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This episode we get opinionated as we break down the RS Top 50 Canadian Artists rankings. We're Canadian the people who wrote this list were not. There's obvious choices on this list but a lot of surprises as well. We shake our heads a lot.

Riot Grrl and Bikini Kill are one of the most important touchstones in music of the past 30 years. So when Bikini Kill came to town on their reunion tour Jess and I went to see the revolution girl style. After the show we concluded we had to do a pod and talk about all things Bikini Kill so here it is. No magazine reference, just Bikini Kill, women in music, reunions and whether or not Bikini Kill needed a guitar player.

Is Grunge a sound or a place? In this episode 3 grunge obsessed hosts go through the Pitchfork 25 Grunge Albums of the 90s list and we get deep into defining grunge picking apart this list and of course talking about who we would have included.

It's the 25th anniversary of Sloan's 1998 album Navy Blues and to celebrate we're talking with Sloan guitarist Jay Ferguson. Jay shares tons of fun stories about the era surrounding Navy Blues but before that we go back to Sloan's signing to DGC and through their albums Twice Removed and One Chord to Another. Jackson, Noyan Hilmi and Alex Hryshko begin the episode talking about their history of loving Sloan from the beginning of their career right up to today. 

This episode we discuss the short lived but influential career of the band Slint. Were they the dawn of post rock? We talk about Slint's roots in hardcore and how the hardcore genre has spawned so much important music from bands that left it behind but hung on to its energy and counter culture. 

What do you think of the movie Empire Records? For a movie that got sort of lost in the shuffle and bombed at the box office we have thought about it way too much apparently. Is this a music movie? Is this movie good? For the first time ever we not looking at a music mag, we're just talking about Empire Records. We dive deep into themes, casting, record stores, and why Lucas didn't just tell Joe why he took the money!