Grade A Explosives

06/16/2024

Oh hey! Man, its crazy running into you here!

No, can't do anything now, the show's about to start at 4PM on CJLO - 1690AM. Hey.... why don't you listen along?

Yes, of course that's a great idea! so, get comfy and go to CJLO's website for a live episode, and we'll catchup during the talk spots.

06/09/2024

TODAY! An interview with Winnipeg based OMENS-the-band about their new self-titled album. Here's things you won't hear about:

- Their new bassist
- Their Indiegogo in order to produce physical editions of the self-titled album
- What ice cream flavor they prefer
- How many times they've quoted Die Hard on stage

Despite all of this, its still an okay interview, but you can judge when you tune in on CJLO - 1690AM from 4 - 6PM EST. And music will play too!

06/07/2024

What a lovely summer day it is. You should treat yourself by tuning in to an interview this Sunday on CJLO - 1690AM from 4 - 6PM with Jet Set Satellite alumni as they talk about their new project OMENS-the-band. To prep, check out their Indiegogo so you can have physical items in your hot, summer hands.

Help us make our debut album available on vinyl LPs and CDs so we can all kick it old school. | Check out 'OMENS Gets Physical' on Indiegogo.

06/02/2024

Okay, here's the deal... tomorrow's show will be a FAFO show. What does that mean in radio terms? Well, 4 - 6PM tomorrow on CJLO - 1690AM and you'll see!

05/26/2024

Today's show on CJLO - 1690AM is going to be a big one as there will be interviews aired that were done at SXSW. Oh, okay, that isn't enough for you? What if... all of them were from the British isles, including the hybrid nu-metal / goth / drill sounds of Crae Wolf, the dark rock of TIGERCUB and the post-punk / industiral-esque sounds of Chalk - Band? Yeah, now you're excited.

So tune in from 4 - 6PM ET so you too can enjoy all of this, and maybe, more... but probably just all of that, those interviews take up time.

05/19/2024

Less than 30 minutes until the latest episode of the show on CJLO - 1690AM. Will Ivy Gardens stop by to do a session? Well, that is the plan. HAVE YOU NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION?!

Anyway, 4 - 6PM for more music and a band playing live to air. What more do you want?

05/17/2024

Hey, remember when Strigampire did a session for this show on CJLO - 1690AM? Well, strain your precious memory machine no more, as you can listen to it in the here and now thanks to Andrew not being lazy and actually posting stuff. And, if you like this, tune in this Sunday to hear a live session with Ivy Gardens, who will be playing a show with other friends of the show (or bands who have been interviewed on the show) Tunguska Mammoth and Gros Soleil! All that from 4 - 6PM! Until then, enjoy this playlist and listen to a show from March 31st.

Let's try and transition from Mellow Dramatic to this show
Beth Ditto (Gossip) - Real Power / Real Power
Family Man - Golden / Iconoclast
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Bif Naked - Lucky (orchestral) / I, Bificus (Anniversary Edition)
"Bif Naked ran so Avril Lavigne could... fall down"
Lutharo - Strong Enough to Fall / Chasing Euphoria
Black Absinthe - Nobody Knows / On Earth or in Hell
Striker - Give It All / Ultrapower
Alestorm - Uzbekistan / Voyage of the Dead Marauder
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The Dread Crew of Oddwood - Give Me Your Beer / Rust Glory
Punk please, okaythankyou
Comeback Kid - Trouble in the Winner's Circle / Trouble
Mulch - Gaslight / Nothing Grows out of Dried Flowers
Ivy Gardens - Stoic / Goon
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Hour 2, and let's sludge it up
Cell Press - Kissed by a Morose on Mont Royal / Cages
Mastiff - Serrated / Deprecipice
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Wormwitch - Weapons Against Despair / Wormwitch / Sadistic Ritual split
Introing the Strigampire session
Strigampire - Liberty
Strigampire - Dead of Night
Strigampire - Where I Belong
Strigampire - In the Maze of the Lost
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Strigampire - TNT / All to Dominate
Trying to segue into a western show is hard
Ancient Teeth - Look the Part / Death Bed

Listen link - http://www.cjlo(dot)com/shows/grade-explosives/episode-31032416

05/12/2024

In 30 minutes from now, you'll get to hear a second dose of interviews from Andrew going down to SXSW in March, including chats with Vision Video Band, Wolves of Glendale, and Austin's Secret Green ( on Instagram).

