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    <title>Aubade: Your personal musical enthusiast</title>
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      <![CDATA[Your monthly dose of earcandy since 2008. 

                
                aubade n. A song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak.

                
                (I was feeling optimistic at the time.)

                
                All songs featured are the property of their creators, who worked very hard to bring you their best: the music that wakes them in their sleep and compels them to undergo Amundssen-like hardships and the travails of Hercules, that you may feast your ears upon it. So be a sport and buy stuff from the bands you hear here.]]>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
    <itunes:keywords>music, ,new, ,indie, ,rock, ,canadian,Music</itunes:keywords>
    <copyright>Copyright 2025 Aubade </copyright>
    <itunes:subtitle>Fresher than the sweetness in water</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type>
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    <itunes:author>Aubade </itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>Your monthly dose of earcandy since 2008. 
                
                aubade n. A song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak.
                
                (I was feeling optimistic at the time.)
                
                All songs featured are the property of their creators, who worked very hard to bring you their best: the music that wakes them in their sleep and compels them to undergo Amundssen-like hardships and the travails of Hercules, that you may feast your ears upon it. So be a sport and buy stuff from the bands you hear here.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Aubadecast 3.1: What the hell was I thinking in 2009?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Ok, here's the deal: Everything fell apart in terms of me organizing my music in 2009. I was able to keep up with the Quarterly Reports while I was listening to song-based music exclusively, but sometime around the end of 2008 I began really digging on droney, repetitive instrumental music, which, cool, but I was having a really hard time integrating it with the "shuffle" function on my iPod.

Sorting through tunes for this year's christmas mixtape, I unearthed this playlist: 80 minutes of randomness I had been digging on in 2009 when I gave up trying to make sense of it all. It doesn't hold together, but there's some stuff here. Enjoy.

Cutting Heads -	Jerry Leger &amp; The Situation
Let's Kill Ourselves - The Ponys
The Way We Lived (featuring Sharon Jones) - Wax Tailor
Honey Child What Can I Do - Isobel Campbell &amp; Mark Lanegan
Robots - Dan Mangan
No Sound - The Magic
Hallelujah - The Helio Sequence
Staggolee - Pacific Gas &amp; Electric
Sunlight - Tune-Yards
The Age of Anxiety - Virgin Islands
Born Under a Bad Sign - Moneybrother
Armistice - Phoenix
Love Has Left The Room - A Camp
The Very Best Of Neil Diamond - Super Furry Animals
Dali - Finn Riggins, ( )
The Great Unknown - Frankel
Childish Things - James McMurtry
Burial Sounds - The Phantom Band
Sin Eater - The Legendary Shack Shakers
Strange Birds (Alternate Version) - The Constantines]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <dcterms:modified>2013-12-07</dcterms:modified>
      <dcterms:created>2013-12-07</dcterms:created>
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      <dc:creator>Aubade </dc:creator>
      <itunes:keywords>music,rock,indie</itunes:keywords>
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      <itunes:summary>Ok, here's the deal: Everything fell apart in terms of me organizing my music in 2009. I was able to keep up with the Quarterly Reports while I was listening to song-based music exclusively, but sometime around the end of 2008 I began really digging on droney, repetitive instrumental music, which, cool, but I was having a really hard time integrating it with the &quot;shuffle&quot; function on my iPod.

Sorting through tunes for this year's christmas mixtape, I unearthed this playlist: 80 minutes of randomness I had been digging on in 2009 when I gave up trying to make sense of it all. It doesn't hold together, but there's some stuff here. Enjoy.

