Keeping dudes pitted with radical surf and garage rock n roll in the landlocked prairies!
The best of Hardcore Techno, Speedcore, Gabber, Rotterdam, Experimental and Techno Classics.
Music and happenings from Eritrea and the Eritrean community in Calgary.
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.
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
This upbeat program focuses on Soca/Calypso music, showcasing artists, interviews, and news from the Caribbean.
Fullmoon Funkalicious
The most dangerous metal show on Earth.
Welcome to the Blues Witness, featuring the best in blues from across Canada and beyond.
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.
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.
House. Techno. Pop. Global bass. Darkwave.
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.
Where music meets mysticism, take a sonic journey through the Tarot each week as host Rachel spins a musical mix curated to match each card.
Playing ska, reggae, and lovers rock from the 60s onwards
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!
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
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
What’s in a name? Everyone knows Wednesday’s are the beginning of the end of the week—what better way to start that “hump” than with 3 hours of curated genre-bending goodness. Discover more about your new favourite artists through weekly guest features and engaging dialogue. Sponsored by The Eden
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
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.
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
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
Improvisation, free jazz, contemporary composition, spoken word, mash-ups, plunderphonics, ambient, electronics, avant, post rock, extreme, outer limits are some descriptors.
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.
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.
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
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
Bringing you music and opinion since 1984, featuring the best in dub, 4:20 reggae, afrobeat, latin, electronica, breakbeat, soul and funk. Sponsored by Kensignton Wine Market
Part two of Shaolin Sundays, DJ Cosm brings the beats. Sponsored by the Cold Garden Beverage Company Ltd.
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.
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.
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. Sponsored by Wordfest's Imagine On Air
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The Dog House, co-hosted and mixed by DJ BLKFT and Woodstock, will bring you through a complex journey of hip-hop and house music that will keep the dogs barking all night long. Sponsored by Confluence Distilling
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
Playlist: Boma Bango - Pitié Ali Farka Touré - Safari Altin Gün - Rakıya Su Katamam Aldus Roger & The Lafayette Playboys - Marie Roberto López - Guajira de Paz Terreur Twist - J'Irai Surfer sur vos Tombes Various Artists, featuring Shane Ghostkeeper - One More Name Various Artists, featuring Uyemi - Moving Quietly Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, fe…
Playlist: aster awoke - ene sintayehu belay - abanenegn balkew alemu - zewditu berhan - amen yirdaw tena - bemaleda
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Playlist: Cordae - Two Tens Styles P - Pressure Bobby J From Rockaway & Nef - Mind, Body & Soul Daniel Son & Kostia - Heavy Rain Cory Gunz & David Bars - Brand New Kool G Rap - Fly Till I Die Little Simz - Gorilla NaS - Recession Proof Ghettosocks & DK - Be A Mango Raz Fresco - What Happened Newselph - What's Wrong Cormega - Life & Rhymes Tona - Kw…
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Playlist: IDLES - The New Sensation MARAUDEUR - Le Couloir Du Soir Snõõper - RUNNING Spread Joy - Chatter Bubble Boys - Sticky Sitch Pinch Points - King Rat Smirk - Living In Hell Willie & The Cigs - Airplane Strange Attractor - Invisible Man Rik & The Pigs - It's Alright Sniffany & The Nits - Chicken Liver Headcheese - Skill Set Tunic - Apprehensi…
