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Today on our show it's our bi-annual roll-out of all the upcoming Canadian releases for the first half of 2011, which brings us to our...
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2011 Upcoming Canadian Album Releases
JANUARY
Jan 1 – White Cowbell Oklahoma Viva Live Locos (Slick Monkey)
Jan 4 – Deadhorse s/t (Saved By Radio)
Jan 4 – The Creaking Tree String Quartet Sundogs (Independent)
Jan 11 - Jenn Grant Honeymoon Punch (Six Shooter)
Jan 11 – Les Jupes Modern Myths (Head In the Sand)
Jan 11 – The Swallows Demystified (Magnetic Angel)
Jan 11 – New Country Rehab s/t (Outside)
Jan 11 - Dallas Green and Shad Two Songs EP
Jan 18 – Braids Native Speaker (Flemish Eye)
Jan 18 – New Scotland Records Vinyl Single Series Vol 2 (David Myles, Matthew Grimson, Myles Deck and the Fuzz)
Jan 18 – Kiran Ahluwalia Aam Zameen: Common Ground (Independent)
Jan 18 - Jon Lefebvre Initial Record, Eagle Medallion (Fortress)
Jan 18 – Twilight Hotel When The Wolves Go Blind (Independent)
Jan 25 - Hello Bella Echoes of the Atmosphere (Independent)
Jan 25 – Carmen Townsend Waitin’ and Seein’ (Company House)
Jan 25 – Destroyer Kaputt (Merge)
Jan 25 - The Olympic Symphonium The City Won't Have Time To Fight (Forward Music)
Jan 25 – Rob Moir This Is The Lie EP (North Americas)
Jan 25 – Wilderness of Manitoba Hymns of Love and Spirits (Verite)
FEBRUARY
Feb 1 – Buck 65 20 Odd Years (Warner)
Feb 1 – Christine Fellows Femmes de chez nous (Six Shooter)
Feb 1 – Katie Moore Montebello (Purple Cat)
Feb 1 – Spring Breakup It’s Not You, It’s Me (Fantastic)
Feb 1 – Various Artists Underground Hip Hop Vol 6 (Urbnet)
Feb 8 – Cursed Arrows Death Rattle Blues (Independent)
Feb 8 – Laura Peek Key (Just Friends)
Feb 8 – Liptonians Let’s All March Back To The Sea (Head In The Sand)
Feb 8 – Jon McKiel Confidence Lodge (Youth Club)
Feb 8 – The Wailin’ Jennys Bright Morning Stars (True North)
Feb 8 - Young Galaxy Shapeshifting (Paper Bag)
Feb 9 – Egyptrixx Bible Eyes (Night Slugs)
Feb 14 – Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
Feb 15 – Armistice (Jay Malinowski and Coeur de Pirate) EP (Dare To Care)
Feb 15 – Cherina and Davina Beat Drops EP (Urbnet)
Feb 15 – Chixdiggit Safeways Here We Come (Fat Wreck Chords)
Feb 15 – Cowboy Junkies Demons (Latent)
Feb 15 – Jay Crocker Co-Stars (Saved By Radio)
Feb 15 – Jerry Leger Traveling Grey (Golden Rocket)
Feb 15 – The Dears Degeneration Street (Pheromone)
Feb 15 – The Good Lovelies Rain Came Down (Six Shooter)
Feb 15 – Hey Rosetta! Seeds (Sonic)
Feb 15 – Money In The Banana Stand There’s Always (Independent)
Feb 15 – Pharmakon MTL To Call Out In The Night (Bong Beat)
Feb 15 – Snowblink Long Live (Out of this Spark)
Feb 22 – Harlan Pepper Young and Old (Independent)
Feb 22 – Imaginary Cities Temporary Resident (Hidden Pony)
Feb 22 – The Luyas Too Beautiful To Work (Idee Fixe)
Feb 22 – No Gold s/t (Unfamiliar)
Feb 22 – Peter Elkas Repeat Offender (New Scotland)
Feb 22 - Shuyler Jansen Voice From The Lake (Scratch)
MARCH
Mar 1 – Ron Sexsmith Long Player Late Bloomer (Warner)
Mar 1 – Mark Berube June in Siberia (Aquarius)
Mar 1 – Teenage Kicks EP (Independent)
Mar 1 – Skeletones Four Gravestone Rock (Independent)
