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Friday, March 25th 2016
Hosted by Catlin Spencer
Stories by Emeline Vidal, Patricia Petit Liang & Catlin Spencer
Produced by Catlin Spencer
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LOCAL
by Emeline Vidal
Montreal mayor Denis Coderre is denying recent comments associating the city's mosques with islamic fundamentalism.
In the wake of the Brussels attacks, The mayor of Quebec City has warned that Montreal mosques could be considered hotbeds of radicalization.
According to CBC News, mayor Coderre promptly dismissed the statement, and affirmed that radicalization takes place mainly on the internet.
Coderre also urged not to use the recent events to resort to racial profiling.
NATIONAL
by Patricia petit Liang
Former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi has been acquitted of all charges following his sexual assault trial.
According to CTV News, Ghomeshi was accused of four counts of sexual assault and of choking someone.
Justice William Horkins made the decision on Thursday in a Toronto courthouse after more than a month in court.
Horkins claimed that there were issues concerning the credibility of the accusers and that the evidence suggested they did not seem as traumatized by Ghomeshi as they claimed to be.
INTERNATIONAL
by Catlin Spencer
Police in Belgium have made six arrests in relation to a major investigation into the attacks that hit Brussels on Tuesday.
According to BBC News, the identities of the suspects has not yet been released, nor their possible connection to the attacks that took 31 lives.
Early Thursday, Belgium admitted to making an error in ignoring warnings from Turkey last June over one of the suicide bombers, Brahim el-Bakraoui.
Both the Interior and Justice Ministers of Belgium offered to resign over the incident, but say the prime minister has refused to allow them.
Tonight on Champions of the Local Scene @ 6pm: Sugarface Nene chats with Marc-Antoine Bilodeau
Champions of the Local Scene spotlights artist Marc-Antoine Bilodeau, a 29-year-old resident from the south-shore of Montreal. Multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer who, at the age of 12, started playing drums and piano after hearing Phil Collins and Tony Banks' album A Trick of the Tail. Marc-Antoine has a music-concentrated academic background and has won many top-position competitions including winning best singer at "Emergenza" worldwide amateur contest in 2015.
Having been involved in many bands of all genres and founding alternative rock band "Dr.Raspberry" with his friend in 2009, Marc-Antoine is now working on his solo projects. Inspired by Frank Zappa's eclectic essence, Marc-Antoine plans on building an electronic-organic group that will execute his "hardest compositions" to date. He is currently unsigned and ready to expand his career.
Tune in at 6pm, to hear Beat the World's Sugarface Nene's profile of Marc-Antoine Bilodeau.
Wednesday, March 23rd 2016
Hosted by Sam Obrand
Stories by Catlin Spencer, Patricia Petit Liang & Saturn de Los Angeles
Produced by Catlin Spencer
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LOCAL
by Catlin Spencer
According to CBC News, the non-profit centre provides housing and services for fathers and their children, but will be forced to close if they cannot find the funding needed.
Maison Oxygene's director, Sarah Gaudet has been applying for financial aid from the government since 2012, but to no avail.
At the moment, five fathers and their children are staying at the centre, and Gaudet is hopeful that they will be able to obtain government help if they can stay open past April 1st.
by Patricia Petit Liang
Rob Ford, Toronto’s controversial former mayor, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 46.
According to The Globe and Mail, Ford lost his life after an 18-month struggle with pleomorphic liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer that forced him to withdraw from the election as mayor of Toronto.
Earlier this month, Ford’s family had launched getwellrobford.com, a website dedicated to collecting positive messages of support for him.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his condolences to Ford’s family, along with several other officials.
by Saturn de Los Angeles
Over 30 people are dead and dozens injured after attacks on the Belgian capital of Brussels.
According to BBC News, the attacks happened on Tuesday at a local subway station and the city's international airport.
While the hunt for the suspects continue, the Islamic State issued a statement claiming responsibility.
As world leaders expressed outrage, the Belgian government has raised its security level and is urging their citizens to remain calm.
METAL MARCH - UPCOMING METAL MOVIES!
Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You!
For this edition of METAL MARCH, Chris the Frog from CJLO's Sewer Spewer (Wednesdays at 1PM) runs down his top three must-see films with dark, heavy metal themes. Normal people beware!
Slave To The Grind: A Film About Grindcore
Slave to the Grind will be the first official documentary on grindcore music and extreme metal. Director Doug Brown started off interviewing bands in the Toronto area, but after raising almost $20,000 through Kickstarter, he was able to travel to different festivals like Maryland Deathfest, Obscene Extreme North America, and TerrorFest and interview members from Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, and Capitalist Casualties.
