The Clean Up Hour, Mix 381

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, complete with a bit more complaining about Sony/Playstation — fun, fun, fun!

Tracklist:

Future – 2018
Curren$y, Corner Boy P, & T.Y. – Money Put Away
G Perico – Spray Bottle
YG & Shoreline Mafia – Hollywood
Larry June – Organic Motion
Phil Ade & Casey Veggies – P.O.P
Slim 400 – VIP to the Parking Lot
Jay Worthy, Kamaiyah, & Cardo – Bull****
Polyester the Saint – Midnight Jam
Snoop Dogg & Soopafly – Can You Control Yo ***?
Tha Dogg Pound & Paul Wall – Make Dat ***** Pop
Rick Ross & Yung Miami – She’s My Star
Wiz Khalifa, JasonMartin, & Ty Dolla Sign – Top Down
Rick Ross, Young Breed, & DJ Nasty – Do It One Time
The Pharcyde – Soul Flower (Remix)
Knoc-Turn-Al – Love Slave
Dom Kennedy – Miracle on 143rd
Khary & Abhi the Nomad – Beach Sounds and Oceans
Drake – Stuck
Lance Skiiwalker – Test of Times
Sango & Big Sean – Big Little Lies
Fred Again & The Streets – Mike (desert island duvet)
Steve Lacy – nice shoes / in your world
Latto & Doja Cat – Okayyy
Syd & Cube – Closet
Young Jeezy & Pharrell – Rumor Has It
Kamaal the Abstract (aka Q-Tip) – Even If It Is So
Rav – BET BET
John Wells – shoulda listened to nip
Suga Free – Santa Santa

See y’all next time!

AUDIO SALAD w/ PROLIFIC TRICKS – Episode 8 ; Air Date: July 30th, 2026

Hey music fans,

Here’s the track list for the 8th episode of Audio Salad!

You can listen below via the embedded player near the bottom of this post.

CKMS 102.7 FM ,11am EST – 12pm EST

Start Time Title Performer/Creator CANCON?
11:00:00 BACK & FORTH PROLIFIC TRICKS (Theme, 9 sec)
11:00:09 SHOW INTRO JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS
11:00:59 EGO REBECCA SICHON Y
11:04:02 DON’T LIKE YOU ANYMORE TANIKA CHARLES Y
11:07:05 FOLLOW TEA FANNIE Y
11:10:22 POLITICS PHOENIX PAGLIACCI FEAT CADENCE WEAPON Y
11:14:17 UPSIDE DOWN PROLIFIC TRICKS Y
11:18:14 NATURALLY MOKA ONLY Y
11:20:51 DJ SPEAKING JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS
11:21:57 RECIPE ERIC SCHENKMAN Y
11:26:32 RUNAWAY HIPNOTIC Y
11:30:07 DJ SPEAKING JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS
11:30:48 LONG GAME CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD Y
11:35:44 THE PROCESS ALANNAH MATTY Y
11:39:04 NO PROBLEM CANDICE B Y
11:42:28 FALLING STARS THE DELLA KIT Y
11:45:46 PLAY NO GAME RAEYA Y
11:48:09 THIS SUMMER PROLIFIC TRICKS Y
11:50:41 DJ SPEAKING JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS
11:53:45 BURY ME ELINA FILICE Y
11:57:08 DJ SPEAKING JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS

See you next time, Thursdays from 11am EST – 12pm EST!

Audio Salad is an eclectic mix of rock, hip hop, reggae, indie, alternative,  and much more. Each week will be a new journey, with an emphasis on Canadian talent.

Audio Salad is hosted by Canadian recording artist Prolific Tricks aka Jason Patterson and airs on CKMS 102.7 FM Radio Waterloo, Thursdays from 11am EST to 12pm EST & on demand.

My debut album, Down to Earth (2026), and additional tracks  are  available at ProlificTricks.Bandcamp.com & all music platforms.

I can be reached at ProlificTrickery@Gmail.com or on Instagram @ProlificTrickery @AudioSaladCKMS and would love to hear from you!

Radio Nowhere Episode 170 Summer, 7/27/26

Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/RadioNowhere260727Episode170.mp3, 58m00s, 82.0 MBytes

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1:44 Do Ya The Move
5:50 Radar Love Golden Earring
12:11 Room to Move John Mayall
17:02 Red Red Wine UB40
22:18 White Summer The Yardbirds
26:10:00 San Franciscan Nights The Animals
29:56:00 Summertime Annie Lennox
35:05:00 Spill the Wine Eric Burdon & War
39:56:00 With a Little Help From My Friends Joe Cocker
44:58:00 Gasoline Alley Rod Stewart
48:59:00 Country Honk The Rolling Stones
52:05:00 I’m a Man Spencer Davis Group
54:52:00 She’s Not There The Zombies

episode 315 agriculture show July 28 2026 with Aislinn Clancy and Petemi Ajibode

Aislinn Clancy and Petemi Ajibode are our studio guests today on The Agriculture Show.  Aislinn and Petemi brought some great work stories, agricultural stories, and tunes to play. Our playlist:

  • Gratitude  by  Asake
  • Bigger Than That   by  Alysha Brilla
  • Banana Pancakes   by  Jack Johnson
  • Footloose  by  Kenny Loggins
  • Earth  by  Lil Dicky

Click here to open a tab to download the episode

 

Northern Lights – #14 – Jul 29, 2026

Northern Lights plays the week’s best new pop, rock, and electronic music from Canadian artists.

