JP Robichaud (@jprobichaud911)

“Laugh at the wonder of it all
Laugh so loud you break your fall
And you hear the gathering sounds“
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#nowspinning @wearejames.bsky.social #vinyl #retro90s #alternative

14.03.2026 14:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eighties’ best 100 redux: #76 The Mission “Tower of strength” (1988) << #77 | #75 >> At track #76 is The Mission's eight-minute epic single, "Tower of strength". The Mission (known as The Mission UK in North America) was formed by Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams after they left Sisters of Mercy due to a disagreement with frontman Andrew Eldritch before the recording of that band's second album. In fact, a handful of songs that appeared on The Mission's debut album, "God's own medicine", were written by Hussey and were meant to be recorded as Sisters of Mercy songs.

Eighties' best 100 redux: #76 The Mission "Tower of strength" (1988)

#BestTunes #Retro80s #TheMission #GothicRock

11.03.2026 11:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“I give myself to sin
I gave myself to providence
And I’ve been there and back again
The state that I am”
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#nowspinning #belleandsebastian #vinyl #indiepop #compilation

08.03.2026 13:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vinyl love: Robert Ascroft “Echo still remains” (Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.) Artist: Robert Ascroft Album Title: Echo still remains Year released: 2025 Details: Special edition, custard vinyl The skinny: Do you have a favourite record label?

Vinyl love: Robert Ascroft "Echo still remains"

#Vinyl #BestOf2025 #Indie #RobertAscroft #HandDrawnDracula

04.03.2026 12:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agreed

01.03.2026 15:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A little 90s “ska-core” on a Sunday morning never hurt nobody.
#nowspinning #mightymightybosstones #vinyl #retro90s #ska

01.03.2026 15:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great picks

01.03.2026 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for indulging my Canadian Indie kick:
To finish off the month with panache, it’s Metric’s (from Toronto) fifth album “Synthetica”.
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#nowspinning #metric #vinyl #canadianindie #indiepop

28.02.2026 14:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
Great Lake Swimmers’ (from Toronto) fourth album “Lost channels” is indie folk perfection.
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#nowspinning @greatlakeswimmers.bsky.social #vinyl #canadianindie #indiefolk

27.02.2026 18:23 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
Hot Hot Heat’s (from Victoria) sophomore album “Elevator” was a breakout of sorts for the group.
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#nowspinning #hothotheat #vinyl #canadianindie #postpunk

22.02.2026 14:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

100 best covers: #30 Eddie Vedder “You’ve got to hide your love away” << #31 | #29 >> Well, we’re finally breaking into the top thirty on this list of my favourite ever covers and it’s Pearl Jam frontman doing The Beatles’ "You’ve got to hide your love away". This is the fourth cover of a Beatles song we’ve seen on the list so far* and the third track to be pulled from the "I am Sam" soundtrack.

100 best covers: #30 Eddie Vedder "You've got to hide your love away"

#BestTunes #Covers #TheBeatles #EddieVedder

21.02.2026 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
The Organ’s (from Vancouver) one-and-done, debut album “Grab that gun” is a cult classic of the mid-2000s CanCon indie boom.
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#nowspinning #theorgan #vinyl #canadianindie #postpunk

21.02.2026 14:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Best film soundtracks: Albums #10 through #6 Just over a couple of weeks ago I gave a sneak preview into my new “Best albums” series and provided a handful of ‘honourable mentions’ just to whet your appetite. If you missed that post, go on back and check it out. I’ll wait. If you’ve already perused that piece, you’d know that I am (or at least I was) almost as big a fan of films as I am of music.

Best film soundtracks: Albums #10 through #6

#BestAlbums #Soundtracks

17.02.2026 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
Young Galaxy’s (from Montreal by way of Vancouver) self-titled debut album was my very favourite album from 2007.
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#nowspinning @younggalaxy.bsky.social #vinyl #canadianindie #dreampop

15.02.2026 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
The New Pornographers’ (from Vancouver) fourth album “Challengers” was my second favourite album from 2007.
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#nowspinning #newpornographers #vinyl #canadianindie #supergroup

14.02.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
Tallies’ (from Toronto by way of Ottawa) self-titled debut album was my third favourite album of 2019.
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#nowspinning @tallies.band #vinyl #canadianindie #bestalbumsof2019

13.02.2026 17:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Best tunes of 2020: #8 No Joy “Birthmark” << #9 | #7 >> It’s been just shy of four months since we last visited this series counting down my favourite tunes of 2020. I don’t know that I’ve stayed away on purpose. I do have a few series on the go and the usual end of year festivities often take up lots of blog space. However, I admit that I've been finding 2020 an odd year to look back upon of late.