Most people think that grindcore is just one minute of screaming and fast drumming, but as Mark "Barney" Greenway of Napalm Death describes, "Grindcore can be the slowest, most painful thing ever, and it can be the most crazy, off-the-rails, falling-down-the-stairs, fast noise that you can imagine. Those are the parameters."
Doug Brown was able to get all the footage he needed, but now has to go through the lengthy process of editing. The movie is set to be released in December 2017.
Hair Metal Shotgun Zombie Massacre: The Movie
This movie sounds very ridiculous. It pretty much steals the concept of Evil Dead but with hairspray, spandex pants, and lots of cocaine. Fictional band Witches' Lips set out to record their first full-length album in creepy cabin in the middle of nowhere and unintentionally unleash a demonic power by reading a book, that raises the dead in the surrounding cemetery. The band must now battle an army of the undead and still record a killer record.
The movie will also feature cameos from metal gods such as Tom Araya from Slayer, Randy Blythe of Lamb of God, and David Vincent from Morbid Angel. There will be blood by the gallon. The movie will most likely do a circuit of sneak previews in the summer and then released promptly after that.
Gutterdämmerung
Advertised as "The Loudest Silent Movie on Earth", Gutterdämmerung is a black-and-white, mostly silent rock movie created by Swedish director Björn Tagemose. The story is apparently based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, though reading the synopsis doesn't give any clue to that: a punk rock angel defiantly throws down a magical guitar from heaven to earth, where an evil priest, a cowboy and a warlord face off for control over the guitar.
The big catch about this movie is that it features rock legends in the main cast. Iggy Pop plays the fallen angel, Henry Rollins plays the puritan priest, and the late great Lemmy Kilmister took on the role of a tank master (how appropriate!). Tom Araya, Grace Jones, Mark Lanegan, and Slash also make an appearance. The trailer only offers a glimpse of what to expect, but it already looks visually stunning and incredibly epic.
The movie is currently being screened at music festivals around Europe, accompanied by a live rock band. There is no news yet on whether it will have a theatrical release sometime in the future.
News for March 21st 2016
LOCAL
by Saturn De Los Angeles
An environmentally themed hack-a-thon took place this weekend.
According to Global News, the event aims to encourage young innovators to find creative, feasible and sustainable solutions to energy issues.
The event was organized by the Office de la Consultation Publique de Montreal, an independent group mandated by Montreal City Hall.
The completed projects were shown at Concordia University, and the results will be evaluated by the organization and presented in a report.
NATIONAL
by Patricia Petit Liang
An Ontario family may be forced to leave Canada because their son has Down syndrome.
According to CTV News, Citizenship and Immigration Canada told Felipe Montoya, that he and his family cannot become permanent residents because of the potential burden that his son would place on the country’s healthcare system.
Montoya is understandably upset over the CIC’s ruling and says that his son needs the same amount of resources as his daughter, who does not have Down syndrome.
According to Toronto immigration lawyer, Henry Chang, what happened to the Montoyas is actually fairly common with many other families seeking permanent residence due to Canada’s strict immigration laws.
INTERNATIONAL
by Sam Obrand
The main suspect in last year's November Paris attacks was captured alive in Brussels on Friday.
According to CBC News, Salah Abdeslam was charged on Saturday with "terrorist murder " by Belgium authorities, following his actions in Paris that left 130 people dead.
Abdeslam is currently being held in prison and was found with additional suspects at an apartment approximately 500 miles from his own hometown.
Monday March 21st 2016
Hosted by Patricia Petit Liang
Stories by Sam Obrand, Saturn Des Los Angeles & Patricia Petit Liang
Produced by Patricia Petit Liang
Killswitch Engage - Incarnate
Metalcore by design
Killswitch, Killswitch, Killswitch. What happened to you guys? Being one of the bands back in the early '00s to captivate the mind of a young (all be it much longer haired) Orin, I have a bit of a bone to pick with this latest entry.
