We Have Music~Chris Wansk~ Featured song: “Party Now” ~ on the Regime with Yenny

Kickoff hour with song by Honestav called: “I’d rather overdose,” featuring Z.

Then we feature We Have Music: Chris Wansk. The Next We Have Music event is Saturday, August 10 in the Uptown Waterloo Square.

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Through the Static Episode 39 – 07/08/24

Reflecting a bit on this summer and summers past with a very loose ode to the prairies. Focusing mainly on Canadians today (with a couple exceptions) I take a look across genres and eras to reflect on different memories and provide you with a great playlist!

  • Call Me – Chipmunks on 16 Speed
  •  Molotov Girls – The Zolas
  • In The Room Where You Sleep – Dead Man’s Bones
  • THE BADDEST – Joey Valence & Brae
  • Don’t Start Now – Dua Lip
  • Tornado ’87 – The Rural Alberta Advantage
  • Alright – The Rural Alberta Advantage

Check out the podcast!

Dav!d Sm!th on the Regime with Yenny ~Thanks to the Listenin’ Lounge/Street Hop/Street Logic

Dav!d Sm!th, local to southwestern Ontario, inspired by Southern Hip Hop since his College years in the U.S. Thoroughly rooted and inspirational artist. Blessed to have him come to our CKMS studio! David performs his verse for the Kardinal Offishall challenge & we hear Righteous x Dav!d Sm!th x Faith Walker – “What Feels Right”

Special thanks to Carmelo and Pro-Logic / Street Logic Music Entertainment for producing the Listenin’ Lounges, out of Ouroboros Sports Lounge at 101 Hazelglen Drive, in Kitchener-next Listenin’ Lounge is on the 21st of September starting at 5 PM.

 

So Old It’s New set for Monday, August 5, 2024

Lots of covers (and radical reinventions in some cases, like Oingo Boingo doing The Kinks and XTC doing Bob Dylan) plus a one-hit wonder segment including In The Year 2525 by Sager and Evans, Venus by Shocking Blue and Mason Williams’ Classical Gas. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list.

1. Jeff Healey, Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Hank Williams cover)
2. Cat Stevens, Indian Ocean
3. Phil Collins, Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles cover)
4. Love, August
5. Martha and The Muffins, About Insomnia
6. The Rolling Stones, Love In Vain (Robert Johnson cover, from semi-acoustic live, part studio album Stripped, studio session with false start including laugh-filled discussion over screwup)
7. Zager and Evans, In The Year 2525
8. Mason Williams, Classical Gas
9. Shocking Blue, Venus
10. 999, Homicide
11. XTC, All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover)
12. Oingo Boingo, You Really Got Me (Kinks cover)
13. Slash featuring Demi Lovato, Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Temptations cover)
14. The Doors, The Spy
15. Robert Plant, Embrace Another Fall
16. Mudcrutch, Lover Of The Bayou (Byrds cover)
17. Van Morrison, T.B. Sheets
18. Booker T. & The M.G.’s, Melting Pot
19. Kris Kristofferson, Me and Bobby McGee
20. Robert Palmer, Remember To Remember

My track-by-track tales:

1. Jeff Healey, Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Hank Williams cover) . . . Rocking version of the Hank Williams classic, released on Healey’s 2008 album Mess Of Blues, a covers album which came out just two weeks after his passing, of cancer, at age 41. Healey had previously released another covers album, Cover To Cover, in 1995.

2. Cat Stevens, Indian Ocean . . . One of my favorite Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam songs, a touching ‘world music’ track first released as a digital download to benefit 2004 Asian/Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami relief efforts. It saw physical release on the 2005 compilation Cat Stevens Gold.

3. Phil Collins, Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles cover) . . . From his debut solo release, Face Value, issue in 1981 which featured the big hit In The Air Tonight and another top 10 track in Canada and the USA, I Missed Again. I first heard the album, playing over the store’s sound system, while browsing a record store in the San Francisco Bay Area with one of my younger brothers during some time I spent in California the spring and summer of 1981.

4. Love, August . . . Well, it is August, so I figure I had to get this in before the end of the month. From the fourth Love album, 1969’s Four Sail, a somewhat harder rocking album, of which this song is an example, than the previous psychedelic fare serve up by Arthur Lee and friends, although any Love is good Love, to me. Great band, never sold all that many records but hugely influential particularly via albums like the seminal 1967 release Forever Changes.

5. Martha and The Muffins, About Insomnia . . . A track, actually a single that didn’t chart, from 1980’s Trance and Dance album. It’s about (not really but it fits) my last couple nights of not getting much sleep, just an hour or two here and there but I’m in remarkably fine fettle all things considered. Martha and The Muffins is of course best-known for the 1979 hit single Echo Beach although they had other hits, at least in home country Canada, like Paint By Number Heart, Women Around The World At Work, Danseparc (Every Day It’s Tomorrow) and Black Stations/White Stations (during the 1983-86 period when the band was also known as M + M).

6. The Rolling Stones, Love In Vain (Robert Johnson cover, from semi-acoustic live, part studio 1995 album Stripped) . . . From a studio session in Tokyo with false start including brief laugh-filled discussion between Ron Wood and Keith Richards about guitar arpeggios after Wood messes up (sounded fine to me but I don’t play guitar) and wants to start over. Love In Vain has a long history with the Stones, dating to its first studio release on 1969’s Let It Bleed album, the 1970 live album Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out! and many concert renditions since.

7. Zager and Evans, In The Year 2525 . . . First in my one-hit wonder mini-set. I’ve been planning to play this and the several songs that follow, for a few weeks, finally getting to it for tonight’s show. Not much more to say about these songs except they’re great and, so what if the artists never approached the same commercial heights, they did what they did and their legacy is assured.

8. Mason Williams, Classical Gas . . . From the 1968 album The Mason Williams Phonograph Record. Williams may have been a one-hit wonder but still with us at age 85 he is/was an accomplished writer and comedian, among other artistic pursuits. Among his comedy writing credits are The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and Saturday Night Live.

9. Shocking Blue, Venus . . . They were a one-hit wonder (but actually maybe not, more on that in a bit) featuring the striking singer Mariska Veres who sadly died young, of cancer, age 59 in 2006. But in putting together the show I explored the Dutch band’s ouevre and in addition to their own stuff, like Venus and Send Me A Postcard (with Veres sounding like Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, or vice-versa) they did fine covers of Hank Williams’ Jambalaya, just a terrific up-tempo reinvention of the tune I played earlier in the show as covered by Canadian Jeff Healey, and the classic John D. Loudermilk tune Tobacco Road.