AGE fills in for Rob! Playlist: 4th Measure Man - 4 You (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Arkady Antsyrev - Give Me This Traffic Report - Copenhager Strasse Frink - Bones Benny S - Mellow Shaked - In Deep Minor Sappurra - Zero Cool Binyamhn - now or ever manoova - don't stop Misla - My Pain Neritaan - telephone dreams…
Playlist: Arlo Parks - Weightless Christopher Brett Bailey - Go Fuck Yourself Karolina קרולינה, featuring Jenny Penkin - Ready for Juju Rooster37 - The Big Club Maxiroots & Dubmatix, featuring Longingah - Liberation Augustus Pablo - Leave the Dread Locks Godfree - Ayahuasca Pierre Kwenders - Coupé River Tiber - In Between Yazmin Lacey - Morning Mat…
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Connect with Lush Life on IG: lushlife.cjsw or email lushlife@cjsw.com for requests. Playlist: Gary Smulyan, Joe Magnarelli & Tilden Webb Trio - Minor Conundrum Jocelyn Gould and Hannah Burgé Luviano - Skylark Lauren Falls - I Want To Be Happy Jen Hodge All Stars - The Earthquake Drill Ingrid Jensen, Christine Jensen, Ben Monder, Fraser Hollins & J…
Dirtiest Thirtieth Anniversary Special: It's time to celebRAGE! Playlist: Cathedral - Sky Lifter (Rage Cage theme: 1993 - 1996) Cathedral - Ride Cathedral - Midnight Mountain Hizaki - Explosive Anger (Rage Cage theme: 2021 - Present) Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Kingdom of the Sun (Rage Cage theme: 2019 - 2021) Metalucifer - Heavy Metalucifer (Rage Cage the…
New Jazz Playlist: Brûlez les meubles - Dialogue tardif Charles Lloyd - Kuan Yin Satoko Fuji - One Hundred Dreams Part 3 Ingrid Jensen, christine Jensen - Foxy Trot Spike Wilner Trio - Pannonica TS Monk - Sierre Keith O'Rourke - The Tortoise Lucreita Dalt - No tiempo Julian Lage - Heart is a Drum Moor Mother, Orion Sun Jason Moran - Ode To Mary Mir…
Bruce. Guest: Suze Casey. We preview the rest of the CFC's season. Elle Celeste, Lucinda Williams and a experimental twist on a traditional acadian folk song. Events around town, and more. Playlist: Elle Celeste - Back Again Cassie and Maggie - Sisters Connie Kaldor - Sheep Creek Tom Phillips - Ballad Of Miss Rose Emily Triggs - Middletown Jig Jam …
Playlist: Ducks Ltd. - How Lonely Are You? The Tubs - Wretched Lie Bria - Don't Come Home-A-Drinkin' Royel Otis - Oysters In My Pocket Holy Fuck - Deleters English Teacher - Song About Love XTC - When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty Naima Bock - Campervan Fake Palms - Visions Dry Cleaning - Conservative Hell Siouxsie - Loveless Ghost Woman - Tripp…
Playlist: bruiré - devotion aux oitons meridian brothers - metamorfosis agnes obel - riverside off world - grail sandro perri - wrong about the rain Ernesto Cervini - surprised by joy animal collective - walker minutemen - the glory of man black country, new road - concorde T. Gowdy - miracles Status / Non-Status - mashkiki sunset The Muffins - exp…
Cam talks to Jeff McCallum, founder of Cups N' Cakes. It's a lovely chat! Playlist: Willie Nelson, Tom Petty - Goodnight Irene Status / Non-Status - Glide Zoon - Light Prism Fontine - Homemaker Frankie Cosmos - Fruit Stand Fartbarf - Simple Planet Angela Amarualik - Uvannik Margaret Tracteur - Une singe avec du linge Lisa LeBlanc - Ace of Spades Sl…
show filled by the best radio show duos Playlist: Foster The People - Lotus Eater Men I Trust - Billie Toppy Sea Of Lettuce - Caught In The Sun Preoccupations - Disarray Seoul - Haunt / A Light Exit Division - IB Stucco - Megaphone Mouth Slow Pulp - Preoccupied Last Dinosaurs - Sense Mixed Blame, featuring KJ Jansen - Fuse Chixdiggit! - I Hate Bask…
Kalia Vandever, Nick Dunston, Mali Obomsawin, GEORGE, Secret People, Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile, Stephen Gauci, Jessica Ackerley, Astroturf Noise, Michael Sarian, Marina Hasselberg, Alvaro Rojas, David Blake, Jim Head, Julian Lage Playlist: Kalia Vandever - False Memories Nick Dunston, featuring Kalia Vandever and DoYeon Kim - Pollinator Mali Obo…
