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A sonic salmagundi of Canadian music, shining a spotlight on the unknown, unheard, uncanny, and underground... also features Canadian music news, local show announcements, interviews, and more.

2024 was a wild one for the world and for yours truly as well. It was a year of new experiences, incredible community, a...
12/24/2024

2024 was a wild one for the world and for yours truly as well. It was a year of new experiences, incredible community, and despite the cold, it kind of feels like the world is burning huh?

On today's episode, my top 10 albums of 2024. Happy holidays fools!

featuring Holy Void, Nate and the Busy Boys, Satellite Birdhouse, and more... 🎅

The Man Who Explodes On Earth Tour, Animal Faces, Bandcamp discoveries, 𝓬𝓸𝓸𝓵 tunes from Canada Featuring music by Purity...
12/10/2024

The Man Who Explodes On Earth Tour, Animal Faces, Bandcamp discoveries, 𝓬𝓸𝓸𝓵 tunes from Canada

Featuring music by Purity Ring, Doldrums, pinksnail, Mississippi Grover, The Strange Happenings, Animal Faces, Mandroid Echostar, Sons of Arrakis, Gomorrah, KEN mode, and more!

Photograph:
Snow removal sign on street
1955-06-01
City of Ottawa Archives CA032954

The irony of titling this episode "Remembrance" when I forgot to broadcast two weeks ago... 💀Today's episode was the epi...
11/26/2024

The irony of titling this episode "Remembrance" when I forgot to broadcast two weeks ago... 💀

Today's episode was the episode that was originally supposed to air on November 12th, but unfortunately I was unable to make it into the station. Let's try again today as I remember to check my email and catch up on my backlog of submissions!

Featuring Rosefire, Dawn Sev Makes Music, They're Not Here, Trenchfoot, Horse Chops, Mushroom Philosophy, Halcyon Phase, Endless, Nameless, and more!

By the way, CKCU is still accepting last minute donations! Only $7k more until our goal! We're so close! Donate at ckcufm(DOT)com 🎺

The irony of titling this episode "Remembrance" when I forgot to broadcast two weeks ago... 💀Today's episode was the epi...
11/26/2024

The irony of titling this episode "Remembrance" when I forgot to broadcast two weeks ago... 💀

Today's episode was the episode that was originally supposed to air on November 12th, but unfortunately I was unable to make it into the station. Let's try again today as I remember to check my email and catch up on my backlog of submissions!

Featuring Dawn Sev Makes Music Trenchfoot Halcyon Phase

By the way, CKCU is still accepting last minute donations! Only $7k more until our goal! We're so close! Donate at ckcufm.com 🎺

The irony of titling this episode "Remembrance" when I forgot to broadcast two weeks ago... 💀Today's episode was the epi...
11/26/2024

The irony of titling this episode "Remembrance" when I forgot to broadcast two weeks ago... 💀

Today's episode was the episode that was originally supposed to air on November 12th, but unfortunately I was unable to make it into the station. Let's try again today as I remember to check my email and catch up on my backlog of submissions!

Featuring .band

By the way, CKCU is still accepting last minute donations! Only $7k more until our goal! We're so close! Donate at ckcufm.com 🎺

Spooky tunes, funding drive, upcoming shows, and more! 💀🎺Featuring Skinny Puppy, Tanya Tagaq, Protest The Hero, ION DISS...
10/29/2024

Spooky tunes, funding drive, upcoming shows, and more! 💀🎺

Featuring Skinny Puppy, Tanya Tagaq, Protest The Hero, ION DISSONANCE, The Hypnophonics, and more..

CKCU is now raising donations for its 46th annual funding drive!Did you know — CKCU is the oldest campus community radio...
10/26/2024

CKCU is now raising donations for its 46th annual funding drive!

Did you know — CKCU is the oldest campus community radio station in Canada, and celebrating its 50th birthday in 2025?

How about that CKCU is a registered charity, and all programming (100+ shows/week) is created by volunteers? So with each donation you not only get a warm feeling in your heart but a sweet tax receipt!

Campus radio stations are an invaluable asset to the community—providing opportunities to students to gain experience with broadcasting and journalism, giving a platform to local voices, and creating high-quality locally-sourced content you won't hear anywhere else.

So help us continue our mission and celebrate our community by making a donation. 🙏 My goal for this year is $300... can we do it??

Don't forget — CKCU is powered by people. 💪

Donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/p2p/fundingdrive2024/page/notes-from-underground

Today we continue with the theme of spooky, scary Halloween music, plus several new releases and listener submissions.Fe...
10/15/2024

Today we continue with the theme of spooky, scary Halloween music, plus several new releases and listener submissions.

Featuring KEN mode, MARES OF THRACE, Blank Banshee, Colin Stetson, Salem Trials, Cassie Noble, Savelene, Social Su***de, and more!

Tune in at 5PM on 93.1 CKCU FM, or listen on demand on CKCU[dot]com.

