• Spy Music

    Squint your eyes and shift your glance from side to side, this is music you can creep around on your toes to.

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    (playlist coming soon)

  • M.I.A to Eno

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is a radio program airing live to 40 coastal communities via CHLY 101.7FM from Nanaimo, BC. You can keep this independent media endeavor healthy and strong by setting up an automatic monthly contribution at chly.ca/donate

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    • M.I.A., Sunshowers
    • Santigold, Disparate Youth
    • Santigold, High Priestess
    • Little Dragon, Ritual Union
    • Disclosure/Al Green, Feel Like I Do
    • Remi Wolf, Anthony Kiedis
    • The Derevolutions, Yell It Out
    • Hercules and Love Affair, Raise Me Up
    • Brazilian Girls, Good Time
    • Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, Dog was a Doughnut
    • Elvis Costello, Beyond Belief
    • Brian Eno, I’ll Come Running
    • Brian Eno & John Cale, Lay my Love
    • The Magnetic Fields, Strange Powers
    • Cocteau Twins, Cherry-coloured Funk
    • Grant Lee Buffalo, Mockingbirds
    • The Jesus and Mary Chain, Just like Honey

  • Tree Frogs

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    • Los Lobos, Kiko and the Lavender Moon
    • Luiz Bonfa, Pernambu
    • Alex Izenberg, To Move On
    • Nancy Wilson, How Glad I Am
    • Linda McCartney, Seaside Woman
    • Johnnie Frierson, Have You Been Good To Yourself?
    • Pierre Cavalli, Un Soir Chez Norris
    • Wings, Spin It On
    • Ween, Learnin’ to Love
    • Blackrock, Yeah Yeah
    • Max Webster, Toronto Tonto’s
    • Gorillaz, Last Living Souls
    • They Might Be Giants, Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go To Work)
    • Talking Heads, Born Under Punches
    • The Avalanches, Frontier Psychiatrist
    • Beck, Gamma Ray
    • The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Bellbottoms
    • Grant Lee Buffalo, Mockingbirds
  • Music Sandwich

    Music Sandwich

    This week on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour; an hour of carefully selected tunes for your little earholes and pulsing brainmeats.

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    Airing live to 40 coastal communities around the Salish Sea via CHLY 101.7FM on Wednesday April 20th 2022.

    • Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, We The Common
    • My Bubba, Big Bad Good
    • Hurray for the Riff Raff, Blue Ridge Mountain
    • Malvina Reynolds, Little Boxes
    • Judy Henske, Till the Real Thing Comes Along
    • Adia Victoria, Stuck in the South
    • Molly Drake , Little Weaver Bird
    • Caroline Rose, Blood on Your Bootheels
    • The Drums, Money
    • Melody’s Echo Chamber, Some Time Alone Alone
    • Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Hunnybee
    • Molchat Doma, Судно
    • Her’s, Harvey
    • The Smiths, This Night Has Opened My Eyes
    • Cheekface, Dry Heat Nice Town
    • Rostam, Rudy
    • Jaeden Camstra, Open Window
    • Del The Funky Homosapien, Sunny Meadowz
  • Morning Mayhem

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour! AGAIN!!!!

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    • Hey Cowboy!, Freckles
    • Palehound, Cinnamon
    • Deerhoof/Awkwafina, Your Dystopic Creation Doesn’t Fear You
    • Caroline Rose, Jeannie Becomes a Mom
    • Stef Chura, Spotted Gold
    • Dianna Lopez, So I Don’t Feel Useless
    • Luna Li, Baby Shred
    • Habibi, Siin
    • Melody’s Echo Chamber, Shirim
    • Little Dragon, Where You Belong
    • KMD, Peachfuzz
    • A Tribe Called Quest, Excursions
    • MF DOOM, Licorice
    • MF DOOM, Saffron
    • MF DOOM, Benzoin Gum
    • MF DOOM, Sarsaparilla
    • MF DOOM, Coffin Nails,
    • Christian Rowell – Rapp Snitch Knishes
    • Bass Fury, Nada
  • March End

    March End

    This week on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, airing live on CHLY 101.7fm to the vicinity where~1 million human beings live

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    What played:

Lookit! An Instagram!