Cutting Heads -	Jerry Leger &amp; The Situation
Let's Kill Ourselves - The Ponys
The Way We Lived (featuring Sharon Jones) - Wax Tailor
Honey Child What Can I Do - Isobel Campbell &amp; Mark Lanegan
Robots - Dan Mangan
No Sound - The Magic
Hallelujah - The Helio Sequence
Staggolee - Pacific Gas &amp; Electric
Sunlight - Tune-Yards
The Age of Anxiety - Virgin Islands
Born Under a Bad Sign - Moneybrother
Armistice - Phoenix
Love Has Left The Room - A Camp
The Very Best Of Neil Diamond - Super Furry Animals
Dali - Finn Riggins, ( )
The Great Unknown - Frankel
Childish Things - James McMurtry
Burial Sounds - The Phantom Band
Sin Eater - The Legendary Shack Shakers
Strange Birds (Alternate Version) - The Constantines</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Ok, here's the deal: Everything fell apart in terms of me organizing my music in 2009. I was able...</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Aubadecast 2.4: Trees With Roots</title>
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        <![CDATA[I kind of gave up on "alt-country" in the late 90s, when the tidal wave of anonymous twangy college kids moaning about their tribulations as dirt farmers got too much to wade through. Now that the old preoccupation with 'authenticity' is out the window and it's all but openly acknowledged to be pretty much all about the performance of one kind of fiction or another, there are a lot of artists indiscriminately pulling together influences from the worlds of rock, folk, blues &amp; country in some interesting ways. Here are some bits &amp; bobs that have caught my ear for one reason or another: not all great songs, not all great performances, but all with some appeal. Enjoy.

Everybody Lets Me Down •	Ad Astra Per Aspera
Genevieve •	Proof of Ghosts
Big Iron •	Jon Rauhouse
Lazy Suicide •	Megafaun
Good Living •	Supersuckers
Life Of A Fool •	Paul Burch
Blue Chimneys •	Jerry Leger &amp; The Situation
Everything I Say •	Vic Chesnutt
Preach •	Tom Thumb And The Latter Day Saints
I'll Never Drown •	Tim Fite
Martha Ann •	David Karsten Daniels
Tear Down the House •	The Avett Brothers
Packing Blankets (Live 2005) •	Eels
New Virginia •	The Lonely Hearts
When It Rains •	Bruce Robison
Small Town Murder Scene •	FemBots
]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 03:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
      <dcterms:modified>2013-12-05</dcterms:modified>
      <dcterms:created>2013-12-05</dcterms:created>
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      <dc:creator>Aubade </dc:creator>
      <itunes:keywords>canadian,indie,music,new,rock,alt-country,roots,folk</itunes:keywords>
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      <itunes:summary>I kind of gave up on &quot;alt-country&quot; in the late 90s, when the tidal wave of anonymous twangy college kids moaning about their tribulations as dirt farmers got too much to wade through. Now that the old preoccupation with 'authenticity' is out the window and it's all but openly acknowledged to be pretty much all about the performance of one kind of fiction or another, there are a lot of artists indiscriminately pulling together influences from the worlds of rock, folk, blues &amp; country in some interesting ways. Here are some bits &amp; bobs that have caught my ear for one reason or another: not all great songs, not all great performances, but all with some appeal. Enjoy.

Everybody Lets Me Down &#8226;	Ad Astra Per Aspera
Genevieve &#8226;	Proof of Ghosts
Big Iron &#8226;	Jon Rauhouse
Lazy Suicide &#8226;	Megafaun
Good Living &#8226;	Supersuckers
Life Of A Fool &#8226;	Paul Burch
Blue Chimneys &#8226;	Jerry Leger &amp; The Situation
Everything I Say &#8226;	Vic Chesnutt
Preach &#8226;	Tom Thumb And The Latter Day Saints
I'll Never Drown &#8226;	Tim Fite
Martha Ann &#8226;	David Karsten Daniels
Tear Down the House &#8226;	The Avett Brothers
Packing Blankets (Live 2005) &#8226;	Eels
New Virginia &#8226;	The Lonely Hearts
When It Rains &#8226;	Bruce Robison
Small Town Murder Scene &#8226;	FemBots
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      <itunes:subtitle>I kind of gave up on &quot;alt-country&quot; in the late 90s, when the tidal wave of anonymous twangy colle...</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Aubadecast 2.3: River of OrchPop</title>
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        <![CDATA[A collection of choons that venture outside simple guitar-bass-drums instrumentation -- sometimes just with a few other instruments for texture, sometimes dispensing with the formula completely. 