10. 999, Homicide . . . Not sure why but I scared the shit out of a friend years ago and she told me as much the next day, she was listening to the show, when I played this track from the English punk/new wave band. It’s just a song, as I told her, it’s arguably aggressive for sure but it’s not advocating anything the way I read the lyrics and there’s any number of songs about disturbing subject matter. Like for example Polly, by Nirvana, about the abduction, rape, and torture of a 14-year-old girl returning home from a punk rock concert in Tacoma, Washington in 1987 that I played fairly recently. I like Polly a lot musically but it’s quite disturbing to the point I’m often reluctant to play it and almost feel bad for liking it, musically, but, fortunately, the perpetrator was caught and is behind bars, serving two concurrent 75-year terms. In any event, Homicide by 999 is a propulsive track, hit No. 40 on the charts in 1978, my first year of college which coincided with punk/new wave breaking big and contributing to opening my musical horizons.

11. XTC, All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) . . . I like lots of XTC, including of course the hit that got me and many people into them, 1979’s Making Plans For Nigel, but I’d never heard their cover of the Dylan tune until I went down the YouTube rabbit hole some time back. XTC reinterpreted the Dylan tune, as Jimi Hendrix also of course did, in a different fashion, on the band’s 1978 debut album White Music.

12. Oingo Boingo, You Really Got Me (Kinks cover) . . . I discovered this major reinterpretation by the California ska/new wave band of The Kinks’ classic while listening to some of the earlier songs in the set, on YouTube, as I prepared tonight’s show. Playing it reminds me and brings a smile to my face, of my equally music-loving younger brother, into classic rock along with me, Stones, etc. with his ‘what’s happened to you?’ when he at some point saw my late 70s early 80s punk/new wave albums, Haircut One Hundred, Fabulous Poodles and the like. He said something like, what next, Oingo Boingo? Not at the time, although I’d heard of them and thought the name was cool, but here I go playing them. Cool version, akin to, say, how Devo reinvented the Stones’ Satisfaction.

13. Slash featuring Demi Lovato, Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Temptations cover) . . . From Orgy of the Damned, a covers album by the Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, Slash’s Snakepit etc. guitarist, released just a couple months ago, May 2024.

14. The Doors, The Spy . . . Spooky sort of track, musically and lyrically, from 1970’s Morrison Hotel album.

15. Robert Plant, Embrace Another Fall . . . Intoxicating experimental world beat folk rock from Plant’s 2014 album Lullaby . . . and the Ceaseless Roar as Plant continues on his late career amazing musical explorations.

16. Mudcrutch, Lover Of The Bayou (The Byrds cover) . . . Tom Petty’s original, pre-Heartbreakers band which reformed and released two studio albums, in 2008 and 2016 before Petty’s 2017 passing. Here, from the first Mudcrutch album, the band covers one of my favorite Byrds tunes and of course Petty was hugely influenced musically by The Byrds, to whom he and friends pay great tribute on this track.

17. Van Morrison, T.B. Sheets . . . Near 10-minute piece, his voice as always an instrument in itself, from Van the Man’s 1967 debut solo album Blowin’ Your Mind after he left Them.

18. Booker T. & The M.G.’s, Melting Pot . . . Title cut, typical funky R & B fuelled instrumental rock, from the band’s 1971 album.

19. Kris Kristofferson, Me and Bobby McGee . . . Sometimes a song covered by someone else overshadows the original, which is what Janis Joplin’s No. 1 cover of the KK tune did. As did, maybe, Roger Miller’s cover. Or the one by Jerry Lee Lewis. Yet . . . crazy as it maybe sounds, as with Jimi Hendrix’s reinterpretation of Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower which even Dylan himself said became ‘a Jimi Hendrix song’, I still prefer the originals while loving the covers. Honestly. I mean, I absolutely love the Joplin version, particularly the way she sings the “windshield wipers slappin’ ‘taaaam” (time)’ but well, Kristofferson if one checks out his stuff Bobby McGee and beyond is/was just an amazing songwriter. And emotive singer. In any case, his song includes one of the best, and perhaps most true or accurate lines ever, depending obviously upon how one looks at life: But I’d trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday. And I don’t live in the past, but sometimes would be interesting to go back.

20. Robert Palmer, Remember To Remember . . . He topped the charts later on with stuff like Addicted To Love and so on but for me, it’s the back-to-back albums, Secrets in 1979 and Clues in 1980. Track-for-track excellent, this one from Secrets whose hit was the cover of the Moon Martin-penned Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor).

Radio Nowhere Episode 74 Summer, 8/3/24

Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RadioNowhere240803Episode74Summer.mp3, 57m39s, 80.0 MBytes

Jessica The Allman Brothers Band
Living in the USA Steve Miller Band
Hot Summer Days It’s a Beautiful Day
Time of the Season The Zombies
Are You Ready Grand Funk Railroad
White Bird It’s a Beautiful Day
Feelin’ Alright Joe Cocker
All Right Now Free
The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) The Doors
Girls In Their Summer Clothes Bruce Springsteen
Saturday in the Park Chicago
Windows Are Rolled Down Amos Lee
Sunny Days Lighthouse
Surfin’ USA Beach Boys

New Music Added to Libretime + Horizon Broadening Hour #38

What’s up, y’all? Here is what I’ve added to Libretime this week:

