This week we’re just north of the Great Lakes, welcome to Ontario!  Now these Canadians apologized profusely for the Barenaked Ladies, so hopefully the acts below can convince even the biggest skeptic that they’ve learned their lesson and actually do have great music.  Sit back and enjoy, or click the links below to explore more from any of the artists from today’s show!

Catch the next episode of B.C. next Thursday at 4 p.m. CST

 1. Most Serene Republic - Career Shaping Clay
2. Sebastian Grainger & the Mountains - Who Do We Care For?
3. The Meligrove Band - I’m Easy
4. Apostle of Hustle - Chances Are
5. FemBots - Lost At Sea
6. Human Highway - The Sound
7. Crystal Castles - Untrust Us
8. Tokyo Police Club - Graves
9. Raine Maida - Careful What You Wish For
10. City and Colour - Sleeping Sickness
11. The Two Koreas - Withering Heights
12. Born Ruffians - Badonkadonkey
13. Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye’d Boy
14. Broken Social Scene presents: Brendan Canning - Possible Gernades
15. Broken Social Scene presents: Kevin Drew - Tbtf
16. Feist - Mushaboom (Postal Service remix)

Sorry for the rhyme, couldn’t resist!  Welcome to another weekly BagCheck Episode Indie Verse!  Today we spent some time in Quebec, Canada, home to Montreal (aka Paris Jr.).  With two languages, and one of the most unique cultures across greater North America, you can bet that the heart of this area pumps to an impressive and creative beat!

Catch the next episode of B.C. next Thursday at 4 p.m. CST.

1. Winter Gloves - Factories
2. Wolf Parade - The Grey Estates
3. The Dears - Meltdown in A Major
4. Islands - Abominable Snow
5. Stars - 14 Forever
6. Lovely Feathers - Lowiza
7. The Besnard Lakes - Devastation
8. Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes
9. Beast - Mr. Hurricane
10. We Are Wolves - Magique
11. Sunset Rubdown - For The Pier
12. Arcade Fire - Ocean of Noise
13. The Stills - Eastern Europe
14. The Stills - Retour a Vega

We’re kicking off a little special for the rest of November, BagCheck will be bringing you all things Canadian.  For this show we’ve loaded up acts from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island.  So sit back and warm up with some great tunes from a chilly destination, hopefully these are just what you need to get you through the fall!Catch the next episode of B.C. next Thursday at 4 p.m. CST. 

1. The Superfantastics - Tonite Tonite
2. Sloan - Who Taught You to Live Like That
3. Two Hours Traffic - No Advances
4. Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Tall Tree
5. Boxer the Horse - Jackson Leftfield
6. Contrived - Not A Goodbye
7. The Inbreds - Any Sense of Time
8. The Museum Pieces - Stay Too Long
9. Mardeen - We’re Moving Eyes
10. Dog Day - Oh Dead Life
11. The Novaks - Goodbye Rock Roll Band
12. Hey Rosetta! - I’ve Been Asleep For a Long Time
13. Hey Rosetta! - Red Heart
14. Wintersleep - Weighty Ghost

Today’s BagCheck Episode took us to Australia to kick off our usual time slot.  We had a brief but fun sample of the music from down under with music ranging from cuban stylings and electronica to indie pop rock goodness.  This country’s not short on talent so I’d expect us to head back in the not too distant future.  Catch the next episode of B.C. Friday at 4 p.m. CST.

 Playlist from 11.06.08

1. Cat Empire - Sly
2. Operator Please - Leave It Alone
3. Sparkadia - Kiss of Death
4. Faker - This Heart Attack
5. Van She - Strangers
6. The Presets - My People
7. Architecture in Helsinki - Debbie
8. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
9. Dappled Cities - Fire Fire Fire
10. The Curse of Company - All The Mines
11. Amy Meredith - This War
12. Eskimo Joe - London Bombs
13. SubAudible Hum - Sugarcoat
14. The Red Sun Band - Sleep Forever
15. Youth Group - Daisychains
16. Youth Group - Two Sides

 As you know, Bag Check airs every Thursday at 4pm, but we are playing a show every day this week to launch it. Today’s show shined a spotlight on Scotland. Check out the playlist below:

Playlist from 11.05.08

1. Glasvegas - Geraldine
2. The Cinematics - A Strange Education
3. Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me
4. Sergeant - Sunshine
5. Pearl and the Puppets - Because I Do
6. The Twilight Sad - The Summer at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy
7. The Fratellis - Milk and Money
8.  The Delgados - Keep on Breathing
9. Travis - My Eyes
10. Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs. Bad Arms
11. Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams
12. Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends
13. Idlewild - American English