Run With Me: An Interview with Bry Webb & Show # 1007

“Thunder Bay” is the first single released by Canadian singer/songwriter Bry Webb from his forthcoming album Run With Me. Inspired by a desire to sing and play music again after not releasing music for quite a few years, the songs that make up Run With Me are made up with inspiration to play again and the connections/contributions from different musicians over Webb’s career. Also known for being the lead vocalist in Constantines, Webb’s forthcoming album is his third full-length release and his first new album since 2014’s Free Will (there was also a live album, Live at Massey Hall in 2015).

The lead off single “Thunder Bay” dates back to a recording made with a previous band that Webb was in called The Harbour Coats. This was a band Webb formed while living in Montreal, they recorded one album before disbanding when Webb moved to Guelph to start a family. For this track, Webb redid the vocals. It arrives with swirling guitars, kick drum, looming noise, feedback, hard to forget vocal melodies and absorbing, contemplative lyrics. Another song recently became available online from Run With Me, a song titled “Modern Mind.” A song steeped in elements of psychedelia, it first appeared on a split seven inch single with Chad VanGaalen in 2016. This version differs, not losing the edge of the original, but at the same time, as was described on the earlier version of the track, is an expansion of Webb’s musical palette. Bry Webb’s third full-length album, Run With Me will be released on November 3rd via Idée Fixe Records.

Listen to the interview Revolution Rock did with Bry Webb here:

Show 1007 Playlist (Bry Webb Interview):

1.  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - I Pity the Country 
2.  Mitski - Buffalo Replaced 
3.  Wilco - Cousin
4.  Woods - Weep 
5.  Nora Kelly Band - Lay Down Girl
6.  Bry Webb - Thunder Bay 

BRY WEBB INTERVIEW PART 1

7.  Bry Webb - AM Radio 

BRY WEBB INTERVIEW PART 2

8.  Bry Webb - Rivers of Gold 
9.  Richard Laviolette - Bats 
10. Plumtree - July 3rd
11. Mean Red Spiders - Compromise 
12. Gaze - Shady
13. Horse Chops - Spaceship in the Sky
14. Melody Fields - In Love 
15. Slowdive - alife 
16. Animal Collective - Gem & I 
17. Faust - The Sad Skinhead
18. Faust - Jennifer 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the September 30 file to download/stream the episode. 

Blues, Soul, Nirvana and Synthesizers: Episodes # 1006, 1005, 1004, 1003, 1002

Recently, Revolution Rock has had several theme based episodes and some guest hosts. Here are some highlights from some of the artists featured on our blues, soul, R&B and doo wop episode (links to hear/download all the episodes can be found below the playlists in this post).

Revolution Rock: Early Blues, Soul, R&B and Doo Wop

Joined by guest host Graeme Sylvio of CJAM FM’s Sylvio & Soul program, we dug deep into some more obscure soul, blues and R&B artists with touches of doo wop influences. Here are a few of the artists featured on this episode.

Pink Anderson:

Pink Anderson was born in South Carolina in 1900 and was a self-taught guitarist who toured through the Southeast during 1915-1945, getting work wherever he could. He performed and worked with many different musicians such as Blind Simmie Dooley. Several songs were recorded with Dooley for Columbia Records in 1928 and released as Papa’s About to Get Mad/Gonna Tip Out Tonight and Every Day in the Week Blues/C.C. and O. Blues. In the 1950s he toured with Leo “Chief Thundercloud” Kahdot and his medicine show and would often play with harmonica player Peg Leg Sam Jackson. Paul Clayton the folklorist recorded Anderson in 1950 and released Harlem Street Spirituals for the Riverside label. A lot of the traditional folk material was featured on this release such as “John Henry” and “The Wreck of the Old 97.” In early 60s (Carolina Blues Man (1961), Medicine Show Man (1962), Ballad & Folksinger (1963)), Anderson made some more recordings becoming part of the Piedmont school, utilizing his musical style, which pulled from blues, ragtime and folk. Anderson performed until the 1970s, passing away due to a heart attack in October of 1974 at the age of 74. Pink Anderson’s name took on a further influence in culture when Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd combined his name with North Carolina bluesman Floyd Council to arrive at the band name of Pink Floyd. Pink Anderson’s music came from the tradition of Carolina blues and the practice of the traveling folksinger.

The Falcons:

The Falcons formed in Detroit in 1955, they are perhaps best known for their two hit singles “You’re So Fine” (1959) and “I Found A Love” (1962). The band went through a few lineup changes in their career, but were notable for quite a few things. They were one of the first bands that would go on to be influential into the genre of soul music and also featured many musicians that would have their own successes outside of the group. Musicians such as Joe Stubbs, Eddie Floyd, Mack Rice, Lance Finney and Wilson Pickett were all part of the group at different times in The Falcons existence. Stubbs performed in three other groups (The Contours, The Originals and 100 Proof (Aged in Soul)), Eddie Floyd went on to work with the Stax record label and had a #1 hit single “Knock on Wood,” Mack Rice went on to record the song “Mustang Sally,” as well writing “Respect Yourself” with Luther Ingram, while Wilson Pickett became a major figure in the development of soul music, recording over 50 songs that made the US R&B charts and also crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Some of his best known songs are “In the Midnight Hour,” “Land of 10000 Dances,” “Funky Broadway,” “Don’t Knock My Love,” he also recorded a version of The Falcons “I Found A Love,” a song which he co-wrote, as a solo artist in 1967. It became a hit for Pickett and a two-part version of the song was recorded. It was featured on his album The Sound of Wilson Pickett and was also a single reaching #6 on the US R&B Charts. The Falcons lasted from about 1955 until about 1966, reforming briefly in 2005-2008.

