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When CBC Radio 3's studios aren't beaming the finest in Canadian indie rock over the airwaves, they're collecting the best bits for their Sessions compilation series. The third volume of CBC's Sessions gathers a dozen such tracks culled from their treasure trove of in-studio sessions, primarily recorded in the booths of CBC's Vancouver and Toronto operations.

So who made the cut? Why, the likes of Amy Millan, Destroyer, Tokyo Police Club, Tegan and Sara, Pink Mountaintops, Malajube, Chad VanGaalen, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Shout Out Out Out Out, Cuff the Duke, Joel Plaskett, and Cuff the Duke. CBC Radio 3 Sessions - Volume III is available now in stores, on iTunes, and through the CBC's website. And, if you've got some time to kill, poke around the Radio 3 website's wealth of archived live sessions.

CBC Radio 3 Sessions - Volume III:

01 Joel Plaskett: "Nowhere With You"
02 Amy Millan: "Skinny Boy"
03 Bedouin Soundclash: "Stand Alone"
04 Destroyer: "The Crossover Song"
05 Chad VanGaalen: "Surrounded in Smoke"
06 Pink Mountaintops: "Erected"
07 You Say Party! We Say Die!: "What's the Hold-Up? What's the Fire?"
08 Shout Out Out Out Out: "Forever Indebted"
09 Tegan and Sara: "I Know, I Know, I Know"
10 Malajube: "Valerie"
11 Tokyo Police Club: "A Lesson in Crime"
12 Cuff the Duke: "Blackheart"