Zunior.com Podcast

Episode #208: Busy As a Bea...Arthur

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:22:00 -0400

I'm not sure what was in the coffee this time around, as we delve into some dark territory. Thankfully, there are plenty of excellent tunes including a new Buried Treasure selection to keep us grounded...sort of.

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Featured Songs:

Gravity Wave - Yo-Yo
Mike Duguay - The Kettle Black
The Magic - No Sound
Sylvie Smith - On Our Own
Flecton - Where Did Your Organ Went?
The Blankket - I'm On Fire
The Most Serene Republic - Heavens to Purgatory
Evening Hymns - Lantersn
Michael Rault - Side Winder
Maybe Smith - You Would Never Survive the Winters in This Province
Doug Hoyer - Hey Lewis
Joel Plaskett - Compete with Loneliness

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Episode #207: If You Want to Destroy Luther's Sweater

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:06:00 -0300

Luther and Paul are clearly not playing with a full deck this episode, but they manage to get through new releases, a discussion on the state of music videos and pick a new Band of the Week, all the while playing excellent songs and making fun of Luther's lovely purple sweater.

They also ask the age-old question: just who the hell orders the Filet-O-Fish?

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Featured Songs:

The Diableros - Wandering Dry
Kae Sun - Too Young, Too Soon
Crush Luther - 28
Jenny Omnichord - Where Is My Mind?
The Exploders - What's What & Who's Who
Billy Bragg - The Milkman of Human Kindness
The Tom Fun Orchestra - Throw Me to the Rats
Chad VanGaalen - Clinically Dead
The Buttless Chaps - Death Scenes I II III
Do Make Say Think - Other Truths Mix
Do Make Say Think - In Mind

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Episode #206: Singerly Bang for Your Hard-Earned Buck

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:53:00 -0300

Luther's on fire this time around, as you get to hear his impressions of both a spaceship and Shaggy. We also choose a new Band of the Week, discuss singing in indie music and introduce the brand new Buried Treasure segment.

All this and 13 excellent songs plus bloopers too!

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Featured Songs:

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Glory
Paul Linklater - Hard Time of Year
Spiral Beach - Battery
Klarka Weinwurm - Explorer
Thee Crusaders - Crusader's Theme
Shotgun Jimmie - Drunkenness
Innes Wilson & His Opposition - Guest Like the Ghost
Martin Tielli - I'll Never Tear You Apart
Patrick Watson - The Storm
Weird Weather - You and Me
Richard Laviolette & The Oil Spills - Funeral Song
Richard Laviolette & The Hollow Hooves - Your Body Your Love
Sarah Mangle Buys a Bear - Closer

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Episode #205: How Much Would You Pay for Toilet Duck?

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:45:00 -0300

Luther and Paul get caught up on new releases, play some embarrassing clips from their old bands, discuss the pricing and purchasing of digital music and get some interesting tidbits from The Weather Station and Entire Cities.

All this and 13 excellent songs plus bloopers too!

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Featured Songs:

Cuff the Duke - Promises
Amy Millan - Bruised Ghosts
Two Hours Traffic - Territory
Octoberman - Fortresses
Pamela Brennan - Amsterdam
Rick White Album - Belief
Nathan Lawr - We Go Down
King Cobb Steelie - Mayday
Women - Group Transport Hall
Wax Mannequin - The Price
Tinariwen - Imidiwan Afrik Tendam
The Weather Station - East
Entire Cities - Coffee

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Episode #204: 25,000 Torontonians Agree That Luther Is a Polesmoker

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:41:00 -0300

It's a big one this week as we dig into a ton of new releases, ask the question "Does Toronto need a theme song?" reveal some embarrassing old band names (mostly from Luther and Dan Mangan) as well as "talk" to Chad VanGaalen!

All that plus 13 excellent songs and a new Band of the Week.

