Peace y'all

This week my show landed on Remembrance Day so I selected several songs about peace, conflict, and memory that may or may not have been relevant. Perhaps my choices reflect a greater sense of ambivalence about a day of commemoration that has, in many cases, become a celebration of Canada's ongoing militarization.

And so, for that reason, we began with a peace-themed stoner ballad from Chad VanGaalen, followed by an urgent cry for escape from Winnipeg's Cannon Bros. and a tribute to social incohesion from Women. After some great new stuff from Neko Case, La Luz, and Lou Barlow's Sebadoh, we heard some placid tracks from Deerhunter and from Winnipeg's Slow Leaves.

Sleater-Kinney's post-9/11 headbanger ("Combat Rock") asked some hard questions about political allegiance, while PJ Harvey's self-conscious remembering of the Great War ("The Colour of the Earth") seemed a fitting way to close out the program before observing a minute of silence at 11am.



"Peace on the Rise" - Chad VanGaalen
"Out of Here" - Cannon Bros.
"Untogether" - Women
"Remember" - Figurines
"Peace Signs" - Sharon Van Etten
"Night Still Comes" - Neko Case
"It's Alive" - La Luz
"Horns Surrounding Me" - Julia Holter
"Love You Here" - Sebadoh
"Memory Boy" - Deerhunter
"Calm and Serene" - Slow Leaves
"Master Hunter" - Laura Marling
"Combat Rock" - Sleater-Kinney
"Steal this Sound" - Constantines
"The Colour of the Earth" - PJ Harvey