This program is dedicated to the best of contemporary jazz music, affirming that jazz music is relevant and thriving today. In each episode, expect to hear music from current and recent releases and some classic jazz.
Improvisation, free jazz, contemporary composition, spoken word, mash-ups, plunderphonics, ambient, electronics, avant, post rock, extreme, outer limits are some descriptors.
Keeping dudes pitted with radical surf and garage rock n roll in the landlocked prairies!
Music and happenings from Eritrea and the Eritrean community in Calgary.
House. Techno. Pop. Global bass. Darkwave.
This upbeat program focuses on Soca/Calypso music, showcasing artists, interviews, and news from the Caribbean.
It's been a week. Let host Val help you dip into your weekend wind down with an hour of chill beats, soul, funk, R&B. Sponsored by the CJSW Friends Card
Welcome to the Blues Witness, featuring the best in blues from across Canada and beyond.
Fullmoon Funkalicious
The most dangerous metal show on Earth.
A mix-up and mash-up of the best of CJSW late-night tunes. It's gothic. It's dark. It's the perfect soundtrack for the late night of the weekend.
Beat Salad is a fresh take on your weekday morning CJSW jazz routine. A recipe to ease you into your day, jazz is complimented by hip hop and soul with flavours that explore the sounds that link the three together.
Each week Peter your musical archeologist unearths a CJSW chart from the past as featured in the annals of Vox magazine. Listen to how these building blocks of indie rock echo down through the music of today. Sponsored by the CJSW Friends Card
The best of Hardcore Techno, Speedcore, Gabber, Rotterdam, Experimental and Techno Classics.
Exploration into music with a pulse, meaning, and soul. A melding of the past, present and future, dedicated to launch you into the weekend with a curated-kinetic sense of timely and timeless. A beat-oriented musical joyride whose focus is on the journey, not the destination.
Join Megan Friday mornings for some toe-tapping bebop and straight-ahead jazz, as we make our way towards Funk, Ska, Soul and Afrobeat. Lush Life will explore music from local and Canadian artists, under-represented artists and as much kick-ass lady jazz as possible.
Tim takes you on a rip roaring rock n' roll journey through the recess of 60's garage to the heights of post punk, sprinkled with hip music from today's ace players. Always the most modern music of its time. Sponsored by the Dandy Brewing Company
Puny humans beware! Radio Free Transylvania is a high-octane, white-knuckle thrill ride through the wild and weird world of Planet Stupid hosted by everyone’s favourite trans-dimensional Transylvanian tyrant turned radio host, Baron Mark Von Frankenstine XIII. It doesn’t matter if you’re a wastoid, a lobotomite or just a garden variety jerkazoid, Radio Free Transylvania is guaranteed to provide your feeble mortal brain with the chilling thrills that kill!
If you dig the weirder and waxier side of life, tune your eardrums for two hours of riveting misfit music - lotsa fuzz lotsa noise and no fun. Sponsored by the Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
Enticing, sometimes challenging, music from the vast underground for thirsty ears and enquiring minds: post-punk, instrumental, math rock, avant, jazz, electronic, indie, funk and global grooves. Kerry has been mashing up independent, non-commercial sounds that cross disciplines and decades since 1987. Sponsored by High Line Brewing
Playing ska, reggae, and lovers rock from the 60s onwards
Artslink is a half-hour monthly program about the arts in Calgary. We will bring to listeners interviews on theatre, dance, visual arts and film that happen mostly in Calgary while being mindful of a larger audience. Hear from dancers, theatre artistic directors, filmmakers, performers and many more artists.
Katharsis/Processed is a weekly journey to the polar regions of contemporary music. These unfamiliar musical frontiers are scoured for adventurous new sounds still grounded in harmony, melody and beauty. Selections range from the sublimely quiet and reverent to overwhelming aural overload, but more often than not sustain a tranquil and soothing mood appropriate for later on a Sunday evening.
