Even though it’s still a couple months away, it seems like Christmas, because we got a heaping helping of new music in the mail this week, including a box of great new stuff from one of Canada’s best labels, Busted Flat Records. These add to an already impressive list of great new releases this year, but we all know that the releases go into hibernation this time of year. With that in mind, we tried to look at what might be the best release of 2010… and then realized that it was slightly premature. We did, however, manage to look at some great concerts, past and present.

Artist – Song title – Album Title – CDN=Canadian – WPG=Winnipeg artist

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Kings of the Moon – Leaves – Kings of the Moon – CDN – WPG
Royal Wood – So Glad – A Good Enough Day – CDN
Matthew Ryan – Forever Young – Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’
Kim Richey – When the Circus Comes to Town – Wreck Your Wheels
Jack Marks – Michigan Love – Lost Wages – CDN

2:30 – 3:00

Dan Walsh – Smokomotive – Virtuoso – CDN
Lynn Jackson – Boots – Coming Down – CDN
Semko Fontaine Taylor – Anne Marie – Heartaches & Numb3rs – CDN
Jay Semko – Mountain Song – Jay Semko – CDN
Matt Andersen – Round and Round – Live from the Phoenix Theatre – CDN
Kasey Chmabers – Down Here on Earth – Little Bird
Holly Williams – Let Her Go – Here With Me
Stephanie Finch & The Company Men – Sensitive Boys – Cry Tomorrow
Alejandro Escovedo – Anchor – Street Songs of Love

3:00 – 3:30

Peter Katz and the Curious – These Are the Days – More Nights – CDN
Peter Katz – First of the Last to Know – First of the Last to Know – CDN
Andy Maize & Michael Johnston – Stay Awake – These Are Our Songs – CDN
The Damnwells – She Goes Around
The Damnwells – 55 Pictures – One Last Century

3:30 – 4:00

The Damnwells – I’ve Got You – Air Stereo
The Damnwells – I Will Keep the Bad Things from You – Bastards of the Beat
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Decidedly – The Falcon Lake Incident – CDN
Christina Martin – Daisy – I Can Too – CDN
Del Barber – As Far As I Can Tell – Love Songs for the Last 20 – CDN – WPG