June 14, 2013

This show was all about the 2013 edition of the New York Popfest which I attended this year after missing it for a few years.  As always it was a great event with lots of great music from bands both that I hard heard of before and ones that were new.  Just a warning that I did lots of talking during this show.

Best song I heard since the last show - Alpaca Sports - Just For Fun - See the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkNHDfgpevs

Websites I mentioned during the show:

See everything about New York Popfest 2013:
http://www.nycpopfest.org/

Information on the band Flowers as is it hard to find them on the web:
https://www.facebook.com/flowersdomusic

Link to K Records documentary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield_Around_the_K:_The_Story_of_K_Records

You can download the latest show directly here:
http://76.163.12.179/2013-06-14_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - June 14, 2013
TALK - Theme
Alpaca Sports - Just For Fun
The School - Is He Really Coming Home?
Thee Ahs - Ooooh (They're Inside Me) (C)
The Smittens - First Bus
Math and Physics Club - April Showers
The Proctors - Perfect World
TALK
Azure Blue - The Catcher In The Rye
StarTropics - Into The Night
The Ballet - Chinatown
Zipper - Mirror
The Hobbes Fanclub - Your Doubting Heart
TALK
The Wolfhounds - Anti-Midas Touch
The Bats - North By North
Close Lobsters - Just Too Bloody Stupid
French Films - When People Like You Filled The Heavens
Flowers - Stuck
TALK
Beat Happening - T.V. Girl

(C) - Canadian Content

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May 17, 2013

The first set stuck to the indie pop while the second was a bit on the more rocking end of the spectrum, starting with a great song by a band with a great name "The All Girl Summer Fun Band" and their song Car Trouble (see the link to video below).  The last set got some electro-pop out my system. 

Best song I heard since the last show - Slow Club - Giving Up On Love - See the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qzOOg4pxw8

Websites I mentioned during the show:

See the video for Car Trouble by The All Girl Summer Fun Band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWeCWv-TZsc

Find out more about Lily's Allen's cover of Straight to Hell and War Child here:
http://www.warchild.org.uk/music/discography/heroes-album

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http://76.163.12.179/2013-05-17_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - May 17, 2013
TALK - Theme
Slow Club - Giving Up On Love
Mates of State - Palomino
Howling Bells - Low Happening
Widowspeak - Puritan
Arc In Round - One Sided
TALK
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Car Trouble
Puzzle People - Frank and I
Dolly Mixture - Dead Rainbow
Dum Dum Girls - Always Looking
Cloud Nothings - Can't Stay Awake
TALK
Silver Swans - On The Quiet
Metronomy - She Wants
The Black Ghosts - Even In The Darkness
Small Black - Photojournalist
Lily Allen Featuring Mick Jones - Straight To Hell
TALK (random ending)
Flin Flon - Odessa


(C) - Canadian Content

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April 19, 2013

After the first indie-pop set, I did a spotlight on local KW band Bocce and some of the side-projects of the band members.  A couple of them have recently released some great material that you can download from the links below.  I then ended with a funky set.


Best song I heard since the last show - Wide Sea - Marianna - See the video here https://soundcloud.com/widesea/marianna

Websites I mentioned during the show:

Download the Liver Transplants album here:
http://www.dadmobile.com/?section=album&id=31

Listen to Mike Bond's album here:
https://soundcloud.com/mike-bond-soundcloud

You can download the latest show directly here:
http://76.163.12.179/2013-04-19_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - April 19, 2013
TALK - Theme
Wide Sea - Marianna
California Wives - Marianne
Lightships - Sweetness In Her Spark
Army Navy - Dark As Days
Pants Yell - Kids Are The Same
TALK
Bocce - X-Ray Specs (C)
The Liver Transplants - Troublemaker (C)
Mike Bond - Source 01 (C)
Grandmother Willow - Pinko Bingo (C)
The Haunches - Vampirella (C)
TALK
Johnny Harris - Odyssey Pt 1
The Bolton Brothers - Native Rhythm
The Barrino Brothers - The Bad Things (You Said To Me)
Bill Garner Band - Brand New Girl
The Flirtations - How Can You Tell Me?
TALK (random ending)
Champagne Socialists - Blue Genes

(C) - Canadian Content

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March 22, 2013

A bit of electro-pop, a bit of funk, and then a few older songs in the last set.  A special note for a song in that set, I don't know much about Freshwater Drum, but I got a cassette way back when when I was working on the University of Waterloo newspaper The Imprint.  The rest of the album is just OK, but man the song "Part of your Painting" is just one of the best songs out there.  Also in the last set I played Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, who I saw in Toronto recently in a show that truly rocked.