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Photograph:
Début du feu à Hull. Photo prise vers 12.30 PM No MIKAN 3199092 BAC

For this past Truth and Reconciliation Day, I was invited downtown for an intimate evening of folky singer-songwriter mu...
10/11/2024

For this past Truth and Reconciliation Day, I was invited downtown for an intimate evening of folky singer-songwriter music at The Rainbow by Owen Sound’s Paige Warner, featuring herself and two other gorgeously golden women and extremely talented all-Canadian artists: Lori Yates and Kylie Fox.

Paige Warner opened the night with a stripped-down version of her set; minus a full band, her alt-pop style was presented in singer-songwriter fashion, with nothing but her voice and an acoustic guitar. The minimal accompaniment highlighted her delivery—her pristine, angelic vocal register ranging from soft, lilting tones, to soaring eruptions of emotion, to impressively effortless riffing in near-angelic registers. And not to mention, she is a genuine, vulnerable soul reflecting on issues such womanhood, abuse, empowerment, and rebuilding after trauma. 

Turning the page, Lori Yates followed up with a set of classic folk tunes, originals and *audience requests*. Humble and unabashedly authentic. Audience requests are tough—you’re asking for songs you likely have not recently practiced, in an impromptu live setting. But Lori is built different, as they say, and crushed all request, clearly outsizing the common testicular fortitude on a grand scale.

And lastly, Kylie Fox from the East Coast. Her brand of jazzy alternative rock was also stripped down to a solo singer-songwriter act—setting delicate, intricate guitar plucking patterns to dominating, powerful vocalizations and folky storytelling. Thank you for mentioning Truth & Reconciliation Day and why it matters—there's nothing wrong with performing in reverence to a cause.

So lovely meeting you all. 🖤

And a special thanks to Paige Warner for the invite.
- k

Today we begin a spooky descent into music themed around the Halloween season...! Featuring selections by The Sawtooth G...
10/01/2024

Today we begin a spooky descent into music themed around the Halloween season...!

Featuring selections by The Sawtooth Grin, Death From Above 1979, Basque.noise, Telekinetic Yeti, Skeletal Remains, Seeking Divinity, DJ Shadow, Musk Ox...

Tune in at 5PM on 93.1 CKCU FM or listen online on CKCUFM(dot)COM!

Jamie Eubanks writhes in slow convulsions as slews of guttural gurgles and inhuman shrieks are wretched from his body. W...
09/27/2024

Jamie Eubanks writhes in slow convulsions as slews of guttural gurgles and inhuman shrieks are wretched from his body. With a contorted grimace, clenched hands—as if battling rigor mortis and daemonic possession simultaneously—he acts as a vessel of negativity, viscerally embodying the cacophonous wall of sound.

Knoll—an archaic term for the tolling of a bell signifying a person’s death—is an apposite moniker for this self-avowed “funeral grind” five piece from Tennessee, morphing together elements of grindcore, doom, and avant-garde metal. Lumbering, ritualistic drums pummel in precise polyrhythms and tempo-shifting blastbeats; buzzsaw guitars cascade in grimecaked chromatic sequences; a noise machine, reminiscent of the Apprehension Engine, is utterly (ab)used to emit earshattering muck into all remaining crevices; and in the midst of it all, a caterwauling trumpet cries into the aether.

What could be written off as pretension is a fascination with the archaic—objects and language and aesthetics that are now like ghosts. Their most recent album, As Spoken, is the purest culmination of this vision so far. Impenetrably dissonant. Densely anachronistic. But this is the point: as time passes, these artifacts develop a “sickness”. Once living, now dead or lying on a deathbed, stripped of meaning and dignity, banished to the realm of the cliché, what form have these relics taken on in the present age as their original intention is stripped away by time?

By contrast, offstage, Jamie is youthful, vibrant, and delighted to talk to me about extreme music, tour life, and his love for the antiquated. He refers to the project as a conduit imbued with negativity, channeling this energy from preexistent external sources. Relics, memories, old film, dilapidated language, existential dread.

Horror, shock, disgust, indifference are all valid reactions. I am in the camp of utter glee, for reasons that I shall keep close to my heart.

- k

SPECIAL EDITION Interview! Today I blather with my pal "Super" Kyle Humphrey, music enthusiast, ParaTranspo advocate, an...
09/17/2024

SPECIAL EDITION Interview! Today I blather with my pal "Super" Kyle Humphrey, music enthusiast, ParaTranspo advocate, and outspoken pure soul. We share thoughts and odysseys about life and music from Ottawa. Why do they call him super? Stayed tuned to find out... DON'T MISS IT!

93.1 CKCU FM in Ottawa @ 5PM EST
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Featuring special guest Kyle Humphrey

A fresh hot steaming new track by The Armed

and more by Taming Sari Wyntr Holly Acres Sunday Riot Club Iconoclast Albia... and then even more than that...

Chats on chat, upcoming Ottawa shows, and... hate mail? Tune in on 93.1 FM at 5PM this Tuesday evening to hear all about...
09/03/2024

Chats on chat, upcoming Ottawa shows, and... hate mail? Tune in on 93.1 FM at 5PM this Tuesday evening to hear all about it... (or listen on demand on ckcufm[dot]com).