Show 1006 (September 23rd, 2023)(Early blues, soul, R&B and doo wop Special):

1.  Bobby Louis - Fire of Love 
2.  Bunker Hill - The Girl Can’t Dance 
3.  Guitar Crusher - The Monkey 
4.  The Continentals - Don’t Do It Baby 
5.  King Coleman - Loo-key Doo-key 
6.  Nightriders - Looking For My Baby 
7.  John Lee Hooker - Let’s Talk It Over 
8.  John Lee Hooker - Just Me and My Telephone 
9.  Pink Anderson - My Baby Left Me This Morning 
10. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - C.C. and O. Blues 
11. The Falcons - I Found A Love
12. Sir Mac Rice - Baby I’m Coming Home 
13. Lloyd Williams & The Highlights - Kangaroo Dance
14. The Supremes - Let Me Go the Right Way 
15. Eric Mercury & The Soul Searchers - Lonely Girl
16. The Playmates - It Must Be Love 
17. Dianne Brooks - In My Heart 
18. Dianne Brooks - Walkin’ On My Mind 
19. Shirley Matthews & The Big Town Girls - (You Can) Count On That
20. Jack Harden & The Silhouettes - I’m Not Running After You (Anymore) 
21. King Herbert & The Knights - Lucille 
22. Eric Mercury - Life Style 
23. The Fantastic Four - Take Him Back If It Makes You Happy 
24. The Fantastic Four - Man In Love 
The Detroit Emeralds – Radio Promo
25. The Detroit Emeralds - Do Me Right 
26. The Detroit Emeralds - Long Live the King 
27. Booker T. & The M.G.’s - Behave Yourself 
28. The Gems - That’s What They Put Erasers on Pencils For 
29. Mckinley Mitchell - You’re Not Gonna Break My Heart
30. Barrett Strong - You Knows What To Do
31. Terry Callier - You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the September 23 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 1005 (September 16th, 2023)(In Utero 30th Anniversary Special):

1.  Nirvana - Serve the Servants (2013 Mix) 
2.  Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice
3.  Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box (Live) 
4.  Nirvana - Rape Me (1991 Boombox Demo) 
5.  Nirvana - Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle 
6.  Nirvana - Dumb (1991 Peel Session) 
7.  Nirvana - Very Ape 
8.  Nirvana - Milk It (1993 Rio Demo)
9.  Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea (Live MTV Unplugged) 
10. Nirvana - Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Live & Loud 1993) 
11. Nirvana - Tourette’s (2013 Mix) 
12. Nirvana - All Apologies (Live Reading Festival 1992)
13. Breeze - Serve the Servants 
14. Hervana - Scentless Apprentice (Live) 
15. The Weather Station - Pennyroyal Tea 
16. Teenanger - Very Ape 
17. Baptists - Tourette’s
18. D.O.A. - All Apologies 
19. Sara Simms - Heart-Shaped Box 
20. Tess Parks - Marigold 
21. Nirvana - Sappy
22. Nirvana - I Hate Myself and Want To Die (2013 Mix) 
23. Nirvana - Forgotten Tune 
24. Nirvana - Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol That Flow Through the Strip 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the September 16 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 1004 (September 9th, 2023):

1.  The Rapture - Heaven 
2.  Hot Hot Heat - This Town 
3.  Ought - Celebration 
4.  Shonen Knife - Making Plans for Bison 
5.  Sturm Group - Caught in the Door 
6.  Swell Maps - Forest Fire 
7.  First Man Over - Umbrella Man 
8.  Fifth Column - Right Hook 
9.  Richard Laviolette - Taking the Long Way Home 
10. Richard Laviolette - Ordinary Fellow
11. Richard Laviolette - Break Down These Blues 
12. Henry Bemis & The Books - Let’s Go Shopping
13. Tim Swaddling - Devil’s Tail 
14. Aleks Stoykosky - Replica Art 
15. Tea Leaves - Interloper 
16. The Clientele - Blue Over Blue 
17. King Krule - Hamburgerphobia 
18. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Good Morning, Popcatepetl 
19. PJ Harvey - A Noiseless Noise 
20. The Replacements - Can’t Hardly Wait (Cello Version)
21. Constantines - National Hum
22. Constantines - Sub-Domestic 
23. Protomartyr - For Tomorrow 
24. Osees - Chaos Heart 
25. Ramones - I Remember You 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the September 9 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 1003 (September 2nd, 2023):

1.  The Routes - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t Have) 
2.  Priors - Burgundy 
3.  Julie Doiron - Thought of You 
4.  The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow 
5.  The Kinks - A Long Way From Home 
6.  The Breeders - No Aloha 
7.  The Breeders - Divine Hammer 
8.  Sweeping Promises - Ideal No 
9.  Jeff Rosenstock - I Wanna Be Wrong 
10. The Rolling Stones - Dancing with Mr. D 
11. Tom Waits - Underground
12. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
13. Colter Wall - Standing Here 
14. Beams - Morning Waits 
15. Pin Group - Ambivalence 2
16. The Clean - On Again/Off Again 
17. 25 Cents - Don’t Deceive Me 
18. Ritchie Venus and the Blue Beetles - Bleeding Heart 
19. The B-52’s - Give Me Back My Man 
20. Can - Moonshake 
21. Teke::Teke - Gotoku Lemon 
22. Sundried Whales - I’m So Tired 
23. Freak Heat Waves - Off My Mind 
24. TAFKAVince Band - Expiration Date 
25. Love Language - Ripples 
26. The Vertical Struts - Sh! 
27. Ghost Woman - Alright Alright 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the September 2 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 1002 (August 26th, 2023) (Revolution Synth Special - synth music from 1978-1983):

1.  The Payola$ - In A Place Like This
2.  The Vapors - Trains
3.  Wall of Voodoo - Factory
4.  Joe Naylor - I Hate Fluorescent Lights
5.  Null.set - Teats De Nuit
6.  Phollop Willing P.A. - Orphan Baby
7.  Iko - Elevator
8.  Subway Sect - Ambition
9.  Devo - Strange Pursuit
10. Tubeway Army - Me, I Disconnect From You
11. The Stranglers - Nice N’ Sleazy
12. Oingo Boingo - Ain’t This the Life
13. Talking Heads - Memories Can’t Wait
14. Rational Youth - Holiday in Bangkok
15. The Boomtown Rats - Blind Date
16. Kraftwerk - The Model
17. Nash the Slash - The Chase
18. Ceramic Hello - Symphony of Shudders
19. UJ3RK5 - Eisenhower & The Hippies
20. Active Dog - Nothing Holding You
21. Tim Ray & A.V. - Quarter to Eight
22. Suicide - Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the August 26 file to download/stream the episode.

Revolution Rock: The Golden Episode

On August 12th, the 1000th episode of Revolution Rock aired on CJAM FM’s airwaves. To celebrate this we did an episode with a gold theme. We have done several theme episodes in the past (not just during our annual February theme month episodes), but I don’t believe we’ve ever done a theme like this before. Inspired by a shuffle playlist last year where songs with the word “gold” in it kept popping up, we decided to go with this theme for the 1000th episode. Every song that was in this episode featured the word “gold.” I suppose it can be called our golden episode.