Download: Northern Lights – #14 – Jul 29, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s)

TIME TITLE ARTIST
00:57 Love Language ari hicks
03:05 Up & Away TALK
07:00 Circle Back Hayley Law
10:12 Made It Out John Muirhead
13:12 Flutters Dabin, William Black, Audra Miller
16:39 Deep Below Thunder Queens
21:40 Dream Girl RealestK
24:09 Hershey Kiss Naomi, SLM
26:15 Hot In The Summer Kelland
29:40 Lovers On The Dancefloor BLOND:ISH, Kurtis Wells
32:10 Cranberry girlsweetvoiced
35:18 When I Lose You JP Saxe
38:27 Best Days Ruth B.
41:53 Fake It Til I Make It YSSY
44:47 Let Me Go THEHONESTGUY
48:03 Besoin De Personne BB PUMA
50:21 Stand By You Robyn Ashley
54:33 …Maybe it’s Me Homofonik

Northern Lights airs on CKMS-FM on Wednesdays from 9am to 10am and Fridays from 10pm to 11pm.

Click here to go to the Northern Lights homepage

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CKMS News -2026-07-28- Kitchener ‘Unplugs’ King Street with First Week-long Pedestrian Event

CKMS News -2026-07-28- Kitchener ‘Unplugs’ King Street with First Week-long Pedestrian Event

Eren Yoruk

Kitchener, ON — For the first time, King Street in downtown Kitchener has been transformed into a week-long pedestrian-only space as the City launches King Street Unplugged, a pilot project aimed at creating a more people-focused downtown.

Running from July 26 to 31, the event closes a section of King Street between College and Young Streets to vehicle traffic, replacing it with live entertainment, games, workshops, markets and family-friendly activities. Mayor Berry Vrbanovic says the initiative builds on previous car-free events but marks the city’s first attempt at a week-long pedestrian experience.

Manager of Downtown Development and Innovation Aura Hertzog says the project responds to community feedback seeking more welcoming public spaces where residents can connect while supporting local businesses. If successful, the pilot could become an annual event.

The city will evaluate the initiative by gathering feedback from businesses and visitors, monitoring attendance and measuring community engagement throughout the week.

Local businesses are already seeing positive signs. Mandy Kowitz, owner of Square Peg, says she noticed increased foot traffic on the first day and expects more customers throughout the week.

Visitors also welcomed the idea. Resident Mila Purcell says closing King Street for a full week creates a more enjoyable downtown experience and hopes the event returns next year.

For more information about King Street Unplugged, visit downtownkitchener.ca.

EXPLORING AI MUSIC – July 28, 2026

Playlist from Exploring AI Music_ July 28, 2026

Start Time

Title

0:00 Spoken Word
0:55 There Remain Few Bridges
6:49 To Forgive and Forget
10:53 To Live and Love
18:53 To the Sacred Divine
23:35 Too Afraid to Pray
27:35 Spoken Word
28:05 Touching my Soul
34:55 Underneath the Scars
41:23 Value Who I Am
47:39 What Have We Got
55:04 Spoken Word
55:45 What the Heck

My music is also available at golenkazzian.bandcamp.com and can be heard 24/7 at https://www.youtube.com/@GolenKazzian or https://hello.citrus3.com:2020/public/gokazz (24/7 radio station)

Write to me at GolenKazzian@radiowaterloo.ca.

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Reader’s Delight, Episode 32, July 26th, 2026

Episode XXXII of Reader’s Delight features authors Alison Gadsby, Crystal AJ Smith, and John Degen, as well as What’s In A Name with Erica and Andrew from Old Goat Books in Waterloo, Ontario.

