Get ready to relax, chill, slack around and not think too hard about the sound quality of this next genre cause this episode is all about the lo-fi/slacker rock/ bedroom pop phenomenon. A genre thats been around since around the late 1980s, its music that was easily made at home and where slight imperfections were accepted and even embraced. Its sound dominated college dorms of the slacking gen x'ers and bedrooms of the covid-ridden gen z'ers with its chill, lo-fi sound.

Playlist of songs:

• Little Pad - The Beach Boys
• That Would Be Something - Paul McCartney
• Police & Thieves - Junior Murvin
• Police & Thieves - The Clash
• Little Hands - Alexander 'Skip' Spence
• Beat Down Babylon - Junior Byles
• Goodbye Piano - R. Stevie Moore
• N.I.T.A - Young Marble Giants
• What's Important - Beat Happening
• I Am A Scientist - Guided By Voices
• Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
• Gimmie Indie Rock - Sebadoh
• Summer Babe - Winter Version - Pavement
• Gold Soundz - Pavement
• Loser - Beck
• Fuck and Run - Liz Phair
• Do I Make You Feel Shy - Connan Mockasin
• Pretty Pimpin - Kurt Vile
• Give It to Me - HOMESHAKE
• Still Beating - Mac DeMarco
• Freaking Out the Neighborhood - MacDeMarco
• Sofia - Clairo
• the perfect pair - beabadoobee
• Chinese New Year - SALES
• Pluto Projector - Rex Orange County

There are many rock bands Jen & Drew grew up listening to, but we rarely get to talk about them on this podcast - why ? Because Canadian rock bands are not always in the spotlight internationally but they are often played on Canadian radio stations due to our content laws. So in this episode, we talk about the history of rock music in Canada from the 1950s to today and listen to our favourite Canadian rock songs !

Playlist of songs:

• Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream) - The Crew Cuts
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - The Four Lads
• Diana - Paul Anka
• Put Your Head On My Shoulder - The Paul Anka
• Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
• The Weight - The Band
• American Woman - The Guess Who
• Fly At Night - Chilliwack
• Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders
• You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
• Roller - April Wine
• Working for the Weekend - Loverboy
• Heaven - Bryan Adams
• The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
• Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
• That's Progress - D.O.A.
• Proud To Be Canadian - Dayglo Abortions
• New Orleans Is Sinking - The Tragically Hip
• Wheat Kings - Tragically Hip
• Superman's Dead - Our Lady Peace
• One Week - Barenaked Ladies
• That Song - Big Wreck
• How You Remind Me - Nickelback
• I'd Do Anything - Simple Plan
• When The Night Feels My Song - Bedouin Soundclash
• All To Myself - Marianas Trench
• Help I'm Alive - Metric
• The Suburbs - Arcade Fire

In this episode, we talk about the rule-defying genre that took the jazz scene by storm in the 1960s known as free jazz.

Playlist of songs:

• Intuition - Lennie Tristano
• City Of Glass (First Movement): Entrance Into The City - Stan Kenton
• Pithecanthropus Erectus - Charles Mingus
• Steps - Cecil Taylor
• ... When Will The Blues Leave? - Ornette Coleman
• Eventually - Ornette Coleman
• Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman
• Free Jazz - Ornette Coleman
• Ghosts: First Variation - Albert Ayler
• Ascension - Edition I/Pt. 1 - John Coltrane
• The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost - John Coltrane
• The Magic City - Sun Ra & His Arkestra
• Heliocentric - Sun Ra

The 2008 financial crisis left many people without homes, jobs, and hopes for the future... but pop music was there to save us! In the late 2000's and early 2010s, pop songs often featured themes of letting loose, partying, drinking and forgetting about your troubles. Tonight was THE night and tomorrow was uncertain. The only cure for this recession according to popular music was to DANCE! And we may need this cure again very soon.. stay tuned to find out why although I think we all already know😭

Playlist of songs:

• The Way I Are - Timbaland, Keri Hilson, D.O.E.
• Don't Stop The Music - Rihanna
• Just Dance - Lady Gaga, Colby O'Donis
• I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
• Dynamite - Taio Cruz
• TiK ToK - Kesha
• Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry
• Sexy Bitch (feat. Akon) - David Guetta
• Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO
• Like A G6 - Far East Movement, The Cataracs, DEV
• Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch) - Calvin Harris
• Give Me Everything (feat. Nayer) -Pitbull, AFROJACK, Ne-Yo
• We Found Love - Rihanna, Calvin Harris
• Die Young - Kesha
• I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Icona Pop
• Time of Our Lives - Pitbull, Ne-Yo
• Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan
• Abracadabra - Lady Gaga
• YIPPEE-KI-YAY. (feat. T-Pain) - Kesha, T-Pain

Allow yourself to be immersed in the escapist sounds of dream pop. A genre originally from the 80s combining influences from the psychedelic 60s era with a whole new soundscape, this genre is as weird as it is mystical, magical and often beautiful. The experimentation with sonic textures with reverb, echo, effects pedals as well as whimsical, operatic or breathy vocals from bands like the Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil and A.R. Kane would inspire some popular indie bands that we know and love today. Listen and enjoy !

