Limits of the Diaphane

Like he did for the week of Mother's Day, Mark Kozelek (aka Sun Kil Moon) opened this week's show with a meditation on parenthood, this time in the form of a belated Father's Day tribute. "I Love My Dad" isn't quite as sappy as "I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love" (and perhaps a bit more tongue in cheek), but it's got the same rambling, self-effacing honesty that runs through the whole Benji, without a doubt one my favourite releases of the year so far.

Our show originally aired the day after Bloomsday and we couldn't resist making mention of the annual celebration James Joyce's Ulysses (from which this week's rather pretentious title comes), a novel certainly interested in mothers and fathers, both real and imagined. We'll try to make more of our literary cross-overs in future episodes. For now, let's enjoy them as digressions.

This week Trevor and I were especially both captivated by the catchy garage rock of Cold Beat, the project of Lillian Maring (of Grass Widow), which I discovered through a mixtape that another featured favourite, Each Other, had put together for Under the Radar's Sled Island preview. Following the carefree melodies of Cold Beat, we met with the latest from Matador: Lower, four-piece punk ensemble from Copenhagen, whose intensity is truly chilling.

After hearing from Each Other's Being Elastic, we had a chance to play one of many highlights from the re-released Frog Eyes album Carey's Cold Spring. Former Edmontonian, now Montrealer, Sean Nicholas Savage provided the most sultry and poignant contribution to this week's playlist with "Heartless" from his recent LP, Bermuda Waterfall. "Heartless" was a fitting precursor to the moody, slow-rocking "Hotel," the centerpiece from Antlers' brand new effort Familiars.

Carey's Cold Spring wasn't the only Polaris Prize nominated album on our playlist. Manitoba-based Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq delivered an inspired cover of the Pixies' song "Caribou" from her new album, Animism. Next we heard the latest from the Dan Snaith, whose monikers Caribou and Daphni arrived back-to-back: first, with a new, impossibly addictive single "Can't Do Without You," and next with a reworking of a track by the Nigerian funk pioneer William Onyeabor, which comes courtesy of David Byrne's Luaka Bop label.

Our show ended with an additional pair of unannounced electronic artists: Tobacco (Thomas Fec of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and Germany Germany (an independent artist from Victoria, BC).

"I Love My Dad" - Sun Kil Moon
"Worms" - Cold Beat
"Lost Weight, Perfect Skin" - Lower
"Scared Witless, Really" - Each Other
"The Country Child" - Frog Eyes
"Heartless" - Sean Nicholas Savage
"Hotel" - Antlers
"Caribou" - Tanya Tagaq
"Can't Do Without You" - Caribou
"Yea" - William Onyeabor (Daphni remix)
"Pool City, McKnight Road" - Tobacco
"Find Your Way" - Germany Germany

Contested ground

This week's show was an attempt to incorporate more independent music by First Nations artists into our usual playlist (which has, in the past, been rightly accused of being dominated by white males). While this sort of thing isn't at all uncommon in North American indie rock, it's led to some fairly stable ideas of what independent music should sound and look like. Of course, such perceptions are hardly representative of the diversity in Canada's independent music community and can create real barriers for voices that need to be heard.

Part of our inspiration came from witnessing the powerful and harrowing stories of residential school survivors at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which concluded this past weekend in Edmonton. We were able to see a free concert, featuring Cris Derksen and a host of other artists (from many different backgrounds).

Below, you'll hear music from aboriginal and non-aboriginal artists. Our goal with these selections was to steer our show in a more attentive direction and showcase several artists (such as Cris Derksen, Quillbox, Flying Down Thunder and Rise Ashen) that don't get much airtime, as well as some that do (Ghostkeeper, A Tribe Called Red, Kinnie Starr). It's a small step, but hopefully it's something we'll be able to build on.



