Far North Sound: canadian music a-z

I started this feature in 2010, and we are finally up to V! Only 4 letters to go! What an accomplishment! And don't forget... PLEDGE DRIVE starts next week! Please pledge your favourite show and keep CJAM rockin! More info at cjam.ca or on the CJAM Pledge Drive Facebook Page!

Here is this week's playlist:

The Unicorns - Emasculate the Masculine - The Unicorns: 2014 - Suicide Squeeze (Montreal)

The Ugly Ducklings - The Blues Fell This Morning - Thump & Twang - Pacemaker (Toronto)

United Steel Workers of Montreal - For Love and Your Mother's Sake - Three on the Tree (Montreal)

The Unsettlers - Two Dead at the Five and Dime - Oil & Blood - S/T (Montreal)

The Urban Aesthetics - Dead End/Street Scene - S/T (Ottawa)

Chad Vangaalen - Dead Ends - Skelliconnection - Flemish Eye (Calgary)

Andrew Vincent & the Pirates - Girlfriends Dog - A Short Trip With the Pirates - Kelp (Ottawa)

Jane Vain & The Dark Matter - These Ghosts - Love is Where the Smoke Is (Calgary)

The Vertical Struts - Fun is Not Fun - The Vertical Struts - Pop Echo (Edmonton)

Vancougar - (I Hope Your) Money (Keeps You Warm - Canadian Tuxedo (Vancouver)

Vex - Machine - Cosmic - Machine - Royce Recording (Windsor/Detroit)

Chad Vangaalen - Sara - Diaper Island - Flemish Eye (Calgary)

The entire list of Canadian Music from A-Z is posted here!

February 15, 2010: A & B!

Azeda Booth - Ran - In Flesh Tones (Calgary)

Air Traffic Control - Only Child - To Be Free (Lunenburg, NS)

Adam & the Amethysts - Stupid Ocean - Amulet (Montreal)

The Acorn - Flood - Glory Hope Mountain (Ottawa)

Artist of the Year - Cake For You - Velour Brigade (Montreal)

Bicycles - B-B-Bicycles - The Good, The Bad & the Cuddly (Toronto)

Matthew Barber - Put Me Back Together (So Delicately) - Means & Ends (Toronto)

Laura Borealis - California - Laura (Toronto)

Brian Borcherdt - The Rain - Coyotes (Toronto)

Broken Social Scene - Stomach Song - Feel Good Lost (Toronto)

Black Mountain - Don't Run Our Hearts Around (Montreal)

Howie Beck - 10 Flowers, 13 Clouds, & A String - Pop & Crash (Toronto)

Bend Sinister - Julianna - S/T (Vancouver)

March 22, 2010: C & D!

Jason Collett - Roll on Oblivion - Here's to Being Here (Toronto)

The Constantines - Dirty Business - Modern Sinner Nervous Man EP (Toronto)

Will Currie & the Country Fresh - Surprising Me - S/T (Waterloo)

Cuff the Duke - Follow Me - Way Down Here(Oshawa)

Chromeo - You're So Gangsta - She's in Control (Toronto)

CFCF - Big Love - Continent (Montreal)

Deadmau5 - Complications - Random Album Title (Toronto)

Dragonette - Don't Be Funny - S/T (Toronto)

dd/mm/yyyy - Jackpot - 777 (Toronto)

Julie Doiron - Dark Horse - Woke Myself Up (Montreal)

The D'Urbervilles - Dragnet - We Are the Hunters (Toronto/Hamilton/Oshawa)

The Doers - Keep Yr Shirt On - Whatcha Doin? (Vancouver)

Luke Doucet & the White Falcon - The Lovecats - Bloods Too Rich (Toronto)

May 24, 2010: E & F!

Elbow Beach Surf Club - The Waltz - S/T (Guelph)

The Evaporators - You Got Me In This, Now You Get Me Out - Gassy Jack & Other Tales (Vancouver)

The Exchanges - Garden - S/T (Toronto)

Karyn Ellis - Four AM Love Song, Ode to a Wooden Floor - Hearts Fall (Toronto)

Kathleen Edwards - Scared at Night - Asking For Flowers (Ottawa)

Feist - One Evening (VV Mix) - Remixes & Collabs (Toronto)

Fidgital - Zeppelin - Departure (Vancouver)

Fur Bearing Animals - Space Shuttle Worn Machine - S/T (Vancouver)

Faunts - Twenty Three (Cadence Weapon Dogcatcher Remix) - Faunts Remixed (Edmonton)

Henri Faberge & the Adorables - Crawl Back - S/T (Toronto)

Fembots - Count Down Our Days - The City (Toronto)

Fancey - Gulf Breeze - Schmancey (Vancouver)

Frog Eyes - Stockades - Tears of the Valedictorian (Victoria)

Forest City Lovers - Sullen Seas - Haunting Moon Sinking (Toronto)

July 12, 2010: G & H!