Best song I heard since the last show - Capital Cities - Safe and Sound - See the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWZr2F0qohA

Websites I mentioned during the show:

More about the Parquet Courts:
http://parquetcourts.wordpress.com/


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http://76.163.12.179/2013-03-22_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - March 22, 2013
TALK - Theme
Capital Cities - Safe and Sound
Kisses - A Weekend in Brooklyn
Mathematiques Modernes - Disco Rough (Long Version)
Warm Morning - I'll Be Fine
School Of Seven Bells - Windstorm
TALK
The Tokays - Clap Your Hands
Harmonettes - Shame, Shame, Shame
Johnny Harris - Odyssey Pt 1
James Taylor - This Girl
Orange Juice - Flesh Of My Flesh
TALK
Parquet Courts -Borrowed Time
Freshwater Drum - Part Of Your Painting (C)
The Proctors - Black Tattoos
Safe - Twenty Years On
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - We No Who U R
TALK (random ending)
Groove Armada - Superstylin'

(C) - Canadian Content

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February 22, 2013

For me it was a good year for music in 2012, there were even a few that I couldn't put on the list. 

You can download the latest show directly here:
http://76.163.12.179/2013-02-22_final.mp3


You can get links to all of the songs from here: http://fireballxl5podcast.blogspot.ca/2012/12/fireball-xl5-best-albums-of-2012.html




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Fireball XL5 Setlist - February 22, 2013
TALK - Theme
The Magnetic Fields - Andrew In DragJens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
TOPS - Turn Your Love Around
The Hive Dwellers - Somebody's Phone Is Ringing
TALK
The School - Stop That Boy!
Amanda Mair - Doubt
Dent May - Fun
The Smittens - Dream World
TALK 
Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms
Chairlift - Guilty As Charged 
TALK
Hospitality - Liberal Arts
Hospitality - Friends Of Friends
TALK
The Magic - Mr. Hollywood (C)
The Magic - Night School (C)
TALK
Diamond Rings - Runaway Love (C)
Diamond Rings - Day And Night (C)

(C) - Canadian Content

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Fireball XL5 Setlist - January 25, 2013

Not much to say about this show, just my favourite singles of 2012 played in order from 1 to 15, plus a bonus. 

Best song I heard since the last best of singles show - Haim - Forever - See the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEwM6ERq0gc


You can download the latest show directly here:
http://76.163.12.179/2013-01-25_final.mp3


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Fireball XL5 Setlist - January 25, 2013
TALK - Theme
Haim - Forever
Hospitality - Betty Wang
TOPS - Diamond LookThe Smittens - Burning Streets Of Rome
Chromatics - Kill For Love
TALK
Yuna - Live Your Life
Lee Fields And The Expressions - You're The Kind Of Girl
The Magic - Magic Love
Jens Lekman - The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love
The Hive Dwellers - A Woman Named Trudy
TALK
Frankie Rose - Know Me
Jessie Ware - 110%
La Sera - Break My Heart
Standard Fare - Crystal Palatial
Eternal Summers -Millions
TALK (random ending)
Chairlift - Amanaemonesia
 



(C) - Canadian Content

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Best Albums of 2012

Fireball XL5 Best albums of 2012

1. Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional (Buy the album here)

2. The Magic - Ragged Glory (Stream and buy the album here)

3. Hospitality - Hospitality (Buy the album here)

4. Chairlift - Something (Buy the album here)

5. The Smittens - Believe Me (Stream and buy the album here)

6. Dent May - Do Things  (Buy the album here)

7. Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair (Buy the album here)

8. The School - Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything (Stream and buy the new album here)

9. The Hive dwellers - Hewn from the Wilderness (Buy the album here)

10. TOPS - Tender Opposites (Stream the album and buy the digital album for only $5 here)

11. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (Stream and buy the album here)

12. Magnetic Fields - Love At The Bottom of the Sea (Stream and buy the album here)