Joan Sarro and The Spin Evolution begins with a salute to Robbie Burns and continues with the usual musical tomfoolery from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. kiss kiss Playlist: Carbolizer - Ice The Jesus and Mary Chain - Far Gone and Out Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) Ladytron - Faces Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - Sea, Swallow Me S…
Playlist: IAMDDB - Back Again Mahalia - Plastic Plants Raveena - Tweety Kali Uchis - I Wish You Roses Jimijames - BS or Worry River Tiber - Not Just Anyone KIRBY - Kool Aid SiR - Fire Planet Giza - UNAVAILABLE Digable Planets - Dedicated A$AP Rocky - Same Problems? Loony, featuring Mick Jenkins - royal flush Dave B, Da-P, Sun - Groove Theory MICHEL…
Fitzy Returns To The Studio IG: fitzy_ire Forthcoming Sets: February 03 - Cutting Shapes @ Shuffle Club February 11 - Rated Ultra Lounge March 04 - Beehive Presents @ Sub Rosa Playlist: Eddie Mercury, Mijo - La Alarma (Extended Edit) Matt Caine - Crime Boss (esette remix) G-Wash10 - Myth Enno Karr & Theo Hansen - Physiology Eagles & Butterflies - P…
Episode #156 - The greatest radio ever played between 5:30 AM and 7:00 AM on Tuesday mornings. Playlist: Donald Byrd - The East Nicholas Payton - Feed the Fire Elvin Jones - My Funny Valentine Posy, Seb Zillner - Message to Jun Steve Jackson, Carsten Rubeling - 4CHORDS Nu Vintage, Pat Van Dyke - Around The Globe José James, Diana Dzhabbar, Ebban Do…
Challenger Deep, Frank Shuman & Lightning vs. Lasers Playlist: J.G. Thirlwell - No Vacancy Thalasses - War Gods Of The Deep The Novels - I'm Being Followed Gitogito Hustler - Muscle Body Ecstasy The Bill Mason Band - Out On The Streets Moron's Morons - Sidewalk Service The Celibate Rifles - Circle Sun The Unusuals - So Goode Hans-A-Plast - Polizeik…
Take yourself on an auditory holiday, as the coastal reaches roll into the cool backwaters of the great prairies. Playlist: El Rego et Ses Commandos - Kpon Fi Li Ghost Woman - Arline Big Rig - Happy Song Scott McMicken and the Ever-Expanding - What About Now Mike Nyoni and Born Free - Kawalala The Good Samaritans - Aikemienaru-Nanorunomwan David Cr…
Jeremy Klaszus of the Sprawl joins in the third hour to talk about Calgary's civic identity—a topic that's endlessly engrossing to folks who live here, and hopefully tolerable to those of you who don't. If you're here for the music, you'll be well-served, too. We've got an eclectic mix, from Quebeçois chanson to psych-pop, Danish ambient tunes to D…
Celebrate Lunar New Years with me! An hour of programming featuring Asian & Asian Canadian artists, with a little interlude of lo-fi beats layered over traditional instruments rooted in the Sinosphere Playlist: KOREA TOWN ACID, featuring Zander Miller - Break the Spell Derek Chan - TAITAI (太太) FIG - Splinter Ginger Root - Over the Hill MC Jin - Chi…
Marta ~* Playlist: williamette - Echo Park Marine Eyes - cedarwood Aphex Twin - #3 Ambre ciel - Refrain d'emoi Ali Phi - Am North Atlantic Drift - Dream Revall Message To Bears - Daylight Goodbye (Worriedaboutsatan rework) Good Weather for an Airstrike - These Mountains Shuta Yasukochi - Hikari Arms and Sleepers - maybe this work is another planet'…
Jean Claude Vandalism Playlist: Jarv - Electric Slide Dooley O & Double K, featuring Jay Sonic, The Beloved Two B & Comel - Don't Start None Nord1kone & Lmt. Break, featuring Die-Rek & The I.M.F. - I Double L Pt. 2 1773 & Joe Tyse, featuring Neak & Cam Be - Cruising (Remix) Dillon & Tom Caruana - Let's Go Back RhymeStyleTroop, featuring Blame One, …
Playlist: Interview with Diversity resources Abdi Hassan - Interview with Diversity resources Abdi Hassan
