Unionized workers of the Bombardier corporation launched a strike Thursday at a rail equipment plant in La Pocatiere, Quebec.
According to CBC News, the 330 members of the Conferderation of National Trade Unions started the plant's first strike over concerns about sub-contracting, pension plans and wages.
Nearly 9 percent of union members gave the union a strike order last Saturday.
...A few weeks back I gave you a list of my picks for the Montreal Jazz Festival, and I managed to go to about 90% of the shows on that list. Here's a quick recap for those of you who missed them.
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Heavy Soundz
The Savoy, July 1-4
The Jazz Festival has hosted these wonderful nightcaps from 12-3 am at The Savoy...
Photo: Le Devoir
A few years back, I decided to make a solo trip to one of my second homes, New York City. While I was there I had the joy of catching Fela! The Musical, and we all know that New York knows how to do Broadway. Needless to say, all my senses were blown, but it was actually a book that I bought after the performance that left a strong imprint in my mind for all these years;...
Photo: Mathieu Villeneuve
ALACLAIR ENSEMBLE!!
What an insane week. In the span of 10 days at Les FrancoFolies, I managed to see approximately 12 shows, which were all pretty spectacular, but hands down the best two I saw were Alaclair Ensemble and ...
The 13th edition of MUTEK has come and gone, and all that's left of it are the memories (or at least, most of the memories... probably). As usual, MUTEK delivered stellar performances over the entirety of its five-day span, and since no one wants to read a review that runs on for pages and pages, I'm going to limit myself to the most memorable events I was fortunate enough to see.
...
Formed in Portland, Oregon in the early 1990s, the Dandy Warhols achieved moderate mainstream success later in the decade with hit singles like "Bohemian Like You" and "Everyday Should be a Holiday", the latter featured on the soundtrack for the enormously popular comedy There's Something About Mary. While the group's brush with Top-40 stardom was relatively short-lived, their music has stood the test of time for college radio crowds and those who justifiably or inexplicably...
Almost 80 students protesters were arrested yesterday after storming the Queen Elizabeth Hotel and a downtown shopping centre.
CUTV Program Director Laith Marouf was among the arrested students.
The march began in Victoria Square moving towards the hotel, CBC News reported.
Police say the protesters were flipping tables and smashing dishes when they were called.
After they were force out of the hotel, some demonstrators headed to the Eaton Centre.
Students were chased through the mall by police before entering the metro.
Police made over 70 arrests after they cornered demonstrators at St. Laurent station.
Student protests against...
-Photo by Jens Boldt
It was an oddly quiet afternoon in Montreal on Saturday, March 24th, which was probably due to the cold crispy weather that had broke the recent heat wave, but for members of the hip-hop community it felt like the calm before the storm. That night we were blessed to have three great acts come to the city: Nneka,...
The father of Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah is looking to sue the French police after his son's death.
Merah killed seven people last week, including three children and a teacher at a Jewish school.
He was later shot by police after they raided his apartment. Merah was 23.
His father hired an Algerian lawyer to sue the special police because he considers his son a murder victim, BBC News reported.
He says French special forces did not follow proper procedure at the time of his son's arrest....
Ottawa’s decision to give the RCMP control over its spending lead to negotiations with British Columbia about keeping Mounties within the province.
Six months ago, B.C. politicians said they would rid the province of Mounties if Ottawa did not give it more control over local RCMP operations.
They threatened to instate their own police force if their demands were not met.
B.C.’s justice minister signed a...
Montreal students took their protest to the Metropolitain Highway during rush hour yesterday, blocking traffic between the Cavendish and d'Iberville exits.
According to CBC News, the protest began earlier in the afternoon at Quebec finance minister Raymond Bachand's Montreal office.
The demonstration moved to Highway 40 around 3p.m., where students took over the eastbound lanes.
Police were able to force protesters off the road 15 minutes later.
They also directed commuters off the Met at Christophe-Colomb exit in order to relieve some of the rush-hour congestion.
After being forced off the highway, students marched toward Edouard-Montpetit metro...
I already had high expectations for the Robert Glasper show when I walked into the Gésu Theatre on the night of February 24. The few pre-releases from his album Black Radio had been on replay on my iPod for weeks and I had only read rave reviews for this tour. As I searched for my seat, I ran into at least a dozen elite members of the Montreal music industry. It’s quite clear that you’re going to be part of something extremely special when members of...
The Conservative Party has changed its mind on a decision to grant more investigative power to Elections Canada.
According to the National Post, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced to the House of Commons that his party will be supporting the bill put forth by the NDP.
The motion would give Canada’s chief electoral officer the power to verify a party’s election expenses.
...
The purpose of any funding drive is to raise funds, but I went into organizing this year’s event focused on making strong ties to the community first. Starting something that hasn’t been done before means creating a strong foundation for future years. Whether it was finding major sponsors for the drive or local businesses to partner up with for the Friends Card program, there was pavement to pound.
Finding local businesses for the Friends Card has been very rewarding. It was flat out awesome...
Well dear friends,
We were graced by the presence of Jeri Brown this snowy afternoon on the airwaves of CJLO. She came prepared to share some of her most recent projects with us, and she did a live reading of the Langston Hughes poem "Borderline". I will try to add audio to the blog this week - I think at least the mp3 of Jeri Brown's January 13th Upstairs performance of "Borderline" put to music should be made easily available for you, my friendly listeners! Keep your ears and eyes open for that new CD Jeri plans to put out May 1st; it sounds like it will be a treat and good food for the soul.
Here is some more information about what we heard today and about Langston Hughes:
Langston Hughes reciting his own poetry:
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If you've had your Opus card for four years, it is time to get it replaced.
People who purchased a transit pass when they first came out will have to get a new one before April 2012.
Replacement passes are free as long as they are exchanged within three months of their expiration date.
You can check your card's expiration date at an Opus machine, a retailer who sells the cards or online. Fares...
Dearest listeners and friends,
I love a good old recording of poets reading their own poetry, and found this sound clip of Langston Hughes reading his poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in which he introduces the reading with an anecdote about how the poem was inspired. Have a listen!
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15722
This is just a little teaser; tune in this Thursday for the show for more talk about poet Langston Hughes as esteemed vocal artist Jeri Brown joins us on air!
More blog-lovin' to come!
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Sunday, February 19th was Baby Phife’s return to Montreal after an almost two decade hiatus.
The night started off around 8pm with an exclusive screening of the controversial documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. This was the first time I had the opportunity to see this film because it had only played for a very limited time in Montreal when it was first released in...
The CJLO 1690 AM Mix Swap Club is taking over the Divan Orange during their 5 à 8 (Happy Hour) on Wednesday March 7th. The Mix Swap Club is your chance to make a mix of your favorite music, then exchange it with other people. Mixes get played in the bar over the Divan Orange sound system.
To find out more about the Mix Swap Club, or to post a mix online, follow the link to the group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/209423112485918/
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present Silver Dapple + The Phonebooth Criminals + Archery Guild at the Divan Orange on Tuesday March 6th. Tickets cost $5 and are available at the door. Doors open at 8 pm and show starts at 9:30pm.
This concert is part of CJLO 1690 AM's first annual Funding Drive. There will be door prizes throughout the evening.
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present our first annual Funding Drive. Tune into CJLO to hear special programming throughout the week. By pledging to the station, you will have the chance to win awesome prizes, and CJLO swag. Check out cjlo.com/fundingdrive for more details about the prizes and how to donate.
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present our first annual Funding Drive. Tune into CJLO to hear special programming throughout the week. By pledging to the station, you will have the chance to win awesome prizes, and CJLO swag. Check out cjlo.com/fundingdrive for more details about the prizes and how to donate.
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present our first annual Funding Drive. Tune into CJLO to hear special programming throughout the week. By pledging to the station, you will have the chance to win awesome prizes, and CJLO swag. Check out cjlo.com/fundingdrive for more details about the prizes and how to donate.
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present our first annual Funding Drive. Tune into CJLO to hear special programming throughout the week. By pledging to the station, you will have the chance to win awesome prizes, and CJLO swag. Check out cjlo.com/fundingdrive for more details about the prizes and how to donate.
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present our first annual Funding Drive. Tune into CJLO to hear special programming throughout the week. By pledging to the station, you will have the chance to win awesome prizes, and CJLO swag. Check out cjlo.com/fundingdrive for more details about the prizes and how to donate.
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present our first annual Funding Drive. Tune into CJLO to hear special programming throughout the week. By pledging to the station, you will have the chance to win awesome prizes, and CJLO swag. Check out cjlo.com/fundingdrive for more details about the prizes and how to donate.
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present our first annual Funding Drive. Tune into CJLO to hear special programming throughout the week. By pledging to the station, you will have the chance to win awesome prizes, and CJLO swag. Check out cjlo.com/fundingdrive for more details about the prizes and how to donate.
On Saturday March 10th, the Caribbean Curry House plays host to two great CJLO 1690 AM programs. Between noon and 2 pm, check out Sugarface Nene as she hosts Beat the World on location. Then, between 2 and 4 pm, Raphael 'DJ 610' McKenzie will hold the fort down as he hosts Caribbean Callaloo from the Curry House. Finger foods and punch will be available on site for all who come down and say Hi. This remote broadcast is part of the first annual Funding Drive and all donations made towards these two shoes will be eligible to be entered into the CJLO draws and additional merchandise from the Curry House!
Music Retrospective for Black History Month
For the month of February, I decided to take a look back at the history of the musical styles and genres I typically play on the show. I thought it would be in keeping with Black History Month, particularly because the genres and styles I play are predominantly African American. I wanted to honour that fact, so I invited my listeners to join me in my time and space travels. Listening to the music in this way also reminds us of the historical and social contexts from which blues, jazz, and hip hop sprung. The blues sowed seeds for jazz, and jazz and jazz poetry sowed...
The Montréal en Lumière Festival kicked off on February 16th and continues till the 26th with an extensive list of amazing events and shows that really lighten up this city and clear up our grey winter skies.
One of the biggest highlights within this highlights festival is the participation of Robert Glasper this Friday, February 24th at the...
Montreal get ready! February 19th is "Baby Phife’s Return."
Phife Dawg, one of the key members of the beloved A Tribe Called Quest, had been maintaining a pretty low-key rap profile since the drop of his solo album, Ventilation: Da LP, but recently he’s been working in the studio again preparing to launch Songs in the Key of Phife Volume 1: Cheryl's Big Son. With new material on his plate and the recent release of the A Tribe Called Quest...
Many Montreal daycares are closed today due to a rotating strike, CTV reports. The one-day strike is meant to protest the sluggish pace of negotiations between the union and the Ministry of Families.
I guess I was a fan of The Kills to a certain extent in high school; I recall ordering a 7" of theirs from HMV back in the day and, upon discovering it would cost me a whopping 12$ for two songs, paid for it without hesitation. So yeah, I guess that would qualify my 14-year-old self as being a fan of The Kills. However, my 14-year-old self also thought ska was bitchin' and that Rancid was probably one of the best working bands in 2004. That being said,...
CJLO 1690 AM's Mix Swap Club will gather at Divan Orange to share music and mix cds. Come out for a pint, and exchange mix tapes with other people. Divan Orange is located at 4234 St. Laurent.
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The NDP claims Prime Minister Steven Harper is allowing Tories to reopen debates about abortion laws, The Globe and Mail reports.
Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth strongly opposes abortion and plans to address the matter in a national conversation next Monday.
He...
The ongoing feud destabilizing the Parti Quebecois has given Francois Legault the opportunity to promote his new political party, CTV reports.
The Coalition Avenir Quebec is currently looking to step over the PQ and become the second opposition.
Legault says Quebecers will strongly support the CAQ despite any objections the governing Liberals may have.
However, the National Assembly requires that each party have 12 elected MNAs in order to be recognized as a party.
...Greetings dear friends,
This week I will be brief because I am hungry and must not delay or deny my winter appetite further. I played a bevy of blues to begin the show this week, as January has got to be the bluest month of the year. Listening to and playing the blues is very therapeutic - let it all out, friends! Now is the time.
Ballads - If you enjoyed Chad Linsley's "Waiting" today, here is some information to help you follow his local performance activities - www.chadlinsley.com
Paul Motian (passed away Nov 22nd 2011) - Jazz drummer - www.allaboutjazz.com/php?id=9653 This week I played "In...
Common-law couples in Quebec may be granted spousal benefits.
According to the CBC, the Supreme Court of Canada is reviewing a landmark case that could alter alimony and property rights for Quebec’s unmarried couples.
Government lawyers argue that the province should allow common-law couples to settle their own affairs.
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Hi listening friends!
Firstly - Let's remember and celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. - he was born on January 15th, 1929. As we continue to struggle for what we believe in, many of us still exercise the principle of nonviolence at protests and demonstrations worldwide. As long as people abuse power and hoard wealth at the expense of the lives of their fellow humans and environment, we need heroes like Martin Luther King, Jr. to inspire and motivate us. He taught by example to love and respect one's fellow beings - the most fundamental values, whatever your finer struggle may be.
Music in Montreal: I am getting a head start on my blogging this week because it's a busy one. Firstly, let me remind you that Mike Rud will be playing with the great Chad Linsley...
Come out to Jackie and Judy and help support your campus/community radio station. On the bill is THISQUIETARMY, Echo Beach, Aim Low, and Old Wyoming.
Jackie and Judy is located at 6512 ave du Parc (corner Beaubien)
$5, 10 pm
Join the hosts of Edge of the City for a remote broadcast on Monday January 16th at The Mainline Theatre (3997 St. Laurent) between noon and 2 pm.
Dear friends and listeners,
I am finally catching up on my chores - Happy New Year! I hope you all had a chance to rest and rejuvenate over the holiday season, and spend some time with loved ones.
Some of the artists I have featured on the show in 2011 - particularly local Concordia Jazz Studies graduates - have websites and videos and perform around town. Please give them the support they deserve and treat yourself to a night of live music as well! If you enjoyed the tracks I aired, you will certainly appreciate a live show. Below, I have listed (by show edition) those artists and bands that live and/or can be seen in our lovely city of Montreal.
32nd edition
Mike Rud - This Canadian jazz guitarist has been referred to as one of the best in Canada, and came...
I remember finishing many a week as a bike courier at Foufs on a Friday night with one too many beers. The gates in front of the bar were littered with various bikes in various states of disrepair, and the tables inside were littered with bike helmets, courier bags, and empty glasses. With that in mind, I was amazed to realize that this was the first time I’ve actually seen a live show there.
The Street Dogs are a punk...
CJLO 1690 AM is proud to present their monthly showcase of Concordia based musical talent. Join us on the second Wednesday of every month at Burritoville (2155 Bishop), starting at 8pm. This month's edition features:
Elgin-Skye
Weather Weather
Kevin Moquin and the Bad Ideas
There is no cover charge and this evening is open to students and the public
Come and check out CJLO 1690 AM live in action as we broadcast from the Concordia Co-op Bookstore on Friday January 6th. Host Julie Matson will be live with Gay Abandon between 1-2pm.
The Concordia Co-op Bookstore is at 2150 Bishop, on the downtown campus
Retro Cartoons and Cereal.
On Saturday Jan 14th, CJLO 1690 AM will be screening some retro Saturday Morning Cartoons in the cafeteria on the Loyola Campus between 11:30am-2:30pm.
7141 Sherbrooke W, SC Building
The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students' Society (the SACOMSS) is organizing the December 6th l'ecole Polytechnique Massacre Memorial where we remember the 14 women killed in the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre of December 6th, 1989. Please join in on an evening of guest speakers and performances, as well as a moment of silence to honour the 14 women who were killed simply because they were women.
Tuesday Dec. 6th, 2011. Birks Chapel, 3520 rue University, 6:30-8:00pm
Festivals are without a doubt one of Montreal’s essential nutrients. We have one for every season, every culture, every music genre and every unique aspect of Montreal. So you can imagine my excitement when I first heard of M for Montreal. This four-day, bilingual music festival founded by Sébastien Nasra and Martin Elbourne in 2006 has been promoting local artists within Montreal and on the international level with showcases at the...
Unicef Concordia presents their first speaker series called "Humanity Talk". Unicef has invited the president of the international organization Missions de Solidarite Responsable International (MSR), Victor Boudreau and other MSR executives to discuss MSR's goal to career-building sustainable development and humanitarian missions in developing Haiti, Ghana, and other countries.
Wednesday, November 30th, 7:30-11:30pm, Brutopia
Celebrating our cultures of resistance to colonialism.
Feast, film, and Speaker.
5:30pm-Free Diner (meat and non-meat dishes), 6:00pm-Presentation by Clifton Nicholas, 7:00pm-Film Screening of the Real Injun
Wednesday November 30th, 5:30-8:30pm, Native Friendship Center of Montreal, 2001 St. Laurent (metro St. Laurent), free for everyone.
Info: 514 848 7586, info@qpirgconcordia.org, www.qpirgconcordia.org, www.lefrigovert.com
The People's Campus Coalition invites you to the second edition of A People's Gathering. An inititative aimed at building open, non-corporate, fun, and politicized spaces for those who wish to transform Concordia into a "peoples' campus"
These evenings will include, amoung other things, free food and drinks and a chance for those in attendance to announce any upcoming events, ask for help with campaigns, share knowledge, and get to know one-another in a space that is open and safe.
Monday, November 28th, 4pm-7pm. Le Frigo Vert (2130 rue Mackay, lounge area)
On November 26th, the Rough Diamond Crew is throwing a party to launch SISSY, the annual calendar from Bitch Magazine illustrator Elisha Lim. The event is also a fundraiser for the venue: the St. Emilie Skillshare.
The SISSY Calendar features 12 months of brave and beautiful queers talking about sequins, glitter, femininity, insults, courage, happiness, and femme pride.
Saturday, November 26th, from 8pm. From St. Emilie Skillshare (3942 Ste. Emilie, metro St. Henri). $5, pwyc
For more info on Rough Diamond, Elisha Lim, or Ste. Emilie, contact Elisha at elisha.naive@gmail.com
Three high-ranking members of Quebec’s anti-corruption task force have resigned.
The head of the Unité permanente anti-corruption Robert Lafrenière denies there are problems within the unit. He said all three are retiring for personal reasons.
But Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois questioned whether the departures could cut off access to important information. Opposition critics in the National Assembly also suggested on Tuesday that Lafrenière has failed to get results and should be replaced.
Lafrenière admitted things haven’t been perfect, but said...
32 people have been arrested in a major drug bust in Quebec and New Brunswick. Federal, provincial and city police officers conducted searches in 25 municipalities. Large quantities of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine pills were seized along with a substantial amount of cash.
Police say the raids are part of an investigation into a drug trafficking ring involving a Montreal chapter of the Hell's Angels.
TAPthirst's Cool Container Calendar launch Party features live bands and a chance to check out the new TAPthirst calendar featuring Concordia students.
Burritoville (2055 run Bishop) Thursday November 24th, 7pm
Join CJLO 1690 AM in the cafeteria on the Loyola campus as we will be screening retro and recent Saturday morning cartoons! There will be prizes for the best pyjamas and "bed head".
11:30am-2:30pm
CJLO 1690 AM will be providing the musical background in the G-Lounge (CC building, Loyola Campus) on Thursday Nov. 24th throughout the afternoon. Stop by, grab some food, meet with friends and listen to some great music by various CJLO 1690 AM dj's. We will be on site between 1pm and 4pm.
CJLO 1690 AM will be broadcasting live from Reggie's Bar on Wednesday Nov. 23rd between 5pm and 7pm. Join Rebecca Monroe, the host of The Commonwealth Conundrum, and Nassim T., the host of Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, as they bring it to you live from Concordia's favorite watering hole.
CJLO 1690 AM will be broadcasting live from the John Molson School of Business on Wednesday Nov. 23rd. Both The Spirit of Punk (2pm-3pm) and Say Word! (3pm-4pm) will be hosting their shows from the lobby of the JMSB. Come down and say hi and see what campus/community radio is all about.
Qpirg Concordia presents a workshop and discussion that explores the idea of community-based social justice research
Wednesday November 18th, 3pm, 1500 de Maisonneuve W, suite 204
Qpirg Concordia presents monthly sessions about activism and community organization for both students and the public. Activism in Montreal 101 includes an overview of collectives, groups, organizations, campaigns, and projects that people can join or volunteer, as well as answer any questions participants might have about social justice organizing in the Montreal context.
Wednesday November 16th, 1-3pm. Qpirg Concordia, 1500 de Maisonneuve, suite 204, in english and french.
The Shafia trial resumed Tuesday after a delay due to illness. It's been an emotional trial so far.
Mohammed Shafia, his wife Tooba Mohammed Yahya and their son Hamed are charged with four counts of first degree murder. Their three teenage daughters and another relative were drowned in the Rideau Canal in Kingston in 2009.
A relative of the mother's came from Sweden to testify. He claimed Mohammed Shafia asked him to invite the Shafia daughters to Sweden. Shafia allegedly told the relative he thought it would be easier to drown them there.
The relative said he refused and warned the mother her daughter's were at risk. The family reportedly disapproved...
