On this week’s episode of Pop Music From Around Here, we celebrate the return of Brasstronaut to Vancouver. An event culminating with a welcome home gig at the Biltmore Cabaret on April 30th with Fine Mist. A decidedly low-fi episode. An decidedly excellent low-fi episode.

Language Arts - White Socks in Birkenstocks

Brasstronaut - Old World Lies

Pan Pan - Estuary Film Day

GR8 - 2000 - FUTURE

Fine Mist - Under the Covers

Sound & Silence - Better Times

Arron - Forest Falcon

The Wind Whistles - Communication is dead

Jordan Klassen - Hot Ashes

Run Chico Run - Smitten

The Dudes - They’re a Comin’

Animal Names - Other Fingers / Fish Hooks

Herman Dune - My Home is Nowhere Without You

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Good Morning listeners of Pop Music From Around Here. According to my rss feed, I’ have been broadcasting the best of the Pacific Northwest for 1 year! I deserve a break. Here it is, a haphazard playlist of my favourite pop music tracks, regardless of geography. Its Pop Music From Around the World!

Delta Spirit - Trashcan

Dr. Dog - The Breeze

Richard Swift - Lady Luck

Ray Lamontagne - You Are The Best Thing

Harry Nilsson - Coconut

The Beegees - Gotta Get A Message to You

Herman Dune - I Wish That I could See You Soon

Jens Lekman - You Are The Light (By Which I Travel Into This and That)

Karl Blau - Into the Nada

Immaculate Machine - C’mon Sea Legs

International Falls - Burnaby

Culture Reject - Museums

Welcome back! Great sets of indie/folk/rock, quiet folk, sweet sweet pop, and finally, whale music. New work from Prairie Cat, Clues, The Decemberists, Carnival Knights, Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin. Most Excited about the first two. They are my type of thing. Carrie Pratt? Is Prairie Cat, and has a great ears to hear when he has created a great pop song. And Clues, Alden Penner of the Unicorns is making music in the public sphere once again, and I, for none, am pleased.

Cowboys & Indians - Life Everlasting

Carnival Knights - Hero Of Green Lake

Eisenhauer -  Feel The Sames

In Medias Res - A Cause For Concern

Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin - Wild Geese

Laura Gibson - Spirited

The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love

Prairie Cat - It Began, Ended With Sparks

Clues - Perfect Fit

The Mohawk Lodge - Wear em’ Out

Culture Reject - In the Cinema

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Good Morning Listeners. Sorry for posting this late. Say Hi to Your Mom kicks of the March 18th, 2009 episode of Pop Music From Around Here.  We sweep down into California to continue the dark sounds, then back to Seattle for a humoungously groovin’ Velella Velella track. It’s all Vancouver from there. New Aidan Knight, old Poison Dart, Medium aged The Clips. It’s POPMFAH!

Say Hi To Your Mom - Toil & Trouble

Thee More Shallows - The White Mask

Velella Velella - Hunter

Attics & Cellars - Two More Messages Sent

P:ano - All of November, Most of October

Mother Mother - Wisdom

Familia - More

The Clips - Eyesuck

Eisenhauer - Sundays

Yukon - N/A

Aidan Knight - Jasper

The Poison Dart - Crazy Horce

Hey Cool Cats! The debut offering from Apollo Ghosts has arrived in my palms and I am giddy. A first prediction? I really think that these cats are going to go somewhere. Jangly guitars with good energy and clever songwriting = $5 dollar record that is selling like a Honey Badger on a Cobra. We meander through the Seattle indie rock scene and end up in California and play some work from the Jay/Megan collaborative team in Fine Mist and International Falls. It’s Pop Music From Around Here.

Dave Bazan - Selling Advertising

Damien Jurado - Caskets

Starflyer 59 - Minor Keys

Richard Swift - Songs For National Freedom

Apollo Ghosts - Shadow Boxing Bruce Lee

Apollo Ghosts - Late Night Chinese Restaraunts

International Falls -

Fine Mist - In the Moonlight

Pan Pan - Estuary Film Day (LIVE)

Addition - Spiderbite

It’s Pop Music From Around Here on the busiest week of the semester. And yet, still a pretty good mix. Not that I deserve any credit. The Mohawk Lodge does, and Karl Blau…and No Kids…And Mother Mother…and Veda Hille…who am I kidding. But I guess recognizing greatness is something, no?