This program is dedicated to the education and exploration of disabled life, giving voice to the life and experience of people with disabilities. We cover a wide array of issues and disabilities. We are people who discuss issues we are passionate about and topics we are interested in. We show how disability is in the mind of the beholder.
A journey within, around, and all over the expansive folk genre. Les and Bruce each bring a different side of the folk narrative. Tune in for music old and new, and for stories along the way. Sponsored by Blindman Brewing
Part two of Shaolin Sundays, DJ Cosm brings the beats. Sponsored by the Cold Garden Beverage Company Ltd.
DirtyNeedles is Calgary’s premier weekly hip-hop mixshow on Calgary’s finest community radio station CJSW. Founded in 2001, DJ’s WyzeWon & Tanner of The TrackBastards Crew have been providing trueschool rap, soul, funk, disco, R&B, electro and general freshness over Calgary’s airwaves for over a decade.
Join your flight captain Adam Kamis every Thursday from 2 to 4 PM for a sonic trip through the hot sounds of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Remember, keep those seat belts buckled, tray tables secured, and that dial locked on 90.9 FM. Sponsored by Broken City
Bringing you music and opinion since 1984, featuring the best in dub, 4:20 reggae, afrobeat, latin, electronica, breakbeat, soul and funk.
A veritable local legend, The Nocturntable has been entertaining CJSW listeners with its signature madcap brand of “variety-core” for over twenty years. Join DJedi Christine each week for two-hours of psych-rock radio that’ll introduce you to that fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Groove, garage, punk, rock, prog, industrial, metal – just put your hands on the speaker and think real hard. *Psychic request line is in effect. Sponsored by Twinbat Sticker Co.
A mix of tunes for your Sunday afternoon! Sponsored by KOI.
Jack in your headphones and take a trip through genre, time, and place. Explore the Commonwealth with the pioneers of the music industry and discover new influenced by these innovators. Sponsored by the Ship & Anchor Pub
The Voice of Ethiopia is one of the many multicultural shows broadcasted on CJSW 90.9 FM. The Voice of Ethiopia focuses on current affairs and radio dramas in the Amharic language. We also air a variety of Ethiopian music, some of which very similar to blues and jazz. This program is the only source of information on Ethiopia on Calgary airwaves.
A show for curious Calgarians who want more than the daily news grind. Hosted by Jeremy Klaszus. A collaboration between CJSW 90.9 FM and The Sprawl.
The Good Medicine Show is here to bring you good medicine through music. Host Cam Siferd are your guides to music that is nostalgic and refreshing. Rediscover music. Reclaim music. Listen to the beats that take you back.
High energy, fast tempos and anything else that gets your blood flowing. Chevy and Tallan are giving power to the people with a blend head-banging and fist-pumping tracks to keep rocking all night long. Be Ready To Get Up And Go!
Starting the week isn’t easy. Ease into it with hazy, reverb-soaked tunes, spacey epics and jangle-pop wake-up calls. Sponsored by Wordfest's Imagine On Air
Speaking in Tongues is currently CJSW’s only generalist world music show. For two hours every week Speaking in Tongues features the widest possible range of traditional and popular sounds from around the planet, from obscure reissues to the newest of new releases being highlighted on the global stage.
Two hours of Chaos and Confusion, with Industrial, EBM, and other such dark electro on the first hour, and Gothic Metal, Progressive Metal, and Melodic-death Metal on the second.