Here is some info on some of the “gold” songs featured in our 1000th episode:

The Gories - Idol with the Golden Head

Written by Leiber/Stoller, “Idol with the Golden Head” was originally released as a single in 1957 by The Coasters. Recorded at Sheldon Recording Studio in Chicago of the at the time new Chess Records building at 2120 Michigan Ave. This late 50s soul track was covered by Detroit’s The Gories in 1992. Giving it a garage/soul spin featuring Peg O’Neil’s primal stomp combined with the dual guitar attack from Mick Collins and Danny Kroha, along with Collin’s great vocal and Kroha’s backing vox, this track is found in two places in The Gories discography, on 1992’s Baby Say Uhh! single (as the B-side) and on their 1992 studio album Outta Here labeled as “Great Big Idol with the Golden Head.” The song itself is a lesser known song it seems in The Coasters discography. It tells the tale of someone buying an artifact, in this case an idol with a golden head and asks it where their love interest big foot May is. It turns out she’s at Catfish Creek partying, but this track captures a sense of youthful spirit, romance and adventure.

This now legendary Detroit garage band, The Gories released three full-length albums Houserockin’ (in 1989), I Know You Fine But How You Doin’ (1990), Outta Here (1992) and was featured on compilations in addition to releasing numerous singles. In 2013, a live recording from 1988 titled The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/1988 was released through Third Man Records. The live album, like their music is raw and uninhibited sounding, it was recorded by Jim Shaw at a converted storefront that no longer exists. The set was captured in the spring of 1988 prior to the release of their first full-length album Houserockin’. The set features tracks that would wind up on this album including several that wouldn’t such as a cover of The Stooges “Real Cool Time,” The Iguanas “Again & Again,” The Keggs “To Find Out,” the surf track “Nautiloid Reef,” and several others. In 2015, they released their first new recording in 30 years, the single Be Nice/On the Run through Third Man Records. The Gories since reforming in 2009 have been performing live off and on while Collins, Kroha and O’Neil have performed in a variety of other bands since The Gories initial split. O’Neil played with ’68 Comeback and The Darkest Hours, Collins currently performs with The Dirtbombs, Wolfmanhattan Project, Danny Kroha performs solo and as Danny & The Stools.

The Fire Engines – Big Gold Dream

Forming in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1979, the Fire Engines were a post punk band and part of the Scottish post punk scene at the time. In their brief career, they released one mini album (Lubricate Your Living Room) and three singles (Get Up and Use Me, Candyskin, Big Gold Dream) before disbanding in 1981. Known for their funky, yet discordant, anti-pop rhythms, “Big Gold Dream” followed their Candyskin/Meat Whiplash single, which when originally released in 1981 went to #7 on the UK Indie Charts. Previously their debut single Get Up and Use Me/Everythings Roses went to #9 on the UK Indie Charts. With “Big Gold Dream” the song with its catchy choruses, funky rhythms and female back up vocals seemed pegged to be another single charting song in the UK, but unfortunately it did not chart. The band imploded shortly after this and just before a potential US tour. The band’s history is also connected with Bob Last, who had the label Fast Product/Pop:Aural. He would release at the time new post punk music from not only The Fire Engines, but also Gang of Four, Mekons and The Human League to name a few. He would also be a manager for The Human League.

Two of the members of the band (Davy Henderson and Russell Burn) would go on to form the band Win, Henderson formed the noise rock oriented band Nectarine No.9 in the early 90s. More recently he has performed/recorded with The Sexual Objects. In 2004, The Fire Engines reformed to support The Magic Band in Edinburgh, although not with Captain Beefheart, the band had been a huge influence on Fire Engines. With that a new interest in the band grew. A limited edition single followed next with Franz Ferdinand. The Fire Engines covered their song “Jaqueline” and Franz Ferdinand covered “Get Up and Use Me.” Several compilations were released as well. Most recently, Codex Teenage Premonition in 2005, made up of live recordings and live sessions and Hungry Beat in 2007, which collected the band’s mini album Lubricate Your Living Room along with the three singles they’ve released.

 

Show 1001 (Originally Aired On August 19th, 2023) (The Hives, Robbie Roberston, Rodriguez, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye):

1.  The Hives - Trapdoor Solution 
2.  The Hives - Stick Up 
3.  Hippie Hourrah - Rorschach 
4.  Joanna Sternberg - The Human Machine 
5.  Cat Clyde - Everywhere I Go 
6.  Lonesome Lefty & The Cryin’ Shames - Diga Diga Doo
7.  Canadian Squires - Leave Me Alone 
8.  Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Tell Me Momma (Live 1966 Royal Albert Hall) 
9.  The Band - To Kingdom Come
10. The Band - Jawbone 
11. The Band - Yazoo Street Scandal 
12. The Band - The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
13. Sam Cooke - Mean Old World 
14. Sam Cooke - Laughin’ and Clownin’
15. Marvin Gaye - Please Stay (Once You Go Away (Alt Mix) 
16. Marvin Gaye - The World is Rated X 
17. The Scenics - In the Summer 
18. Protomartyr - 3800 Tigers
19. Odonis Odonis - Passing Us By (Feat. SUUNS) 
20. Frankiie - Garden 
21. Osees - Sleazoid Psycho 
22. Rodriguez - Hate Street Dialogue
23. Rodriguez - Street Boy 
24. Rodriguez - Crucify Your Mind 
25. Neil Young - Sedan Delivery

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the August 12 file to download/stream the episode. 

  
Show 1000 (Originally Aired On August 12th, 2023)(The Golden Episode):

1.  Pavement - Gold Soundz 
2.  Guided By Voices - Gold Star for Robot Boy
3.  Lizzie Esau - Fool’s Gold 
4.  Hole - Gold Dust Woman 
5.  Johnny West - Gold Smoke
6.  Damaged Bug - Lovely Gold 
7.  Daniele Lupi & Parquet Courts (Ft. Karen O) - The Golden Ones 
8.  David Bowie - Velvet Goldmine
9.  Broken Social Scene - Golden Facelift 
10. Brian Eno - Golden Hours
11. Car Seat Headrest - Golden Years 
12. Chad Vangaalen - Golden Pear
13. Neil Young - Silver & Gold 
14. Syd Barrett - Golden Hair 
15. Mac DeMarco - 2020819 She Get the Gold Star 
16. Wax Mannequin - Grover’s Gold 
17. Tom Waits - Diamonds & Gold 
18. Nirvana - Marigold
19. Sprinters - Struck Gold
20. Sloan - Golden Eyes 
21. Apollo Ghosts - Golden Teacher 
22. Thee Oh Sees - Golden Phones 
23. Dick Nolan - Golden Rocket 
24. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Silver & Gold 
25. Fire Engines - Big Gold Dream 
26. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold I 
27. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold II 
28. Weak Signal - Dripping in Gold 
29. Paul the Tailor - Gold 
30. The Sadies - Reward of Gold 
31. Atomic Seven - The Man with the Golden Card
32. Iggy Pop - Gold 
33. The Gories - Idol with the Golden Head

