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CJLO offers a wide variety of programming that truly encompasses the styles appreciated by all of Concordia's 40,000 students and by a wide range of other communities around Montreal. CJLO also hosts events throughout the city to help promote and support the community and musicians.
🚨TONIGHT🚨
Montreal trio will be on Ashes to Ashes to talk about their latest album, Comme dans un penthouse, out Sept. 22 on !
Ashes to Ashes is your home for modern pop, every Tuesday at 7:00pm!
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🐌🎵 Catch Past Tense at 9PM tonight for an interview with Will Kennedy of 22° Halo (slowcore; Philly, PA), discussing the creation of art and the attachments made to it! 🎵 🐌
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Uh oh! It looks like our website is down! We apologize for any inconvenience, and we’re working as hard as we can to get things back up and running.
Fortunately, our online player is still working! Use the link in our bio to tune in! Or visit CJLO dot com slash player dot html!
🔥TONIGHT🔥
Ashes to Ashes is airing an interview and in-studio performance by Montreal-via-Saint John artist Colin Ratchford, aka . He and his band play songs off Ratchford's new album Gas Station, out now!
Ashes to Ashes is your home for modern pop, every Tuesday at 7:00pm!
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Today kicks off the final weekend of the Fantasia International Film Festival! Come to the downtown campus of Concordia University and be blown away by some of the most eye-poppingly, face-meltingly extraordinary features and shorts until August 9th! CJLO's very own DJs are spinning music before each film in the Hall theatre; don't miss Angelica from BVST, Alex from Ashes to Ashes, Andrew from Grade A Explosives, Lisa and Jessie from The Last Stop, Lawrell from Fukubukuro, and Jasn from Rigged Sessions.
Wanna get in on the action? CJLO is giving away passes to the Fantasia International Film Festival! For your chance to win a pair of tickets* to this year's festival, just tell us the name of your favourite 2023 Fantasia DJ!
1) Email [email protected] with the subject "Fantasia"
2) Send a tweet to
3) Post your answer on our Facebook wall or IG page
We'll select the winners via a draw. Remember, you must email, tweet or post the name of your favourite Fantasia DJ. Winners will be contacted with information about claiming their tickets.
*Digital codes exchangeable for tickets to any non-sold-out film of your choice (excludes opening and closing night films and special presentations).
✨️NEW TIME, SAME BOPS✨️
Ashes to Ashes, your home for modern pop, is back at a new time, Tuesdays at 7:00pm, for 60 minutes of tunes!
Tonight's show is dedicated to Ontario-born, LA-based electronic artist Jessy Lanza, whose latest album Love Hallucination is out now on Hyperdub Records. You'll hear tunes from the LP plus a wide-ranging interview with Lanza - a former Concordia University student! - about the record and her upcoming North American tour, which includes a stop in Montreal at Théâtre Fairmount on October 10!
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☀️ Tune into the ABCs today at 3:00pm!☀️
Romano sits down with Brandon McShad, lead singer of local rock band Yester Daze, to talk about the resurgence of rock music in Montreal, as well as their upcoming gigs with Blue Rodeo, NOBRO, and Les Shirley.
🌏It's the Last Day of One World🌍
Check out the Live Wire Show at 9am and stay tuned in all day! Anatomy of Caribbean Music is talking Emancipation Day Caribbean Callaloo, then its Mi Dun Talk, Mo' Ritmo, Fukubukuro, Hellespont, and Brave New Jams!
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⚔️⛓️Two huge drops for Sunforger fans ⛓️⚔️
You can watch their live session in CJLO’s Oven below! Also, catch an interview with the band and a ton of tracks off their new album on Past Tense tonight at 9pm!
🌎One World keeps spinning on CJLO today🌎
Catch Half-Time at 1pm for a look at West African jazz and funk! We'll also be bumping a playlist featuring music from all across South America today! Tune in!
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🌏Sun's up on the third day of One World🌏
Tune into World Beat News at noon, the ABCs at 3pm for some Italo Disco, and the Last Stop for some great world music! Also, our playlist featuring tracks from all across Asia and Oceania starts up right now!
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☀️⚒️⛓️ Shout out to who dropped their new self-titled LP last Friday!⛓️⚒️☀️
Catch the session they recorded at CJLO a few weeks back tonight at 8:00 PM on In the Garage! Stay tuned for an interview with Sunforger and the full session video dropping soon!
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🌏One World: Day 2🌍
We've got a classic One World episode of Transistor Sister coming up today! Set your dials to 1690 at 12pm! We've got a playlist highlighting music from Morocco to Madagascar and the places in between running all day!
