Tag Archives: Indie Music

April 26th show now up on Podcast!

10 May

Check it out:

Direct Link: http://blissfulthunder895.podomatic.com/player/web/2012-05-10T09_23_34-07_00

Podomatic Page: http://blissfulthunder895.podomatic.com/

Podcast – Blissful Thunder April 12, 2012

19 Apr

And here it is… last weeks show… ready and waiting for your listening pleasure!

Blissful Thunder April 12, 2012 

For other episodes you can go to the podcast site: blissfulthunder895.podomatic.com

Podcast is updated!

30 Mar

Howdy! 

So when I said yesterday during the show that I would have the podcast updated later that afternoon, I actually meant to say tomorrow morning ;)  

And here is is: Blissful Thunder – Thursday March 29th, 2012 Show

Podcast Updates!

23 Mar

Bonjour!

The Blissful Thunder podcast has been updated with two episodes. Here ya go: http://blissfulthunder895.podomatic.com/

 

Blissful Thunder Playlist – Thursday March 22, 2012

22 Mar

First Hour

1. Young Rival – The Ocean

2. Rebel Emergency – All Mine

3. Makeshift Innocence – Your Body

4. A-Game – Oh My

5. Cadence Weapon – 88

6. Gold & Youth – Time To Kill

7. Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

8. Dente vs. Zombie – Natural Disaster

9. Aerials Up – I am

10. Sean Bones – Hit Me Up

11. The Libertines – Can’t Stand Me Now

12. The Spinto Band – Take It

13. The Pigeon Detectives – Take Her Back

14. Ewart and The Two Dragons – Good Man Down

Second Hour

1. Said The Whale – Heavy Ceiling

2. Reverend & The Makers – Heavyweight Champion Of The World

3. Tennis – Origins

4. Publish The Quest – The Threads

5. Yukon Blonde – Stairway

6. The Belle Game – Sleep To Grow

7. The Balconies – Kill Count

8. Plants & Animals – Lightshow

9. Neverending White Lights – Starlight ft. Pilot Speed

10. Zeus – Love In A Game

11. The Stone Sparrows – Ice Age

12. Snowmine – Curfews

13. The British Columbians – Feel No Better

14. Soft Swells – Put It On The Line

Blissful Thunder Playlist – February 23, 2012

23 Feb

First Hour

1. Tiesto w/ Tegan & Sara – Feel It In My Bones

2. Crystal Castles – Not In Love (ft. Robert Smith)

3. Theophilus London – Why Even Try (ft. Sara Quin)

4. Young Empires – White Doves

5. Lights On – We Live Underground

6. YONAS (& M83) – Midnight City

7. TV On The Radio – Will Do (xxxchange Dancehall Mix)

8. Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors

9. The Hundred In The Hands – Ghosts

10. The Shins – Simple Song

11. The Zolas – No Talking

12. Plants & Animals – I’ll Believe In Anything

13. The Sheepdogs – The Middle Road

14. Young Liars – Colours

Second Hour

1. Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down

2. Maximum Balloon & Karen-O – Communion

3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps

4. The Comas – Come My Sunshine

5. Woodpigeon – Empty Hall Sing Along

6. First Aid Kit – I Found A Way

7. The 88 – As Far As I Can See

8. SBTRKT – Trials of the Past

9. Miike Snow – Paddling Out

10. The Streets – Soldiers

11. Buck 65 ft. Jenn Grant – Days Go By

12. Mark Ronson ft. Paul Smith – Apply Some Pressure

13. Phantogram – Don’t Move

14. Death From Above 1979 – Blood On Our Hands

And the nominees are…

22 Feb

Thats right folks! The nominees for the 2012 Independent Music Awards have been announced… and here they are… 