"Pow. Wow. Wow." - Cris Derksen
"Talkin' Bout a Revolution (Tracy Chapman cover)" - Art Napoleon
"Passing Out Pieces" - Mac DeMarco
"Sadlands" - Rebekah Higgs
"Mountain/Relief" - Picastro
"Well, Well, Well" - Ghostkeeper
"Molina Blues" - Slates
"Unity of Culture" - Flying Down Thunder and Rise Ashen
"Look At This" - A Tribe Called Red
"Get the Show On the Road" - Canadian Winter
"Kiss It" - Kinnie Starr
"Spirit" - Future Islands
"Nii Mi" - Quillbox

It's inevitable

"What's inevitable?" you ask. Birthdays. Birthdays are inevitable. Or at least, that's what a song by Royal Canoe has taught me.

I was hoping that I could make up for last year's birthday themed episode (no link, sorry!) with something less gratuitous and self-absorbed. But Trevor wouldn't let me get away it.
 

"Check in" - Cibo Matto
"Witches finger" - Babysitter
"You suck" - Hagface
"American horror" - Speedy Ortiz
"Don't let it bring you down (live)" - Neil Young
"Oh my friends" - Nap Eyes
"Caramel" - Connan Mockasin
"A simple beautiful truth" - Wild Beasts
"Don't look back" - Mark Sultan
"Dragon egg" - Diamond Mind
"Sea of white" - Tough Age
"Brother" - Mac DeMarco
"Bunker Buster" - Viet Cong

Repeater

This week's show begins unannounced, with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (thanks to Chad for keeping the airwaves avant-garde in my absence). This was unplanned. I was late getting to the station, so if the grating sounds are too much for your ears, you can skip ahead to 9:30 to hear Fuguazi's "Argument." And on we go.

Highlights include Trevor's spirited defence of Buck 65's greatness (and my skepticism regarding the matter), a beautiful track from Saskatoon shoegazers, the Moas, and a rambling ballad from Sun Kil Moon's new album Benji. Sadly, Beck's track got cut off, but it's all-over the internet so you'll probably hear it eventually.



Argument - Fugazi
All the Time - The Moas
New Age Prices - Fountain

Vol de nuit - Decibelles
Talking Backwards - Real Estate
Papier carbone - Mat Vezio
Do Make Say Think - Soul & Onward

Bike for Three - Heart as Hell
Clear Soul Forces - Freq Freq (clean)
The Extremities - Dial Tones
Ben’s My Friend - Sun Kil Moon
Waking Light - Beck

Take Me to the Land of Hell

Our second episode of the new year steals its title from Yoko Ono's 2013 release, which figured prominently in this week's playlist and book-ended another eclectic mix of hand-picked tunes. Trevor and I are still crammed into Studio B, awkwardly passing a single microphone back and forth. But we know when to celebrate our limitations and this show was no exception. I think it's safe to say that our banter is improving, even if our time management skills remain wanting. This week, we debuted some pretty exciting new tunes from heavy hitters like Chad VanGaalen, Beck, and St. Vincent, while highlighting some lesser-known gems from Rebekah Higgs, Anamai, and Jom Comyn.



"Bad Dancer" - Yoko Ono Plastic Band
"Where Are You?" - Chad VanGaalen
"Sadlands" - Rebekah Higgs
"Crystal Ball" - Grimes
"Digital Witness" - St. Vincent
"My Jacket" - Josh Martinez
"Rimbaud Eyes" - Dum Dum Girls
"Alter Coals" - Anamai
"Blue Moon" - Beck
"Cool Room" - Jom Comyn
"Mutant Message" - By Divine Right
"Winter Park, CO" - Pat LePoidevin
"Forgiven/Forgotten" - Angel Olsen
"Shine, Shine" - Yoko Ono Plastic Band

Deja Vu

And we're back, for the most part. It's been just over a month since 2013's year-end music marathon. Dyck's Pycks in 2014 will air Tuesday afternoons at 2pm.

Yes, changes aplenty. Starting with this show, your favourite regular guest, Trevor, will be joining me in the studio and splitting the song selections. So this was a bit of an experimental show, and we were both a little rusty from the extended holiday break. We prerecorded the whole thing the other night in Studio B, which isn't exactly the most well-equiped space for a multi-host show (you'll hear why).

