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
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) Continue reading »
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 Continue reading »
There’s a new number one song as Kathleen Edwards is no longer on the top spot. It’s now Plants & Animals taking over the top spot. The End of That comes out on February 28th. Whenever I hear Lightshow, I get pretty excited over the song.
The only debut for this week’s countdown is Bahamas as the 2nd album, Barchords got released.
Here’s the top 10;
A brand new month and still at number one for the 5th week is Kathleen Edwards. To change it up a bit for this week, I decided to play Pink Champagne instead of Change The Sheets.
Two new entries were Zeus and Yukon Blonde. February will be heating up as there will be new releases coming out.
Here’s the top 10;
1. Pink Champagne – Kathleen Edwards (5th week)
2. Lightshow – Plants and Animals
3. Lines – Said The Whale
4. Easy Come Easy Go – Great Lake Swimmers
5. Initiation – The Weeknd
6. Child of the Valley – The Wooden Sky
7. Peg – The Darcys
8. Stairway – Yukon Blonde (New)
9. Genesis – Grimes
10. Are You Gonna Waste My Time? – Zeus
Audio
The February 1st show – Press play to listen.
Still celebrating Chinese New Year, the top 10 still continued on podcast form. Change The Sheets by Kathleen Edwards still reigns at the number one spot. Two new debuts on the countdown are The Darcys and Grimes. AJA by The Darcys got released this past week and Visions by Grimes will be out soon.
Here’s the top 10;
1. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards (4th week)
Due to the countdown being posted a day late because of certain events that happened on Wednesday. This week’s countdown had a couple of new entries from The Wooden Sky, John K. Samson, Joel Plaskett Emergency and the Great Lake Swimmers. For the third week on top, Change The Sheets by Kathleen Edwards came out as Voyageur was released this past Tuesday.
Here’s the top 10;
1. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards (3rd Week at #1)
For the second week, Change The Sheets by Kathleen Edwards is number one as Voyageur will be released on iTunes and music stores on January 17th. The new entries for this week are Toronto’s Hands & Teeth and The Weeknd.
This is a test of sorts as I’m posting the audio on this week’s entry if it’s easy to listen from here.
Here’s the top 10;
1. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards
2. La petite mort – Coeur de Pirate
3. Lines – Said The Whale
4. I Won’t Try To Break Your Heart – Crissi Cochrane
Welcome back and it’s 2012 as The Wild 10 Countdown returns after a holiday absence from the year-end countdown and Christmas tunes.
In starting the new year, the countdown slightly brings a new slate or old slate as there weren’t any new tunes coming out during December. After 4 weeks on top, Coeur de Pirate falls and taking over the top spot is Kathleen Edwards with Change The Sheet. Her forthcoming album, Voyageur will be out on January 17th.
Debuting tracks for the brand new year are Little City and Plants & Animals as they have new materials to be released this month and the next.
I’ve decided to post up the top 11 non-Canadian indie music of 2011 on here because it was played on the live show on CKCU-FM. I had a tough decision to putting the year ender for 2011. It had to be Lykke Li on top because she had a great year with her second studio album, Wounded Rhymes. There were others in the top 11 that I also enjoyed putting in. There were surprises like Lana Del Rey and Neon Indian as they’ve been getting a lot of buzz from music critics and bloggers. One of the most unlikely choice in the top 11 was Emmy The Great.
Here are the lists;
The Wild 10 Countdown for January 4, 2012
1. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards (1st week at #1)
2. Adieu – Coeur de Pirate
3. Lines – Said The Whale
4. It – Rich Aucoin
5. I Won’t Try To Break Your Heart – Crissi Cochrane
