Say you’re a huge fan of Canadian indie rock and and you don’t have the good fortune to live in Canada. Gee whiz, think of all the excellent CBC Radio 3 sessions you’re missing out on. Why, maybe A.C. Newman, Destroyer, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Tokyo Police Club or even the New Pornographers hit the studio recently to record sessions and you’ll never hear them. Think again, hoser! Thanks to their seriously sweet website you can access boatloads of archived sessions and concerts recorded for the station by some of Canada’s top indie rockers. Go to CBC3’s main website http://radio3.cbc.ca/, then click on Concerts & Sessions and you’re in. You can see the five most recently added shows or browse through the archive and find some gems.

Like Vancouver’s Young and Sexy doing a simply lovely cover of Big Star’s “Thirteen”.

Elsewhere you can hear the ultra-twee Bicycles ripping through a ramshackle “B-B-Bicycles”, thrill to the wild sound of the Golden Dogs in concert or discover the power pop glory of the Pointed Sticks from a 1979 (!) session.

And as if that wasn’t enough, they also have sessions by bands and artists from other lesser areas of the world like the U.S. and U.K. Stephen Malkmus, Sufjan Stevens and Andrew W.K. are some of the big names but a careful trawl will find all kinds of pleasant surprises. Like an epic length version of “Impossible” by the Shout Out Louds recorded at this year’s SXSW.