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the August 12 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 999 (Originally Aired On August 5th, 2023)(The Chameleons, The Flaming Lips, Ed Keupper, Ron Gallo, Mononegatives, 999):

1.  999 - Direct Action Plan 
2.  The Replacements - Left of the Dial (Ed Stasium Mix)
3.  Wilco - Evicted 
4.  Ed Keupper - A Trick or Two 
5.  Ed Keupper - Not Too Soon 
6.  Stevie Wonder - Too High 
7.  Ike & Tina Turner - Higher Ground 
8.  The Dirtbombs - Livin’ for the City 
9.  Mononegatives - Deficit 
10. Fake Palms - Wasted Silhouettes 
11. Private School - Science Fiction 
12. Wasted Lives - Undercover 
13. The Spy’s - Don’t Touch That Dial 
14. The Chameleons - Don’t Fall 
15. The Chameleons - Thursday’s Child 
16. The Flaming Lips - Pilot Can at the Queer of God 
17. The Flaming Lips - Be My Head 
18. Tough Age - Hideaway 
19. The Ape-ettes - Remi 
20. Private Lives - Dead Hand 
21. Priors - Separation Anxiety 
22. Sunglaciers - Kafka (Mixtape Version) 
23. Tobin Sprout - The Natural Alarm 
24. The Particles - Remington Rand
25. Ron Gallo - At Least I’m Dancing 
26. The Cramps - Don’t Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk
27. Young Rival - Heard it All Before 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the August 5 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 998 (Originally Aired On July 29th, 2023)(Olinda, Tea Leaves, Daniel Romano, Dan Sartain, The Ichi-Bons):

1.  Olinda - Dreams in Transit 
2.  Decliner - Gumbie 
3.  Trophy Knife - Again and Again 
4.  Aleks Stoykoysky - Dehydrated 
5.  Roye Trout - Snake Oil 
6.  Ancient Shapes - Imaginary Agony 
7.  Tea Leaves - Bipolar Skies 
8.  Daniel Romano’s Outfit - Rhythmic Blood (Live) 
9.  Ex Ox - Nervous Complaint 
10. Phantom Sender - Solstice Ring
11. Delta 5 - Triangle 
12. Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns 
13. La Securite - Suspens 
14. Magazine - Sweetheart Contract
15. Osees - Stunner
16. The Fall - Psykick Dancehall 
17. Sonny & The Sunsets - I See the Void 
18. Galore - Lydia 
19. Fake Fruit - Mutuas 
20. Duotang - The Cons & Pros 
21. The Exploding Hearts - Boulevard Trash 
22. Buzzcocks - Nothing Left 
23. The Hives - Rigor Mortis Radio
24. Link Wray - Jack the Ripper 
25. Link Wray - The Stranger 
26. Dan Sartain - Ruby Carol 
27. Dan Sartain - Bohemian Grove 
28. Dan Sartain - People Throwing Stones at Glass Houses 
29. The Garrys - Burger Buoy 
30. The Kan Dells - Cloudburts 
31. The Ventures - The Ninth Wave 
32. The Ichi-Bons - Don’t Call Me Flyface 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the July 29 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 997 (Originally Aired On July 22nd, 2023) (New York Dolls 50th Anniversary):

1.  Psychic Void - Back 2 Reality 
2.  Smashing Pumpkins - Pissant 
3.  Fruit Bats - Quiet 
4.  Blue Oil - From the Heart 
5.  Blue Oil - Sardine City
6.  Ancient Shapes - Imaginary Agony 
7.  Dead Bob - Party of One 
8.  B.A. Johnston - TV’s on Babe (Television Zombie)
9.  New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
10. New York Dolls - Looking For A Kiss (1972 Demo) 
11. New York Dolls - Vietnamese Baby
12. New York Dolls - Lonely Planet Boy 
13. New York Dolls - Frankenstein
14. Sylvain Sylvain - Trash 
15. New York Dolls - Bad Girl 
16. Johnny Thunders - Subway Train 
17. New York Dolls - Pills (Live 1974)
18. New York Dolls - Private World 
19. New York Dolls - Jet Boy 
20. By Divine Right - Mutant Message 
21. By Divine Right - Super Moon (Demo) 
22. Shotgun Jimmie - Sappy Slogans
23. Ron Leary - I Was Born 
24. The Ape-ettes - Trampoline 
25. The Stools - Buick Boogie 
26. Louder Than Death - Scum of the Moon 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the July 22 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 996 (Originally Aired On July 15th, 2023)(Lou Reed's Berlin, Wax Mannequin, Kid Congo Powers, Private Lives, Blue Oil): 

1.  Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - (Are You) Ready Freddy? 
2.  Ron Gallo - Foreground Music 
3.  Ghost Woman - Street Meet 
4.  The Stoves - Moments 
5.  Mudhoney - Little Dogs 
6.  Lou Reed - Lady Day 
7.  Lou Reed - Men of Good Fortune 
8.  Lou Reed - Oh Jim 
9.  Lou Reed - Berlin (1971 RCA Demo) 
10. Grian Chatten - Fairlies 
11. Wax Mannequin - Even Then 
12. Amos the Kid - Well Water
13. Doug Paisley - If I Wanted 
14. Shana Cleveland - Mystic Mine 
15. Deer Tick - Grey Matter 
16. King Khan - The Nature of Things 
17. Tandoori Knights - Mr. Executioner 
18. Thee Retail Simps - Weapon of the Mystic 
19. Blue Oil - Money 
20. Private Lives - Hit Record 
21. Motorbike - Throttle 
22. Liquids - Bitter End 
23. Tiny Baby - Lake Temagami 
24. Spoon - She’s Fine, She’s Mine 
25. Funkadelic - Back In Our Minds

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the July 15 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 995 (Originally Aired On July 8th, 2023) (Fugazi, Spiderbite, Rick Froberg, Queens of the Stone Age, T.Rex):