It turns out Jay Crocker made it onto this playlist twice, but I decided to keep him because a) they're both great songs, b) they have awesomely different textures, c) they're from different albums, and d) I included both Beirut and Andrew Bird, and they're, like, the same dude vocally anyhow.

Next up: upstart roots. 

1. River of Orchids • XTC
2. Hooray For Tuesday • The Minders
3. Ring Them Bells • Sufjan Stevens
4. Plasticities • Andrew Bird
5. A Sleepy Company • The Olivia Tremor Control
6. Surging Revival • Cuff the Duke
7. Finch on Sunday • Horse Feathers
8. Somewhere Between Good and Evil • Jay Crocker
9. Elephant Gun • Beirut
10. Fingers to Fist • BIG A little a
11. Escape From New York • Chris Mills
12. Robot Clothes • Jay Crocker
13. Starling • La Strada]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
      <dcterms:modified>2013-12-05</dcterms:modified>
      <dcterms:created>2013-12-05</dcterms:created>
      <link>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/aubade/episodes/2009-04-04T13_00_17-07_00</link>
      <dc:creator>Aubade </dc:creator>
      <itunes:keywords>music,canadian,indie,rock,orchestral,pop,orchpop,chamber</itunes:keywords>
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      <itunes:summary>A collection of choons that venture outside simple guitar-bass-drums instrumentation -- sometimes just with a few other instruments for texture, sometimes dispensing with the formula completely. 

It turns out Jay Crocker made it onto this playlist twice, but I decided to keep him because a) they're both great songs, b) they have awesomely different textures, c) they're from different albums, and d) I included both Beirut and Andrew Bird, and they're, like, the same dude vocally anyhow.

Next up: upstart roots. 

1. River of Orchids &#8226; XTC
2. Hooray For Tuesday &#8226; The Minders
3. Ring Them Bells &#8226; Sufjan Stevens
4. Plasticities &#8226; Andrew Bird
5. A Sleepy Company &#8226; The Olivia Tremor Control
6. Surging Revival &#8226;&#160;Cuff the Duke
7. Finch on Sunday &#8226; Horse Feathers
8. Somewhere Between Good and Evil &#8226; Jay Crocker
9. Elephant Gun &#8226; Beirut
10. Fingers to Fist &#8226; BIG A little a
11. Escape From New York &#8226; Chris Mills
12. Robot Clothes &#8226;&#160;Jay Crocker
13. Starling &#8226;&#160;La Strada</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>A collection of choons that venture outside simple guitar-bass-drums instrumentation -- sometimes...</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Aubadecast 2.2 - If I Lose</title>
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        <![CDATA[Now to conclude, with Part II of the year-end/new year's mixtape. Designed to be enjoyed back-to-back with Part I: Chwrw Nid Llaeth but 40% less salty on its own. 

1. Three More Springs	Ghostkeeper
2. Don't You Evah (Ted Leo's I Want It Hotter Remix)	Spoon
3. Download	Super Furry Animals
4. Genius	Warren Zevon
5. Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin	The Magnetic Fields
6. Impossible Germany (live at Troutdale)	Wilco
7. My Only Offer	Mates of State
8. See My Friends (live)	Richard Thompson
9. Mistress And Maid (demo)	Elvis Costello
10. The State I Am In (BBC Version)	Belle and Sebastian	
11. These Days	Nico
12. Gamblin' Man	Gillian Welch
13. Glory, Glory Speeches from Don't Look Now	Kenneth Patchen	
]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
      <dcterms:modified>2013-12-05</dcterms:modified>
      <dcterms:created>2013-12-05</dcterms:created>
      <link>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/aubade/episodes/2009-02-16T11_42_02-08_00</link>
      <dc:creator>Aubade </dc:creator>
      <itunes:keywords>indie,music,rock,eclectic,downbeat,mixtape</itunes:keywords>
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      <itunes:duration>3487</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>Now to conclude, with Part II of the year-end/new year's mixtape. Designed to be enjoyed back-to-back with Part I: Chwrw Nid Llaeth but 40% less salty on its own. 

