Toronto Star Podcasts

Anti-Hit List - Dec. 27

Best wishes from all of us at the Anti-Hit List for a happy and healthy holiday season. We'll see you in 2009.

Anti-Hit List - Dec. 20

In celebration of the holidays we offer up a selection of non-traditional seasonal music by Tricot Machine, a gifted duo out of Montreal, The Fleshtones, a garage rock institution from Brooklyn, and Georgia Anne Muldrow, an under-appreciated hip-hop artist from L.A.

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Anti-Hit List - Dec. 13

This week we have new music by St. John's pop throwbacks Mercy, The Sexton. We also have tracks by local band Hank, led by Cam Williamson, U.K. five-piece Pull In Emergency, and Australian four-piece The Temper Trap.

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Anti-Hit List - Dec. 6

This week we have new music that is a collaboration between a Presbyterian pastor and his wife, and Sufjan Stevens. We also have music recorded in a cabin in Bearsville, N.Y. by Matt Pond PA, a track by folky duo Smoke Fairies, and a piece of musical therapy by U.K.-based singer-songwriter Frank Turner.

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Anti-Hit List - Nov. 22

We've combined music from two lists this week. First up is an expansive punk anthem by London collective Asian Dub Foundation w. Iggy Pop. We also have new music by the prolific ringleader of The New Pornographers A.C. Newman, Future Clouds And Radar and Fight Like Apes.

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Purchase Asian Dub Foundation's album Punkara at iTunes here

Anti-Hit List - Nov. 8

We have three bands from the U.K. on this week's list: The Golden Silvers, Friendly Fires and White Lies. We also have the title track from a criminally under-heard EP by Toronto's The Weather Station and a track by Pretty & Nice, a band out of Boston.

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Anti-Hit List - Nov. 1

First up on this week's list, music from the suburbs of Stockholm, by two teenage sisters who call themselves First Aid Kit. We also have an acoustic ballad by Toronto singer-songwriter Luke Jackson and a track that's a combination of dream pop, laptop and folk music by Brooklyn trio School Of Seven Bells.

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Anti-Hit List - Oct. 25

This week we have music by two unsigned artists: Liverpool four-piece The Grants and former Pipettes member Rose Elinor Dougall. We also have a high-energy track by Charlottetown's The Danks and new music by Beast, a Montreal duo.

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Anti-Hit List - Oct. 18

Sarah Noni Metzner's lead-off track from her new acoustic album is the obvious pop moment: uptempo, big drums and a punchy chorus. We also have new music by Toronto singer-songwriter Nick Zubeck, a noisy/poppy hybrid by Sweden's The Legends and some dense guitar pop by an outstanding new band from Glasgow, Glasvegas.

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Anti-Hit List - Oct. 11

On this week's list we have a new entry by a trio of talented Maritime musicians who call themselves The Olympic Symphonium. We also have new music by Brooklyn-based band Department of Eagles and a spiky, rhythmically pushy alt/dance rock tune by our U.K. band of the week, Little Comets.

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