1.  Fugazi - Witness Protection Program 
2.  Fugazi - Great Cop 
3.  Spiderbite - Fiberglass City 
4.  Mononegatives - Replaceable Anatomy 
5.  Skating Polly - All the Choices 
6.  boygenius - Satanist 
7.  PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
8.  Drive Like Jehu - New Math 
9.  Hot Snakes - Plenty For All 
10. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight 
11. Hot Snakes - Six-Wave Hold Down
12. Daniel Romano’s Outfit - The Long Mirror of Time (Live) 
13. Private Lives - Trust in Me 
14. Taxi Girls - After Effect 
15. Tough Age - In A Garden 
16. The Particles - Bits of Wood 
17. La Securite - Dis-Moi 
18. Feeble Little Horse - Tin Man 
19. Post Grads - Anxiety 
20. Ryan Bourne - Black Hole
21. Obits - Two Headed Coin
22. Obits - Spun Out
23. Obits - Let Me Dream If I Want To 
24. Albert Hammond Jr. - One Chance 
25. Cameron Noise - Did I Ever Tell You
26. TAFKAVince Band - Magazine Pages 
27. Queens of the Stone Age - Paper Machete 
28. T.Rex - The Slider 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the July 8 file to download/stream the episode. 

Sport Fishin': The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook: An Interview with Don Pyle & Shows # 994, 993, 992

In 1993, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet released their third full-length album titled Sport Fishin’: The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook. Prior to recording the album the band was quite busy. Whether it was touring, rehearsing, recording music for the Kids In The Hall TV Series or recording singles, it was a whirlwind of activity for the band. Before the recording of Sport Fishin’, SMOASP recorded some singles with Steve Albini at his home studio. Some of these tracks would wind up on a few different releases such as the Dog & Squeegie single released in 1992 on the Estrus label and the Take Outs single released on the Derivative label in August of 1993. Just before Christmas of 1992 however, they recorded and mixed over a five-day period with Steve Albini at the Chicago Recording Company studio. The results would be the Sport Fishin’ album.

The album starts off with the track “Unwatchable,” a short eleven-second reverb driven surf influenced track, but don’t let that description fool you, this album is many things at once. “Spend A Night, Not A Fortune” is a musical interplay with the lead bass rhythms of Reid Diamond, as Brian Connelly’s masterful guitar work floats in-between and Don Pyle holds down everything with sparse, inventive drumming. The band starts off here with a slow build before the rich tapestry and chemistry of the band is revealed. It doesn’t take long for that to take effect as “Three Piece Suit” comes in as track three on Sport Fishin’. With Connelly’s rolling reverb saturated guitar riffs that lead the song and bass that builds tension with the drums in the background, the pace slows down briefly before the chorus of the song arrives again. It evokes something that Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet do so well, suck you into their musical orbit. The combination of all this on this track (and throughout this record) has a familiar, nostalgic feeling, yet it is something all of its own. “Fortune Telling Chicken” arrives a cappella before fiery surf and 50s influenced instrumental riffs lead the way into “(Relax) You Will Think You Are A Chicken,” which begins with another introduction and a hypnotizing piano backing. Musically the song kicks in with slithery basslines, marching, yet steady drumbeats and intense guitar, blending surf and that unnamable chemistry. The song ends with Pyle playing a series of toms on the drums, driving bass and spirited guitars.

“Plastics For 500, Bob” features smooth, twangy bass, bold guitars and energetic drums. “That Wuz Ear Me Callin’ A Horse” an example of a loud song that captures what the band must have sound like live at the time with a song title that, like many of their song titles, plays into their own irreverent sense of humour. “Singing Cowboy” is a short countrified track featuring Diamond on lead vocals singing of “Wide open spaces/Wide open skies” that comes off as both tongue in cheek and heartfelt, “Farbs” features stabbing guitar swells, propelling bass and drums and several false endings before the song finally concludes, but far be it from me to criticize this. It sounds like the band are in their element here. “Spy School Graduation Theme” features plotting basslines, drums filled with intrigue and guitar from Brian Connelly that despite the lack of lyrics conjures up an ominous, yet peering narrative. “Cheese in the Fridge” is one of the longest tracks found on Sport Fishin’ featuring frosty basslines, chilling drums and atmospheric guitars, “Mecca” is track thirteen on the album. When originally released it was not listed on the album’s track list, with the clang of an elevator door opening and someone saying “thirteen” many assumed that was the name of the track, when it is actually a SMOASP version of Gene Pitney’s “Mecca.”

“Algoma Reflections” branches out into jazz, “We’re Not A Fucking Surf Band” splinters into jagged post punk, sounding influenced by The Minutemen, “Honey, You’re Wasting Ammo” is a Pixies informed, alternative rock sounding track, while one of the album singles “They Don’t Call Them Chihuahuas Anymore” moves its way into Latin rhythms. There are many great moments on this record where you can hear the band really lock in and play in that great in the pocket groove moment. This track also shows how versatile, subtle and effective Don Pyle’s drumming can be, Connelly’s guitar and Diamond’s bass also prosper at just the right moments here. “What I Like About Grease” features dirtier guitar as bass and drums burn the musical oil, “Memories of Gay Paree” is primarily driven by its 60s organ sounds mixing in garage rock elements, while “Babywetsitself” ends Sport Fishin’ in cinematic noir reverberations mixed with jazz. There is a gap of no sound before a hidden track appears, a brief live version of “Shakin’ All Over” followed by crowd noises.

When recording Sport Fishin’, it was the only time that the band recorded in an uninterrupted fashion for a record. Recorded and mixed over five days, all of their previous work was recorded at different times and then gradually pieced together. The results are cohesive here. The band is in top form and seamlessly jump genres on songs throughout the record. The sound is bolder with a heavier sound and combines elements of surf, jazz, rock, punk and western-styled music, in addition to their other influences. Albini captured Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, very in-the-moment and there is a certain intensity found throughout the songs. With Sport Fishin’: The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet cast their musical net out into the water and come back with that elusive sound that they create so well.