Knotted Roots: a show dedicated to playing music from the essence of its prime. Mixing the roots of soul, reggae, to the incorporation of hip hop from the past and present. Sponsored by Workshop Studios
Tallan Did Not Know What To Put As A Description! LET'S GO!!! Playlist: Overzealous - Collapsing Castle Everything Everything - Pizza Boy Jack J - If You Don't Know Why Dadi og Gagnamagnia - Think About Things Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf A Banana Local Artist - Dreamer Superorganism - Teenager Cosmo's Midnight - Bang My Line (feat. Tkay Maidza) cho…
Playlist: Lil Keed - Make U Proud WHIPPED CREAM - I Do The Most Feat. Lil Keed REES - The Spirit Henry Saiz - Iridescent Sandau - Sticky Rhythm Manuold - Intense Kijumba - She Drives A Red Ferrari Mogwaa - Spatial Bliss Nneka - Shining Star (Joe Goddard Remix) Steve Bug - Ode to Wildpitch Geato - Show Stopper Tyrek - I Could Be The One Mark Grusane…
#121 Playlist: Jazzanova - Root In 7-4 Plus MODLEE - Wonder Tanika Charles, featuring DijahSB - Different Morning Robert Glasper , featuring Jennifer Hudson - Out Of My Hands Hiatus Kaiyote - Red Room (Ki Pharaoh Basement Edit) Busty and the Bass, STS - Waves (Reprise) parallel - I'M IN LOVE! Anomalie - Come Running to Me Busty and the Bass, STS - …
ROACKERS TAKEOVER WITH LIAM AND BLAISE REMOVE YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!! Playlist: King Tubby - ROCKERS ALMIGHTY Augustus Pablo - UNITY DUB PRINCE JAMMY - THRONE OF BLOOD RAS MICHEAL AND THE SONS OF NEGUS - BLACK VIBES DUB SYNDICATE - CRUCIAL TONY TRIES TO RESCUE THE SPACE INVADERS SINGERS AND PLAYERS - WORLD OF DISPENSATION DEBBIE GASKIN - WHATS THAT TIN…
Roll Over And Play Dead! Playlist: J.G. Thirlwell - No Vacancy Forbidden Dimension - The Golden Age Of Lasers Grisen Skriker - Sextiofem The Sid Presley Experience - Firewater Neighborhood Brats - We Own The Night Brian Eno - Blank Frank Ray Condo & His Hardrock Goners - Wild Guitar Las Vinylators - Acosador The Rivingtons - Mam Oom Mow Mow Stanley…
Playlist: Oliver, Yelle - Heterotopia (feat. Yelle) PREGOBLIN - Combustion Sinkane, Roosevelt - Telephone - Roosevelt Remix Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tensnake - Sylvia Says (Tensnake Remix) Sophia Bel - You're Not Real You're Just A Ghost LA Priest, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Beginning - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix RJ Maxwell - M…
Playlist: Potatohead People - What it Feels Like bRavenous - Run It Princess Nokia - Green Eggs & Ham TYSON - Tuesday St. Panther - Problems Sargeant X Comrade - Stages Funkamammoth - A Happy Song Tendavillage - Escargot and Risotto Aaron Frazer - Bad News Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - How Long Do I Have to Wait for You? The Electric Peanut Butter…
What Y'all Been Waiting For Playlist: Sinzere - Tricky Stu Bangas & Black Sheep Dres - Killin It (For a Lil Bit) Dangermouse & Black Thought - No Gold Teeth Method Man, featuring Redman, KRS One & Jojo Pellengrino - Live From the Meth Lab The Good People - The Fat Lacing Ghettosocks & DK, featuring Phoenix Pagliacci & LXVNDR - Be A Mango Briskinthe…
Playlist: Camera Obscura - Sweetest Thing Brettyn Rose - Now Brettyn Rose - Hookup Heart Yukon Blonde - Radio Anyway Gang - I'm Just that Good The Sheepdogs - Nobody Brettyn Rose - Making Progress Senou & Romderful - Perfection