We're also working on a new name for the show, hopefully something with a comparable tone of vulgarity; but for now Dyck's Pycks will just have to do.

Deja Vu - Cibo Matto
Shibboleth - Stephen Malkmus
Don't wannabe / loved by you - Julie Doiron
Joyride - Dog Day
Clipped On - Blood Orange
Look My Way - The Extremities
Expressing Views is Obviously Illegal - Prefuse 73
My Museum Needs an Elevator - Robert Pollard
The Hazards of Sitting Beneath Palm Trees - Hayden
Turn t'es mise en crier - Bravofunken
All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast - Bill Callahan
Stars to Waves - Jenn Grant

Challenge accepted

Despite my general apathy for professional sports, I made up this week's playlist with Sunday's Grey Cup rivals, Saskatchewan and Hamilton, on my mind. I'll leave it up to you, dear listeners, to determine which one is Batman and which is Jughead in the image above. Last week's inclusion of Whitehorse's "No Glamour in the Hammer," followed by Trevor's visit and our discussion of Hamilton, had planted a seed in my heart for regional rivalry.

Today, it was Hamilton that drew first blood. After a raging number by the great Roky Erickson to get the blood flowing, we had not one but three epic songs by Hamilton's B.A. Johnston. I threw in a few Alberta bands (Lab Coast and Cowpuncher) to divvy some highlights from Johnston's latest release, the provocatively titled Mission Accomplished. The next set was all Saskatoon: we had a slew of winning tracks from Powder Blue, The Moas, and Jeans Boots. (Later in the day, I discovered that the guy who requested a song by Roky Erickson also knows someone in The Moas. Neat.)

Departing from the prairies, we heard something new from Sunset Rubdown's Spencer Krug, who's just released an album of piano ballads under his current moniker (Moonface); next, a brooding folk tune from Bill Callahan, followed by a rootsier number from British Columbia's Kacy & Clayton. But the real champ of the last half hour was Halifax, the city responsible for a near-perfect pop song by The You Are Minez and a very sentimental favourite from the late 90s.



"2 Headed Dog" - Roky Erickson
"Too Dumb to Live" - B.A. Johnston
"Walking on AYR" - Lab Coast
"Straight Outta Cobden" - B.A. Johnston
"Raised on Rock 'n' Roll" - Cowpuncher
"I Don't Want to Live in Windsor" - B.A. Johnston
"Go On Forever" - Powder Blue
"Of Mice" - The Moas
"Asshole" - Jeans Boots
"Everyone is Noah Everyone is the Ark" - Moonface
"Spring" - Bill Callahan
"Pretty Saro" - Kacy & Clayton
"Dust in the Gold Sack" - Swearin'
"Can't Question Desire" - The You Are Minez
"Shattered Me" - Bass Drums of Death
"Minstrel Rock" - Old + Weird
"Scott Pilgrim" - Plumtree

Until next time . . .

This might be my last show for a while. Come September, Tuesday afternoons will no longer be part of my blissful weekend. Instead, I'll be at my drawing class, studying the human form with a paper and pencil as part of my design studies program -- perhaps you've noticed all of the attractive photographs I've been posting with each blog entry. That's right. All me! But I digress.

Dyck's Pycks will be back, hopefully by early to mid September, at a different time slot.

Unfortunately today's show didn't find me going out with a bang. More like an assortment of background noises and over-annunciated band names. At least I started things out right, with Swervedriver's hypnotizing "Girl on a Motorbike," easily one of my favourite road-themed songs of all time. Hopefully someone out there on the freeway was tuned in. A strange mix of stuff (with questionable quality) followed, but I was quite pleased to play a track from Glasgow's short-lived Life Without Buildings and I thought the spare sounds of Miserere (a new effort from the former members of Sea Snakes) made for a suitable followup.

