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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 13 June 2013 (Yes, It’s Late)

June 15, 2014June 15, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alternate Rooms, Born Ruffians, Godsmack, Guy Blakeslee, Lowell, Mama Kin, New Pornographers, Rise Against, Rush Midnight, Spoon, Top 11

Technical issues, you understand. But hey, better late than never, right?  See what you think of this week’s hand-picked tunes.

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 23 May 2014

May 23, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Mediazoic, Quesada, Top 11

Again, I’m late because I’m on the far side of the International Date Line and I was sleeping when I

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: May 16, 2014

May 16, 2014May 16, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alternate Routes, Archie Powell, Brody Dalle, Glass Animals, Gloryhound, kickupaFuss, Paul Weller, Ray and Remora, Sink Tapes, Son Little, Top 11, Valery Trails

So much music, so little time?  Here are eleven hand-picked songs that may help you sort through what’s out there

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This Week’s Top 11 List: 09 May 2014

May 9, 2014May 9, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Mediazoic, Top 11

Day three of Canadian Music Week in Toronto.  Don’t even ask me how much my head hurts.  Thankfully, Mediazoic takes

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 07 March 2014

March 7, 2014March 7, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bear Den, Bear Hands, Brian Byrne, Circa Zero, Coldplay, Gord Downie, Hockeysmith, Medazoic, Ray Lamontagne, Said the Whale, The Sadies, Top 11, X Ambassadors, You Me At Six

This week’s whine:  Please, please let this winter end.  I just want to drive a car that’s clean inside and

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 14 February 2014

February 14, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Top 11

If you were expecting a list of songs appropriate for Valentine’s Day, move along.  Nothing to see here.  But if

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 07 February 2014

February 7, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Broken Bells, Cloud Nothings, Drowners, Dum Dum Girls, Gem Club, Mounties, Paolo Nutini, Pop Evil, Sam Roberts, Temples, Top 11, You Me At Six

Listen, if they need extra snow in Sochi, I’ve got a moguls course worth on either side my driveway.  Who’s

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist, 31 January 2014

January 31, 2014February 1, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Top 11

My dog is confused.  She can’t seem to understand that when it’s winter in the back yard, it’s also winter

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 03 January 2014

January 3, 2014January 3, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Die By Remote, Heavenly Blinkers, Last Bullet, Majical Cloudz, Maty Joly, No Joy, Of Montreal, Reverend Horton Heat, The Julie Ruin, The Tricot, Tim Hecker, Top 11

Damn, it’s cold.  My dog won’t go outside.  The power keeps flickering.  My garage door opener is complaining loudly.  But

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 27 December 2013

December 27, 2013December 27, 2013 Alan Cross 0 Comments Top 11

The last couple of weeks of the year are pretty barren when it comes to new releases so in the

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Weekly Top 11 Playlist: 20 December 2013 (The All-Xmas Edition)

December 20, 2013December 20, 2013 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bad Religion, Christmas, Low, NOFX, Top 11

Things I want for Christmas: (1) A Porsche 918, fully-optioned. (2) A continent-wide ban on anything named “Kardashian.” (3) People

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