The Golden Dogs - Yeah! - Everything in 3 Parts (Toronto)

Gentleman Reg - You Can't Get it Back - Jet Black (Toronto)

Hannah Georgas - Chit Chat - This is Good (Vancouver)

Great Lake Swimmers - The Chrous in the Underground - Lost Channels (Toronto)

Ghostkeeper - Haunted - S/T (Calgary)

Gonzales - Working Together - Soft Power (Toronto)

Green Go - Put Your Specs on Boy - Borders (Guelph)

Holy Fuck - Korock - S/T (Toronto)

Hot Springs - Cellophane - Volcano (Montreal)

Human Highway - The Sound - Moody Motorcycle (Toronto)

High Dials - Killer of Dragons - Moon Country (Montreal)

The Hidden Cameras - Heji - Awoo (Toronto)

Hayden - Home By Saturday - Elk Lake Serenade (Toronto)

Hayden - Woody - Elk Lake Serenade (Toronto)

November 15, 2010: I & J

Immacualate Machine - Thank Me Later - High on Jackson Hill (Victoria)

Islands - No You Don't - Vapours (Montreal)

Insideamind - Whispering Through Windows - Scatterpopia (Ontario)

Junior Boys - Bellona - Last Exit (Hamilton)

Jenocide - Rewind - Machines to Make Us Wet (Halifax)

Jenocide - Boa Contrict Her - Machines to Make Us Wet (Halifax

B.A. Johnston - Sleeping With My Walkman - Call Me When Old & Fat is the New Young & Sexy (Hamilton)

Jenny Omnichord - Gone So Far - Cities of Gifts & Ghosts (Guelph)

Jenny Omnichord - Kings of London - Cities of Gifts & Ghosts (Guelph)

James OL & the Villains - Cross Country Canada - Alive at the Colch! (Windsor)

James OL & the Villains - December - Alive at the Colch! (Windsor)

The John Henrys - Edge of December - White Linen (Ottawa)

January 24, 2010: K & L!

Knock Knock Ginger - Love Renee - Based on a True Story - Dadmobile (Waterloo)

King Khan & the Shrines - Torture - The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines - Vice (Montreal)

King Khan & the Shrines - Took My Lady to Dinner - The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines - Vice (Montreal)

Kids on TV - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off - Mixing Business With Pleasure - Blocks Recording Club (Toronto)

Lesbians on Ecstasy - Party Time (a Womyn's Luv) - We Know You Know - Alien8 (Montreal)

The Lovely Feathers - Pope John Paul - Hind Hind Legs - Equator Records (Montreal)

Library Voices - Hunting Ghosts - Hunting Ghosts (& Other Collected Shorts) - Young Oul Records (Regina)

Lightning Dust - Listened On - S/T - Jagjaguwar (Vancouver)

Lightning Dust - When You Go - S/T - Jagjaguwar (Vancouver)

Lightning Dust - Wind Me Up - S/T - Jagjaguwar (Vancouver)

Land of Talk - Sea Foam - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss - Maple Records(Montreal)

Language Arts - White Socks in Birkenstocks - Where Were You in the Wild? - IND (Toronto/Vancovuer/Halifax)

Lake of Stew - I Am Violent - Ain't Tired of Lovin - Woodhog Recording Company (Montreal)

Ladyhawk - Fear - Shots - Jagjaguwar (Vancouver)

Lazersnake - Future, Tonight - Oceanic - IND (Edmonton)

March 28, 2011: M!

Amy Millan - I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Masters of Burial - Arts & Crafts (Montreal)

Memphis - Time Away - A Little Place in the Wilderness - Good Fences (Vancouver)

Magenta Lane - Bloody French - Gambling With God - Last Gang (Toronto)

The Mark Inside - Metal Monsters - Static/Crash - Vampire Dance (Toronto)

The Meligrove Band - Ages & Stages - Planets Conspire - V2 (Toronto)

Mother Mother - Burning Pile - O My Heart - Last Gang (Vancouver)

The Most Serene Republic - Ca-thar-sis Boo - ...And The Ever Expanding Universe - Arts & Crafts (Milton)

The Mohawk Lodge - Cold Hearts - Crimes - White Whale (Toronto)

Matthew Barber - Ghost Notes - Outside Music (Toronto)

Dan Mangan - The Indie Queens Are Waiting - Nice, Nice, Very Nice - Arts & Crafts (Vancouver)

Catherine Maclellan - Sorrows Drown - Water in the Ground - True North (Halifax)

Malajube - Le Crabe - Trompe L'Oeil - Dare to Care (Montreal)

May 30, 2011: N & O!

Ninja High School - My Purpose Not My Plan (Sex Nerds Mix) - Young Adults Against Suicide - IND (Toronto)

Novels - This Wouldn't Be the Last Time - S/T - IND (Toronto and more!)

