Indiana based indie (no pun intended) label Secretly Canadian is celebrating over a decade's worth of releases this year. With signings that include Antony & The Johnsons and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, the label has grown from a bedroom operation into an established source of quality sounds.

For its one-hundredth release, SC100, the Secretly Canadian crew have planned a special complilation to showcase the label's talent; artists have been selected to cover other's tracks. Label founder Chris Swanson spoke to Billboard about the project, revealing that each band on the record was assigned which band they were responsible for covering.

"We had a few artists we really wanted to be a part of it, but we had to have some constraints," Swanson says. "The bands didn't choose the songs -- we married the bands to one another. We actually had each band cover two songs; that way they'd maybe choose the obvious one as well as the dark horse. We wanted it to be a double-disc, but we thought that'd be too intense, so the digital version will be twice as long."

Although specifics for the digital version are still being worked out, the track list for the CD has been announced. The collection opens with one of the last recordings from the late, great Nikki Sudden "See(ing) Double," Nikki Sudden (June Panic)

"The Last Bandit," Songs: Ohia (Nikki Sudden)

"Structure: Necessity," Suzanne Langille (Songs: Ohia)

"The Escape," Early Day Miners (Suzanne Langille and Loren MazzaCane Connors)

"Upstate," Damien Jurado (Early Day Miners)

"Abeline," Dave Fischoff (Damien Jurado)

"Propaganda for a Comic," Danielson (Dave Fischoff)

"Fruitful Weekend," June Panic (Danielson)

"Soft Evenings," Ativin (Marmoset)

"Lungs for the Race," Swearing At Motorists (Havergal)

"Riding and Romaing," Havergal (Ativin)

"The Real Thing," Racebannon (Swearing At Motorists)

"Clubber Lang," Cornelius Boots (Racebannon)

"We're All Gonna Die," Jens Lekman (Scout Niblett)

"Sky Phenomenon," Marmoset (Jens Lekman)

"40 Years of Our Family," the Impossible Shapes (Japonize Elephants)

"Birds," Panoply Academy (the Impossible Shapes)

"Highlight and Marginalia," Japonize Elephants (Panoply Academy)

You can find SC100 in stores on April 10.

np33di

Portugal

July 2006

JAN 29, 2007 10:35 AM

mmm it souns great

Jorge

Nothingful

San Diego, CA

October 2004

JAN 29, 2007 11:46 AM

This is rad.
I wonder what extra awesome shit will be
on the digital version.

Simon Joyner doing Songs: Ohia?
Julie Doiron doing Simon Joyner?

VonBismarck

I'm lost

January 2006

JAN 29, 2007 01:23 PM

Nice to see one of the more eclectic and interesting indy lables selebrating a milestone. Also nice to see June Panic getting some moe press. That kid can wail.
He used to have some sort of begeezed voice, but has matured greatly as a songwritter and performer.

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