Once On Much – Ep08 Wide Mouth Mason If you came of age in Canada in the 1990s, MuchMusic wasn’t just something you watched — it was something you belonged to. It was a front door to Canadian culture, a crash course in music discovery, and for bands lucky enough to break through, a launchpad
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Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-20 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Charlotte Cornfield – Hurts Like Hell || single 2.) deathcrash – Somersaults || single 3.) Ora Cogan – Honey || single 4.) Terra Lightfoot – Sleepyhead || Home Front 5.) Mo Kenney – deja vu || Mo Kenney 6.) Jill Blutt – Swansea ||
Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-19 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Mitski – Where’s My Phone? || single 2.) Penny & The Pits – Pool Party || Liquid Compactor 3.) Brookside Mall – Twenty Thirteen || Brookside Mall 4.) Wintersleep – Resuscitate || Hello Hum 5.) Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart ||
Once On Much – Ep07 Pluto When Ian Jones looks back on the 1990s, his memories aren’t just of stages and studios—they’re of thrift stores, long tours, and a distinctly Canadian scene that felt both scrappy and quietly confident. In this conversation, the Pluto frontman reflects on coming up during a moment when Canadian alternative
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Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-15 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Chinese American Bear – No No Yeah Yeah || single 2.) Black Pumas – Black Moon Rising || Black Pumas 3.) Les Louanges – La journee va etre chaud || single 4.) Adrian Underhill – Cruel || CU Again 5.) St. Vincent – Cruel
Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-14 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Begonia – Out Of My Control || Fantasy Life 2.) Father John Misty – The Old Law || single 3.) Sis and the Lower Wisdom – Big Bend (Oh Jai Ma) || Saints and Aliens 4.) Iron & Wine – In Your Ocean ||
Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-13 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Status/Non-Status – At All || single 2.) Connor Fox – Don’t Ruin A Good Thing || Music Room 3.) Radiator – You Need To Know || 23 PARK STREET LONDON UK 4.) Kill Chicago – SHow Me (Hand to Mouth) || The Fix 5.)
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Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-12 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Beach House – Myth || Bloom 2.) Oracle Sisters – Marseille || Divinations 3.) Dan Mangan – I Hated Love Songs || Natural Light 4.) Ellur – Dream Of Mine || single 5.) Saya Gray – 10 WAYS (TO LOSE A CROWN) || SAYA
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Episode 06 – The Killjoys When Mike Trebilcock thinks back to the 1990s, his memories don’t start with chart positions or industry milestones—they start inside a building. Specifically, the MuchMusic and CityTV headquarters on Queen Street in Toronto. It was a place of live performances, interviews, cameos (including a blink-and-you-miss-it walk-on in the film Balls
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Artist – Track || Album 1.) Marc McLaughlin – Nothing More To Say || All I Can Say 2.) Chillteens – Sweet Bay || Sweet Songs 3.) The Burning Hell – Bird Queen Of Garbage Island || Garbage Island 4.) Bethany – Materials || Handwritten Notes 5.) Coyote – Hope You Feel It || single
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Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-09 Artist – Track || Album 1.) The Strokes – The Adults Are Talking || The New Abnormal 2.) The Cribs – A Point Too Hard To Make || single 3.) Daily J – Tastes Like Forever || Scatterbrains (On A Second Thought) 4.) Marc McLaughlin – All I Can Say
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Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-07 Artist – Track || Album 1.) knitting – Heaven || Some Kind Of Heaven 2.) knitting – Spirit Gum || Some Kind Of Heaven 3.) knitting – Sleeper || Some Kind Of Heaven 4.) Penny & The Pits – Montenegro On Ice || Liquid Compactor 5.) Penny & The Pits
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Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-06 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Afternoon Bike Ride – Otherworld || Running With Scissors 2.) Lia Pappas-Kemps – Revolving Doors || single 3.) Patrick Watson, MARO – The Wandering || Uh Oh 4.) The Olympic Symphonium – The Middle || Beauty in the Tension 5.) Fleur de Peau –
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Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-05 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Rich Aucoin – Frequency Modulation || Synthetic Season 4 2.) Buzz Kull – Just a Memory || single 3.) Austra – Fallen Cloud || Chin Up Buttercup 4.) Faded Agent – Boom! || MainGround 5.) Elephant Skeletons – SAND || Vol. III 6.) El
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Mornings Are Hard || 2026-01-02 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Heaven For Real – Hold Me Back || Who Died & Made You The Dream? 2.) Heaven For Real – Unltd. Time || Who Died & Made You The Dream? 3.) Yves Jarvis – Gold Filigree || All Cylinders 4.) Patrick Watson – Peter
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Episode 05 – Moist In the 1990s, Canadian alternative rock wasn’t just a genre—it was a shared cultural experience. For Jeff Pearce, bassist of Moist, that era is best defined by the chaotic, beautiful energy of the MuchMusic Video Awards. Unlike the polished veneer of MTV, MuchMusic felt accessible and DIY. Whether it was the
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Episode 03 – Not By Choice For Liam Killeen of Not By Choice, the 2000s Canadian music landscape was defined by one powerful force: the MuchMusic monoculture. In an age before endless streaming and personalized algorithms, MuchMusic acted as the singular, national curator of cool. Liam explains that the network “dictated” the culture, exposing an
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Episode 03 – The Tea Party In this episode, Jeff Burrows looks back on the 90s as a wild, defining decade — a blur of massive festivals, MuchMusic-fueled momentum, and moments that didn’t feel surreal until years later. From the chaos and camaraderie of Edgefest to touring with Foo Fighters and Green Day (“walking through
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Episode 02 – Econoline Crush In this episode, I sit down with Trevor Hurst, the unmistakable voice of Econoline Crush, to revisit the electric landscape of late-’90s and early-2000s Canadian rock. Trevor reflects on a moment when MuchMusic helped build a true star system at home, giving Canadian bands space to break through in a
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-28 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Jungle – Back On 74 || Volcano 2.) Begonia – Hotter Than The Sun || Fantasy Life 3.) Sudan Archives – DEAD || The BPM 4.) Shad – Slanted || Start Anew 5.) Scott Hardware – Costume Off || Overpass 6.) The Afghan Whigs
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-27 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Alexisonfire – Fully Completely || Copies of Old Masters Vol. 1 2.) Danko Jones – Everyday is Saturday Night || Leo Rising 3.) Hollerado – Keep On Moving || Start A Band 4.) LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean || This Is Happening 5.)
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-25 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Beach House – Myth || Bloom 2.) SPELLING, Weyes Blood – Destiny Arrives || single 3.) Purity Ring – place of my own || Purity Ring 4.) Hannah Jadagu – Normal Today || Describe 5.) Austra – Siren Song || Chin Up Buttercup 6.)
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-24 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Metric – Help I’m Alive || Fantasies 2.) Hatchie – Sage || Liquorice 3.) Hayley Williams – Showbiz || Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party 4.) Hawksley Workman – Striptease || (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves 5.) Econoline Crush – New Gold
Episode 01 – Hawksley Workman In this episode, I sit down with the inimitable artist, Hawksley Workman, to explore his genre-defying career, the legendary days of MuchMusic, and what it was like creating his early, influential records. He opens up about the invigorating energy of the late ’90s and early 2000s Canadian music scene, a
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MAH || 2025-09-24 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Lammping, Bloodshot Bill – Won’t Back Down || Never Never 2.) Boo Boos – C’mon Baby || Young Love 3.) Nate and the Busy Boys – Busy Boy Needs You || Busy Doing Nothing 4.) Frog – BITTEN BY MY LOVE VAR. XI || THE COUNT