Credit: Michelle Ford

As the Victoria Day long weekend approaches, this week’s Wild 10 Countdown got a new number one song. Beyond Wilderness by Gold & Youth is their debut full length album. It got released this week and it takes the top spot as they band is getting some attention lately. If you love 80s new wave influence, the album is for you.
New entries this week are Sarah Neufeld and Hooded Fang.
Here’s the top 10 for this week;

1. Time To Kill – Gold & Youth
2. New Summer – Young Galaxy
3. Golden Promises – Born Ruffians
4. I Love You – Said The Whale
5. Emeralds Shatter – Louise Burns
6. Wait Up For You – The Belle Game
7. I Can’t Stand It – Maylee Todd
8. Flowers In The City – Michael Feuerstack
9. Graves – Hooded Fang
10. Hero Brother – Sarah Neufeld

A very short summary for the entry this week.
Young Galaxy returns to the top spot because it’s fitting that Ottawa was having Summer like temperatures for the past week.
The only new entry on the Wild 10 Countdown this week is Michael Feuerstack as he’s no longer going by the snailhouse name. He released the new album, Tambourine Death Bed.
Here’s the top 10 for the May 8th edition;

1. New Summer – Young Galaxy
2. Wait Up For You – The Belle Game
3. Baby’s Got It – Maylee Todd
4. Needle – Born Ruffians
5. I Love You – Said The Whale
6. Emeralds Shatter – Louise Burns
7. City of Quartz – Gold & Youth
8. Destroy – In-Flight Safety
9. Story of the Flood – Chris Ho
10. Bones In The River – Michael Feuerstack

Photo by Vanessa Heins

It’s a new month and for the second week at the top spot, it’s the Born Ruffians. Birthmarks has been out for more than a week and the band got some plays on various radio show.
The new entries for this week are Aidan Knight and Louise Burns.
Congratulations goes out to Chris Ho as he won for Island Songwriter of the Year for the Vancouver Island Music Awards. I made an error in saying festival on the audio podcast, my apologies.
Here’s the top 10 and the other songs played on the podcast (the audio will be posted on the main blog before 6pm, Eastern time).

The Wild 10 Countdown – Top 10 List
1.  Permanent Hesitation – Born Ruffians
2. New Summer – Young Galaxy
3. Wait Up For You – The Belle Game
4. I Tried – Maylee Todd.
5. Destroy – In-Flight Safety
6. Story of the Flood – Chris Ho
7. I Love You – Said The Whale
8. Emeralds Shatter – Louise Burns (New entry)
9. Jewel – Gold & Youth
10. Telecommunicate – Aidan Knight (New entry)

Other Songs Play -
-Before The Wild 10 Countdown-
Sprawl II (Mountain Beyond Mountains) [Damian Taylor Remix] – Arcade Fire

-After The Wild 10 Countdown-
Lemon (Edited Version) – U2 (One of the first songs to buy on iTunes)
Get Lucky (featuring Pharrell Williams) – Daft Punk (Currently number one on the UK Singles Chart)
Alien Days – MGMT
Don’t – Phoenix
Subway – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Demons – The National
Home – Austra
Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It (Com Truise Remix) – Stars

Deathcock – Broken Social Scene

Photo by Vanessa Heins

As April comes to an end and a co-host leaving (read the main blog), Born Ruffians takes the top spot on the Wild 1o. Birthmarks was released the previous week and it has been getting plays on shows and activity on social media and blogs. The only new entry for this week is Said The Whale as they released a track from their upcoming EP called I Love You.
Got to give a shout out to The Kostanzas from Toronto. They’re an up and coming rock band, so check them. I didn’t expect my departing co-host mentioned the lead singer being on The Strombo Show.
After the top 10, Candice and myself picked out a bunch of new tracks from the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT and The National as there’s hype and excitement of new materials from these bands.
Here’s the top 10 and the playlist for the podcast.

