Grade A Explosives

02/09/2025

Cry havoc and release the dogs of war...

Specifically those in the Puppy Bowl today.

Juxtapose the adorable puppies with this show from 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM.

02/02/2025

... and then, Timmy, your brother was never seen again...

Oh, hi there! You're a bit early for the show today. It starts at 4PM EST on CJLO - 1690AM. Why don't you wait here while we continue with Timmy's tragic backstory?

Now Timmy, let's talk about the tragic and grizzly death of the rest of your family...

02/01/2025

ITS PAYBACK TIME!
.. because this show owes you and CHÜZO an episode that has their interview in it, so this is that with a playlist AND the ability to listen below.

What will happen this Sunday? Ummm.... SOMETHING! Tune in 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM to find out what!

Intro
Starting of the show with a "Bluesky Band"
Buzzard Doom Folk Band - Wrong Neighborhood /
Satiricus Doomicus Americus
Scissorfight - Blizzards, Buzzards, Bastards / Mantrapping for Sport and Profit
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DEAD VELVET - Drowning / Drain
Let's play a bunch of Canadians in a row
World Eaters - Flash of Green / Hounds of Blood
SDC - The Sheep Destroyer Crew - Redemption / Modern Massacre
Burning Sanctum - Hanged Man / Eternal Acquisition of Souls
Truck Violence - I bore you now bear for me / Violence
Hellgo - Plastic Ego / Etiquette
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The Well - Cross Eyes Mary / Aqualung Redux (Magnetic Eye Records)
𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕾𝖕𝖊𝖑𝖑 Band - Dungeons of Death / Into Darkness
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Hour 2 begins with a 2025 release
The Halo Effect - What We Become / March of the Unheard
CHUZO - The Brutalator / M.T.M.D. (Maximum Threshold Minimum Decay)
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Talking with CHUZO
CHUZO - Bruised and Broken / M.T.M.D. (Maximum Threshold Minimum Decay)
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Talking with CHUZO

Listen link - www.cjlo(dot)com/shows/grade-explosives/episode-19012516

01/26/2025

A new show today and it won't even have the babblin' that Andrew normally does when he interviews people, so you can listen for tunes on CJLO - 1690AM from 4 - 6PM.

01/19/2025

As an impartial party in this discussion, it will be a blast. Tune in from 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM for loud things, an interview, and whatever other ramblings might occur

Tune in this evening to catch Cris and Mischa chatting with host Andrew Wixq of the Grade A Explosives radio show CJLO 1690AM! It’s gonna be a blast 💥

01/17/2025

*violent awakens from sleep*

Huh? What? What day is it? What YEAR is it?

Ummm... New show on Sunday with CHÜZO on CJLO - 1690AM from 4 - 6PM.

Okay, maybe a little bit more sleeping

01/14/2025

The line up for this year's Prepare The Ground is absolutely SICK! You should stop whatever stupid thing you're doing and buy tickets NOW. Surgeons in the middle of an operation are not exempt.

01/12/2025

Today's show is a repeat of the X-mas show for bands who release albums in December. Listen in to CJLO - 1690AM from 4 - 6PM to see what you missed while you were stuffing your face with turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, and the resentment of your family.

01/09/2025

So now that there's no fact checking on this platform we can finally spread the misinformation... errr... "factual info"... that this show has wanted to do the whole time. All of these are legally true if enough people agree apparently, so...

- Lulu was the best Metallica album
- Tony Iommi lost his finger during a battle with Ozzy where he bit it off and started screaming "NO BAT WILL EVER HAVE A HEAD AROUND ME"
- Live Nation is a good company that said they are going to help bands rather than continually steal from them
- Ditto for Spotify
- Ticketmaster did nothing wrong and its really your fault if ticket prices seem high, you ungrateful swine
- Meta is a very good platform and Mark Zuckerburg promised he'd give away all his money to all of us since he keeps fu***ng up so bad

01/05/2025

A re-airing of the best of the year today, so you can listen live on CJLO - 1690AM from 4 - 6PM EST to the following batch of objectively the best songs of the year.

