Ashta Made You A Mixtape – A curated music radio show Friday nights at 9 on 101.7fm CHLY

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  • New Releases and The Real News

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour!!! 45 minutes of brand new music, and then we hear an episode from The Real News Network.

    Here is the file, airing live on CHLY 101.7FM at 8AM PST on May 8th 2019

    Black Keys – Eagle Birds
    Black Keys – Lo/Hi
    King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – This Thing
    King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Fishing for Fishies
    Whitehorse – Strike Me Down
    Foxygen – Mona
    The Frightnrs- Make Up Your Mind
    Vampire Weekend – Sympathy
    Bon Entendeur -La Rua Mardueira
    Violent Femmes, Tom Verlaine – Hotel Last Resort
    The Real News Network
    Rising Appalachia feat. Ani DiFranco – Speak Out

  • Half Music Half Pollan

    Half hourish of good music, and then a half hour talk by Michael Pollan about his new book.

    Here is the file

    Tracks:

    Luke Temple – Hard Working Man

    Art Feynman – Slow Down

    Bent – British Summertime

    Tune-Yards – Doorstep

    Bent – K.I.S.S.E.S

    Leathers – Phantom Heart

    Jacco Gardner – Grey Lanes

    Rubblebucket – Came Out of A Lady

    Burt Bacharach – Something Big

    Michael Pollan Talk : How to Change Your Mind

  • All News

    From the climate crisis to Julian Assange, on today’s Sweet and Sour Variety Hour we hear experts weigh in on the topics of the day.

    Here is the file, airing live on CHLY 101.7fm to 40 coastal communities at 8AM PST

    The Real News Network: Canada Warming Faster

    Richard Wolff: Economic Update

    Clips from Democracy Now!: Noam Chomsky and Jeffery Robertson on the arrest of Julian Assange

    From “Activism Munich”, comments about the Assange case: Edward Snowden, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Srecko Horvat, Noam Chomsky

  • New and Used Music

    This week on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, tons of music inspiration from “somebody who I used to know”, and an episode of The Real News Network.

    Here is the file, airing live on Wednesday April 10th 2019 to over 40 coastal communities on CHLY 101.7FM

    Tracks:

    The Cardigans – Lovefool
    Metric – Wet Blanket
    Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Gold Lion
    The Walkmen – We’ve Been Had
    Radiohead – 15 Step
    Muse- Supremacy
    Christine and the Queens – Tilted
    The Avalanches – If I was a Folkstar
    Camera Obscura – French Navy
    Best Coast – Our Deal
    Fleetwood Mac- The Ledge
    Sister Nancy – Bam Bam
    Owiny Sigoma Band – Deep Kisumu Fish
    The Real News: EU Clamps Down on Freedom of Speech in name of Copyright Protection. Julia Reda of the Pirate Party warns that the law does not protect creators, but large interest groups. Internet platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter will install filters and ban access to material individuals upload who do not buy the rights for everything they use.
    Brenton Wood – Oogum Boogum Song M

  • Half Jack Stauber, Half Real News Network

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, a selection of Jack Stauber tracks from across 4 of his albums. The second half of the show are two segments from The Real News.

    Here is the file to air on Wednesday April 3rd, 2019 on CHLY 101.7fm broadcasting to 40 coastal communities around the Salish Sea.

    Track list

    Jack Stauber – Dead Weight

    Jack Stauber – Buttercup

    Jack Stauber – Gettin’ My Mom On

    Jack Stauber – Small World

    Jack Stauber – Pad Thai

    Jack Stauber – Two Time

    Jack Stauber – Beird

    Jack Stauber – Fighter

    The Real News Network –How Big Tech Helped Big Oil Automate the Climate Crisis

    Maxcence Syrin – Where Is My Mind?

    The RealNews Network – The Anti-Democrac Roots of NATO


  • Another Half and Halfer

    Starting off The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour this week is a half an hour of soft spoken cover songs and crooning sounds. Then we hear a bit of a conversation with Gabor Mate, then on to 2 stories from The Real News Network.

    Here is the file. Airing 8am PST on Wednesday March 27th, 2019

    Trackzz

    Yo La Tengo – Im so Lonesome I Could Cry

    Air, Gordon Tracks – Playground Love

    Nouvelle Vouge – I Wanna Be Sedated

    Seu Jorge – Rock With You

    Yo La Tengo – You Can Have It All

    Wings – Let Em In

    The Durutti Column – Otis

    Jehst – Bluebells

    Gabor Mate on Russell Brand’s “Under the Skin”

    The Real News Network: Monsanto

    The Real News Network : Insect Populations

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