Not only did we have the album in advance of it release and play some choice tracks, we actually had Gary Cain, the 4th best guitarist in the Universe on the Mano A Mano show to talk about this twangadelic album.
Check it out in the podcast below and then go get your face melted off at Cork Hall May 13th at 8:00pm.
The picture above is from a few years ago when Pick a Piper released their first untitled album. They came to CKMS the day of the release and celebrated the album.
Fast Forward to now and Pick A Piper is releasing their follow up album called “Distance” and it is Amazing! I was lucky enough to be at their Waterloo show where they blew the top off the starlight.
In the interview that can be heard here I thought I heard Brad wrong when he said that they play stand up drums….but it was amazing! We will get a video clip up soon on our Mano A Mano Youtube page but for now check out some choice tracks and stories about the albums here:
Email: office@soundfm.ca
Draws for FREE TICKETS!!! Winners announced Sunday April 2
As I clicked send on the last update email…
The promoter of that Said the Whale show emailed me and said that I could
get more giveaways if we wanted…I replied and said “Yes”
So if you want to go check out the show LET ME KNOW!
Also if you wanna do giveaways, when you send me the names…depending upon
how many pairs of tickets I get I will try and do one winner per show!
Talk to you later.
—
Rob “DJ” Steel – 100.3 SoundFM
CKMS Board Member
www.soundfm.ca
www.facebook.com/manoamanoradio
283 Duke St W, Unit 114b
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
N2H 3X7
Hi Programmers!
First of all, thanks to everyone who took part; sending me their playlists
on such short notice for the SOCAN reporting that went on this past week on
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. If you are feeling left out because they didn’t
get your playlist don’t worry, they usually do a second one later in the
year. This is what they pay Canadian Artists with.
In addition to getting that done, I just got word that we got all of our
NEW 102.7 tech interfacing correctly today. So it looks like the official
transfer over date will be March 30th. That means after Thursday, everyone
should have their listeners tune to 102.7FM. Hopefully we can get this to
happen! This is a big even for the CKMS 40th year!!!
There are a couple of cool shows to promote coming up….
#1 Centre in the Square – Said the Whale – April 7th.
I believe I have one set of ticket give-aways. Let your listeners know of
the show, have them call in. Get their names and tell them that the winner
will be posted on our site next Sunday. Send me their email or twitter and
I will announce the winner next Sunday.
#2 Pick A Piper – Starlight – April 13th
We don’t have give-away’s for this but these guys are originally from
Waterloo & for their debut album they were in at CKMS to promote it the day
it was released.
3# Age of Electric Maxwells – April 12th
I still have an article from 20 years ago when this band came through the
area and did an interview on CKMS. No tickets for this show either.
Lastly, Programs should now be submitting their show fees for April!
It should be an exciting month starting things off on our new Frequency!
—
Rob “DJ” Steel – 100.3 SoundFM
CKMS Board Member
www.soundfm.ca
www.facebook.com/manoamanoradio
283 Duke St W, Unit 114b
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
N2H 3X7
Pick A Piper is back with a new Album: Distance. This new album takes their work to a new level! Check out this podcast that spans various different era’s of work by this great band with ties to the KW community!
Then get your stuff together and meet us at Starlight! April 13th for Pick A Piper live in concert. These guys always put on a great show switching from synths to percussion to whatever else they can to produce the electro-rock vibes!
This past #COTM marked the “Second Annual Beer Tasting Competition”. Reigning Champion DJ Plan B was in studio competing to defend his title as the Worlds best Beer sampler. DJ Mattador who was also at the last competition was on hand to try and bounce back from his performance in last year.
In addition to these two athletes, DJ Jazzy TBD and DJ MuuTuu (aka DJ Reliable Son) won their way through the beer drinking ranks in the region for a chance to take on the champ.
The Brewery this year was the Block Three Brewing Company based in St. Jacobs Ontario. The representatives from the brewery were DJ Froyo and DJ KFBass (whose DJ names are awarded during the competition).
The Mano A Mano show tried to throw off the athletes by having them do the beer tasting competition in extreme temperatures however DJ Plan B was not phased as he took home the championship for the second year in a row! Check out the podcast below for the exciting festivities, great music selection and plot twist at the very end which we hope will be signs of the future!
http://storage.radiowaterloo.ca/Second Annual Beer Tasting Competition.mp3
http://storage.radiowaterloo.ca/Ian Somers Feature.mp3
Above is our feature presentation of Ian Somers music from various different bands he has worked with. As one of our favourite musicians we are happy to bring to you his new track “All Failures” in the above podcast and since that podcast he has released one other track that can be heard here:
Here is the final self titled album by the Amazing Band Hot Hot Heat as our Block Three Feature of the Month!
We rocked out what we feel is the sweetest towel rock set yet following the alphabet and choosing a band name that started with each letter. If you do not know any of these glorious tracks please look them up and enjoy!
Age of Electric – I don’t Mind
BR/DGES – Save the Best
Caribou – Julia Brightly
Death From Above 1979 – Trainwreck 1979
Eels – Going Fetal
Frightened Rabbit – Woke up hurting
The Gay Nineties – Letterman
Hot Hot Heat – No, Not Now
Islands – Don’t call me Whitney, Bobby.