Featuring Chat Pile, Hippie Death Cult, Knoll, MARES OF THRACE, Eric's Trip, DD/MM/YYYY, Grand Malheur, Starring Janet Leigh, ION DISSONANCE, KEN mode, SUMAC, and more...

Last Sunday, I found myself at a local punk dive gazing upon a man wearing nothing but a black speedo and neon green fis...
08/30/2024

Last Sunday, I found myself at a local punk dive gazing upon a man wearing nothing but a black speedo and neon green fishnets diabolically shrieking into dual-wielded microphones. The show was as contagious to the eye and to the ear (and other bodily orifices) as it sounded on the flyer—featuring the effluvial line up of Ratpiss, Thalassophobia, HPV, and Haggus.

Regrettably, I missed Ratpiss’ set due to extenuating circumstances (read: work), but I arrived just in time for Thalassophobia, named after the fear of deep bodies of water. A chimera of new school and old school death metal, their guitarist effortlessly shreds out lightspeed guitar licks in a vein not unlike Muhammed Suiçmez, while their drummer lays down the backbone in a more conservative style.

The aforementioned speedo-fishnet combo was adorned by the vocalist of HPV, a self-described “deranged Canadian goregrind” outfit, whose stage presence was as colourful as it was unhinged. Besides the striking apparel of the vocalist, the bassist donned a ski mask, neon green, while the drummer looked like just a regular dude, smiling from ear to ear the whole time, clearly enjoying his role keeping time amidst the perverse carnage.

The headliner of the night was infamous Californian “mincecore” three-piece Haggus. All members were clad in ski masks, befitting the band’s vibe—not only are the identities of the band obscured, but the instrumentation is a wall of sonic mincemeat. Between spurts of distortion and blastbeats, the band landed on some truly groovy hardcore punk riffs, before returning the audience to their grindcore slaughterhouse. At one point I felt quite lightheaded, although not unpleasantly. Religious experience? Heat stroke? My inner ear atoms being absolutely pulverized?

Not for everyone, perhaps, but if you can stomach it there is so much craftsmanship beneath the crusty exterior. HPV were a highlight for me: great songwriting, solid aesthetic, and just good ol’ fashioned newfangled fun. And they're local! Catch ‘em live when you can, if you have the intestinal fortitude. And hey, you probably won't contract anything.

(But you should still get tested from time to time.)

- k

Upcoming live shows in Ottawa!ft. Korrosive, Black Absinthe, WORLDSUCKS, Shrapnel Wound, Bonobo Backlash, The Tenenbaums...
08/30/2024

Upcoming live shows in Ottawa!

ft. Korrosive, Black Absinthe, WORLDSUCKS, Shrapnel Wound, Bonobo Backlash, The Tenenbaums., Sugar Bomb, Victor Complex, Sorry Snowman, Knoll, Pessimystic, 200 Stab Wounds, Balmora, Upon Stone, Stabbing, The Real McKenzies, Doghouse Rose, The Scally Cap Brats, Positive Charge, Strike Twelve, For Heads Down, Speedbump Sally, Ignite, Death By Stereo, Lutharo, The Scepter, D.O.A., Bad Missionary, The Infectors, Blackguard, Blinded by Faith, Born Divided, Ominous Eclipse, Dissentient, Conan, MARES OF THRACE, Black Galaxy, The Exploited, Authority Zero, Melonball, PKEW PKEW PKEW

Dominion Tavern, House of TARG, The 27 Club Ottawa, Overflow Brewing Company, Rainbow Bistro, The Brass Monkey, Avant-Garde Bar, Cafe Dekcuf

Tune in at 5 PM EST on 93.1 CKCU FM in Ottawa, or online on CKCU FM dot COM (due to the Canadian news ban on Facebook, I...
08/20/2024

Tune in at 5 PM EST on 93.1 CKCU FM in Ottawa, or online on CKCU FM dot COM (due to the Canadian news ban on Facebook, I can't post a link).

Tonight's episode theme is: artists who are playing shows in Ottawa in the next few weeks!

Ft. Haggus, Soulthief, Rötual, Thalassophobia, DirtNap, Jetsam, Paige Warner, Tucana, P**s For Pumpkin, Bleached Heat, Gloin, and more!

Upcoming Ottawa shows in the next couple weeks...Featuring:DirtNap, Congregation of Savagery, Rötual, Dead Fields Of Woo...
08/16/2024

Upcoming Ottawa shows in the next couple weeks...

Featuring:
DirtNap, Congregation of Savagery, Rötual, Dead Fields Of Woolwich, One Way System, Haggus, Thalassophobia, Soulthief, To Violently Vomit

A small round-up of local releases in the last month plus change. I'm surely missing a plethora of talented artists!For ...
08/10/2024

A small round-up of local releases in the last month plus change. I'm surely missing a plethora of talented artists!

For bands and fans: do you guys know upcoming album release local in Ottawa (or Ontario)? I'd love to make this a more regular thing and I need your help to make it all it can be!

Soulthief, Grand Malheur, Altar of the fuzz, Paige Warner

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