Sessions

Lots of awesome bands have recorded live sessions at CJLO over the years! Check out our latest featured sessions here or view the complete list.


Snailhouse Live @ CJLO

Sometime in January of 2005, Mike Feuerstack aka Snailhouse dropped by the CJLO Studios to record a session for the staff-favourite-but-now-defunct CJLO show Lessons in Lo-Fi.  Having already been by CJLO with the then-reunited Wooden Stars around late 2004, Mike played fantastic stripped down renditions of 2001's The Opposite is Also True's "Repetition", and Bell from the A New Tradition EP.

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Play Guitar Live @ CJLO

After (correctly) being told by a few friends that I'd love Montreal-via-Halifax's Play Guitar and finding out that ex-CJLOixcan Jackson MacIntosh was now playing with the band, I contacted the group to see if they'd be interested in recording a live session @ CJLO for Hooked on Sonics.

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PS I Love You Live @ CJLO

Dropping by Montreal for the M is for Montreal industry showcase festival, Kingston noise pop duo PS I Love You dropped by CJLO's studios to record a session for Hooked on Sonics. Getting a lot of attention lately for their 2010 full-length debut, Meet Me at the Muster Station, the guys played a track off of that, as well as a track off of their self-titled EP and a seriously amazing version of the title track off their Starfield 7". 

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Derelict Live @ CJLO

After burning up the CJLO metal charts for a while with their 2009 release Unspoken Words, we invited Montreal metal act Derelict into the CJLO studios one quiet April morning to unleash their brand of death metal upon our listening audience. Being the super nice guys that they are, they loaded in effortlessly as Andrew and I set about putting together mics and figuring out logistics.

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Run Chico Run Live @ CJLO

Victoria idiosyncratic pop duo Run Chico Run were the first band to drop by CJLO studios during one long day of sessions at CJLO for bands that were in town for Pop Montreal.  That day also saw the Chico's Boompa Records labelmates the Salteens and

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Julie Doiron Live @ CJLO

Julie Doiron dropped by CJLO to record a staff favourite session for Hooked on Sonics on a packed day of Pop Montreal related session recordings (the Salteens and Run Chico Run were also in that day to record sets).  Louis Rozza, Former CJLO Music Director and former co-host of Hooked on Sonics, interviewed Julie and this

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Blacklist Royals Live @ CJLO

Nashville's Blacklist Royals stopped by CJLO's studios on the evening of their Saturday night show in Montreal, sent our way courtesy of publicist extraordinaire, the lovely Melanie Kaye.  Opting to do something a little special and stripped down for the Hooked on Sonics show, the band lugged up an amp and a Les Paul and did it "Billy Bragg-style with frontman Nat playing most of the songs solo, or with some background vocals from the rest of the guys

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Woodpigeon and Leif Vollebekk Live @ CJLO

After the Salteens did a session here at CJLO many moons ago, Salteens member and Boompa go-to guy Rob has constantly kept an influx of the label's roster into the CJLO session studios.  This time we got something truly special.  In town for a couple of days recording some songs at famed local studio Hotel2Tango, Mark Hamilton of Woodpigeon dropped by to record a session for Hooked on Soni

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Fucked Up Live @ CJLO

In town for Pop Montreal in October of 2007, and following an amazing stint on CJLO's charts with their landmark record Hidden World, we managed to get Toronto hardcore band Fucked Up in for a session for Hooked on Sonics and the now dearly departed The Kids Are So-So show.

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Fear Before the March of Flames Live @ CJLO

This session was recorded for an old CJLO show, The Kids Are So-So, so to give us a little blurb on the session, here's the show's ex-host, Josh Mocle:

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