Sweet Arrow Taking My Girl – Single Indie Rock No
Caroline Parke Every Sunrise – Single Singer-Songwriter CanCon
Jake Noble Letting Go of a Dream Jazz No
Erika Kulnys Alcanzando la Rosa – Single Singer-Songwriter CanCon
Erika Kulnys Black Swan – Single Singer-Songwriter CanCon
Erika Kulnys Fantasma – Single Singer-Songwriter CanCon
Erika Kulnys My Choice – Single Singer-Songwriter CanCon
Erika Kulnys Stand Together – Single Singer-Songwriter Radio and Acoustic versions available CanCon
Erika Kulnys Swimming with Dolphins – Single Singer-Songwriter Live version also available CanCon
Trevor Sloan A Room By the Green Sea Folk CanCon
Jennifer K. Austin Lifeline – Single Pop CanCon
Jill Haley Colors Collide New Age No
Saint Shepperd Songs for your Consideration Folk CanCon
Saint Shepperd Dogboys Folk CanCon
Mike Bern & the Muskrat Singers Echoes – Single Folk CanCon
Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassains Garden Songs Alternative CanCon
Mike Casey Universal Gratitude – Single Jazz No
Loryn Taggart Walls – Single Singer-Songwriter CanCon
Sound of Drowning Fear Induced Freakin’ Dance & House Indeterminable
Ugly Duckling Journey to Anywhere Rap No
Bisso Na Bisso Africa Rap No
Jack DeJohnette & Various Artists Music for the Fifth World Jazz No
Ishmael Ensemble Ezekiel – Single Dance No
Ishmael Ensemble Fever Dream – Single Dance No
Diceman Meaning and Purpose Hip Hop No
Calvin Becker Onward Returning Rock CanCon
Alex Henry Foster A Measure of Shapes and Sounds Ambient Only one song available now, the rest will be added upon release CanCon
Amber Mcintosh 23 – Single Pop No
CHARLOT Reverie – Single Alternative No
Close to Fire Brighter Days – Single Pop No
VanWyck Flowers in the Fields – Single Folk No
Wasted Youth Club GRATEFUL – Single Rock No
Blues Busters feat. Ron Irving Dream That Old Dream – Single Blues CanCon
Andy Darling Slavic Hood – Single Hip Hop No
Ian Sherwood Motel 6 – Single Folk Indeterminable
G’BINO! tu veux on tu veux pas Dance No
Rat Silo Never Walk Home Alone – Single Indie Rock CanCon
Bernice Marsala Irrelevant – Single Rock No
Ramio Rodigano Magic Sands – Single Dance No
Ramio Rodigano Ma Nun E – Single Dance No

Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:

Tracklist:

Mike Casey – Universal Gratitude
Jake Noble – Farewell to the Kid From Spring
Alex Henry Foster – Alchemical Connection
Jill Haley – Orange Melts Into Blue
Ramio Rodigano – Ma Nun É
Ishmael Ensemble – Ezkiel
G’BINO! – Tu veux on tu veux pas
Caroline Parke – Every Sunrise
Loryn Taggart – Walls
Trevor Sloan – Faded Towel
Saint Shepperd – Boys and Girls of the Western World
Mike Bern & the Muskrat Singers – Echoes
VanWyck – Flowers in the Fields
Ian Sherwood – Motel 6
Erika Kulnys – Black Swan
Blues Busters & Ron Irving – Dream That Old Dream
Rat Silo – Never Walk Home Alone
Wasted Youth Club – GRATEFUL
Calvin Becker – No Flowers On My Grave
Sweet Arrow – Taking My Girl
Bernice Marsala – Irrelevant
CHARLOT – Reverie
Close to Fire – Brighter Days
Amber Mcintosh – 23
Jennifer K. Austin – Lifeline
Diceman – My Better Half
Andy Darling – Slavic Hood
Madeline Doornaert – Can’t Stop the Waves
Famina – Green With Envy
NZONDI & Fredo Starr – Nothin Left
Red Method – Adriel

See y’all next time!

August 8th Edit: Erika Kulnys’s music was erroneously listed as not being CanCon — that has been addressed.

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, August 3, 2024 – on air 8-10 am ET

A ‘brothers’ set airing for a Saturday morning. I was undecided as to what direction to go for Saturday’s show until something in my brain told me I had not played The Doobie Brothers in a while. So that led to loading a bunch of Doobies songs into the system, which led to loading songs by bands with ‘Brothers’ in their name, which further led to what I finally settled on, a brother act show featuring bands that include actual brothers and bands which may not be so familial but feature the word ‘Brothers’ in their name. Must be something to do with the fact I am one of four brothers (and one sister).

So: We have AC/DC with the Young brothers, Angus and Malcolm, Collective Soul with the Roland brothers Ed and Dean, the Allmans of Duane and Gregg, The Kinks of the forever fractious Ray and Dave Davies, early Dire Straits which featured Mark and David Knopfler for the first few albums, the similarly to The Kinks at odds Everly Brothers Don and Phil, same with the Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, the Wilson brothers and cousin Mike Love in The Beach Boys, the brothers Gibb of the Bee Gees, John and Tom Fogerty of CCR, at various points Randy, Tim and Rob Bachman in Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the Van Halen brothers guitarist Eddie and drummer Alex, and Dean and Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots.

My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list.

1. AC/DC, Let There Be Rock
2. Collective Soul, Disciplined Breakdown
3. The Allman Brothers Band, Heart Of Stone
4. The Doobie Brothers, Toulouse Street
5. The Kinks, Living On A Thin Line
6. Dire Straits, In The Gallery
7. The Flying Burrito Brothers, Wild Horses
8. The Everly Brothers, Crying In The Rain
9. The Beach Boys, Sail On Sailor
10. Bee Gees, Lonely Days
11. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Effigy
12. Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Blue Moanin’
13. Van Halen, Cabo Wabo (Sammy Hagar lead vocals)
14. Van Halen, D.O.A. (David Lee Roth lead vocals)
15. Van Halen, Year To The Day (Gary Cherone lead vocals)
16. Oasis, I Am The Walrus (live)
17. The Chambers Brothers, Time Has Come Today
18. Stone Temple Pilots, All In The Suit That You Wear
19. The Allman Brothers Band, Mountain Jam (live, from Eat A Peach, recorded March 13, 1971 at Fillmore East, New York City)

My track-by-track tales:

1. AC/DC, Let There Be Rock . . . Title cut from the band’s 1977 album, Bon Scott still around and on lead vocals, and it does, er, rock as Bon, lyrically, takes us through the history of rock and roll music, to that point.

2. Collective Soul, Disciplined Breakdown . . . Title cut from the band’s 1997 release, typically grungy, tuneful guitar work.

3. The Allman Brothers Band, Heart Of Stone . . . No brothers in The Rolling Stones, my favorite band who I always play, but I’ll always figure a way to get them in my sets. 🙂 This is the Allmans’ fine cover of the early Stones’ tune, released on the final Allmans’ studio album, Hittin’ The Note, a terrific statement released in 2003.

4. The Doobie Brothers, Toulouse Street . . . Hauntingly beautiful, somewhat spooky title cut from the band’s 1972 album.

5. The Kinks, Living On A Thin Line . . . A minor hit, one of my favorite Kinks tracks, written and sung by guitarist Dave Davies, easily one of his best, a passionate vocal performance commentary on England at the time of writing.