Playlist: Yemena Gebremichael Berya - Yemane Bery (nesant) Eritrean Hiro (Ato Weldeab Woldemariam Attempt of Assassination History Interview ), featuring Eritrean Hiro (Ato Weldeab Woldemariam Attempt of Assassination History Interview ) - Eritrean Hiro (Ato Weldeab Woldemariam Attempt of Assassination History Interview ) Discussion with Dr Tesfami…
Playlist: cleo - way of the world cleo - i like trouble beMyne - illusions sweeta - from nowhere hulu - in description adenkule - sinner bep rework - hung up kulu - art more than love - more than love umi rework - put your records on Colours NYC - OMG Tanika Charles - Gin and Wine tanika charles - paint brush tanika charles - different morning Tani…
This week's edition of Into The Vault features Angelspit! Playlist: Straw Man Army - Faces In The Dark The Birthday Massacre - Precious Hearts Guerilla Toss - Heathen In Me Riki - Viktor Kid Le Chat - The Others Angelspit - Fuck Fashion Angelspit - 100% Angelspit - Skinny Little Bitch Fontaines DC - Jackie Down The Line Folly Group - Paying The Pri…
*"Blood Moon Radio"* Playlist: Henry Rollins - Low SO Spiritualized - The Mainline Song Röyksopp, featuring Alison Goldfrapp - Impossible Fontaines DC - Roman Holiday Frog Eyes - The Bees Voyeur's Market - Going Your Own Way Wine Lips - Kamikaze The Linda Lindas - Remember Mean Jeans - Twistin on a Cliff Romero - Happy Hour All Hands On Jane - Get …
August 1999 Playlist: Moby - Body Rock Cibo Matto - Sci-Fi Wasabi The Donnas - You Don't Want To Call Tricky Woo - Fell From A Cloud The Von Zippers - I'm Bugged Great Uncle Bull - Hello City Limits Ween - Japanese Cowboy Black Halos - Retro World Guided By Voices - Dragons Awake! Ron Sexsmith - One Grey Morning Crystal Eyes - A Dream I Had Bozo - …
Playlist: HALF PINT - LEVEL THE THE VIBES BLACK HERO - GREETINGS GINJAH - TUNE IN PAD ANTHONY - CONFRENCE TABLE ROYAL BLU - WITHOUT LOVE BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - SUN IS SHINING BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - JAMMIMG BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - DEM BELLYFUL ADMIRAL TIBBETT - IN THE GHETTO. JON MOUSE - COST OF LIVING COCO TEA & JOHNNY P - COME LOVE ME E…
Playlist: MACHEL MONTANO - TALKIN THAT TALK 5 STAR AKIL - LOVE POTION LYRIKAL - OVER AND OVER MARZVILLE - IN DEH JOAQUIN - RIGHT RIGHT NOW PATRICE ROBERTS - I LOVE YOU MORE MACHEL MONTANO - HIGH LIFE PROBLEM CHILD - LIFE IS A BEACH PATRICE ROBERTS - TRICKS WRONG WOMAN VIKING DING DONG - LEAVE IT ALONE RICKY T - PULL IT UP SALTY - WORK NESSA PREPPY …
Playlist: Batida, featuring Mayra Andrade - Bom Bom Clinton Fearon - Trod On Sly5thAve & Roberto Verástegui - La Tormenta Othman Wahabi - Djeli Juanita Euka - Mboka Moko Congotronics International, featuring Deerhoof, Juana Molina, Kasai All Stars, Konono No. 1, Wildbirds & Peacedrums & Skeletons - Kule Kule Redux Pierre Kwenders, featuring Anaiis …
Playlist: Ted afro and others - ethio musi collections kal kin - eshi kezias demoz jhon - anena wengebedu henok getachew - endeza new haimanot girma - kezira buttee - nab araarsaa hana mohamed - new oromo solomon tigabu - aye gize mesay tefera - akale
Playlist: varies artist - ethiopian music collections gosay tesfaye - alekaye
Playlist: El Camino, featuring Curren$y - Better Than Love Black Star - No Fear Of Time Daniel Son - Heel Kick OT the Real x Statik Selektah, featuring Merkules - The Bottom D-Track - Soroche Paul Wall x Statik Selektah, featuring Nems & Fly Anakin - No Tolerance Pusha T - I Pray For You El Camino, featuring Keisha Plum - Fashionably Late Curren$y …