With early work on their self-titled album (I am only counting the first one they put out... and so should anyone else, but more on that later), to their metamorphosis into the metalcore template that would serve to spawn hundreds of copy-cats and sound-alikes. Aggressive, melodic and yet soulful and positive. From the early days of Jesse Leach and his abrasive harsh screams and emotive choruses, to the crooning power-house era of Howard Jones, it seemed like they could do no wrong. No joke, a friend and I would legitimately watch their live DVD "Set this World Ablaze" almost every week, they were a big thing for us. With the massive release of As Daylight Dies, they dominated the genre of melodic cheesy music. Then the late '00s happened... And things all changed. With the release of their second (yeah... second) self-titled, fans could sense the formula had run its welcome. So I rejoiced to hear that original singer Jesse Leach would return for their 2013 output Disarm the Dissent. That album ripped. Bringing back some much-needed grit and riff prominence that was lacking from their more melodic (second) self-title. If you are a fan of that style of melodic hook driven metalcore, I still recommend it to this day as one of their better albums.
Now on to this album... Oh boy. So now the second album with their veteran singer, and it seems that jolt of energy may have been short lived. This album, at its core is just... Dull. We start with the track "Alone I Stand", very much in the same temperament as the last album left off (not at all a bad thing), and this left me with good hope for the album. Riffs and harmonies for days and soaring choruses, so no complaints here. The problem I have with the album really starts to rear its head around song three "Cut Me Loose", where Leach seems lit to mutter random incoherent platitudes about positivity and moving on to dull chugging. Then it dawned on me... Jesse Leach is literally singing about nothing. Sure you could find interviews where he claims to be singing about this or that, but listening to lines without any context given holds no meaning. I mean, his lyrics have never been particularly narratively driven in the first place (you could play the drinking game where every reference to the act of "opening your eyes" for the first two albums he was on, and end up in a pretty weird place that's for sure), but they just seem to be about nothing. Vague enough to pander to youth, but general enough to belt out as though they are some grand statement. Additionally, this album is very heavy on the clean singing. Though I have no problem with bands opting to be more melodic, this was not the strength Leach had brought with the previous album. I mean, seriously, he even rips a vocal melody from a Tool song (don't believe me? Skip to 3:48 on "Embrace The Journey... Upraised", and tell me you don't start singing the verse to Sober). Howard Jones, he is not.
Thus far my gripe has been predominantly with the vocals, and I want to stress: they are not what make this album dull (on their own). I am looking at the autopilot formula used by Adam Dutkiewicz on this one. Far too often does this album just piddle along at medium tempo chugging, aulternating with fast-picking, only to lead to a predictable clean-chorus break. I was always under the impression he just saved his most derivative pattern laden work for when he writes entire All That Remains albums, but I fear they may have finally seeped over to the main project.
All in all, I can't say much more about this album apart from that I am disappointed. Perhaps this album will grow on me, though I honestly doubt it (it became a chore to listen to it in its entirety). If you are jonesing for Killswitch, just go back to their last album, or As Daylight Dies... Or any album not this (or the second self-titled).
--Orin hosts The Noisy Loft, Sundays at 8PM on CJLO. Expect loud things. Very loud things.
News for Friday March 18th, 2016
Hosted by: Pauline Nesbitt
Stories by: Catlin Spencer
Produced by: Emeline Vidal
LOCAL
A protector for the homeless will be named for the city of Montreal within the coming weeks.
According to the Montreal Gazette, Mayor Denis Coderre says the protector will ensure the homeless have fair access to designated services, and make recommendations to the proper authorities.
Findings show that a large majority of the homeless population is held back by relationship problems or mental health issues.
NATIONAL
Health Canada has given a Vancouver safe-injection site an exemption to continue operating for another four years.
According to CTV News, this is the first time since 2011 that Insite has received a multi-year exemption.
BC Health Minister Terry Lake says the extended exemption reflects the understanding of the facility's value and its importance as a part of the health services in the Vancouver community.
Since its opening over a decade ago, Insite has carried out more than two million safe injections with zero deaths from overdoses.
SeaWorld has announced that it will be ending its controversial orca-breeding program.
According to BBC News, the company has been facing heavy criticism over the alleged treatment of its captive orcas.
Instead, the company says it will be committed to educating its visitors on animal welfare and conservation issues via new programs in the park.
While activists have called for SeaWorld to release its captive whales into the wild, SeaWorld has advised that because many of the animals were born and raised in captivity, they most likely would not survive.
HIP HOP Residency Submissions deadline extended to March 21 at 11:59pm!
It's still not too late to apply- Submission deadline has been extended to Monday, March 21st at 11:59pm!
Are you an entry-to-medium level artist? Want to record an EP?
CJLO has what you need to kickstart your music career.
The "On Rotation” Multi-Genre Artist Residency Program!!