Hello friends,
I am writing this blog entry before the show tomorrow to remind everyone - please don't listen to my show sitting on your asses tomorrow! If you are a listener who lives in Montreal, PLEASE go to the province-wide MARCH protesting the proposed tuition hikes for Quebec Universities! Bring a portable radio if you can't miss the show - I am in solidarity with this cause, and want to be there via radio waves! I will be playing tunes to get you in the spirit of marching for accessible education. Movements are on the move everywhere, with the international Occupy movement persevering as well. Believe in your collective power and that together, we can improve the future!
Nina Simone and Josh White among other activist/musicians will be on the air for you, joining...
A workshop and discussions on protests, fines, and your rights.
Tuesday, November 8th, 5pm-7pm. CSU Student Lounge, 7th floor, Hall Building-1455 de Maisonneuve W.
Dear friends,
Life's quirks seemed to be in full force this Thursday - many people I spoke with felt off or weird in some indescribable way. The moody dark weather might have had a hand in that. Halloween candy hangovers also may have been a factor. Our website was not functioning while I had my show, and then other technically quirky things occured.
My home has been host to an extremely localized outbreak of insomnia - it's an outbreak if more than one person has it - right?? The dreams have been vivid and numerous. For me, they are most vivid when they involve people in my life for whom I care a whole bunch...and golden motorcycles.
This week's dreams.
I was at a dingy party with bare bulbs hanging from wires from paint-peeling ceilings, cracked walls and...
Join Amnesty International Concordia as they recreate the experiences of the Farmers of Jayyous during the olive harvest season and celebrate the remarkable perseverance of the nonviolent protest movement in the face of Israeli Occupation. Featuring a photo exhibition, film screening, and musical performances.
Sunday November 6th, 7-11pm, Concordia DB Clarke, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
Public: $15, Students: $10
Wednesday November 16th, 6:30-7:30pm.
Room H-760 (7th Floor), The Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W, Montreal
Please bring your membership card with you to the meeting, as you will be asked for proof of membership in order to vote.
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217666774965656
I <3 Your Boobs is a discussion and book launch with Artist and Author Kerry Rae. I <3 Your Boobs is a collection of photographs which celebrates diversity through something common to all women. The book contains 33 images of women, along with a text written by each woman about her body image, related specifically to her breasts.
The event takes place at the Concordia Co-op Bookstore and starts at 7pm.
October 24th marked the return of Amon Tobin’s ISAM show in Montreal, following a premiere last June at Mutek ‘11.
Emika, the Berlin-based dubstep singer/producer and recent Ninja Tune signee, opened the night. In contrast with Amon Tobin’s audio-visual spaceship that was about to emerge from behind...
CJLO 1690 AM is extremely happy to be broadcasting live from the People's Potato on Friday November 18th between noon and 2pm. Beansie Saretsky starts off at noon with her show Let Them Eat Cake. At 1pm, Julie Matson takes control as she will play music for her program With Gay Abandon. All this is taking place on the 7th floor of the Hall Building at 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Come down and say hi, grab a delicious veggie meal with the People's Potato, and be part of our live broadcast.
CJLO 1690 AM is extremely happy to be broadcsting live from the People's Potato on Friday November 11th between noon and 2pm. Beansie Saretsky starts off at noon with her show Let Them Eat Cake. At 1pm, Julie Matson takes control as she will play music for her program With Gay Abandon. All this is taking place on the 7th floor of the Hall Building at 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Come down and say hi, grab a delicious veggie meal with the People's Potato, and be part of our live broadcast.
CJLO 1690 AM is extremely happy to be broadcasting live from the People's Potato on Friday November 4th between noon and 2pm. Beansie Saretsky starts off at noon with her show Let Them Eat Cake. At 1pm, Julie Matson takes control as she will play music for her show With Gay Abandon. All of this is taking place on the 7th floor of the Hall Building at 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Come down and say hi, grab a delicious veggie meal with the People's Potato, and be part of our live broadcast.
Join CJLO 1690 AM and Rex as he will be broadcasting Rex's Barn Sessions live from the Library Building on Tuesday November 1st between 2-4pm. Come down and say hi to Rex and members of the CJLO 1690 AM team.
CJLO 1690 AM proudly presents Born on the AM, a monthly concert series highlighting cool, independent Concordia University musicians/groups. The concert will take place at Burritoville (2055 Bishops). There is no cover and it is open to the public. The show starts at 8pm and will be over at 11pm.
Creepy greetings, friends and fiends.
This week I am putting more of the eerie and frightening into the content of my show in the spirit of Hallowe'en...which is not a stretch, since most struggles involve some degree of fear, and dreams can be nightmares too.
Speaking of which - The songs of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" will be performed by a group consisting heavily of Concordia music alumni this Friday night at O Patro Vys. There are 20 performers in total, and the instrumentation and arrangements are beautiful. Show starts at 9 pm and it costs $10 - or $9 with a costume...It will be a great way to kick off the Hallowe'en weekend!
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Seeking The Current
Nicolas Boisclair and Alexis de Ghelderre/CA/2011/86 mins/English-French/S.T. English
Activists interrogate the Quebec Provincial energy company's predilecton for hydro dams that wreak havoc on pristine ecosystems.
7 pm, Room H-110, The Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
By donation, open to the public.
Sarabah
Maria Luisa Gambale and Gloria Bremer/US/2011/60 mins/English
The inspiring story of Sister Fa, the Senegalese hip-hop sensation, who continues to continues to break gender and genre barriers.
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Estilo Hip-Hop
Loira Limbal and Vee Bravo/US/2009/56 mins/English
A doc that visits three politically committed and talented Hip-Hop artists in Brazil, Chile and Cuba.
7 pm, Room H-110, The Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
By donation, open to the public.
Better This World
Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega/US/2011/93 mins/English
Two American activits pay a severe price after being infiltrated by an informant who encourages increasingly violent tactics.
7 pm, Room H-110, The Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
By donation, open to the public.
Rouge Parole
Elyes Baccar/QA/2011/94mins/Arabic/S.T. English
An intimate look at Tunisia in 2011, as regrouping and forming a post-revolution social and political landscape are discussed by citizens.
7 pm, Room H-110, The Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W
By donation, open to the public.
Wiebo's War
David York/Ca/2011/93 mins/English
A doc about Wiebo Ludwig, the Albertan who has stood up to the oil and gas industries for decades.
7 pm, room H-110, The Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W
By donation, open to the public
End: CIV
Franklin Lopez/CA/2011/115mins
An examination to our culture's addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and the heroism of those who confront it head on.
Tales From The G20
Open Media Initiative/CA/2011/55 mins
A doc about global resistance put into action at the 2010 G20 protests in Toronto
7 pm, Room H-110, The Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
By donation, open to the public
Hi dear friends,
So my lack of focus today was due to some distracting technical difficulties and a restless (bad dreams) night, but it did not hinder my spirit of pluckiness and fortitude...I am, as I mentioned on air today, deeply impressed by the conviction demonstrated by the occupants of Occupy Montreal. The signs of commitment to stay through the winter are there; organizers are preparing for the long-haul, and also for expanding the movement in this city to another public space, as the People's plaza is now at capacity. On this cold rainy night, I send warm love to the demonstrators! No more complacency! These occupations around the world are so heartening. I wonder if anyone considered this possible effect of the internet when it first became accessible to the masses......
Anti-Capitalist Demonstration against the G20, Canadian Imperialism, and the Canadian Conservatives
Thursday November 3rd, at 5:30pm at Phillips Square (St. Catherine W, between Union and Aylmer, McGill metro)
poster: www.clac-montreal.net/sites/default/files/poster-4c-en.pdf
Workshop/Skill-Share: Biking while Pregnant/Biking with Small Children
Do you ride a bike? Are you having, or have you recently had a baby?
This workshop aims to bust myths about the "dangers" of biking through pregnancy, share tips about biking safely and comfortably while pregnant, discuss the ways to transport your little one(s) with you as you bike, and to provide a space for parents and parents-to-be to connect and chat about biking with child.
Saturday, Oct 22nd, 10am-12 noon
QPIRG Concordia, 1500 de Maisonneuve W, suite 204
Free, child care provided on-site, snacks, whisper translation in French
Co-sponsored by:
Right to Move, The People's Potato, Concordia University Student Parents Center, QPIRG Concordia
Managing Your Own Exhibitions and Events (presenter Christa Fairchild)
Creating a successful exhibition or event takes a balance of good organization and careful planning. This practical course on event management inludes how to find the right venue, pricing your work to sell, PR, and promotion as well as scheduling.
Dawson College, Room 3H.23, 6:30-8:30pm
The Artful Negotiator (presenter: Christa Fairchild)
Business deals can be stressful and often we feel pwoerless and without leverage. this lecture offers insightfull tips and negotiation techniques to help you get what you want and what you deserve.
Dawson College, Room 3H.10, 6:30-8:30pm
Forms and Contracts (presenter: Christa Fairchild)
Building good business relations starts with a good contract and procedures. This lecture deals with the anatomy of a contract to help build your confidence during negotiations. As well, relevant legal aspects and documentiation to maintain your healthy working relationships will be addressed.
Dawson College, Room 3H.23, 6:30-8:30pm
Web Marketing (presenter Natalie Riviere)
A website is your professional online presence and statement: an essential in business today. In this course, we will cover affordable solutions, analytics behind the World Wide Web, Search Engine Optimization, online advertising & branding, and how money can be made online.
Dawson College, Roon 3H.10, 6:30-8:30pm
Social Media Marketing (presenter: Natalie Riviere)
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube: social media networks are what exactly? In this course, you will navigate through the networks and identify a strategy that works for you. Learn how they can change your marketing and customer service strategies and serve as affordable and essential business tools.
Dawson College, Room 3H.23, 6:30-8:30pm
Legal Matters: Quebec Law for Artists (Presenters Christian Azzam and Christa Fairchild)
Along with guest speaker, patron of the arts, and lawyer Christian Azzamm, the course covers Quebec law as well as offering practical legal advice from arbitration and your legal options, new legislation for galleries and artists, to public domain and copyright protection.
Dawson College, Room 3H.10, 6:30-8:30pm.
On Saturday, Oct. 29th, the 2011 Art Business Conference and Fall Program kicks off with a full day of events at the York Amphitheatre (EV 01-615), in the EV building on the downtown campus of Concordia University, 1515 St. Catherine W. Activities run between 9am-4pm. Following are 6 evening classes at Dawson College starting Wednesday November 3rd from 6:30-8:30pm
Seminars: Networking-Marketing-Public Relations-Social media-online Marketing-Negotiation skills-Forms & Contracts-Legal Matters-Event Planning
Go to www.artbusinessconference.com for more info on registration, prices, and their fall schedule.
hi friendly folk.
i just wanted to acknowledge that the show ended on a creepier note than usual. hallowe'en is coming, so i might just keep doing that until the last thursday of the month to get us all in a spooky mood...oooooh.
fear is probably the biggest struggle for human creatures, so let's dig in a bit and get our creep-on for the month. i'll set up spookier sets for the rest of the month. i'm all for facing fears on the radio waves, and i'm still a little zoned out because of a very restless dreamful last night's sleep. trains and tornadoes. i was in one of the train cars i sometimes find myself in in my dreamscape when the tornadoes show up on the horizon.
my fear this month is student loan repayment, one of the scariest prospects i have had to face for a...
The family of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit rejoiced news that he’ll return home. Shalit spent 5 years as a prisoner of war. He was captured when he was 19.
People in Gaza City also celebrated the news. The release is part of a prisoner swap between Israel and Palestine. Over a thousand Palestinians will also be freed.
The agreement was reached after an intense week of talks. Hamas leader Khaled Mashal called it a victory.
Critics in Israel say it sends a message that abducting soldiers is an effective...
The Peoples' Campus Colalition is launching this new project which is a reoccurring get together for anyone in the Concordia community interested in transforming the campus into a space that is shaped for and by the people who comprise it. The evening's activities will include, among other things, free food and drinks and a chance for those in attendance to announce any up coming events, ask for help with campaigns, share knowledge and get to know one-another in a space that is open and safe. For more info check out the Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=263029923736302 or visit the blog at:...
Pop Montreal, where have you been all my life? Or maybe it's better to ask myself why I haven't taken advantage of all the great shows that this concert series continuously offers year in and year out. It is not like I haven't known about them. I have always supported the record sales, the kid's Pop activities, and the annual BBQ held at Pop Montreal headquarters, yet, until this year, I had never seen any of the thousands of mind blowing shows offered by this the little festival that could. From what I saw this...
Rendez vous: 480 Gilford (metro Laurier, St. Joseph exit), 1 pm
Organized by the Justice for Victims of Police Killings Coalition, the second annual commemorative vigil and march was created to remember those who have lost thier lives at the hands of the police. This is a family led and family freindly event in front of the Police Brotherhood at 480 Gilford. This event starts at 1pm
Members of the Right to Move and Little Red Bike Collectives will be on hand at the Loyola Quad to help students learn how to repair their bikes. There will be workshops throughout the afternoon on general maintenance and winter riding. Come on down between noon and 4 pm.
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman (UK/2011/88 mins)
7pm, Room H-110, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
By donation, and open to the public.
Draquila: Italy Trembles
Sabina Guzzanti (It/2010/93 mins)
7pm, Room H-110, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
By donation, and open to the public.
Hands Up
Romain Goupil (Fr/2011/90 mins)
7pm, Room H-110, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.
By donation, and open to the public.
How do you do?
My, it took a while to get around to blogging this week. So I am collapsing the blog to be relevant to weeks 20 and 21 of the show. Call it efficiency; I can so rarely describe my activities thusly...
So I made a little pitch promoting physical activity in my 20th edition; I have belatedly discovered the joys of swimming regularly. This naturally leads to the topic of last week's dream, so here it is - exposed.
I was cooking (in the kitchen, of course) (in my home)
and chatting with a friend - - when I realized I was terribly underdressed. Just undies. It seemed somehow inappropriate, so I rushed to my room to find something to wear. Everything I tried on had parts missing or huge gaping holes. Um. This went on for a really long tedious...
Stephen Lewis concluded his People vs. Cancer speaking tour at Concordia last night. The former politician and UN ambassadorsaid students must join the fight against cancer.
One in three Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer. Half of these cases could be prevented. But as Stephen Lewis said the fight against cancer has met with “astonishing indifference.
“There’s a lot of money raised, but on the prevention front, we’re spending far less than we should be spending, and on environmental causes, we’re spending almost nothing at all. There’s something appalling about our inability...
My plan for Pop Montreal this year had so much potentital. SO much. However, due to a brand new job I sincerely didn't want to fuck up and getting over weird mystery sickness that made me adapt the sleeping/lifestyle patterns of a 70 year old woman, my 10th anniversary Pop Montreal participation was a lot less jam-packed than I had hoped.
My extended weekend started off with a bang, thanks to the festival, Vice and Monster Energy drinks who put on a free show at Club Soda featuring stand-up comedian Neil Hamburger, the Spits and JEFF the Brotherhood. Hamburger seriously pissed off the crowd of young, drunken hooligans with his obnoxious humour, which I thought was super punx rox. The Spits were definitely the highlight of the evening, putting on an amazing set that extended...
A friend of mine pointed out today that airplanes have to be fast, or they'll fall down.
I think humans also have to keep up a certain pace, or at least keep treading, lest they fall down.
Just don't let's have the pace so speedy that we trip - and fall down.
Dear friends,
I feel not super talkative today; as though I have to raise my voice to compete with the roar of the outside raindroppings.
I will only share one dream story this week...
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...on a journey with my significant ginger, we were heading to a new land which was to be our home. We took a very twisty awkward path and perpetually never arrived and so found a home in the road itself, and in...
Hi friends and lovely folk,
This week I dedicated my show almost entirely to local artists, giving a tip o' the hat to all the talent and soul that thrives right here in the Montreal music community. We are blessed. Blessed! And saturated with great composers, instrumentalists, vocalists and minds. This week's blog includes links to the artists I played on the show, and one tiny dream tidbit. It seems I need to read more, as my dreams lack narrative form and are, of late, more aptly described as collages. So. Tid. Bits. Ch-ching - Zap!
Enough verbosity - I commit enough of that excess on air, on hot hot air....
The links!! All Montreal musicians except where it is noted otherwise...
brieneilson.com (folksy singer-songwriter)
lucashaneman.com (jazz guitar...
Greetings sweet friends,
I am happily listening to Mary Lou Williams at the moment. Mary Lou's Mass. Amazing.
Well, and my roomie is dicking around with making jarring sounds with his computer. Emerson the dog lies complacent by my feet, untroubled. Spazzia the cat might attack my roomie's laptop any second though.
What a lot going on this week. Concordia students have no right to say "There's nothing to do" - Orientation has been a pretty swinging affair, from my objective observer standpoint. Jazz and Crayons Tuesday night was sweet - so much talent oozes out of this University. After you tune into my show today, I hope you make it to the CSU concert at the Loyola campus - if you are a Concordia student. If I didn't have paid work at that time, I would be thrilled...
Air Canada flight attendants voted almost unanimously in favour of a strike. The employees could walk out as soon as September 21st.
Jeff Taylor is president of the flight attendants' union. He said union members are unsatisfied after ten years of making sacrifices to help the airline's financial situation.
Taylor said members would prefer to reach an agreement with Air Canada, but they are prepared to strike if necessary. The union overwhelmingly rejected a tentative deal with the airline in late August.
This could...
Greetings dear friends,
I have only one dream to share this week...
I am playing horseshoes with my mom. She starts to fade into translucent and tells me she has to leave me. I know she means she is dying so I rage - nonononononononooooo! and cry unstoppably. She turns into a speck and drops into a puddle. Then grandma arrives on the scene, looking the way she did last time I saw her. She tells me it was she who had just left. She had appeared to me in the form of what she looked like when she was my mom's age. What a trickster... Mom appears, and she is as she is. We all go to lunch together.
I dunno. Other bits from this week - Santa Claus is the puppetmaster of society and makes sure the dreamers are lucky, and the children light-hearted. Um. Also, last night I...
Hi friends,
I don't know if the season changing will mean fewer tornado dreams for this girl, but I had another one - or two - or few - this week. I will share my chosen tornado dream with all y'all anon.
Firstly, however, I want to tip my humble hat to the raw power of natural disasters in general, and declare my gratitude that Irene did relatively little damage to our region here in Quebec. Also - in relation to the story I related on air today - I wish to tip the same humble hat to humanity. When nature gets nasty and down and dirty, humans understandably become less jerky. I theorize that it is because it jerks our heads suddenly out of our asses and makes us recognize that we are a community of beings that must rely upon one another...it furnishes us with an occasion...
Dear friends,
**I firstly want to acknowledge the sad loss of Jack Layton. His idealism and beliefs and hopes will continue to inspire.**
If you want to contact me via email rather than simply posting comments on these blog entries, this is now an option! Please email me at
I will be more than happy to hear from you, and to answer any questions or receive any comments you may have for me! Be in touch, friends!
I am getting down to this business earlier than usual this week, as there are so many website links I would like to share with you to get you all psyched for this Saturday's Funk'n'Jazz fest at the Centre St-Ambroise terrace. So first thing's first: The festival. One...
Hello friends,
This week on Struggles and Dreams, I celebrated three historical events:
1) The birth of Oscar Peterson (August 15th, 1925). Born in our beloved Montreal, Oscar Peterson was a prodigious pianist to become recognized internationally for his great talent. On the show this week, we heard his outstanding piano chops, sensitivity and taste applied to ballads. We also heard his vocal talents in "These Foolish Things" from the album "Romance: The Vocal Stylings of Oscar Peterson". If you are not very familiar with this Canadian musician and want to investigate further, check out his biography at allaboutjazz.com:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=85617
2) The ratification...
Hi there friends,
As I promised on air today, I am staying on top of my blogging. Unfortunately, I cannot in good conscience promise to be more coherent next week, even with the new afternoon slot giving me 3 more hours for my tired little brain to wake up...Sorry!
Yes! Next week Struggles and Dreams will take over the 1-2 pm time slot, so if you've been meaning to listen to the show, but have a hard time waking up in the morning to do so - now's your golden chance to hear blues, ballads, and beats with a good amount of coffee in your system! Join me in the afternoon next week. However! If you are a fan of Karl's show and your first taste of Struggles and Dreams came from not turning the radio off when his show ended - listen to both shows anyways. In fact, never turn off...
Hello friends,
Apologies for not having blogged last week. A variety of life events and technical challenges kept me from accessing the website. Also, as I mentioned on air today, my dream activity has been lacking lately. I feel like my dream chops are on the rusty side of things as this thing called real life keeps preventing me from remembering and recording my dreams. Access denied.
Anecdote: A few days ago, I was in the depanneur - you know the one. A man came in and asked the woman who was just ahead of me in line at the cash, "How are you? Have you been busy?" to which she replied (emphatically): "Busy!! Busy!! Man, everyone's going crazy, rushing around, always in a hurry - nobody's taking a moment to breathe!" The woman in question had just been buying strong...
It was the grand opening bash for the 25th Nuits D’Afrique Festival and the Metropolis was buzzing with electric atmosphere. The lively crowd was instantly energized when the Soul Makossa Gang played their first riffs, and people began smiling and pulsating to an African disco beat. After a few tunes, bandleader and legendary saxophonist Manu Dibango took the stage. We were now in the presence of greatness.