Best tunes of 2020: #8 No Joy "Birthmark"

#BestTunes #Indie #Shoegaze #NoJoy

13.02.2026 14:23 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Vinyl love: The Clientele “I am not there anymore” (Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.) Artist: The Clientele Album Title: I am not there anymore Year released: 2023 Details: Double LP, limited edition, black-in-red The skinny:

Vinyl love: The Clientele "I am not there anymore"

#Vinyl @theclientele.bsky.social #TheClientele #Reissue #DreamPop

09.02.2026 12:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
Alvvays’s (from Toronto by way of Charlottetown, PEI) third album “Blue rev” was my second favourite album of 2022.
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#nowspinning @alvvaysband.bsky.social #vinyl #canadianindie #bestalbumsof2022

08.02.2026 15:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
The Dears’ (from Montreal) sophomore album “No cities left” was at the forefront of the Canadian indie explosion of the mid-2000s.
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#nowspinning @thedears.bsky.social #vinyl #canadianindie #nocitiesleft

05.02.2026 17:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Best tunes of 2003: #5 Death Cab For Cutie “The sound of settling” << #6 | #4 >> "Bop-baaah… bop-baaah! This is the sound of settling!" Yes. "The sound of settling". This was my first of many favourite songs by Bellingham, Washington’s Death Cab for Cutie. As I wrote back in August in relation to the number 10 song on this list, it was the many promotional posters, wallpaper style, in the windows of a local independent record store, The Record Runner, hundreds of blackbirds tangled in red yarn, that first piqued my interest in the band and their fourth album, "

Best tunes of 2003: #5 Death Cab For Cutie "The sound of settling"

#BestTunes #2000s #Indie @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social #DeathCabForCutie

05.02.2026 12:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please indulge my Canadian Indie kick:
Stars’ (from Montreal) fifth album “The five ghosts” was my fifth favourite album from 2010. (That’s a lot of fives.)
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#nowspinning #starsband #vinyl #canadianindie #bestalbumsof2010

01.02.2026 16:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Best film soundtracks: Honourable mentions And now for something completely different… er… perhaps just a mild change of pace. I’ve been doing these ‘Best albums’ series pretty regularly since I started this blog close to 10 years ago. But up to now, each of these series have been focused on a specific year, whether it be an end of the year recap of faves or a fond nostalgic look back on a certain year.

Best film soundtracks: Honourable mentions

#BestAlbums #Soundtracks

01.02.2026 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“There is a truth in his eye
There is a rest in the dawn
There is a point to his life
A man needs to be told”
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#nowspinning @thecharlatans.bsky.social #vinyl #britishrock #charlatans

31.01.2026 16:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Best tunes of 1994: #24 Cranes “Shining road” << #25 | #23 >> Here’s another song by a band whose introduction came by way of a sampler. Yes, they really did work! Back in the latter months of 1994, I was living in a basement apartment just north of Toronto while attending my second year at York University. Although it was definitely a shorter commute from that apartment than it was in…

Best tunes of 1994: #24 Cranes "Shining road"

#BestTunes #Retro90s #Cranes #AltRock #Gothic

28.01.2026 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some very excellent (but most likely forgotten) mid-2000s shoegaze revival on the turntable today: “Citrus”, the second album from NYC’s Asobi Seksu.
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#nowspinning #asobiseksu #vinyl #indie #shoegaze

25.01.2026 15:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“I’ll be your Emmylou and I’ll be your June
If you’ll be my Gram and my Johnny too
No, I’m not asking much of you
Just sing little darling, sing with me”
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#nowspinning #vinyl #indiefolk #firstaidkit

24.01.2026 15:54 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Playlist: 75 tunes from 1991 Here’s a good long Apple Music playlist that could get you through an afternoon of chores, painting, or cooking. Perhaps a road trip from Toronto to Montreal. Or keep you company on a flight from North America to Europe. I’ve done a few playlists over the years on this blog but never any that focused on the music of a particular year in the past.

Playlist: 75 tunes from 1991

#Playlist #Retro90s #AltRock

24.01.2026 13:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Hey, you chase the day away
Hey, you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there’s a sadness in your style
And there’s a blankness in your smile”
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#nowspinning @suedehq.bsky.social #vinyl #retro90s #britpop

21.01.2026 15:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vinyl love: The Clientele “Music for the age of miracles” (Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.) Artist: The Clientele Album Title: Music for the age of miracles Year released: 2017 Details: standard black vinyl The skinny: Returning back to my series, spinning all of The Clientele’s long players from my collection, I thought it pertinent to quote part of the post (with some updates) I wrote when I shared the band’s sixth studio album as…

Vinyl love: The Clientele "Music for the age of miracles"

#Vinyl @theclientele.bsky.social #TheClientele #Reissue #DreamPop

20.01.2026 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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