Radio Laurier

Well, we set sail for spring last night with some acoustic guitar tunes, designed specifically for playing in any and every University Quad (Ok, that isn’t exactly what I meant…).
Highlights from last night include The Band, George Clooney, Serena Ryder, and Moxy Fruvous.
I also expressed my disappointment in Chris Cuthbert’s play by play on the [...]

What better forecast for tonight’s Great Canadian Mixtape than -5 and snowing? We’re going to travel across the country and into the past, listening all the while to songs about the expansion of the west, the Acadians of the east coast, a doomed silver mine in Thunder Bay, and the vast sea to the north. [...]

Just took a look at today’s forecast in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Scattered showers. Same for Punta Cana. Who’s laughing now? Not a drop of rain here in Waterloo, just cloudy and cold as far as the eye can see.
And since I’m here in town, I thought it just wouldn’t be Thursday night if I [...]

…AKA Songs in the Key of Love.
Numbertime:
1. Gonna recreate the opening three song salvo from last night, Ray, Pete, and Dire Straits. Okay, so not actually Dire Straits, but a song of theirs. I played the original last night, but this one by The Killers is good enough (in my humble opinion)  that I could [...]

Time flies, doesn’t it? I remember staying up late and curling up in front of the television just to catch a grainy glimpse of the faces of Ringo, George, John, and Paul. It’s as if it was, well, yesterday.
Yes, February 9th, 1964 was the first day America was officially introduced to the Beatles. And while [...]

Yeehaw. Let’s get right down to the numbers, huh?
1. Last night I played the song “100 Years” by Dr. Dog. It comes from their 2008 album, titled Fate. At first I didn’t think much of this album because I thought it tried too hard to sound like The Band. Now it’s in my official Top [...]

…but it’s not so bad yet, is it? A little cold, maybe. That and apparently the business across the street has cut a deal wherein at the first sign of snow (be it 3pm or, say, 3am) a man with a little front end loader shows up and rips around their parking lot for a [...]

The Quiet Mixtape. Guaranteed not to make your ears ring if you listen to it on headphones. Unless you turn them up real loud. I feel I have to say that due to a mix up transferring that mix from my computer to my memory stick, some key tracks got left behind. Check out the [...]

I love hauling out the oldies. As much as I’m not down with overly romanticizing the music of the sixties and seventies, there’s no doubt there was a unique energy to alot of those recordings. You could find video footage for every song on last night’s mix, but here I’m going to give you the [...]

Getting home after a long road trip is always both a little relieving and bittersweet. Nothing to do but open a beer, relax, and think back on it. Started off with Moxy Fruvous’ “Get in the Car”, and ended with the Grand Archives, “Sleepdriving” away on frozen roads. Unsafe as that sounds, I think we [...]