looking at the list of artists, and committed artists, this is very tempting and ten bucks for a year is pretty much a steal. to top it all off, gord downie and the sadies are the featured artist of the month offering up a cover of randy newman’s “louisiana, 1927.” here’s the info, taken straight from the press release, on the swim drink fish music club and a few tracks from club below that.

the swim drink fish music club is an online music and audio experience @ swim drink fish music developed by lake ontario waterkeeper in collaboration with other waterkeeper organizations across canada. bringing together artists, activists, and citizens who care about clean water, the swim drink fish music club invites people to become members and celebrate the cub’s exclusive and rare music while at the same time contributing to the fight for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water in their community.

new featured exclusive songs are created by artists who care about clean water and uploaded once a month. artists such as broken social scene, sarah harmer, bill frisell, gord downie, chris brown, kate fenner, stars, dave bidini, bruce cockburn and tony scherr have all contributed exclusive songs to swim, drink, fish, music’s predecessor “at the barricades: volume 1″ in the past and are founding members of the club.

artists confirmed for upcoming features include, apostle of hustle, attack in black, emma lee, ghost bees, gord downie w/ the sadies, tony dekker of great lake swimmers, holy fuck, land of talk, matt & jill barber, neko case, ohbijou, and wintersleep as well as artists such as brent randall, brian borcherdt, contrived, green go, immaculate machine paper moon, royal wood and julie fader.

in addition to the featured songs, swim drink fish music club membership provides other great material:

- rare tracks from up-and-coming indie artists
- episodes of living at the barricades, the weekly radio program produced by lake ontario waterkeeper and broadcast around southern ontario. many of the music club members are frequent guests on the show.
- a made-for-canada edition of robert f. kennedy, jr.’s ring of fire program, broadcast on air america radio in the united states.

the $10 annual membership fee allows unlimited access to the website for one year. members can download the songs and play them on any portable music device. all told, members receive more than 50 songs a year. plus radio programs. plus event invitations. plus more.

every song has its story.

down with safe by paper moon
angels rioting against the nothing by contrived
until we meet again by emma lee

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