What will be learned? Only one way to know for sure, and that's to tune in to CJLO - 1690AM from 4 - 6PM.

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04/28/2024

Today, Ancient Teeth will be in to lay down some jams, and tell us about the new record, and whatever else they want to do, and you can hear it all from 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM.

Listen in and have a good time, or don't and regret everything.

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04/28/2024

Tomorrow, bright and early, at 4PM on CJLO - 1690AM, is a very special show. Yes, that's right, Ancient Teeth will be in-studio tomorrow doing a full band session. Will there be a special images just for this?

Yes!
Will there be tracks from their album Deathbed? OR maybe they'll play stuff from Humanizer? OR maybe... BOTH?!

Who can say?

You, after listening tomorrow from 4 - 6PM.

See you then.

04/25/2024

Everyone is all about non-linear storytelling, so let's try that on these posts, starting with the show from this past Sunday (April 21) on CJLO - 1690AM, where LAUNCH Music Conference was highlighted. This show is basically the mind bending film Memento now. Stay tuned for earlier show postings and try to follow the convoluted story.

Anyway, here's the playlist with a link to listen below, which you still have to do some editing to use, but you're a smart cookie and can figure it out:

Starting off the show and easing out of Mellow Dramatic
Witch Weather - Hazy / Witch Weather
TIWA - Burn / Two Hours
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Heartbent - I Swear / Heartbent
Okaty, let's move to some heavier things
Renovare - The Surface / Despite:
Die Tired - Need to Feed
The Honest Heart Collective - Suffocate
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Fallbright - Funerals
Let's wrap this 2024 preview up
XPRESIDENTS - Language
Coal - Sin Eater / Yes, Mistress
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TALK
Big ‡ Brave - Canon - In Canon / A Chaos of Flowers
Daevar - Pay to Play / Amber Eyes
We're smack dab in doom
ITUS - Carnivore / Mesozoic
Post Death Soundtrack - Burrowing Down the Spine / Veil Lifter
Ischemic - Rust and Bones / Condemned To The Breaking Wheel
BackStabber - Harvesting the Weak / Patterns of Domination
Comeback Kid - Disruption / Trouble
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Family Man - Father John / Iconoclast
Hey, guess who's coming in next week for a live, in-studio session. That's right its...
Ancient Teeth - Vanishing Light / Humanizer

Listen here - www.cjlo(dot)com/shows/grade-explosives/episode-21042416

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04/21/2024

New show today, and part of it will be a wrap up of some of the more interesting things that are happening at LAUNCH Music Conference in Lancaster, PA next weekend. The rest will be a bunch of new things for you to enjoy, so its like a win-win. That's applies here right? Sure it does.

CJLO - 1690AM 4 - 6PM.

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04/14/2024

It is now time for you to tune in to CJLO - 1690AM for an interview with Grimelda and WAKE as part of the SXSW wrap up. It goes until 6, just in case you didn't block out your calendar properly.

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04/14/2024

TOMORROW... wait, its past midnight...

TODAY... its part 1 of a multi week SXSW wrap up where you get to hear all about, well let's face it, a very small portion of one of the largest music fests in North America. You'll get to hear interviews Andrew did with the heavy Calgary reps in WAKE and the art punk stylings of... sort of Saskatoon's Grimelda. That last sentence will make sense when you hear the interview on CJLO - 1690AM tomorrow from 4 - 6PM, so do that so your pretty little head isn't confused anymore.

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04/07/2024

What are you doing? Listening to the show on CJLO - 1690AM until 6PM. Of course you are. Glad we could chat like this.

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04/01/2024

Hey, there's going to show / chart postin' coming up later, but until then, did you know that Artoffact Records is doing a "sale" on their Bandcamp, where they're making a big chunk of their catalogue PWYC? Today's the last day, so go check that out while you wait for the very important stuff that will be posted here:

Artoffact Records. Toronto, Ontario. 🗡️ Record label Toronto. Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3gBNHI7 | Artists: Urban Heat, Psychic Graveyard Cyberaktif, Kontravoid, Black Asteroid, Front Line Assembly, ULTRA SUNN, SPECTRES, cEvin Key, Sacred Skin, SOFT VEIN, The Violent Youth, Bootblacks, ...

