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Denim Entertainment Radio, New Music, Shows, Station

Live Interview with Canadian Electronic-band “Dragonette” on Sound FM !

#DenimRadio ! NEW UPLOAD TO MIXCLOUD !

Just incase you missed it earlier this month.. Now on the DJ Denim Mixcloud for your review and listening!  DJ Denim holds an interview with lead singer Martina Sorbara of Dragonette! Live interview and commercial Free DJ set from Nov. 8th, 2016.  Get the latest on Dragonette and their upcoming tour while catching one awesome DJ set!

Check out the DJ Denim mixcloud page for this episode and other past episodes of Denim Entertainment Radio in FULL on CKMS!

Listen Here: https://www.mixcloud.com/DenimnZeebrat/1003-sound-fm-denim-entertainment-radio-ep-114-live-dragonette-interview-dj-set/

Join DJ Denim for Denim Radio Live bi-weekly Friday nights at 10 pm! And remember… Hash Tag It on Social Media.. #DenimRadio !

Events, Station

The CKMS S.O.S. Fundraiser Success!!! Thank-You for Supporting!

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Thank-you to everyone who could make it out last weekend to the CKMS S.O.S. Fundraiser!!!  It was an amazing night!  We look forward to hosting more upcoming CKMS fundraisers and public events in the near future.  Photos are up from last Saturday’s S.O.S. on our Facebook Page!

Thanks again for your coming out and showing your support to community radio in Waterloo.

For latest details on our upcoming events please see our Facebook page at  ‘100.3 SOUND FM‘

Cheers!

Events, Fundraising, Newsroom, Station

CKMS’s Annual Friends of SoundFM Funding Drive – Sept 22nd-Oct 6th

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From September 22nd to October 6th CKMS will be hosting our annual friends of SoundFM funding drive, and today I’m asking you to support Waterloo Region’s community and campus radio station as we head into our 40th year.

If you have the means please visit soundfm.ca/donate to find out how you can financially support the station, and become a member of the CKMS radio community.

Thank you for continuing to tune in to and supporting 100.3 SoundFM!

#RadioWaterloo
#KWAwesome


Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Station

Block 3 Feature: Ian Somers

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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:

Block three Feature

 

Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Robot Apocalypse: Block Three Feature

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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.

 

Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Station

Interview with Block Three Brewing Company

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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.


Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Frightened Rabbit: Block Three Feature

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Block three FeatureDJ 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.

Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Justin Small – Block Three Feature

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Block three Feature

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:

http://justinsmallmusic.com/


Mano-A-Mano, Shows, Station

The Sonic Tapestries of The Alpacas

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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.

 

Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Robot Apocalypse Rock Cut Feature Band

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Matt Kras from the newly formed Robot Apocalypse Collective came by the Mano A Mano show to promote the new self titled EP that was just released. Check out the podcast above for some of the music and then Download it FREE on the link below!

The Robot Apocalypse Collective brings together performing members from 54-40, Limblifter, Hot Hot Heat, The Gay Nineties, Fur Trade, The Mounties, The Cursed Arrows, The Gary Cain Band, Elsa Jayne, Cyanide Kiss, Audio Boffins, All Weather Haulage, DJ AdRock’s Country Experience.
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Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Rock Cut Video: For Esme “You”

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Coming up on July 24th is the WAYHOME music festival! The line-up boasts some great musicians from across the content including one of our past feature bands: For Esme

This podcast was released a while ago when we found their vinyl in the station! We were thrilled to test out the vinyl and find a rich combination of atmospheric sounds combined with great song writing. For Esme has just released a new track and is set to release a new album called “Sugar” later on this year. The new track is called “You”. This months Rock Cut Video is “You” by For Esme. Check it out below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jLAcxqcXXg

Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Rock Cut Feature: Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a band that is near and dear to our hearts. They are the one of the first bands that we featured on “The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff”, our Audio Comic that features great Canadian Bands. As such, when we saw their new album ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’ we knew we had to release it on the same day that we closed out The Electrifying Adventures – Canada Day!

Sit back and enjoy this soundscape! Then go and pick up this album! You will not be disappointed!

Electrifying Sessions, Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Off The Air, Shows, Station, The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff

Season 2 Episode 2: Interrogations #DJJEJ

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Last night on the SoundFM program “Electrifying Sessions”, DJ Jeff E Jeff released Season 2 Episode 2: Interrogations from the series “The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff”. This episodes is the 10th installment in the series. Artwork for this episode was created by Sophia Westrop.


We continue to feature great Canadian Bands in this series. Here is the next group of great Canadian bands (in order of appearance):

1) Hayden
2) The Zolas
3) After Dark
4) Blind
5) Foxtrott
6) Last Ex
7) Hoosier Poet
8) Mean Red Spiders
9) The Marble Index
10) Robot Apocalypse featuring Parker Bossley of Fur Trade and The Gay Nineties

Events, Mano-A-Mano, Off The Air, Shows, Station, The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff

S1 Episode 5: Detective J. Steel

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This past Tuesday on “The Electrifying Session with DJ Jeff E JEff” we re-released Episode 5: Detective J. Steel while gearing up for the season 2 release. We also released the Season 2 promo that can be seen below. This is the first issue where DJ Steel is introduced into the story to help DJ AdRock figure out what is going on with his Mano A Mano co-host! This also brought Big Poppa Higgs in as the voice of DJ Steel.


