Tag: radio

  • Lyricless Music

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is an hour of music minus all the animal noises. Here is the file tracklist: Flughand, Peninsula Flughand, Atrebor Pete Rock/ C.L. Smooth ,Back On Da Block – Instro Pete Rock/Freddie Foxxx,Mind Frame – Instro Saib,Sakura Trees John Talbot, Sunshine Luiz Bonfa, Pernambuco Galt MacDermot, New…

  • End Novemb

    It’s another week here in the land of The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, the program created to be a community-driven plethora of varietal contributions, and was for a long time. Now it’s just me, Ashta, screening good music, selecting, and placing in order a mixtape I think you’ll love. HERE IT IS!! (typing tracklist…

  • Listening Listeners

    Listening Listeners

    If you’re a follower already, you’ll know that I fuss over the order of the songs to create the perfect mood – just like when we use to make mixtapes. Well, not this week. Everything you’ll hear on this show, was chosen by our listeners! If you want in on the action, follow us on…

  • Facebag

    Facebag

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is a one-hour anything-goes festival of sound-good. Every Wednesday morning for 10 years, CHLY 101.7FM listeners in over 40 coastal communities have been subject to the audiocratic whims of local weirdo, Ashta. From 8-9am, she privately relishes the technical reality that terrestrial radio waves saturate a portion of the…

  • Independent Woman About the World

    Independent Woman About the World

    CHLY 101.7FM is like your badass next-door neighbour who unabashedly plays their music too loud and who you refer to in times of crises for advice. You switch to it when the overbearing snarky commercials of the other radio stations become too much to handle. It is at times your sonic refuge, and at other…

  • Good as Gold

    I posted a few weeks ago about how I create the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. I said “I spend thousands of hours making this radio show for you ungrateful plebs, and the least you could do is give the radio station some money!” or something. Maybe my recollection is not so kind, but that…