Recent posts
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08/06/2012August 10th marks Prisoners’ Justice Day - a day to commemorate and remember all of those who have died at the hands of the prison system.
CKUT’s news show - Off the Hour - will focus on prison justice related issues all week long. The week will culminate with a special feature program from 5 to 6pm on August 10th with programming produced by Prison Radio.
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08/05/2012Tune in to Radio is Dead this Monday, August 6th from 2 to 3PM, for a little radio drama. CKUT’s Youth Radio Campers will be voicing a rendition of HIPPIES, HOUSEWIVES, AND WATERING HOLES by D. M. Larson.
Expect surprise twists and improvisations in the making of a conventional radio play in an unconventional manner!
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07/28/2012Monday at 11am on CKUT, the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) presents the account of a Mexican man who worked for up to 80 hours a week as a butcher in conditions tantamount to slavery.
«I was basically a slave,» he states. «There’s no other word to describe it.»
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07/27/2012This little survey will take you very little time to fill out but will mean so much to us!
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07/24/2012MC Emrical aka Ricardo Lamour-Blaise of Montréal Nord Républik joined the Wednesday Morning After crew live in-studio for some live rapping and conversation.
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07/23/2012Last week an article titled «Canadian Music is Boring: Living in the Age of Enforced Mediocrity» was published in Calgary’s alternative weekly FFWD, and received a flurry of interweb attention.
It also got CKUT’s Music Department thinking.
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07/23/2012Roots Rock Rebel aired an exclusive interview with the legendary Jimmy Cliff on Wednesday, July 25th (10pm-12midnight).
Jimmy Cliff has just released a brand new full-length album -“Rebirth” produced by Tim Armstrong (of Rancid), and he’ll be headlining the Montreal International Reggae Festival on August 19th.
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07/20/2012This week’s clip is from The Tuesdays Morning After’s recent sit down with a couple of the past editors and writers of the Montreal Mirror.
CKUT’s Music Director sat down with longtime Mirror music columnist Jonathan Cummins to talk music journalism, holding print in your hands, and what the heck happened to the Mirror.
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07/18/2012See you at Casa del Popolo tonight, August 16th, for Institutional Prostitution + Syngja + ¡Flist! + HALFDOGJ.R!You know what’s awesome?
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07/17/2012Things to listen for:
This Friday, July 20th, the third week of CKUT Youth Radio Campers will be taking over the airwaves from 5 to 6pm.
Each group of campers learn how to DJ, conduct interviews, put together radio shows and at the end of their program they test out their new skills by hosting a full hour of live radio. Don’t miss it, they’re the best!
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07/17/2012We’re teaming up with the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy to bring Montreal a t-r-u-l-y special Dragonroot concert featuring MANCHYNA, Moe Clark and A K U A!
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07/12/2012“The radio is a very powerful source of our inspiration”Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars stopped by CKUT this past Tuesday to perform live on Basa Basa Soukous Soukous Soundz.
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07/10/2012This July on The Montreal Sessions join film and soundscape chef Randolph Jordan for the 21st Century Schizophone, an eclectic meditation on the weird and wonderful consequences of the electroacoustical transmission of sound.
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07/09/2012Tune in tomorrow from 7:30 to 8:30AM as CKUT dedicates an hour of programming to remembering the Montreal Mirror. If you can’t quite hack getting up that early, don’t worry - the archived show is available online here.
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07/09/2012Machel Montano, International Power Soca Monarch, brought his energy to Montreal this Carifiesta weekend. Before he brought down the roof at Cegep Andre Laurendeau he got into things with Howard Stretch Carr and Faith Sankar on West Indian Rhythms.
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06/29/2012All Things McGill presents Migrant Voices, a project of the Immigrant Workers Centre, every Monday from 11:00 to 11:30am through July and August.
The Migrant Voices project is a collection of testimonies about the experiences of people who come to Canada as im/migrant workers.
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06/28/2012The loss of the Montreal Mirror has left a gaping hole in the media landscape of Montreal - there’s no denying it. While CKUT can never make up for the lack of a hold-it-in-your-hands alternative weekly print publication, we got to thinking that perhaps we could do our part by making our LISTINGS public. So, that’s just what we’re doing!
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06/28/2012
Remember how we told you Tarrus Riley was live in studio? We weren’t lying. Watch the man in action!
Then spend 60 seconds with the legendary Butcher T, host of Butcher T’s Noon Time Cuts, and tune in to catch him every Friday from noon to 2 pm!