Every Wednesday morning at 8 on CHLY 101.7fm. If that’s too early for FM radio listening, you can always use your podcast provider to listen to the podcasted version. Just search for The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour.

Where the heck else will you find Cat Power, Stevie Wonder and Solange represented in the same hour of music?!

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• Cat Power, Manhattan
• Madison Cunningham/Remi Wolf
• Porches, Mood
• KAYTRANADA, Lite Spots
• Stereolab, Blips Drips and Strips
• Parquet Courts, Berlin Got Blurry
• The Zombies, Tell Her No
• Gilbert O’Sullivan, Alone Again
• Billy Joel, Movin’ Out
• Stevie Wonder, Golden Lady
• Solange, Rise
• Xenia Rubinos, Lonely Lover
• BADBADNOTGOOD, In Your Eyes
• Blood Orange, I Wanna C U
• Babeheaven, Ode to Dom
• Nilufer Yanya, Hey
• Blood Orange, Minette Creek
• Babeheaven, Seabird

Actually, it’s The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, and every Wednesday morning it airs live to about 1.5 million human beings, ~300 orca whales, a few billion notable sea creatures, and untold trillions of bacterium. Every one of these living organisms will be surrounded with the invisible frequency transmission of the songs listed below via terrestrial radio giant CHLY 101.7 FM at 8am PST on Wednesday.

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• J. Lamotta/Roy Reemy, לעשות טוב
• Laura Jean Anderson, Thinkin Bout You
• Natalia Lafourcade, Hasta la Raiz
• Ricky Gourmet, Robes
• Robohands, Leaves
• Robohands, Ikigai
• The Poets of Rhythm, South Carolina
• Adriano Celentano, Prisencolinensinainciusol
• Tullio De Piscopo, Stop Bajon
• La Femme, Cool Colorado
• Benny Sings, Young Hearts
• Peach Pit, Give Up Baby Go
• Hey Steve, Whatever Blows Your Hair Back
• Say She She/Piya Malik, Forget Me Not
• Gabriel Sayer/Bambina, Youngest Child
• Hembree, Reach Out
• Kaelin Ellis/Carrtoons/Kyla Moscovich, Buck
• Kaelin Ellis/Tony Rosenberg, Cats Groove

January of 2012 I began the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. Now we begin it’s 12th season.

Generally, I like to deliver an accompanying soundtrack to what I imagine others are also experiencing at 8 in the morning; it’s early, I’m rising. Things are slowly moving, my ability to reckon with waking life increases with every stretch and sip of coffee. By 9am, I’m ready to party! The selections I’ve agonized over reflect this experience. That’s the idea, anyhow.

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(playlist in progress)