This week's edition of Into The Vault features Attrition! Playlist: Freak Genes - Strange Charm Gloin - Pitchfork Harsh Symmetry - Mirror Twin Depeche Mode - The Dead Of Night The Soft Moon - Monster Preoccupations - Slowly Attrition - Behind Innocence, Lies Attrition - Pendulum Turns Attrition - The Mercy Machine Straw Man Army - The Right To Be F…
*"New Year of the Rabbit Moon"* Playlist: Boy Golden - The Year That Cayton Delaney Died The Rowdymen - Clap For the Wolfman Ty Segall - Night of the Vampire The Evaporators - Addicted to Cheese The OBGMs - To Death Hex Ray - Coin of the Realm Jean Degrees - At Midnight I Will Possess Your Soul Miesha & The Spanks - Unstoppable Rip Room - Second to…
April 2006 Playlist: Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed Flaming Lips - Free Radicals Destroyer - 3000 Flowers Islands - Jogging Gorgeous Summer The Martyr Index - Universal Magneta Lane - Broken Plates Calexico - Letter To Bowie Knife Built To Spill - Traces Drive-By Truckers - Gravity's Gone Smirk - Hope…
Playlist: HALF PINT - LEVEL THE VIBES GREORY ISAACS - HANG ON ANTHONY JOHN - WARNING A J BROWN - PRAY FOR YOUR LOVE TWIGGY - PRAISES JASON SWEET - NO MORE NIJAMAN AND SANCHEZ - STOP CHECK STEELE - FEEL LIKE STEELE - GOOD OLD DAYS STEELE - HANGING ON EXSCO LEVI - CITY LIFE EXCO LEVI - BLOOD TEARS GREGORY ISAACS - SO LONG GREGORY ISAACS - WORK UP A S…
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Playlist: NADIA BATSON - ENDURANCE HEY CHOPPI - SHOWOFF PROBLEM CHILD - DONE TALK TERI LYONS - AT LAST MARZVILLE - GET ENOUGH OLATUNJI - I DO SEKON STA - FUNCTION DESTRA - REMEDY ERPHAAN ALVES - FLOATING LYRIKAL - OWN TING MOTTO - OUTSIDER NADIA BATSON - LIFT UP KING BUBBA - PARTY CAN'T DONE KES - MECHANIC KES, SHAGGY - MOOD TURNER - I LOVE SOCA NA…
Playlist: Various, featuring Malombo - Motshile Maxiroots & Dubmatix, featuring Prince Jazzbo - Ease Up the Pressure Insula - BAT LO ZIÉ 77s - Perfect Blues Dan Mangan - Fire Escape Ngozi Family - Kumanda Kwa Bambo Wanda Run the Jewels - nunca mirar hacia atrás (Bomba Estéreo's Versión) Refree - Montañas vacías/Lamentos de un día cualquiera K…
Playlist: wongel and abel - tetemmeke yihune belay - zegelila habtamu and seble - tetemekul fantu wolde - begol brgol church choir - yeselamu meri
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Playlist: JR Writer, featuring 38 Spesh - You Know Why I'm Here Tha Musalini x Izzy Hot - Dollars Up Ransom x VDOn, featuring Lloyd Banks - Short Notice Chayna Ashley x Imperetiv, featuring Mickey Factz - Gold Blooded SLNC, featuring Asun Eastwood - Elegance Eto x Futurewave - Vintage UFO Fev x FINN - Drug Free Smoke DZA - Quarter Million $ Mattres…
Playlist: Bran Van 3000 - Drinkin in LA (JPOD remix) Livingstone & Canosis - Walk on the wild side John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane (Dj Czech re-fix) Sublime - Santeria (JPOD remix) Timothy Wisdom - Check the living dub NBN - It's On (Ross go remix) M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DJ Czech remix) Defunk - Hobgoblin Hop Tom Central - Hilltop Boogie (DJ Outli…
AGE fills in for Rob! Playlist: Das Komplex - Choiaz Raz El Choop - New Speak Daniel Babentsev - Intelligence Farfan - Lock Vibe Leedunnit - Promosglo Drew Dapps - Moon Over Milan Reedale Rise - Translucent Frink - Prudencia Drifting Dubs - Groove 3.0 Pinewood - Storytelling Minor Sine Project - Rolan Groove Burana - Oh Eh ufa…
Playlist: Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Almost Cut My Hair Louis Jordan - Knock Me a Kiss Zoe Modiga, Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Lengoma Dubmatix - Rub a Dub EVERTON BLENDER - Blendem Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy Mista Savona Presents Havana Meets Kingston - Solutions (We Can Do it) The Upbeats, featuring Joe Dukie - …
HACKED APART PLAYS LIVE! Playlist: R.M.F.C. - Greaser The Chisel - Shit Life Syndrome Priors - EXPELLED VIRTUE Nail Polish - Paper Houses Nutrition - Sore Thumb Family Dinner - Not My Job Imploders - Rip Em Off Chain Whip - Turner Street Ghost Motel Brain Death - Sacrifice Marcher - Hick Yuppie Gash - Copping Shit Curleys - ROACH CHUG Gripe - No Me…