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This is Bald Boy. I host a classic rock album cuts show — So Old It’s New. The show’s premise: Old bands, old tracks, old bands, their new tracks if they’re still releasing music. Mostly 1960s and 70s stuff, the era in which I grew up. But I’ll go with 80s, 90s, 2000s as well – Guns ‘N Roses, The Cult, Wolfmother, REM, you name it. Prog and (70s) punk, too. Or whatever else strikes my fancy.

And I’ll play the occasional single you likely have not heard on commercial rock radio in many a moon, which is what prompted this show – my frustration with commercial rock radio not going beyond the same repetitive fare from the Stones, Zep, Purple and the like.

So with me, you’ll get the Stones’ Fingerprint File, not Start Me Up. You’ll get Zep’s Achilles Last Stand, not Stairway To Heaven. I publish all my set lists here and also on Facebook (search for Bald Boy) and Twitter (Karlo Berkovich), including song clips.

So Old It’s New currently airs on CKMS-FM on Mondays from 8:00pm to 10:00pm.

So Old It’s New #2

On Saturdays from 8:00am to 10:00am Bald Boy plays the music that didn’t fit in the Monday timeslot! Full album plays, metal and hard rock, or going full bore with a reggae show, or a punk rock/new wave show…

Recent Episodes

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024 On the menu for Saturday morning: British hard rock/progressive band Wishbone Ash’s 1972 classic album Argus, then Moontan from the Dutch group Golden Earring, the 1973 record famous for its hit single Radar Love, just one of the consistently satisfying songs on a terrific front-to-back album of hard rock with a sometimes progressive edge. I … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Monday, Sept. 2, 2024 A Labour/Labor Day set. Some hits but mostly the usual deeper cuts, all songs and/or artists’ names referencing work in some fashion. 1. Elvis Costello, Welcome To The Working Week 2. The Butterfield Blues Band, Work Song 3. Rush, Working Man 4. Bruce Springsteen, Factory 5. The Rolling Stones, Factory Girl 6. The Clash, Career … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 A two album replay for a Saturday morning. I’m featuring Super Session, the 1968 album put together by multi-instrumentalist and producer Al Kooper along with guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, billed on the album as Steve Stills, and Selling England By The Pound by Genesis. Super Session was originally a Kooper-Bloomfield project, the two … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Monday, August 26, 2024 Among the working titles for The Rolling Stones’ 1978 album Some Girls was More Fast Numbers. With that in mind, I’m opening a fast numbers set with a Stones’ rocker not from Some Girls (that’s just what you’d be expecting 🙂 ) but from their 1989 release Steel Wheels. Then into some interconnected hard rock … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set list for Saturday, August 24, 2024 An album replay show: on the menu are Warren Zevon’s Excitable Boy, Elton John’s Honky Chateau and Naturally, J.J. Cale’s debut album, from 1971. Playing Zevon was inspired by a friend mentioning him during the week and I haven’t played him in a while, so I figured I’d go with likely his best-known album, largely … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Monday, August 19, 2024 A set comprised of mostly early rock and roll, done by the original artists and/or those who were inspired by them, before veering off into other musical territory near the end of the 24-piece program. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. 1. Johnny and Edgar Winter, Rock & Roll Medley (live: Slippin’ And Slidin’, … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, August 17, 2024 An album replay show featuring releases, in descending order, from 1974, 1973 and 1972: Stormbringer by Deep Purple, Goats Head Soup from The Rolling Stones and Lou Reed’s Transformer. Track listing after my long preamble. I’ve been revisiting full albums from my formative musical years of late so I expect I’ll be doing album replays … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Monday, Aug. 12, 2024 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. 1. Meat Loaf, Everything Louder Than Everything Else 2. Bruce Springsteen, Jungleland 3. Argent, Thunder And Lightning 4. Rod Stewart, The Balltrap 5. Long John Baldry, Intro: Conditional Discharge/Don’t Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock & Roll 6. Stephen Stills/Manassas, Johnny’s Garden 7. … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024 A blues-blues rock-oriented show, leading with Colin James in recognition of his headlining slot at the annual Kitchener Blues Festival which began Thursday night here and runs through Sunday. Included in the set are blues legends/influencers like John Lee Hooker, his cousin Earl Hooker and Muddy Waters, the early, Peter Green-led blues version of Fleetwood … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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Waterloo Region’s only swing and blues radio show, dedicated to promoting swing jazz and blues of the 1920’s to the 1940’s. Listen to great musicians of the golden era and of today. Local, national and international event listing for swing dancers and jazz enthusiasts.

Interviews with musicians, swing dancers, organizers and venues.

Your Hosts and DJs:

David Trinh , Jeff Stager, Greg Nash, Turlough Myers, Eva Balassey, Julie-Anne Desrochers, Audrey Bothwell, Ali Rajabi, Ann Sychterz, Jeff Benoit, Amy Nyland, Martin Hansen, Sarah Kate, Jen Cyr, Ross McDowell, Nigel Sywtink-Binnema, John Ladan, Jimmy Prevost, Max Salman, Lucy Zang, Rob Gracie, Krister Shalm, Elaine Foster

Archived shows air on CKMS-FM Saturday from Noon to 12:30pm.

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