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  • Bitcoin Episode

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour every Wednesday morning from 8-9 on CHLY-FM 101.7 and chly.ca/listen

    Aired live on Wednesday,  November 8th 2017

    Information for newbies to Bitcoin! Oh, and lots of brand new tunes with a couple of spicy pre-releases.

    Delicate Steve – Winners
    Camille Yarbrough – Take Yo’ Praise
    Ann Peebles – Come to Mama
    Desmond Dekker – Fu Man Chu
    About Bitcoin!
    Bitcoins for Dummies
    Khruangbin – Maria Tambien
    What is Bitcoin? Explained in 3 Minutes
    Kutiman – She’s a Revolution
    Kaada – Care
    Blockchain: How it Works
    Mildlife – The Magnificent Moon
    Smartest People in the World on Bitcoin: Predictions
    Darkhouse Family – The Accession

  • Fall Fund Drive 2017

    Fall Fund Drive 2017

    Every Wednesday morning! The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour! CHLY 101.7FM 8AM PST

    On Wednesday October 18th, 2017: Good music punctuates my opinions about radio and how you can stick it to the man by personally investing in a strong and healthy antidote to commercial media. Donate to the station on a monthly basis to provide maximum benefit for all!! Petey Pete joins me in the studio too. 60% just talking.

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    Tracklist:

    Wizard of Meh – Pogo
    Olafor Arnalds – Doria
    Boyce Avenue – Give a Little Bit
    Adam Green – Castles and Tassels
    Soft Jazz Band – Jazz to the Breakfast
    Maroon 5, Julia Michaels – Help Be out
    Led Zeppelin – Thank You
    Eagles of Death Metal – Stacks-o-money
    John Tejeda – Farther And Fainter
    The Stairwells – I Need a Dollar /Two Weeks
    Simply Red- Money’s Too Tight
    John Mellancamp – Thank You

    Let’s all re-appreciate Keegan’s artwork and depiction of Nanaimo, in this mind-ba-lowing poster from 2012 (?)

  • November Non-Stop

    Airing live on Wednesday November 1st, 2017 to populations along the west coast of Turtle Island. Tracklist to come!

    Here is the file

    Just catching up on  some things. I’ll post all the details tomorrow.

  • Last of October 2017

    Two kinds of sounds on this morning’s episode of the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. Ending off with an episode of Song Exploder (more links to come)

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  • Music, Trudeau’s UN Speech, Peace Meeting, CHLY

    45 minutes of good music.
    15 minutes of an interview with Pamela Palmater from Ryerson University about the UN speech Prime Minister Trudeau recently gave on Indigenous “rights”.
    Ending with my favourite song of the week: The Past Tense by Infinite Bisous, and an event announcement for

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    Sean Rowe – Desiree
    Maimouna Yousef – I Got a Feeling
    Bajka – The World
    Khruangbin – Dern Kala
    Beirut- Gibralter
    Joon Moon – Tiger
    Heavy Trash – Pimento
    Swim Mountain – Yesterday
    Helvetia – Old, New Bycicle
    Kings of Conversion – Know-How
    The Real News Network – Trudeau’s UN speech
    Infinite Bisous – The Past Tense
    Event at Harbourfront Library: Being the Peace Movement
    Tiffany on the importance of community radio

     

  • Non Stop Music Hour

    Airing live at 8am PST on Wednesday September 27th

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    An uninterrupted hour of tunes that move through lots of different sounds.

    Here’s the tracklist
    Chewing Gum (Concrete Tooth Mix) – Cotton Jones Basket Ride
    Mambo Sun – T. Rex
    Six White Horses – Karl Blau
    Blood And Roses – The Smithereens
    Little Dog Mind – Twain
    Switch – Cass McCombs
    Forrowest- Forro In the Dark
    Intentions – The Whitest Boy Alive
    Motion Animal – Crash
    Tesselation – Mild High Club
    Now I’m Happy – Marvin Pontiac
    Pancakes – Marvin Pontiac
    Getting Nasty – Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm
    August Twelve – Khruangbin
    People Everywhere (Still Alive) – Khruangbin
    Galt MacDermot – Tap Your Foot

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