9th Show! Canadian Pop Rocks!

This week I visited our neighbors to the north. Canada may be seen as "wimpy" to some Americans, but their lack of violence and their reluctance to wage war without precedence and other things makes their music that much sweeter! This show is birthed out of the realization that a nice sized chunk of my favorite pop bands are Canadian, so yeah!

Also, you are probably well aware of the whole Canadian Pop Supergroup complex they have up there, well, let it be known that there is only one Canadian Pop Supergroup in my heart and let it be no secret that I swoon for the New Pornographers. So you get a nice helping of AC Newman, Dan Bejar (AKA Destroyer), Kurt Dahle (AKA Limblifter), Kathryn Calder (AKA member of Immaculate Machine) and, even though she isn't quite Canadian, Neko Case, who drummed in the early lineup of Cub and Maow!

Jim Guthrie - Problems With Solutions (Now More Than Ever)
Destroyer - The Sublimation Hour (Streethawk: A Seduction)
Sunset Rubdown - They Took a Vote nad Said No (Shut Up I Am Dreaming)
The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost (Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?)
The Hidden Cameras - Awoo (Awoo)
The Weakerthans - Plea From a Cat Named Virtue (Reconstruction Site)
The Constantines - Why I Didn't Like August '93 (Believer Music Issue Comp)
Immaculate Machine - Broken Ship (Ones and Zeroes)
Pony Up! - The Truth About Cats and Dogs (is That They Die) (Make Love to the Judges With Your Eyes)
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline) (Broken Social Scene)
The New Pornographers - The Slow Descent into Alcoholism (Mass Romantic)
Sloan - The Good in Everyone (One Chord to Another)
Wolf Parade - Grounds for Divorce (Apologies to the Queen Mary)
Frog Eyes - One in Six Children Will Flee in Boats (The Golden River)
AC Newman - On the Table (The Slow Wonder)
Zumpano - The Party Rages On (Look What the Rookie Did)
Limblifter - Vicious (Limblifter)
Stars - Your Ex-Lover is Dead (Set Yourself on Fire)
Islands - Volcanoes (Return to the Sea)
Cub - Tell Me Now (Betti-Cola) (Daniel Johnston cover)
Vancougar - Down on Me (Losin' It)
Maow - Ms. Lefevre (The Unforgiving Sounds Of...)
Cub - Your Bed (Come Out, Come Out)
Metric - Combat Baby (Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?)
Final Fantasy - This is the Dream of Win and Regine (Has a Good Home)
Eric's Trip - Behind the Garage (Love Tara)
Elevator to Hell - Physically Unaddictive Mind Change (Parts 1-3)
Royal City - Can't You (Little Heart's Ease)

Band of the Week
The New Pornographers

In my opinion, they're Canada's finest pop export and without a doubt one of my absolute favorite bands period. In 2005 they released their most focus record, Twin Cinema (which was my favorite record of 2005) and this Summer they are set to unleash Challengers. Exciting stuff. Just listen.

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic