3am Mixtapes: Episode Nine: Broken Up Bands

Hey look, it's another episode of 3am Revelations' very own podcast!

Each week on 3am Mixtapes, I will present to you, in my dulcet tones, the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general like Best Side Projects, or they can be as obscure and specific as Top Six Math Rock Trios.

This week, we mourn the bands that we lost too soon. Those that broke up, split, dissolved, went their separate ways. Here it is, your Top Six Broken Up Bands!

Featured on this week's podcast is:

"Ghost Towns" by Treelines
"Snakecharming the Masses" by The Stills
"Come on Baby Say Bang Bang" by Jane Vain & The Dark Matter
"Dear Confessor" by Immaculate Machine
"Breakin' Up"  by Rilo Kiley
"Without Friends" by The Ghost is Dancing

Any questions or comments or waffles or criticisms or suggestions for future themes are welcome!


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Musical Roots: The New Pornographers

Regular readers (all nine of you) may know I am currently schooling at BCIT, in the Radio Broadcast program. In our second, and final, year we take over the station Evolution1079*. At the station we are given rotating jobs every week, and a couple weeks ago I was tasked with Musical Roots; a 45 minute 'Ongoing History Of New Music' type program, where we take a close look at a particular topic. Because these ran at 11pm on a week when our streaming was down, and because I put a lot of work into these (wrote, voiced, produced... did everything myself) I would like to share it with you, fine reader, as a podcast.

This is the third of four episodes, which will released on a [hopefully] weekly basis in the next month. While the first two were more a chronological history of the featured acts, this one is a little different. This week I take a look at not only The New Pornographers, but also all the things that go to make up the band. All of the various members other bands; AC Newman, Neko Case, Destroyer, Immaculate Machine, Limblifter, Fancey and The Evaporators. And then of course, a look at The New Pornos themselves. The feature is in three 15 minute segments, and that is how I present them to you. In streaming or downloadable options.

I hope you enjoy it, and I would very much welcome any sort of feedback you may have (positive or negative), either commented here or through the emails at: 3amRevelations [at] gmail [dot] com.


Download The New Pornographers Part One

Download The New Pornographers Part Two

Download The New Pornographers Part Three

*If you enjoy this blog and do not know of this station, I suggest you give it a listen. We play a lot of awesome music, and I don't just say this because I am the current music director.

random top six

Here's something I haven't done in a while, a Random Top 6 list! Here's the deal: every week whenever I feel like it, I will choose a random category and choose the top 6 songs fitting that criteria. Today, inspired by the recent wave of hellfire that has descended upon Vancouver and made it too hot to think of a metaphor for how hot it is, I have picked the Top Six Fiery Songs! So, in no particular order, I give you:

The Top Six Flaming Songs


download Signal Fire by Black Hat Brigade


download This Fire by Franz Ferdinand


download Fire In The Lobby by Immaculate Machine


download Wall of Fire by Peter Elkas


download Fire by Jason Collett


download Run Through The Fire by The Waking Eyes

Honourable mention:
Babe, I'm On Fire by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Which is about 17 mintues long, so I didn't want to upload it... so here is the video!