“All the stories have been told of kings and days of old but there’s no England now . . . all the wars that were won and lost somehow don’t seem to matter so much anymore . . . all the lies we were told . . . I see change but inside we’re the same as we ever were . . . Now another century nearly gone, what are we gonna leave for the young? . . . ”

It’s from the 1984 album Word Of Mouth and the song was used later in an episode of The Sopranos but I’m not much of a TV series buff outside of Star Trek and a few others, so never heard it there. But if the show gave the song deserved exposure, that’s great. Word Of Mouth was the last in a commercial hot streak, certainly at least in North America, for The Kinks that started with the 1979 album Low Budget and continued through 1981’s Give The People What They Want and 1983’s State Of Confusion which featured the hits Come Dancing and Don’t Forget To Dance.

6. Dire Straits, In The Gallery . . . Yet another fine, bluesy cut from the band’s self-titled debut album, released in 1978.

7. The Flying Burrito Brothers, Wild Horses . . . A cover of The Rolling Stones’ tune, came out on the Burritos’ second album, Burrito Deluxe, released in 1970, a year before the Stones’ own version appeared on their Sticky Fingers album. By that point, Burritos’ leader Gram Parsons and the Stones’ Keith Richards had become friends and sometime collaborators at least in terms of influencing each other’s music. A nice version of an amazing song, one I was revisiting the other day via the version on the Stones’ live semi-acoustic 1995 album Stripped, a very worthwhile listen.

8. The Everly Brothers, Crying In The Rain . . . A No. 6 hit in the USA in 1961, not quite as successful elsewhere but relatively well-known.

9. The Beach Boys, Sail On Sailor . . . One of my favorite Beach Boys songs, released in 1973 via the Holland album. Sail On Sailor was a single, pretty well known I would think although it made little dent in the charts, grazing the top 50, or worse, depending on country. It was an interesting period for the band, thought by many to be a spent force distanced from their hugely hit successful surfer music of the 1960s, some conflict within the group as to whether they should progress musically or rely on past hits at least in terms of live performance, yet they came up with an excellent track like this, sung by new guitarist Blondie Chaplin, later a studio session player and touring musician with The Rolling Stones.

10. Bee Gees, Lonely Days . . . The Bee Gees tend to get pigeonholed by some as a disco band given their contributions to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, late 1970s but they were truly an amazing band well before that, as this earlier multi-part track from the 1970 album 2 Years On demonstrates.

11. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Effigy . . . Extended cut from CCR’s 1969 album Willie and the Poor Boys, remarkably perhaps the prolific band’s third studio album release that year. Obviously known for their well-known hit singles, CCR was, as demonstrated by songs like this jam, far more.

12. Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Blue Moanin’ . . . A typical BTO chugger, particularly when C.F. (Fred Turner) is singing.

13. Van Halen, Cabo Wabo (Sammy Hagar lead vocals) . . . First of three from the various configurations of Van Halen, this the Van Hagar version, from the OU812 album, the second of four studio records with Hagar on lead vocals.

14. Van Halen, D.O.A. (David Lee Roth lead vocals) . . . One of my favorites from the Roth version of the band, a kick butt tune from VH II.

15. Van Halen, Year To The Day (Gary Cherone lead vocals) . . . From the ill-fated Van Halen 3 version, which is what that lineup’s lone studio album, released in 1998, was called. It bombed, relatively speaking, although it was a top five charting record, actually but of course many fans would buy it out of brand recongition and curiousity about the new lineup. It took me many listens but I did finally ‘get’ the record although I think it simply wasn’t to most VH fans’ taste. Many never accepted Cherone, the style of music was different, most of the songs, like this near-nine minute track, were longer, less immediate and with fewer obvious hooks, almost progressive rock in spots, than what the band had produced to that point, although Cabo Wabo from OU812 checks in at seven minutes. Still, aside from two short instrumental interludes, every song on Van Halen 3 was at least 5:30 in length, somewhat atypical for the band. Soon enough, Hagar was back to record some new tracks for a double disc compilation. What then followed was what became an ill-fated reunion tour of the Van Hagar lineup, although I saw the first leg of the trek in Toronto and it was a great show. But a big Van Halen fan friend of mine, who had seen the Toronto concert, also saw a later gig, five months later in Hamilton, Ontario and said it was awful, the conflicts within the band evident on stage and affecting the music, as were Eddie Van Halen’s struggles with substance abuse.

16. Oasis, I Am The Walrus (live) . . . The Gallagher brothers pay homage to one of their acknowledged influences, The Beatles. The track was recorded at a concert in Glasgow, Scotland in 1994 and first released in an 8-minute version as the B-side to the hit single Cigarettes and Alcohol. I’m playing the edited 6:25 version that appeared on The Masterplan, a 1998 compilation of B-sides that hadn’t made it to albums at that point.

17. The Chambers Brothers, Time Has Come Today . . . Yeah, it was a hit, No. 11 in the US, No. 9 in Canada, but it’s by a band of real brothers and I occasionally play singles one might not have heard in a while, despite mine being for the very most part a deep cuts show. What’s interesting about Time Has Come Today is the number of versions of it that were done. The original 1966 version, clocking in at 2:37, was rejected by Columbia Records. The band then released the full 11:06 epic version of psychedelic soul as the ostensible title cut of the 1967 album The Time Has Come. Then came two hit single versions, both released in 1968 – one a 3:05 edit and the other 4:45. I’m playing the 4:45 version but all of them are of course excellent.

18. Stone Temple Pilots, All In The Suit That You Wear . . . A to that point unreleased track that came out on the band’s hits compilation, Thank You, in 2003. I like a lot of STP’s stuff, saw them as an opening act for The Rolling Stones on the Voodoo Lounge tour stop in Toronto in 1994, one of the more memorable performances I’ve experienced from Stones’ opening acts I’ve witnessed over many shows over the years. Some of them: AC/DC at the 2003 SARS Toronto Rocks show (also have seen AC/DC on their own) and also at SARS, Rush, The Guess Who including Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings at a time before legal issues over naming rights cropped up, The Isley Brothers, The Tea Party, Sass Jordan, Blue Rodeo, The Flaming Lips . . . at other Stones shows: Atlanta Rhythm Section, Big Sugar (have also seen them separately in a small venue, great band but too bloody loud for my ears, frankly; I wore ear plugs but was seriously worried until the ringing stopped three days later), The White Stripes, No Doubt, Beck. That’s the great thing sometimes, going to concerts by iconic acts like the Stones; the undercard so to speak can be so rewarding which is why I always take in opening acts. Like Pretenders opening for The Who in Toronto in 2006, or Slayer for Judas Priest in 2004, etc.

