ANOTHER YEAR IN CANADA?

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

So I know Frank does this on his personal LJ, but in a few conversations with various and sundry poptimists over the past few months, it's occurred to me how ghettoized non-American pop music tends to be.

Due to Canada's odd cultural promotion legislation there's an entire bubbling underground of Canadian pop music, some of it great, some of it awful and much of it pale imitations of whatever happens to be going on in America at the time.  Regardless, drawing attention to some of it wouldn't be the worst jumping point for discussion, so what the hell.  Let's try it and see what happens.

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You gotta have money on your Oyster...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The barriers are shut, you ain't gettin' on that bus...

This year's 'One Day I Went To Lidl'/'Junior Spesh', but Ms Darks has a ~message~ for the youth as well.