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🌏Our week celebrating world music starts tonight! 🌏
Make sure to check out Sruthi's Telugu Hour at 7pm for some some native and naatu Telugu music! After at 9pm we have a special curated playlist with tracks from all over Africa!
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🌍 Do you love world music as much as we do?! Send us a guest mix!🌏
Next week we're celebrating world music! We'll have specials and curated playlists galore! You can get involved too! Send a world music mix to program at cjlo dot com
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⭐ Kickstart your afternoon with a new episode of the ABCs ⭐
Tune into the ABCs today at 3:00pm to hear Romano chat with Edmonton rock band while they were in Toronto for Canadian Music Week and NXNE.
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The Fantasia International Film Festival returns to the downtown campus of Concordia University starting this Thursday! Let yourself be blown away by some of the most eye-poppingly, face-meltingly extraordinary features and shorts from around the world from July 20th to August 9th. CJLO's very own DJs are spinning music before each film in the Hall theatre! Don't miss Angelica from BVST, Alex from Ashes to Ashes, Andrew from Grade A Explosives, LIsa and Jessie from Last Stop: This Song - CJLO 1690 AM, Lawrell from Fukubukuro, and Jasn from Rigged Sessions.
Wanna get in on the action? CJLO is giving away passes to the Fantasia International Film Festival! For your chance to win a pair of tickets* to this year's festival, just tell us the name of your favourite 2023 Fantasia DJ! There are three ways you can enter:
1) Email [email protected] with the subject "Fantasia"
2) Send a tweet to
3) Post your answer on this post on Facebook, or our post on Instagram!
We'll select the winners via a draw. Remember, you must email, tweet or post the name of your favourite Fantasia DJ. Winners will be contacted with information about claiming their tickets.
*Digital codes exchangeable for tickets to any non-sold-out film of your choice (excludes opening and closing night films and special presentations).
✨ HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT ✨
’s MARATHON returns November 15th to 18th, and the first wave of artists have been announced! Stay tuned for more rad news to come 👀👀
CJLO is proud to be a media partner once again - make sure to check out for ticket information and more! ✨
⚡Tune into Brave New Jams for jams AND free tickets to Shazam Fest!⚡
Shazam Fest, Quebec's only Néo-Vaudeville festival, always brings together an eclectic range of artists! It's not to be missed!
Catch Brave New Jams at 10pm, or email bravenewjams AT gmail DOT com to enter into the contest!
⚡ Brave New Jams, every Saturday at 10 PM
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Happy long weekend, folks! It's time to get ready for the event of the summer starring Tom Cruise. Paramount Canada is giving away passes for the premiere of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - Dead Reckoning Part One on July 6th.
In order to win, CJLO and At The Movies have a question for you: can you handle the truth enough to tell us your favourite Tom Cruise performance? E-mail your entries to [email protected] before July 3rd at 8 AM with the subject line "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" for your chance to win! Bonne chance!
📣 🎧 It's Final Day Of Hip Hop For Life 🎧 📣
Start your day off right with our Hip Hop Music Director Megan and the 2 year anniversary episode of Purple Hour at 9am! End off the week with our Indigenous Hip Hop playlist too!
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😱It's Already the Second to Last Day of Hip Hop For Life???😱
Not to worry, we've got two great shows lined up for you! Tune in at 1pm for Eastern Promises' take on the genre and make sure to stay up for Union Farm at 10pm too!
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🎧Hip Hop For Life is Rolling On🎧
We're celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop by looking back at the early years at 1pm! We've got special eps of Champions of the local scene and BVST too, so definitely catch us from 6pm to 9pm!
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📣Hip Hop for Life is here to help you hop out of bed📣
The day starts now with 2 hours of Hip Hop curated by Remi before At the Movies at 8am! Then catch the ABCs at 3pm, Dream Waves at 4pm, and the Last Stop at 5pm for more Hip Hop on your way home!
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📣Huge day for Hip Hop For Life📣
We've got our playlist and special episodes from the Limelight and Purple Hour highlighting Women in Hip Hop! Tune in to Transistor Sister, the Tommy John Show, and the Pressure Drop for their spin on the genre too!
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📣 It's day two of Hip Hop For Life! 📣
Grade A Explosives and No Boundaries are both switching it up and coming at you with their own Hip Hop playlist! Tune in at 4pm and 8pm!
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Hip Hop For Life kicks off today!
Tune in until the 30th for lots of Hip Hop tracks on many of your favourite CJLO shows, curated playlists and more!
It all gets started tonight from 5pm-8pm on Mo' Ritmo Radio and the Limelight!
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☀️ Kick start your afternoon with a new episode of the ABCs ☀️
Tune into the ABCs today at 3:00pm to hear Romano catch up with about their new post-hardcore sound while they were in Toronto for Canadian Music Week.