It should have been smooth sailing from there. I was looking forward to playing some new material from the Dodos and, despite the low quality of their recordings, Weed paired well with 90s indie rock legends, Archers of Loaf. The Courtneys brought a similar level of irony and angst to their contribution, "Insufficient Funds," but the typo on the liner notes threw me for a bit of a loop. Montreal's UBT provided the show's ominous surprise hit ("John the Painter") and Speedy Ortiz seem to keep getting better each time I hear them. The show was on its way to a fine conclusion, and indeed, if you'd heard it live, it would been fine. But for some reason the MP3 recording stopped with 13 minutes to go, and I was saving the best for last!

Not a great way to end. Let's hope I get another chance.



"Girl on a Motorbike" - Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
"Faded Colours" - Yes Nice - Warm Gun
"Come to Admire" - Gold & Youth - Beyond Wilderness
"The Leanover" - Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
"Why Not a House?" - Miserere - Miserere
"The Current" - The Dodos - Carrier
"Ben's Trip" - Weed - Gun Control EP
"Wrong" - Archers of Loaf  - Icky Mettle
"Insufficient Funds" - The Courtneys - The Courtneys
"John the Painter" - UBT - Ego Orientation
"Tiger Tank" - Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
"How I Spent My Summer" - Julia Brown - to be close to you
"A Summer Wasting" - Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
"What Is Not But Could Be If" - Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

Unsettling the prairies

Today's show featured plenty of Canadian content and most of it came from our beloved prairie provinces. We kicked things off with a batch of songs from Edmonton up-and-comers Renny Wilson, Doug Hoyer, and Jom Comyn; from there, we headed south to Cowtown, the old stomping grounds of Montreal-based artist Rae Spoon. My Prairie Home, Spoon's latest release, departs from the lush electronica of the last year's I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets in favour of a roots/alt-rock sound, which makes for an impressively strong collection of songs.

There were a few tracks from what we might call the prairie fringes (if they were closer to the prairies): we heard a wicked slacker jam from Vancouver three-piece outfit The Courtneys, followed by an even slackier jam courtesy of White Fence; then, without warning, a rousing opener from the Polaris Prize nominated debut album of Ottawa's A Tribe Called Red, which you can download for free (!) right here.

Out of Manitoba, we had some new tunes from Winnipeg warriors, Royal Canoe and their horny bedfellows, Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers. Next, Christine Fellows gave us a vision of the apocalypse with "Not Wanted on the Voyage," a topic familiar to master songwriter Bill Callahan. Finally, Saskatchewan's The Seahags provided us with a rollicking ode to greasy skillets everywhere and Julia Holter took hold the atmosphere and ran with it.



"Could've It Been Me?" - Renny Wilson - Sugarglider
"One Foot" - Doug Hoyer - To Be a River
"Hatchet in Garage" - Jom Comyn - Sunstroke EP
"I Want" - Rae Spoon - My Prairie Home
"Haze" - Absolute Boys - Haze
"Birthday" - Royal Canoe - Today We're Believers
"Diane Young" - Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
"Snake in the Water" - Rae Spoon - My Prairie Home
"Nu Sundae" - The Courtneys - The Courtneys
"Lilian (Won't You Play the Drums)" - White Fence - Is Growing Faith
"Electric PowWow Drum" - A Tribe Called Red - A Tribe Called Red
"Boatmen" - Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers - Fruit and Ash EP
"Not Wanted on the Voyage" - Christine Fellows - Nevertheless
"Baby's Breath" - Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
"Skillet" - The Seahags - Good 'n' Greasy
"Horns Surrounding Me" - Julia Holter - Loud City Song

Actually existing music

Let's just say it's been a busy week and at the last minute things came together as they usually do. It's radio and I can afford to be vague, let the music do the talking, you know. Some surprises today in the studio: a few new discoveries, some old acquaintances about whom I'd forgotten. To start, I fell back on Wye Oak's "Take It In": reliable, cathartic, and long enough in duration for me to get sorted. Then onward to "Saskatoon," a gritty track from a gritty band, from one of last year's more depressing albums.