Japandroids – Younger us
Kitchens & Bathrooms – Alphabet Conscious
Loveseat – The Drinking Game
Mounties – Headphones
New Pornographers – The Crash Years
Ought – the weather song
Patrons – Ghost
Queens of the Stone Age – Make it wit chu
Robot Apocalypse – Mechanical Heart
Said the Whale – My Government Heart
Tokyo Police Club – Gonna Be ready
Unicorns – I was born (a unicorn)
Veruca Salt – Seether
Wet Secrets – Grow your own F’ing Moustache, A-hole
XX – VCR
Yukon Blonde – stairway
Zolas – your too cool
The Day after Mothers day we talked about our mothers days whereas the Lost Indie City prepared their list before the big weekend we were discussing it post party! It gave a whole different perspective on the wonderful day as the DJ’s of Mano A Mano were about to talk about specific heart felt moments from the day.
This is the new semi-hidden home of the Robot Apocalypse Collective collaborative creation site. If you were sent this link please check out some of the skeleton tracks below, if you are able to add to any tracks please do!
When finished send us a link (dropbox, google drive etc.) where we can download your contribution. Once we have many collaborations we will mix it down and release it. We always feature all our collaborators bands and/or solo work here on CKMS – Radio Waterloo in abundance!!
To download right click the song download and choose “save as”. If there currently aren’t any that you think you can collaborate on OR you have a start to a track that we should add to let us know! We are always working to make more! rob@radiowaterloo.ca
Monolith: Download WAV
Sunny D: Download Wav
Go with It: Download Wav
The first full album was pressed to vinyl and boasted many local and national collaborators.
We recently had Evan from the Robot Apocalypse Collective in the CKMS Studio to share some Block Three Brewing Company Kind Street Saison’s, talk about new collaborations and where he gets inspiration for this exciting collaborative project. In addition to playing a few Robot Apocalypse tracks the Mano A Mano DJ’s play a throwback Song from Evans former band “Run Down Royalty” from when they were in the CKMS studio Years ago.
Drew Chester of the band Patrons came into the SoundFM studio about a week ago to play a brand new patrons track that would be on the upcoming new Patrons album. We talked about the band name change, sampled some Block Three Brewing company products and talked about growing up in a recording studio!
Check out the Interview podcast below!
This past week on Mano A Mano we were taking the Lost Indie City’s theme of “Canadian Content” in a totally different direction. We Interviewed creative forces behind the Block Three Brewing Company to find out how they create their tasty creations. Block Three Brewing Company is located in St. Jacobs and is one of the regions fastest growing Breweries. With beer that tastes this good it is no wonder this company has a bright future!
Listen in as we talk with the brewers and owners of this amazing brewery that is located within our region.
DJ AdRock’s favorite band in the world is Frightened Rabbit. If you follow the Mano A Mano show on twitter @mamradio you will have probably seen how excited he is for this new album. In this podcast we feature a few of these brand new tracks and some oldies in this Block Three Brewing Company – Three Block Feature of Frightened Rabbit.
For Season 10 of the Mano A Mano show we are going to be mirroring The Lost Indie City’s themes with an additional stipulation that we cannot play the same songs that they chose. Here is the Mano A Mano mammal list:
This past week we featured an awesome three block of music by a band from Montreal called La Querelle while enjoying some “Keep Calm and Saison”. Check out the podcast below and then go and check them out on Bandcamp!
https://laquerelle.bandcamp.com/
The Feature Band of the Week is BACK! Now with a new sponsor and new Feature Bands.
The Feature this week is by a member of one of our favourite bands, Do Make Say Think. Justin Small has created a weekly music and accompanying photo release project. In our Three block we feature one of our favourite Do Make Say Think tracks followed by two of the weekly project tracks. After you hear the podcast follow this link below to subscribe to his weekly releases! You will be glad that you did:
In our first ever “Case of the Mondays” Monday the Mano A Mano program celebrated it’s 10th Season on CKMS. DJ Jeff E Jeff was in the station with DJ Steel as an homage to day one season one when it was these two DJ’s who battled out “Instrumental Music”. On this first #COTM the Mano A Mano DJ’s mirrored The Lost indie City’s Theme of “Going Solo”. Without seeing the Lost Indie Cities set, Mano A Mano only had two repeat solo acts.
For tonight’s Mano A Mano theme we chose our songs based on some great Netflix programs we have been watching. Here is the list of great shows and great songs to compliment them!
Tell us your thoughts and Netflix favourites by tweeting at us: @mamradio
Check out the SFM times page here for the Top Releases of 2015 and the award winning DJ’s and shows. Although only certain DJ’s were selected for awards, as always, CKMS – Radio Waterloo has a vast variety of great programming, all of which are deserving of awards. Here is the podcast of the Top Releases and Awards ceremony.
This podcast and video have been a long time in the making. This was filmed as Radio Waterloo was leaving the 108 King Street Studio Location. Because of that the audio is a bit glitchy in the podcast but as you can tell in the video above the harmonies provided by the Alpacas were unwavering.
Check out this amazing band in the video above and podcast below.
To check out the full interview and many other songs performed listen to the podcast of the “Love to Air” here:
