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  • 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

  • Spring Senses

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

    It’s an hour of sonic ARTS,

    digestible

    through the vestibules

    of your gorgeous beating heart.

    (This is the file for your eyeballs first, and earholes second. Where it goes after that is up to you, sicko)

    Airing to 40 coastal communities around the Salish Sea via CHLY 101.7FM on Wednesday May 19th 2021.

    • 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
    • Rick & Morty, Get Shwifty

  • May Beats

    This week of the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, non stop music.

    Here is the file

    • Tribe Called Quest J Cole Remix, Can I Kick It?
    • D’Angelo, Sugah Daddy
    • Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth, T.R.O.Y.
    • Fugees Salaam Remix, Nappy Heads,
    • Guru and Baybe, Lifesaver
    • A Tribe Called Quest/Tim Latham/Tony Smalios, Oh My God Remix
    • A Tribe Called Quest/ Dan the Automator ,Lyrics to Go
    • Rakim, Once Upon a Rhyme (Nickleplate Remix)
    • Brand Nubian, All For One
    • Dirty Art Car, Sugar
    • Ratatat, Wildcat
    • El Michels Affair, Can It All Be So Simple
    • Lee Fields & The Expressions, Precious Love

  • Local Legends

    Local Legends

    It’s CANCON week here at the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, and we’re taking it one step closer to home with these tracks from artists who reside on this very island.

    Here is the MP3 for ya

    Pale Red, Today
    Pale Red, Never As Close
    Pale Red, Boy Kings Pt II
    Pale Red, Sun Sets in a Different Place
    Apollo Ghosts, Tiger Head (Aaron Read)
    Apollo Ghosts, Who Cares? (Nick Krgovich)
    Apollo Ghosts, Hands Free (WUT)
    Apollo Ghosts, Montreal Screwjob (KMVP)
    Wolf Parade, Fine Young Cannibals
    Wolf Parade, Solders Grin
    Wolf Parade, Lousy Pictures
    Carolyn Mark, Flaming Star
    Painted Fruits, Gender
    Painted Fruits, Mechanical Rhythm
    Great Speckled Fritillary – Polar Star
    Blue Moon Marquee, Shading Tree
    Blue Moon Marquee, Hard Time Hit Parade

Lookit! An Instagram!

This is it!