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Featured Songs:

The Paper Cranes - Chivalry's Dead
Still Life Still - Neon Blue
Spookey Ruben - Rachel
Luxury Pond - Dear Shark
Analog Bell Service - I Guess
Black Hat Brigade - Zombie City Shake
Abdominal - Breathe Later
The Joe - You're Cool
Dan Mangan - Road Regrets
The CFL Sessions - Song Written Upon Getting Cut By the Argos
Think About Life - Family
Chad VanGaalen - TMNT Mask
Library Voices - Kindera on the Dance Floor

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Episode #203 - August 2009: I Left My Transmission in Edmundston, New Brunswick

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:35:00 -0300

We may be a week late, but it's all explained in this extra long, jam-packed episode that features tales straight from SappyFest, an update on the Greg Ipp/Factor debate, a look at some wild promotional tactics, a new Band of the Week and some manly bloopers (your hint is to the right).

And let's not forget the sweet tunes--14 excellent tracks this time around.

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Featured Songs:

The Gertrudes - Seymour
Black Mold - Tetra Pack Heads
Dan Mangan - The Indie Queens Are Waiting
Construction & Destruction - The Scaffold
Share - Date and Time
Grand Analog - Her Daddy (Don't Like Me)
B.A. Johnston - My Heart Is a Blinking Nintendo
The Magic - Mr. Hollywood
Constantines - On to You
Feuermusik - Full of Grace
Attack in Black - Some Things We Lose
The Boy from ET - A Stompin' Tom Cover
The Got to Get Got - Burn Yaletown Burn
The Burning Hell - Old World

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Episode #202 - July 2009: Biting the Hand That Doesn't Feed You

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:13:00 -0300

It's a talk heavy episode this time around as Luther and I take an advanced look at SappyFest, dig into the controversial Greg Ipp/Factor debate and pick a new Band of the Week. All that and a spontaneous discussion of MC names and a little story from Luther that will make the picture to the right make a lot more sense.

Oh, and a bunch of excellent tunes too!

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Featured Songs:

Megan Hamilton - Cat Tail Legs
Ford Pier - Sick of the Good Times
Old Man Luedecke - I Quit My Job
Shotgun Jimmie - Quicksand
Timber Timbre - We'll Find Out
D-sisive - Brian Wilson
Charles Spearin - Anna
Snailhouse - (Not) Superstitious
Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
Bruce Peninsula - Inside/Outside
Royal City - A Belly Was Made for Wine
Kestrels - Sailed On

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July 2009: The All-New All-Different Zunior.com Podcast!

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:06:00 -0300

After six months in absence the Zunior.com Podcast is back! Let brand new Toronto-based hosts Luther Mallory and Paul Watson talk you through some indie music news, general banter and showcase some of the finest songs that Zunior.com has to offer.

This time around we focus on the Zunior 5th Anniversary Extravaganza that happened in Toronto on June 27, as well as the inaugural inductees into the Independent Music Hall of Fame. We also pick our very first Band of the Week and briefly discuss the recently announced short list for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize--all this and some bloopers too.

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Featured Songs:

Andrew Vincent - Diane
Mike O'Neill - She Believes In Me
Rheostatics - P.I.N.
Little Girls - Youth Tunes
Steamboat - How Long
Wax Mannequin - End of Me
Bloodsport - Swallowing Werewolves (I Hear Mary Timony Used to Live Here)
1977 - Daylight Comes
Chad VanGaalen - City of Electric Light
Elliott Brood - Miss You Now
The Danger Bees - Please Don't Please Me
Spring Breakup - Spring Fling
Ohbijou - Black Ice

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January 2009

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:03:00 -0400

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Featured songs:

B.A. Johnston - Sleepin' With My Walkman Again
Bradleyboy - Ya Know
C.R. Avery Band - Door by the River
Sports: The Band - Warn Me
The Danger Bees - Out of Sight (I must be out of my mind)
Bent - Bench Girl
Love You To Death - Mr. Obvious
Grave Maker Wreckage
Vatican Chainsaw Massacre - Fraternity in Disguise
Comeback Kid - Changing Face
Owl Farm - E.R.T.
Instruments - Elephant Tusk
Fiest - I Feel it All
Two Hours Traffic - Heroes of the Sidewalk
Solus - Now You're Here
Share - Frame (Eric's Trip Cover)