19. The Allman Brothers Band, Mountain Jam . . . (live, from Eat A Peach, recorded March 13, 1971 at Fillmore East, New York City) . . . 33 minutes the Allmans had the great ability to jam for almost literally hours on end and never be boring. This version was originally split in two on first vinyl pressings of Eat A Peach but has since come out as the one full version on CD reissues of the album and various expanded re-releases of the At Fillmore East album.

Federal government announces $25 million for affordable housing builds, repairs in Waterloo Region

MP Holmes
Kitchener, ON

The federal government has announced over $96 million in contributions and loans aimed at affordable housing across South Central Ontario, including Waterloo Region.

Locally, the funding amounts to $25 million which will help create 336 new affordable homes and repair more than 7,300 homes in the region.

The announcement was made at an affordable housing construction site in Kitchener on Thursday. The event was attended by political representatives, including Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic, Regional Coun. Colleen James, and the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development of Canada Jenna Sudds, who made the announcement on behalf of Sean Fraser, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities.

Key local projects that will receive this funding, include the revitalization project at 82 Wilson Ave., St. Mark’s Place in Kitchener and the Beaver Creek Housing Cooperative in Waterloo.

The federal government has also introduced a “frequent builder” status to streamline funding applications for experienced builders.

CKMS has more on the story.

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 277

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, few different things I talk about before the music.

Tracklist:

Dat ***** Daz, Kurupt, Soopafly, Tray Deee, Bad Azz, & Techniec – Gang ****** *** Criminal
Curren$y – Wreckognize
Kool G Rap, DJ Polo, Ice Cube, Scarface, & Bushwick Bill – Two to the Head
Above the Law – Murder Rap
Wiz Khalifa – In the Cut
Polyester the Saint & Krondon – Bury Me in My House Shoes
The Game, Mozzy, ToBi, & Osbe Chill – Carmen Electra
Lupe Fiasco – I Gotcha
Snoop Dogg – Promise I
Dom Kennedy – In the Daytime
Jay Worthy, DaM Funk, Polyester the Saint, & Leven Kali – Rich Today
Casey Veggies & Dylvinci – Nostalgia
Larry June & DJ Fresh – Organic Watermelon Juice
Ramriddlz – Gang $igns
G Perico & 2Eleven – State and Fed
Stalley & Jay Worthy – MiddleWest
Action Bronson & Larry June – Kompressor
Childish Gambino, Jorja Smith, & Amaarae – In the Night
Westside Boogie, Kalan Fr.fr, & Mamii – SOMETHIN STRANGE
Bobby Valentino & Timbaland – Anonymous
Bow Wow & T-Pain – She’s My
YG & Tory Lanez – Me and My *****
Cousin Stizz – Gone Til November
Big K.R.I.T – Layup
Blu, Evidence, Domo Genesis & Navy Blue – Lights at Night
Common, Posdnous, & Pete Rock – When the Sun Shines Again
Cocaine 80s & Nas – Chain Glow
R.A.P Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura – bending corners (sittin sidewayz revisited)
Obscure Disorder – The Grill
Asher Roth, Heather Grey, & Murkage Dave – Sacred
Your Old Droog – Grandmother’s Lessons

 

CKMS News -2024-08-01- Ontario pirate festival drops anchor outside of Guelph in Marden Park

CKMS News -2024-08-01- Ontario Pirate Festival Drops Anchor In Marden Park, Outside Guelph

dan kellar
Marden
, ON – Dropping anchor 1.6 nautical miles north-west of Guelph to set up the Dry Bluffs shanty town, the
Ontario Pirate Festival will take over Marden Park on the civic holiday long-weekend.  The immersive festival will have different styles of live entertainment, local vendors, “food for yer gob”, an ale and grog house, “the spray of the sea” (misting tents),  and child-focused theater.

This show features an interview with Captain Zoltan the Adequate, who along with captain Kelly have taken over organizing the festival, following a few years of the event sailing through choppy waters.  Calling this the “recovery breakout year” Captain Zoltan gives CKMS News the details on what folks can expect at the festival over the weekend, provides some background on the festival’s voyage, and answers one of life’s big questions “Why Pirates?”

Through the Static Episode 38 – 31/07/24

Inspiration is the name of the game today (although honestly it was probably more just me yapping when it comes down to it :), drawing from different eras and genres, connected and made timeless through inspiration.

  • The Wedding List – Kate Bush
  • Echo – Clairo
  • Beginners Luck – King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
  • Mutilated Lips – Ween
  • Buckingham Green – Ween
  • Lonely Woman – Ornette Coleman
  • King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 – Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Hailstorm! – Jordan Kalist

Check out the podcast!

Time’s up for the Wastewater Surveillance Initiative in Waterloo Region

MP Holmes
Kitchener, ON

As of July 31st, the Ontario government will discontinue the Wastewater Surveillance Initiative. Unlike situations in Peterborough and Ottawa, funding for the program has not materialized from the Region of Waterloo. Councillor Colleen James updated CKMS News on the situation locally stating the Region is seeking federal support to keep the regional surveillance programs operational.

Wastewater surveillance data has fueled numerous research projects and imparted information that health authorities could rely on to accurately predict and prepare for illness outbreaks.

The cancellation has had its critics, including Professor Trevor Charles, director of the Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research.

Professor Charles discusses the potential for negative impact on public health preparedness and the loss of a world-leading research community in Ontario. The Ottawa Science Policy Network highlights that 95 researchers will be affected, potentially leading to a brain drain.

Despite government assurances of continued efforts, the Public Health Agency of Canada has not disclosed any plans to take over the initiative.

CKMS News -2024-07-28- Activate’s homecoming introduces new gaming experience to Waterloo Region

CKMS News -2024-07-28- Activate’s homecoming introduces new gaming experience to Waterloo Region

dan kellar
Cambridge, ON –
A new active entertainment experience is available in Cambridge as
Activate Games has opened a new location. The Winnipeg-based company, now with 26 locations across the continent, says it is the world’s first active gaming experience, which “seamlessly blends physical activity with gaming.”