...Hello friends,
This week, in response to the mad heat, I went to my default setting, which is dreamland. The playlist was a pile of sleep and dream songs. A higgledy-piggledy pile-up of stream of subconsciousness. When it's this hot outside, I can't sleep soundly. An unsound sleep, however, yields many very vivid dreams. This week I dreamt I lived by the ocean. Cool ocean breezes....mmmm.
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First I had to move, and the moving truck rental was the most convoluted process I had ever experienced. I had to look for the truck - as in, it was a treasure hunt. This phase of the dream took place in a parking garage of a large indoor mall. The air was stifling and...
AFTERGLOW is taking a break everyone (actually we started our break since June 19th). Yeah, we know, this blog is little tardy :-)
BUT, we're looking to re-vamp the show to bring you more great music and hot topics. So, in the meantime you can still tune into our previous shows and/or send in your questions or comments to: afterglow@cjlo.com
June, 2011 Topics:
See you back in September - Sundays from midnight to 1am!! And,...
AFTERGLOW Shows (that I remembered to record!)
April 8th: Interview with the Jessica Blair The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students (SACOMSS) www.sacomss.org/
With the Ultra-Fab SkyeMo:
April 22nd: Sex in Public
May 6th: Menses & Sex
June 5th: Phone Sex
AFTERGLOW is taking a break everyone (actually we started our break since June 19th). Yeah, we know, this blog is little tardy :-)
But, we're looking to re-vamp the show to bring you more great music and hot topics!! SO, in the meantime you can still tune into our previous shows and/or send in your questions or comments to: afterglow@cjlo.com
See you in September - Sundays from midnight to 1am!!
xoxo Melley...
Dear friends and listeners,
I am adding my blog a little later this week, mainly because of technical issues, but also because I had no really cool dreams this week, and I felt a bit embarassed about that.
This week's show was a tribute to the music and beauty of Billie Holiday. She died July 17th, 1959. In honour of Billie, and her ability to move people through her singing, I dug into the annals of my dream journalling. Here is what I found; it comes from October 14th, 2006. It seemed apt:
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so there was going to be some kind of benefit concert, but i don't know who was supposed to benefit. all were wretched and salty cheeks and sugar words....
What's up Guys!!
Sorry I haven't been regular with my blogs but my internert at home is being a real pain .. so I'm at a coffee shop right now trying to take care of all my internet stuff and I figured I should give you guys a quick holla!
Ok so this wednesday I did a show that was dedicated to the people who inspire me in my life as well as everyone who took part of the amazingness of the Montreal Jazz Fest and I want to give you guys a quick list of artists I went to see at the festival and that really neeed to be check out :)
- Rael da Rima
- Nomadic Massive (duh!)
- Baloji
- Blitz the Ambassador
- Boogat
- The Roots
- Hocus Pocus (they were actually at the francofolies)
- Steel Pulse (reggae)
- Ernest...
Dear friends and listeners,
Today is the 7th day of the 7th month and I hosted the 7th edition of my show. I even played track 7 off of the Sweatshop Union CD, The Bill Murray EP. So I'm superduperstitious. The number 7 is lucky in so many cultural traditions, and it seems the number is not only auspicious in Chinese culture, but also symbolizes togetherness. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, yeah.
(Someone got a bit of sun today - very pleasant, but maybe I spent a little too long under the big shiny thing in the sky...)
So today I shared my little anecdote about the gift of blessed and bottled water (or was it bottled, then blessed?) and the charismatic man who gave it to me in the Kosher deli in my neighborhood. It was his conviction that really inspired me. He...
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Hi friends,
So I guess there was some kind of molasses in the air this morning because everything was moving very slowly, including my thought processes! I forgot to mention the artist and track name for the last song of today's show - Try Your Wings, sung by the sweet voice of Blossom Dearie! Sorry, Ms. Dearie. Our website wasn't ready to wake up and get going either. Maybe the cloudy dark weather is making absolutely everything sleepy and slow. Get your blankies, big mugs of coffee and a crossword puzzle if you can. Or just have a little 30-second fantasy about doing that.
Tomorrow is moving day, so I guess it's good to rest up.
I don't wanna talk about my dreams this week if that's okay. Well, it has to be, because you can't actually make me. Sometimes dreams...
This one's going to be a doozie: 10 bands played the Wyrd MTL festival on June 20th and I only have 600 words to run down each of their sets. Yikes! Get ready for a hardcore attention deficit concert review. This review will be especially difficult as throughout the course of the show the only thing I could say about most sets was that they were "…weird, well not like actually weird, but like, I'm such an idiot because it's called Wyrd MTL. This is so frustrating."
My computer has no word count...
Suoni Per Il Popolo, Montreal’s premier celebration of musical strangeness and the avant garde, brought (as always) a consortium of great acts to the stages of La Sala Rossa and Casa del Popolo this year. One of the premier events was the Constellation Records show headlined by your favourite experimental saxophonist and mine, Montreal adopted-son Colin Stetson. Stetson’s...
Sad Suoni per il Popolo is coming to an end this weekend - saw 2 very excellent shows that made me beam with joy - The Dead Rat Orchestra on Monday night and Farmers by Nature Tuesday night. Heavy doses of inspiration. Must get back in shape musically so I too can make magic. Move people.
Moving day coming soon - bon courage to those of you making a move July 1st.
This week's links:
http://www.myspace.com/deadratorchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSUMxvoHgj0
This week's dreams:
I was in a large old factory building. Obsessing over a...
Despite the massive + hellish St. Laurent street sale that would typically enslave me to serving yuppie tourists frozen yogurt from June 16-19, I managed to book off work to slink on over to Toronto for North by North East. While I didn't find this year's line-up super exciting, I was very much looking forward to seeing Crocodiles, a band I had been listening to compulsively for the past year or so. I figured it would also be the only time I would see the Dum Dum Girls, because a huge part of me is completely reluctant to pay to see them perform for one reason or another. Free wristband=open mind.
My boyfriend and I started off our festival experience by attending a film screening of The Last Pogo, a documentation of the last big punk show of the 70s at the Horseshoe...
Dear friends,
It's now been a month for me as a DJ at the station, and I have to say that having this weekly routine has been so grounding, at a time when everything seems to be in a state of flux - almost everywhere you look...
Today's show was inspired by the full moon eclipse, and by a respect for change - I have friends going through tough times in practical and emotional ways; I'm sure lots of you relate. Today I played songs I felt express struggles of the heart - in sympathy for my friends going through romantic strife.
Possibly completely unrelated to that theme: My dreams last night. Were erratic. In the most vivid, I was in a space shuttle with 2 band members. We had space madness, but still managed to get along. (Now there's a test for any relationship...
Hey Guys so here's my personalised schedule for the francofolies. It's just a few artists I know will be hype but be sure to check out francofolie.com for more shows
Xo
-Mf Gold
| vendredi 10 juin 2011 | |
| 22:00 |
Alaclair Ensemble
Scène Vidéotron — Les Nuits Urbaines Vidéotron
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Dios mio que viva Montreal!
This is a phrase I got from Boogat and his crew which roughly means My God does Montreal Live! which is probably one of the truest phrases i've heard in a while. We're full of talent, full of life, full of culture and still growing!
If for some reason you were living under a rock for the past few years and don't know where and who to check out here are a few essentials
Hot Spots:
The whole st-laurent street is pretty full of spots whether be the belmont, blizzarts, korova, jukebox, tokyo sundays, bobards, ...
St-Denis is also full of life, on any given night you're sure to have a good time at house of reggae, bistrot de paris, diese onze, etc.
Also with it being the summer just hop off at place des arts metro and...
Whats up Say Word fans!!!
Sorry for the crazy delay but blogging has proven to be very difficult in the past few weeks because of lack of internet in my household.
I do wanna leave a guys a quick list of Dope Producers you should for sure check out. They often with several different artists so while discovering their productions you'll probably encounter some great new rappers. Let me know if you find anything I might like sayword@cjlo.com
Much Love
Dope Producers
Dr. Mad (montreal based up and coming producer .. check out say word ep.6 to hear my interview with him)
Prince Paul (Best known for work with stetasonic & De la Soul)
Maestro Fresh Wes
...
XI is a Toronto DJ/Producer who's style can generally be said to fit within the definition of Bass music (though he clears that up a bit here). If you're not familiar with his name, you're certainly familiar with his music as we've played quite a few of his tunes on the show. This past week he delivered an absolutely stellar performance at Mutek in Metropolis' Savoy room during Nocturne 3 (beating out Plastikman and Traversable Wormhole as the place to be, if you ask me). I was lucky enough to get a short interview in with him prior to the show. Take a listen below as he talks about his sound, the Canadian bass scene and hints at a secretive future project.
Apologies for the shoddy sound, there were a few different soundchecks...
Dear Friends,
For my second blog, I want to encourage everyone to:
- Go to shows at Suoni per il Popolo (they are inspiring), and
- Mark your calendars - August 27th is the Funk'n'Jazz festival at the Centre Ste-Ambroise Terrace
It will feature the Franco Proietti Morph-Tet, Dave Turner, Certified Organic, and Kalmunity Vibe
Collective, as well as funk'n good times and refreshing beer and BBQ...
I also want to let people know - if you are feeling down these days, you are not alone. Turns out that it's a triple eclipse month, which is shaking people and lives up - shake, shake, shake! June 1st, June 15th, and July 1st are all eclipse dates. Word on the street is that the...
Mutek’s Nocturne 2 was the Modeselektion night – a night of forward thinking party music whose main room line-up was curated by Germany’s Modeselektor.
The event really was a no-nonsense affair; there was no space on this line-up for filler, so things got started right away with the heavily anticipated Siriusmo. I walked in about half way through his set to a relatively...
Hello there, friends - -
The show "Struggles and Dreams" was conceived about a year ago, and, like myself, took longer than the usual 9 months to get born. So here's to late bloomers...
One element of the show that will be introduced at some point this month is the element of a hiphop correspondant - my girl Peggy. She's much more in the know when it comes to the genre, she's a friend, and she gets what this show is all about. I look forward to having her come to the studio soon!
I also might take advantage of this blog infrastructure to share some of my more inspiring dreams - the literal ones, the ones that happen while I'm asleep. I would love to share some strange scenarios with my listeners, and to encourage anyone out there to pay close attantion to their own...
Today marks the beginning of Mutek's very exciting 12th edition. In case you don't know, Mutek is a festival that brings some of the finest producers of electronic music worldwide here to Montreal. This year it'll be taking place from today (June 1st) until June 5th. The festival is split into a variety of events that take place all throughout the Quartiers des Spectacles and other areas (including the Society for Arts and Technology, the Metropolis, the Salle Pierre-...
Iceland closed its main international airport on Sunday after a volcanic eruption. The country's most active volcano, sent ash and smoke twenty kilometers into the air. Airlines were told on Sunday to brace for a possible further spread of ash later in the week.Ash could reach northern Scotland by midday on Tuesday and reach other parts of Britain, western France and northern Spain by Friday if nothing changes. A thick cloud of ash blocked out the daylight at towns and villages at the foot of the glacier,...
On Monday, May 16th, I discovered I was wrong in thinking leather pants couldn’t be cool. All the tight, glistening pairs of pants I once associated with thrift stores, venereal disease and general scumminess should be sent to Japan without hesitation. Why? Because apparently Japanese rock and roll bands like Guitar Wolf have figured out some mystical way to rock that shit.
When I arrived at Le Cabaret du Mile End on that rainy...
My boyfriend and I watched a chunk of the first episode of The Voice. If you don’t know it by name, The Voice is a new singing competition reality program à la American Idol with a "twist": what makes this program different from shows of a similar nature - and what they endlessly emphasize in the promotional material - is that while a contestant is singing, the judges (Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and some generic new country guy) face away from the stage. This way they can judge singers...
The parents of recently deceased New York Rangers player Derek Boogaard have decided to donate his brain for research. He was found dead in his apartment on Friday.
An autopsy was conducted Saturday but the cause of death remains unknown. Officials say they are waiting for toxicology test results that might not be determined for several weeks.
Dr. Robert Stern from Boston Univeristy's reserch center says the hockey players brain will go in a Brain Bank. He says Boogard's brain will be used to help study the effects of concussions in athletes.
The 28 year-old...
WoW!! what a week..
I'm am soo sorry followers and listeners I have not been on point this week with my blogging and podcasting because of the insaneness called my birthday. It was a really great one though.. I drank like an 18 year frat boy, got my nails did, went to great events, saw my family and got awesome presents! Much love to all those whose spent time with me over the week I really appreciate the love and had a great great time!!
Ok so I am super late on my blog post but here it is as usually all the info about last week's show. Unfortunately the week's events have now past but there is still a few other links you guys might enjoy.
Aloe Blacc (such a smooth voice ... check him out June 4th at the Belmont)
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Some residents of St- Jean- sur- Richelieu may soon be able to return home. Civil-protection authorities say water levels in the river have finally crested and have continued to slowly drop. According to Hydro-Meteo, the water level is diminishing by up to five millimetres per hour. Authorities will be drawing up plans to help people return to their homes over the coming weeks. So far the floods have affected more than three thousand houses and forced nearly one thousand people from their homes. These being the worst floods the district has seen
in more than one hundred and forty years.
...
Good Morning Montreal!
So yesterday was a great show! For those who didn't hear it be sure to check it out on the say word page. We had Tali from Nomadic Massive in the studio with us to talk a bit about her career as an mc and also about females in the Hip Hop world. We played a lot of great female artists in the hour but ofcourse there are sooooo many more to be heard it was just a taster of what's out there so please do your research and find yourself some good music. I try to bring the best of the best but I'm only one person so if you ever encounter anything you'd like to hear on the air waves hit me up at my say word account sayword@cjlo.com
Ok so here are the links I promised you all
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Two Canadian men were found dead in Hong Kong over the weekend. They were discovered in their room at a tourist hotel Saturday afternoon. Police say they also found an unidentified white powder near the bodies.
Officials say it was the cleaning staff at the Metropark Hotel who found the bodies, one in the washroom and the other on a bed. Neither man has been identified.
Autopsies will be performed to determine the exact cause of death.
Helllllooo CJLO
So it's a little on the late side right now but I didn't want to go to bed without giving you guys a bit of info and links for the tracks I played on today's episode. For those who missed it you know you can always catch it on the say word page or at my podomatic
Aight so today's episode was called Gold Reminiscin' and it was a tribute to all the people who have come and gone in my life with particular attention to my girl ~m~ (We love you babe!). You can check out the playlist on the Say Word! page and as promised here are the links for a few of the artists I mentioned or played today
- Dr. MaD (Dope Young Producer from MTL definitetly taking his space)
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The Sûreté du Québec is investigating the discovery of three bodies this weekend
on a property in the community of Ste. Florence, east of Montreal.
Police are trying to determine whether the deaths were a murder-suicide.
The bodies of a grandfather and his grandson were found on Saturday.
The grandfather was discovered in a wooded area off a rural road, while the grandson was found in an apartment at an isolated property nearby. And on Sunday morning, police found the grandmother in a ditch along Highway 132.
A spokesperson for the SQ says they are investigating to try and...
Good Morning CJLO!
So last week I was telling you guys that I went to the 3rd edition of Nuvo Tumbao and I've been meaning to get more into detail about how great it was but my week was a little insane so without anymore delay let me tell you about the good times:
I must admit, I was a little sceptical at first of the success of the night because of the location of the show. It was at the Centre Fusion Culturelle near beaubien metro maybe better known as the old Zoobizarre. I have nothing against the CFC as a room but being a lazy montrealer myself, I sometimes get a little ansy when asked to leave my Downtown/St-Laurent area. For those who never been to the CFC, I must say the place has a unique...
Good Morning CJLO fam and listeners!
So I talked about a lot of really awesome Projects, Albums and Shows on my show today so just in case you didn't catch all the info here are the links, etc. :
Album Releases
- Democracy in Haiti Mixtape (Various Artists)
- Oneirology (CunninLynguists)
- The Family Sign (Atmosphere)
-...
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Dozens of homes and businesses were damaged Sunday by a major water main break in Cote-des-Neiges. A 45-year-old pipe, burst along Decarie Blvd. between Queen Mary and Cote St. Luc. The water main broke at about six a.m. It caused thousands of litres of water to gush into several buildings and forced at least two families our of their homes.
If I could be given 5 cents for every time I heard someone say their penis or vagina itched, I would be a rich biatch!haha NO, really I would. However, that itching could mean many things, such as contracting a sexually transmitted infection (STI), not bathing your ass OR possibly, a yeast infection.
Yeast Infections are very common and NOT to be...
So, you want to have sex with your friend you don’t say? FWB’s a.k.a. “Friends with Benefits” is a NOT a new concept, but a situation that SO many people are down for doing - either doggy style and/or missionary position.
So, if you want to give or get a little fellatio and cunnilingus from a “friend” having some pointers on how to go about it will always benefit your ass in the long run. Do you want to be screwed? I know I wouldn't. Sex changes EVERY-thing regardless of who you’re with and especially if you’re sex’ing a friend. The FWB scenerio can definitely change the way you see that person and the relationship you have. But the...
Finally the Buddz come around! Collie Buddz (born Colin Harper), dancehall/ reggae artist, paid Montrealers a visit on Wednesday, April 6th at Club Soda as part of his Playback Tour.
Just before Collie hit the stage, his opening acts set the mood right. Los Rakas warmed up the crowd with the sounds of summer and a...
Colonel Moammar Gadhafi has accepted a roadmap for ending the civil war in Libya.
This announcement came from South African President Jacob Zuma after leading a delegation of African leaders at talks in Tripoli.
The African Union's road map calls for an immediate cease-fire, co-operation in opening channels for humanitarian aid and starting a dialogue between the rebels and the government. ...
About 200 students gathered in Boucherville Sunday to protest tuition hikes announced in the provincial budget. The Charest government is planning to raise university tuition fees by three hundred and twenty-five dollars a year for five years. The increases would raise tuition for Quebec students by over sixteen hundred dollars by the year 2017.
-Photo by Luciana Braga
Whoever came up with phrase "everything's better with butter" must have been thinking about Butta Beats’ (Nomadic Massive) new band Mantecoso (which literally means buttery). Saturday night at Les Bobards was the official christening of their fresh salsa-hip hop sound and it was quite the success. Around 10:30pm, a mass of beautiful people from the diverse Hispano...
This past Friday was the one year anniversary of GET NICE Fridays at Blizzarts, and if you weren’t there, well, you should’ve been! First off let's be real, any event that can get Montrealers out of their house before 11pm is already a success. So you can imagine my surprise when I strolled in around 11:15pm to witness a packed dance floor and girls already climbing up Blizzart's swanky new booths. DJ Cosmo was on point as usual and made sure to satisfy his strong and still growing fan base with hype mixes...
Episides 3 and 4 now online!
Over at Stereogum you can here the first single off of Fucked Up's upcoming album David Comes To Life. The song itself is entited 'The Other Shoe'.
I was late to the Fucked Up Party, only getting into them after The Chemistry of Modern Life came out and seeing them perform live at Sala. I was always into the blend of aggression/energy and melodicism they are able to put across without sounding forced.
If this new track is any indication, the new album is something for which to get excited. There is a huge amount of stuff going on filling up the stereo space (I listened through...
Considering we live in a city with so many Hispanic descendants, it’s shocking how ostracized Salsa music has become; all we have is a hand full of good salsa venues. Maybe this is why the Afro-Latin-Soul! promoters and their efforts to bring a beautiful range of different afro-latin music to the forefront of Montreal nightlife have been creating sound waves from here to New York. On Saturday March 26th, 2011, they’ll be kicking off spring with the 5th edition of their amazing music series; Mantecoso,...
Yay reruns!
Episode one: http://earswideshut.podomatic.com
Libya declared a fresh ceasefire on Sunday. This came after a day of bombardment from Western forces, trying to protect civilians from government troops. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been using tanks and artillery to try to crush an uprising against his four-decade rule.
Minutes before the army spokesman made the announcement, heavy anti-aircraft gunfire boomed above central Tripoli, followed by machinegun fire. The Libyan government in Tripoli had already announced a ceasefire last week, but Western powers accused Gaddafi of breaking the truce.
In the mid-2000s, Ottawa’s punk scene was weird. At least, I think it was. It seemed like, at the time, “punk” served as a catch-all term for all things alternative. Maybe this also applied to the “alternative/underground” music scenes existing in other less cultured, kinda-big cities. I’m not really sure. There is the possibility that other Canadian Blandsville escapees to Montreal can relate to my musical upbringing/show-going career 100%. Anyway, during this period your typical “punk” show may have been comprised of one mildly electro-goth act, one crust-punk group and one ska band. Thanks to local promoters’...
Finance Minister Raymond Bachand announced that the Quebec government will table a new budget on March 17. Bachand says the budget will be a responsible one. He says It will control debt, while protecting health and education. The government says it is on target to return to a balanced budget by 2014.
Bachand boasts 125 000 jobs created in the last 18 months without any increased tax burden for Quebecers.
The provincial budget...
Newsday, as quoted on Bobby Long’s Myspace (which is, of course, the most accurate and trustworthy source of the 20th and 21st century combined), describes Bobby Long’s music as having “the intensity of a young poetic Dylan, mixed with the storytelling of Eliot Smith [sic].”...