December 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:30:00 -0400

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Featured songs:

Luke Jackson - Goodbye London
Andrew DeVillers - Echo My Eyes
Contrived - Angels Rioting Against the Nothing
Asa - No One Knows
Matt Andersen - Working Man Blues
Hopewell - Beautiful Targets
Richard Laviolette - Qq
Outlaw Social - Raven
The Bicycles - Oh No, It's Love
B.A. Johnston - You Will Miss Me When the Zombies Come
Bodega - Twisted Slopes
Gentleman Reg - It's Not Safe
Rah Rah - CubaPeru
Slow Down, Molasses - Fucking Up
Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains - Love Can Be So Mean
The Danger Bees - Out of Sight (I Must Be Out of My Mind)
Lowfish - Lies

November 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:16:00 -0400

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Unfortunately, I managed to create the mixdown of this podcast in mono. Not sure how that happened :( Unfortunately, I don't usually keep the source recording after post-production, so in mono it shall stay. Fortunately for you, it's a smaller download :)

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Featured songs:

Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains - American Names
Innes Wilson & His Opposition - Seduction to Sin
Lioness - What You Do (Will Come Back to You)
Mother Mother - Arms Tonight
Hooded Fang - Land of Giants
Hospital Bombers - The Devil's Music
Fred - Skyscrapers
Hexes & Ohs - Ship Going Down (Let's Go! Let's Go!)
Dandi Wind - apothemnophilja
Adam & the Amethysts - The Part of me that's Evergreen
Dan Bryk - Discount Store
Chris Warren - Some Disassembly Required
Emilie-Claire Barlow - What A Little Moonlight Can Do
Jill Barber - Chances
Teenage Head - You're Tearing Me Apart
Tranzmitors - Look What You're Doing to Me

October 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:30:00 -0300

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Featured songs:

Angela Desveaux - Sure Enough
Novillero - The Printed Word (Sucks for Inflection)
Ken Reaume - Warm Milk
Chad VanGaalen - Inside the Molecules
Poorfolk - Bloodlines
Kestrels - Seaside
The Raveonettes - Sometimes They Drop By
Les Georges Leningrad - Sponsorships
The Dead Science - Monster Island Czars
The High Dials - Fields in Glass
Winter Gloves - Let Me Drive
The Tom Fun Orchestra - Rum and Tequila
Slowcoaster - Rasta Flag
Kinky - Mas

September 2008 - RSS Fixed?

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:29:00 -0300

Hello listeners.

Download the September 2008 show here.

For whatever reason, the first time I posted the September 2008 show, the Feedburner feed didn't pick up the enclosure, i.e., podcast portion of the post. If you download the podcast twice, please accept my apologies. However, I hope this will fix any issues anybody else had with receiving the show in their podcast downloading programs or RSS readers.

Thanks,
Steve.

September 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:00:00 -0300

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Featured songs:

Cameron Latimer - Fallen Apart
Old Crow Medicine Show - Caroline
Human Highway - The Sound
The Stills - Being Here
Spiral Beach - Kind of Beast
Tagaq - Gentle
Son of Dave - Old Times Were Good Times
Shotgun Jimmie - Stereo and the Stove
Cursed Arrows - Chop You Up
B.A. Johnston - Summer of '99
Belleisle - Flowers and Coffee
Construction and Destruction - Ring Around the Moon
Dinosaur Bones - N. Y. E.
Poledo - Puddle
The Pack A.D. - Making Gestures
The Establishment - The Day We Hit the Coast

August 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:17:00 -0300

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Featured songs:

Chad vanGaalen - Gubbbish
Baby Eagle - Driving Blind
Ghost Bees - Tasseomancy
Mardeen - City Lights
Attack in Black - Halogen Ambush
Miracle Fortress - Have You Seen In Your Dreams
Old Man Luedecke - Joy of Cooking
The Just Barelys - Raising Kids
The Got to Get Got - War of Letters
The Luyas - Play Dead
The Superfantastics - The Astronomer
Eric's Trip - Evie
Matt Mays - Building a Boat
Elliott Brood - Without Again
Vancougar - (I Hope Your) Money (Keeps You Warm)
Styrofoam - After Sunset

July 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:53:00 -0300

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Happy Canada Day! (Sorry if this post goes out multiple times in the RSS feed. I think I'm having some difficulty with Blogger's post editor.)