Listen to an interview that Revolution Rock did with Don Pyle of Revolution Rock here:
 

Show 994 Sport Fishin' 30th Anniversary Playlist (Don Pyle of Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet Interview) (Originally Aired On July 1st, 2023) :

1.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Unwatchable (I)
2.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Spend A Night, Not A Fortune
3.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Three Piece Suit
4.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Fortune Tellin' Chicken
5.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (Relax) You Will Think You Are A Chicken
6.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - " Plastics For 500, Bob"
7.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - That Wuz Ear Me Callin' A Horse

DON PYLE INTERVIEW PT. 1

8.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - The Singing Cowboy
9.  Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Farbs
10. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Spy School Graduation Theme
11. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Cheese In The Fridge

DON PYLE INTERVIEW PT.2

12. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Unwatchable (II)
13. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Haig Earl
14. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Algoma Reflections
15. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - We're Not A Fucking Surf Band
16. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Peas Porridge Rock
17. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Honey You're Wasting Ammo

DON PYLE INTERIVEW PT.3

18. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - They Don't Call Them Chihuahuas Anymore
19. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Off Our Back Conrad Black
20. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - We'll Be Right Back!
21. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - What I Like About Grease
22. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Memories Of Gay Paree
23. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Babywetsitself

DON PYLE INTERVIEW PT.4

24. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (W/Fred Schneider) - Lick
25. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Song of the Lobster
26. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - That Wuz Ear Me Callin' A Horse (Live)
27. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - (Relax) You Will Think You Are A Chicken (Live)
28. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - The Last of my Hiccups
29. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - The Jehrney

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Show 993 Playlist (Liz Phair, Global Citizens, Yo La Tengo) (Originally Aired On June 24th, 2023):

1.  Water From Your Eyes - True Life 
2.  Model/Actriz - Mosquito 
3.  Swans - Los Angeles: City of Death 
4.  The Pop Group - Kiss the Book (1978 BBC Session) 
5.  Butthole Surfers - Ricky
6.  Spiderbite - Smashed Glass
7.  Psychic Void - The Man
8.  Liz Phair - 6’1” 
9.  Liz Phair - Soap Star Joe 
10. Liz Phair - Clean 
11. Packs - Laughing Till I Cry 
12. La Securite - Le Kick 
13. Joe Meek and The Blue Men - Orbit Around the Moon (Take 1) 
14. Global Citizens - Fireball 
15. Global Citizens - Happiness Ain’t Green Grass 
16. The Courettes Time is Ticking 
17. Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire - That’s It
18. Galen & Paul - Sea Shanty
19. Yo La Tengo - Tonight’s Episode 
20. Yo La Tengo - Moby Octopad 
21. Yo La Tengo - Serpentine
22. Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming 
23. Teke::Teke - Hoppe 
24. Neither Could Dylan - Skeleton 
25. Wax Mannequin - Wrong About You
26. Tough Age - Paradise By Another Name 

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Show 992 Playlist (John McGeoch, The Police Synchronicity, Violent Femmes) (Originally Aired On June 17th, 2023):

1.  Weird Nightmare - She’s the One
2.  Wrong War - The Call 
3.  Tricky Woo - Rock & Roll Vs. the World 
4.  Ex Ox - It’s Your Faul the World is Ending
5.  Universal Cleaner - Psychosocial Mother Matrix
6.  The Police - Synchronicity I 
7.  The Police - Miss Gradenko 
8.  Juliana Hatfield - Murder By Numbers
9.  Violent Femmes - Every Breath You Take 
10. Visage - Visage 
11. Gen X - Poison
12. The Armoury Show - Castles in Spain 
13. Public Image Ltd. - Seattle 
14. Bob Dylan - Wicked Messenger
15. Bonny Doon - Crooked Creek 
16. Deer Tick - Forgiving Ties 
17. Charlotte Cornfield - You and Me 
18. Shotgun Jimmie - Tumbleweed 
19. Love Interest - Midwinter, Violent Air 
20. Osees - Goon 
21. Zoon - Gaagige 
22. OMBIIGIZI - Back at Me 
23. Home Front - Real Eyes 
24. Frankiie - Cruel 
25. The Hives - Countdown to Shutdown
26. Jay Reatard - Paint It Shut

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Crossing Visual Field: An Interview with Mononegatives & Shows # 991, 990 & 989

Crossing Visual Field is the second full-length album by London, Ontario’s Mononegatives. Their sound has been described as “raw punk meets new wave” and with 2021’s fast selling and critically acclaimed Apparatus Division, Mononegatives set themselves apart as a band experimenting with the punk meets new wave genre. Featuring Rob Brake on guitar/synth/vocals, Aaron Wallis bass and David Cereghini on drums, Crossing Visual Field was recorded once again with producer Preston Lobzun, but this time at a home studio in Scarborough. The band spent two years writing, recording and preparing for this record. With extra sonic details this time around, Crossing Visual Field brings a new atmosphere and broader scope to Mononegatives previous anxious nervous energy dynamic.

“Neutral Solution” starts off Crossing Visual Field with a Devo-meets-Gary Numan sound that intersects with garage punk. The song begins with a drumbeat and urgent guitar riff before everything kicks in. The fast verses pause with synthy atmosphere at various points, but never overstays its welcome as this song, just a few seconds under a minute and a half, illustrates the abilities of Mononegatives in the opening moments of the album. “Faculty” is an anxious blast of guitar riffs and features an overload of synthesizers that sounds like an apocalyptic meltdown as cryptic lyrics “Zero time/Zero mind” repeat over punk guitar riffs. “Disappearing Architecture” brings in paranoid lyrics “Surface/Routine/Automatic/Terrestrial location” operates with a controlled frenzy pulling in catchy melodies as the song floats around the sci-fi and all too real themes of the song’s title, while “North Carolina Atomic Bomb” was the lead off single for this album. Described as an atmospheric dark synth-wave track, this song features what sounds like a malfunctioning synthesizer, buzzing bass and crunchy guitar sounds tuning into an almost post punk electronic frequency as Brake sings lines such as “Splitting an atom/Flicking a switch,” “Frequencies shifting frequently” and “A clock moving backwards/The world spins in reverse/Never a moment/You can afford to waste” describing a wasteland of the future and technological ruin. The way the song is executed here is tense, restless and sounds like it is about to implode at any minute. “Implicit Obedience” subverts lyrically as musically the song mixes noisy synth punk sounds with driving destructive rhythms, while “Cro-Magnon” is an infections gem that describes a reverse dystopia with catchy fuzzy bass, synthesizers and drums that lock in with a new wave/post punk garage/shoegaze fashion.

