Join DJ Cosm as he chefs up a weekly blend of delectable flavours. Formerly known as Mental Illness, the Main Ingredient remains Alberta’s longest running hip hop mix show. There’s no better way to cap off your weekend than a healthy serving of underground and classic rap. Sponsored by the Cold Garden Beverage Company Ltd.

For over 30 years, NOISE has been the home of the avant-garde, experimental, and free expression! Join host Steve as he takes you on a journey through all that is NOISE. You'll hear everything from improvisational composition, free jazz, neo-classical and plunderphonics to post rock, extreme, outsider, and more! So sit back, turn it up, and embrace the NOISE! Sponsored by Cavalcade Auto Acceptance

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

Playing ska, reggae, and lovers rock from the 60s onwards Sponsored by A1 Spice & Grocery

Music and happenings from Eritrea and the Eritrean community in Calgary.

Fullmoon Funkalicious

The most dangerous metal show on Earth.

House. Techno. Pop. Global bass. Darkwave. Sponsored by Confluence Distilling.

The best of Hardcore Techno, Speedcore, Gabber, Rotterdam, Experimental and Techno Classics.

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.

2 heavy hours a week of no wave neo wave noise wave neu wave new wave weird wave post wave outsider wavez tsunami waves maybe raves and punkpunkpunk. This is a punk show for the weirdos. Sponsored by the Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club

Bringing you music and opinion since 1984, featuring the best in dub, 4:20 reggae, afrobeat, latin, electronica, breakbeat, soul and funk. Sponsored by Kensington Wine Market

Welcome to the Blues Witness, with your host Cindy McLeod, featuring the best in blues from across Canada and beyond.

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.

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.

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.

Bumping into Walls is a monthly, conversation-style spoken word program about living with vision loss, the challenges, the successes, and the day-to-day walls we all bump into.

A mix of tunes for your Sunday afternoon! Sponsored by The Attic Bar & Stage

Starting the week isn’t easy. Ease into it with hazy, reverb-soaked tunes, spacey epics and jangle-pop wake-up calls.

Join Lauz for your weekly dose of LOUD! Two hours of power on the airwaves, ranging from hard and heavy rock n roll, through each sub genre on the heavy metal family tree. Expect some classics and some new discoveries, from here and from far, far away. Time to tear it up, legends!

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.

Thoughtfully curated new music spanning the genres of experimental, avant-pop, electronic, folk, world, and hip-hop featuring interviews on the subjects of art, politics, the environment, and community in Calgary, Alberta and beyond. Sponsored by the Establishment Brewing Company Alternates with What's Your Niche every Thursday morning.

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!

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.

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 Hot Wax Records

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 Blindman Brewing

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.

Join host Chris Brennan every Monday afternoon for 2 hours of live mixed electronic music! From dancefloor classics of the past to mechanical rhythms of the future, The Brutal & The Beautiful has all the unpredictable flare of a daytime soap opera. Sponsored by Cannibale Get in touch! Instagram: @InOrderToDanse Facebook: InOrderToDanse Email: brutalandbeautiful@gmail.com

Fade to Bass is your weekly lesson in all things bass. Exploring House and Techno that possess bass low enough to crack the foundations of most suburban homes. Tune in every Friday night from 7-8 pm as the sun dips and the weekend arrives and let Crooka kick start your night.

Joan Sarro spins new top tracks & all eras of punk, post-punk, garage, electronic, indie, k-tel gold, everything between & outside the lines. Sit back, dance in your car, do what you want, enjoy. Music freaks of the world unite. Sponsored by International Avenue BRZ

A program dedicated to educating, helping, informing, and inspiring the general public to be better versions of themselves and enjoy an enhanced quality of life. The topics offered cover a variety of lifestyle areas such as social, cultural, health and wellness, business, civic programs and initiatives, provincial and federal programs which impact local Calgary life - all presented in a new, fresh and dynamic package which listeners will easily understand and identify with.

Rinsing it proper since 1997, Remote Emissions is Calgary's longest running drum n' bass radio show. Whether it's rowdy mix sessions with top dnb/dubstep talent, to introspective unplanned journeys, The Lotus Queen, Lady Bee and other special guests will provide the choicest bass selections for your Friday night soundtrack.