Sappy Records Music Festival A.K.A. SappyFest '08
Sonic Concerts' Summer Sonic

Congratulations to Violet Archers CD winners:

Cameron Scott (Toronto)
Elizabeth Billinger (Everdon, UK)
Jeremy Ramer

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Featured songs:

Ayla Brook - Worth the Drive
Carpenter - Off the Road
Elliott Brood - Garden River
Hey Rosetta! - A Thousand Suns
The Green Hour Band - Understand
King Khan and the Shrines - Torture
NQ Arbuckle - Postcard from Princess
Christa Couture - Nothing's Changed
Rich Aucoin - The Romanticizing of Promiscuousness or The Night Thieves
Ladytron - Ghosts
Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive [Skatebard Remix]
Jason Kenemy - The Turning
Place Hands - To Sleep
Burnthe8track - Worn and Wearing Thin

June 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:49:00 -0300

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Featured songs:

Japandroids - Couture Suicide
Steve Hill - Get Over You
The Priddle Concern - Believe What You Want to Believe
Hawksley Workman - When These Mountains Were the Seashore
Gonzales - Map of the World
The Submarines - The Wake Up Song
Kids on TV - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off
Barenaked Ladies - Snacktime
Bellevue - The Road to Recovery
The Violet Archers - Tired
Oliver Jones - Remembering Chris
Quadro Nuevo - Nature Boy
Elizabeth Shepherd- Let Me Be
Erin Costelo - Pale Moon
Sarah MacLachlan - Ordinary Miracle
Gel-Sol - Disco Bay

May 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Thu, 1 May 2008 10:45:00 -0300

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Featured songs:

Teenage Head - Let's Shake
Canteen Knockout - Balls Out Trucking
Hotkid - The One You Hold
Aaron Booth - Voice in the Night
Snailhouse - Out in the Sun
Elizabeth - (Dance) Into the Heart of Your Enemy
HILOTRONS - Caught on Video
Duchess Says - Black Flag
Old Man Luedecke - Big Group Breakfast
John Wort Hannam - 10,000 Acres
Sinclaire - The Secret Weapon
Sectorseven - SRM
The Constantines - Trans Canada
Tricky Woo - Fly the Orient
Crystal Castles - Reckless
Woodhands - I Wasn't Made For Fighting
Boys Noize - My Head (Para One Remix)

April 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:45:00 -0300

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Featured songs:

Bryan Lee - Barefootin'
Diana Krall - Straighten Up and Fly Right
Cadence Weapon - The New Face of Fashion
Coral Egan - Talkin' to the Animals
Andrew Cash - Black Type on a White Page
Petunia And the Loons - Cold Heart Breaker
Born Ruffians - Barnacle Goose
E.T.A. - Identity Crisis
DS-13 - Work Buy Consume and Die
Haymaker - Who Wants to Kill a Millionaire
Forest City Lovers - Orphans
Hayden - Lonely Security Guard
Danny Michel - I'm'a Love You Anyway
Miracle Fortress - Have You Seen In Your Dreams
Stars - Elevator Love Letter
The Unicorns - I Was Born (A Unicorn)
Instruments - Skull Decay

March 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:12:00 -0400

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Featured songs:

