This past Friday we featured some fresh music! The podcast had an audio glitch at about the 30 minute mark but before that time we were able to:
Feature Vinyl: Holy F&*$ (self titled album)
Feature YouTube Page: Debby Grupp & a few audio tracks.
New music by: A Perfect Circle
Then the glitch happened. We will feature even more new music next week!
This week we pay tribute to past Mano A Mano DJ’s: DJ Jeff E Jeff and DJ AdRock, and then DJ Gogaliesha takes the reigns and plays a whole bunch of his favourite tracks.
We feature brand new music from The Mounties, Smash Boom Pow and Cara Leigh which trying to escape the Niima Outpost!
Check out the Robot Apocalypse ASDF video that features footage from the 2017 RISE live stream broadcast of two Robots discussing the future of humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPXtd_RskHE
DJ Gogaliesha and I again get banned worldwide for airing a live video of the Mars Volta in the Mano A Mano extravaganza. We had to smoke out a few moments of the concert to get YouTube to allow us not to be blocked!
Check it out as we explore the Math Rock Genre while playing some Geometry Dash.
This week I address various criticisms of the first two episodes as my new co-host and I tackle radio in a second dimension!
Check out the #1 release of 2017! Stream the whole album here on YouTube! This album is also the original soundtrack of the Radio Waterloo Documentary that will be out this year!
This album features collaborations by:
Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat, The Mounties
Elsa Jayne (local KW)
Parker Bossley of The Gay Nineties, Fur Trade
Ian Somers of Limblifter, Isomers
Sasha Chornyy of Life in Vacuum (local KW)
Ulysses Coppard of Smash Boom Pow
Ryan Stanley of Cursed Arrows (local KW)
Cara Leigh (local KW)
Chelsea McBride of Koopa Troop
Brad Weber, Angus Frasier & Dan Robers of Pick A Piper (local KW)
Colin Fisher & Steve Ward of Caribou
Iuls Dragomir (local KW)
Gary Cain of the Gary Cain Band (local KW)
Brad Merritt of 54-40
Moses Bogart (local KW)
Matt Kras of Cyanide Kiss (local KW)
Adam Kras of the Kras Country Experience (local KW)
Jeff McKenna of Audio Boffins (local KW)
Rob McKenna of McKenna’s All Weather Haulage (local KW)
10) At the Drive In
9) Gary Cain
9) Mirage
8) Age of Electric
7) Godspeed You! Black Emperor
6) The Wet Secrets
5) Smash Boom Pow
4) Pick A Piper
3) Death From above 1979
1) Do Make Say Think
1) Robot Apocalypse
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:
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://soundfm.s3.amazonaws.com/Second Annual Beer Tasting Competition.mp3
http://soundfm.s3.amazonaws.com/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!
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.
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.
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
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.
