Archive for May, 2010

Top 30 CD – Albums / May 19 – 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
No. Artist Recording Label
1 *Pack A.D. We Kill Computers - Mint
2 !Greg Macpherson Mr. Invitation - Smallman
3 Spy from Cairo Secretly Famous - Wonderwheel
4 *Hawksley Workman Meat - Isadora
5 *Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night – Jagjaguwar
6 *Basia Bulat Heart of My Own - Secret City
7 !Boats Cannonballs Cannonballs - Independent
8 !Tyler Shipley Sentinal Road – Grumpy Cloud
9 !Trio Bembe Trio Bembe - Independent
10 *Plants and Animals La La Land - Secret City
11 *Reverie Sound Revue Reverie Sound Revue - Boompa
12 !Various Artists Buried Treasures - Super Oldies.com
13 !Departures Kino Pravda - Borana
14 *Ohbijou Beacons - Arts & Crafts
15 Gossip Music for Men - Columbia
16 !Kids on Fire Kids on Fire - Transistor 66
17 !Patrick Keenan 2010 Demos - Independent
18 *Kinnie Starr A Different Day - Last Gang
19 !Ian Larue & the Condor A History of Layers – Independent
20 *Jason Collett Rat A Tat Tat - Arts & Crafts
21 Retribution Gospel Choir 2 - Sub Pop
22 *Young Doctors in Love 5 Golden Greats - Independent
23 Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate Ali & Toumani - World Circuit
24 Tom Waits Glitter & Doom Live - Anti
25 !Jesse Hill Demo - Mortfell Oktorium
26 Pavement Quarantine the Past - Matador
27 *Thee Silver Mt. Zion Kollaps Tradixionales - Constellation
28 Beach House Teen Dream - Sub Pop
29 Universe Zero Clivages - Cuneiform.
30 !Paperbacks Lit From Within - Parliament of Trees

‘Garageland’ begins June 5th!

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Join the volunteers of CKUW every Saturday in June as we race around the city sorting back yard treasure from bfi-bin trash. Garageland is a wild mix of scavenger hunt, on-air classifieds and swap-shop antics.

Follow this link to register your sale with our Garageland program & we’ll announce it on-air during the program.

Garageland 2010 launches Saturday June 5th @ 8am!

Phase One Radio – 10th Annual Summer Resident Series

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
May 20, 2010
10:00 pmto11:59 pm

www.phaseoneradio.ca

Harry Chan (house/Vancouver)

Next week: Cyclist (post-disco/houseWinnipeg)

Play Ball

Friday, May 14th, 2010
May 17, 2010
12:01 pmto1:00 pm

UMSS interview via the phone with Paul Edmonds, Goldeyes play by play for CFRW 1290 am, to preview the goldeyes season!

CKUW Award Winners Announced!

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Last night was CKUW’s 4th annual awards celebration. Thank you to everyone who came out to toast our amazing station!

Say it Sista! accepts their award

People’s Choice (as voted by our listeners)

  • Favourite Spoken Word – Say It, Sista! (Thurs 8am)
  • Favourite Music Show – The Tonic (Mon 7:30pm)
  • Favourite Radio Host – Lil’ Miss Britt (Sat 9am)
  • Favourite Radio Moment/Special Performance – Fred Penner on Mud Puddle Radio’s 2010 FUNdrive show

Best of CKUW

  • Best Spoken Word Show – Hear There Be Dragons (Sun 4pm)
  • Best Music Show (Core) – Same Train, Different Time (Tues 6pm)
  • Best Music Show (Specialty) – One Man’s Jazz (Sat 1pm)
  • Rookie of the Year – Gololcha Boru & Jake Nikkel for Gold Soundz (Fri 3:30pm)
  • Behind the Scenes/Keener Award – Tim Brandt
  • Community Engagement – AJ Lezak
  • Music Department Award – David Tymoshchuk

Congratulations to all the winners !

The Saturday Morning Show has a special fill-in host!

Thursday, May 13th, 2010
May 15, 2010
6:00 amto8:00 am

While radio veteran Ron Robinson take a short break, catch the big-time live radio debut hosting for Michael Gerl this Saturday morning.

Tune in for wakeup music, interviews with Cindy Klassen, Scott Oake and a special guest you wont wanna miss!