Playlist: James Brown - My Thang Gramatick - Doin My Thing Bibi Tanga and The Selenite - My Heart is Jumping Flevans - Go Get The Big Horn Mo Funk - Brother Did You Find Children Of Judah - Get On Down Stevie Wonder V The Reflex - Living For The City Funkshone - SoulTorch Malente - Fade To Grey
Playlist: Figure - Friday the 13th (Big Once VIP) BARRINGTON LEVY - Under Mi Sensi (Particle remix) Champagne Breakfast - Sunset Second City, Tyler Rowe - I Enter (Adzzy bootleg) Vibe Chemistry - Like This Wiz Khalifa - Black & Yellow (remix) Clean Bandit - Everything but you (remix) Realist - Murda Inna Dance XAV, Zach - Hanging Tree Looney Dnb - …
Playlist: Van Kaye & Ignit - The Heat Elephants Never Sleep - Jungle Son of Sam - Ehonte (Shameless) Folly Group - Faint of Hearts Fontaines D.C. - Skinny Fia Various Artists, Gravelin - White Trash Happy Refugees - Inertia Gus Englehorn - Terrible Horse TJ Webb - Dinosaurs Are Real Straw Man Army - FACES IN THE DARK LETHA - R.R. Razar - Here Is th…
Playlist: MODLEE - Soul Urge Pierre Kwenders - No No No Frazey Ford - U and Me Tanika Charles - Million Ways Juanita Euka - Mboka Moko Phonosonics - Rocksteady Heavyweights Citizen Sound - Love Someone Thievery Corporation - Exilio (Rewound) Damian Jr Gong Marley - Welcome to Jamrock Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - Survivor The Heavy - Mi…
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Connect with Lush Life on IG: lushlife.cjsw or email lushlife@cjsw.com for requests Playlist: Harry Skoler - Sue's Changes Lorna MacLachlan - Spirit Christina Von Bülow - I Love Paris Sam Kirmayer - Afterthought Sonny Rollins, featuring Han Bennink & Ruud Jacobs - Tune Up Kalia Vandever - Pick It Up (And Drop It Again) Cécile McLorin Salvant - The …
Couple of heavy, deadly tunes, as well as some feel good rockers, because let's face it: it was a tough week for many, including yours truly. Plus, killer new J-metal releases from NEMOPHILA and BRIDEAR! Playlist: Iron Maiden - Childhood's End Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth Twisted Sister - The Price Veiled in Scarlet - Cage Saiseiga - Illusio…
Playlist: Kenny Hamber - Show Me Your Money Richard and the Young Lions - You Can Make It Ronnie Burns - Exit Stage Right The Expressions - Return To Innocence The Orphans - Without You The Turtles - Outside Chance King Khan & His Shrines - Three Hairs and You're Mine JB Green and Born Again - Time Dewey Terry - Do On My Feet What I Did On The Stre…
Bruce. A selection of new releases from Canada and elswhere. Music from the Balkans. Happy Birthday to Martha Wainwright, Maybelle Carter and Tom Phillips. And more. Playlist: Martha Wainwright - See Emily Play Raine Hamilton - Mountain Henge Pelkka Poutanen - Mita Tuolta Kauka Nakky Fanfare Ciocarlia - Hora evreiasca Graiu - Nu na dzatz patriotzi …
Playlist: LIFE - Almost Home Crack Cloud - Please Yourself Gus Englehorn - Tarantula Children of the Pope - Junkie Girlfriend The Stone Roses - Here it Comes Grim Streaker - Mind Folly Group - I Raise You (The Price of Your Head) Bauhaus - Dancing Arctic Monkeys - American Sports Stereolab - Percolator Hélène Barbier - Regulus Automatic - New Begin…