1. Three More Springs	Ghostkeeper
2. Don't You Evah (Ted Leo's I Want It Hotter Remix)	Spoon
3. Download	Super Furry Animals
4. Genius	Warren Zevon
5. Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin	The Magnetic Fields
6. Impossible Germany (live at Troutdale)	Wilco
7. My Only Offer	Mates of State
8. See My Friends (live)	Richard Thompson
9. Mistress And Maid (demo)	Elvis Costello
10. The State I Am In (BBC Version)	Belle and Sebastian	
11. These Days	Nico
12. Gamblin' Man	Gillian Welch
13. Glory, Glory Speeches from Don't Look Now	Kenneth Patchen	
</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Now to conclude, with Part II of the year-end/new year's mixtape. Designed to be enjoyed back-to-...</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Aubadecast 2.1 - Chrwrw Nid Llaeth (Beer Not Milk)</title>
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        <![CDATA[*FIXED*

Good afternoon to you all. Here is volume 1 of the annual year-end/new year mixtape. Enjoy!

1. King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1	Neutral Milk Hotel
2. Pam Berry	The Shins
3. Changing	The Moondoggies
4. God's Gonna Cut You Down	Johnny Cash
5. The Candle And The Flame	fIREHOSE
6. Bleeding Powers	Ted Leo &amp; the Pharmacists
7. Get Up Jake (Outtake­ - Stereo Mix)	The Band
8. Rosalie	Alejandro Escovedo
9. Abandoned Love	Bob Dylan
10. Fifty Years After The Fair	Aimee Mann
11. More Axe	Bob Marley &amp; The Wailers
12. All These Governors	The Evens
13. More Is More	Komeda
14. Working To Work	Field Music
15. Kicker of Elves	Guided By Voices
16. Listen To The Band	The Monkees
17. Gwn Mi Wn	Gruff Rhys
18. Tiny Spark	Brendan Benson
19. My Old Jacknife	Ladyhawk
20. End Of Part One	The Violet Archers
]]>
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      <comments>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/aubade/episodes/2009-01-25T15_14_14-08_00</comments>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <dcterms:modified>2013-12-05</dcterms:modified>
      <dcterms:created>2013-12-05</dcterms:created>
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      <dc:creator>Aubade </dc:creator>
      <itunes:keywords>music,indie,rock,classic,eclectic,audio/mpeg,aubade,salmonella</itunes:keywords>
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      <itunes:summary>*FIXED*

Good afternoon to you all. Here is volume 1 of the annual year-end/new year mixtape. Enjoy!

1. King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1	Neutral Milk Hotel
2. Pam Berry	The Shins
3. Changing	The Moondoggies
4. God's Gonna Cut You Down	Johnny Cash
5. The Candle And The Flame	fIREHOSE
6. Bleeding Powers	Ted Leo &amp; the Pharmacists
7. Get Up Jake (Outtake&#173; - Stereo Mix)	The Band
8. Rosalie	Alejandro Escovedo
9. Abandoned Love	Bob Dylan
10. Fifty Years After The Fair	Aimee Mann
11. More Axe	Bob Marley &amp; The Wailers
12. All These Governors	The Evens
13. More Is More	Komeda
14. Working To Work	Field Music
15. Kicker of Elves	Guided By Voices
16. Listen To The Band	The Monkees
17. Gwn Mi Wn	Gruff Rhys
18. Tiny Spark	Brendan Benson
19. My Old Jacknife	Ladyhawk
20. End Of Part One	The Violet Archers
</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>*FIXED*

Good afternoon to you all. Here is volume 1 of the annual year-end/new year mixtape. E...</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Aubadecast 1.5: Does Humour Belong in Podcast?</title>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[A selection of more-or-less-recent songs that run the gamut from high-larious to mildly amusing to baffling, while staying well this side of Flight of the Conchords (sometimes father this side than others; Dan Bern's selection far this side, Corb Lund's edging near the line). Maybe if this episode is well received I'll pull out a list of classic-yet-funny tunes, starting with John Prine's "Lake Marie."