1. Cold Pop – Born Ruffians
2. New Summer – Young Galaxy
3. Story of the Flood – Chris Ho
4. Blame Fiction – The Belle Game
5. Did Everything I Could – Maylee Todd
6. Destroy – In-Flight Safety
7. Love Your Money – The Kostanzas
8. Jewel – Gold & Youth
9. I Love You – Said The Whale (New entry)
10. Baptism – We Are The City

Other Songs Played
-Before The Wild 10 Countdown-
Get Lucky – Daft Punk

-After The Wild 10 Countdown-
Graves – Hooded Fang
I Dream In Neon – Dirty Beaches
Montreal – The Weeknd
For The Best – Rose Cousins

Deathcock – Broken Social Scene

Under The Earth – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Don’t Swallow The Cap – The National
Chloroform – Phoenix
Alien Days – MGMT

Au Revoir! – LadyFace

Photo by Lisa Wu

Chris Ho takes the number one spot on the Wild 10 Countdown for this week. The reason for it has been that a particular radio show has been playing his song, Story of the Flood. Myself and co-host, Candice has been hooked on his music. City of Dust was released in January and some of his songs have been getting plays.
The new entries for this week’s countdown are Grounders and The Belle Game. Ritual Tradition Habit by The Belle Game is now released and the band got featured on Rolling Stone. Good on the band in getting some exposure.
Young Galaxy was number one last week on the countdown as their new album, Ultramarine just got released this week.
Here’s the top 10 and other songs played on the podcast;

1. Story of the Flood – Chris Ho
2. Home – Austra
3. Destroy – In-Flight Safety
4. New Summer – Young Galaxy
5. River – The Belle Game (New entry)
6. Baby’s Got It – Maylee Todd
7. Jewel – Gold and Youth
8. Baptism – We Are The City
9. Love Your Money – The Kostanzas
10. Speedboats (David Newfeld Version) – Grounders

Other Songs Played
-Before The Wild 10 Countdown-
Post-War Blues – Dan Mangan
Discussed about Slagging Off and Dan Mangan’s Open Letter on the Canadian music industry.

-After The Wild 10 Countdown-
Played the Canadian indie artists and bands nominated for the 2013 Juno Awards
Youth Without Youth – Metric
The Way It Is – The Sheepdogs
Big Blue Wave – Hey Ocean!
Ungirthed – Purity Ring

Heavy Hands – Cold Specks (Nominated for Breakthrough Artist of the Year)
/Songwriter of the Year Nominees/
Caught Me Thinkin’ – Bahamas
Michigan Left – Arkells
Robotic – Hannah Georgas

Demons – The National
Deathcock – Broken Social Scene

1. New Summer (Doldrums Remix) – Young Galaxy
2. Home – Austra
3. Jewel – Gold & Youth
4. Anchor Down – Gianna Lauren
5. Doesn’t Make Sense – Chris Ho
6. Destroy – In-Flight Safety
7. At Midnight – The Besnard Lakes
8. Hieroglyphics – Maylee Todd
9. Baptism – We Are The City
10. Love Your Money – The Kostanzas

Other Songs Played (Podcast on WildWorks [First Part])

-Before The Wild 10 Countdown-
Demons – The National

-After The Wild 10 Countdown-
Inner Mini-Mississippi – Snowblink
Red Rover, Red Rover – Woodpigeon
Night Danger – Roberta Bondar
Speedboats (David Newfield Version) – Grounders

Backyard Skulls – Frightened Rabbit
Let’s Fall In Love – Mother Mother
Electric Music – Band of Horses
This Was Your Town – Chaze featuring Casey Mecija

Landscape In The Mist – Dirty Beaches

Credit: Michelle Ford

It’s a brand new month and this week’s Wild 10 Countdown had a few new entries and a number one song staying for another week. Jewel by Gold & Youth is still the number one song on the Wild 10 for the second week. As for the new entries, they are Young Galaxy, The Abramson Singers and The Besnard Lakes. The Besnard Lakes released their fourth album this week.
Maestro Fresh Wes cracks the top 5 as he’s recently been announced as the greatest Canadian rappers ever by CBC Music. Rounding the top 5 are Language Arts (she’s performing Friday at Raw Sugar Cafe, along with Gianna Lauren), Austra and Young Galaxy.
Here’s the top 10 list;

1. Jewel – Gold & Youth
2. Home – Austra
3. New Summer – Young Galaxy
4. Wonderkind – Language Arts
5. Stranger – Maestro Fresh Wes featuring Saukrates
6. Headphone – Mounties
7. The Other Day – Blue Hawaii
8. Ghosts – Gianna Lauren
9. Jack of Diamonds – The Abramson Singers
10. And Her Eyes Were Painted Gold – The Besnard Lakes


Other Songs Played (From The Podcast)
-Before The Wild 10 Countdown-
Loveless – Matt Mays (In memory of Jay Smith)

-After The Wild 10 Countdown-
This Was Your Town – Chaze featuring Casey Mecija
Diane Young – Vampire Weekend
Sacrilege – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Luella – Ghostkeeper
Desire 126 – Hollerado
It – Rich Aucoin (His song played on the March 30th edition of HNIC)
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Baptism – We Are The City

