DEC 11/07

Marlin - Happy Face Math - Mandalini
the Virgins - Anything EP - Rich Girls
Kim Fowley - TRASH BOX - The Trip
the Grass - Report All Ghosts - Crossfire
Tempo No Tempo - Repetition EP - Irregular Heartbeats
the Blind Shake - Carmel - Jolly Joe's
Junior Bloomsday - Nervous Habits - (Worn Down) At the Peak
the World Record - Guitars Forever - GTRS4EVER
That 1 guy - The Moon Is Disgusting - Bananas
Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth - No More Shoes
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - the Letting Go - Love Comes to Me
Bonzo Dog Band - Best Of - Hello Mabel
Neil Young - Journey Through the Past - Alabama
Wire - Read & Burn - Our Time
Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden - No Train to Stockholm
Polynya - s/t - Old West
the Love Machine - I'm a Bird - Green Tea and Honey
Michael and the Messengers - Nuggets - Just Like Romeo & Juliet
the Velvet Underground - s/t - Pale Blue Eyes

DEC 4/07

the Holloways - So This Is Great Britain - Dancefloor
Death to Our Enemies - s/t - Deadly Art of Ninja
Fatal Flying guillotines - Quantum Fucking - Tiger vs. Gator
Baby Eagle - No Blues - Census Taking Blues
The Cuds - The Taste of Crow -Roommate
Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now - Kiss
Citay - Little Kingdom - Eye on the Dollar
Mexican Institute of Sound - Piñata - Escribeme Pronto
Mobius Band - Heaven - Friends Like These
Fond of Tigers - Release the Saviours - Hebvark
Mr Something Something & Ikwanga - Deep Sleep - Abonkwa
the Litter - TRASH BOX - Action Woman
the Preachers - TRASH BOX - Who Do You Love?
the Shag - TRASH BOX - Stop and Listen
the World's Affair - The Story of... - After Just A While
the New Amsterdams - At the Foot of My Rival - Wait
Spiral Beach - Ball - Made of Stone
The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City - Ex-Guru
Bruce Springsteen - Magic - Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Jonathan Richman - Not So Much to Love As To Be Loved - Vincent Van Gogh
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Holland 1945
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup - Guyames Sonora

Brrrr

It's a bit chilly. Wear a coat.

the Cynics - Here We Are - Coming Round My Way
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - From a Buick 6
Ken Whitely - One World Dance - Death Letter Blues
Two-Minute Miracles - Volume IV - The Minus Ball
Deborah Harry - Necessary Evil - School For Scandal
the Weakerthans - Reunion Tour - Hymn For A Medical Oddity
the Remains - Nuggets: Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era '65-'68 - Don't Look Back
Black Francis - Bluefinger - Lolita
These Are Powers - Terrific Seasons - Cracks In The Lifeline
Beirut - The Flying Cup Club - Nantes
Beck - Stereopathetic Soulmanure - Rowboat
Fueled By Fire - Spread the Fire - Ernest Goes To Hell
Plants and Animals - with avec EP - Lola Who?
the Owls - Daughters and Suns - Yellow Flowers
Leadfinger - The Floating Life - Thin Lizzy
Dala - Who Do You Think You Are - Marilyn Monroe
Christine Fellows - Nevertheless - Saturday Night On Utopia Parkway
the Barmitzvah Brothers - Let's Express Our Motives - Projectionist
Pete Pidgeon and Arcoda - Doubt Is For Losers - Dream With Me
DDMMYYYY - Are They Masks? - Imagine!
Bre Loughlin - Modern American Photo Album - Joy Kill
the Barbarians - Nuggets: Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era '65-'68 - Moulty

SKraah!

