It’s AGM Season at CKUT!

Join us on Tuesday, November 25th at 6PM for CKUT 90.3 FM’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) — our yearly gathering of members, volunteers, and programmers to reflect, celebrate, and plan for the future of the station we love!

We’ll share updates from across the station, hold Board & Committee elections, and look ahead to what’s next for CKUT! This is your opportunity to connect, vote, and make your voice heard in the collective direction of the station.

Please RSVP in advance and renew your $20 membership* to participate and vote. Everything you need is at the link below!

Join the CKUT Board of Directors

CKUT is recruiting for our Board of Directors, Steering Committee, and Programming Committee.

This is an opportunity for you to have a say in how the station is managed, and what we sound like.

These candidates want an "apartheid-free" Montreal

Funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, CKUT’s Local Journalism Initiative will publish local news stories from reporter Jules Bugiel.

Over 100 candidates in Montreal’s municipal elections, and two party leaders, have pledged to help make the city “apartheid-free.”

The Montreal Anti-Apartheid campaign calls on candidates to work to cut institutional ties with Israeli cities and companies they say are complicit in a genocide.

The campaign takes inspiration from former mayor Jean Doré, who cut ties with South Africa during its apartheid regime.

CKUT spoke to a campaign organizer as well as candidates from Transition Montreal, Projet Montreal, and Ensemble Montreal who have signed the pact.

Reclaiming Soundsystem Culture: A Conversation with MORPH

Ever since its inception in 2024, MORPH Sound System has been contributing to an accessible and inclusive future for Montréal’s electronic music scene. MORPH is a femme and queer-run sound system that aims to give marginalized groups access and agency over musical spaces that have been historically closed off to them. Through workshops, performances, and events, they want to demystify the process of building speakers and running a sound system.

On October 11th, MORPH is hosting a fundraiser at Parquette to ensure they can continue to offer their workshops and services at an affordable price. The day will start with talks about sound system culture and speaker-building workshops, and it will transition into an array of DJ and live sets from some of the most promising underground talents in Montréal.

Last week we had a chat with Honeydrip, the founder of MORPH and one of its leading members. During our conversation, we spoke about the origins of the project, her hopes for the upcoming fundraiser, and a sound system’s potential to be a vital community space.

Blk Music / Blk Montreal | CBMA x CKUT Takeover

This past week was a milestone for CKUT as we welcomed Phil Vassel and Donna McCurvin from the Canada Black Music Archives and Mark Campbell from U of T’s Afrosonic Innovation Lab to the airwaves for deep dives in to Montreal’s rich Black music history- much of which CKUT has been at the nexus of for the past 4 decades.

From August 21–24, The Takeover shined a spotlight on significant artists, DJs, promoters, and influencers who played leading roles in shaping Montreal’s Black and Caribbean Canadian cultural identity.

The event featured nearly 15 hours of original programming, tracing the long gaze of Montreal’s Black musical history, from jazz rooted in African diasporic traditions, through waves of Caribbean migration, to the explosive innovations of Reggae, Dancehall, Hip-Hop, Kompa, Soca, Afrobeat, and beyond.

Big thanks to CKUT hosts Roger Moore, Butcher T, Raymond Laurent, Howard “Stretch” Carr, Pat Dillon-Moore, Wayne the Angel, and DJ Storme for welcoming all our guests.

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Consider supporting CKUT through a monthly donation!

Your monthly gift helps us create radio that resonates—radio that reflects real people, real stories, and the heartbeat of Montreal. By giving a little each month, you help amplify local artists, support diverse voices, and keep independent broadcasting thriving.

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Older Women Live - An Oral History with Rose Marie Whalley

From A Piece of Chalk to the Microphone – A lookback at OWL’s 20 years at CKUT with Rose Marie Whalley!

On Saturday, 9 November 2024, a frisky yet sunny late morning in Montreal, I made my way down to the CKUT recording studio on the McGill University campus. I was waiting for Mrs. Rose Marie Whalley to arrive for our interview. Rose Marie is part of Older Women’s Live (OWL), who have been running a radio show on CKUT 90.3FM for a little over 20 years now, called Hersay: Older Women Live.

This interview is an oral history of Older Women Live, told through a casual and honest conversation with Rose Marie as she shares her perspective and experiences – about the show, the world, and life in general. It’s an insight into how the show has, over the years, built a bridge between one of today’s most marginalized communities; older women, and young people. It has created a space for their perspectives and knowledge to be shared, passed down, and for new conversations between generations to emerge.

This show is just one example of many that speak to the meaning and impact CKUT continues to have through its community-oriented programming and support.

– Alona

THE MUSIC BLOG: MIA AND KASEN'S POP MONTREAL 2025 RUNDOWN

Intrepid CKUT Music Journalists Mia and Kasen deliver the one Pop Montreal rundown you need to read. Highlights from the fest, some pics and general conveyance of this year’s festival vibe.