The Mohawk Lodge - Wear Em Out

Culture Reject - Inside the Cinema

Karl Blau - Crashing Waves

Desolation Wilderness - No Tomorrow

Lake - Dissatsified

No Kids - Prisoner Of Desire

No Kids - The Beaches All Closed

Veda Hille - LuckyLucky

Mother Mother - Burning Pile

Run Chico Run - Broadcaster

And more…Let me go listen again.

Jamison Dyck has left the studio, but not before curating an excellent batch of Pop Music From Around There and pumping it out onto the airwaves from Studio 1 in CIVL Radio, Abbotsford, BC, Canada, The World, The Universe(Kids love that kind of stuff, I learned about that in EDUC 200 - Educational Psychology).

JD dishes his favourite tracks from Grizzly Bear, The Dodos, Parachutes while Nathan steals a little water from the Halifax pop music excellence well playing Brent Randall and his Pinecones and Lara Peek and the Winning Hearts. Peek is a Pinecone, but Randall is not a Winning Heart. Go figure. It’s Pop Music From Around There on CIVL Radio, February 4th, 2009.

Ponytail - Beg Waves

Parachutes - Your Stories

Beirut - Venice

Climb Aboard The Friendship - We Are Getting Nowhere

The Appleseed Cast - The Summer Before

The Dodos - Fools

Grizzly Bear - Colorado

Brent Randall and His Pinecones - Strange Love

Laura Peek & The Winning Hearts - Stand Right There

Joe Pug - Hymn #101

Two Bicycles - Last Thoughts

Larry Portelance, well versed in the music communities of the East Coast comes for the 2nd time into CIVL Radio’s studio 1 and listeners of Pop Music From Around Here/There gain the benefits of his gleanings. I offer my 2 cents as well, playing tracks from Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs, Brent Randall and his Pinecones, The Maughams and commenting judiciously along with Larry. But this is Larry’s baby. Eric’s trip, Jenn Grant, A/V, Sleepless Nights…Yes.

Eric’s Trip - Girlfriend

Shotgun & Jaybird - Two & Two is Four

Jon McKiel - 123 My Friends

Tom Fun Orchestra - Marshall Applewhite

Hotshot Robot - Epicurean, Listen

A/V - Slow Moving Ambulance

Brent Randall & His Pinecones - These Days, These Knights

Nathan Lawr & The Minataurs - Footsteps

The Maughams - Darling, I…

Down With The Butterfly - Two Stories

Jenn Grant - Dreamer

The Sleepless Nights - Allyson Got Robbed

Pop Music From Around Here and There, Episode 14(mp3)

Egad, computer problems. Servers crashing. It’s nearly all online streaming content today. But good online streaming content. Except that transitioning from myspace to myspace, loading and stopping pages from playing at innapropriate times is stressful. Moreover, it was pretty lonely in the studio.

BUT. A good lineup which I could rattle of now, or you could hop your eyes a line down and read it for yourself.

Apollo Ghosts - Ghost Get Out Of My Apartment

Golden Touch - From a Backseat

Falcao & Monashee - Starlight

Aidan Knight - Cold House ( On the DL)

The Dudes - Don’t Talk

Karl Blau - That’s How I Got to Memphis

Collapsing Opposites - Look at What You Make

Colourbook - Krakatoa

The Microphones - The Moon

Caulfield ( & his magic violin) - Folk

Lake - Oh the Places

DD/MM/YYYY - White Lies

Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree

Pop Music From Around Here and There, Episode 13

Welcome to another episode of Pop Music From Around There, courtesy of guest host and pal Sarah Vanpopta. There means the “Yours to Discover” Province. That means Ontario. If yours to discover means I need to do the leg work to discover just how great Ontario is, that sounds hard, and daunting, something I don’t have the energy to do. Fortunately Sarah takes us on a tour of her land, stopping in Guelph, Mississauga, Toronto and her hometown Hamilton and feeds us the best of each locale. New new new track from Zachary Aasman, songs courtesy of The D’ubervilles, Andre Charles Theriault and Allosaurus with a couple of Pop Music From Around Here mainstays as well.

Allosaurus - Science Fairwell

Familia - 17

The D’ubervilles - Hot Tips

The Clips - Wire

Blitzentrapper - Crushing the wheat

Fleet Foxes - Your Protector

Zachary Aasman - At the Cabin Door

Andre Charles Therialt - Let’s Recycle the Night

Dex Anderson - Knocking on Heaven’s Door

The Mohawk Lodge - Wear Em’ Out

Precious Fathers - Red Norvo

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