Alison Gadsby joins the show to talk about her writing journey and the development of her short story collection Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive (Guernica Editions, 2026), and then reads an excerpt from the first story in the collection.
Social Media:
Instagram: @ay.jay.gee
Substack: @alisongadsby
Facebook: Junction Reads
Bluesky: @junctionreads.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Alison Gadsby
Book: Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive

Crystal AJ Smith and I talk about her debut novel Gitwaałtk (Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine’s Quill, 2026), the characters she created, the Highway of Tears, and what prompted her to write the book, then she reads from the novel.
Book: Gitwaałtk

John Degen discusses the genre of “Nordic Noir” and the crafting of his new novel, the whodunnit Seldom Seen Road (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2026) before reading an excerpt from the beginning of the book.
Social Media:
Instagram: @jkdegen
Facebook: John Degen
TikTok: Shore Report
Book: Seldom Seen Road

Erica and Andrew from Old Goat Books in Waterloo,  Ontario tell us how the name of the store came about.

 

CKMS Community Connections for 13 July 2026: Adrean Farrugia

Show Notes

A man wearing headphones adjusting a microphone
Adrean Farrugia

Adrean Farrugia, jazz pianist and educator, talks to Bob Jonkman about improvisation, commercial music, composing music, performing, and Adrean’s performances at the Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival.

The interview starts at 4m38s.

Online:

Podcast

Download: ckms-community-connections-2026-07-13-episode263-Adrean-Farrugia.mp3 (47 MB, 50m56s, episode 263)

Index

Time Title Album Artist
0m00s Theme for CKMS Community Connections ccc CKMS Sunflower logo (yellow petals surrounding a black centre with white wavies all on a teal background)
CKMS Community Connections
Steve Todd
0m50s High Five Ricochet, Adrean Farrugia (stylized letters against a white brick wall)
Ricocchet
Adrean Farrugia
4m38s Talking about the time signature of High Five, in five/fourths time. Introducing Adrean Farrugia, pianist, composer, jazz musician, and teacher. Adrean talks about his teaching career and the Contemporary and Commercial Music program at the Wilfrid Laurier Faculty of Music. Laurier celebrated its 50th anniversary, and has expanded its Faculty of Music from mostly classical to jazz.
10m05s Talking about Improvisation — how can you teach that? There is an impression of “lesserness” for improvised music. But high-level improvisation requires a vast skillset on one’s instrument, a level of technical mastery that is comparable to that of a concert pianist, and on top of that there needs to be a deep grasp of musical theory, and the ability to apply it. Adrean compares improvisation to having a conversation: using a set vocabulary and grammar to spontandeously express ideas. Many of the skill sets for classical music and jazz music are identical, but they are different styles, for different audiences. At Laurier the classical and contempory music is not siloed, but integrated together. Adrean is teaching an improv class equally populated by jazz and classical majors.
16m11s Is jazz and classical “commercial” music? Not like rock, pop, and hip hop. But the disciplines of rock, funk, gospel, hip hop, country are all rooted in jazz music. If you study jazz then you’ll be quite well equipped to play in a funk or R&B band. Adrean likens it to chef school: Why would a Japanese chef specializing in tepanyaki study French cuisine? But when you study culinary arts you study everything to get broad knowledge, and filter that into a specialty. The vast majority of jazz students don’t become jazz musicians, but become really well educated rock and pop musicians, or film or video music composers. As a “commercial” music program there are courses for music production, and business of music courses to address writing grants, booking tours, promotion.
20m59s Talking about composing music as a part of “commercial” music. In jazz there is a culture of writing your own music; in classical music a performer can have a good career without ever composing anything. Adrean tells us about composing “production music”, music written specifically for use as licenced music for film. Music is written and performed in particular styles, and searchable in the music libraries. This is not AI generated music! Adrean has produced a few “production music” albums, and has heard it used in movies and commercials. But even with billions of plays on the internet, there is not a lot of revenue from royalties. No-one is getting rich from writing music, unlike the 1950s when someone could write a hit song and retire on the proceeds from that one song. Adrean doesn’t consider himself a ‘Composer’, but a performer who composes.
27m03s Introducing Blued Dharma, talking about performing as a duo, and how actual jazz music is different from production music.
28m21s Blued Dharma Adrean Farrugia, Joel Frahm, Blued Dharma (B&W pencil Illustration of two people, their heads obscured by a blue scribble)
Blued Dharma
Adrean Farrugia
34m33s The challenges of peforming as a duo. Challenging for the listeners too. Talking about playing in other groups, and upcoming albums. New albums provide an excuse for touring and booking some gigs, almost certainly at The Jazz Room.
39m55s Talking about upcoming performance at the Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival, Friday at 3:00pm backing for Jessica Lalond, and on Sunday at 1:30pm with his own band: Adrean Farrugia on Piano with bassist Roberto Occhipinti, drummer Ethan Ardelli, saxphonist Allison Au, and special guest Brad Good on trumpet. Shoutout to Derek Hines, the music director for the Jazz Festival. Festivals have been declining, but Adrean says they’re important cultural events for communities.
44m00s Cultural events provide a way for an audience to be connected to performers — it is too easy today to not engage with the rest of humanity. But Adrean sees just the opposite in the students he teaches; some reject technology in order to hang out “in real life”. Adrean gives the example that young people have far more diverse Spotify playlists than older people. Older generations derived their identities from music, but younger people listen to music because they like it. One silver lining to streaming services is that it makes music more accessible. Adrean says today’s music students are leagues better than students from the 1990s. But the convenience of streaming can still breed bad habits of laziness, entitlement.
50m28s A hasty summary of the Jazz Festival and a hasty goodbye.