A Canadian citizen is missing in Afghanistan after travelling to the country as a tourist. The department made the statement Sunday after a news release claimed a Canadian spy had been captured. Canadian officials are working with Afghan authorities to assist the family in securing a safe release.
The Canadian government says it strongly advises against all travel to Afghanistan. The Canadian military says no one is missing from its ranks.
Anyone involved in home music production can relate to this. Driving is a great way to feel out your mixes.
To accompany his newest and final record, Mike Skinner of the Streets has put together this nifty interactive film on the YouTube. Check it. Day in the life of a geezer...
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Step 1: form a team with your friends and come down the Le Bull Pub Tuesday at 7:30 (first round starts around 8 pm) ... Answer questions. If you answer more right than any other team in that round you win a pitcher of beer.
Step 2: Lather, rinse, repeat Step 1 two more times ... kind of like shampoo instructions, hey you know what they say about cleanliness being next to Godliness, right? Speaking of Godliness, do you know who got in trouble in 1966 for stating that his band was, "more popular than Jesus"? See how easy it is! (apologies for...
Step 1: form a team with your friends and come down the Le Bull Pub Tuesday at 7:30 (first round starts around 8 pm) ... Answer questions. If you answer more right than any other team in that round you win a pitcher of beer.
Step 2: Lather, rinse, repeat Step 1 two more times ... kind of like shampoo instructions, hey you know what they say about cleanliness being next to Godliness, right? Speaking of Godliness, do you know who got in trouble in 1966 for stating that his band was, "more popular than Jesus"? See how easy it is! (apologies for...
Step 1: form a team with your friends and come down the Le Bull Pub Tuesday at 7:30 (first round starts around 8 pm) ... Answer questions. If you answer more right than any other team in that round you win a pitcher of beer.
Step 2: Lather, rinse, repeat Step 1 two more times ... kind of like shampoo instructions, hey you know what they say about cleanliness being next to Godliness, right? Speaking of Godliness, do you know who got in trouble in 1966 for stating that his band was, "more popular than Jesus"? See how easy it is! (apologies for...
Step 1: form a team with your friends and come down the Le Bull Pub Tuesday at 7:30 (first round starts around 8 pm) ... Answer questions. If you answer more right than any other team in that round you win a pitcher of beer.
Step 2: Lather, rinse, repeat Step 1 two more times ... kind of like shampoo instructions, hey you know what they say about cleanliness being next to Godliness, right? Speaking of Godliness, do you know who got in trouble in 1966 for stating that his band was, "more popular than Jesus"? See how easy it is! (apologies for...
Step 1: form a team with your friends and come down the Le Bull Pub Tuesday at 7:30 (first round starts around 8 pm) ... Answer questions. If you answer more right than any other team in that round you win a pitcher of beer.
Step 2: Lather, rinse, repeat Step 1 two more times ... kind of like shampoo instructions, hey you know what they say about cleanliness being next to Godliness, right? Speaking of Godliness, do you know who got in trouble in 1966 for stating that his band was, "more popular than Jesus"? See how easy it is! (apologies for...
Step 1: form a team with your friends and come down the Le Bull Pub Tuesday at 7:30 (first round starts around 8 pm) ... Answer questions. If you answer more right than any other team in that round you win a pitcher of beer.
Step 2: Lather, rinse, repeat Step 1 two more times ... kind of like shampoo instructions, hey you know what they say about cleanliness being next to Godliness, right? Speaking of Godliness, do you know who got in trouble in 1966 for stating that his band was, "more popular than Jesus"? See how easy it is! (apologies for...
Step 1: form a team with your friends and come down the Le Bull Pub Tuesday at 7:30 (first round starts around 8 pm) ... Answer questions. If you answer more right than any other team in that round you win a pitcher of beer.
Step 2: Lather, rinse, repeat Step 1 two more times ... kind of like shampoo instructions, hey you know what they say about cleanliness being next to Godliness, right? Speaking of Godliness, do you know who got in trouble in 1966 for stating that his band was, "more popular than Jesus"? See how easy it is! (apologies for...
Step 1: form a team with your friends and come down the Le Bull Pub Tuesday at 7:30 (first round starts around 8 pm) ... Answer questions. If you answer more right than any other team in that round you win a pitcher of beer.
Step 2: Lather, rinse, repeat Step 1 two more times ... kind of like shampoo instructions, hey you know what they say about cleanliness being next to Godliness, right? Speaking of Godliness, do you know who got in trouble in 1966 for stating that his band was, "more popular than Jesus"? See how easy it is! (apologies for...
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Regular listeners will have noticed how often I play and talk about James Blake. I try to limit how much I actually say on the air so that I can give you as much music as possible, but if you want to know exactly how I feel about James Blake, or just want to learn a bit more about him, you're in luck! Now that his debut album is finally out, I've written a full review of it. Check it out here, or by clicking on the Magazine tab you see right up there (and check out all the other wonderful articles we have while you're at it).
If the name James Blake is unfamiliar to you, it shouldn’t be for long. Since the release of his first EP a year and a half ago on Untold’s Hemlock Recordings, he has been steadily gaining a very large following. Initially, that following came from electronic dance music circles; however, today Blake finds himself poised to explode onto a wider audience in a big way. While there are a number of artists who break and achieve widespread popularity every year, Blake is particularly...
After The Arcade Fire (and Merge Records) won Album of the Year at the Grammys, the Internets blew up with cries of "LADY ANTEBELLUM WAZ ROBBED!!!1" and "Arcade Who??". The greatness of the Internet has now brought us this glorious Tumblr:
http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/
Enjoy!
The Green Bay Packers became Super Bowl champions Sunday night. NFL player Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes. And Nick Collins returned an interception for another score. All leading the Packers to a 31- 25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. This was Green Bay's fourth Super Bowl title.
This weekend the Foo Fighters played a secret club show (oooooh) in Santa Barbara, previewing their new album in entirety.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYjaTOXWuWY&feature=player_embedded
The new album was tracked in Dave Grohl's garage entirely on analog gear. I'm intrigued by what is to come from the Foos after the last few years, which have been largely disappointing.
As a Sublime tribute band, Rhode Island-based Badfish takes on the tricky task of satisfying diehard fans of the legendary 90's group from California and its late, great lead singer, Bradley Nowell.
I went to the show with one such hardcore aficionado. Our verdict was mixed. The set list was on point. Badfish relentlessly churned out crowd favourites like "Santaria," "Caress Me Down" and "Jailhouse," as audience members grooved, thrashed, sweated...
The Consortium will breathe its last hour of radio from 10-11 pm on Thursday, January 13, 2011. The Electronica/RPM show originally aired on CJLO 1690AM’s airwaves on St. Patrick’s Day, 2009 and was comprised of hosts DJ Ernest Lakelandèr and of DJ Beauregard von Teesdale. From its early days, The Consortium prided itself on playing new content and promoting...
Stereogum has the skinny on new Tim Hecker, Montreal's own guru of all that is ambient. Check it out here.
I think most people could get behind this regardless of their background. Gear up, let's get festive.
On this day, 69 years ago, the Empire of Japan attacked the United States Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Such an attack was labeled, and continues to be today, as an unprovoked attack which immediately brought the United States into the Second World War. The United States committed troops to the Pacific and also to Europe and Northern Africa, where war had been raging for over two years....
This 03. December broadcast covered CLAIM DA INTERWEBZ, WANKSTAS AND BANKSTAS, WIKI PEEKS, TERROR THEATRE, CLIMATE DISRUPTION FUNCTION, MY BAD, EUROSCEPTICISM, and THE SCIENCE IS IN....
This 26. November broadcast covered CLAIM DA INTERWEBZ, ECONOMIC HITMEN, GONNA FEEL YA UP, TERROR...
Don't you just hate it when a company advertise a sale and when you get to the store the say they dont have any of the product left?
Well Super C had a sale last week on Beer for $21 - $22.00 for a case of 24 but when you get there they said that it was all sold out.
Now how could they be sold out of Beer when there were a whole lot of beer in the fridge. Yeah , you guess it, at the regular price.
Now this was just 0ne day after the sale started and there was 4 more days to go for the sale
Super C you suck big time!
Burn To Shine is an interesting project conceived by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and a person named Christopher Green, who is a filmmaker about whom I know nothing.
The premise is to film bands performing in a house that is soon to be demolished. Each event is curated by a key musician from the local music scene in the community of the event, choosing home-grown acts to perform.
Here's a link to a clip of Tortoise from Volume 2 in Chicago. Each volume is for sale at the Trixie Film website.
Tune in between 6 and 8pm Tuesday November 30th for your chance to win tickets to see Stars (w/ openers Young Galaxy) at Metropolis Saturday December 4th! Courtesy of CJLO and Pop Montreal, Charts & Crafts has tickets for two!
News read by Sofia Gay and produced by Sarah El Fangary
Stories by Sofia Gay, Sarah El Fangary and Samah Fadil
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So I guess I should start blogging again... the powers that be are encouraging us all to do so. Thus I present to you this:
David Lynch is releasing a solo album. Of course he is. It's produced by Sparklehorse and a few others. There's another track kicking around as well, it's a bit darker. Craziness.
So I guess I should start blogging again... the powers that be are encouraging us all to do so. Thus I present to you this:
David Lynch is releasing a solo album. Of course he is. It's produced by Sparklehorse and a few others. There's another track kicking around as well, it's a bit darker. Craziness.
So the new Run With The Hunted has been released, and its the "cats meow." Seriously this album has everything. Raw unadultered emotion, desperation and abuve all, balls. check it out for yourself, http://panicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled
News read and produced by Drew Pascoe
Stories by Erica Fisher, Sarah Elfangary, Michael Lemieux, Marcin Wisniewski
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November 26, 2010
When Ernest Lakelandèr and I first hit the CJLO airwaves on St. Patrick's Day 2009, our musical influences had been more Austrian, than Irish to say the least. Instead of toasting the night with shamrocks and Murphy's stout, we hit you with our electro version of Mozart. The steins were out when beautiful Montreal began to swing, swing, swing à la house version of Swing Kids, and my former co-host and I were both very proud of our shameless promotion of Linz, Austria's own, Parov Stelar.
If you've gathered anything from that quirky first paragraph, it's that Parov Stelar infuses bigband goodness with what kids like to dance to at all the fancy clubs today, that is,...
News Read by Brittany LeBourne and Produced by Drew Pascoe
Stories by Michael Moore, Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo, and Erica Fisher
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CNBC concedes to the Austrian school of economics. This now means that the Economist in London, the New York Times and now CNBC on Wall Street are recognizing the virtues of Hayek, Mises, Menger, Rothbard, Hazlitt, and many other brilliant economists tied to the Austrian business cycle.
In his latest article for the Nation, one of my favorite progressive publications, David Nasaw wrote a piece detailing his opposition to tax breaks for donations to charity. Nasaw specifically blitzes the liberality of those "elites" that progressives so love to hate:
I'm delighted that Harvard was able to raise $596 million last year, but if we assume that most of it came from those in the highest tax bracket who itemized their deductions, that $596 million breaks down to about $387 million from the donors and $209 million from the Treasury in forgone tax revenues.
...
In a business blog post, London's Economist did a piece praising the Austrian business cycle of F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, and others:
(The Economist: Buttonwood) Nov 18th 2010
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES is back. The British economist has modern intellectual champions in Paul Krugman and Robert Skidelsky. For all today’s talk of austerity, a policy of Keynesian fiscal stimulus was adopted by...
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
The Liberty Hero of the week is a certain "young Asian man" (as quoted by AP) who disguised himself as an elderly white man on a flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver. 
What is coming over the wire is that his only crime was dressing up as a white man and using another's boarding pass to get on the plane. From ...
So last week (3 months in Internet time) while I was doing the show, it was announced that Girl Talk's new record All Day was up for free download, and what what a free download it is! At this rate I'm going to be sick of it by the time he visits town, (that's March 1 nerds) but I can't help it. Highlights include:
- The opening mix of "War Pigs" underneath Ludacris' "Move Back" really opens the record with a bang.
- MOP "Ante Up" over Miley Cyrus (yes you read that right).
- "Creep" and ODB's "Shimmy Shimmy Yay" together at last (ooh baby I like it rawwww).
Some of my favourite moments include bit's of nostalgia in: a random Spacehog appearance that made me remember Spacehog existed, Fugazi's "Waiting Room" under Rihanna...
On this hour of Sound on Sight: coming attractions. Next Friday sees the release of UK director Edgar Wright's third feature, the anticipated comic adaptation Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. We got a chance to see it early at the Fantasia Film Festival, and we'll be letting you know if it's worth the hype - and if it lives up to Wright's popular early features, Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. Following that, something to look for on the horizon: a bloody and very entertaining horror-comedy called Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, which should be headed to multiplexes sometime this winter.
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Don't t even get me started. I mean, you could. And it would go on for a really long time, and feature words like, "oh my god, amazing, brilliant, contemporary jokes in epic poetry, I can't stop." So for now, if you are a patient listener, then maybe, like me (and most of the rest), you will also gladly be a patient reader. It's one that seems to serve as an excerpt for the book of right on. /Joanna Newsom nerdy coded language overload.
In the mean time, a cover...
Click here and read about Kathleen Hanna's project-o-rama.
Also, just, like, who doesn't think Coco Garden is inherently cool?
News Produced by Erica Bridgeman and read by Drew Pascoe
Stories by Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo, Mike Moore, Alina Gotcherian
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Imagine the greatest of ironies: a French rock group from Versailles travels across the ocean to the most populous French city in North America, gets booked at a French-language University by French promotion, and plays their American Grammy-winning album to a sold-out majority-French crowd…in English. Such a paradox might confuse objective observers, but for montrealers, it is the music scene. And it is exactly what took place on October 21st, 2010 at the Complexe Sportif de l'Université de Montréal.
Phoenix, the ever-popular group transcending currently transcending the...
News read and produced by Drew Pascoe
Stories by Chris Hanna, Marcin Wisniewski, Michael Lemieux, Sarah Elfangary
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Check out my new Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?sk=group_168187569875405
This is where I'll send updates about upcoming episodes and post links to podcasts.
Thanks!
Check out my brand new Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?sk=group_168187569875405
This is where I'll send news about upcoming shows, and link to podcasts of past shows.
Thanks :)
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhDO47596ZnQo5UvMp
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News read by Drew Pascoe
News Produced by Drew Pascoe and Melissa Mulligan
Stories by Marcin Wisniewski, Michael Lemieux, and Chris Hanna
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Arnold Jarvis (vocalist)
DJ Christian Pronovost (DJ/producer)
(Lost Heroes/ Montreal)
Jojoflores (DJ/producer)
(Gotsoul/ Montreal)
Charles McDougald (vocalist/producer)
(Mac Jam Ent. / 11:07 Pres.)
Anthony Nicholson (DJ/producer)
(Circular Motion Recordings/ Chicago)
News read and produced by Drew Pascoe
Stories by Chris Hanna, Sarah Fengary, Marcin Wisniewski.
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News read and produced by Drew Pascoe
Storries written by Erica Fisher, Marcin Wisniewski, and Chris Hanna
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Winter Gloves launched their new CD, All Red, at Il Motore on Friday, Sept. 24th. This Montreal-based synth pop outfit is a newcomer to the indie scene, but have made it big, being named Best New Artist by iTunes Canada after their debut release, About a Girl in 2008. Their curious instrumentation (including a Wurlitzer and a synth bass) have garnered them a spot in the hearts of fans.
Opening for Winter Gloves were The Hoof and the Heel, a band I had not known before this show, but surprised me with a nice combination of electro and folk. The lead vocalist was charming, and was a...
This ought to make you think twice..
Five albums, numerous splits and EPs, and as many sonic configurations on, Brooklyn avant-garage group Liars now count as veterans. Not only have their LPs kept pace in terms of quality - 2009's Sisterworld might be their most consistent yet - they've also managed to diversify and expand their sound in unexpected ways that have never felt forced. Consistency, of course, is perhaps the least appreciated quality an indie rock band can possess, as evidenced by the mediocre turnout for their triple-bill show for Pop Montreal. They've been around long enough that they...
Let me set the scene: it is Saturday, the fourth night of POP Montreal. The past three nights have been populated with at least one highly-entertaining show each. I roll out of bed at the civilized hour of 2:30 in the afternoon. Atari Teenage Riot is playing Foufounes Electrique at 10 p.m., one of the more hyped shows of the festival. With a passing knowledge of their music and reputation, I expect to be subjected to an intense experience.
Now, I understand that 'intense' can be an entirely subjective term. The show, however, most certainly delvered on...
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Did anyone else miss the memo about nu rave? I sure did, and it's hard for me to preface this review with almost anything due to my utter lack of knowledge pertaining to the genre. I know more about the Judd family than I do about nu-rave, mostly because of my unhealthy Oprah intake. Also, I currently have no internet. This didn't help me figure out what 'nu rave' meant before I went to see the Klaxons who are, in my mind, the only nu rave band to have existed ever. When I ask my equally electro-ignorant roommates about the genre, they say it...
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Stories written by Chris Hanna, Emily Brass, and Sarah El Fangary
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Stories written by Chris Hanna, Emily Brass, and Sarah El Fangary
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Way back in 1959, Miles Davis released (one of) the most important (jazz) albums of all time.
I am immensely excited to be giving away a 2-CD 50th anniversary edition of Miles' 'Kind of Blue'. (It's got the original album plus a whole bunch of awesome extras!)
All you have to do to win is send me an email at J-Spot(at)CJLO.com before 11:59 pm Monday Sept 27. I will draw a random winner and announce it on Tuesday's show!
This is such a magnificent album, i wish i had a hundred copies to give away. Alas, only one can win and i wish you all luck.
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Stories written by Chris Hanna, Emily Brass, and Marcin Wisniewski
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Embarking upon his first solo tour across three continents, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke performed solo in Montréal at La Salla Rosa on the 4th of September, 2010. Being his seventh overall stop and second in a majority francophone city, Kele strutted onstage with a well-traveled divinity that hinted towards modesty. The females within the first ten meters immediately shot glances towards upstage while the men opened their ears and loosened their dancing feet; Kele’s presence alone made the measly cost of the concert ticket...
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In light of the 9th year anniversary of the September 11th attacks coming up, and with all the HOOPLA surrounding the idea of building a Mosque a couple of blocks away from Ground Zero..
Hows about we take the time to open our minds, instead of eating what they feed to us, and slowly reject the idea of ISLAM and TERRORISM being one in the same.
Here's is a great way to get started
Here's the link to a documentary that you need to watch and pass on to a friend.
It came out in August of 2006, so its quite dated, yet still very relavant, due to the issues that keep arising, and due to the tragic date approaching...
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SUPERCHUNK + Kurt Vile + Little Scream
September 23rd at Le National (1220 Ste Catherine E)
Doors 7:00, Show 8:00
$23.50 Regular, $10 for Concordia Students, First 50 people with a CJLO t-shirt get in for FREE!
http://www.superchunk.com/
http://www.myspace.com/kurtvileofphilly
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Screening of THIS IS SPINAL TAP at the Dollar Cinema (6900 Decarie). $2 entry, free popcorn. 8:30 show time.
8 pm:
Blue Skies Turn Black & CJLO Present CARIBOU live at Le National (1220 Ste Catherine E). For more info visit http://web.blueskiesturnblack.com/shows.php
11am-4pm:
BBQ and Live Broadcast with local artists performing at the Loyola Campus. Cheap beer brought to you by the CSU, cheap food brought to you by us, veggie stuff available. Just $1 for all food and non-beer items and tunes by CJLO DJs.
Come join CJLO this Thursday (September 4th) as CJLO once again brings their monthly punk night to Katacombes (1635 St. Laurent). This month sees the DJs tearing the roof off of the place after France's Black Bomb A. The show's 7 dollars, doors open at 8 p.m. and Black Bomb A takes the stage at 10 p.m., but stick around as DJs spin until 3 a.m.!
Join Break It Down's Katrina, Brian H of Countdown To Armageddon and DJ Runt of The New Noise as they bring the best in loud stuff after Black Bomb A gets done their thing on-stage. Drink specials and rad tunes –...
Serj Tankian and the Elect The Dead Symphony
Theatre St. Denis (1594 St. Denis)
$39.50 / $49.50 / $59.50
A Greenland presentation
Semi Precious Weapons
feat. DJ Starlight
Le Belmont (4483 St. Laurent)
$15.50 in advance / $17.50 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Glen Matlock
feat. Sarah Blackwood / The Hellbound Hepcats
Divan Orange (4234 St. Laurent)
$12.00 in advance / $15.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Murder By Death
feat. Buddy McNeil & The Magic Mirrors
Petit Campus (57 Prince Arthur E.)
$13.50 in advance / $15.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Menomena
feat. Suckers / Tu Fawning
Sala Rossa (4848 St. Laurent)
$15.00 in advance / at the door
A Greenland presentation
Foals
feat. Ebsen And The Witch
Sala Rossa (4848 St. Laurent)
$15.00 in advance / $17.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
eels
feat. Jesca Hoop
Le National (1220 Ste. Catherine E.)
$25.00 in advance / $27.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
As I Lay Dying
feat. All That Remains / Unearth / Carniflex
Metropolis (59 Ste. Catherine E.)
$27.50 in advance / $32.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Winter Gloves
feat. guests
Il Motore (179 Jean-Talon W.)