Playlist of songs:

• All I Wanna Do - The Beach Boys
• Let It Down - George Harrison
• Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins
• Lorelei - Cocteau Twins
• Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil
• Falling - Julee Cruise
• A Starting Point - Dif Juz
• Birthday - The Sugarcubes
• Plainsong - The Cure
• Crazy Blue - A.R. Kane
• Strange - Galaxie 500
• Tugboat - Galaxie 500
• Halah - Mazzy Star
• Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
• Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
• Silver Soul - Beach House
• Money Trees - Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock
• Space Song - Beach House
• Adult Diversion - Alvvays
• Show Me How - Men I Trust

While house music originated in Chicago, the disco heavy influence inherent in this genre allowed French artists to give their own unique spin to this movement. With strong foundations in disco and electronic music as well as a generation of musicians growing up on 80s dance music, a new wave of house music was born in France known as the French Touch movement. This episode goes into the history behind artists like St. Germain, Motorbass, Bob Sinclar, Air, Cassius and of course, Daft Punk. We hope you enjoy listening!

Watch this documentary to learn more about this genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNbfgRuypyE

Playlist of songs:

• Disco Cubizm - I:Cube
• Disco Cubizm - Daft Punk Remix
• What to do - Thomas Bangalter
• Venus (Sunshine People) [DJ Gregory Remix] - Cheek
• Ezio - Motorbass
• Deep in it - St. Germain
• Revolution 909 - Daft Punk
• Around the World - Daft Punk
• Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust
• Lady - Modjo
• Gym Tonic - Bob Sinclar
• Prix choc - Etienne de Crecy
• Feeling for you - Cassius
• One More Time - Daft Punk
• World Hold On - Bob Sinclar
• The Whistle Song - Frankie Knuckles
• D.A.N.C.E - Justice
• Neverender - Justice

In this episode, we discuss and listen to a style of music known as Worldbeat - a fusion of Western and non-Western musical styles that began in around the 1980s with artists like Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and David Byrne incorporating mostly African but also other world music styles into their recordings. While it has its controversies, this genre will allow you to hear sounds you may have not heard before and discover artists from the Global South or as Andrew likes the call it, the recovering countries - you gotta listen to find out what the hell that means.. enjoy !

Playlists of songs:

• Born under Punches (The Heat Goes On) - Talking Heads

• Water No Get Enemy - Fela Kuti
• Expensive Shit - Fela Kuti
• Ja Funmi - King Sunny Ade
• In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
• Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes - Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• Dance into the Light - Phil Collins
• (Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads
• Desert Rose - Sting, Cheb Mami
• Set - Youssou N'Dour
• Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings
• Ko-Yan - Salif Keita
• Boyz - M.I.A.
• Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
• Born Under Punches - Angelique Kidjo
• Once in a Lifetime - Angelique Kidjo

My really cool rock n roll dad joins us again as a special guest for this episode on Southern Rock! Tune in to learn the history of how a community of rock artists from the southern United States drew from their influences of R&B artists and genres to create a unique sound in rock. From the Allman Brothers to Lynyrd Skynyrd, they incorporated sounds from the blues, soul, jazz, gospel, country and many other Southern genres, so there's something for everyone to enjoy!

Playlist of songs:

• Hey Jude - Wilson Pickett
• Whipping Post - Allman Brothers Band
• Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers Band
• Can't You See - The Marshall Tucker Band
• Fire on the Mountain - The Marshall Tucker Band
• Keep On Smilin' - Wet Willie
• Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• The Ballad Of Curtis Loew - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• The South's Gonna Do It Again - The Charlie Daniels Band
• Here Comes My Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• La Grange - ZZ Top
• There Goes Another Love Song - The Outlaws
• Flirtin' with Disaster - Molly Hatchet
• Hard to Handle - The Black Crowes
• Hard to Handle - Otis Redding
• Hold On - Alabama Shakes
• I Don't - Brittany Howard
• Magnolia Road - The Allman Betts Band
• Sleeping Dogs - Blackberry Smoke
• Broken Window Serenade - Whiskey Myers
• Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group