☀️ The ABCs, every Tuesday at 3:00 PM
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Did you know CJLO has a show with the ? 😮
Called ‘What’s Happening in NDG’, this weekly show that airs every Thursday at 11:00 highlights events, programs and initiatives in NDG and the lovely folks that make it happen!
This past Thursday, we were joined by Momen Hassan, an organizer for the NDG Community Council and Papa et Moi, Sandra Serrano, the director for the Walkley Community Center and one of the founders of the program, and Katrina Nurse, the director of community initiatives for the YMCA du Quebec for Notre-Dame-des-Grace / Westmount / Cotes-des-Neiges, who discusses their upcoming collaboration with Papa et Moi for Father’s Day!
They came to discuss Papa et Moi, a program that helps fathers from diverse cultural backgrounds living in NDG to develop their parenting abilities, and the Father’s Day Community Dance taking place at the NDG YMCA this evening at 5:00 PM!
WE’RE LIVE @ FRINGE! Tune into CJLO right NOW until 3:00 PM to catch interviews with artists, live at location from Fringe Parc on the corner or St-Laurent and Rachel!
Fringe runs until this Sunday so DON’T MISS OUT! Tune in to hear deets from shows taking place this weekend, or visit montrealfringe dot ca for all your Fringe needs!
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🌎One World keeps spinning on CJLO today🌎 Catch Half-Time at 1pm for a look at West African jazz and funk! We'll also be bumping a playlist featuring music from all across South America today! Tune in! 📻 1690AM 💻 https://buff.ly/3ncHw3s
🌏Sun's up on the third day of One World🌏 Tune into World Beat News at noon, the ABCs at 3pm for some Italo Disco, and the Last Stop for some great world music! Also, our playlist featuring tracks from all across Asia and Oceania starts up right now! 📻1690AM 💻 https://buff.ly/3ncHw3s
☀️⚒️⛓️ Shout out to @sunforger_band who dropped their new self-titled LP last Friday!⛓️⚒️☀️ Catch the session they recorded at CJLO a few weeks back tonight at 8:00 PM on In the Garage! Stay tuned for an interview with Sunforger and the full session video dropping soon! 📻 1690AM 💻 https://buff.ly/3ncHw3s
🌏One World: Day 2🌍 We've got a classic One World episode of Transistor Sister coming up today! Set your dials to 1690 at 12pm! We've got a playlist highlighting music from Morocco to Madagascar and the places in between running all day! 📻 1690AM 💻 https://buff.ly/3ncHw3s
🌏Our week celebrating world music starts tonight! 🌏 Make sure to check out Sruthi's Telugu Hour at 7pm for some some native and naatu Telugu music! After at 9pm we have a special curated playlist with tracks from all over Africa! 📻 1690AM 💻 https://buff.ly/3ncHw3s
🌍 Do you love world music as much as we do?! Send us a guest mix!🌏 Next week we're celebrating world music! We'll have specials and curated playlists galore! You can get involved too! Send a world music mix to program at cjlo dot com 📻 1690AM 💻 https://buff.ly/3ncHw3s
🌀 AMBIENT APRIL HAS BEGUN! 🌀 Every April, CJLO takes a week and celebrates all things ambient, electronic, new age, post-rock, trance, and trip-hop. It's time to get spacey, it's time to get weird, it's time to chill out. From today until April 29th, tune into CJLO to our DJ's Ambient April shows, as well as some special programming throughout the week. 📻
TURBO MACHINE DOES NOT DIE!! Listen to an audio documentary for the 15th anniversary of now-defunct Montreal punk band Trigger Effect 's debut album "Dare to Ride the Heliocraft." Host of SEWER SPEWER, Chris the Frog sat down with the four remaining members of the band to discuss the origins of the band, the easter eggs hidden throughout the record, and the wild parties Trigger Effect put on during their decade of existence. The retrospective will air tomorrow (Monday, October 24th) at 12PM, followed by a playthrough of Trigger Effect's discography from 2PM to 4PM. All this is part of the CJLO Funding Drive. To support CJLO during this time, go to cjlo.com/donate and receive cool merch in exchange for your donations. 📻 Tune in on the radio at 1690 on your AM dial 💻 Or listen online at cjlo.com Animation by Angelica Calcagnile (handstamped.ca)
🎷 AUGUST IN BLUE 🎷 CJLO is bringing back its jazz themed genre-week August In Blue! From August 22nd to the 28th, listeners can tune in to hear a curated selection of jazz music - old, new, obscure, and classic! See the link below for more information! 📻📻 https://fb.me/e/1UTVYXSkS