$12.00 in advance / $15.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
The Tallest Man On Earth
feat. S. Carey
Le National (1220 Ste. Catherine E.)
$17.50 in advance / $19.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Klaxons
feat. Baby Monster
Cabaret JPR (2111 St. Laurent)
$17.50 in advance / $20.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Comeback Kid
feat. Madball / A Wilhelm Scream / Living With Lions / Devil In Me
Studio JPR (2109 St. Laurent)
$20.00 in advance / $25.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Anti-Flag
feat. Vulgaires Machins / The Menzingers
Studio JPR (2109 St. Laurent)
$20.00 in advance / at the door
A Greenland presentation
MIA
feat. guests
Metropolis (59 Ste. Catherine E.)
$35.00 in advance / at the door
A Greenland presentation
Sick Of It All
feat. Wisdom In Chains / Mongoloids / Hold A Grudge
Foufounes Electriques (89 Ste. Catherine E.)
$16.00 in advance / $18.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Swinging Utters
feat. The Copyrights / Prevenge
Foufounes Electrique (59 Ste. Catherine E.)
$15.00 in advance / at the door
A Greenland presentation
Milow
feat. Matt Morris
Metropolis (59 Ste. Catherine E.)
$25.00 in advance / at the door
A Greenland presentation
Down With Webster
feat. guests
Club Soda (1225 St. Laurent)
$15.00 in advance / $17.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
The Charlatans UK
feat. Sherlock's Daughter
Cabaret JPR (2111 St. Laurent)
$23.50 in advance / $25.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Jesse Malin And The St. Marks Social
feat. Moneybrother / The Hot Showers
Le Belmont (4483 St. Laurent)
$13.00 in advance / $15.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
School Of Seven Bells
feat. Active Child
Sala Rossa (4848 St. Laurent)
$12.00 in advance / $14.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Jamie Lidell
feat. zEUS
Cabaret JPR (2111 St. Laurent)
$20.00 in advance / at the door
A Greenland presentation
Billy Idol
Metropolis (59 Ste. Catherine E.)
$45.00 in advance / $50.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Millencolin
feat. The Sainte Catherines / Without Will
Club Soda (1225 St. Laurent)
$23.00 in advance / $25.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Strung Out
feat. Rufio / Mute / We Are Union
Le National (1220 Ste. Catherine E.)
$25.00 in advance / $27.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Dragonette
feat. guests
Cabaret Du Mile End (5420 Parc Ave.)
$16.50 in advance / $18.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Vampire Weekend
feat. Beach House / Dum Dum Girls
Metropolis (59 Ste. Catherine E.)
$32.00 in advance / $35.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Against Me!
feat. The Flatliners / Young Livers
L'Olympia (1004 Ste. Catherine E.)
$22.00 in advance / $25.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Ratatat
feat. Dom / Bobby Birdman
Metropolis (59 Ste. Catherine E.)
$22.00 in advance / $25.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Plasticines
feat. Shortpants Romance
Sala Rossa (4848 St. Laurent)
$15.00 in advance / $18.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Pennywise
feat. Riverboat Gamblers / Authority Zero / Fifty Stars Anger
Metropolis (59 Ste. Catherine E.)
$23.00 in advance / $25.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Kele
feat. Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Sala Rossa (4848 St. Laurent)
$17.00 in advance / $20.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
Melvins
feat. Trung Hoa
Club Soda (1225 St. Laurent)
$25.00 in advance / $28.00 at the door
A Greenland presentation
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My friends and I walked into Metropolis a few minutes after 8 p.m. just as the show was starting, at least according to the timeslots I’d found online, which later proved to be all kinds of inaccurate. We got there a lot earlier than planned so I was a little unenthusiastic mostly due to the fact that: A) this is Montreal where the party doesn’t get going ‘till 11 p.m., B) this was a Sunday night, surely not the busiest night of the week and C) Destructo, the opening DJ and only artist on the line-up I didn’t know was going to be playing ‘till 9 p.m. (I’m a little jaded and by...
Sundays 12-2 is sometimes not the time when people want to be awake and listening to the radio. I understand this, and thanks to Stefan and Andrij on the Pan- African Hour, have now been archiving my episodes at their blog. If you need a fix and can't get out of bed to get it, you can now download for your very own self at:
or
www.archive.org under Community Audio- search Runny Noise.
Happy trails.
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Day 2 of Osheaga and security is more uptight than ever. Yesterday’s bag check was but a brief glimpse inside my purse and as a result I decide it’s a brilliant idea to sneak a half mickey of vodka into the festival today. Turns out Sunday is the new Saturday and ignorance is passé. Today’s security guard behaviour trend really encourages intense bag checks and straight up pat downs. This is either because Snoop Dogg is playing later and they are prejudice ‘haytahs’ or because the three-quarters of the festival ground was littered with 24s of Southern Comfort by the end of last night. I notice...
He's known as Marshall Matthers, Slim Shady, Eminem, Hip Hop Elvis and now, after the release of his latest video, perhaps he'll be known as "Public Enemmy #1" to every Feminits group across America. Eminem has never been a stranger to controversy, in fact he's built an entire empire based on controversial lyrics, videos and etc... Some will argue that controversy fuels Eminem's fire and that he will use every opportunity presented to him in order to produce controversial material. In his latest video featuruing R&B superstar Rihanna, Eminem has once again succeeded at breaking records while making a few ennemies on the way. The song for the video is entitled "Love The Way You Lie" and if you haven't seen the video yet, don't worry...It's 22 million views does more than just...
Tune in to Grrls Groove this Thursday from 10-11pm, when I play my interview with the Queen of Dancehall, Lady Saw. The triple-platinum, Grammy-winning artist spoke to me backstage at the Montreal International Reggae Festival this weekend. She talked about her tomboy past and balancing motherhood with a message of 'slackness.' Don't miss this unique interview with Lady Saw!
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Until last weekend, I hadn’t been to Montreal’s Osheaga festival for the past two summers, which I always regretted to a certain extent (namely missing out on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and reformed Stooges) but never completely. The first two years of the festival will always hold fond memories for me. I remember seeing Sonic Youth for the first time and literally crying, getting messed up and freaked out by We Are Wolves, touching that giant Wayne Coyne-captained ...
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They premiered a show called "IF YOU REALLY KNEW ME" on July 26th.
The show depicts a bunch of kids from a high school saying this one line to each other, "If you really knew me.." followed by their deepest secrets, and that manages to change their whole outlook on high school and "cliques".
It's actually really eye opening and powerful, and it breaks down a lot of barriers. Defintely worth an hour of your time!
Check it out on MTV2 Mondays @ 10pm.
(Oh! and get your tissues ready!)
Here's the link to watch full episodes:
...
Dear Alex,
Pick up your phone and pay the fucking rent please. The landlord keeps calling me and I feel bad. So please do it before I DESTROY YOU! This will occur slightly after 2:30 pm today once I pick up my bike from the bowels of st. henri.
kthnxs,
Kelly
So tonights show had a special guest, Tim Chevrier. An old and great friend who always manages to make me crack the hell up. Check out the show for general bamboozlement and some really great tunes!
CJLO double feature at Dollar Cinema (6900 Decarie Square).
11pm: John Landis' "An American Werewolf in London" (1981)
1am: John Fawcett's "Ginger Snaps" (2000)
2$ admission and 1$ snacks!
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Storries written by Alina Gotcherian, Jose Espinoza, Chris Hanna, Nick Fiscina
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Written by Jonathan Moore, Jose Espinosa, and Chris Hanna.
Edited by Nicolas Fiscina.
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Dobet Gnahoré kicked off the 24th Festival Nuits D’Afrique in fine form. Literally.
Propelling herself into mid-air, spinning on the floor like a breakdancer, and gyrating torso muscles you didn’t know existed, Gnahoré demonstrated the breadth of her talents, which are deeply rooted in the traditions of Africa.
Then there’s her voice. Deep and robust, it seems to emanate from within her soul, from an ancient place connected to shamans and tribesmen who came before.
Gnahoré is clearly comfortable in her own skin. A well-seasoned performer, her experience as an...
Dobet Gnahoré kicked off the 24th Festival Nuits D’Afrique in fine form last night. Literally.
Propelling herself into mid-air, spinning on the floor like a breakdancer, and gyrating torso muscles you didn’t know existed, Gnahoré demonstrated the breadth of her talents, which are deeply rooted in the traditions of Africa.
Then there’s her voice. Deep and robust, it seems to emanate from within her soul, from an ancient place connected to shamans and tribesmen who came before.
Gnahoré is clearly comfortable in her own skin. A well-seasoned performer, her experience as an entertainer is a pleasure to behold as she moves between instruments and styles with fluidity and grace.
At age 12,...
Day three: This one i had circled on my calendar for months. Two of the greatest living legends in jazz performing on the same night: Sonny Rollins followed by Herbie Hancock.
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier was packed. The atmosphere was electric as we eagerly awaited the saxophone colossus. Adding to the nervous excitement was the fact that the band was running late. An anxious fifteen minutes later than expected, Sonny took the stage. Dressed in a bright red shirt, and sporting a giant silver afro, Rollins began the show by accepting the Miles Davis award, presented to him by the festival artistic director André Ménard.
With the formalities out of the way, Sonny got down to business. I swear to you, the first few bars he played...
Day three: This one i had circled on my calendar for months. Two of the greatest living legends in jazz performing on the same night: Sonny Rollins followed by Herbie Hancock.
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier was packed. The atmosphere was electric as we eagerly awaited the saxophone colossus. Adding to the nervous excitement was the fact that the band was running late. An anxious fifteen minutes later than expected, Sonny took the stage. Dressed in a bright red shirt, and sporting a giant silver afro, Rollins began the show by accepting the Miles Davis award, presented to him by the festival artistic director André Ménard.
With the formalities out of the way, Sonny got down to business. I swear to you, the first few bars he played gave me chills....
Day three: This one i had circled on my calendar for months. Two of the greatest living legends in jazz performing on the same night: Sonny Rollins followed by Herbie Hancock.
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier was packed. The atmosphere was electric as we eagerly awaited the saxophone colossus. Adding to the nervous excitement was the fact that the band was running late. An anxious fifteen minutes later than expected, Sonny took the stage. Dressed in a bright red shirt, and sporting a giant silver afro, Rollins began the show by accepting the Miles Davis award, presented to him by the festival artistic director André Ménard.
With the formalities out of the way, Sonny got down to business. I swear to you, the first few bars he played gave me chills....
News Read and Produced by Drew Pascoe.
Stories by Jonathan Moore, Alina Gotcherian, and Jose Espinoza. Good to have you back Jose.
In memory of Erica Fisher.
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Check out the show! Featuring the newest from SometimeNever, The Gaslight Anthem, This is Hell and GraveMaker! All that and a kick in the Groin!
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This weeks show (June 28th) is now up if you would like to hear it. Check out the setlist, download it, listen to it streaming, maybe listen to it while while you make that garlic and beef pudding you have been dying to try.
It has been an exciting (albeit hectic) first few days for me at the 31st edition of the Montreal Jazz Fest. After four days I have already taken in seven spectacular acts here at the festival. I wanted to share with you a bit of my experience so far.
Day one: The festival started for me with the David Sanborn Trio featuring Joey Defrancesco on Friday night. I went into this show with tempered expectations. David Sanborn is obviously a tremendously talented saxophonist, but his albums have always been a bit hit and miss for me. On one hand his technical prowess allows him to be immensely creative and exciting. However he has a tendency to venture into realms "too smooth" for my tastes. So as mentioned i went into the...
News produced by Drew Pascoe, read by Erica Fisher
Stories by Jonothan Moore, Alina Gotcherian and Erica Fisher
Shout out to Mr. Pascoe (senior) who's birthday is today. Happy Birthday from the News Team!
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This Sunday the 27th, "Right Place Wrong Time" is kicking off a series on writers in and passing through Montreal with Chuck Klosterman, author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" and his most recent collection of essays, "Eating the Dinosaur". The series is centered around the Summer Literary Seminar program hosted by Concordia University. The interview will be wedged between the Jazz and its musical diaspora you've always enjoyed and the info on the next writer, Katrina Best and her new book, "Bird Eat Bird".
Follow the interview at 2:00 pm on 1690 AM or www.cjlo.com, click listen live!
June 21st, 2010.
Tonights show was all kinds of ruckus. Reams of great new albums by some of the best in the biz were featured, including (but not limited to) The Gaslight Anthem, This Is Hell, Against Me!, Off With Their Heads and Killing The Dream. If you missed it and feel shamed (as you should), you can either download it for your MP3 player thingy, or listen to it streaming from the following site, BLAM!
After seeing Brokencyde at Club Soda on June 6th, I feel that it is absolutely okay, if not necessary, to confess to you readers the retrospectively utterly embarrassing musical taste I had in the early days of my youth. I am now completely comfortable divulging this once uber-confidential information, and this is because all of my past sins against good taste combined (and this does include my prepubescent lust for cheesy macho men, namely John Travolta and Ricky Martin) do not even come close to the embarrassment 13 year old Quebecois girls will feel 6 months from...
Greatest thing ever. Period. Except it sounds like there's some autotune.
Fuck the Dandy Warhols.
I’m assuming 2010 has been a great year for the Brian Jonestown Massacre. If you’ve seen Ondi Timoner’s 2004 documentary Dig!, you are more likely to understand why BJM’s June 3rd performance at La Tulipe was so impressive. In addition to this, you’ll understand how happy I was to hear that their last Montreal show sold out completely, while the Dandy Warhols (supposedly) couldn’t draw much of a crowd when they played Club Soda last September. It is the dawning of a new...
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Stories by Alina Gotcherian, Jose Espinoza, Jonathan Moore, Corentine Rivoire
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I love my cat Henry. He's super smart and I can prove it. I right now, I'm cooking dinner and part of it is chicken. So, I cut up this raw chicken, right, too cook it and it kind of looks like brains or intestines or something. See, most cats wouldn't think anything of this, they're just all "You feed me so you can do what ever you want". But not Henry. You see, Henry is a straight shooter, so he basically looks at me as if to ask "What the fuck is your damage, woman? Why are you eating something that looks like brains? I understand you're the one who takes care of me but don't you ever even think about feeding me...
This week I tried out a new format and split my 2 hours into, well, 2. The first hour of the set is some of the best old-school punk out there (in my opinion) and the second set was all about Can-Core, with some new Hardcore for good measure. If you want to give it a listen, in case you missed the show, you can download the MP3 or listen to it online from the following link,
http://www.4shared.com/audio/pT7OS0Ig/thebigtakeover.html
See you next week.
Runt
Awesomely odd rap/rave group Die Antwoord go shopping at Amoeba Records in LA (which is, by all accounts, a good place to find oneself). I don't think their album has been released in North America quite yet, but from what I have heard (there are some tracks floating around) it is just as intense as you would guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-NzfSpOlaQ&feature=player_embedded
Hello internet listeners. The June 7th show is available for download here. Work it on out, nah.
Yo where is everybody, I need to speak the them.
I know, I KNOW, it's been a while. If you just SHUT UP for a second I'll explain.
This is a university radio station website.
Now don't mention it again or I'll cut off your knees, scrape out the insides and make them into a brar. A British Braaahhhrrr.
So I gathered everyone here to learn and reflect about the time I TOOK HOME FOOD FROM REUBEN'S!!!YAAAAAH!!!!AND WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO!(I work there) YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!
Isn't that bad ass!??? Employees are most definitely not allowed to take "product" home. ("Product"??? Pffffttt.) And I did it in on my 2nd week there(it was tonight!!! I work at Reuben's!).
I know I've got HUGELY big balls!
Wanna...
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Here's a decent article on the cover art for the new Black Keys album. I think the tunes are good indeed, but the design and packaging is top shelf. Cooper Black is a weird typeface in terms of its history and contemporary usage, but they nailed it on their cover.
http://rockthatfont.com/2010/05/27/brothers/
Do you like free music? This music is free, and not too shabby.
http://app.topspin.net/store/howtodestroyangels/2491?has_media=true&camp...
No show yesterday because I was stuck in an airport (unexpectedly). To make up for it, listen to and watch this video. And sing along as well.
via BoingBoing
Watsup SoRealers!
SoReal Radio is on at a new time! Your hosts Draga, Brandon and Sarah have been moved to the Friday spot for 2 hours!! 10 am -12pm. Make sure you guys keep tuning in!! And thankyou for all of your support so far!!
So just incase you missed last Fridays show, we talked a bit about Iphone Apps and how they are a curse and a blessing all at the same time. We brought up some of the best and worst apps we've come across.
Here are some that we found amusing:
- The App for Apps
- Designated Dialer "Avoid Drunk texting & Dialing"
- Email and Walk
- Passion "Lets you...
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News May 24 2010
So it's been a week since the passing of Ronnie James Dio, and I'm only now really able to express how deeply saddened I am by this turn of events. Like a lot of Dio's long time fans, I thought we was going to beat the cancer he was diagnosed with last year, record another album with Heaven & Hell, tour the world and live for another hundred years. Unfortunately, it's a week later and the reality is that the metal world has truly lost one of its giants, a forefather of the genre we all know and love. Over the next few weeks on my show, I'll be taking a piece of Dio's career and going into great depth (this week is the early ELF albums and the first Rainbow offering), so I won't go into a biography here. I will say that I've personally been touched by Dio's music more than...
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The show from last week is up and downloadable at Podomatic.
Link here.
Want to gently mock derivative electronic music? Click here for an Owl City parody that is mostly good times.
From Stereogum:
Talk of a new Aphex Twin album started about this time last year, when Warp Records celebrated its 20th anniversary and label founder Steve Beckett went on record saying a new Aphex album would happen in a year or two. No album yet, but Richard James did bring out some new tracks in Metz, France on Friday while on a European DJ tour.
YouTube link...
Here is my top ten (+1) must see shows for the 31st annual Festival International De Jazz De Montreal.
It was very difficult to cut it down to eleven, but here they are, in no particular order.
Richard Bona: Catch this Camaroonian bass prodigy playing his new album The Ten Shades of Blues (July 2) or as a sideman with Manu Katche and Sylvain Luc (June 30) or with Katche, Fresu, and Molvaer (June 27)
Herbie Hancock: One of the most creative, versatile, and prolific jazz pianists of the post bop era, enough said. Catch Herbie June 27.
Sonny Rollins: Another absolute legend gracing the stage at this year's festival. Catch this 80 year old Saxophone Colossus June 27.
Mike Stern...
So Tonights show was alot of fun, I was worried that I would not have enough Canadian content but in the end it was something rediculous like 70%. I hope whomever listened to the show enjoyed it as much as I did.
Band of the week= DEADWALK
If you missed the show and want to hear it, you can listen streaming, or download it at the following adress...
News Read by Erica Fisher. Produced by Drew Pascoe.
Stories by Erica Fisher, Jose Espinoza, and Jonathan Moore.
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The last two episodes are now available for download. Get them at acetategratified.podomatic.com.
If you missed the show, don't worry, its available as both an MP3 and streaming! Now go ahead, give yourself a high five, you deserve it.
We all know it's coming. As we count down the days to the 31st Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, let's take a look at what's to come with my top ten MUST SEE SHOWS.
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Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Hunter, Richard Bona, Tigran Hamasyan, Ahmad Jamal,
Mike Stern/Alain Caron, Bobby Mcferrin, Dave Brubeck,
That's right. It's gross. It's also not really a beard. But ask yourself as you take a gander at Lemmy Kilmister's facial decor if, even for one second, you give a damn about its beard semantics. That's right, you do not. Now, this is probably because you are distracted by those two whatever-they-are's on his cheek, but nevertheless, let us begin analysis:
There is only one thing you need to know about Lemmy Kilmister: balls. Lots of them. There are a few reasons Lemmy = balls. First and foremost, he is the most prominent...
Not really. But this is quite weird. Spotted this at BoingBoing today, an experimental LP called 'The Medium Is The Massage'. With some narration from McLuhan, some audio from a talk show appearance, and a bunch of extremely esoteric music, it is a weird experience indeed. Regular listeners will know that I am a communications major, so this is my cup of tea, lemmetellya. Listen here.
News Produced and Read by the ever curious Drew Pascoe
Stories written by Alina Gotcherian, Jonothan Moore, Jose Espinoza.
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So a few weeks have passed since the death of Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele, and I'm listening to "Bloody Kisses" in its entirety for the first time since it happened. I don't intend on writing you a full band biography or act like a creepy fan who pretends he was a personal friend. I do hope that once everything's said and done that Type O Negative's immense contribution to Heavy Metal isn't overshadowed by all the ridiculous nonsense that seemed to sometimes derail them--- the centerfolds, the stints in drug rehab/prison, and the accusations of misogyny/racism/nazism from people who've never listened to their albums. Then again, they thrived on their black humour and loved to make light of nearly everything and seemed to get a giddy thrill out of pissing as many people off as...
Watsup everybody!!
Thanks for checkin out the blog!
JUST FOR KICKS
I came across a video yesterday, and mind you I am not a big fan of Kesha nor her music, but this I simply couldn't pass up.
Check it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMeCfz9_vvc&sns=em
Attention friends, fans and other critics, after a long hiatus, I, The Barstool Genius - The Seagram Sage of saintly advice has returned – ready to answer all your questions and pour the quixotic elixir of wisdom into your souls like whiskey melting the ice in a tumbler.
