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  • Dark Moon, Bright Tunes

    Dark Moon, Bright Tunes

    On this episode of The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, music, music, music.

    This will be the final week of fundraising on behalf of CHLY to secure a spot as a community partner with The Discourse Nanaimo. Click here to make a donation.

    Here is the program file

    • Badbadnotgood – The Chocolate Conquistadors
    • Pa Salieu, Mahalia – Energy
    • Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – Leventille Road March
    • Ramsey Lewis – Cry Baby Cry
    • Dorothy Ashby – Action Line
    • Sufjan Stevens – Come on!
    • Timber Timbre – Grifting
    • Blondie – Once I Had a Love (Redux)
    • Vulfpeck – Aunt Leslie
    • Darondo (Feat.The Park) – 2012
    • Little Dragon, Moses Sumney – The Other Lover
    • Leenalchi – Tiger is Coming
  • Spastic Fantastic

    Spastic Fantastic

    We’re all over the place on this week’s Sweet and Sour Variety Hour!

    Get into it!

    Here’s the file

    Tracklist

    • Susumu Yokota – Traveler in the Wonderland
    • Susumu Yokota – Song of the Sleeping Forest
    • Yasuaki Shimizu – Kakashi
    • Mariah – Shinzo No Tobira
    • Dip in the Red Pool – On Retinae, West Version
    • Video Age – Hold On (I Was Wrong)
    • Abram Shook – Machinery
    • Moondog – Do Your Thing
    • Jake Xerxes Fussell – Raggy Levy
    • The BeachBoys – Vegetables
    • Les Paul & Mary Ford – Smoke Rings
    • Les Paul & Mary Ford – How High the Moon
    • Rosemary Clooney – Come On-A My House
    • Sonny Clark – Junka
    • Chris Bear – Gatsby Intro
  • Jess Best 2020

    Jess Best 2020

    I present on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, favourite songs of 2020 put together by my friend, Jess. Thanks to the magic of modern technology, I’m able to poach her content just as ruthlessly as if she hadn’t runned off to Newfoundland.

    Dat der file

    • Grimes – Delete Forever
    • Sevdaliza – Oh My God
    • Blake Mills – Vanishing Twin
    • Fiona Apple – Heavy Balloon
    • Adrianne Lenker – anything
    • Luluc – Emerald City
    • Waxahatchee – Fire
    • Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night
    • Braids – Young Bucks
    • Taylor Swift – seven
    • Sparks – Self-Effacing
    • Agnes Obel – Island of Doom
    • U.S. Girls – 4 American Dollars
    • Clem Snide – Roger Ebert
  • Hang On CanCon

    Hang On CanCon

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, 100% CanCon.

    If you can, please give a lil to unite CHLY with The Discourse.

    Here is the file, airing 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 amazing Canadian songs via CHLY 101.7FM at 8AM PST on Wednesday the 16th of December 2020. You’re welcome, amoeba!

    • Carmanah – I did it all for you
    • Carmanah – Roots
    • Blue Moon Marquee – Shading Tree
    • Carolyn Mark – Flaming Star
    • Carolyn Mark – Not Like the Movies
    • Painted Fruits – Gender
    • Painted Fruits – Mechanical Rhythm
    • Great Speckled Fritillary – Polar Star
    • Wolf Parade – Fine Young Cannibals
    • Wolf Parade – Solders Grin
    • Wolf Parade – Lousy Pictures
    • Aaron James and the Black Water – Fear II
    • Harpoonist and the Axemurderer – She’s Got
    • Satellite and the Harpoonist – Justine
    • Dubmatix – Wicked Part of Tow
  • Frau Song

    Frau Song

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, I have been so inspired lately by strong brave women, that I have featured all women on the program today. At the 36:00 mark, you’ll hear an invitation to make a donation to a campaign I’ve started which will unite CHLY and The Discourse. If you value independent medias, you can stretch your dollar of support, because all donations are being matched dollar for dollar. Click here to contribute to a healthy news-scape in your community.

    Here is the file

    These are the songs

    • 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

  • Help CHLY join with The Discourse

    Help CHLY join with The Discourse

    The Discourse is a community-supported journalism endeavor that is hoping to have a permanent presence in Nanaimo. They are funded by their readership, the very people who The Discourse is accountable to.  Recently, they have announced that they are offering limited spaces for Founding Partners to align with their cause. I think CHLY belongs on that short list.

    Today, I am launching a fundraising campaign that will join The Discourse and CHLY as media partners. But only if we can raise enough funds.

    One donation goes a long way

    With your help, CHLY can secure a position as Founding Partner by raising $5000, which will be matched in kind.  Your donation will doubly secure the longevity and strength of  these two important media outlets for the Mid-Island region at large.

    If you value the presence of community-based journalism, please consider making a donation. We’ve made it so easy! Just go to chly.ca/thediscourse to give what you can. For donations of at least $101.20, you will get a special thanks on the front page of our website, social media, and live on the air.

    Examples

    Here are some screen shots and links that show how CHLY and The Discourse are a perfect match.

    On Wednesday, December 2nd, I aired on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, a recent article from This Discourse in it’s entirety. Here is my presentation of Plans to revitalize old A&B Sound building in downtown Nanaimo by Julie Chadwick for The Discourse (12 minutes long)

    Here is a screen shot of what the donation box looks like when you go to chly.ca/thediscourse

Lookit! An Instagram!

This is it!