Live intimate session with La Renaissance Des Etoiles - Sur Le Chemin Des Racines presents Pindi ArKestra (Gabon) TODAY 1pm EST / 6pm Gabon to close CJLO - 1690AM 'One World' (Canada) with Engone Endong, Khery Seshet3w, Eloquent Grand B ⭐
🌎 ONE WORLD WEEK day 5 🌱 All week we're celebrating our global community of CJLO listeners... we like to call it ✨One World ✨. One World week is essentially our way of blessing the airwaves with an assortment of rhythm & sounds, while paying particular note to the diverse range of content CJLO pumps out on a regular basis. Expect a diverse selection of genres including (but not limited to) Arab Disco, Ethio-Jazz, Latin Psych, Brazilian Punk, Siam Soul, African Hip Hop, Calypsoul, Botswana Death Metal, Gypsy Punk, Latin Hip Hop, Bhangra Boogie, Afro Funk, K-Rock, Electric Pow Wow, Gnawa Electric, and Afro House! Today is day 5, and here's the schedule 💌 • World Album Spotlight: Koffee - Gifted |7AM-8AM| • Gayance Mix |8AM-9AM| • Purple Hour |9AM-10AM| • The Alley |11AM-12PM| • The Castle |1PM-2PM| • DJ MKS Mix |3PM-4PM| • Mapping Montreal Music |4PM-5PM| • The Groove Master's Hour |5PM-6PM| • Cosmovision Records Mix |9PM-11PM| Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBgrOBxuFY 🔗 Listen at the link in our bio! 📡 1690am
🌏 CJLO's One World week is essentially a thank you to all of our listeners from around the world... Expect a myriad of genres from across da globe including (but not limited to) Arab Disco, Ethio-Jazz, Latin Psych, Brazilian Punk, Siam Soul, African Hip Hop, Calypsoul, Botswana Death Metal, Gypsy Punk, Latin Hip Hop, Bhangra Boogie, Afro Funk, K-Rock, Electric Pow Wow, Gnawa Electric, and Afro House! Today is day 3, and here's the schedule ⬇️ • World Album Spotlight: The Hu - The Gereg |7AM-8AM| • The Get Up |8AM-9AM| • The Last Stop |11AM-12PM| • Rhythm & Hues Mix |1PM-5PM| • David Ryshpan Mix |5PM-6PM| • Champions of the Local Scene - Gayance |6PM-7PM| • BVST |7PM-9PM | • Je Suis TBA Mix |9PM-10PM| Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyQZ7sFVb_s CJLO.com 1690am
👋Meet Calvin, our head music director. In the second video of our series ‘What Are You Listening To?’, he walks us through his role at the station and the tunes he’s been enjoying recently - for more videos from CJLO, go to our TikTok page CJLO1690am 💌
What’s our head music director Calvin been listening to recently? Find out in the second instalment of our video series ‘What Are You Listening To?’ P.S. there’ll be tons more videos posted on our TikTok (@cjlo1690am) in the near future, so be sure to stay give us a cheeky lil follow 😘
What’s our head music director Calvin been listening to recently? Find out in the second instalment of our video series ‘What Are You Listening To?’ P.S. there’ll be tons more videos posted on our TikTok (@cjlo1690am) in the near future, so be sure to stay give us a cheeky lil follow 😘
In a new video we've produced for TikTok, we meet Kevin, our music librarian. Aside from being quite possibly the world's most patient person (you'll understand why in the video), he's also a very kind fella. For more videos from CJLO, follow our TikTok: CJLO1690am 💌
Way back in April we held a workshop in collaboration with Angus Tarnawsky teaching folks how to make drone music - a genre that produces sounds both contemplative and challenging to the listener... Now you can hear the recordings from those lessons on air at 8 PM 💌 🔗 CJLO.com 📡 1690 AM
🚨 BIG BRAIN MUSIC ALERT 🚨 Click on the link in our bio to hear the final projects from Concordia's Electroacoustic students as part of our programming for Ambient April. 🔗 To listen online, go to CJLO.com 🔗
🌀AMBIENT APRIL 🌀 Only a week has passed since Ambient April ended, and we're starting to reminisce about the good ol' days. Click the link in our bio for a MIXCLOUD playlist featuring the content our DJs produced last week. You can also swing by the Webster Library stairwell (located at the downtown campus in the until May 6th to hear a curated selection of programming from our DJs. 🔗 Link in bio 🔗
🌀 AMBIENT APRIL 🌀 Remember, our introductory drone workshop was rescheduled to this Saturday at 6PM EST! Meet us on the quad at the Loyola campus of Concordia University and drone the night away! 🔊🔊 This event is free to attend. Just click the link in our bio for more details!