Episode 5 Artwork by Fred Start:

Episode 5
Music in order of appearance by:
1) Mind of A Squid
2) Bella Clava
3) Fujahtive
4) K-OS
5) Falcon Punch
6) House of Velvet
7) Quarterback
8) Mise en Scene
9) Kid Koala
10) Yamantaka | Sonic Titan
11) The Tragically Hip
12) My Dad vs Your
13) New Wings
14) UBT
15) Matthew Good
16) Wax Mannequin
17) Bryan Adams

Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Rock Cut Feature: ttwwrrss

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This extremely interesting album came into the station the other day and since we have been interested in many bands that have removed the vowels from their names we checked it out. The first great thing about this band was that they are from our old stomping ground of “The Hammer” (Hamilton for those not from the hammer or those who did not know it is sometimes call that for some reason)

Secondly, it is some damn great music! It is darker electronic music that has some wicked hooks to it! Some songs have elements of piano that complement the electronic songs – check it ttwwrrss in the podcast above!

Then go to their bandcamp page here and get more of their music!

Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station, The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff

Episode 2: “The Water Bottle Mystery” #DJJEJ

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This Past Tuesday we re-released Episode 2: The Water Bottle Mystery so that it would have a place here on the SoundFM website! Coming soon will be the SEASON 2 Trailer!!!!!!!

The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff Season 1 by Mano A Mano

Episode 2 Artwork by DJ Steel:
Episode 2

Music in order of appearance by:
1) Audio Boffins
2) Said Dog
3) Cowlick
4) Obscure Disorder
5) Said The Whale
6) Bocce
7) Tom Green
8) Wolf Parade
9) Shout Out Out Out Out
10) In My Coma
11) The Gandharvas
12) All Weather Haulage
13) The Mark Inside
14) Gang Signs
15) Walk off the Earth

 

Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station, The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff

Episode 1: “The Server room” #DJJEJ

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Tonight we re-released episode 0 and episode 1 of The Electrifying Adventure of DJ Jeff E Jeff. Episode 0 is just the set up for the series and episode 1 is the pilot episode. If you listen to episode 1 and find the editing slow….well so do we! Make sure to check out episode 2 because that is where things really pick up and don’t look back!

Anyways check out the episode 1 and episode 0 posts!

The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff Season 1 by Mano A Mano

Music in order of appearance by:
1) 54-40

The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff Season 1 by Mano A Mano

Artwork by Fred Start:
Episode 1

Music in order of appearance by:
1) Godspeed you! Black Emperor
2) Mother Mother
3) All Weather Haulage
4) Canailles
5) The ROBOTS
6) Spoken Word by Marcus Green of “The Smokin’ Word”
7) The Organ Thieves
8) Kashoo
9) Poor Young Things
10) Limblifter
11) Bad Bad Not Good
12) Cyanide Kiss
13) The Unicorns

Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

DJ Jeff E Jeff Season 2 Information!

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In this podcast we talk a lot about various different things that Bryan Talked about in his podcast that can be heard here:

Much of the stuff that he mentioned was released for the first time on his show and we confirm that and a bunch of other cool stuff about the audio comic.

We then start talking about a bunch of things Captain Canuck. I didnt realize that the Unholy War series was somewhat of a separate entity. We talk about the great artwork of this series and how you can order it here:
http://www.captaincanuckunholywar.com/

Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Support CKMS with these initiatives!

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Coming up on February 28th CKMS is having a station fundraiser at the Button Factory with Live Acts that are TBA in the upcoming week (possibly on the Mano A Mano show) Just by attending a great show you are supporting the station but there is sure to be some great draws etc!

If online is more your thing…..you can support this station kickstarter that is a station promoter and you will also be supporting Canadian multi-media comic book history!

Click the image below to go to the kickstarter page!

Events, Mano-A-Mano, New Music, Shows, Station

Limblifter! New Album: Pacific Milk! Tour!

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We are very excited to finally getting around to posting this podcast with the brand new Limblifter track “Dopamine”. Just when you thought that all the great riffs had been rocked here comes an amazing new one that will definitely cause an earworm in your head!

The album “Pacific Milk” drops April 7th but if you attend one of this upcoming shows you can pick up an advanced copy! See you at the shows!

Events, Mano-A-Mano, Shows, Station

The Great Digital Film Festival!

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In order to get ready for the release of our
Audio Comic “The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff” we were talking about all things comics including this awesome film festival happening in Waterloo January 30 – February 5th. It is the 6th annual Great Digital Film Festival and we gave away a few tickets on the air and still have only a few left.

Contact us
 for FREE tickets to this event!

While watching you can interact with film expert Richard Crouse using his twitter @RichardCrouse using #GDFF2015
(although cell phone use is strongly discouraged during the actually screenings)

Festival line-up includes:
– All day X-men franchise
– Darkman & Dick Tracy
– Blade Runner
– Kill Bill vol 1 & 2
– Alien
– Aliens
– Hellboy
– Pan’s Labrinth
– The Monster Squad
– The Rocketeer

Make sure to check out the showtimes here:

http://www.cineplex.com/Events/DigitalFilmFest