This is A Standoff - Be Excited - Where I Can't Be Heard
Feist - Nothin' In the World Can Stop Me Worryin' Bout That Girl (live Kinks cover)
Bella - No One Will Know - No One Will Know
the Details - Draw A Distance. Draw A Border. - Reunion Souvenirs
Leonard Cohen - Best of Leonard Cohen - Lady Midnight
Grizzly Bear - Friend EP - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
Arctic Monkeys - Take It Or Leave It (live Strokes cover)
the Strokes - Heart In A Cage - Mercy Mercy Me (Marvin Gaye cover)
Marvin Gaye - Gold - Where Are We Going?
Poison Control Center - A Collage Of Impressions - Glory Us
PJ Harvey - White Chalk - Grow Grow Grow
Prarie Cat - Attacks! - Grumpy Forever
Team Building - Upon St. Lawrence - Arrivals And Reunions
the Avalanches - Since I Left You - Since I Left You
Let's Disco! - K-Tel's Instructional Disco Dancing Record!
Air - Mer Du Japon - Mer Du Japon (Teenagers remix)
Small Sins - Mellow EP - I Need A Friend (acoustic)
the Most Serene Republic - Population - Sherry and Her Butterfly Net
Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers - I'm Not There OST - Maggie's Farm
Sonic Youth - I'm Not There OST - I'm Not There
Jeff Tweedy - I'm Not There OST - Simple Twist Of Fate
the Stooges - s/t - I Wanna Be Your Dog

NOV 13/07

Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends - The Year Before the Year 2000
Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold - the Wizard
White Lung - Local Garage 7" - Breaking Boxes
Bella - No One Will Know - Don't Sleep Alone
Miles Davis - Evolution of the Groove - Honky Tonk
We Versus the Shark - EP of Bees EP - Lament of Sue Richards
the Big Lie - s/t - Skeleton Bones
Better Friends Than Lovers - Great Lover - Teeter
Bang Camero - s/t - Pleasure (Pleasure)
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon - Lover
Amos the Transparent - s/t - After All That It's Come to This (feat. Amy Millan)
Anti-Flag - A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime - Corporate Rock Still Sucks
The Most Serene Republic - Population - Battle Hymn of the Republic
Buck 65 - Situation - Shutter Buggin'
the Young Knives - Ryko SxSW 2007 sampler - Weekends and Black Days (Hot Summer)
the National Parcs - Timbervision - Awestruck
Mùm - Go Smear the Poison Ivy - They Made Frogs Smoke Until They Exploded
Kevin Drew - Spirit If... - Backed Out on the...
Eamon McGrath - New Tattoo - Cigaretes at Midnight
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam - Chores
Prairie Cat - Attacks! - Trust Don't Rust
Shotgun Jimmie - the Onlys - Onomatopoeia
Angel and the Love Mongers - the Humanist Queen - What Do I Know?

Imperial Teen - The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band - Baby and the Band
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Fill Up the Room - (Even If You Die On The) Ocean
Buck 65 - Situation - Dang
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling - Oh, My Darling
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam - Unsolved Mysteries
Shotgun Jimmie - The Onlys - Captain Howdy
Kamikaze Ground Crew - Postcards From The Highwire - S'albufera
Small Sins - Mood Swings - What You're Baby's Been Doing
Sea Wolf - Leaves In The River - Winter Windows
Black Francis - Bluefinger - Threshold Apprehension
Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything That Restricts Me From Becoming the Master - Rip It!
C'Mon - Bottled Lighting Of An All-Time High - All Time High
Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards - Hospital Beds
Black Before Red - Belgrave to King's Circle - Teenage America
the Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain - Low Gravity
White Rainbow - Prism of Eternal Now - Mystic Prism
Treejam - Get Out of Your Basement - Downtime With the One You Want
the Weakerthans - Reunion Tour - Big Foot!
Ween - La Cucaracha - Fiesta
Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragment - Cross My Palm With Silver

Halloweenz Yo

Today we had a special guest! Jon was in to play the saw for us and it was very disturbing. It scared the taste out of my mouth. Seriously.

