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

Pop Music From Around Here, Episode Whatever MP3

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