Ahead of the grand opening on July 22nd, CKMS News spoke with Activate Games’ Canadian Director of Marketing and Communications, Tanya Williams who discussed Activate’s origins and operations. 

Originally from Waterloo Region, Activate co-founders Adam and Meghan Scmidt said in a recent press release “This opening is more than just an expansion; it’s a heartfelt return to our hometown”.

This show also features segments from an Interview with Dr. John Edison Muñoz, an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo, and a researcher with the school’s Games Institute. Dr. Muñoz speaks on the state of the research for Exergames and the technology’s use beyond entertainment.

So Old It’s New set for Monday, July 29, 2024

Music for a Monday night . . .

1. The Guess Who, Key
2. Steppenwolf, Monster/Suicide/America
3. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Change Your Mind
4. Neil Young, Scenery (from 1995’s Mirror Ball album, with Pearl Jam as Young’s backing band)
5. Dire Straits, Once Upon A Time In The West (live)
6. Headstones, Hotel Room
7. Saga, Humble Stance
8. Klaatu, Around The Universe In 80 Days
9. Queen, The Prophet’s Song
10. Rainbow, Mistreated (live)
11. Mick Taylor, Twisted Sister
12. The Rolling Stones, Around And Around (live, Love You Live El Mocambo side)

Radio Nowhere Episode 73 Summer, 7/27/24

Download: https://radiowaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RadioNowhere240727Episode73Summer.mp3, 57m42s, 80.0 MBytes

Stir It Up Bob Marley and the Wailers
Let’s Get Together The Youngbloods
Monterey The Animals
Combination of the Two Big Brother & The Holding Company & Janis Joplin
Soak Up the Sun Sheryl Crow
On the Road Again Canned Heat
Up On The Roof The Drifters
Don’t Bogart Me (Don’t Bogart That Joint) Fratenity of Man
My Green Tambourine Lemon Pipers
Wade in the Water Pacific Gas & Electric
It’s a Beautiful Morning The Rascals
Dance To The Music Sly & the Family Stone
Hot Rod Lincoln Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Rock Lobster B-52’s

 

CKMS Community Connections for 29 July 2024: CanCon for SOCAN

Show Notes

No guests today, but CKMS-FM is being audited by Licensed to Play | 2024 SOCANSOCAN this week. That’s actually a good thing, because that’s how SOCAN determines which musicians get how much royalties. So today we’re pumping up the volume on KWCon (musicians from Waterloo Region) and CanCon (musicians from other parts of Canada). Let us know when the money starts rolling in!

–Bob.

Podcast

Download: ckms-community-connections-2024-07-29-episode163-CanCon-for-SOCAN.mp3 (53 MB, 58m15s, episode 163)

Index

Time Title Artist Album
0m00s Theme for CKMS Community Connections ccc Steve Todd CKMS Sunflower logo (yellow petals surrounding a black centre with white wavies all on a teal background)
CKMS Community Connections
0m31s Video Video Cameronoise Cameronoise - Songs From the Big Chore (colourful abstract geometrical figures on a bright pink background)Songs From the Big Chore
3m26s So Fake Brandon Szabo So FakeBrandon Szabo(B&W image of a sun rising over a planet)2
5m34s Solar Wind The Saskatones The Saskatones | Mercury (three beige aliens with their backs towards the camera are looking at a galactic cloud in the background)Mercury
8m11s 770 Acres Steve Todd 770 Acres - Steve Todd (gold and black letters, with a picture of Steve Todd in a field, wearing a black Stetson hat and black T-shirt and playing guitar)
(single)
11m54s No Deal Sha’kayla Bold? (photo of Sha'kayla on a red background)
Single
15m32s Full Tank of Gas The Whythouse Full Tank of Gas - The Whythouse (a man facing a jacked-up pickup truck, a smiling woman standing beside the truck)Single
19m06s Hide & Seek Courtney Wolfe Hide & Seek - Courtney Wolfe (illustration of a woman facing the sun rising over a mountain in the distance)Single
22m21s computer 11 Impedance of Free Space Impedance of Free Space - comuputer (photo of a 5 1/4" diskette in a sleeve; the diskette has a label showing the name and track list)Computer
25m33s Viva México Rick Marshall Viva México | Rick Marshall (photo of a man wearing a Stetson hat kicking at the sand he's standing in)Single
31m25s Empty Home Paige Warner (Paige Warner wearing a pink gown with a cape, standing in front of wooden doors in an old-looking building)Bitter / Sweet
34m41s Let ME In The Longfellows Don't Be A Sucker, Swallow This (black letters on a pink background, pink letters on a blob of green)Don’t Be a Sucker – Swallow This
38m35s Rumple Foreskin The Minitures
41m41s Don’t Touch Me There Strange Days
45m57s Frankly Scarlet, My Dear Kevin McLellan
50m41s Laid to Waste Fracture Fracture | Chaos Alchemy (painting of a skeleton wearing a red hood, looking over a cliff on which hundreds of people are walking towards a castle at the edge; the castle entrance is a large skull. A red sun hangs low in the sky)Chaos Alchemy
54m46s CCCtheme Extro Credits with music Bob Jonkman and Steve Todd CKMS Community Connections
55m51s Dream Away Paintbox Don't Be A Sucker, Swallow This (black letters on a pink background, pink letters on a blob of green)Don’t Be a Sucker – Swallow This

CKMS Community Connections Hour One airs on CKMS-FM 102.7 on Monday from 11:00am to Noon, and Hour Two airs alternate Fridays from 3:00pm to 4:00pm.

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 29 July 2024 (Radio Waterloo Video)

Show notes and podcast interview content is Copyright © 2024 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.