the Flaming Lips - Hit to Death in the Future Head - Halloween on the Barbary Coast
the Diamonds - Best of the Diamonds - Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula
Siouxie and the Banshees - Juju - Halloween
Plants and Animals - With avec EP - Trials & Tribulations
Mel Torme - Mel Torme at the Movies - Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives
Sonic Youth - Sister - Schizophrenia
Otis Redding - Dreams to Remember - Trick Or Treat
Death to Our Enemies - s/t - the Draculas
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic - Chrissy Kiss The Corpse
the Most Serene Republic - Population - A Mix Of Sun and Cloud
Electric Six - Fire - Electric Demons in Love
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookies Mountain - Wolf Like Me
the Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain - Crooked Legs
Petra Haden - Thriller (Michael Jackson cover)
the Mistfits - American Psycho - Hate the Living Love the Dead
How I Became the Bomb - Let's Go! - Robo
Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime EP - Citizens of Tomorrow
Gene Moss and the Monsters - Dracula's Greatest Hits - Surf Monster
Vincent Price - A Hornbook for Witches: Stories and Poems for Halloween - How to See Ghosts or Surely Bring Them To You
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Pig Lib - Ramp Of Death
Pixies - at the BBC - In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)

Makin' Socan

It's SOCAN week at CJSR, which means we are playing as much Canadian content as possible, so this week's show is an awesome 100% Canadian! Yeah! It's also a great reason to play music from my favourite almost-local band, Reverie Sound Revue...not only did Colin fall in love with it immediately, we even had a caller which is always a sign things are going well.

We Are Wolves - Total Magique - Coconut Night
Alpha Baby - You Gentle Crustacean - Mother's Union
the Painted Birds - So Much For The Rain - All I Can Do
Small Sins - Mood Swings - On the Line
Paul Arnusch - Get Out Of Your Basement - I Don't Want to Go Back Down
Whitey Houston - s/t - Liarbird
Mark Birtles Project - Art Crime - Pyramids
Reverie Sound Revue - EP - It's All the Same
Blue Sky Addicts - CBC Radio 3: Breaking New Sound - End of the Beginning
Novillero - Aim Right For the Holes In Their Lives - the Hypothesist
Melissa McLelland - Thumbelina's One Night Stand - Passenger 24
Dala - Who Do You Think You Are - Sunday Dress
Medical - Asleep At The Wheel - Gifts
Vers Libre - Tea - Alkazoid
Basia Bulat - POP Montreal 2007 compilation - the Pilgriming Vine
the Most Serene Republic - Population - the Men Who Live Upstairs
Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew - Spirit If... - Bodhi Sappy Weekend
Immaculate Machine - Les Uns Mais Pas Les Autres - Bateau Brise
Shout Out Out Out Out - Not Saying/Just Saying - Forever Indebted
Eisenhauer - To Those Impressed - Need to Know
Bob Wiseman - s/t - Dead Inside
Hector Fector - Oak & Elm Festival 2007 promo - Let's Make Friends

If you aren't up to any Halloween related shenanigans this Saturday the 27th, maybe you should think about checking out the Oak & Elm Festival down at the Blackspot Cafe (15120A Stony Plain Rd)....it's going from 11Am to Midnight. There are tons of great local acts on the bill, so get out there and support your scene! Hell, you should even dress up.

Stay tuned for next week's Halloween show, where we will have a special guest in!
Guess how I won't be dressed....

ugh.....that was a bad night....and it wasn't even Halloween.

FunDrive! 2007! Yeah!

FunDrive is the most magical time all year at CJSR, better than even any denominational holiday! It's a time when all the volunteers at the station come together with the common
goal of raising money for the station, like tiny ants feeding their queen...at any cost. Look at all the volunteer/ant minions in the early hours of FunDrive day 1!
Colin was even lucky enough to receive a balloon creature from the benevolent Powermannn of Kamikaze Komedy fame.

During this awesome promo shot (the first time Colin and I have been caught on film in the same room) Colin asked, "Should we look badass?" The answer, should you ever ask that yourself, is always, always look badass. Yikes!

Oh look! A live shot of the Vertical Struts record actually being played on the radio while the magnificent Herbie Mann looks on and approves of the grooves.