Playlist: Crystal Eyes - Don't Turn Around Straw Man Army - FACES IN THE DARK Poltergeist - Through Clouded Eyes Kurt Vile - Stuffed Leopard Sacha Crow - Like Honey, Like Salt Jane Inc - An Ordinary Thing Soft Lions - Pretty Enough Ramshackle Glory - More About Alcoholism AJJ - Solidarity Forever Less Miserable - Living Well Is The Best Revenge Qui…
Playlist: radio zumbido - dj salvacion/caracol sandro perri - sky histoire amon tobin - vipers elizabeth anika vajagic - when you wander Pierre Kwenders - sahara MATTIE - sanctify me do make say think - chinatown BEYRIES - out of touch dirty three - sirena nite twin - nearly departed Animal Collective - dragon slayer sons of kemet - think of home h…
Samora Pinderhughes, Immanuel Wilkins, Eubanks Evans Experience, Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth, Jon McCaslin, Rubim de Toledo, Juanita Euka, Jas Kayser, Jamie Lee, Anthony Fung Playlist: Samora Pinderhughes, featuring Immanuel Wilkins - Masculinity Immanuel Wilkins, featuring Elena Pinderhughes - Lighthouse…
Rock On This Power Trip! LET'S GO!!! Playlist: Overzealous - Collapsing Castle Fang Island - Never Understand Shirley & The Pyramids - Sapanta Blue Young Neighbours - Famous (Live) Exek - (I'm After) Your Best Interests Fitness - Exchange - Demo Did You Die - Hallie Paradise - Face / Wipe Empath - House + Universe Weaves - Neighborhood #3 (Power Ou…
Playlist: Dave Riley & Bob Corritore - Home In Chicago Tia Carroll - Mama Told Me Amos Garrett, Doug Saum & Gene Taylor - Don't Tell Me Rita Chiarelli - Mercy Blues Kenny Neal - Bon Temps Roulez Dave Weld & the Imperial Flames - Red Hot Tabasco Steve Strongman - Money In the Bank Son Of Dave - Don't You Know Who I Am Willy Jackson - Give Me My Rib …
Playlist: Rethabile Khumalo - Nguwe Feat. Exclusive Drumz Toxicated Keys - Me Now DJ Obza & Bongo Beats - Jeso Waka Feat. Dr. Winnie Mashaba & DJ Gizo SOEL - Path Tracker Pablo Bozzi - Overload Chloé (Thévenin) & Vassilena Serafimova - The Dawn - Sequenza Version (Pional Remix) RJ Maxwell - Activate Remcord - Four 2 Zero DJ KAOS - Spiral Jetty (Gli…
Playlist: Tanika Charles - Love Don't Mean a Thing MODLEE - Grass is blue AlexintheMiddle - LIGHTS OUT Anomalie - Dribble Ghettosocks, DK, featuring C.L. Smooth & El Da Sensei - The Masters Monodrone - doused in indigo Sly5thAve & Roberto Verástegui - Tie Break (Radio Edit) Jazzanova - Saturday Night Special Werkha - Move Different King Gizzard & t…
Never Mind The Jerkazoids, Here's Radio Free Transylvania! Playlist: J.G. Thirlwell - No Vacancy The Carbonas - Uneasy Alliance The Lively Ones - Goofy Foot Jane Aire & The Belvederes - Take It To The Next Wave Matt Ellis - Don't Wanna Know The Hex Dispensers - I've Got My Doppelganger On The Shiverettes - Broken Record The Modernettes - Barbra The…
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What's the right music for a snowy day in May? Icelandic pop, sad turn-of-the-millennium songs from Germany, ascendant electronic jazz, subdued synth-pop and intercontinental collaborations all take a shot at setting the tone. We'll see what sticks. Playlist: Esmerine - Entropy: Acquiesence Skúli Sverrisson - Sería tstewart - baxter climb GoGo Pen…
(Kevin) Playlist: Ryley Walker & Daniel Bachman - The Psychic Parish Acetone - Shore Power Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Father Father Devin Shaffer - Dreaming Grouper - Ode to the Blue Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Road Bells A Lily - Konstantin Benedicte Maurseth - Reinsdyrbjøller Masayoshi Fujita - Led by a Blue Bird into the Mountain Between - prelude (0…