03/31/2024

Less than an hour for you to forget you have relatives and enjoy a brand new show with a session done by Strigampire at CJLO - 1690AM in February. Tune in from 4 - 6PM or the jesus bunny will come and... stuff you with holy eggs? That sounds right.

Also, while you're here, why don't you go and vote in this year's Cult MTL "Best of Montreal". The full link should be here, but since social media is a disaster and wants you to be uninformed on even the most innocuous things, you get this one:

cultmtl(dot)com/votebestofmtl/

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03/30/2024

Tomorrow, the zombies once again rise, lead by their dark wraith lord, Jesus H. Christ. As such, obviously everyone should stay inside or else, you too could become part of the undead horde.

To help you through this difficult time, this show will be broadcasting a special session done at CJLO - 1690AM with last year's Wacken Metal Battle Canada champion and Trois-Rivieres' own Strigampire.

Tune in from 4 - 6PM to get a feel for what the band is like live so, if we ever get through these dark zombie times, you can go see them.

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03/24/2024

New live show today from 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM, but why don't you keep the metal going by listening right now to a special "Metal March" edition of Mellow Dramatic until 4PM.

Oh, and why don't you also vote for something in that last string of words in Cult MTL's "Best of Montreal", particularly "Best radio station", "Best radio show", and "Best radio host". If you're asking, Andrea from Mellow Dramatic deserves "Best Host". Now all you need is 22 more categories, which is like... nothing.

Voting link - cultmtl(dot)com/votebestofmtl/

03/09/2024

Festival season approaches!

Feeling sad that Montreal doesn't have great metal festivals? Well, go to the link below the playlist to hear an interview with Prepare The Ground organizers.

"Prepare the Ground?" you ask. Why yes, its a new festival happening in Toronto at the end of May / beginning of June. Go listen for more info, including how it came to be, the lineup, and how you can volunteer if you want.

Also, speaking of festivals, the show this Sunday on CJLO - 1690AM is a preview of SXSW, so tune in for very unusual things... at least for this show.

In the meantime, here's the playlist:

Let's try to transition people from Mellow Dramatic
Marissa Nadler - Thinking of You / Songs III: Bird on the Water
Prepare the Ground interview - part 1
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Kontravoid - How It Ends / Detachment
Odonis Odonis - Are We Friends / Hard Boiled Soft Boiled
More interview now
Prepare the Ground interview - part 2
Botfly - Lower Than Love / Lower Than Love
Prepare the Ground interview - part 3
Dead Tired - Predatory Loans / Satan Will Follow You Home
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More interview
Prepare the Ground interview - part 4
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Hour 2 starts and the interview continues
Prepare the Ground interview - part 5
Respire- Tempest / Black Line
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Prepare the Ground interview - part 6
Respire will be playing at Turbo Haüs on May 31, so if you can't go to Prepare the Ground, go see them
Prepare the Ground interview - part 7
Vile Creature - Glory Glory! / Glory Glory! Apathy Took the Helm!
Prepare the Ground interview - part 8
Burning Love - Alien vs. Creditor / Songs for Burning Lovers
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Ending off the show
Prepare the Ground interview - part 9
Yob - Prepare the Ground / Atma

Listen link - http://www.cjlo(dot)com/shows/grade-explosives/episode-03032416

03/03/2024

Less than 10min until you get to hear all about Prepare The Ground, a music fest that will happening in TO from May 31 - June 2nd, direct from the organizers' (KW and Denholm) mouths. All of this and music from the fest on CJLO - 1690AM until 6PM.

03/02/2024

Hey, what are you doing tomorrow from 4 - 6PM? That's right, you'll be listening to this show on CJLO - 1690AM where you'll hear an interview with the organizers of Prepare The Ground, a brand new heavy festival happening in Toronto at the end of May. You'll get to hear them talk about the festival AND hear music from bands playing, so you don't want to miss it.

02/25/2024

So while the CJLO - 1690AM website refuses to update, why don't you go ahead and check out the EP Seum released Friday that they recorded LIVE on this show last year.

https://seumtheband.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cjlo

If you want to be extra spicy, tune in today from 4 - 6PM to hear something from this record and other music.

02/18/2024

A new show is on RIGHT NOW! Tune in on CJLO - 1690AM you filthy animals.