Intro
Hour 1 with honorary mentions and a transition from Mellow Dramatic
Philip Labes - Its the Guns / Sorry State
BONES UK - Won't Settle / Soft
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Bad Omens and Poppy - V.A.N. / Concrete Jungle [The OST]
Pop got heavier this year
PVRIS, Tommy Genesis, Alice Longyu Gao - Burn the Witch / F.I.L.T.H.
Will Ramos & The Gnarly Neighbor - Riptide
Better Lovers - At All Times / Highly Irresponsible
Witchorious - To the Grave / Witchorious
Sandveiss - These Cold Hands / Standing in the Fire
OMENS-the-band - Omens / Omens
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10 Years and Conquer Divide - The Optimist / The Optimist
Let's end with some goth rock
Unto Others - Angel of the Night / Never, Neverland
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Okay, top 10 of the year
10. Amigo The Devil - Once Upon A Time at Texaco pt. 1 / Yours Until the War is Over
9. Thotcrime - Beyond the Journey's End / Connection Anxiety
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8. Gost - Prophecy / Prophecy
A Montreal band in the top 10 is fairly rare, but here is...
7. Family Man - Golden / Iconoclast
6. Many Eyes - Future Proof / The Light Age
When will the Maylene album come out?
5. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - Thrush
4. Alkaline Trio - Hot for Preacher / Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
From punk to hiphop covers
3. Clipping. - Tipsy
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BONUS: Mindless Self Indulgence - Eat Those Words / MSI B-Sides vol. 1
2. Chelsea Wolfe - Dusk / She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Check out the top album list listed below
1. Bilmuri - The End / American Motor Sports Deluxe Edition

Top albums of the year article - cjlo(dot)com/articles/cjlos-best-2024

12/31/2024

Well... I think we can all agree... its been a year. Regardless of how you take that phrase, this show has had a banger year chatting with and bringing in bands on CJLO - 1690AM. This post here is a big thank you to all of them for listening to middling questions from a weirdo (the good kind at least) and / or dragging gear through the labyrinth that is the Loyola campus of Concordia University.

So thanks to this everyone on this list who are cool and rad!

- Warpit
- Seum - Live at CJLO EP
- KW and Denholm from Prepare The Ground
- WAKE at SXSW
- Grimelda at SXSW
- Crae Wolf at SXSW
- Vision Video at SXSW
- Wolves of Glendale at SXSW
- Secret Green at SXSW
- TIGERCUB at SXSW
- Chalk - Band in Austin
- Ancient Teeth with a session AND a custom graphic
- Ivy Gardens with a session
- OMENS-the-band who graciously sent a shirt because they are rad
- Derelict
- Rob Avery, formerly of New Dawn Rise and Boysetsfire
- Brian from RPM Fest who also has a rad band, Lich King
- edhochuli
- Présages with a live session
- SEA at RPM Fest who I will eternally apologize for losing their fantastic interview
- Glacier - Boston at RPM Fest
- Voices in Vain at RPM Fest
- Temple of the Fuzz Witch at RPM Fest
- Belushi Speed Ball at RPM Fest
- Castle Rat at RPM Fest
- Svn.Seeker at RPM Fest
- Les Moontunes
- Fracture who graciously sent a shirt because he is rad
- BornBroken
- House of Dusk
- Stregoneria
- Xpo Decay
- Loversteeth with a session and 2 guest shows with Karl
- Bonnie Trash with a session
- Gaspard x2 with a session
- GAEREA

Let's see what happens in the new year. Will it be more than this list? Less? The crumbling of the world until we all pray for death? Who can say, but regardless, this show will still be going.

12/29/2024

In solidarity with bands who foolishly release records in December, this show is putting up the show that aired last week (Dec 22) on CJLO - 1690AM up on the Saturday between x-mas and New Year's so it too can have very few people pay attention.

Here you'll find the playlist and the link to listen, so don't say you didn't get a gift from this show:

Start with some bands for SOCAN
SDC - The Sheep Destroyer Crew - Fury / Modern Massacre
Culled - Coercion / SVN: King of the Death Matches 2024
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Rod Rodrigues - On the Road / Tales of a Changing Life Part 2
Getting a little bit weird in this block
Charles East (Official) - I Am Your Consequence / dislocated
Box - Born to Crawl
Odd Crew - New Waters / Dark Matters - Part III
Wizard Tattoo - Dirty Black Summer / Living Just for Knife Fighting
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Spere - charburner / Eight - Led to the Beam
Usually radio edits suck, but you gotta do what you gotta do
Illusions Play - Under Shining Moon (radio edit) / Empire of Desolation
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Hour 2 with some more punk stuff
Hellgo - Worn Out / Etiquette
Sullest - Susquehanna / Sullest
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Seein Red - Politie / Refuse Resist
The Brood - destroy fu***rs / For the Dark
Revolting - NIGHT OF THE HORRID / Night of the Horrid
Definitely in the heavier part of the show
Othismos - Cops Are Not People / Sottrazione
Lacolpa - Nothing is True / In Absentia Lucis
Summoning Saturn Voids - Star Wreck / Summoning Saturn Voids
Mörk Gryning - The Seer / Fasornas Tid
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Barshasketh - Exultation of Ceaseless Defiance / Antinomian Asceticism
Tune in next week for the best of the year
Until I Wake - Whole Hearted / Renovate

Listen link - www.cjlo(dot)com/shows/grade-explosives/episode-22122416

12/20/2024

The Ska-liday Ska-tacular aired this past Sunday (December 15th) on CJLO - 1690AM, and Brian Mitchell, the internationally known Ska-fficiando, picked out his picks for the top of the year. Below you'll find the finely curated playlist and the ability to listen along.