Something I like about this mix is its variety: there's some absurdity, some pointed commentary, some good ol' goofy fun. And, in the case of track 9, some friendly advice. Just goes to show you can use humour for many purposes, like a hammer. Sometimes I use it to drive nails, sometimes to open cans of Alfa-ghetti.

Dinner's at my place tonight!

[WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR CHILDREN. OR MUCH OF ANYTHING.)

Track listing:

1. TV On the Radio - Robots
2. Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever
3. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Poodle Rockin'
4. The Evaporators - Half Empty Halls
5. Dengue Fever - Sober Driver
6. Todd Snider - Vinyl Records
7. McEnroe &amp; Birdapres - Nothing is Cool
8. Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-Kings feat. Lee Fields - Stranded In Your Love
9. The Wet Secrets - Grow Your Own Fucking Moustache, Asshole
10. The Golden Dogs - Construction Worker
11. Belle &amp; Sebastian - Meat &amp; Potatoes
12. Dan Bern - God Said No
13. Nellie McKay - Mother of Pearl
14. Corb Lund - Family Reunion
15. David Bazan - Selling Advertising
16. Andy Partridge - Put it On Again]]>
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      <comments>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/aubade/episodes/2008-11-27T21_29_16-08_00</comments>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
      <dcterms:modified>2013-12-05</dcterms:modified>
      <dcterms:created>2013-12-05</dcterms:created>
      <link>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/aubade/episodes/2008-11-27T21_29_16-08_00</link>
      <dc:creator>Aubade </dc:creator>
      <itunes:keywords>bad,taste,audio,canadian,enthusiast,indie,music,poodle,corn,flugelhorn,humor</itunes:keywords>
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      <itunes:duration>3364</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>A selection of more-or-less-recent songs that run the gamut from high-larious to mildly amusing to baffling, while staying well this side of Flight of the Conchords (sometimes father this side than others; Dan Bern's selection far this side, Corb Lund's edging near the line). Maybe if this episode is well received I'll pull out a list of classic-yet-funny tunes, starting with John Prine's &quot;Lake Marie.&quot;

Something I like about this mix is its variety: there's some absurdity, some pointed commentary, some good ol' goofy fun. And, in the case of track 9, some friendly advice. Just goes to show you can use humour for many purposes, like a hammer. Sometimes I use it to drive nails, sometimes to open cans of Alfa-ghetti.

Dinner's at my place tonight!

[WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR CHILDREN. OR MUCH OF ANYTHING.)

Track listing:

1. TV On the Radio - Robots
2. Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever
3. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Poodle Rockin'
4. The Evaporators - Half Empty Halls
5. Dengue Fever - Sober Driver
6. Todd Snider - Vinyl Records
7. McEnroe &amp; Birdapres - Nothing is Cool
8. Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-Kings feat. Lee Fields - Stranded In Your Love
9. The Wet Secrets - Grow Your Own Fucking Moustache, Asshole
10. The Golden Dogs - Construction Worker
11. Belle &amp; Sebastian - Meat &amp; Potatoes
12. Dan Bern - God Said No
13. Nellie McKay - Mother of Pearl
14. Corb Lund - Family Reunion
15. David Bazan - Selling Advertising
16. Andy Partridge - Put it On Again</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>A selection of more-or-less-recent songs that run the gamut from high-larious to mildly amusing t...</itunes:subtitle>
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