Things got super crazy for our FunDrive show, but Colin and I are happy to report that we raised $1743.50 to the CJSR cause! Thanks to everyone who phoned in and pledged! You keep us from becoming another morning zoo (cue toilet flush), so my endless thanks to all of you.
In the end, CJSR has met and surpassed its goal of $125, 000 and reached a final total of $129, 000! Rad! So thanks again to all our listeners and local sponsors! Makin' Whoopee saw some guest appearances by other CJSR volunteers like dj wetspot, fresh-from-Ireland Mike B, and even the mighty Daryl Richel. It was pretty nuts.

Da FunDrive playlist:

Paul McCartney - McCartney II - Temporary Secretary
Hot Panda - Get Out of Your Basement - My Tugboat Captain
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams - Ramblin' Rose
Mark Birtles Project - Urgency! Urgency! Emergency!! - SXS
James Brown - Soul Power
the Clutters - Don't Believe a Word - 9999 Ways to Hate Us
the Riverdales - Storm the Streets - Make Way
the Vertical Struts - Plans For Her 7" - Blues From An Airplane
Bang Lime - Best Friends In Love - Fly Paper
Ninja High School - Young Adults Against Suicide - Positive Laser
Pavement - Wowee Zowee - Kennel District
Joe Tex - Golden Legends - SYSLJFM (The Letter Song)
Chad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection - Red Hot Drops
Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts - Guest List
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky bonus - The Thanks I Get
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Me and Mia [by request!]

Somewhere in that last bit I also played Amsterdam by Peter Bjorn and John, but with all the FunDrive craziness I neglected to write it down. My bad!
See you this Tuesday, this time with Fortune Cookie.

-chadROCK

Oct 9, 2007

Bend Sinister - CBC Radio 3: Breaking New Sound - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Small Sins - Mood Swings - I Need A New Friend
the Carrie Nations - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Original Soundtrack - Sweet Talkin’ Candy Man
the Mohawk Lodge - Wildfires - Hard Times
Burt Bacharach - Make It Easy On Yourself - I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
the Cave Singers - Invitation Songs – Dancing On Our Graves
Josh Ritter - the Animal Years - Girl in the War
Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew – Spirit If… - Lucky Ones
Cosmic Starfish - It’s a Mistake – Tonight’s Flavors!
Dragons of Zynth - Coronation Thieves – War Lover
No One Must Ever No - s/t – (Hats) Off to Kitchens
Mark Birtles Project - Art Crime – Tick Tack Talk
Young Galaxy - Swing Your Heartache single – the Golden Coin
Toots and the Maytals – Light Your Light – Don’t Bother Me
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy – Fri/End
David LK Murphy - Goodbye - Goodbye
the Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – Fight Test
the Most Serene Republic – Population - Compliance
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling – I Was A Daughter
the Wildbirds - Golden Daze – Shake Shake
the Paperbacks - An Illusion Against Death – High Praise

And the we kind of spilled into Put ‘Er in ‘D’ For Dangle’s slot.

Nico - Chelsea Girl – I’ll Keep It With Mine
Johnny Cash - Music from Jackie Brown – Tennessee Stud
Corb Lund - The Gift: A Tribute to Ian Tyson - MC Horses
Bobby Womack - Music from Jackie Brown - Across 110th Street