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Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2012 Independent Music Awards – The SiriusXM Indies. The winners will be presented on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the legendary Canadian Ballroom of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto, beginning at 8:00pm.  Now in their 12th year, The Siriux XM Indiesacknowledge, promote and honour achievements of Canadian and international artists in the independent music sector. In total, 140 nominees have been shortlisted for this year’s ceremony; the full list of nominees and award categories can be found below.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Austra - Feel It Break (Paper Bag)
City and Colour - Little Hell (Dine Alone)
Feist - Metals (Arts & Crafts)
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life (Matador/Beggars Canada)
Mother Mother - Eureka (Last Gang)
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Alyssa Reid - Alone Again (Wax)
Crystal Castles - Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith) (Last Gang)
Kristina Maria - Let’s Play (MapleMusic)
Raghav - Fire (Cordova Bay)
The Sheepdogs - I Don’t Know (Dine Alone)
GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
City and Colour (Dine Alone)
Hey Rosetta! (Sonic)
Mother Mother (Last Gang)
The Pack A.D. (Mint)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Coeur de Pirate (Grosse Boîte)
Dan Mangan (Arts & Crafts)
Feist (Arts & Crafts)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
The Weeknd (Independent)
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Coeur de Pirate - Adieu (Grosse Boîte)
Danny Fernandes - Hit Me Up (CP)
Marianas Trench - Haven’t Had Enough (604)
Neverending White Lights - Falling Apart (feat. Bed of Stars) (MapleMusic)
Timber Timbre - Woman (Arts & Crafts)
LIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Deadmau5 (Mau5trap Recordings/Ultra)
Hollerado (Arts & Crafts)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
Timber Timbre (Arts & Crafts)
ALTERNATIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Braids  (Flemish Eye)
Destroyer (Merge)
Grimes (Arbutus)
Library Voices (Nevado)
Sandro Perri (Constellation)
BLUES ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
David Gogo (Cordova Bay)
Harry Manx & Kevin Breit (Stony Plain)
MonkeyJunk (Stony Plain)
Suzie Vinnick (Independent)
The 24th Street Wailers (Independent)
CHILDREN’S ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Jack Grunsky (Casablanca Kids Inc.)
Mike Whitla (Independent)
Splash’N Boots (Splash Records)
The Kerplunks (Independent)
Will Stroet (Independent)
COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Dean Brody (Open Road)
Doc Walker (Open Road)
High Valley (Open Road)
Jason McCoy (Open Road)
Tara Oram (Open Road)
ELECTRONIC ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Austra (Paper Bag)
Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
Deadmau5 (Mau5trap Recordings/Ultra)
Junior Boys (Domino)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Blackie And The Rodeo Kings (File Under: Music)
Bruce Cockburn (True North)
Elliott Brood (Paper Bag)
One Hundred Dollars (Outside)
The Deep Dark Woods (Six Shooter)
FRANCOPHONE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Coeur de Pirate (Grosse Boîte)
Galaxie (C4)
Jimmy Hunt (Dare To Care)
Les Breastfeeders (Blow The Fuse)
Malajube (Dare To Care)
JAZZ ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Colin Stetson (Constellation)
Cory Weeds (Cellar Live)
Diana Panton (eOne)
Jill Barber (Outside)
Sophie Milman (eOne)
METAL ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Devin Townsend (Inside Out/eOne)
Fuck The Facts (eOne)
KEN Mode (Profound Lore)
Protest The Hero (Underground Operations)
Untimely Demise (Sonic Unyon)
POP ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Alyssa Reid (Wax)
Danny Fernandes (CP)
Kristina Maria (MapleMusic)
Mia Martina (CP)
Neverest (VicPark Group/Fontana North)
PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Abandon All Ships (Underground Operations)
Cancer Bats (Distort)
Chixdiggit (Fat Wreck Chords)
Fucked Up (Matador/Beggars Canada)
Living With Lions (Black Box)
ROCK ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Sloan (Outside)
The Pack A.D. (Mint)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
The Trews (Bumstead)
Theory of a Deadman (604)
URBAN ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
D-Sisive (Urbnet)
Danny Fernandes (CP)
JRDN (Kuya/Fontana North)
Swollen Members (eOne)
The Weeknd (Independent)
WORLD ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Aline Morales (Independent)
Kiran Ahluwalia (Independent)
Massiel Yanira (MapleMusic)
Minor Empire (Independent)
Pavlo (Fontana North)
INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Adele - 21 (XL)
Bon Iver - Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Naïve)
Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Big Machine/Open Road)
INTERNATIONAL SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Adele - Rolling In The Deep (XL)
AWOLNATION - Sail (Red Bull)
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) (Eleven)
Seether - Country Song (Wind-Up)
Young The Giant - My Body (Roadrunner)
INTERNATIONAL GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Beirut (Pompeii)
Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
M83 (Naïve)
Metronomy (Because)
Wilco (dBpm/Anti)
INTERNATIONAL SOLO ARTIST OF THEYEAR
Adele (XL)
Anna Calvi (Domino)
Taylor Swift (Big Machine/Open Road)
Tom Waits (Anti)
tUnE-yArDs (4AD)
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO OF THE YEAR
AWOLNATION - Sail (Red Bull)
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) (Eleven)
Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Independent)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy (Nonesuch)
Tyler, the Creator - Yonkers (XL)
INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
AWOLNATION (Red Bull)
SBTRKT (Young Turks/XL)
The Jezabels (Dine Alone)
The Naked and Famous (Somewhat Damaged)
Young The Giant (Roadrunner)
SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Adrian Glynn
Dinosaur Bones
Imaginary Cities
Indian Handcrafts
Low Level Flight
Nash
Rich Aucoin
The Pack A.D.
Timber Timbre
Wildlife
The 2012 SiriusXM Indies will feature performances by Passion Pit, The Sheepdogs, Dan Mangan, Rich Aucoin, The Pack A.D. and Young Empires, along with a special reunion by this year’s Hall of Fame inductees Treble Charger.  The show will be broadcast live to air on “The Verge” (XM 151) and “Iceberg” (Sirius 151). Tickets for the Sirius XM Indies are available for purchase for$39.50 at Ticketmaster, www.ticketmaster.cawww.canadianmusicfest.comwww.indies.ca, Rotate This and Soundscapes.
An initiative of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & the Arts (CAAMA), the awards are limited to independent artists and cover 14 genres of music. Both a public and an industry vote decide the winners. Voting is now open at www.indies.ca.  For additional details and voting information, please visit the website.