Recently I received this email:
"Dear Barstool Genius,
I’m on a dating website called Plenty of Fish and so far no one’s biting. I don’t look like...
Well, I've finally decided to step into the 21st Century and get onboard with this whole "new media" thing that all the kids are into these days! So here it is--- my personal Blog for THE ALMIGHTY RIFF- HELL BENT FOR METAL! Get in the habit of paying me a visit often as I'll be sure to have tons of goodies for all you heavy metal maniacs out there. From CD and concert reviews, to rants about the current metal scene, to in depth features on the classics and should-of-been classics, this will be a dumping ground for all the metal rumblings that take place in the dark recesses of my mind. And hell, maybe one of these days I'll finally figure out what the hell a "tweet" is.
Hope to see you here often!
Keep it heavy! \m/(>.<)\m/
-Zombieboy
I know what you're thinking, but rest assured this is actually an interesting listen. Most of it is rehearsal takes for Bette's cover of 'Buckets of Rain' off 'Songs For The New Depression'. It's very interesting to hear Dylan's approach in the studio, working with other musicians.
Thats right kids, show number 4 is available for all your downloading needs. You can hold onto it for a lifetime or listen to 3 seconds and delete it! Either way it was a great show as you can tell from the setlist, BOOM!
Watsup SoRealers!!!
Thanks for checking out our blog!!
In light of the recent victory of our Habitants we're posting this video for you guys!!!
Enjoy!!!
Annakin Slayd- Feels like '93
Watsup SoRealers!!
And thankyou all for checking out our blog!
Make sure you keep tuning in Tuesdays @ 3pm for your weekly dose of Real Topics Real Music Real Radio
Well just incase you missed it, last week we talked about the teachers that gave a lesson in "Lap Dancing"....
Here's the info!!!
Teachers at a Canadian high school were suspended after they performed a lap dance during a school pep rally. During the rally, one teacher sat on a chair while the other performed a bump-and-grind lap dance on her. The whole ordeal was filmed by students and shortly...
Adam Green is legitimately weird. After seeing him perform with the Dead Trees at Petit Campus last Monday, I can’t tell if he’s been snorting too much blowcaine for the past 5 years or if he just actually reverts to his psychotic, 6 year old self on a sugar high when on stage. In either case, I can safely say Green is an incredibly libidinous artist. And yes, this article is basically the...
Yoav Sadan, born in 1975 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Today he is known worldwide simply as Yoav. The name alone stands out from all the musicians and band names I have ever heard. A growing star, Yoav manages to not only maintain his personal identity, but he has uses his intriguing personality to appear to a worldwide audience. I have a personal connection to Yoav because he was born in Israel, which I will have the pleasure of visiting this summer. There is a strong connection between the meaning of Yoav’s...
On April 15th, Califfornia’s own sound of the sixties, The Morning Benders, kept the Sala Rosa in stiches for the better part of an amazing evening.
It came on a positive night for Montrealers, as the Montreal Canadians just managed a come from behind victory against Alexander Ovechkin and the favoured-to-win Capitals, and post-season hockey victories mark the beginning of a memorable night for most Montrealers. News of this victory quickly circulated throughout the youthful, college-aged crowd, and as if by...
I mentioned the new M.I.A video today on the show. Here's a link to the Vimeo page.
News produced and read by Drew Pascoe
Stories by Jose Espinoza, Chris Hannah, Emily Brass, Sarah Deshaies
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It's hard to imagine a more bewildering sensation for a relatively new musician than arriving in a country you've never even visited before and have people greet you like a big deal, especially when you're a young songwriter touring behind your second record of songs you recorded by yourself with sub-par equipment. That was precisely the case when Kristian Mattson, AKA The Tallest Man on Earth, came to Petit Campus to play for a sold-out crowd, in support of the stellar The Wild Hunt.
A few words on that subject first....
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Stories by Alina Gotcherian. Jonathan Moore, and Jose Espinoza
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Produced by Lachlan.
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Running late as usual, I ran into la Tulipe last Friday night right at the end of Hawksley Workman’s second song of the night. I must admit it was my virgin experience with this multi-talented performer and I was not prepared for the banter.
Hawksley Workman loves to talk. On my entrance to what I thought would be a musical journey, in which I was excited to hear some old songs, mixed in with the new songs from his recent MeatMilk and albums, I was not prepared to hear story after story. It almost felt like I was watching...
The podcast is available for download here.
At Dangerous Minds, Medicine guitarist/mastermind Brad Laner posted a nifty mix called 'Man Can Now Be Boxed And Bunched". Listen here.
Yesterday's show was quite pleasing. Gareth (from the news) stopped by on his way to the Yukon, and half the show was played from vinyl in celebration of record store day. Hopefully I'll be able to upload it by Thursday (with school done I'm not at the station as often).
News read by Bradley Pascoe
Produced by Drew Pasoce
Stories written by Emily Brass, Alina Gotcherian, and Bradley Pascoe
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8:30 at Les 3 Minots - 3812 St. Laurent.
Fancy dresses, tuxes, awards, drinks, karaoke and dance parties!
Two weekends ago…
Saturday: Sleep in. Maybe too much. Work. Climb mountain at midnight, drink beer, call toll-free sex lines with friends from payphones and try to fake credit card numbers, but fail miserably. Get scared in a graveyard, go home. Sleep at 4:00 am.
Sunday: Work 11:30. Family dinner in Hudson. After hearing great reviews after its South by Southwest screening, boyfriend invites me to see Hot Tub Time Machine, and I’m all like “I totally want to see that, John Cusack is, like, the man of my dreams, oh my God, High Fidelity is the best LOL!”
...
Because we love them, and they should have won 1st place!
here's a bit about..
BLUEPRINT CREW
Members: Derek "Derty" Rice, Lorena "Lo" Liebman, Nathalie Levy, Nicolas "Bboy Hero" Begin, Thien-Linh "TL" Truong, Vanessa Gagnon, Vincent-Olivier Noiseux
This Canadian crew is out to storm the home of hip-hop and demonstrate a level of synchronicity not seen before. Being the first-ever foreign crew to compete on America's Best Dance Crew, Blueprint has a lot to prove. And for this crew, the name Blueprint is more than a title: it's a creed. Precision, precision, precision -- that's...
Hey SoRealers!
Yesterday on our show we talked about the new look of Hip Hop, and we played a song by B.O.B featuring Hailey from Paramore! Called Airplanes! Check it out! Great song! We touched on the mix of Rap and Rock, Hip Hop and Punk, and how we love it! Such a great movement! We also talked about how Drake needs to step his Music Video game up!! We think it is safe to say music videos are not his forte! And we say this out of Love, because we are all rooting for Drake!! And we definetely do not want to see the all that hype fade away in vain!
Heres a pic from the making of Rihanna's next single Rockstar 101 featuring Slash! She also features Travis Barker in her video! Great mix!!
...
Hey SoRealers!!
Incase you missed our show today, we talked a bit about Tiger Woods and his portrayal as a "Role Model" in the media. An obviously very trendy topic nowadays!
I think it is safe to say that we need to start differentiating these atheletes and their talent from their personal lives. Tiger included! A lot of young children growing up are associating themselves with these young and rich atheletes who do not have a care in the world, and parents are suddenly taken back when these "role models" act up.. To all the parents out there, you are your childrens best role models!
Hello to all of the SoRealers and thankyou for checking out our Blog!
As promised we are posting all of the info that you need on the Whitehounds! We were so priviledged to have them on the show as our first guests EVER! And they hold that very special title aswell.
The Whitehounds performed two songs live for us last week and we will post those mixes very shortly for all of our beautiful listeners! *UPDATED* below.
For now you guys could check out their myspace. There you will find pics and a bunch of music that you guys will definetely love...
Welcome SoRealers and thankyou for checking out my blog! Hopefully by now you are familiar with SoReal Radio and all of it's glory, and if not, well.. you should make it an obligation to tune in next week Tuesday at 3pm and every week for that matter, to become better acquainted with yours truly and the SoReal Radio family!
Every week we give you Real Topics, Real Music, which in turn is Real Radio for all of our listeners! So far we have had a great first month and our shows keep getting better and better! Draga, Brandon and I are friends first and foremost, and the chemistry on air is so natural that it makes our job unfairly easy!! Our talk show consists of everyday news and current affairs ...
What a day April 2nd was: it went up to 27 degrees. So needless to say, I did not at all feel like being inside on any level.
When I managed to come out of my summer-like tizzy… I remembered that I had the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club concert to go to and off to La Tulipe I went. I so did not feel like being inside, but I do love listening to this band, so I made the ultimate sacrifice of leaving the most amazing weather ever for that time of year and was I ever thankful that I did.
I showed up...
Oh ma gawd, you can now listen to the New Noise any time you want! Mp3's are available for download or you can listen to them online whenever you need the audio equivalent of a swift kick to the genitals, BOOM!
Week #2's show can be downloaded here!
Hi Gang, tonights show is up here. Tre good. Listen. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TH5ibABP4U&feature=related
this is the absolute worst. in the world. ever. serious.
Stories read by Erica Fisher
News produced by Drew Pascoe
Stories written by Jonathan Moore, Jose Espinoza, Coratine Riviore
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Here's a mini BBC doc recorded during the Andorra tours to get you all worked up for new Caribou. It's amazing to see his tiny recording setup in his bedroom.
The new Caribou LP is up and streaming in its entirety! Some serious jams on here...
http://soundcloud.com/caribouband/sets/swim
Because:
-I have a mountain of homework to do at the end of the semester
-The university is closed, so I won't be coming in for class anyway
-Sometimes the computer need a chance to kick out the jams without my interference
I'll be back the week after, with some exciting new music to play. Seriously, it's exciting.
I take a break from essay-writing to write this: the new Besnard Lakes album is most good. Big songs, big guitars, but incredibly quiet and simple at times. To me, it kind of sounds like if the Pumpkins were a little more indie and a little less pompous (don't get me wrong, they did pompous well... until recently). Check it out if you have the time. After the jump find a sample from the album.
Shoddily produced and weirdly spoken by Drew Pascoe
Stories by Nicholas Fiscina, Alina Gotcherian, Jonathan Moore and Drew Pascoe
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There was a point years ago when it seemed as though the Wu-Tang legacy was dying out. Many of the artists had released more solo records, but nothing that had anyone talking. Then 8 Diagrams was released in 2007.
The album was not without its flaws. In fact, it had many. But with RZA’s genius on "The Heart Gently Weeps" and others, it was clear that the Clan still had something in the tank.
Yet it seems that recently the Wu has been in the headlines for beef more than music. GZA’s absurd G-Unit attacks overshadowed an otherwise decent album. Then things came to a head with Raekwon and Joe...
Bitchin’ Kitchen Food Network Launch Party
KOKO | Opus Hotel
March 23, 2010
Nadia G and the Bitchin' Kitchen crew rocked KOKO, Italian-style, with music spun by DJ FRIGID and classic canzoni performed by Marco Calliari.
For more photos of the event, click here.
Bitchin' Kitchen airs on Food Network Canada April 1st @ 11pm EST. Watch it!
...The longest relationship I have been in to this day has been only 16 months and that is being generous. I believe punk rock to be my first love, my family to be my undying love and strength and Henry Rollins to be my future husband.
Realistically, especially now that I have finally seen him speak, I can say that my standards are adequately high and that there IS in fact a man out that not only meets those standards, but surpasses them. It has been a long time since I first listened to Black Flag. Ten years in fact. Many things, including my taste and standards in...
Found this the other day, and have been digging it with two trowels. Band is called Coloração Desbotada, EP is called 'Eu, eu mesmo e os vários beijos cafeinados.' They're a Brazilian shoegaze/punk band. Google it, and check out their MySpace here. Also, check out the new Beard Of The Week at CJLO's magazine page!
Trying to get back into the habit of blogging. Today's show was a bit of a smorgasbord, but I liked it. Little bit of Gonjasufi, litte Caribou remix, little Georgio Moroder, little Beach House, little Besmond Lakes... it was good. I'll probably post it up on the podomatic site on Wednesday, when I can get the recording from the station. Until then, check out some older episodes! Always good for the soul.
UPDATE: The episode can be downloaded here.
This week's beard comes recommended from none other than CJLO's own distinguished program director/host of The Phantastiq Cypha, Doc Holidae. When trying to sell me on this particular beard, the only thing he had to say was "neck beard." Yes, this week's edition is the premier of neck beards on BOTW!
Produced by Drew Pascoe, read by Erica Fisher
Stories by Jonathan Moore, Alina Gotcherian, Jose Espinoza
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What's up everybody!?! This is Draga here, bloggin' on behalf of the So Real Cru! We just recently finished up our 2nd show on the AIR and so far everything has been great. The feedback we've recieved has been positive and more and more people are tunning into our show. During our show, we try to play a minimum of 3 songs and 1 out of the 3 is always from a local artist/group. If you're a musician or part of a band or know a musician/band and what your song on the RADIO hit us up at SOREALRADIO@GMAIL.COM or TWITTER.COM/SOREALRADIO ... WE'D LOVE TO SUPPORT YOUR MUSIC!! Next, seen that our show has just begun, we are still updating and setting up everything in order to facilitate interaction with our listeners. In other words, the links to our...
Attention ignorant jerks: compared to what’s about to go down, Rock Band’s masturbatory displays are for your little cousin. Religious beliefs are gonna be suspended. Puppies ‘ll look ugly, Al Gore’s gonna apologize. Think I’m talking about the apocalypse? Fuck you: that’s in 2012.
I’m speaking about the upcoming CJLO Battle of the Bands – an occasion that separates the true heroic jerks from the jerk-offs, those who will go on to cut quality music versus those who’ll be in their mid-forties cutting mom’s bushes.
...
Go ahead and Google Interracial Love Triangle. You will find yourself referred to the Myspace profile of a self-described two-piece minimalist garage rock band – as well as a video that features a clip from the Jerry Springer show, in which Springer addresses the controversy of interracial love. “We promote love in our music and this clip saddens us very deeply,” says Matt Smith. Their music plays out with heavy riffs, raunchy guitars and driven vocal cries. One wonders if the love is in the resonance of the salad and popcorn bowls the band calls their drum kit?...
I’ve never seen Electric Six in concert. Well, not until March 11 at Sala Rossa, but I mean before that. I, like many other young romantics who have never taken out a student loan and are bohemian and free spirited enough to let (that’s right, like ALLOW) their parents pay their rent, tend to remember soundtracks to various relatively insignificant events. Or maybe mostly the soundtracks to events that make entertaining stories, thereby impressing or charming those around you, be they friends, acquaintances or urban Montreal residents as a whole (aka Red Mass). Not so...
Curtis was back in the news this week discussing his new European club influenced album Black Magic. So I thought I’d take this opportunity to map out the reason his best album since Get Rich was his worst performance on the charts to date. Back in 2002, 50 was the hottest thing in the streets. He was this ominous figure who survived nine gun shots. He was buzzing in the streets with Wanksta, and he had Eminem and Dr. Dre co-signing him. "Then In Da Club" came out and the music world was turned upside down. By the time Get Rich or Die Trying dropped a few months...
Hi GANG! The podcast, henceforth, shall be available at http://acetategratified.podomatic.com. The first three episodes are up and streaming and downloadable. Visit often!
If you prefer, you can subscribe via iTunes or RSS. There are links on the right side of the podcast page to do so. Automatic Acetate! What could be better? (food is better)
Recorded and Produced by Drew Pascoe
Stories written by Gareth Sloan, Sophia Loffreda, and David Adleman
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If you were on Twitter or any hip hop blog last Thursday night there was no avoiding it. The moment so many people have been clamouring for ever since So Far Gone dropped finally arrived. Drake’s first single was now making rounds online. The question was: did it live up to the hype? The curiosity to hear the song was there. Blog sites were feeling the heavy traffic, and within 30 minutes Drake became a Trending Topic on Twitter. Not to mention that one song completely overshadowed Fabolous’ long-delayed...
My walk to "Le Salon Vert” was an interesting one.
Walking on upper St. Laurent, being distracted by all the really cheap Indian restaurants, my senses were cut off by a mass group of interesting people gathered outside a gallery exploding with indie music and laser lights. For a brief moment I thought to myself that this concert might actually be pretty exciting, with all the glimmer and interesting-looking people.
Unfortunately, this awesome venue was not the Green Room. I continued walking down the street and then I...
Beard Of The Week is a column of life, music, people, and their beards. Each week Lachlan Fletcher of The Subplot and Unabridged will give you a great beard and shed some light on its significance, hopefully helping both the bearded and unbearded alike down the road to enlightenment.
Scott Niedermayer
Read by Corentine Rivoire
Produced by Drew Pascoe
News package by Emily Brass
Stories written by Jose Espinoza and Corentine Rivoire
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"You have now tuned into SO REAL RADIO!"
HMM! what to say?
Hello Blogging World!
I am your soon to be fearless leader Brandon C. Thunderbolt (Thunderbolt? What? Exactly!) and i am glad to announce the beginning of the end of the end's end of the radio world. What? Exactly! My co-host Sarah L and i have got on-board the awesome station that is CJLO and gladly bring to you the jaw dropping ear canal bulging awesomeness that is SO REAL RADIO. Where we shall be exposing the world and it's malfunctions to you on a silver platter of wtf! Every Tuesday from ...
To all Cool Cats of the disc siftin’ record liftin’ vinyl retrieving age. I know most of you go loopy for obscure Jazz riffs and rare funk recordings. If you are only beginning to discover the beauty in what lies beneath those tried and true hip-hop favourites than this would be a good time to sit down and listen to the original tracks that of the most, and least respected, hip hop artists have dabbled in order to create the funk-Jazz-Rock and other types of fusion. Where are the beats procured? I have dug superficially this time to procure 5 excellent tracks for a more refined ear to hear. The...
Colin Moore, local Montreal acoustic up and comer will be on the show LIVE tomorrow talking about his new album and being a part of Montreal Busking. Tune in to listen for a chance to win his new CD.
Hi folks, no show last week due to bureaucratic dealings between the station and university. It was lots of fun. Back this coming Monday with a mostly Canadian show due to an ongoing SOCAN audit.
Talk to you then.
I never gave Ludacris a second thought when he first entered the game.
When Back for the First Time dropped in 2000 I was less than impressed. "What’s Your Fantasy" was a hit but there was nothing impressive about him. When Word of Mouf was released a year later I saw that he had enough, at least in terms of radio capability, to stick around for a while.
Nevertheless, he was unproven as a true MC in my eyes. It wasn’t until Release Therapy in 2006 that I began seeing the maturing and growth of not just someone who can make hit songs,...
The atmosphere at La Tulipe was flowing with energy as everyone was so excited to see Renan Luce. An indie rock singer from France, Luce made musical love to an audience of not only Quebecers, but to also a large number of visitors from France. I spoke with a couple from France, who proudly proclaimed that they had seen Renan Luce perform once in the past and that he has toured Montreal four times already. For me, this concert was truly an experience as I was most probably the only anglophone in the audience. What I found funny was...
Starting this Tuesday at 11 am, All You See Is will be adding to the dope hip hop already being broadcast on CJLO every week. You can check this blog for updates about the show, as well as www.allyouseeis.blogspot.com for the updates about the show as well as other content.
Follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/allyouseeis
Beard Of The Week is a column of life, music, people, and their beards. Each week Lachlan Fletcher of The Subplot and Unabridged will give you a great beard and shed some light on its significance, hopefully helping both the bearded and unbearded alike down the road to enlightenment.
Samuel Beam,
of Iron & Wine
A short attention span can be a wonderful thing sometimes. The internet is a meta-world where links upon links can take you into under-explored sub-topics. This week I "stumbled on" paleofuture.com, the site that proficiently asks, "What ever happend to...?" I remember my computer science class in Grade 10, where Windows 95 was the greatest thing ever, and BBS boards were the proto-Facebook/torrent share/forum venue for the secretly extraverted introvert. Our parents worried ceaselessly about our Super Nintendo overusage. The teacher in my aforementioned class told us that in 20 years' time, all of our personal information and cash, especially, would be help on tiny plastic cards you could fit in your wallet. I actually argued the point, saying no one would ever be so stupid as to let...
If you speak to someone who has worked with Vince Russo over the last few years, particularly someone who had worked with him in years past, then your likely to hear about how he is changed man. I’ve been told this by some of his peers who I have spoken to, but I had nothing to take their word by, nor to disbelieve their word by. I’ve never met Vince Russo but like many of you I have heard or read...
On a cold February night where Montreal found warmth in the Habs’ come-from-behind win over the Boston Bruins, Misstress Barbara took to the stage of Club Soda and delivered a stellar performance following local act Winter Gloves. Hailing from similar backgrounds, Misstress Barbara and Winter Gloves both originated as individual projects using minimal equipment; now both have joined the often unfulfilling ranks of live bands. Mind you, Sicilian-born Misstress Barbara or Barbara Bonfiglio’s 15 years experience as an international club DJ hasn’t hampered the development of her new project, ‘Girls on a Ducati’ from...
Beard Of The Week is a column of life, music, people, and their beards. Each week Lachlan Fletcher of The Subplot and Unabridged will give you a great beard and shed some light on its significance, hopefully helping both the bearded and unbearded alike down the road to enlightenment.