Novels - Mr Foster's Teenage Daughter - S/T - INd (Toronto and more!)

No Kids - For Halloween - Come Into My House - Tomlab (Vancouver)

The New Pornographers - Crash Years - Together - Last Gang (Vancouver)

AC Newman - Miracle Drug - The Slow Wonder - The Blue Curtain (Vancouver)

AC Newman - Drink To Me, Babe, Then - The Slow Wonder - The Blue Curtain (Vancouver)

NQ Arbuckle - Part of A Poem by Alden Nowlan called Ypres: 1915 - XOK - Six Shooter (Toronto)

Numero - Hit-Pop - L'Ideologie Des Stars - Saboteur (Montreal)

National Parcs - Powerline - Timbervision - Audiogram (Montreal)

Ohbijou - Cannon March - Beacons - IND (Toronto)

Olenka & the Autumn Lovers - Mary's Song - And Now We Sing - IND (London)

The Organ - Memorize The City - Grab That Gun - Mint (Vancouver)

Old Man Luedecke - Wrong Side of the Couuntry - Hinterland - Black Hen (Chester, NS)

Orphan Choir - New Ritual - S/T - IND (Windsor)

December 5, 2011: Q & R

Quest for Fire - Strange Waves - S/T - Tee Pee Records (Toronto)

qr5 - Fallen Tree - There is No Path Not Taken - IND (Toronto)

Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing - Paper Bag (Toronto)

Rah Rah - Beaches - Breaking Hearts - Young Soul (Regina)

Russian Futurists - Hurtin 4 Certain - Me, Myself and Rye (Toronto)

Run With The Kittens - Tell Me to Take It Now - Cad Gold Jr. (Toronto)

Royal Wood - It Weighs on Me - The Lost & Found EP - Dead Daisy(Toronto)

Raised By Swans - Capable of Cruelty - Codes & Secret Longing - 1101 IND (London)

The Riderless – Neutrals - Atelier Gild - King Haxi (London/Toronto/Hamilton)

Josh Reichmann Oracle Band -Plant Words - Life is Legal - Paper Bag (Toronto)

Travis Reitsma - Beggars - Outside Factory Gates - IND (Windsor)

Jackie Robitaille - When I Was A Little Girl - Take a Step Closer - IND (Windsor)

April 16, 2012 : S!

Said the Whale - Sandy Bay Fishing Song - New Brighton - Hidden Pony (Vancouver)

Rae Spoon - When I Said There Was An End To Love - I Can't Keep all of our Secrets - Saved By Radio (Montreal)

Siskiyou - Keep Away the Dead - Keep Away the Dead - Constellations (Vancouver)

Spiral Beach - Kind of Beast - Ball - IND (Toronto)

Sleepless Nights - Godspeed You Deathwolf - EP Masters - IND(Halifax)

Shout Out Out Out Out - Chicken Soup for the Fuck You - Not Saying Just Saying - Nrmls Wlcm (Edmonton)

Sports - Slacking Scholar - Sports - IND (Toronto)

Stars - One More Night - Set Yourself on Fire - MapleMusic (Montreal)

The Stills - She's Walking Out - Without Feathers - Vice (Montreal)

Sunparlour Players - If the Creeks Don't Rise - Hymns for the Happy - Baudelaire (Toronto)

Ron Sexsmith - Poor Helpless Dreams - Exit Strategy of the Soul - Warner (Toronto)

The Sadies - Idle Tomorrows - Darker Circles - Outside Music (Toronto)

Katie Stelmanis - Join Us - Join Us - Blocks Recording Club (Toronto)

September 3, 2012: T!

Tangiers - Classless & Green - The Family Myth – Frenchkiss (Toronto)

The Telepathic Butterflies - Breakfast in Suburbia – Rainbow Quartz International (Winnipeg)

Tegan & Sara - I Bet It Sung - 5 Songs From Phoenix – Vapour (Calgary)

Tin Bangs Shake! - Heavy Handed Darling – IND (Toronto)

Tokyo Police Club - Be Good - A Lesson in Crime – Paper Bag (Newmarket)

Timber Timbre - Too Old To Die Young - Creep On Creepin On – Arts & Crafts (Brooklin, Ont)

Thomas - Maypole - Self Help – IND (Toronto)

Tiga - Shoes - Ciao! - Turbo (Montreal)

Thunderheist - Jerk It - S/T – Big Dada (Toronto/Montreal)

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Hiccup - Boo Hoo Hoo Boo – Kill Rock Stars (Vancouver)

These Electric Lives - Wake Me Up -S/T – IND (Toronto)

Mike Tod & the Buffalo Lake Kid - Take This Bread - Live - IND (Calgary)

November 5, 2012: U & V!