Young Liars – Colours

17 Feb

This is the latest from Young Liars… I’m liking it!

Blissful Thunder – Thursday February 16, 2012

16 Feb

First Hour

1. The Strokes – You Only Live Once

2. M83 – Up!

3. The Streets – Lock the Locks

4. Alex Winston – Fire Ant

5. Hard-Fi – Hard to Beat

6. Yukon Blonde – Stairway

7. Teen Daze – Brooklyn Sunburn

8. Heartless Bastards – Parted Ways

9. Tennis – Petition

10. Moonlight Bride – Lemonade

11. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – AKA… Broken Arrow

12. Bahamas – Lost In The Light

13. Teenage Bad Girl – Keep Up With You

14. PS I Love You (ft. Diamond Rings) – Leftovers

Second Hour

1. Plants & Animals – Lightshow

2. Hey Rosetta! – Welcome (Acoustic)

3. Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour

4. Devin – You’re Mine

5. White Lies – Bigger Than Us

6. Fort Lean – Sunsick

7. Ferraby Lionheart – The Ballard of Gus & Sam

8. Little Barrie – Twisted Little Blades

9. Young Empires – White Doves

10. Band of Horses – Islands on the Coast

11. Crosses – Prurient

12. The Jezabels – Rosebud

13. Young Galaxy – Cover Your Tracks

14. Mother Mother – Bright Idea

15. Warpaint – Undertow

Podcast Updated!

14 Feb

The February 9th show is now available on the Blissful Thunder Podcast. 

Here is a direct link: http://blissfulthunder895.podomatic.com/player/web/2012-02-14T10_42_32-08_00

Cheers!

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