Sept 25/07

Mark Birtles Project - Art Crime - Feel Nice
Lightning Dust - s/t - Wind Me Up
the Squares - Call Me When Your Boyfriend is Dead - Bottle Me Up
Tegan & Sara - "The Con" - Back In Your Head
Dana Wylie Band - Almost There - We Know the Secret
Cloak and Dagger - We/Are - Kamikaze
the Donnas - Bitchin' - Wasted
Nathan Lawr & the Minotaurs - Sea of Tiny Lights - Righteous Heart
the Portraits - s/t - Take Us Away
Sheepdogs - Trying to Grow - Headin' Down
Caribou - Melody Day - Melody Day (Four Tet remix)
Amos the Transparent - s/t - All You Belly Dancers! Unite! We Are But Sorrowed Men.
Foggy Hogtown Boys - Northern White Clouds - Country Rebel
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War - Take Me to the Riot
New Buff - Somewhere, Anywhere - Emotional Champ
Travis - 5 Good Feelings - The Line is Fine
Ani DeFranco - Evolve - Promised Land
Bebop Cowboys - Canadian Dance Hall - Yearning (Just For You)
'Weird' Al Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood - Close But No Cigar
Dala - Who Do You Think You Are - Marilyn Monroe
Built to Spill - Freebird EP - Free Bird

May 29/07

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky - Side With the Seeds
Dog Day - Night Group - Oh Dead Life
Collapsing Opposites - Inside Chance - Outside Problems
Patti Smith - Twelve - Are You Experienced?
Nico - Chelsea Girl - These Days
Bill Calahan - Woke on a Whaleheart - Footprints
Hot Panda - Whale-Headed Girl - Whale-Headed Girl
the Horrors - Strange House - She Is the New Thing
the Blow - Poor Aim: Love Songs - Hey Boy
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral - Pussy Foot the Duke
Small Sails - Similar Anniversaries - Backside of a Magnet
Shapes + Sizes - Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner - Head Movin'
Hunter Valentine - The Impatient Romantic - Break This
Pete Samples - Yours Makes Mine - Between Exhales
Immaculate Machine - Fables - Dear Confessor
Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair - Space Oddity
Bright Eyes - Cassadega - Hot Knives
Meatdraw - s/t - First Loves Last Rites
the Snuggle-Ups - Bridging the Distance - Dancing in the Dark
3 Inches of Blood - Battlecry Under a Winter Sun - Skeletal Onslaught
Wil - December 5 - Wedding Dress

MAY 8/07

Grayden Jones - the Ominous Panda EP - Wreck of a Human Being
Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg - My Machine
the Inbreds - Rheostatics Tribute - The Secret Sessions - Dope Friends and Booze Hands
Feist - The Reminder - Sealion
Son Volt - The Search - Underground Dream
Secret Mommy - Plays - Plays
the Fall - Reformation - Reformation
Kite Operations - Heart Attacks Back to Back - Chimera
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall - Cowgirl in the Sand
Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian - Caravan Breakers
Steven McKay - Whistler - Emma Comes Home
Wayne Petti - City Lights Align - Falling Behind
3 Inches of Blood - Battlecry Under a Winter Sun - Destroy the Orcs
Young Galaxy - s/t - Lazy Religion
the Evaporators - I Gotta Rash - I'm your Buddy
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Lose All Time - Dancefloor Destroyers
White Cowbell Oklahoma - Casa Diablo - Faster Than Sin
Patti Smith - Twleve - Gimme Shelter
the Cassettes - Play - Truck On (Truck)
Elliott Smith - New Moon - Miss Misery (early version)
Blonde Redhead - 23 - SW

April 17/07

Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position - The Magic Position
Blonde Redhead - 23 - 23
Knock Knock Ginger - Based on a True Story - Love Renée
the Cripple Lillies - La Bête - The Charred Heart of the Tin Woodsman
Priestbird - In Your Time - Season of the Sun
Young Galaxy - s/t - Swing Your Heartache
Midnight Movies - Lion the Girl - Souvenirs
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Lose All Time - Five Year Plan
Thousand Year Plan - Warhawk Tanxania - Risky Beats
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager - I-Spy
Grinderman - s/t - Electric Alice
SJ Esau - Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse - Geography
Secret Mommy - Plays - Kool-Aid River
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga - Four Winds
His Shaggy Cords - s/t - No Trickle Down
3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish - Deadly Sinners
Panda Bear - Person Pitch - Carrots
the Boss Hoss - Rodeo Radio - My Favourite Game
Small Sails - Similar Anniversaries - Somnambulist
the Guest Bedroom - Movement - We Need Trips