Luke warm take: power pop hasn’t aged well. This coming from a guy that used to be in a power pop band.

But I got major nostalgia feels listening to this early Bum demo from their latest b-sides and oddities release Kidd Bitz.

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The Lounge Lizards late night tv commercial for Voice of Chunk. According to John Lurie it was a massive failure and might get flagged for cultural appropriation these days - but I love it

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Jackie Leven
The Sexual Lonleliness of Jesus Christ

I came for the album art and song title, stayed for the vocal stylings in the verses.

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Taryn Eaton from Happiest Outdoors doing the heavy lifting with a list of Canadian outdoor brands here.

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I slept on Blonde Redhead. Hey you can’t listen to everything. But there’s a mention of them in John Lurie’s amazing book History of Bones and I thought I’d give them a spin. For some reason I thought I’d start with their latest release Sit Down For Dinner and…
1/2
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ATTENTION CONSERVATIVES!

We need to join the voices of the CPC, Pierre Poilievre, and Canada Proud to smear the name and reputation of PM Mark Carney before this video of former conservative PM Stephen Harper praising Mark Carney for his tremendous work goes viral!
#cdnpoli #Pierre4PM

A little early morning shudder and shake to start the week. Earthquake in Vancouver / Victoria / NW Washington State

Best things happen when you have nothing better to do

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"Good weird" nostalgic Canadiana designs for supporting all things Canada during "bad weird" times.

Support Canadian alternatives!

Crazy Taxi was such a good concept for a game. It’s all in the title. You’re mentally ill, and you own a taxi. Sign me up.

Full support of Canada Post workers through their strike. Who else is going to enable me to send Christmas cards that also honour the world’s greatest prog trio?

Kudos to the illustrator for finding solutions to tough problems.

After school care wrote a movie. Can’t believe they cast Merrick as the lead.