April 23 - South Africans, supergroups, solo artists and stuck-in-your-head songs

Since I write a lot about the podcast I figured it'd be best to show what I played first instead of making you scroll to the bottom :P

Songs played (* Canadians):

• Kongos - Come With Me Now
• Fantasma feat JOSIAHWISE IS THESERPENTWITHFEET - Sefty Belt
• Joel Plaskett* - The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
• The Backhomes* - Solid Gold
• Hello Blue Roses* - Errant Sophia
• Tough Age* - Electric Chair (cub cover)
• Kathryn Calder* - Slow Burning
• Purity Ring* - heartsigh
• Ill Tone* - Everybody BAILED!
• The Elwins* - So Down Low
• Will Butler - Anna
• Young Fathers - John Doe
• Twin Shadow - Eclipse

Since Jacob Gradowski, the host of the Arts Show (occupying the slot before me 5-8pm every other week), is heading to South Africa, I've kicked off this Jumbalaya set with two of my favourite South African artists...or rather, two of my favourite artists period: Kongos and Fantasma. Neither of them are on the playlist, but they fuse Western mainstream music with world music influences, especially music from South Africa such as kwaito and maskandi, both beat-oriented.
Fantasma's maskandi guitarist is called Bhekisenzo Cele. I don't think I said his name correctly on air...this is what happens when I play artists on the fly and only partially remember artists' names :/

Joel Plaskett...he's a Canadian artist who Jacob interviewed. It's on earshot-online.com. Not what I said on air. Sorry >_<
I do enjoy his songwriting though. 'The Park Avenue Sobriety Test' (the song) is very catchy and memorable...one of the many catchy tracks I play on air at CJSF 90.1FM :P He also has one heck of an earworm on radio stations like the Peak 102.7FM, with his band the Joel Plaskett Emergency: "Nowhere with You". Listen to it. It's very cheery and the words will stick with you for a nice long while ;)

This playlist also features some supergroup artists, both as a band and as a solo artist/in a side project. Fantasma is a band, while Kathryn Calder, Dan Bejar and Will Butler appear outside of their better-known bands. (You could say Neko Case too, somewhat, as a covered artist...she used to be part of cub.)

Tough Age...as much as I think they're a great band, for some reason the record sounds really odd. It's a 7-inch vinyl that I was playing from, but when I played it at the standard speed for 7-inch records it sounded like the band was on helium. Kind of unfortunate considering how well-established in Canada both these bands were (though not at the same time). It was a Record Store Day special release, entitled Tough Age Plays cub's Hot Dog Day EP. The vinyl record itself is very pretty, with it being red and transparent. Just...not very functional, I guess. I think I'll play more tracks from the record, though from SoundCloud.

I also managed to squeeze in some highly catchy tracks. Besides Joel Plaskett, I also played stuff by Ill Tone (local MC), The Elwins (they have some really awesome light-hearted pop rock going), and Will Butler (Arcade Fire member). Guaranteed to get the songs by those three stuck in your head :P

Audio links:
http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_April_23_20_00.mp3
http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_April_23_20_30.mp3