“Second Self” appears next. Originally part of the New Exit in Shards EP in 2022, this track features catchy post-punk guitars, while the chorus features lyrics such as “See parallel Lives/Opposite of sides/Framework falls apart/New exit in shards” reflecting introspective paranoia as the song picks up in a grimy punk fashion before ending in pulsating synthesizers. “Second Self” hits differently as part of this album, track seven and the halfway point of Crossing Visual Field. “Bel-Pre” brings a dark synth mood here as guitar arpeggios laced with effects, fuzz bass and atmospheric drums add to the make up of the song found here. The lyrics of “Nothing comes easy/Nothing comes cheap,” and “All roads lead Rome/No roads lead to home,” evokes a sense of isolation despite the vastness of the world around you. “Outcome Unknown” brings a sense of uncertainty and an uptick in garage punk rhythms, “Television Funeral” is 70s punk/garage and synthy new wave blast drawing comparisons to The Spits and Wire that brings forth a caustic tale lyrically. This song pulls in complex subject matter and in press releases for the single puts forward the idea of “Now that everything can be recorded it’s usually nothing we want to remember.”

“Testing Capacity” calls out with deep cutting synthesizers as guitar, bass and drums attack in the choruses while lyrically “Crash testing/Falling from the second story/Manufacturing with confidence” and “Transducer test device/Static stability factor/Frontal impact force” paint a cryptic, yet glitchy picture touching on communication in the modern age. “Living in the Future” is a bass and midi-sounding synthesizer driving track with lyrics that convey a post-apocalyptic world, while “Deficit” ends Crossing Visual Field. The post punk/garage track with a thought provoking chorus of “Tomorrow is hand to mouth” leaves open a bleak, yet fragmented outcome between the apocalyptic worlds described throughout this album and our modern day dystopia. With Crossing Visual Field, Mononegatives combine elements of post punk, synth rock, punk, garage and the lo-fi genre into its own thing. With a deeper sense of complexity and experimentation, themes of distant and not so distant dystopias, nuclear paranoia and the apocalypse, all wrap around a new sense of atmosphere and musical structure. The songs found here are not just one thing, but many things at once. They are a bit cryptic and can elicit different meanings on repeat listens. Crossing Visual Field brings Mononegatives into a new focus as they travel across different sonic landscapes.

 

Continue reading for an interview that Revolution Rock did with the members of Mononegatives:

RR: How/when did Mononegatives form and who is currently playing in the band?

MN: We formed in May 2019 playing our first show in June of that year. Currently the members are Aaron [Wallis] on bass, David [Cereghini] on drums, and Rob [Brake] on guitar/synth.

RR: In 2021, you released Apparatus Division. It sold out quickly. What do you think it is about this album that people responded to so much?

MN: It was the excitement of something new at a time when everything creative was in stasis. The releases we did before that album had momentum behind them leading to an anticipation for the album.

RR: When did you record Apparatus Division and with who? What do you remember of making the record?

MN: We recorded the album at Watershed Studio with Preston Lobzun in July of 2020. We recorded a lot of material in a very short session, but we were prepared and excited. We mapped everything out and managed to get it all done in about ten hours.

RR: In 2022, you had three singles out on Dowd Records. How did you get connected with this label and were all these songs recorded around the same time?

MN: Rob is a fan of The Cry, a band big in the skateboarding community, and noticed they were on DOWD. Contact was made about that band and in the process DOWD found us, liked what they heard and wanted to work with us. Those singles were recorded over various sessions we did at our practice space over the course of a year or so. It has been a very wonderful time working with the label.

RR: What is the songwriting process generally like for songs in Mononegatives? Does it differ with each song?

MN: Most of the time a member has an idea and after it is presented it is built up from there as a collaboration. Members are always working on something new so ideas come to us often. We pull ideas from different genres and styles and see how well it all works together.

RR: Dowd Records put out some different types of singles in advance of your second album Crossing Visual Field. “Cro-Magnon” had a game/contest and then “Television Funeral” was a record and a DVD. Maybe you can tell us about how these ideas came to be and maybe you can talk a bit about what inspired the songs themselves (“North Carolina Atomic Bomb,” “Cro-Magnon” and “Television Funeral”)?

MN: We wanted to do something different and interesting with those singles so we wanted to have presentations that complimented the song. “North Carolina Atomic Bomb,” a song both about a lost nuclear warhead and living life feeling like the bomb went off, naturally should have a pop up mushroom cloud that goes on the record as it spins. “Cro-Magnon” lyrically deals with how we are going backwards into a dystopia so we just played that out through the artwork. “Television Funeral” is about watching a funeral over the computer. The video is more of a play on just the song title and it made sense to include it with the record, hence the record grooves being cut into the DVD. You can play the song on the turntable or watch the video on the tv. It’s all connected.

RR: Crossing Visual Field is out now. How would you compare the recording process of this album as opposed to Apparatus Division? In the press releases for the album it stated that the songs expanded the band’s scope and have more experimental elements – do you feel this is an accurate description of the songs?

MN: The difference is this time we took a bit longer recording in a more focused way. We went to Scarborough for a long weekend recording in a home studio, a different vibe and approach to how we recorded the first LP. We absolutely feel that is an accurate statement about the songs. While there is still the familiar there are also songs that gravitate towards a new atmosphere for us. We spent two years working on them and finally recorded it when we felt fully satisfied with them. The extra time we had allowed for more experimentation and focus on the little details. The new album had different dynamics and ideas.

RR: What’s next for Mononegatives?

MN: A bigger focus on touring, travelling, and live shows. While before the situation allowed us to exclusively write and record we are embracing the opportunity to present the songs in person.

Show 991 Playlist (Originally Aired On June 10th, 2023)(Mononegatives, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Nerves

1.  The Nerves - Hanging on the Telephone 
2.  The Nerves - Paper Dolls 
3.  The Nerves - Letter to G (Demo)
4.  Jack Lee - Give Me Some Time 
5.  Sloan - Blackout 
6.  Sloan - Can’t You Figure It Out? 
7.  Mac DeMarco - 20180701
8.  The Sadies - Wasn’t Born to Follow 
9.  Reigning Sound - Here Without You
10. Dinosaur Jr. - Feel a Whole Lot Better 
11. Husker Du - Eight Miles High 
12. Patti Smith Group - So You Want to Be a Rock n’ Roll Star 
13. Bully - Hard to Love 
14. Audry - 100 Years 
15. Teke::Teke - Yurei Zanmai 
16. Mononegatives - Disappearing Architecture 
17. Mononegatives - North Carolina Atomic Bomb 
18. Mononegatives - Deficit 
19. Mononegatives - House of Cards 
20. Protomartyr - We Know the Rats 
21. Tunic - Protected 
22. King Krule - Pink Shell 
23. Squid - Swing in a Dream
24. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Christine 
25. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Spellbound
26. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Slowdive 
27. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Happy House (Demo)
28. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Painted Bird (Workhouse Demo)
29. Jale - Hey Hey 