The end of March edition of the Wild 10 Countdown has Gold & Youth on the top spot. As mentioned on the audio that it’s been on the current listening rotation. It’s still an addicting track full of 80s new wave and electronica being blended.
The new entries for this week are Gianna Lauren and Maestro Fresh Wes. Lauren is releasing her new EP, On Personhood on April 2nd and the new track by Maestro Fresh Wes was released several weeks ago and will be on his upcoming album, Orchestrated Noise. Plus, there hasn’t been any new Hip-Hop tracks on the countdown recently.
Suuns returns to the Wild 10 as they created some buzz from Canadian Music Week.
Here’s the top 10 list;

1. Jewel – Gold & Youth
2. Headphones – Mounties
3. Home – Austra
4. The Sinking of the Greenhill Park – The Matinee
5. Chasing The Sunlight – Imaginary Cities
6. Wonderkind – Language Arts
7. In Two/In Two II – Blue Hawaii
8. 2020 – Suuns
9. Stranger – Maestro Fresh Wes featuring Saukrates
10. Anchor Down – Gianna Lauren

Other Songs Played
-Before The Wild 10 Countdown-
Entertainment (Phoenix Cover) – Dinosaur Jr.

-After The Wild 10 Countdown-
Brian Wilson is A.L.I.V.E. – Rich Aucoin (Winner of the first Prism Prize)
Magnetic North – Inlet Sound
At Midnight – The Besnard Lakes
Deja-vu – Mo Kenney
Cold Shot Girl – The Strain

Say My Name (Cyril Hahn Remix) – Destiny’s Child
Closer (Young Galaxy Remix) – Tegan and Sara
Get Free – Major Lazer

Bankrupt! – Phoenix

It’s the first day of Spring and this week’s Wild 10 Countdown has The Matinée on the top spot. This week is considered unique as there are new entries from likes of Language Arts, The Crackling and Ghostkeeper. Aside from that, it’s mentioned on the podcast that Jewel by Gold & Youth has become a favourite track as it’s become very catchy and hypnotic. It’s definitely a big time sure shot on the countdown this week.
Enjoy the first day of Spring edition of the countdown. Here’s the top 10;

1. Let Her Go – The Matinée
2. Headphones – Mounties
3. Jewel – Gold & Youth
4. Home – Austra
5. Sweet Tooth – Blue Hawaii
6. Chasing The Sunset – Imaginary Cities
7. Something To Me – Data Romance
8. Wonderkind – Language Arts
9. Luella – Ghostkeeper
10. The Crackling – The Crackling

Other Songs Played

-Before The Wild 10 Countdown-
Diane Young – Vampire Weekend

-After The Wild 10 Countdown-
Stranger (featuring Saukrates) – Maestro Fresh Wes
Rooftop Archipelagos – HonHeeHonHee
Edge of the Ocean – Quiet Parade
Grand Prize Drawl – GROUNDERS
Born Again (Luke Lalonde Remix) – DIANA
Edie’s Dream – Suuns
Speed The Collapse – Metric
City of Light – The Wooden Sky
Lay Me Down – Cold Specks
Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It – Stars

This week’s edition of the countdown has bands down in Austin, Texas for SXSW. Aside from that, the new entries for this week’s countdown has Gold & Youth, Austra, and Imaginary Cities as those bands will be releasing new albums in the next few months. This week’s number one entry is Montreal’s Blue Hawaii. Blue Hawaii has been getting good reviews and their music is similar to the style of Grimes and Purity Ring.
Here’s the top 10 for this week.

1. Sierra Lift – Blue Hawaii
2. Something To Me – Data Romance
3. This Town – The Matinee
4.Minor Work - Sunns
5. Headphones – Mounties
6. Home – Austra [New]
7. Chasing The Sunset – Imaginary Cities [New]
8. Desire 126 – Hollerado
9. O My Love – Two Hours Traffic
10. Jewel – Gold & Youth [New]
Other Songs Played
-Before The Wild 10 Countdown-
It Must Have Been Love (Roxette cover) – Kathleen Edwards

-After The Wild 10 Countdown-
The Non-Canadian Music Set
Entertainment – Phoenix
Default – Atoms For Peace
Elephant – Tame Impala
Wishes – Beach House

The Back to Canadian Indie Music Set
Wonderkind – Language Arts
She Knows My Condition (Part 1) – Hilotrons
Quest For Love – Bend Sinister
Ghosts – Motel Raphael
The Crackling – The Crackling