Heart To Tell” 04 The Reckoners “Too Tough To Love” 05 John K. Samson “The Last And” 06 The National “Terrible Love” 07 PS I Love You “2012” 08 Library Voices “Insider Trading (On Outsider Art)” 09 The Ghost Is Dancing “Battles On” 10 The Rest “John Huston” 11 Diamond Rings “Wait & See” 12 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “Say No To Love” 13 [...]

tracklisting: 01 LCD Soundsystem “I Can Change” 02 Twin Shadow “Slow” 03 Meligrove Band “Halflight” 04 Apollo Ghosts “Things You Go Through” 05 Sun Hotel “Suburb” 06 The Walkmen “Stranded” 07 Deerhunter “Revival” 08 Karkwa “L'acouphéne (live at the Polaris Music Prize gala)” 09 Japandroids “Heavenward Grand Prix” 10 Generationals “When They Fight, They Fight” 11 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan "Come Undone" 12 Belle and Sebastian "Write About Love" 13 The DeFranco family "Heartbeat It's a Lovebeat" 14 Spoons "Nova Heart" [...]

tracklisting: 01 LCD Soundsystem “I Can Change” 02 Twin Shadow “Slow” 03 Meligrove Band “Halflight” 04 Apollo Ghosts “Things You Go Through” 05 Sun Hotel “Suburb” 06 The Walkmen “Stranded” 07 Deerhunter “Revival” 08 Karkwa “L'acouphéne (live at the Polaris Music Prize gala)” 09 Japandroids “Heavenward Grand Prix” 10 Generationals “When They Fight, They Fight” 11 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan "Come Undone" 12 Belle and Sebastian "Write About Love" 13 The DeFranco family "Heartbeat It's a Lovebeat" 14 Spoons "Nova Heart" [...]

Someone once suggested to me I make a Quick Before It Melts podcast collecting some of the best stuff from the blog and put it all together into an easy-to-use, easy-to-love one-stop-pod-rockin' download. So, as September is traditionally the month where networks re-invent themselves and start with a new broadcast year, so too will I wade into the milieu with my very own pilot episode of RADiO QBiM . There's no format, no theme, no commentary (thank God), no filler, just killer tunes. It's only available here (for now), but if response is good, then maybe RADiO [...]