3am Mixtapes: Episode Eighty Seven: Fireworks

Each week on the 3am Mixtapes podcast, I will share with you the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general as bands playing Rifflandia. Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs For Your Six Senses. 

And seeing as the Symphony of Fire Celebration of Light is back starting this weekend, I figures that would be a good time for the Top Six Songs To Listen To While Watching Fireworks!

Ohh and Ahh with:

"I Used to Pray for the Heavens to Fall" by The Dears
"St Michael" by Louis-Jean Cormier
"Fancy Pants" by Bend Sinister
"That Was Was" by Dirty Three
"Starálfur" by Sigur Rós
"Last Known Surroundings" by Explosions in the Sky


Any questions or comments or waffles or criticisms or suggestions for future themes are welcome!
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3am Mixtapes: Episode Sixty Eight: Places

Each week on the 3am Mixtapes podcast, I will share with you the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general as best song endings, but some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs That Are Exactly Five Minutes and Three Seconds Long. 

This week we're going travelling! Kind of. Sort of. Not really. What I mean is, it's the Top Six Songs With Places in the Title!

Let's go to:

"Siberian Springtime" by The Ruffled Feathers
"Montreal" by Towers and Trees
"End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story" by The Dears
"Vulcan, AB" by The Rural Alberta Advantage
"Paris" by Scenic Route to Alaska
"New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" by LCD Soundsystem



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


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3am Mixtapes: Episode Thirty Nine: Ballads

Each week on the 3am Mixtapes podcast, I will share with you the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general like best road trip songs. Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs in 7/4 Time.

This week, instead of looking at the theme or the mood of the songs, I am going to go with the narratives, for the Top Six Ballads!

This week's tunes:

"The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
"Ballad of a Swan Lake, or Daniel's Song" by Swan Lake
"The Ballad of Joe Verreault" by Shaun Verreault
"Ballad of Hugo Chavez" by Arkells
"The Ballad of Humankindness" by The Dears
"The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and The Rage Cage" by Tenacious D


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



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3am Mixtapes: Episode Thirteen: Musical Couples

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 Top Six Dancey Songsor they can be as obscure and specific as Top Six Songs to Play at My Funeral.

This week we take a look at the age old tradition of musical couples. Those bands featuring married musicians who make sweet music together, in the Top Six Musical Couples!

Featured on this week's podcast is:

"Devil’s Got A Gun" by Whitehorse
"Beach Dream" by Jets Overhead
"#6" by AroarA
"Pretty Boy" by Young Galaxy
"I Heard I Had" by Dear Rouge
"22: The Death of All the Romance" by The Dears


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



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Musical Roots: The Dears

Regular readers (all eight 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 last week 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.

I did four episodes, and so I will release them on a [hopefully] weekly basis in the next month. The first is a look at the history of one of my favourite bands, The Dears. 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 Dears Part One

Download The Dears Part Two

Download The Dears 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.