All tremolo guitar and vocal layering, Warpaint earned a spot on the new True Blood Soundtrack, which has, for some reason, appeared on CJSR's shelves; Surfer Blood's new-ish release also finally arrived and, despite my best hopes for another Astro Coast, it's a bit of a dud. Crosss's Obsidian Spectre still sporadically haunts my dreams and Yo La Tengo's mature jangle-pop makes the prospect of growing older a little less daunting. Moderat's very cool Charles Burns-y album cover was enough to pique my interest in the second collab between Berlin's electronic aficionados, Apparat and Modeselektor.

And, finally, thanks to Guilt Ridden Pop for some all-girl punk abrasion (Kitten Forever) and some very American indie pop. Now that Patrick Stolley's made himself known (he also happens to be a founding member of Daytrotter.com), we haven't heard the last of the Multiple Cat, who will no doubt be coming back.



"Take It In" - Wye Oak - The Knot
"Saskatoon" - PS I Love You - Death Dreams
"Smoke" - Crosss - Obsidian Spectre
"Undertow" - Warpaint - The Fool
"Demons" - Surfer Blood - Pythons
"Black Ice" - Kitten Forever - Pressure
"The Lapping Sea" - Energetic Action - Becoming
"Ruby" - Louise Burns - The Midnight Mass
"Ohm" - Yo La Tengo - Fade
"Versions" - Moderat - II
"Vampire Bats / Mall Rats" - The Multiple Cat - The Return of the Multiple Cat
"Shake Some Evil" - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Savvy Show Stoppers

Beriault on the stereo

by Kaelin Beriault

Today I had the pleasure of guest-hosting Dyck's Pycks and will now have the greater pleasure of guest-writing Dyck's Pycks online post-game analysis -- primarily because Dyck was taking an inordinately long time to do this and Beriault wants to enjoy a beverage or two before the afternoon is out.

Hilights - Uncomfortable laughter. Jon's smooth college radio voice.
Lolights - Unable to locate Streethawk: A Seduction (Destroyer) in the CJSR music library. There was also a mishap cuing up one of the records.



"Doin' it Right" - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
"Ruby" - Louise Burns - The Midnight Mass
"Lonely Woman" - Sean Nicholas Savage - Other Life
"Painful Life" - Austra - Olympia
"Dreamtrap" - Moon King - Obsession II
"Pensacola" - Deerhunter - Monomania
"Rosemary" - Faux Fur - Faux Fur
"Es-So" - Tuneyards - w h o k i l l
"Smoke" - Crosss - Obsidian Spectre
"So Clean" - The Ketamines - You Can't Serve Two Masters
"The Rest is Yet To Come" - Jim Guthrie - Takes Time
"Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" - David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
"Light Leave Your Eyes" - Alex Calder - Time
"Wear Me Away" - White Poppy - White Poppy
"Goodness" - Jr Gone Wild - Less Art, More Pop!

Beriault Out.

Dream traps

Making up for last week's premature conclusion, today's show began with the shrill sounds of Speedy Ortiz, a group that's clearly schooled in the ways of Helium and Archers of Loaf. Next up, we had a pair of dream pop gems, the first from Toronto's Moon King and the other from Frankie Rose (of Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls). Then, finally, the track that inspired many of today's selections, "Polar Bear" from Ride's seminal Nowhere. I'm afraid it isn't the best in terms of audio quality (all treble, no bass), but I'm confident it'll still be enough to convert a few new fans. The day's vinyl track came courtesy of Edmonton's The Sorels, who can also lay claim to the day's most unapologetically kickass guitar solo. Also from Edmonton, Doug Hoyer sung the danceable sorrows of the minimum wage employee; and, from across the plains, Royal Canoe delivered the goods with their lead single from a new (hotly anticipated) LP, Today We're Believers, which I frankly cannot wait to get my hands on.