Rick Rubin
Good show. Tired show, but good show. Black Mountain, Japandroids, Dirty Beaches, Them Dirty Vultures were some highlights. Couldn't get the show uploaded tonight, but hopefully tomorrow I can get it going.
UPDATE: The show can be downloaded here
In search of flamboyant avant-garde on a Sunday morning, I am scouring the pages at thewire.co.uk for their incredibly informative podcasts (look for Adventures in Modern Music). David Keenan seems the man about town in the world of The Wire. Free Folk, New Weird America, Hypnagogic pop: these are all his contributions to the practice of genre naming and getting to decide which artists get to be lumped into those categories.
David Keenan is the owner of the Glasgow label, record store, and distributor Volcanic Tongue, which Wikipedia says is concerned mostly with "free folk, psych, Japanese underground, noise, avant-garde, free jazz, blues, experimental, garage punk/DIY, minimal synth, drone, Industrial, sound poetry, prog, american primitive, private...
Love, Peace and Nat Launi for VP Social!
Download this weeks show and hear what she has to say:Feb 9th Blog Nation
-VOTE FOOL!
Here's how; from expert David Siscoe.
Musicians are getting crafty to help the victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake.
Some of the cool items are... a Fender Stratocaster decorated by Conor Oberst and a skateboard decorated by Cedric Bixler-Zavala from Mars Volta
ll items are going to be auctioned off on March 15th.
Wanna check it out? Go to http://craftsforacause.tumblr.com/
Ok, put your cappuccino down for a sec. It's probably your third one today, right? Riiiiiiiight!
Here's a better idea for a nice energy boost: a trip to a winter wonderland, literally 1.5 hours from Montreal. Check out the poster below and/or hit me up for more details.
The sort of stuff you can expect to hear on my show, plus a few outstanding oddities.
Read by Erica Fisher, Produced by Drew Pascoe.
Stories by Alina Gotcherian, Nicholas Fiscina, Corentine Rivoire
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Here are the links covered throughout the show:
The only good thing I've seen come from the wars in the Middle East.
Jamie Hewett's cartoon of Lou Reed was leaked on the internet.
What do you think??
Lou Reed can be heard on their new album "Plastic Beach" that will be released on March 8th, 2010
Click and Enjoy (The Cudi song is hot)
Love Peace and SPBGOES.com
Feb 2nd Blog Nation Show Download
Jared Evans-Look at me the Same (Prod by Ratatat)
If you, like most, love the Superbowl commercials and get super pissed off that you can't see them during the big game... Here are a few websites to check out!
This site has the top ten S.B. commercials of all time.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35174030/ns/business-business_of_super_bowl_...
This one has most of them from 1969 to last year.
Note: I believe that come next Monday morning... you will see 2010's S.B. commercials too!
http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/
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A video of The Love Police (Forgive the German subtitles…es sei denn, Sie sprechen Deutsch).
Thanks to everyone who showed up to the CASE Reading at Trois Minots last Thursday. It was pretty fantastic; good music, good literature, good beverages. Indeed, a most successful evening. Make sure to listen over the next few weeks as we air some of the great content we accrued.
Hi folks,
Tonight's a dance party. That's it. Nothing more. How could it go wrong?
UPDATE: download the show here.
Hey...
If you are as intrigued as I was to see the trailer from Animal Collective's film ODDSAC... click on the link below!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H48VtETngA
Cheers!
Check out booyapictures.com for some funny stuff or search em on youtube (I'm guessing you don't need the youtube link, if you do then wow!)
Love Peace and Boo Ya Pictures
Click here to download the entire show for Jan 26th
Re-up the i-pod below...
A-trak Ft. Drake- Loonies to blow
Lil Wayne Ft. Eminem-Drop the World
Boo Ya Pictures- It Ain't Easy
Mike Posner Ft. Big Sean- Speed of Sound
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As I promised on the last show, I have chosen a few of my favorite independent news sources to share with you:
The Nation
Slate Magazine
The Onion
Rue Frontenac
Adam Curtis: The Medium and the Message
The Guardian
Science Blips
Anti-War.com
Al Jazeera English
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Today's show is packed full of goodness du Canada: new Caribou (!), Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, and more. Plus: The Scorpions are breaking up, and we will grieve accordingly.
See you there.
UPDATE: The podcast can be downloaded here.
Hi everybody,
Good news! I've decided to finally start podcasting the show on a weekly basis. Check out www.subplot.podomatic.com every week if you miss the show.
Today we're covering our session with Ilona Martonfi, a highly respected figure of Montreal's literary culture. Make sure to listen, as we also had a great chat with Ilona during her reading in which she really opened up her history and creative process. It was a moving experience, and we all look forward to sharing it with radioland.
Lachlan
This picture encompasses the attitude of the election.
Little-known candidates were exploited to turn a small election into tidbit and catnip for the media and political elite.
The election was hijacked on both sides by reckless thugs who brought this normally democratic process to a mockery of a United States Senate seat. Instead of choosing a representative in the Upper Legislative Chamber, the People's Republic of Massachusetts elected an 'idea' which will only fuel the ridiculous partisan fight promulgated by the elites to keep the thinking minds busy on unimportant issues.
Recorded in CJLO Studios on January 20, 2010 by Nav Pal
Stories read by David Adelman.
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CJLO News January 20, 2010
So if you are as curious as I am to hear Thom Yorke of Radiohead co-hosting on a radio show... checkout the podcast by clicking the link below...
Muse, Jay-Z and Gorillaz are headlining the Coachella fest...
So, if you plan to take a road trip to California to see this awesome music fest.Check out the their website for more info!
Unabridged will be at a CASE poetry and short story reading on Thursday, January 28th. Make sure to come down and listen to the fantastic authors or read your own material!
Worst case scenario you can make small talk with Bassam, who will love it. LOVE IT.
See you there.
Get your 2 step on......Click N Download
Nipsey Hussle-Return of The Swag
Dan Black Ft. Kid Cudi-Symphonies
The Kickdrums Ft. Big Pooh-Impatient
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Hello good friends
Tonight's show was all about fantastic warm nice full immersive music. Some drone, some slow synth pop, some shoegaze. It was a great, speaker-seizure-inducing time. Please check out the playlist for some fantastic artists, especially Zikr, Tim Heckel and Aidan Baker & thisquietarmy. Some good Canadian talent and some good friends reside on tonight's tracklisting and , as always, independant music needs your support. Google them up and check out what they're up to. Heckel is on tour, I know, and if you live in the northeastern US check him out when he stops by your place of residence.
Thanks for reading/listening/being an audience to my media.
Lachlan
Recorded in CJLO Studios on January 15, 1010
Read by Erica Fisher, Produced by Drew Pascoe
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CJLO News January 15, 2010
JMac, Jackie Mac, JBones, JBag, JBalls, Ginger Sunrise, etc.
This is so crazy.
We're on the air with Unabridged. And blogging. At THE SAME TIME! My grandmother never would have thought it was possible.
Multimedia is the FUTURE
Nay... IT IS THE NOW
Bassam says he's out there. And he wants to go out for drinks. And he says it's businesslike.
Also: Jessica!
So I'm just sittin', spaced out on my computer chair this one time and this idea hits me. Money is the root of all evil, but if one could amass enough of it, they could then throw off the whole fiat system by destroying all of it at once, thus causing a massive deflation(economically speaking). What percentage of total wordly worth that is, I have no idea. In someone-who-doesn't-know-what-they're-talking-about terms, I'd say we'd need around 40% of all the moneys everwhere. It could be less. 30%? I mean come on 30%, not only is that less than half, it's less than a third. Some would call it roughly a third. I call it peanuts.
This wasn't the idea that struck me. What struck me was that there would probably be some (albeit not numerous in number)...
Produced and read by Lachlan Fletcher in CJLO Studios.
Stories written by David Adelman and Katie Seline
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CJLO News - January 13, 2010
Haiti has been shocked by the severity of yesterday's earthquake. Needless to say, resources are needed to restore the country to a sustainable condition.
The International Association for Human Values is an international humanitarian and educational NGO dedicated to enhancing the quality of life through its various development projects.
We can do our part in easing the suffering of the Haitian people by making a donation here.
Let's not let this be another Katrina...Let's join hands and help.
Click and enjoy friends!
Love Peace and Gucci Mane!
Gucci Mane-I'm the Shit (DJ Benzi Remix)
Drake-Successful (unreleased verse)
Gucci Mane- Frowny Face (Douster Remix)
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If you want to know about a loved one in Haiti contact:
The Red Cross at 1-800-387-3124 or
The Haitian Consulate in Montreal at 514-499-1919
To make a donation go to www.worldvision.ca
My thoughts and prayers go out to you!
The December 28th show where we counted down our top 5 albums of 2009 is now up for you to listen to online.
Go check it out!
Here goes the the first shot at posting the download links.
Just click the song follow the link enjoy the show!!
Outtasight-Catch me if you can
Self Scientific-Designer Music
If anyone needed proof that Britain’s The XX are a full-blown phenomenon at this point, they’d do well to have attended their debut performance in Montreal, opening for labelmates and fellow Britishers Friendly Fires. Playing the opening slot of a pricey, early-evening midweek show, the very young group packed the not-inconsiderably sized Le National with seeming ease – complaints of scalpers hiking tickets into the...
Have we told you lately that we love you beautiful Montreal???
The Consortium aka DJ Beauregard von Teesdale and Ernest Lakelandèr are your Thursday night source for electro music on CJLO from 11-Midnight (Eastern Time).
The duo brings you tracks from all over the world in a range of RPM genres, including: NuJazz, Breakbeat, Drum & Bass, Electropop, House, Lounge, and even, Electrinternationalé.
The Consortium also promotes lots of Canadian talent, so make sure to tune in weekly and email Ernest and BVT with your comments or musical requests.
Stay stellar beautiful Montreal and thank you for permitting/allowing our tympanic indulgences.
Porcupine Tree is a band that makes you forget that there is a world outside the concert hall.
The reason? Well let me start off right away with the fact that Porcupine Tree is a phenomenal live act. I, like many, am not well versed when it comes to their music, so I enlisted the help of my good friend, Colin MacFarlane, who has been a loyal follower of Porcupine Tree, to accompany me on this melodic adventure and they did not fail to enthrall me.
They always kick off their concerts, as Colin told me, by playing their most recent...
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Ottawa post hardcore quintet For the Mathematics spent the afternoon at the CJLO studios July 23, 2005 to record 5 songs, 3 of which were brand spankin’ new. The session took a long time to record, and the reason was that 2/5 of the band didn’t show up…turns out Clayton and James, who were driving separately (due to their van being out of commission, the guys were traveling in 2 cars), ended up at the right civic number for the station, but on Sherbrooke EAST…not WEST....
Richmond, VA’s Engine Down dropped by château CJLO July 31, 2004, a Saturday morning, at 10am…no joke. That’s dedication, people. Funny story, this was the first sorta promotional thing Lookout! Records ever did with the band (it was a couple months before their new album, their first for Lookout! was to be released). Our pal Erin over at Lookout! (sidenote: she's also part of the awesome Bratmobile) managed to just catch them before they crossed the border into Canada, where their cellphones woulda...
Toronto’s death disco post punk quintet controller.controller rolled into the CJLO studios on a dark Saturday evening, October 30, 2004, to record 4 songs for Hooked on Sonics. One of the easiest sessions we ever had to record, they came in, set up, and ran through all four songs in no time, with no extra takes (we found out afterwards that they...
Ex-Dirtmitts frontwoman, Natasha Thirsk brought her new tunes to CJLO September 30, 2005. Working under the name Catlow and featuring Brent and Kevin of the Salteens backing her up, Natasha was in town for the Boompa Records Pop Montreal showcase, continuing our streak of locking down practically every Boompa band for a...
Vancouver spazzy poppy post-punk quintet Cadeaux breezed into the CJLO studios April 22, 2005. Awesome kids, we taught ‘em some French, discussed New Wave Cola, and marveled at the “Woot!” sign on the back of their van, courtesy of Devon. Katie also taught us the meaning of “Degrassi Hi-Five”. Awwww, these kids were swell, we miss ‘em already…
After the session I headed home to catch some Z’s before the show…next thing I know, I wake up at 2am, well after the show. Sigh....
I won’t lie, as I made my way over to Club Soda for this particular round of performances; I made a somewhat mischievous promise to myself that I would hear no Ska music that evening. A lofty goal, given that the show was headlined by none other than Streetlight Manifesto, one of the most popular bands left in the floundering North American Ska scene. However, my interest in the show had absolutely nothing to do with upward guitar strumming or horn sections and had everything to do with the monstrous Bad Religion meets Dillinger Escape Plan sound of New Bedford, Massachusetts’...
The odd thing about The Planet Smashers is that I know they're a great band and I know I'll enjoy the show, but I never go see them. My guess is that it’s been at least 6 years since the last time I saw them. The thing that sticks out in my memory about that last time is that it seemed like I and my friend were the only two people in the audience who weren't dancing. Well this time I was flying solo, so take a guess how many people there were standing still…
Me not dancing isn't anything against The...
Flogging Molly has a very large fan base, especially in Montreal. The concert was sold out mid-day of the show and fans of this Irish punk band were lined up outside Metropolis an hour before doors were scheduled to open. Not only is Flogging Molly one of the most entertaining bands to see live, but they have this uncanny talent for picking the best opening bands. This year there were two very different bands that opened for good ol' Floggy and both were insanely good!
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This is the fifth time I’ve attempted to begin this Street Dogs review with some kinda hyperbolic statement about how the show blew my mind and how Foufs is the perfect venue for a punk show and how the Street Dogs revolutionize street punk in 2009 but really? Who wants to read that? Not every show has to be mind-blowing or revolutionary to be good, and believe you me, this show was GOOD…except for one teency little programming snag.
Until about...
Wasting no time on hyperbole, I’m just gonna jump right to the quotable: The World/Inferno Friendship Society skirt the line between innovation and outright inspiration and their entirely unique brand of orchestral, cabaret proto-punk may very well bring new life to a genre rife with cliché and stale personalities (and if you disagree you are wrong.)
Being an Inferno fan for quite some time now, I was more than a little stoked to hear they would be making the trip up to Montreal to finally play the city (and indeed Canada...
Of all the musical pairings I've seen on Montreal stages these past few years, not many have been as inspired as this one: a collision of two of Canada's most enduring punk bands, both of whom have a penchant for twisted humor and social commentary - and surprisingly labyrinthine tunes. With the unenviable task of opening up for two long-standing punk institutions, locals Grand Trine did the sensible thing: they kept it short. They couldn't have been on longer than 15 minutes, and that was about the right timeframe in which to best showcase their brand of...
Now let me just start this review by saying I was slightly worried while going in to the latest Montreal appearance from Manitoba’s Propagandhi (and that worry had nothing to do with the overzealous bouncer at Club Soda taking the batteries out of my portable recorder for fear that I would bootleg the show…although I was then half inclined to go buy new batteries and bootleg it on principle…but that’s neither here nor there.) Rather, in the months leading up to the show I experienced the following interaction more times than I can count with...
The constant, hours-long rain spell that befell Montreal did little to dampen the spirits of those who showed up for the Riverboat Gamblers/Rancid/Rise Against show at Parc Jean Drapeau, on Ile St. Helene. The crowd appeared to be predominantly youthful and seemed eager for the proceedings to start and jockeyed for position in front of the stage well before the start of the show.
The Riverboat Gamblers had the tough task of waking up a largely fed-up crowd with their brand of punk rock, pulling out multiple cuts from the newly-released ...
The rain. The kids. The runny make-up. It wouldn't be a Warped Tour without some acknowledgment about the fact that I am fucking old in relation to the Warped crowd. As they continue to be 16 and wear tight jeans, I realize the fact that my time as an attendant is quickly coming to an end. After swearing up and down that last year was my final year, promises of free entry, good times and a chance to interview some people I really admired me meant that I'd be getting into the (guyliner-dominated, severely terribly-dressed) ring once more to tango with the throngs of eternal teenagers and see some sets from bands that I both love and hate while...
My admirably apt associate summed up the Warped Tour 2009 experience pretty well, so I won’t bore you with a second recounting of the day’s events. I also won’t bother with the obligatory “this was my sixth and last Warped Tour because I am OLD” spiel that encapsulated my reviews of the last two years of everyone’s favorite summer cash suck. Mostly since A) it probably isn’t and B) I’m not old...not yet, and in fact Warped Tour 2009 actually made me feel a lot younger than I’ve felt in a good long while (not like the jump from 15 to 22 is all that impressive…if I were 36 maybe that statement would mean more, but I’m gonna run with...
Around mid-to-late 2007, Florida’s own Against Me! were burning up the charts and landing on seemingly everybody and their mother’s “Best of 2007” lists with their major label debut New Wave. This sudden hotness of Florida’s folk-punk elite inevitably resulted in many assumptions (or accusations, depending on who you ask) as to who “the next Against Me!” would be. The forerunners of this ham-fisted contest were undeniably New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem and their fellow Floridians Fake Problems (and Texas’ O Pioneers who, despite being the closest to AM! sonically...
The last time I saw the Raveonettes was when they were touring behind their sophomore full length, Pretty in Black, with LA noisepop trio Autolux. While I’ll admit I went primarily for Autolux (who are probably, and pretty much a well known fact around these CJLO halls, my favourite band currently), having the Raveonettes on the bill was an added bonus, as I was a fan of their Jesus and Mary Chain knock off songs. It was pretty much a dream show for anybody who likes their pop songs covered in white noise, fuzz, feedback, and the occasional droney rhythms, and the Raves were spot-on that night -...
If you’ve ever tuned into my show, you’re probably well aware of my love for Sugar, Husker Du, and all things Bob Mould related (loud guitars? Check. Huge power pop hooks? Check…moving on…) While Mould got the bulk of adulation for Husker Du and for his successful post-Du career as a solo artist and as a “modern rock” chart topper with the noisy power pop guitar maelstrom that was Sugar (arguably my all time fave band and one of the, if not the, band that took me down this “indie rock” path…yay, wasting time with music…sigh), Grant Hart was always regarded as the “...
The thing about side-project bands is that they are always a gamble the first time around…and when gambling, the outcome can go one of three ways: win big, lose bad or come out even. The latter is how it was last night at the Green Room when Nickel Eye pulled into town to kick off their North American tour. Given the fact that their debut album, The Time of the Assassins, will only be released on Jan 27th (and I haven’t had the chance to hear an advanced copy either), it was -30° outside and the show hadn’t been overly...
Months ago, I found out about the young singer with an unusual name. The Youth Novels CD arrived at CJLO and I was not very impressed after the initial listen. I had a feeling there was something to her judging by how her name appeared on charts and lists I came across. In a discussion with a colleague, he mentioned her live performances are "off the hook." When the opportunity came to see her at Club Soda on February 4, I took it in the hopes of learning what the big deal about ...
The Tom Fun Orchestra and Amanda Mabro at le Petit Campus was a wild and wonderful experience! The show started a tad late, after I hurriedly shuffled upwards through the blizzard at an incline of 45 degrees up the steep and slippery slope of St. Laurent, but the waiting period provided a chance for me to get the best seat in the house: a quaint little table with 2 chairs for me and my photographer...
The last time I saw The Von Bondies, I had my hair cut like a Hanson brother and Miley Cyrus was merely annoying, not an alleged racist. Ah yes, The Von Bondies show on January 17th at Café Campus really solidified my thinking that 2008 would kick some serious ass; the band had an incredible amount of energy and executed a flawless set that didn’t lack soul, inspiring this young lady to dance like a maniac all through the night. That being the case, my expectations were rather high for the band...
It’s always an unfortunate circumstance when a writer needs to review two shows right after one another since there are only so many creative juices to be spread around. That having been said, I apologize to the Street Dogs for phoning in most of their review because I really need everything I’ve got to adequately describe how blown my mind was by The Gaslight Anthem… although, in all fairness, if your show was as good as theirs it wouldn’t be a problem. Don’t feel bad though…I’m almost certain that if Kurt Cobain and Joe Strummer...
I was excited to see Serena Ryder live. I knew a handful of her songs but not much else about her.On the off chance that you don’t either, Ryder’s from Ontario, just outside of Peterborough. She grew up listening to the Beatles and Leonard Cohen. During her show, she told the audience that she was an AM Radio “kind-of-girl.”
The setting. Picture it: Le Cabaret du Musée Juste Pour Rire. It’s a fairly small venue and there was just enough room to move around on the floor. The...
Il Motore, despite the slightly sketchy location, is well equipped to put on a rather good show. Being fairly new to the concert-going scene, I (yet again) showed up obscenely early, once more misinterpreting “doors open at 8” as “show begins at 8”. Alas. On the bright side, I definitely had the best seat in the house: a front row table all to myself. After waiting for a good hour (and a half), the opening act hit the stage. I had seen their name on the poster outside and wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Dead...
I walked to the Metropolis. This is no normal feat, because springtime in Montreal is really February (a.k.a) icicle hell in disguise. However, March 18th was an exception, the weather was amazing. I took this as a sign from the musical Gods and automatically assumed that Bloc Party would put on a good show. Good old Apollo was working his magic that night because both Bloc Party and opening band Holy Fuck were out of this world.
