From the Lizard Cove:

In our ongoing pursuit to encourage, document, and connect creative expression across Canada, we cut through waves upon waves of ethereal sounds, wyld shreddery, and brooding drones. It is magnificent. Some of the best grips escape our grasping fists. We list them here:

VIDEO: Psych-Ich Lie – “Crying” (Montréal, QC)

Effed – On Going (Richelieu, QC)

BLANKA – Y A S U D A (Montréal, QC)

M. Mucci – Live at Silence/Live at The Yeti (Guelph, ON)

Colin James Gibson – Winter Solstice Quartet (Toronto, ON)

Colin James Gibson – Sonata for Solo Ebow (Toronto, ON)

Colin James Gibson – Sonata for Bowed Electric Guitar (Toronto, ON)

VIDEO: Space Classic – “Following Through” (Edmonton, AB)

hand-drawn – loafin’ (Saint John, NB)

VIDEO: Sister Blanche – “Waiting” (Victoria, BC)

Tout Croche – The Whole Shabang (Montréal, QC)

VIDEO: Vanessa Rotondo – “R.I.P. Ms. Focus” (Ottawa, ON)

VIDEO: Ylangylang – “In Da Zone” (Montréal, QC)

Automatic Turn On – Night Awake (London, ON)

Say Spirit – Heartsong (Toronto, ON)

Titanium Tunnels – ”lamentations of a star child (pt.8)” (Edmonton, AB)

Think of a Name – Think of a Name 2 (Niagara, ON)

Surprise Party – Circle of Death EP (Winnipeg, MB)

VIDEO: Ashleys – “Red Stripes” (Montréal, QC)

Travis Bretzer – Saucy Tasters (Reissue) (Edmonton, AB)

A covert operation for the past six months is now ready to be unleashed upon the world. The Weird Canada Podcast, lead by Max Cotter and Johnnie Regalado, will produce (approximately) bi-monthly episodes of thematic vibrations and dispatches from our New Canadian heritage.

In an effort to make this podcast as national as possible, we have an open request line. We’ve been visiting festivals across Canada and gathering requests from internet celebs like Old & Weird, Andrew Neville, Chad VanGaalen, Damian Abraham, and the Grundy brothers. If you have a request, please listen to our request instructions and contact us at podcast [at] weirdcanada [dot] com.

Please visit http://weirdcanada.com/podcast for recent episodes.

Episode #1 was produced and recorded by Max Cotter and is streamable below.

PS – if you are interested in syndicating our podcast, please get in touch with us here: podcast [at] weirdcanada [dot] com. We have full SOCAN-compliant playlists, college radio!

PPS – Huge thanks to Travis Bretzer for the Weird Canada podcast theme song!

From the sacral arabesque of David Ferris:

Like crushed gouache between layers of paper, or a much-thumbed issue of Owl Magazine, Travis Bretzer offers excursions into hazy recollections of past events which may or may not have happened. In fact: after listening to Making Love, you may find that your memories have been displaced with charlatan anecdotes of your childhood, and you may even find yourself pursued by the insatiable furies of nostalgia though a landscape of counterfeit recollections. If unsure if this AOR mind-fucking process has occured, simply try to recall the following events…
1) Driving to the family picnic, you and your sister fight viciously in the backseat. Your parents ignore you, too engrossed in signing along with “Billy and I,” not wanting to ruin the moment.
2) You embarrassingly see yourself in an old home movie, nine years old in a neon windbreaker, playing air-guitar and lip sinking to “Hurts So Bad.”
3) One of your oldest memories: after being tucked into bed at 9:30, your parent’s friends come over. For hours, through the walls, you can just barely make out the peals of laughter, a faint smell of strange smoke, and the muffled thumping of “Death Rock.”

From the dry blazers of Aaron Levin

Hiding amongst Edmonton’s not-so-secret posse of twin spring wielding pop crooners, Travis Bretzer explodes with a liquid soft-rock catch that will drag you through the primordial pop goo, resonating with every natural frequency as you shake with anticipation for every track. It’s the completely unpunk, hook-driven AOR gold that hits the secret parental force burrowed in all of us. Strange attractions indeed. MUSTGRIP.