"Tiger Tank" - Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
"Experimental Fiction" - The Danks - Gank
"Dream Trap" - Moon King - Obsession II
"Daylight Sky" - Frankie Rose - Interstellar
"Polar Bear" - Ride - Nowhere
"What Would I Want? Sky" - Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP
"See the Sky About To Rain" - Neil Young - On the Beach 
"GAG" - The Sorels - Daylight
"Sea of Love" - The National - Trouble Will Find Me
"Miasma Sky" - Baths - Obsidian
"Minimum Wage" - Doug Hoyer - To Be A River
"Bathtubs" - Royal Canoe - Today We're Believers
"Ode to Subterrania" - Hooded Fang - Gravez

Work and whatever

That's right, it's another themed show. Thinking about work seemed like productive way to spend my day off. Today's pycks were pretty eclectic and there were some real gems in the mix, like the late Jason Molina's beautiful "Love and Work," which I hadn't listened to in ages. Other highlights include a hella catchy opening number from Hooded Fang, some heavy fuzz from Edmonton's Outdoor Miners and a bouncy take on suburban life from the Talking Heads. The rest was pretty typical. Let's hear it for slacker jamz!



"Ode to Subterrania" - Hooded Fang - Gravez
"Friends with Money" - Outdoor Miners - Disgust
"Minotaur" - Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
"Found a Job" - Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
"All My Days Off" - Daughn Gibson - Me Moan
"Working for the Man" - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
"Love and Work" - Songs: Ohia - Axxess & Ace
"Work" - Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
"Working Full-Time" - Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
"Custom Concern" - Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
"Step Into My Office, Baby" - Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
"Pioneer Spine" - Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana

Serenity now

In a particularly awkward episode of Dyck's Pycks, I ended up showcasing some of great electronic and instrumental music that's recently arrived at the station. It was a slow build. As usual, Sigur Ros tested my ability to pronounce their song titles (Icelandic can be tricky) and Deerhunter gracefully ended the show, tailing a barrage of catchy Canadian garage rock, which included Edmonton rock 'n' roll heroes, Jr. Gone Wild. Swoon.



"Re-Hash" - Gorillaz - Gorillaz
"Reprise" - Gold Panda - Half of Where You Live
"Reach for the Dead" - Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
"Obsidian" - Baths - Obsidian
"Breinnestein" - Sigur Ros - Kviekur
"Cadillac Desert" - William Tyler - Impossible Truth
"Taking My Time" - Jim Guthrie - Takes Time
"Why Not a House?" - Miserere - Miserere
"Ode to Suberrainia" - Hooded Fang - Gravez
"Follow the Waves to the Coastline" - UBT - Ego Orientation
"Patients" - The Ketamines - You Can't Serve Two Masters
"It Never Changes" - Jr. Gone Wild - Less Art, More Pop!
"You Don't Love Me [Starlets cover]" - The Lad Mags - The Lad Mags
"Punk" - Deerhunter - Monomania

Heatwave

Summer is here in all its unbearable glory. For Dyck's Pycks that means meandering folk ballads and scuzzy jams about summertime flings and wasted afternoons.

"Sunshine Snare Hits" - Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart

"Summer Mood" - Best Coast - Crazy For You

"Coast to Coast" - Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt

"Shore Points" - Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien

"From the Sun" - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II

"San Francisco" - Foxygen - We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

"Summer Sound" - Shotgun Jimmie - The Onlys

"I'm so near here" - Eric's Trip - The Gordon Street Haunting

"I won't be long" - Beck - TBA

"Pensacola" - Deerhunter - Monomania

"Boatmen" - Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers - Fruit and Ash

"Hot Freaks" - Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand

"Tom Courtenay" - Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura

"Freakin' Out the Neighbourhood" - Mac DeMarco - 2

"That Summer Feeling" - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Jonathan Sings!

Water, water everywhere

It's been a strange week in Alberta. I arrived in Calgary last Wednesday for the Sled Island Music Festival, just in time to see a few incredible shows (Swans and Superchunk!) before the Bow River got out of control. You can check out some of my photos on CJSR's tumblr.