Tokyo Police Club’s concert last night… what can I say? Not much. Seriously the problem I had with them is one that I am finding I am having with most indie rock bands these days. The word I would use to sum it all up: generic.
The night started with Ruby Coast, the opening act. They put on an OK performance, meaning they were more or less pleasant, doing nothing to really stimulate or get anyone...
Late March is always a time for Montreal to shrug off the last of its winter blues, but this is always signaled by the odd day or two of freakishly cold weather…winter’s final death rattle. So it was in a cumbersome winter jacket, layered with a sweater and t-shirt for good measure that I bustled my way down into the hot, crowded depths of Les Saints on March 30th to catch Friendly Fires playing their first show in Montreal.
When one first...
April 9th was a night of firsts for me. I went to Cabaret Du Musee to see Mates of State and Black Kids, two acts that I had never heard music from. I got to the venue early enough to be surprised by Sunbears' performance. They were the opening act for the Mates and Kids. The Florida duo had an interesting set and prepared the audience for the night.
They say the third time is the charm. This was the third chance for me to see Black Kids...
Oh Murder by Death, I don’t get to see you that often but when I do it’s just like coming home (or it would be if my father was a bootlegger during prohibition and my mother worked at a bordello…which is decidedly NOT the case… but you catch my meaning.) A good friend of mine once described the band as incredibly competent musicians who are obsessively engrossed in a very specific genre fiction (in this case the classic western but if John Wayne fought zombies instead of stereotyped Native Americans.) While I...
In 1999, a very trendy, easy to listen to and easy to look at group was born. They even had a member named Bjorn…and Peter and John. On Monday, April 28th they came to Montreal with openers Chairlift.
The three piece electro rock group, based out of Brooklyn, New York, are best known for their song "Bruises" that was featured in a 2008 iPod Nano commercial. This was unknown to this...
This was the third time The Presets hit Montreal, after two albums and two previous shows it was nice to see how many people were lined up for the show. When I go to a concert, the first thing I always take note of is the crowd. Though it may sound strange it really does help you figure out what to expect for the rest of the night. Everyone is there for the same reason; to see a band they like perform live. For the Presets and The Golden Filter, the crowd was a mesh made up of all types of people. From...
You may not remember MTV's Spring Break 1996, but I do. I remember it because it happened back when every CD I owned was a favourite, and I knew all their track lists by heart. The moments that sunk in during this time will stay with me forever. Like sitting in front of the TV watching the live performance of "Glycerin" on MTV, with a rain-soaked Gavin Rossdale heroically standing strumming his Fender Jazzmaster in the middle of a monsoon. He delivered his masterpiece to an equally soaked...
I can easily say that this was by far the best concert I have been to in quite some time. The show was an overall hit. Though the crowd was fairly small, more people showed up than I expected. I really was convinced it was going to be a dead night due to the fact that Black Kids where playing with Mates of State that very same night. In the end it looks like I made the right choice by going to Late of the Pier and The Whip instead.
The night of the show I was extremely tired I had worked a long day and thought I was late...
Some people have a way of making you feel like an asshole - people who seem to use every ounce of their energy radiating good vibes and generally make every effort to be singularly awesome. Andrew Bird is one of those people. While his idiosyncratic brand of string-laden, densely layered indie-pop surely isn't to everyone's liking, his instrumental prowess, boundless energy and lyrical dexterity are, at the very least, noteworthy. By comparison, even impressive performers can seem ordinary.
Take openers...
This year's Osheaga music festival went off without a hitch.... well, with the exception of a headlining act cancelation, torrential rain and ankle deep mud. This didn’t stop concert goers from flocking to the island however, with Saturday night capping at a whopping 30,000 spectators. Having Coldplay round out the evening will have that effect.
I first attended Osheaga in its first year, and it was nothing to scoff at. However, mediocre line ups and overlapping schedules always made me think that I would never again pay to stand around waiting for the one or two bands I wanted to see within...
On Saturday, January 17th, I took the 55 bus through the frigid, negative-something weather, and wound up in front of Metropolis to be greeted by a swarm of black t-shirted, long haired fans -the tell tale signs of any self-respecting metal show.
Cradle of Filth, formed in 1991 and hailing from Suffolk, England, took the stage with their usual barrage of theatrics: a projection screen of flickering images rife with sexual, morbid, Satanic and Christian references, a dancing woman with industrial sparks spewing from her wrist, a...
Theory Of A Deadman is no one's favourite band. I'm glad I got that statement out of the way at the onset of this review, as I feel like it accurately describes the concert experience I recently flung myself into.
However, if Theory Of A Deadman is no one's favourite band and TOAD's a shitty copy of a...
Back in 1994 Cynic released their debut album, Focus, one of my favorite albums of all time, and one of the albums most important to the development of intelligent progressive metal. They are often credited as being the first band to successfully merge jazz fusion with death metal, and are without a doubt some of the most virtuosic musicians to ever grace the metal scene. But as is all too common for bands that make challenging and truly progressive music, the importance of what they had done was not understood until many years later....
Ah, Earthless, the perfect soundtrack for a frigid February night. All precise, pummeling, instrumental rock, erring more on the bong hit rather than acid trip side of psychedelic. Trekking out to see them somewhere in the wilds of Brooklyn in 2007 is one of my fondest memories from that year's CMJ festival, and I knew that if this show would be anything like that one, I was in for a treat. The night before that CMJ showcase, guitarist Isaiah Mitchell somehow seriously damaged his wrist, and yet the band still played a blistering, unbroken 45 minute set,...
Call me an old fogey, but I’ve been attending hardcore and pseudo-hardcore shows for close to a decade, spent many sweaty nights at L’X and Café L’Inco during my time, and have come to watch the scene somewhat closely, and during that time, I’ve noticed the degeneration of “the scene” (as the kids refer to it as) into a muddled mess of wayward children who care more about their bandanas and cool kicks (often looking like a terrible biker gang than true fans of the music they’re there to listen to.) Although this has been happening for years, Thursday night served as a reminder of the disintegration of a once-enjoyable genre of music...
On April 17th I threw on my well worn, black t-shirt bearing a lightning bolt down the front -a shirt that has survived countless brutal slams in the pit and has been soaked in buckets of other people’s sloppily spilt beer. Wearing this shirt out could only mean one thing: I was going to a metal show.
I shimmied my way through tons of metal fans and eventually planted myself by the stairs at CEPSUM. Sitting by the stairs during the show would allow me to witness numerous people tripping and sometimes falling while they attempted to navigate through the darkness as they traveled up or down...
On May 21st, seasoned metal veterans Testament played to a packed crowd at Metropolis, with openers Unearth. Watching a band with such a massive and age-diverse fan-base could only be compared to being devoured by a giant whale. In the belly of the pit, I weathered a sea of sloshing and moshing, horn-bearing metal fans. It was a rocky ride, and I was tossed about relentlessly amongst wave after wave of crowd-surfing, moshing, diving, spinning, kicking, punching, pushing, circling, and any other kind of enthused metal outburst. Yet I...
So maybe this one was a little late, but late is frequently better than never (and lets be honest here...late releases are something comic readers should be used to right now.) To make it up to you though, not only have we got some reviews of some of the best comic books to land in the month of February (New Avengers #50 and Eternals #8) from some of CJLO's best and brightest comic dorks, but we also have we have the hilariously jaded debut of "THIS MONTH IN THE X-VERSE!" That's right, curious what the X-Men were up to this month? ALL of them? Wanna know if Wolverine finally had that nose...
Every Wednesday, CJLO's resident comic dorks bring you the best in whats new and good in the world of comic books. However, since this is our first feature, we figured we'd throw you a bone with a ten point breakdown of the Marvel Comics Universe circa 2009 that may be necessary to understand some of the finer points of our rants...so, without further ado..
1. There was a Civil War amongst the Heroes that divided them into two factions.
a. Registered Heroes recognized by the US government - Mighty Avengers...
In anticipation of the mighty Mastodon returning to Montreal this May (brought to you in part by none other than CJLO RADIO), our very own harbinger of doom Brian Hastie (host of Countdown to Armaggedon) has laid down a little history lesson for those poor, unfortunate souls unfamiliar with the band's vibrant, nine year history. Read on...
The name Mastodon evokes images of a large, powerful beast lumbering through a wooded area to most. I should...
News that the latest Montreal appearance from CKY had been upgraded from Les Saints to Le National was good news to my ears. The band's brand of octave-pedal-abusing guitar heroics seemed at odds with the too-cool-for-school vibe that Saints often gives off, due to the venue's usual musical guests. Le National felt like a more appropriate venue to witness a band whose devoted fanbase are the very definition of hardcore and who would be sure to bring the venue to life via various mosh and dance moves, as they had in 2005 when they came to town touring behind ...
As I’m standing waiting for the bouncer of the Cabaret Juste pour rire to find my name on the guest list (with the typical, what kind of name is that, implying that my name looks retarded, which I know). A situation between said bouncer and one of the night’s performers occurred which I couldn’t help but burst out laughing at:
Performer: Hey I just want to add a name on the guest list.
Bouncer: Who the f**k are you?
P: I’m the guitarist...
I have been a big fan of Divine Brown since her debut CD was released a few years ago, when a copy of Love Chronicles arrived at CJLO. Since then, I have played her music steadily on my show and waited patiently for her February 20th Cabaret Du Musee concert.
I arrived at the venue to see opening act Sean Jones in the lobby meeting, greeting, posing and signing copies of his This Is Love CD. I did not wait long to get my copy signed. I...
If I were to tell you that I was so excited to be given the opportunity to see Raphael Saadiq in concert that I took out my old "Tony! Toni! Toné!" albums and starting dancing in my room like I was young again…that would be a bold faced lie. I was more curious than anything, as there are definitely more Raphael Saadiq enthusiast out there, namely my Co-Host Lady Oracle, who’s played a few songs from his new album...
Big Daddy Kane came to Montreal, twenty years after his last visit, on my birthday. I nearly didn’t go. I’ve had my share of rap artists landing in Montreal decades past their prime. I won’t name them now, but in the last few years a slew of rappers have performed here way too long after their hottest material. I’ve gone because the prices have been right, the chances of getting autographs were high and the sheer nostalgia still had enough to lure me.
The stars were in alignment on March 27. BDK was supposed...
So I went to the Toronto Comic Art Festival this past weekend. One of the guests was Kagan Mcleod. Dude does a wicked comic called 'Infinite Kung Fu' as well as amazingly beautiful pieces for the National Post. He's also getting well known in rap circles for his ‘History of Rap’ poster. I purchased the first incarnation in 2003 which had about 80 heads. The newest version has over 200, but on both sheets, the female rappers are few and far between. As someone who pays attention to the girlie rappers, I found the whole thing a little disheartening....
Leave it to K-os to come up with the idea of a “pay what you want” concert. I learned about it days ago and saw him playing video games with an E-Talk correspondent on the eve of the concert. I was thrilled when I found out I was one of the lucky CJLO staff that would see him at L’Olympia.
The last time I saw K-os perform was during the 2007 Concordia Orientation with Metric as the opening act. It was a short but sweet show. I felt that any K-os live, no matter how brief...
I am possibly the biggest Mark Ronson fan at CJLO, in Montreal and maybe in Quebec. I admire his production, his albums and his own radio show has been influential on me this year. His playlists are practically musical treasure maps. One night while listening to his show, he mentioned a group and played one of their tracks. Being a disciple, I paid attention to the group name and the track. Months later, the "Girls & Weather" arrived at the station and it is fitting that I get to review The Rumble Strips' debut CD.
Ronson...
Common Existence finds New Jersey’s Thursday at a crossroads: having been ditched by major label Island after their less-than-stellar studio album (2006’s A City By The Light Divided) and ending back up on their former home Victory Records, the band released a b-sides/rarities compilation in late 2007 entitled Kill The House Lights, and then last year dropped an EP with Japanese band Envy. The b-sides release showcased the driving, urgent rhythm that ignited what is arguably their best album, War All The Time, while the split with Envy showed a...
With three previous studio albums already under their belts, Australian death metal giants Psycroptic released their fourth this year on Nuclear Blast Records to a fan base that had a pretty good idea of what to expect from them: extremely high caliber musicianship and a certain captivating energy that set the band apart from many of their less dynamic contemporaries. On the first account, this year’s Ob(Servant) certainly isn’t lacking; on the second, however, it leaves fans to wonder what exactly happened to the inspiration behind the band’s tech death masterpiece, The Scepter of the...
I learned about The Knux weeks before their debut CD Remind Me in 3 Days was to be released in October 2008.
When I interviewed them hours before they would take the stage at Club Coda during Pop Montreal, one of my first questions (to break the ice and to get an understanding of where the brothers were coming from musically) was what they thought was a criminally underrated album. Unanimously, they replied with The Fugees The Score. That answer floored me because I did not believe that the album that launched the careers of Wyclef...
Yeah, baby. The CJLO Christmas Party!
If you happen to be the type of person that loves both music and short, numerical lists, then boy, do we have something for you! As part of the move to the Brand New CJLO.com, we've started to bring over all of the older magazine articles, incorporating them into the newness. Amongst the first to be migrated are the old year-end Staff Picks lists, representing the favrouite music of CJLO DJs past and present.
Check out these lists at http://cjlo.mtset.com/magazine/feature. We've got 5 up here, from 2004 straight through to 2008. Can you guess what bands and albums will make the cut for the 2009 Staff Picks? Challenge issued!
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“Hey, let’s do our Top Ten lists and post them on the website”. You figure that would be enough to send everyone scurrying to their keyboards and add to the avalanche of year-end lists that are fail-safe crowd favourites, if not the mark of lazy writing. So what happens when we’re too lazy to even do that? Well lure them with free alcohol.
So it was at the CJLO Christmas Party that I navigated through the crowd in search of fellow CJLO DJs to fill out their lists so that you can shop better before the year is over. Of course, given that...
The thing with lists, especially year-end ones, is that they undercut the obsessive passion of the music lovers. There's no true way around it, as any discussion will eventually boil down to inane nitpicking. That's why CJLO, as a whole, does not have a Top Ten list based on votes or anything remotely objective. Instead, we're throwing together individual staff picks from our motley crew of DJs, not to represent anything else but their true love for this year's music (mostly). Remember, these are not your ordinary music fans; they are willing to trek on a weekly basis to the depths of NDG just to immerse themselves in the music...
Once again, CJLO grew this year and if anything, it grew even more diverse judging by the staff picks below. Besides perhaps Ghostface Killah's Fishscale and Return To Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio, there weren't many albums that found themselves repeated often among the different lists. It's a testament both to the goldmine of releases this year and to the eclectic tastes of the boys and girls that entertain you night and day on the ol' dot com. Personally, I wasn't married to many records this year, instead opting to play a wider field...
As expected, CJLO’s third annual Staff Picks is a mixed bag of musical goodies from across the map. So much so that out of the thirty-one DJs who submitted their lists, no two #1 albums were alike. Of course, several of the year’s powerhouse releases resonated with the staff. Radiohead’s In Rainbows reigned as the most popular album, with The White Stripes’ Icky Thump, The Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible and High On Fire’s Death Is This Communion not too far behind. Other notables were CPC Gangbangs’ Mutilation Nation and ...
Well another year has come and gone and that means it’s once again time for the annual CJLO Magazine Staff Picks Round Up. It’s been an absolutely stellar year for music and our DJs here at CJLO have been eating it up. It seems Montreal’s own Wolf Parade may be the most represented band on this year’s lists, but New Brunswick, New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem, New York’s Vampire Weekend and Vancouver’s Bison B.C. and Black Mountain were also well liked by many. The differences between these artists speaks loads about our station and the variety we bring to the...
Playing Montreal for the first time in three years for the Suoni Per Il Popolo fest, NoMeansNo are perhaps Canada's greatest still-standing punk institution, a testament to the enduring partnership of its key members, brothers Rob and John Wright (along with estimable guitarist Tom Holliston, who joined the band in the early 90s following the departure of Andy Kerr), and the singularity of their sound. Their songs have spanned the breadth of many genres, touching on classic '80s hardcore, '70s hard rock, jazz, and psych, and their albums have varied...
Jimmy Smith, a one-man revolution in jazz, passed away on February 8th, 2005. Words cannot describe the singular impact that this man had on the history of modern music. Back in 1955, according to Ira Gitler, pianist Freddie Redd barged into the Blue Note offices in Manhattan with a "mouthful of something elses" about this guy in Philadelphia doing crazy things with the Hammond organ in jazz. This was a big deal at the time as the Hammond organ was the instrument of the church and gospel, and jazz was a secular "devil's music." Many thought that what Smith was doing was profane, especially considering...
So I'm thirteen years old, chilling out to Dark Side of the Moon in my parents' basement and generally being a weird little creep. Oddly, I don't gravitate towards the 7/4 cockrockery of "Money" or even the Oz-bait wail of "The Great Gig in the Sky" nearly as much as I do the eight-minute centerpiece "Us and Them", largely due to its soaring chorus, languorous pacing, odd spoken asides and lush arrangement. The key to that arrangement, of course, is Dick Parry's mournful sax wailing throughout. At that age, I'd never heard a jazz instrument used on a rock song in quite that way (as an...
Even though I'm a born and raised Montrealer, I have always had a special place in my heart for Brooklyn, New York. Memories of travelling to get there for shopping and visiting family are as vivid to me as if they happened yesterday. That said, I identify vicariously with any hip hop song or artist that makes reference to Brooklyn.
I have missed Santigold's previous Montreal performances and did not want to miss the June 4 show at Metropolis. In retrospect, I really must not have wanted to...
Right now the popular music scene has seen a revival of country and folk acts. Oddly enough, a few older punk rockers are making some interesting strives with the likes of Drag the River, Tim Barry, Saw Wheel, Wayne the Train Hancock & Hank Williams III leading the way. Ask anyone of them who have influenced their music, and I’ll bet dollars to donuts, they’ll say Steve Earle. One of the greatest living songwriters on the planet, Steve Earle was in town on July 9th to bring not only his...
It is often hard to come up with the right words to describe heavy metal music. The words 'crushing', 'brutal' and 'dark' are often conjured up from the heads of writers… they are the go-to choices that evoke cheap imagery and simple cop-outs. Sometimes, though, these words are necessary evils that genuinely reflect the music, and in The Devil You Know's case, these words also manage to reflect the package as a whole. The word dark, in particular, matches the thematic qualities of the album.
Heaven and Hell (perhaps better known to...
Everything is Borrowed is the fourth album from Mike Skinner aka The Streets. I actually heard about The Streets last year through a guy I worked with. He gave me a copy of “The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living”, The Street's third album released in 2006. I immediately became a fan of this UK rapper and producer. I was excited to get my hands on his new album. It is definitely different from the last one. “The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living” had a Hip Hop sound. This album has more of a pop sound, mixed with rock and old school jazzy sound, it's a lot of different elements which...
So I'm sitting here with my headphones listening to what must be one of the most hyped projects of 2008/09. 5 years in the working, Sam Spiegel (related to Spike Jonze) and Ze Gonzalez (famous DJ) have rustled up the who's who of music, dead or alive: David Byrne, Seu Jorge, Karen O, ODB, Ghostface, Tom Waits, Kool Keith, Kanye, Lykke Li, Santogold, George Clinton, Z-Trip, etc. etc. etc. Basically, every conceivable niche represented by its respective master or artist-of-the-moment. Luckily, Spiegel and Gonzalez are very talented DJs and producers, and manage to pull together the huge array of sounds and...
As I got to Metropolis around 7:15 p.m., I noticed that the place was already packed. I still managed to get a decent spot not too far from the star that hung to the right venue wall. Around 7:30 the show got started with Devon Anthony (John Legend’s little brother) opening up for him. Anthony sounds a little like his older brother but with a different style; he has more of a dub reggae vibe mixed with a typical neo-, Chris Brownish R&B style. His songs were focused on acts in the bedroom and the women loved it. They especially loved when he took...
If anything, Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine must be applauded for his workmanlike ethic. The rather eccentric frontman/guitarist lay down the 'deth moniker earlier on in the millenium, only to decide to reform with new members for a pair of highly satisfactory albums (2004's The System Has Failed and 2007's United Abominations). These albums found Mustaine abandoning his desire to come up with "monster anthems"/hyper-accessible songs and instead become a veritable Memorable Riff Machine (patent pending). Both albums had great vocal melodies engaging songs...
I'm sure at one point or another, everyone reading this has been swayed by an alluring sticker on the front of an album. It may be something simple like a highlight of the singles, or a description of what the band sounds like. In truth, I'm all for these stickers when they tell me what the band sounds like, because if I'm going to throw hard earned money at something, I want to know what I'm going to be getting. So, when I was at CJLO and saw a sticker on the front of Corpus Christi's album, The Darker Shades of White, proclaiming that the album was "for fans of...
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I’ve been in love with Silversun Pickups since just before the release of Carnavas. I saw them for the first time at the 2007 CMJ Music Marathon in New York in the back room of Piano’s. An intimate setting in which it was next to impossible to get in. Buzz was growing, and the band was just on the verge of breaking as big as an indie band can break now a days.
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Phil (Bradley Cooper), Dr. Stu, (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galfianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) are back for a second outrageous outing with director Todd Phillips once again at the helm. The comedy sequel follows the familiar foursome as they travel to exotic Thailand for Stu'...
