Ruby Slippers for Valentine's Day!

Hey Everybody,

It's that day again, flowers, chocolate, and a beer! Happy Valentine's Day to one and all!

Some new music today, and of course what VD would be complete without songs of love?

So hang on to your heart, here goes.

The Love Cats ... Cure

Wait Up (Boots of Danger) ... Passion Pitt remix ... Tokyo Police Club *

Love is Greed ... Passion Pitt

Not The Same ... Hands and Teeth *

Berlin ... Black Rebel Motorocycle Club

Animal Lovers ... Milks and Rectangles *

Ever Fallen in Love ... The Buzzcocks

I Found A Reason ...Cat Power (request: Kayla from Radio Alchemy)

Hooray For Love ... Sarah Jaffe (request: Runaway  via Radioflag)

Southern Knell ... Lovedrug

The Curse ... Agnes Obel

Delia and the Sculptor ... Elise Epp *

Late Night Love ... Ark Analog *

Hearts, Love and Honour ... The Headstones *

Make it a day of random acts of kindness!

And as always, thanks for listening.

*Cancon

Ruby Slippers Feb 7 7-8 pm

Hey, Snow Bunnies!

As piles of the white stuff continue to mount outside, there is no time like the present to pull together the playlist for this week's show! Have some fun additions... radio debut for Sea State with "Rescue Me" from their album "Boy With A Gun", something new from The Rising Few, and Doug Norquay from the album "Giant Pig" (reference to a massive concrete pig used as an advertisement for a meat shop in Shakespeare, Ontario) plus a whole lot more. Be sure to add more marshmallows to the hot chocolate and settle back for a weird and wonderful hour.

Sinners On St. Laurent.... The Rising Few (Montreal) *

Rescue Me... Sea State (New! Heard here first!) *

How It Goes ... Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk *

Rhythm ... Anna Domino

Freaks ... The Hawk In Paris (from the album Freaks and Outcasts...I can relate)

The Day That I was Born ... Doug Norquay *

Coffee Stained Pages ... Epic Rain (or snow. Snow would work too)

How Good Does It Feel ... Empires (new)

Middle (Matt Batey Remix) ... Cumulus

Radiowave Blockade... Elizabeth *

My Heart Is Pinned To Your Sleeve ... The High Dials *

Dear Confessor ... Immaculate Machine *
Don't Take My Sunshine Away ...Graham Colton with Wayne Coyne

Michael.... Goodbyemotel

Parables ... Rebekah Higgs *

So that's it.

If you are in the path of Old Man Winter, may you have a warm and cheery snow day.

And as always, thanks for listening

* Canadian artists

OK. So I will quit bitching about the Grammys

Hey everybody,

Seems the whole Grammy copyright of the finale performance has been at least temporarily thwarted.

Thanks to #DirtyGlitter from Radioflag for this link.

http://t.co/kgpCwWtDVI

Maybe now I can move on ;)

Cheers! Enjoy Super Bowl!

Ruby Slippers Jan 31/14 7-8 pm

Hey everybody!

The deep freeze is going to be over, at least for a bit, before this show airs, so it's time to think of warmer and bouncier times ahead, right? Well, don't know about you, but dancing around with the dog and changing out of snow gear is a cause to celebrate. And who better to do it with than the Beach Boys? 

Well, you get my (non-snow) drift...

Here we go!

Good Vibrations ...Brian Wilson (from the album "Smile")(shorts, flip flops, etc)

Behind the Rhine ... Color Theory

Small Window ... Yves Jean

Blow This Place Up ... Odds

Cur Me Some Slack ... Paul McCartney, Dave Groul et al. (Grammy winner, Rock Song)

The Comet ... Poppy Seed and the Love Explosion

Dead End Street (Kinks cover) ... Invasions

D.I.Y. ...Peter Gabriel

Dreaming Tree ... Fools Tongue

Wasted Light  (Humans remix) ... The Belle Game

All The Way ... Omhouse

Second Chance ... Ark Analog

Hang On To Yourself ... Young Galaxy

Drifter ... Roadkill Ghost Choir

Enjoy, and as always, thanks for listening.