CKMS Community Connections airs on CKMS-FM 102.7 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm on Mondays and alternate Fridays.

Got music, spoken word, or other interesting stuff? Let us know at ccc@radiowaterloo.ca or leave a comment on our “About” page.

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Bonus Video

Video: CKMS Community Connections for Monday 13 July 2026, 312 MB (Radio Waterloo video)

Show notes and podcast interview content is Copyright © 2026 by the participants, and released under a CC BYCreative Commons Attribution Only license. Copy, re-use, and derivative works are allowed with attribution to Radio Waterloo and a link to this page. Music selections are copyright by the respective rights holders. The theme music is written and performed by Steven Todd.

Packing on Regime Radio – Check out their new EP: Loves Me

Packing is local to Kitchener and they visited Regime Radio for interview and live jam! Thank you Packing! @wearepacking on IG – Packing on streaming platforms.

Regime Radio Waterloo support local arts, groups, and businesses

Packing are a local Kitchener band, consisting, per image from left to right: Dylan, Emmit, Matt, and Carlos.

CKMS News -2026-07-27- Youth food markets serving fresh local produce at the neighbourhood level

CKMS News -2026-07-27- Youth food markets serving fresh local produce at the neighbourhood level

 by: dan kellar
Waterloo, ON –
Throughout the summer, youth in Waterloo region will be organizing weekly fresh produce markets with vegetables grown at 6 communities gardens and sourced from several local farms.  Dozens of youth, aged 14-19 are participating in the Youth in Food Systems program which involves innovative approaches to garden and market management.

In a press release, Grace Ihejiamaizu, the Program Manager for Youth in Food Systems wrote “This year, youth Market Leaders have also helped design different Pay What You Choose approaches for their markets, exploring how fresh, local food can be made more accessible while giving young people practical experience in leadership, teamwork and community engagement.”

The markets run every Wednesday until August 26 at Eastwood Collegiate Institute and Victoria Hills  Community Centre in Kitchener, from 4:00pm – 6:00pm, and at the Fiddlesticks Community Centre in Cambridge from 3:00pm – 5:30pm.

This show features an interview with Luma Abuarqoub, the summer Youth Program Assistant for the Youth in Food Systems program. Luma details the work of the youth, and we discuss where the program fits in larger efforts of food security, and how the hazardous air quality brought on by climate change fueled forest fires in northern Ontario have affected their operations this summer.

The YFS program, now in its 5th year, is organised by Seeds of Diversity, a Waterloo based charity focused on seed-saving and resilience in local food systems.

Synthetronic 80s – #34 – Jul 27, 2026

Synthetronic 80s plays 1980s synth-pop, dance-pop, hi-NRG, Italo-disco, and up-tempo pop/rock music. A mix of mainstream and lesser-known tracks.

Download: Synthetronic 80s – #34 – Jul 27, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s)

TIME TITLE ARTIST
00:43 Heart Pet Shop Boys
04:57 Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now Samantha Fox
08:39 Control Janet Jackson
12:06 The One I Love R.E.M.
15:19 Black Velvet (Single Version) Alannah Myles
19:18 The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades Timbuk 3
22:38 Just Between You And Me April Wine
27:18 The Jet Set (Album Version) Alphaville
32:00 Shame On You New Scientists
36:22 Heaven And Hell Fair Fax
39:23 Stay With Me Tonight Alex Fergusson
42:58 Straight Lines New Musik
47:56 Come Back And Do It (High Voltage Version Edit) Malcolm J. Hill
54:14 Ring Of Ice Jennifer Rush

Synthetronic 80s airs on CKMS-FM on Sundays at midnight and Mondays from 9am to 10am.