Shuyler Jansen - Play Fair
Ox - She Shot Me Down
The Deep Dark Woods - Rumble in the Sky
New Buffalo - Cheer Me Up Thank You
Sunparlour Players - John Had a Bell and Whistle
Laura Borealis -Priviledge
GrimSkunk - What Do You Say?
Jon McKiel - 123 My Friends
Matthew Barber - Better Loving Spent Than Loving Saved
Fucked Up - Dance of Death
Brutal Knights - Grow Up Throw Up
Career Suicide - Recipe for Disaster
Kinky - Again and So On
Legion of Green Men - Kiqbaq
Sinequanon - Freundschaft
The Mercurymen - Articulate
Pansy Division - Wish I'd Taken Pictures
The Superfantastics - The Astronomer

February 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:31:00 -0400

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Featured songs:

Crush Luther - Don't Fight About It
The Brat Attack - Rock'n'Roll Revolution
The Cleats - Something To Lose
Cadillac Bill and the Creeping Bent - Leather Pants
The Weekend - There Goes My Heart
The New Pornographers - The Electric Version
Soldier Dolls - State of Shock
The Spitfires - Headcase
Knucklehead - Integrity
Old Crow Medicine Show - Hard to Love
The Be Good Tanyas - The Littlest Birds
Shotgun Jimmie - Summersound
Jenny Omnichord - Kings of London
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
The Hylozoists - Strait is the Gate
The Two Minute Miracles - Rayon Queen In A Nylon Dream
Two Hours Traffic - Backseat Sweetheart

January 2008

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:44:00 -0400

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Featured songs:

Figurines - Bee Dee
Dale Murray - Driving Song
Mardeen - Kids
The Novaks - Don't Worry Baby
The Superfantastics - Vantastic (Eastern Canadian Road Trip Blues)
Apostle of Hustle - Charade
Feist - 1234
Comeback Kid - Come Around
Hot Kid - Quiet
Jon Epworth and the Improvements - Face Down
Kevin Drew - Backed Out On The...
Abdominal - Heaven's Demon
Lily Frost - So In Love
MSTRKRFT - She's Good For Business
Wintersleep - Weighty Ghost

December 2007

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Sat, 1 Dec 2007 01:30:00 -0400

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Featured songs:

Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine
Kara Keith - Kick this City
Basia Bulat - Little One
Ghoststory - From Sin to Sin
Kate Maki - Strangest Dream
Jim Bryson - The Wishes Pile Up
Jenny Owen Youngs - Drinking Song
Hangedup - Klang Klang
Hawksley Workman - Beautiful You
Death From Above 1979 - Little Girl (MSTRKRFT Edition)
MSTRKRFT - The Looks
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Panurge - Black Box
Mother Mother - Polynesia
Metric - Monster Hospital
Jars of Clay - Wonderful Christmastime

November 2007

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:55:00 -0300

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Featured songs:

Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy - True Love Killed my True Love's Love for Me
Randy Bachman - Taking Care of Business
Rick White Album - Icicle
The Most Serene Republic - Battle Hymn of the Republic
Forbidden Dimension - Calcinator Death Ray
The Fallout - Pie in the Sky
The Lancasters - I Don't Wanna Be
Wednesday Night Heroes - Feedback
MC Lars - The Lint Song
The Diableros - Nothing Down in Hogtown
Spiral Beach - Kind of Beast
Amy Honey - Woods Hag (Modern Life is Such a Drag)
Rebekah Higgs - Parables
Megan Hamilton - Time
We Are Wolves - Fight & Kiss
San Serac - Command Shift Sexy
Felix Da Housecat - Tweak

October 2007

podcast@zunior.com (podcast@zunior.com) — Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:35:00 -0300

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Featured songs:

Wintersleep - Weighty Ghost
The Perishers - My Own
C'mon Psychotic Retraction
Steve Hill - Long Road
Brain Size 61 - Down the Drain
Elevator to Hell - Backteeth
Plumtree - NaCl
Two-Minute Miracles - Since We Were Married
Baby Eagle - Driving Blind
Windom Earle - I Saw The Way You Looked At Me
Allison Crowe - A Case of You
Girl Nobody - Let You Down
Harmonica - Get Lost in the Disco
Bella - Don't Sleep Alone
Small Sins - Drunk E-mails
SLAVE to the SQUAREwave - The Last Day