Ruby Slippers Jan 24 7-8 pm

Hey everybody,

Despite bone crushing temperatures and a tendency to sleep, eat and sleep some more, a playlist came together.  Heavy on the covers this week, some brand spankin' new stuff and a good showing from the True North Strong and Free.  Stay warm and above all, enjoy!

Watcher ... The Greasemarks *

Roadrunner ... The Modern Lovers  (Joan Jett did this song too)

John Brown ...State Radio (A Dylan Cover)

Thunder Rolls (Garth Brooks ?!? cover) ... Jet Black Stare *

Mach 1 (Smugglers cover) ...The Gary Ragas *

Barbarian ... The Dollyrots (new!)

Vegas Nightmare ...Atomik Circus *

Deep Disco ... Basement Love (new!) *

Thriller (MJ cover) ... Chuck Billy (of Testament)

She Gives Me Everything ... Gregg Lawless (new) *

Heavy Bells ...J. Roddy Walston and the Business (bumped from last week...;) )

Ex- Punks ...Bry Webb *

Socialize ... Metal Hearts (from Baltimore)

Eyes of a Stranger (Payolas cover) ... D$Money feat. Losergeek *

Top Of The World ... Helen Austin (happiness personified!)

More Than This ... Peter Gabriel

What is old is new again.

As always, my friends, thanks for listening and see you next week!

*signifies Canadian

Ruby Slippers Jan 17 7-8 pm

Hey everybody,

Mid month already! Loads of new songs coming in, lots of old stuff resurfacing! I'm totally revving up for 2014 (OK so it took a few weeks) and feeling the love.

Here's what came together this week. I hope you will have as much fun with it as I did.

Miss You (Peaking Lights remix)... Clinic

Blackwind ... Patrick Watson

Dirt ... Mission of Burma

Save Your Mama ... The Pecan Sandies (gotta love a band that sounds like dessert)

Spiral Staircase ... Kings Of Leon

Mirror Mirror ... Poppy Seed and the Love Explosion (psychedelic)

Your Gold Dress ... The Dukes of the Stratosphear (more psychedelic)

Mary Mary ... The Monkees  ( yup, those Monkees)

Swing-Shift ... Nash the Slash (a T dot institution) (identity unknown, Google him)

Someone Who's Cool ... Odds

She's A Rejector ... of Montreal (but not really of Montreal, it's just a name. ?!@)

Break In NYC ... Atomik Circus

Catastrophe ... Floor

That's Not Me ... Cropduster

Exercise 5 ... CFCF

and if time...Heavy Bells ... J. Roddy Walston and the Business (drat, next week!!)

Hee ha!  Have a great week and as always, thanks for listening!

Ruby Slippers for Jan 10 7-8 pm

Hey everybody,

Kind of a kooky list today. Mebbe it's the extreme cold kicking in, or just a lack of sun, or drinking my own coffee for days on end. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Hope you enjoy it, I know I have been laughing the entire time it was going together.

Ding Dong...Klaus Nomi

Just Good Friends ... Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder

Lust for Love (Images in Vogue cover) ...Vaglab

Chain My Name ... Polica

(It Could Be )  Love ...Camouflage Nights 

Tango Shoes ... Bif Naked

Walking In The Woods ... The Pursuit of Happiness

You Can Make It If you Try ... Mason Jar Music et al

Lipstick On Her Cigar ... Chris King Robinson

Extreme to Me ... Kris Demeanor

Wicked and Weird ... Buck 65 (yup, I know, played it before, but really great!)

Mathematics ... Les Jupes (the Skirts)

The Laws Have Changed ... The New Pornographers

Holding Down the Laughter ... Bad Books

Nowhere With You ... Joel Plaskett

G.B.A. ... Xavier Rudd

Great Spangle Fritillary... Cocteau Twins (an original this time, but may not get here :(  )

The start to a new year is always interesting. Jumping into the unknown with a foot still in the past.

As always, thanks for listening!

xx