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Noise is a very smart bass player. He said last year “if we record a Christmas song, it’ll get played every year as DJ’s and podcasters scramble for anything Christmas-like for their Christmas shows”, so we recorded Have a Parkdale Hookers Christmas Time last year which was today selected as CBC Radio3′s New Music Canada Track of the Day

Good work Phil.… [ read more -> ]

Podcasting has been good to us and we here at Parkdale Hookers International enjoy the many podcasts streaming into our iPods everyday. No sorry, that’s inaccurate we’re ADDICTED to podcasts.

And I thought books were bad…
I just checked my iTunes podcast count and I have about a day and a half of podcasts lined up for listening.… [ read more -> ]

We got podcasted on Insomnia Radio #45 again, I'm listening to it right now. I always enjoy the company we keep when Jason includes us in his podcasts, it's quite flattering. Really liked the Fredalba lead-off track.

Jason, if you're getting this: yes, we are compiling material for the new record so we'll get you something as soon as it's ready.… [ read more -> ]

This page explains why Harvey Danger is releasing their new album Little by Little in it's entirety, for free, over the web. And this is the page you can download it from (which I'm doing right now).

Their reasons seem to echo the emerging sentiment from the indie fringes of the music scene:

we have decided to embrace the indisputable fact of music in the 21st century, put our money where our mouth is…

They see it, we see it.… [ read more -> ]

Is the title of the write-up about us in the Toronto Star business section today. If you need a login (which are free) and don't feel like creating one, try this:… [ read more -> ]

Pick U Up was podcasted in episode 15 of the all creative commons Staccato Music. A mellower sounding set of songs but a lot of good stuff in there.… [ read more -> ]

Listening to Danny The K's I”ve Stopped Making Sense podcast on Old Wave Radio which is supposed to be the best sounds of the 70's and 80's but yet, our very own Stop Draggin' Us Nowhere is the leadoff track.

I guess that means we sound “post-punk” (Danny thinks we sound like the Jam!) but hey, we're not complaining.… [ read more -> ]