Archive for March, 2010

Top 10 CD – Albums / March 24 – 30, 2010

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
No. Artist Recording Label
1 Spy from Cairo Secretly Famous Wonderwheel
2 !Greg Macpherson Mr. Invitation - Smallman
3 !Trio Bembe Trio Bembe - Independent
4 !Various Artists Manitoba Music - Manitoba Music
5 !Ian Larue & the Condor A History of Layers – Independent
6 !Departures Kino Pravda - Borana
7 !Retribution Gospel Choir 2 - Sub Pop
8 Burzum Belus - Byelobog Productions
9 Vampire Weekend Contra - XL Recordings
10 !Paperbacks Lit From Within - Parliament of Trees

Red Painted Red on Shopworn Angel

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
March 31, 2010
10:00 pmto11:30 pm

Tune in tomorrow night to hear a live interview with Simon Carroll of Manchester’s Red Painted Red. Listeners of shop worn angel have been able to connect weekly with the beautiful and haunting music of Red Painted Red.

myspace.com/redpaintedred

Hugh Cornwell still wearing CKUW Toque!

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

CKUW’s favourite first wave punk, Hugh Cornwell has been spotted again wearing a CKUW Toque. You can watch the clip on You Tube while you’re downloading his latest album ‘Hoover Dam’.

25th FLOOR JUKE JOINT, THURSDAY, MARCH 25th

Thursday, March 25th, 2010
March 25, 2010
8:00 pmto9:00 pm

Join hosts Mike ‘Das Tier’ Litwin and James QPublic as they spin tracks from NYC No Wavers Suicide and Lydia Lunch. Also featured will be tracks from the seminal but overlooked NYC punk band Sonny Vincent and the Testors and an interview with Kier-La Janisse about her upcoming Suicide Tribute show.

As well James will preview Winnipeg punkers Prostitots upcoming Albert show and spin tracks from local favs Trousermouth.

More info: 25th Floor Juke Joint page on Facebook

Phase One Radio – Mutek Edition

Thursday, March 25th, 2010
March 25, 2010
10:00 pmto11:59 pm

www.phaseoneradio.ca

10 – Akufen (Techno/Perlon/Musique Risquée/Montreal)
11 – Thomas Felhmann (Dub-techno/The Orb/Kompakt/Berlin)

500th edition of Shades of Classics!

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
March 28, 2010
8:00 amto10:00 am

John will celebrate his 500th Shades of Classics program with a special selection of music, and a live via-telephone interview with the preeminent Canadian composer Michael Conway Baker. Michael’s music kicks off Shades of Classics every Sunday morning.