On Friday morning Sled Island execs announced that, due to epic flooding in the downtown core (many people had already been evacuated by this point), the festival would be cancelling the rest of its scheduled lineup. Edmonton did its part, as quickly as it could, to accommodate some of the Sled Island bands that didn't get a chance to play in Calgary. The result was Shred Island: three days of awesome tunes hosted by Barber Ha and the Wunderbar. Days later, some Calgary residents are starting to move back into their homes and clean up, countless others are pitching in where they can.

Back in Edmonton, the rain continues to fall. I have a feeling that the tenants in my basement will experience flooding if they haven't already. This morning, I found a leak in the ceiling above our living room.

Water, rain, floods, rivers: it's not uncharted territory for songwriters. Today's playlist focuses on what's right there in front of us.



"Water" - PJ Harvey - Peel Sessions (1991-2004)
"River to Consider" - White Denim - D
"La Violence Sur Les Champs-Elysees - Actual Water - The Paisley Orchard
"Tread Water" - Shotgun Jimmie - Still Jimmie
"Water and a Seat" - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Pig Lib
"Rain on Tin" - Sonic Youth - Murray Street
"Little One" - Beck - Sea Change
"One Foot" - Doug Hoyer - To Be A River
"Wet and Rusting" - Menomena - Friend and Foe
"River" - Akron/Family - Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free
"A Dream of Water" - Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
"Knife in the Water" - Metz - Metz
"The Lapping Sea" - Energetic Action - Becoming

Soft view

"Eurozone" - Dog Day - Deformer
"Soft View" - Cannon Bros. - Firecracker/Cloudglow
"Mirror Mirror" - Suuns - Image du Futur
"Luella" - Ghostkeeper - Horse Thief! War Chief!
"The Lapping Sea" - Energetic Action - Becoming
"Patients" - The Ketamines - You Can't Serve Two Masters
"The Uma Uma Truth List" - Peace - My Face
"One Foot" - Doug Hoyer - To Be a River
"Defriended" - Beck - tba
"Summersweat" - Royal Canoe - Purple and Gold 7"
"You're Blessed" - Ice Age - New Brigade
"Brute" - Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
"Cinder and Dust" - Pick a Piper - Pick a Piper
"Life or Death" - Constantines - Kensington Heights

D for Dissemination

Dissemination has begun. Starting next week, I'll have a file available for streaming via Sound Cloud. You'll be able to catch up on Dyck's Pycks anytime, anywhere.

"2020" - Suuns - Image du Futur (Secretly Canadian, 2013)
"One Foot" - Doug Hoyer - To be a River (Old Ugly, 2013)
"All Her Colours" - Pick a Piper - s / t (Mint Records, 2013)
"We Both Kiss You (feat. Mitchmatic)" - Mikey Maybe - Honey + Bread (Old Ugly, 2013)
"O Jumbotron" - Boats - A Fairway Full of Miners (Kill Rock Stars, 2013)
"Galapogospel" - Alanadale - Hypocritters (self-released, 2012)
"Boatmen" - Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers - Fruit and Ash (self-released, 2013)
"Out of Here" - Cannon Bros. - Firecracker / Cloudglow - Out of Here (Disintegration Records, 2011)
"GAG" - The Sorels - Great Northern Revival: Notes From the Edmonton Underground Vol. 3 (Groove Revival, 2013)
"Time Can Be Overcome" - The Darcys and Ra Ra Riot - Arts & Crafts X (Arts & Crafts, 2013)
"Sub-domestic" - Constantines - Shine a Light (Three Gut Records, 2003)
"Ex-punks" - Bry Webb - Provider - Ex-punks (Idee Fixe, 2011)
"Patients" - The Ketamines - You Can't Serve Two Masters (Southpaw / Mammoth Cave, 2013)
"Laura on the Bus" - Energetic Action - Becoming (Self-released, 2013)
"Stoned and Starving" - Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (What's Your Rupture, 2013)