• Summer Heat Wave

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, every Wednesday morning airs live to about 1.5 million human beings, a few billion notable sea creatures, and literally trillions of bacterium. Yes, every one of these living organisms will be surrounded with the invisible frequency transmission of these songs via terrestrial radio giant CHLY 101.7 FM at 8am PST on Wednesday.

    Here is the program for this week, Wednesday July 21, 2021

    If you didn’t know it, CHLY is listener-funded and the hosts are volunteers. Listener-funded means that since we aren’t taking major media conglomerate money, we aren’t beholden to supporting a consumer-capitalist narrative like all the other radio stations in this area are.

    Every now and then, we ask you to pitch in some dollars so we can keep bringing you the independent content a well-informed public deserves.

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    Please consider setting up a small monthly gift at chly.ca/donate

    • The Bird and the Bee – Witch
    • Lana Del Ray – West Coast
    • Haley Heynderickx – The Bug Collector
    • Neko Case, K.D. Lang, Laura Veirs – Atomic Number
    • Eliza Rickman – Pretty Little Hand
    • Phildel – The Wolf
    • Weyes Blood – Andromeda
    • Grimes – Rosa
    • Kimbra – Good Intent
    • Magic Wands – Black Magic
    • Dodie – Monster
    • UNKLE & Liela Moss- The Dog is Black
    • Bat for Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do?
    • Cults – Always Forever
    • Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
  • Keep Going On Show

    Keep Going On Show

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is a curated music show that airs live on CHLY 101.7fm every Wednesday morning at 8.

    Here is this weeks program

    These are the songs that played:

    • Peter Cat Recording Co, Soulless Friends
    • Peter Cat Recording Co, Heera
    • Bibio, Saint Thomas
    • FrankMasonMusic,Guvnor
    • FrankMasonMusic, Rollercoaster
    • FrankMasonMusic, Flaunt Spit
    • Frank Ocean, Lost
    • Earl Sweatshirt, Riot
    • Fleece, Upside Down
    • Fleece, on My Mind
    • Fleece, So Long
    • Rainbow Kitten Surprise, It’s called Freefall
    • Rainbow Kitten Surprise, When it Lands
    • Los Lobos, Kiko and the Lavender Moon
    • Tennis, In the Morning I’ll Be Better
    • The Bengsons, The Keep Going Song
    • Royksopp, Happy Up Here
  • Long Days, Hot Ways

    Long Days, Hot Ways

    Heat wave vibes on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour.

    On the radio station 101.7fm Wednesday at 8am

    • Pokey LaFarge – Going to the Country
    • The Raincoats, Lola
    • The Bats, Made Up In Blue
    • Podington Bear, Lip Gloss
    • Greg Phillinganes, Lazy Nina
    • Tanto Faz feat. Tamy (Quantic Remix), Maga Bo
    • Labi Siffre, I Got The
    • Kamasi Washington, Clair de Lune
    • R. Stevie Moore, Another No Answer
    • Dungen, Alberto Balsam
    • Bibio, St. Thomas
  • Juicy Berries

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, an hour of tasty musical morsels to gorge on. But don’t get your podcast app all sticky!

    Here is the file

    • Benny Sings / Mac DeMarco, Rolled Up
    • Daft Punk, Something About Us
    • Mk.gee, You
    • Teebs, While You Doooo
    • Whitney, Red Moon
    • The Alchemist, Arrival
    • Doomstarks / MF DOOM / Ghostface Killah, Victory Laps – Instro
    • CZARFACE/ MF DOOM, Bomb Thrown – Instro
    • People Under the Stairs, The Love
    • Chali 2na, Comin’Thru
    • MF DOOM, Coffin Nails
    • Eric B. & Rakim, Keep the Beat
    • Abstract Orchestra, Accordion
    • Madlib, Stepping Into Tomorrow
    • Aesop Rock, Long Legged Larry
    • Noga Erez, End of the Road

  • Niente Anglais

    Niente Anglais

    Here is the file for The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, airing live on CHLY 101.7fm on Wednesday June 2nd 2021

    • Brigitte Fontaine, Le goudron
    • Brigitte Bardot, La madrague
    • Lijadu Sisters, Come on Home
    • Lily Chao, Picking Tea Leaves and Catching Butterflies
    • Slim Gaillard and His Orchestra, Yip Roc Heresy
    • Gillian Hills, Tut tut tut
    • The Barry Sisters, Vyoch Tyoch Tyoch
    • Leenalchi, Tiger is Coming
    • Marie Laforet, Marie douceur, Marie colere
    • Shintaro Sakamoto, まともがわからない
    • Shintaro Sakamoto, Extremely Bad Man
    • Khruangbin, Pelota
    • Molchat Doma, Судно
    • Laura Niquay, Moteskano
    • Silla and Rise, Aqittuq
    • iskwe and Tanya Tagaq, The Unforgotten
  • New Job

    New Job

    Did I just spend 2 years planning a small business, execute it with precision strategy, and then completely forget to BLOG about its launch 7 weeks ago?? OK. I did. Who blogs anymore with Tik Tok around?

    It’s called Smokelore Botanicals. Here’s the website

    It’s a line of flavour-forward herbal cigarettes grown and assembled by me. No tobacco, no nicotine, no cannabis. Only delicious tasting herbs I’ve grown, and all packaged in the cutest boxes. They’re sold in packs of ten through my website and in 3 retail locations on Vancouver Island. So far the interest has been pretty steady with orders coming in and shipments going out every day. Who knew I would love being a cigarette farmer?

    There are even flower seeds implanted in the filters! When you’re done smoking it, just discard or plant it in a sunny spot that gets water! Here’s a slideshow showing more about the products:

    @ashtaravaganza

    All products have been ✨restocked✨at www.smokelorebotanicals.com ##herbalcigarette ##notobacco ##nonicotine ##nowackytobaccy ##herbalsmoke ##homegrown

    ♬ Thou Swell – Dorothy Ashby

    The following video was viewed ~30k times on Tik Tok !!

    @ashtaravaganza

    #smallbusiness #herbalcigarette #herbal #herbs #herbalsmoke #smokelorebotanicals #smokelore #howitsmade #nanaimo #biodegradable #growflowers

    ♬ Forget – Pogo

    Anyway, there’s an Instagram too. Check it out @smokelorebotanicals

Lookit! An Instagram!