Mar 1 – Rural Alberta Advantage Departing (Paper Bag)
Mar 1 – The Two Koreas Science Island (Randy Vicar Records)
Mar 1 – Tarun 22 degrees of Beatitude (D2D)
Mar 4 – Monogrenade s/t (Bonsound)
Mar 8 - The Albertans New Age (Independent)
Mar 8 – Augury Concealed (expanded reissue) (Sonic Unyon Metal)
Mar 8 - Geoff Berner Victory Party (Mint)
Mar 8 – Bruce Cockburn Small Source Of Comfort (True North)
Mar 8 – Charlotte Cornfield EP (Independent)
Mar 8 - Kellarissa Moon of Neptune (Mint)
Mar 8 – Les Breastfeeders Dans la Gueule des Jours (Blow the Fuse)
Mar 8 - Madrid Original Message (Awesome Music)
Mar 8 – Memphis Here Comes A City (Arts and Crafts)
Mar 8 – Patrick Lehman Electric Soul Kitchen Vol 1 (Justin Time)
Mar 8 – Shotgun Jimmie Transistor Sister (You’ve Changed)
Mar 15 – Giant Hand Starting As People (Independent)
Mar 15 – Mother Mother Eureka (Last Gang)
Mar 15 – Slow Down, Molasses Walk Into The Sea (Little Pictures)
Mar 15 - Swollen Members Dagger Mouth (Battle Ax)
Mar 22 – Protest The Hero Scurrilous (Underground)
Mar 22 – Sandman Viper Command 7” single (New Rose)
Mar 29 – Robbie Robertson How To Become Clairvoyant (Fontana North)
Mar 29 – Dirty Beaches Badlands (Zoo Music)
APRIL
Apr 1 - The Awkward Stage Hubblefuckascope (Mint)
Apr 4 – Code Pie Love Meets Rage (Flagless)
Apr 5 – Jill Barber Mischievous Moon (Outside)
Apr 5 - Louise Burns Mellow Drama (Light Organ)
Apr 5 – Malajube tba (Dare To Care)
Apr 12 – Alex Pangman 33 (Justin Time)
Apr 12 – Ben Gunning 7” (New Scotland)
Apr 12 – The Evidence Currents (Meter)
Apr 12 – Little Scream The Golden Record (Outside)
Apr 12 - Matt Epp and the Amorian Assembly At Dawn (Independent)
Apr 12 – Timber Timbre tba (Arts and Crafts)
Apr 12 – The Trews Hope and Ruin (Bumstead)
Apr 12 – We Are Enfant Terrible s/t (Last Gang)
Apr 14 – Jason Bajada The Sound Your Life Makes (MapleMusic)
Apr 19 – The Balconies 7” single (New Rose)
Apr 19 – Oh Susanna Soon The Birds (Outside)
Apr 26 – Delhi 2 Dublin Remixes (D2D Music)
Apr 26 – Joel Plaskett/Shotgun Jimmie split 7” (New Scotland)
April 29 - Pony Da Look Shattered Dimentions (Murder Records)
Apr 29 – Sloan tba (Outside)
Apr 29 - Will Currie And The Country French A Great Stage (Murder Records)
MAY
May 10 – One Hundred Dollars Songs Of Man (Outside)
May 10 - Sam Roberts Collider (Universal)
May 17 – Matthew Barber Keep It Alive (Outside)
May 6 – Matt Paxton How The Land Lies (Down By The Point)
May 7 – Orienteers Reaction Shots (Antique Room)
May 7 – Joel Plaskett/Jeremy Fisher split 7” (New Scotland Records)
May 17 - Bocephus King Willie Dixon Goddamn (Tonic)
May 23 - Gay Witch Abortion Rape Ape (Butt Stomach)
date tba - Adrian Glynn Bruise (Light Organ)
date tba - Candy Coated Killahz (MapleMusic)
date tba - Chad VanGaalen tba (Flemish Eye)
JUNE
date tba - Elliott Brood tba (Six Shooter)
date tba - Joel Plaskett B-Sides and Rarities (MapleMusic)
date tba - Jennifer Castle tba (Flemish Eye)
JULY
July 15 – Orienteers Trivial Pursuits (Antique Room)
SEPTEMBER
date tba - Dan Mangan tba (Arts and Crafts)
date tba - The Warped 45s tba (Pheromone)
date tba - Bidiniband tba (Pheromone)
date tba - Sarah Slean Land and Sea (Pheromone)
OCTOBER
Oct 15 – Orienteers The Wild Life (Antique Room)
date tba - Zeus tba (Arts and Crafts)