New Music Added to Libretime + Horizon Broadening Hour #37

What’s up, y’all? Like clockwork, here is what I’ve added to Libretime since last week:

Chris Corey Midnight Forever Singer-Songwriter CanCon
Sarah Lacey Emotional Breakdown Pop CanCon
Merman Satisfied – Single Pop CanCon
Kristine Grealy Out With the Boys – Single Pop Instrumental also available /NSFR CanCon
Lorne Hind & Ray Ganong Carolina Woman Canadian Man – Single Blues CanCon
Christopher Parnis Everything You Could Be Jazz CanCon
The Sour Patch Men Pucker Country CanCon
Avalon Stone Drag Me – Single Rock CanCon
Avalon Stone Forget You – Single Rock CanCon
Avalon Stone Harder – Single Rock CanCon
Avalon Stone Shaking Me Up – Single Rock CanCon
Petch Black Neon – Single Rock No
TheMahgoodman Quartet Convergence Jazz CanCon
Scrabbel Scrabbel Indie Rock No
Band From Planet X The Banned From Planet X Punk CanCon
Ridley Bent Album 4 Demo’s Country CanCon
Caesars Jerk It Out Alternative No
The Phibes The Phibes New Age Indeterminable
Diskette Weeknights at Island View Beach Pop Indeterminable
Monotronic Just a Dream – Single Electronic No
Fracture Chaos Alchemy Metal CanCon
John Lewitt One More Time Country CanCon
Dog Day A T-Shirt With Writing On It Alternative CanCon
HuDost Acting Out the Outrage – Single Alternative No
Marshall Jacklin Jonathan – Single Alternative CanCon
Michael Harrison Just Wanna Play Some Rock N Roll – Single Rock No
Jay Williams Vast of Night – Single Electronic No
Cube 18 & Pynner Welcome to a Brave New World Rock CanCon
Raging Flowers Comfort Soups – Single Pop No
KILLERELLIK Dark Star – Single Rock CanCon
Endless Valley Kaskashir Alternative No
The Major Resolve Reflection – Single Rock No
Slow Spirit That’s the Gods Talking Folk CanCon
Black Tye Chi Pure Boom Bap – Single Hip Hop CanCon
Black Tye Chi The Fix – Single Hip Hop CanCon
Black Tye Chi Like Crack Freestyle Hip Hop CAnCon
Diceman Ready For It – Single Hip Hop CanCon
Black Tye Chi Homecoming – Single Hip Hop CanCon
Black Tye Chi Basketball Season – Single Hip Hop CanCon
Chronixx Black is Beautiful (Remix) – Single Hip Hop CanCon
J Krunk, Black Tye Chi, BiigDog, Young Luiy, Keez, & Juice DC Cypher – Single Hip Hop CanCon
Black Tye Chi The Saga Continues – Single Hip Hop CanCon
Eddy Currents Electric Minds Country CanCon
DustyMarcus Room 503 – Single Rock CanCon
Keram Come to Life Pop CanCon
Total Bummer Total Bummer Alternative CanCon
The Rudy Schwartz Project The Year They Switched To Cornmeal Punk NSFR CanCon
Erika Werry Parking Country & Folk Indeterminable
Icarus Phoenix Doctor! Doctor! – Single Indie Rock No
Elohira Elohira – Single Rock No
Young MC Loose – Single Hip Hop Contains partial AI content No
Larry Folk Hey Politician! – Single Folk CanCon
Bizza in a Box I Feel Reborn – Single Rock CanCon

Here is tonight’s Horizon Broadening Hour:

Tracklist:

DustyMarcus – Room 503
The Major Resolve – Reflection
Elohria – Elohria
Fracture – ExtermiNation
KILLERELLIK – Dark Star
Avalon Stone – Shaking Me Up
Petch – Black Neon
Dog Day – Too Soon
Icarus Phoenix – Doctor! Doctor!
Endless Valley – Eastern Warrior
Cube 18 & Pynner – Earthquake
Eddy Currents – Electric Minds
HuDost – Acting Out the Outrage
Larry Folk – Hey Politician!
Marshall Jacklin – Jonathan
The Sour Patch Men – Iron 59
Slow Spirit – Raia
Ten Minute Detour – Sound of Thunder
Raging Flowers – Comfort Soups
Kristine Grealy – Out With the Boys
Sarah Lacey – Emotional Breakdown
Chris Corey – Stepping Stones
Lorne Hind & Ray Ganong – Carolina Woman Canadian Man
Christopher Parnis – A False Start
Merman – Satisfied
Monotronic – Just a Dream
Jay Williams – Vast of Night
Cameronoise – Bread and Circuses
Black Tye Chi, Diceman, & Mic Gutz – The Fix
Young MC – Loose
Bizza in a Box – I Feel Reborn
John Lewitt – Too Many Yahoos

See y’all next time!

CKMS News -2024-07-26- From celebration to commemoration, KW’s Palestinian festival shifts focus to solidarity

2024-07-26- From celebration to commemoration, KW’s Palestinian festival shifts focus to solidarity.

dan kellar
Kitchener, ON –
Due to the “urgent” situation in Gaza, organizers of this year’s
Palestine Festival in Kitchener have made the theme “Solidarity: the World Stands with Palestine”, shifting the focus from one of celebration to commemoration.  

CKMS News spoke with Suhaila Salah, a co-founder of Sporas Scattered, who along with the local chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing the 3rd annual Palestine festival with the name  Palestinian Solidarity Day.  While speaking about the shift in the festivals’ theme Salah explained, “It is not a day of mourning, it is a day to come together. We are going to commemorate.” she added,  “We still want to celebrate life”.

The Palestinian festival will take place on Sunday July 28th in the public square at Kitchener city hall from 1-9pm and features what organizers call a “packed schedule of entertainment, activities, education, and trivia games” with all donations going to support relief efforts in Gaza.

A statement CKMS News received from Global Affairs Canada about accountability for the violence Israel is inflicting in Palestine is also included in this piece.

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, July 27, 2024

A ‘three artists’ set list – John Mayall, Tom Cochrane/Red Rider, Mick Jagger. Of late I’ve been doing ‘three (or maybe two, time permitting) album’ sets, live or studio records, on a Saturday but this time it’s assorted tracks from three artists. Originally, it was going to be two artists: Jagger, who celebrates his 81st birthday today, Friday, July 26 and still going strong fronting The Rolling Stones who just completed a tour, and Cochrane with and without his original band Red Rider, because he’s playing a festival in my town, Kitchener, Ontario on Saturday.

Then came news that this past Monday, July 22, the so-called Godfather of British Blues, John Mayall, had died at age 90. He was an artist and bandleader who had nurtured the careers of guitar greats like Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor, and perhaps less widely known but no less accomplished players like Walter Trout and Coco Montoya, who I saw play with Mayall’s Bluesbreakers in the late 1980s at, Ontario residents will remember, the old rotating stage at the Ontario Place Forum on the Toronto waterfront. Taylor was the opening act that night and then guested with Mayall, who, believe it or not, acted as one of his own roadies. I remember him coming out, pre-set, adjusting and tinkering with the equipment and my younger brother and I exchanged glances like ‘is that him, yeah, it is, wow, cool. Obviously no airs about him.” If you want a job done right, one supposes . . .