02/11/2024

This show knows all about sports, so before you go watch the Kansas state Tornados play against the San Diego 76ers, listen to this show from 4 - 6PM, which is an re-air of the episode from January 28th with Karl from Loversteeth. You can follow the play by play here and make all the color commentary you like.

Hour 1 starts off
Xephyr - Wrench
Degenerator - Hiraeth
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LUCIFER - Fallen Angel / Lucifer IV
A long discussion about Kanye West and racists
Mistwalker - Detest ye Vile Christian Men / War on Christmas
Zeal & Ardor - Blood in the River
Jetsam - Staring Problem / Live in The Oven at CJLO - 1690AM
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Gazm - Know a Place / F**k U 2
Let's round hour 1 out
Striker - Sucks to Suck / ULTRAPOWER
Wasp Mother - Gravemouth / Digital Pollution
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Hour 2 begins with Karl from Loversteeth
Loversteeth - Feign
Talking with Karl
Ivy Gardens - Shattered Glass / Ivy Gardens
CROSS DOG - Scars / Hollow
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Greber - Fabricated Purpose /
Talking with Karl
Absorb - Agony / Rot
Présages - Hierophanie / Pleurs
Talking with Karl
Loversteeth - Branches of Argyle

02/04/2024

Less than an hour until a new show is cooked and sitting in the oven or some other kind of metaphor for something being ready soon. 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM, but you already knew that.

01/31/2024

Catchup continues as you now get to listen to this show which aired on January 21 on CJLO - 1690AM, and, helpfully, here's the playlist and the link to listen below. Enjoy or don't, either way it already happened and you can't stop it.

Kicking it off
The Great Octopus - Berlin Express / EXPERIMENT PERILOUS: Themes Inspired by the Nightmare Cinema of Jacques Tourneur
Xephyr - Worlds Go Dark / No Signal
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HEALTH - DSM-V / Rat Wars
Let's get even heavier
Wasp Mother - Gravemouth / Digital Pollution
SARDONIC WITCHERY - Merciless Warrior of Steel / Barbaric Evil Power
Lord Dying - I AM NOTHING I AM EVERYTHING / Clandestine Transcendence
Hazehound - Tailspin / Macrodose
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Michael Vampire - Together in Death / Belladonna
Is Cancer Christ real?
Cancer Christ - Bring Back the Guillotine / God is Violence
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Hour 2 starts and we discuss what is "drama metal"?
Gothony - Rapacity / Gothony
Nature of the Beast - Suffocate / Radio Hauntings
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Strigampire - In the Maze of the Lost / All to Dominate
Cancon... yes, yes that will do
Warpit - A Dying Light / Call of the Void
Voiicide - Save the Sorrow / Survivor's Guilt
Lancaster - Metal - Tropical Nightmare / Hell Campaign
Uncle Woe - Well / Well
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Kontact - Bloodchild / Full Contact
And we end this off
Wayfarer - Reaper on the Oilfields / American Gothic

http://www.cjlo(dot)com/shows/grade-explosives/episode-21012416

01/28/2024

Okay Class... less than an hour before a new show featuring Karl from Loversteeth, who will be educating us all on ON bands we should all be paying attention to. This will be on the test, so be sure to tune in from 4 - 6PM on CJLO - 1690AM so you don't fail. You don't want to disappoint your parents do you?

01/27/2024

Okay, let's keep catching up on metal charts for CJLO - 1690AM. You're busy; this show is busy getting ready to host Karl from Loversteeth, so this list from January 16th is shorter. Let's do say... 11 entries? Sound good?

Charts are submitted to NACC Chart and Earshot Magazine.

Okay, here they are:

1. HEALTH - Rat Wars
2. Warpit - Call of the Void
3. Strigampire - All to Dominate
4. Wayfarer - American Gothic
5. The Design Abstract - Constructs of an Unseen Algorithm
6. Hyperia - The Serpent's Cycle
7. Uncle Woe - Well
8. AAWKS - Luna
9. Hazehound - Macrodose
10. Xephyr - No Signal
11. Palehørse - Hunting Grounds

Big thanks to all the promoters and labels who send us records, this week featuring stuff sent by The Syndicate, Asher Media Relations, Breaking The Law PR, C Squared Music, Looters, Indie Recordings, and, of course, all the bands who send us their releases.