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New Music Added to Libretime + Horizon Broadening Hour #141

What’s up, y’all? Like I always do about this time — first up, here are the submissions to the station that I have added to Libretime in the past week:

Laura Kelsey Hidden Mountains Folk CanCon
The Phantom Rebels Wake Up – Single Rock CanCon
The Scornful Four Hopeful Music for Hopeless People Jazz No
Ryan Lindsay Three Long Hauls – Single Country CanCon
Curio Curio Curio Curio World No
Suralin Every Day Slices Me Rock No
Don Denaburg & Friends Hey Gordon – Single Folk CanCon
Shy Blossom Eternity – Single Rock No
Avem Avem Punk Tracks 10, 12-13, and 15 are explicit CanCon
The Legendary Ten Seconds Mellotron & Guitar Folk Instrumental No
Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Punk Track 5 is explicit CanCon
Nelson Sobral Searching For A Higher Love – Single Blues CanCon
Lauren Minear Ellie – Single Alternative No
Scarlett Macfarlane Ever After – Single Pop No
Jont Another World – Single Folk CanCon
Strange Plants What A Time – Single Rock CanCon
Erick Schenkman Recipe – Single Rock CanCon
Michael Antelope Calls Out The Window Folk CanCon
Alanna Matty Epilogue Folk CanCon
Matt Johner Luckiest Man Around Country CanCon
Kami Week_8 – Single Rock CanCon
The Planetoids & bandcalledband blue jeans – Single Pop No
Jay Williams Club Dystopia – Single Electronic No
Ash Ravens Last Letter From An Alien Rock CanCon
Igor Lisul I Will Always Love You – Single Rock/Instrumental No
Rise Carmine Under the Red Light Rock CanCon
Freshwater Funk FWF Volume 2 Jazz CanCon/KWCon
Janice Lacy Embraced – Single New Age No
def sera Uncomfortable – Single Electronic Features Oatmilkandcodeine CanCon
Me, You, and My Metronome Family Plan Rock CanCon
Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose Folk CanCon
The Goods Summer’s Almost Gone – Single Rock No
Hayden Ryann Walk Through Fire – Single Country Radio Edit Available CanCon
Nylon Phoenix Magenta – Single Rock No
Firas Zreik Tarabesque Jazz No
Nora Stanley Glass Rock No
Katherine Perkins Molecules – Single Folk No
Carina What U Like – Single Pop CanCon

Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:

Tracklist:

Janice Lacy – Embraced
The Scornful Four – Sun Drenched Son
Firas Zriek – Fields of Figs
Curio Curio – Amor Doente
Freshwater Funk – Smooth Sailing
def sera & oatmilkandcodeine – Uncomfortable
Carina – What U Like
The Planetoids & bandcalledband – blue jeans
Tryangle Man – Tooka Martini
Joe Cash – CITRUS
The Legendary Ten Seconds – Old Torquay Fire Brigade
Laura Kelsey – 3327
Michael Antelope – Mud Jeans
Alanna Matty – Kitchens Scissors
Katherine Perkins – Molecules
Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose – Jeu Cruel
Matt Johner – Nothing Looks Good On You
Ryan Lindsay – Three Long Hauls
Don Denaburg & Friends – Hey Gordon
Avem – Another Trumpet Flower, Please
Chapter 33 – Digital Parents
Me, You, and My Metronome – Summer Stains
Kami – Week_8
Ash Ravens – Daydream Glow
Shy Blossom – Eternity
Nora Stanley – St. Elmo’s Fire
Quadra Sound – In Good Time
Rise Carmine – Terrestrial Love
The Goods – Summer’s Almost Gone
Igor Lisul – I Will Always Love You

See y’all next time!

Poems of Divine Power II: “The Sustaining Cord”

Aired on Friday the 24th of July, 11 AM-2 PM

ERI-WAVE FM RADIO 26 JULY 2026 SHOW

ERITREAN COMMUNITY RADIO 26 JULY 2026 SHOW,  ARTICLES ERITREAN FESTIVALS, ABOUT FINAL FIFA WORLD CUP 2026, TEN IMPORTANT POINTS TO KNOW ABOUT CANADA, INTRODUCING VILLAGES AND CITEIS FROM ASMARA TO FILFIL SOLOMUNA, AUDIENCE MESSAGES , ONTARIO WEATHER FORECAST.

MUSIC LIST AND START TIME

  1.   BOLOGNA BY TESFAI FIHIRA                                      02:45-06:04
  2.   HANEN BY ALAY ASGEDOM                                        11:30-16:48
  3.  FENTET  BY MEHERET ZERHANESE                        23:50-28:38
  4.  ALELEYA  BY KAHSAY HABTESELASSIE                31:34-35:39
  5.  FEKRI ZEHLEFKUM SEB  BY TEKLE HIWEKET 38:40-42:17
  6.  SEMBELI  BY KAHSAY BEREHE                                   45:50-51:08
  7.  SEHNEN  BY SABA ANDEMARIAM                           53:04-1:00:00

 

David Par Radio The All Out Show

We have news on Fan Expo Toronto, Rogers Stadium and more! Interviews with hip hop artist John Kabongo and artist Tia McGraff.