Under the guidance of our CJLO team, you and your band will have the opportunity to record and produce an EP in CJLO’s studio with included 100 pressed copies/ host a radio special, and organize / promote a show. The residency will also offer various workshops related to the fundamentals of “behind-the-scenes” within the music industry, such as PR, Management and Touring, to name a few.
The CJLO Artist Residency is OPEN for HIPHOP Groups/ Mc's/ Rappers.
HipHop? Boom Bap, Alternative hip hop, Cloud rap, Experiemental hip hop, G-Funk, Grime, Hip House, Jazz Rap, Intrumental hip hop, Trap, Turntablism, Beat Markers.
Residency Schedule: 3-month band in-residency programs !
Recording Time: Must be available between 31 March & 1-19 April
Mixing and Mastering Time: 19 April - 10 May
Workshops: April. Date TBA.
Show Launch : Late May - Early June 2016
Application Deadline: March 21st at 11:59pm
Required
-Application Forms
-Letter of Intent
-200 words Bio
-Demo or Releases / Live Video / Audio (SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp)
-Photos or Posters
If you have any further questions feel free to contact: onrotation@cjlo.com
You will find the application forms and more information about the details of our residency below.
All this is possible thanks to the generosity of the Community Radio Fund of Canada's Radiometres grant!
The wait is over! Apply!
Spread the word!!! Share It!!
*Interested canditates should send all the required documents to onrotation (at) cjlo (dot) com.*
Nous somme présentement à la recherche d'artistes HipHop!
Durant l'année 2015/2016, CJLO accueillera dans le cadre d'un nouveau programme de résidences d'artistes, une multitude d'artistes de styles musicaux différents. Ces résidences sont un tremplin vers de nouvelles possibilités d'enregistrements et mentorats pour ceux qui seront sélectionnés.
Grâce à la générosité des Fonds canadien de la radio communautaire, CJLO 1690 à la possibilité d'enregistrer et de produire un Ep, et d'offire un service de duplication et pressage (100 CDs). Le tout sera envoyé à plusieurs stations de radio collégiales à travers le Canada. Le programme comprendra également divers ateliers traitant de l'importance des communications, des relations publiques, et de la gestion dans l'industrie de la musique. Finalement, chaque résidences se conclura avec un lancement officiel.
HipHop? Boom Bap, Alternative hip hop, Cloud rap, Experiemental hip hop, G-Funk, Hip House, Jazz Rap, Intrumental hip hop, Trap, Turntablism, Beat Markers.
Votre portfolio doit contenir
- Une lettre d'intention
- Bio (200 mots)
- Formulaires CJLO (enligne)
- Video / Audio / Demo (SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp)
- Photos ou Posters
Si vous avez d'autres questions hésitez pas à contacter: onrotation@cjlo.com
Vous trouverez les formulaires et lignes directrices de notre programe ci-dessous.
Date limite: 21 mars 2016 à 11:59pm
*Interested canditates should send all the required documents to onrotation (at) cjlo (dot) com.*
Beach House @ The Rialto Theatre
Presented by Blue Skies Turn Black
Alternative music has become a distant pleasure of mine since I have taken on my weekly radio show. I am constantly looking for new hip hop and electronic music and do not have much time left to enjoy my high school pleasures, which consisted of mainly soft rock. I was overjoyed when I was given the opportunity to go see Beach House, a group I have been listening to for a few years now.
A common word fumble I make whenever I talk about Beach House is I always seem to call them "Dream House", and there's a reason for this. Beach House is a collection of the most soothing, heart-warming, and dreamy music I have ever heard. Their live performance, in the beautiful and antique Rialto Theatre was no exception. Victoria Legrand has a sultry and raspy voice that fits perfectly with the melodic synths. They took us on a new trip with every song they played, sometimes taking the time to say a few comments in between, and endlessly changing instruments, but always keeping the show on a roll.
The visuals were equally as dreamy with a starlit background or occasional floating shapes that seemed as though they could be on the cover of Beach House's next album. They performed songs mainly from their latest album, Depression Cherry, which is sold with a unique, velvet-like cover. This album name perfectly describes their essence and music: sadness mixed with happiness (because cherries make people happy).
It was truly a mind-expanding experience. The beautiful Rialto theatre was sold out and the second floor theatre chairs were full. I would recommend everyone who is a fan of indie/dream pop to attend Beach House's show next time they come to visit us in Montreal.
--Honeydrip hosts Waves of Honey every Sunday at 10PM on CJLO.
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