Listen to Breaking The Tethers for music you could call jazz, broadly defined. Free, modal, experimental, avant, out there, and more are words you could use for the music that BTT feeds to your ears. Breaking The Tethers sends out tentacles to experimental, folk, rock, world, and odd stuff that doesn’t have a label. Presented to you as a Monday morning sound experience. Suggestions, requests, and comments are always welcome.

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. Sponsored by Last Best Brewing & Distilling

Outsider Music with a grain of salt: If you enjoy your music being a little weird, a little darker..then welcome to The Doppler Effect! We seek out hard to find musicians, as well as music from the past, in the hopes of sharing some diverse genres with the open minded music lover like you. We hope you enjoy the show!

When the sun goes down the adventure is just beginning. Dive deep into the newest sounds in bass music, including dubstep, footwork, juke, leftfield and halftime. WWTNT brings the party to your living room with personal selects from your host Carissa Gem. The last Friday of every month is dedicated to producer and label showcases from Calgary and beyond.

“We live in a time I think not of mainstream, but of many streams, or even, if you insist upon a river of time, that we have come to a delta, maybe even beyond delta to an ocean which is going back to the skies.” -John Cage This quote, I believe, truly embodies the idea of music today. Yet, this quote is even more applicable to world of “classical” music. There are so many different avenues of new classical music, that one must ask oneself, “That’s classical?” That is the idea that we try an ...

Crushing posers since 1986, Megawatt Mayhem stands as one of the world’s longest running Heavy Metal programs. Each week JP brings a range of all styles and all genres of Heavy Metal. From the Golden Gods of the 70’s to the newest, latest, greatest, unsigned garage bands, Megawatt covers it all. Featuring all eras and all genres, with themes, features, spotlights and more, Megawatt plays the truest of the true.

English The original Pilipino radio program in Calgary, Radyo Pilipino broadcasts every Sunday from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM on CJSW 90.9 FM. Focusing on Filipino music, culture, news from the old country around the globe and here in Calgary, local events, and happenings of both our 1st and 2nd generation Filipino Canadians. Our dedication line is open so we can celebrate birthdays, weddings, and more with listeners. With the current increase of immigrants from the Philippines, we also have spec ...

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 MerGen Law

English: Every Saturday morning we are on air for our local and international listeners with our German radio show “Bunte Welle”. We are focused on the most beautiful German hits of all times, and entertain a wide range of people with our music selection, information about the artists, current affairs and local events. We are part of the multicultural program. Responsible for radio “Bunte Welle” are Hilli and Fritz Schmitt, whereby Hilli leads you through the show as a moderator and Fritz ac ...

Classicool is a show where we listen to classical music and talk about it in a fun, accessible way.

'Lift The Bandstand' is Wednesday evening Jazz on CJSW. The show is hosted by Gordon Hilton Fick. Gordon has been with CJSW since June of 1995. Most weeks, 'Lift The Bandstand' has a specific theme. The theme might be based around the compositions and performances by a specific artist. Sometimes an entire show is devoted to a single composition and the varied interpretations of that tune. The show title 'Lift The Bandstand' comes from a Steve Lacy quote: 'When I used to work with Monk, he us ...

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

CJSW’s monthly foray into literature. Hosted and produced by a student driven collective, Writer’s Block is focused on local events, writers, poets, publishers, while keeping an eye on the bigger literary picture across the country and around the world! Writer’s Block airs at 90.9 on the FM dial in Calgary on the third Wednesday of every month at 8 p.m.

Some of the newest and most exciting music at CJSW, fresh from the desk of Music Director Whitney Ota. Sponsored by the CJSW Friends Card

We call it The Weird Vector. Because the front wheel's a little loose. Various explorations into unknown or vaguely familiar territory. Early electronics, recent releases, scores and soundtracks, experimental, avant garde, international music, films, writing, and games.

Where day shifts to night and for some, night to day; Where crepuscular creatures come out to play. The night is just beginning, and there’s no better time For some dark and dreamy music that sounds so sublime. Awaken with Tyra as she digs deep Into the dark sounds of the night that will thwart you from sleep.