Playlist

Memphis Bleek Featuring Jay Z – Is That Your Chick

The Notorious BIG – I Love The Dough

Jon Kabongo – The Follow Through

The Game – All Eyez

Daz Dillinger – In California

Drake – Feel No Ways

David Banner – Like A Pimp

Drake – STFU Janice

Tia McGraff – Caterpillar Song

Super Hero Songs – Spiderman Song I Am Spiderman

DJ Khaled – I’m The One

DJ Khaled – No New Friends

Tyla – Push 2 Start

Soundgarden – Live To Rise

Drake – Nice For What

Drake – Q And A

T.I. – And Won’t

K OS – Man I Used To Be

DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince – Summertime

Rascalz – Movie Star

Drake – Headlines

Tupac – Do For Love

Shuffle Time #13 — July 25, 2026

Didn’t have time to prepare an actual show this week, so rather than skip it I decided to live up to the show’s name and literally put (the highlights of) my library on shuffle, testing my knowledge of my own library on the fly. The results are definitely a little scuffed. But maybe charmingly so? I stand by enough of the tracks that showed up, anyway. Less so my chatter. Will hopefully be better with a slightly more curated library next time. I’d say more than half of these are tracks that I would put on an actual show.

Next tracks would’ve been Nine Inch Nails’ “Sanctified” and X’s “The World’s a Mess, It’s in My Kiss”. Those would’ve been good ones to play. Ah well.

Recording

Tracks played

  • Meat Puppets — “Split Myself in Two” (1984)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [cond. Carlo Maria Giulini] — “Va’ là, vecchia pedante” (from The Marriage of Figaro) (1786)
  • William Finn [perf. Christian Borle] — “My Dogs” (2003)
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival — “Commotion” (1969)
  • Interpol — “Say Hello to the Angels” (2002)
  • Nick Drake — “Fly” (1971)
  • Flying Lotus — “German Haircut” (2010)
  • Ayumi Ishida — “Bye Bye Jet” (1977)
  • A Tribe Called Quest — “Luck of Lucien” (1990)
  • Big Thief — “Masterpiece” (2016)
  • Jean-Phillipe Rameau [cond. William Christie] — “Grands Dieux! De quels remords je me sen séchiré” (from Hippolyte et Aricie) (1733)
  • Jorge Ben & Gilberto Gil — “Meu glorioso São Cristovão” (1975)
  • The Beach Boys — “Look (Song for Children)” (1967)
  • Gene Vincent — “B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go” (1957)
  • New York Dolls — “Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano” (2006)
  • Sonic Youth — “Jams Run Free” (2006)

CKMS News -2026-07-24- Tuning into Transit: The Story Behind Cambridge’s Fife-Playing Bus Driver

CKMS News -2026-07-24- Tuning into Transit: The Story Behind Cambridge’s Fife-Playing Bus Driver

Eren Yoruk

Cambridge, ON – A Cambridge bus driver is bringing a piece of history to local transit terminals through his passion for music. Tracy MacDonnell, a Grand River Transit (GRT) operator, uses his route breaks to step off the bus and play the fife, an 18th-century military instrument similar to a flute, for waiting passengers.

MacDonnell has been playing the fife for 36 years, after first learning the instrument while working at Toronto’s Historic Fort York. What started as a job requirement became a lifelong passion for traditional fife and folk music.

Over the past two decades as a GRT driver in Cambridge, MacDonnell has continued using music as a way to manage the stress of the job and connect with the public. Passengers have often responded positively, with some applauding his performances and sharing their appreciation.

In this CKMS News interview, MacDonnell discusses the history of the fife, how he became a bus driver, and why sharing a brief moment of happiness through music remains meaningful to him.

 

CKMS News -2026-07-23- Community town-hall discussion to guide David Alton’s mayoral run

CKMS News -2026-07-23- Community town-hall discussion to guide David Alton’s mayoral run

by: dan kellar
Kitchener ON – Ahead of the official municipal campaign period, community builder, housing advocate, and mayoral candidate David Alton has started hosting a series of community townhalls which will focus on how to ensure that all residents share the same rights to live their lives and be integrated in efforts to “build a joyful city”.

The first event, which took place in June was The Right to Belong, with the second in the series The Right to Housing happening Saturday July 25th at the Chandler Mowat Community Centre in Kitchener.  The other events will take place once per month in the lead up to the October election.

According to government data including the “Point in Time” count, nearly 2,400 people were experiencing homelessness in Waterloo Region, with about 78% of those folks experiencing “chronic homelessness. Provincially, the rate of homelessness increased by 25% between 2020 and 2024 and across the country according to the federal government “Over the past five years, the total population experiencing homelessness on a single night has increased by 59%”. The total number of homeless folks on any given night in Canada is over 65,000.

Candidate Alton, who was a recipient of the Region of Waterloo’s “Community educator award in housing” told CKMS News that “I see this campaign as a public education opportunity” and that each townhall will lead to calls to action and it is their intent to “Spread these calls to action and these platforms that are community built, to every candidate to try to get them as far as possible.”