Tune in this Sunday for the XMas special, otherwise known as "Bands... why would you be foolish as to release records in December, you silly fools". Real catchy name.

Intro
Starting off the show
PWRUP - The Castigation:The Simulation / Just Devils
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Less Than Jake - Walking Pipebomb / Sunny Side
The JB Conspiracy - Back to the Future II / Propagation House
SKA TALK
Counting Coins - Make My Day / Still Poor EP
The Manipulators - Masquerade / Natural Disaster
SKA TALK
Stuck Lucky - Just Like the Devil / Counting Curses
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Kill Lincoln - No Normal / No Normal
The Calamatix - Still Rudy / The Calamatix
SKA TALK
The Skapones - Windrush / Ascension
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The Operators - Better Off Alone / Self-Titled Second Album
Omnigone - Bad Radio / Feral
SKA TALK
Joe Gittleman - Plastered in the Rafters / Hold Up
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Matamoska! - Therapy / Matamoska!
Runaway Ricochet - Change / Diminishing Returns
SKA TALK
Half Past Two - Talk is Killing Me / Talk is Killing Me
The Bandulus - Only Always / Tell It Like It Is
The Kitty Hawks - Danger in the Middle / From Brass To Bullets
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Ending off the show
The Boy Detective - Date Night / Art Thief
Call Me Malcolm - Dead Men Take No Pills / Echoes and Ghosts

Listen link - www.cjlo(dot)com/shows/grade-explosives/episode-15122416

12/15/2024

2 hours until the 3rd annual Ska-liday Ska-tacular on CJLO - 1690AM which was organized by the ska-fficianado Brian Mitchell, so you'd better tune in or the ska fairy won't come at night and leave you a checkered flag under your pillow.

4 - 6PM EST

12/14/2024

TOMORROW!!

Get your two tone shoes out because its the 3rd annual Ska-liday Ska-tacular with guest host and internationally know ska-fficianado Brian Mitchell telling you the top ska of 2024.

All from 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM, so don't miss it!

12/08/2024

Last week's show (December 01) was pretty laid back except for the WORLD PREMIERE of a track by Stregoneria. No bigs or anything, but if you want to relive that moment again, the link is below the playlist on this post.

Today's show? Why there's an interview with GAEREA for you to listen to, all from 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM.

Okay, playlist for last week's show:

Intro
Let's start off with a great track from a great record
The Cure - Drone: No Drone / Songs from a Lost World
Unto Others - Angel of the Night / Never, Neverland
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GAEREA - Hope Shatters / Coma
Next band in the "Bluesky Bands" segment...
Foul Body Autopsy - The Ordeal by Water / The Discovery of Witches
MUTANK - Metalheads for Hire / Think Before You Think
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Ashbreather & Serpentine Cerberus - Pyroclast / Mouth of the World
So many shows...
Ian Blurton's Future Now - House of Lords / Crimes of the City
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Finally... a world premiere...
Stregoneria - In Hell
Big thanks to Stregoneria for sending that track over to play on the show
H***h - Crash My Car
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Ritual Symmetry / Tragedy as Catharsis
Waingro - Pray for Blackout / SPORTS
Quiet Earth - Vile Intentions / Lifetime in Regression
Let's cram more things in here
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX (official) - Blizzard of Horned Cats / The Wolf Changes its Fur but Not its Nature
Bonnie Trash - Red Right Hand / My Love Remains the Same
Crae Wolf - Liar / Rogue Legacy
Body Count - World War / Merciless
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Spectral Wound - A Coin Upon the Tongue / Songs of Blood and Mire
GAEREA interview on the Dec 08th show
CHÜZO - The Brutalator / M.T.M.D.

Listen link - www.cjlo(dot)com/shows/grade-explosives/episode-01122416

12/06/2024

New show Sunday with an interview with the mysterious and yet deeply relatable GAEREA and maybe some other bonus stuff. All this from 4 - 6PM Sunday on CJLO - 1690AM