Mayall was making music until near the end, consistently releasing new music every year or two, most recently in 2022. Just a few weeks ago on my show I played a track from his 2016 album Talk About That (and he recorded two more studio albums after that) and mentioned how he was still releasing new music although he had retired from touring aside from a gig here or there close to his California home. I most recently saw him at the Kitchener Blues Festival in 2011, a fine afternoon show on the last day of a festival which that year also featured Gregg Allman, the Winter brothers Johnny and Edgar, separately, and Mayall.

And it’s interesting perhaps about Mayall in that although he was thought of as a blues artist, and he was, his horizons were broad if you delve deeply into his music, evidenced by some stuff I’m playing on the show including tracks like Nature’s Disappearing – from the drummer-less album USA Union in 1970 which was my introduction to Mayall as my older brother had the album – and other excursions like his 1972 live album Jazz Blues Fusion. He was forever experimenting, searching for new sounds but for the very most part always based in blues.

So, a three-artist set: Cochrane/Red Rider, Jagger and Mayall. Some hits or at least fairly well-known tunes, some maybe more obscure deep cut stuff, all of it among my favorites by these artists.

1. John Mayall, Wake Up Call (title cut from Mayall’s 1993 album, with Mick Taylor trying to beg off the session on a fun intro phone call, along with Mavis Staples)

2. Red Rider, Light In The Tunnel (first of three tracks from the 1983 album Neruda that are an overall intro piece to the record.)

3. Red Rider, Power (Strength In Numbers)

4. Red Rider, Human Race

5. Mick Jagger, Out Of Focus

6. John Mayall, Nature’s Disappearing

7. Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, Just Like Ali

8. Mick Jagger with Buddy Guy, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) … a bluesy rearrangement of the Stones’ Goats Heat Soup album tune, released on the 2018 album Chicago Plays The Stones. It’s a tribute to The Rolling Stones by some of the artists who inspired them.

9. Red Rider, Napoleon Sheds His Skin

10. John Mayall, Night Flyer

11. Mick Jagger, Evening Gown . . . the type of country-ish ballad Jagger, in my view, does so well. Along the same lines later in the set are Hang On To Me Tonight and Party Doll.

12. Red Rider, Lunatic Fringe

13. John Mayall, Ain’t No Brakeman

14. Mick Jagger, Think . . . cover of a tune made famous by James Brown.

15. John Mayall, Broken Wings . . . beautiful, haunting track from Mayall’s The Blues Alone, just Mayall on guitar with drummer Keef Hartley.

16. Mick Jagger, Hang On To Me Tonight

17. John Mayall, Mail Order Mystics

18. Mick Jagger, Sweet Thing

19. Red Rider, Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me)

20. Mick Jagger, Too Many Cooks (Spoil The Soup)

21. John Mayall, Spinning Coin

22. Mick Jagger, Party Doll

23. John Mayall, Took The Car

24. Mick Jagger, Mother Of A Man

25. John Mayall, Room To Move

26. John Mayall, Fly Tomorrow

CKMS News -2024-07-26- Cashew cheese and climate change, ‘KW VegFest’ returns to Waterloo on Saturday

CKMS News -2024-07-26- Cashew cheese and climate change, ‘KW VegFest’ returns to Waterloo on Saturday

dan kellar
Waterloo, ON – With wildfires burning across the continent, and record breaking heat intensifying around the world, the additional focus on climate change at this year’s KW VegFest is very timely. VegFest organizers say the annual festival is “for everyone” and they invite folks to “learn about plant-based and planet-based eating, health, gardening, and climate action.” 

Among the info-booths at VegFest, representatives from the Waterloo Regional Community Garden Network and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment will be present to discuss links between food, climate and health.  The rising popularity of plant based food will be reflected, with vendors from around the region offering their vegetarian and vegan options.

This show features an interview with Mo Markham, a member of Waterloo Region Climate Initiatives, and an organizer of the 7th annual KW VegFest. The event is taking place at the Uptown Square in Waterloo on Saturday July 27th from 2-7pm. 

 

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 276

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — mainly just get right to the music with only a bit of talking beforehand.

Tracklist:

Action Bronson, Young Mehico, & Julian Love – Splash [Provocativ]
Blu, Kokane, & Evidence – Three Wheel Motion
Erykah Badu – The Cell
Shock G – Sunshine Rhime
Larry June, Black C, & Cardo – Meet Me In Frisco
Warren G – Do You See
The Notorious B.I.G – Juicy
Coolio – Fantastic Voyage (Timber Mix)
Jay Worthy, DaM Funk, DJ Quik, Channel Tres, & Ty Dolla $ign – 105 West
Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G, & Mauseberg – Don’t Tell
NxWorries & H.E.R – Where I Go
Dom Kennedy – Home Alone
Field Mob & Ciara – So What
Sir Michael Rocks & Casey Veggies – Get It Together
2Pac & Digital Underground – I Get Around
The Marias – Run Your Mouth
N.W.A – I’d Rather **** You
Wiz Khalifa & Young Deiji – Purple Fantasy
G Perico – Turn Around
Redman – Creepin
Skyblew x Navo the Maestro – Light Switch
TiRon & Ayomari, Yummy Bingham, & Homeboy Sandman – Do What You Want
Childish Gambino – Steps Beach
Big K.R.I.T – Party Tonight
Skyzoo & The Other Guys – Give You Anything
Curren$y, Smoke DZA, & Harry Fraud – Mirrors
Stalley – Midwest Hustler
Your Old Droog & Yasiin Bey – Care Plan
Common & Pete Rock – Dreamin’

See y’all next time!

City of Kitchener highlights water safety during National Drowning Prevention Week

After two recent separate incidents in which three people drowned in the Grand River locally, National Drowning Prevention Week comes at an excellent time. Running from July 21st to the 27th, the City of Kitchener‘s drowning prevention program aims to promote water safety through education and community events.

Recent statistics from the Drowning Prevention Research Centre show drowning rates in Ontario have increased since 2011, with seniors and young children being particularly at risk. According to the Life Saving Society of Canada, the great majority of people who drowned were not wearing a personal flotation device or were not wearing it properly.

Patrick King, the City of Kitchener’s aquatics manager, underscores the importance of proper life jacket use, the unique challenges of swimming in natural water bodies and the disproportionately higher incidence of drowning among Indigenous communities.

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