This show features an interview with David Alton

The Tune Up #7- July 24th, 2026

The Tune Up plays an evolving mix of jazz which shifts between classic and experimental sounds. 

Tracks Played:

  • Joe Henderson – Escapade
  • Irakere – 38 1/2
  • Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – Tango of Love
  • Hank Jones, Oliver Jones – Lonely Woman
  • Sun Ra – They Plan To Leave
  • Astrocolor – Meteor Shower
  • Benny Sings – Melissa Davis 
  • DopeGems – Journey to the Shore
  • Peace Orchestra – Henry (Zero dB Mix)
  • Sonny Sharrock – Blind Willie
  • Frank Hutton, Goodie Train – Old Man Me
  • Oscar Peterson, The Singers Unlimited – The Shadow of Your Smile

The Tune Up airs on CKMS Radio Waterloo every Friday 6-7pm. 

Electronic Forest – #13 – Jul 24, 2026

Electronic Forest plays the week’s best new electronic dance, pop, trance, house, and melodic techno music.

Download: Electronic Forest – #13- Jul 24, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s)

TIME TITLE ARTIST
00:55 Rising Simonic
03:34 Heart 2 Heart twocolors, Andreas Vey
05:54 Love Love (Love Love) daine
09:01 Daydreaming Nil Martorell, Tom Heming, Protocol Lab
12:17 Electric SoulFire (Rene Ablaze Edit) Rene Ablaze, Blazix
15:08 Oracle Gorgon City, Jem Cooke
18:42 Only You Disco Shrine
21:32 Way Too Long NANDAN, John White, Larza, Protocol Lab
24:45 Elevate BiXX
29:31 Fade Away Valentino Indy, Conor Maynard
32:02 Pop Sound Kim Petras
34:49 Weekend MEDUZA, Khalid
37:20 1998 Paul Oakenfold, Marie Vaunt, Binary Finary
40:55 The Reason Angemi, SOUKHYA
44:39 Right Thing MALUGI, Paige Cavell
48:09 Lonely Man Dash Berlin, Simon Ward
50:41 Breathe Maratone, Eden Michelle
55:09 Blue Planet Hypersia, Time Geometry

Electronic Forest airs on CKMS-FM on Fridays from 9am to 10am and Saturdays at midnight.

Click here to go to the Electronic Forest homepage

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The Clean Up Hour, Mix 380

What’s up, y’all? Tonight’s show is the 84th All Things Considered, in which I make the case for blog-era heroes Pac Div, a hidden gem group from the west coast that bridged significant gaps between the blogs and the old heads, giving us a great discography that should not be forgotten to time.

Tracklist:

The Mirror
Posted
Automatic
Broccoli
Black Acura (feat. Mac Miller)
Useless (feat. Asher Roth)
Top Down (feat. Casey Veggies & Skeme)
SuperNegroes
Pacific Division
Shadowboxin’
We The Champs (Duke vs. Carolina)
Chief Rocka Freestyle (feat. Casey Veggies)
Definition
Pac Div
How We Chill
Players of the Year
Fuck Y’all (feat. Kurupt & DJ Battlecat)
5 Dolla Bill
Don’t Forget The Swishers (feat. Dom Kennedy, Carter, & Chip the Ripper)
Show You (feat. BJ the Chicago Kid)
She (feat. TiRon)
Golden Lady
Passin Me By
Feel
On and On (Dom Kennedy, Mibbs, Like, & Mykel)
Gorgeous
Sun Down (Girls Night Out)
Summertime Found
Round N Round (Los Angeles Unified Sound District & Pac Div)
Put Me On
Faircrest Heights (Interlude)
Overcome
Young Black Male
Roll the Dice
Fallin’
La Cienega Luxor (feat. Big Sik)
The Greatest
First Baptist
Whiplash
It’s All Love (feat. Elway 7 & Edbone)
Don’t Mention It
Out
Brown
The Return (feat. Ty Dolla Sign)

See y’all next time!

CKMS News-2026-07-23-Third Annual Long Dash Festival Celebrates the Creative Intersections between Art & Science at rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge, Ontario

The Long Dash Festival is a free, two-day event running between July 25 and 26, exploring the creative intersections between art and science. Hosted at rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge, Ontario, and co-presented by Musagetes, the festival takes its name from the Long Dash Skipper, a brown and orange butterfly found in grassy habitats, including at the site of the festival.

In this segment, I’ll be in conversation with Elwood Jimmy, Indigenous Programs Curator at Musagetes, who highlights how Indigenous knowledge systems and ways of relating to the land inform the approach to programming the festival, and how the festival being sited at rare Charitable Research Reserve has helped shape the experience of the festival over the last three years.

In this conversation, Jimmy mentions Elder Peter Schuler, Elder of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation of the Anishnaabek Peoples. His collection of literary works, “The Sound of the Homeland Drum” was launched at the ArtsEverywhere Festival in Guelph in May 2026 through the Indigenous Otherwise Program, and printed by Publication Studio Guelph, both supported by the Musagetes Foundation. Learn more at publicationstudio.biz/books/the-sound-of-the-homeland-drum/.

The Long Dash Festival is free to attend, and listeners can find the full schedule and learn more about the festival at longdashfestival.ca.

Photo Credit: Illustration by Cai Sepulis courtesy of the Long Dash Festival

This program is a part of the Local Journalism Initiative and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, Heritage Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.

You can access archived versions of this program at radiowaterloo.ca/news, and listen to all the Local Journalism Initiative content at frequencynews.ca

If you want to get in touch with comments, or ideas about stories to cover, email us at news@radiowaterloo.ca

The theme music on today’s show was “Polyvinyl” by Anemoia, courtesy of the Free Music Archive, under the Creative Commons Attribution License. You can find it at the Free Music Archive—freemusicarchive.org

AUDIO SALAD w/ PROLIFIC TRICKS – Episode 7 ; Air Date: July 23rd, 2026 feat. Andrea & Adam Zonnis

Hey music fans,

Here’s the track list for the 7th episode of Audio Salad, featuring an exclusive interview with Andrea & Adam Zonnis!

You can listen below via the embedded player near the bottom of this post.

CKMS FM 102.7 11am EST – 12pm EST

Start Time Title Performer/Creator
11:00:00 BACK & FORTH PROLIFIC TRICKS Theme, 9 sec
11:00:09 SHOW INTRO JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS Y
11:01:00 SUNNY SKIES ANDREA & ADAM ZONNIS Y
11:03:31 AN INTERVIEW WITH: ANDREA & ADAM ZONNIS
11:16:37 DJ SPEAKING / ID JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS
11:16:37 MORNING COFFEE ANDREA & ADAM ZONNIS Y
11:20:35 AN INTERVIEW WITH: (Cont’d) ANDREA & ADAM ZONNIS Y
11:33:36 MORNING COFFEE (SHORT INST) ANDREA & ADAM ZONNIS Y
11:34:24 YOU ARE NOT ALONE (SHORT INST) ANDREA & ADAM ZONNIS Y
11:37:16 PULL ME OUT OF THIS HOLE ANDREA & ADAM ZONNIS Y
11:41:33 DJ SPEAKING (SHORT) JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS
11:41:38 23RD OF JUNE WINGSPEAK Y
11:45:03 BLUE SKY DC Y
11:48:36 LONGING ALANNA MATTY Y
11:50:34 DJ SPEAKING JASON PATTERSON / PROLIFIC TRICKS
11:52:20 THIS SUMMER PROLIFIC TRICKS Y
11:54:52 WHOLE LOTTA TALKING LISA LEBLANC Y

See you next time, Thursdays from 11am EST – 12pm EST!

 

Audio Salad is an eclectic mix of rock, hip hop, reggae, indie, alternative,  and much more. Each week will be a new journey, with an emphasis on Canadian talent.

Audio Salad is hosted by Canadian recording artist Prolific Tricks aka Jason Patterson and airs on CKMS 102.7 FM Radio Waterloo, Thursdays from 11am EST to 12pm EST & on demand.

My debut album, Down to Earth (2026), and additional tracks  are  available at ProlificTricks.Bandcamp.com & all music platforms.

I can be reached at ProlificTrickery@Gmail.com or on Instagram @ProlificTrickery @AudioSaladCKMS and would love to hear from you!

Northern Lights – #13 – Jul 22, 2026

Northern Lights plays the week’s best new pop, rock, and electronic music from Canadian artists.

Download: Northern Lights – #13 – Jul 22, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s)

TIME TITLE ARTIST
01:01 Hypnotized Isla Den
03:46 First Flight Out Amanda Marshall
07:07 Level Notifi
09:28 6AM BIJOU, Tchami, MKLA
12:34 In My Head Garçons
14:53 The Most VAMPIRO
17:14 Moment Of Silence Luna Elle
20:18 After All Carly Rae Jepsen
24:28 Hero Matt Pridgyn, Pontifexx
29:19 Photos Of The Reenactment Kiwi jr.
32:17 Hold Me Shawnee Kish
34:49 It Gets Worse Doghouse Rose
37:47 Funeral Song Theory of a Deadman
41:44 Rattle The Cage Nickelback, John 5
45:36 Behind Em Armstrong
48:23 Backporch CJ Wiley
51:58 Pantone 312 Gizmo
55:02 Shell MINOE

Northern Lights airs on CKMS-FM on Wednesdays from 9am to 10am and Fridays from 10pm to 11pm.

Click here to go to the Northern Lights homepage

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