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Show 990 Playlist (Originally Aired On June 3rd, 2023)(Talking Heads, Yo La Tengo, Magazine):

1.  Talking Heads - Girlfriend is Better 
2.  Talking Heads - I Get Wild/Wild Gravity 
3.  Odonis Odonis (Feat. Actors) - No One Left
4.  Flipper - Talk’s Cheap
5.  Cat Clyde - The Hawk in the Tree
6.  Knitting - Baby Carrots
7.  Les Lullies - Zero Ambition
8.  The Exploding Hearts - I’m A Pretender (King Louie Mix)
9.  The Goldstars - My Money
10. The Thrashers - Doing Crime
11. Trophy Knife - Jet Jerk 
12. Phantom Sender - Same Dance
13. Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
14. Yo La Tengo - Brain Capers
15. Wednesday - Bath Country 
16. Yessica Woahneil - Cuntry Quest 
17. Magazine - The Light Pours Out of Me 
18. Magazine - Permafrost 
19. Magazine - Because You’re Frightened 
20. Magazine - Sandwiches (1977 Demo) 
21. Magazine - Touch & Go (1977 Demo) 
22. Magazine - Shot By Both Sides (1977 Demo) 
23. Priors - Optimizer 
24. Single Mothers - Roy 
25. Divorcer - Leech 
26. Softlung - Don’t Say No 
27. Atsuko Chiba - Link 

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Show 989 (Originally Aired On May 27th, 2023)(Tina Turner, The Saints, Tough Age, Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 60th Anniversary):

1.  PONY - Peach 
2.  OLD - Life 
3.  Monsoon Moon - Circulating 
4.  Jon McKiel - Swing Lo Magellan (Lagniappe Session)
5.  Co-op - Reality’s Veil 
6.  Tough Age - Which Way Am I? 
7.  Blessed - Felt 
8.  Bob Dylan - Blowin’ in the Wind (Witmark Demo) 
9.  Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl from the North Country (Take 1) 
10. Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Live) 
11. Bob Dylan - Down the Highway
12. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan’s Blues (Witmark Demo) 
13. Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Live 1975) 
14. Bob Dylan - Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Demo) 
15. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan’s Dreams 
16. Bob Dylan - Oxford Town
17. Bob Dylan - Talkin’ World War II Blues (Live) 
18. Bob Dylan - Corrina, Corrina (Original B-Side Version) 
19. Bob Dylan - Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance (Live) 
20. Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Free 
21. Ike & Tina Turner - Such a Fool for You 
22. Ike & Tina Turner - Funkier than a Mosquita’s Tweeter 
23. The Saints River Deep - Mountain High (International Robot Sessions) 
24. The Damned - Love Song 
25. Packs - Laughing Till I Cry 
26. Tunic - Protected 
27. Ancient Teeth - Out of Time 

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Anne, If: An Interview with Evan Uschenko of Ghost Woman & Show # 988

Ghost Woman’s Anne, If was released in January 2023 on the Full Time Hobby label. Following 2022’s critically acclaimed self-titled debut, Anne, If picks up where that album left off. The music was written/recorded/performed by multi-instrumentalist Evan Uschenko on a Tascam 388 tape recorder in a large, expansive house. The press release states that when recording the album there was not much to do “except record music, watch old VHS movies, and cook meals over an open fire in the backyard.” Recording songs at different times of day also influenced the sounds and nuances present on Anne, If. Influences such as songs from 60s garage Nuggets compilation, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Love, Safe As Milk-era Captain Beefheart, Can, Neu!, and 60s Kinks/The Creation all float around in the musical atmosphere of these songs, however, these all add to the chemistry of the songs to expand Ghost Woman’s sound.

“Welcome” offers a short introduction to the album before “Broke” starts with its dusty, yet fuzzy grooves. As the bass and drums roll in, crunchy guitars and Uschenko’s ethereal vocals sit atop with lyrics such as “Oh, there was some I would call on/You exist on the phone,” and “Another day gone/What if I lose it all/Another day alone/And if I lose it all,” themes of disconnection, loneliness, self doubt and a sense of yearning present themselves, in between searing guitar solos. “3 Weeks Straight” continues with the 60s sounding guitars, heavy drums and deep bass grooves hold down the beat, while lyrically the song searches for meaning in the complex glow of the light and darkness of a relationship. The chorus of “I can feel you under my skin” creeps and crawls with an eeriness emphasizing a presence that is omnipresent. “Anne, If” pulls from the large pool of garage psych sounds of the Nuggets compilation with a touch of The Yardbirds as lyrically, “Anne, if you're lonely/Listen to your words/There's nothing I can say/Living yesterday” deals with nostalgic complications that are hard to break free of, while the chorus juxtaposes this with the words “I am yours/I am yours too.” “Street Meet” offers a short instrumental break as is moves forward with propelling, Can and Neu! influenced rhythms, “The End of a Gun” was the lead off single for Anne, If. With its chiming 12-string guitar growing out of The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane mould, garage rhythms from The Kinks and flashes of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young harmonies, this driving track seems to operate like a time warp while also peering into the present. 

“Lo Extrano” is another highlight featuring acoustic guitar, sparse drums and bass, psychedelic guitar and reflective lyrics that also emphasize a longing. The song’s languid nature is also elevated by the stunning pedal steel country guitar work provided by musician Ryan “Skinny” Dyck. "Arline” is an unhurried psych track with acoustic guitar, otherworldly sounding electric guitar parts and strong vocal harmonies. Lyrically, with words such as “Will this world keep on turning/My ear’s always burning,” “Arline, I can hear you/Try my best to feel you/Tired of black and white,” and a chorus of “I don’t know,” the song seems to question the unknown workings of the universe around us, while “Down Again” brings a heavy 60s psych groove with touches of 70s Krautrock ala Can and cryptic lyrics. “Tripped” features vocals by Nick Hay (the bassist from the Ghost Woman live band) that evoke a Mark Lanegan howl as the bass, guitar, drums and background harmonies (all supplied by Evan Uschenko) offer a hypnotic psychedelia groove. The lyrics conjure up themes of haunting isolation and contemplation. “So Long” ends out Anne, If with trippy sounding electric guitar and vocal harmonies.

On Anne, If we are presented with music that was described as being created during a “strange new chapter” in Uschenko’s life. The songs that we gravitate towards on this album feature lyrics that are sometimes cryptic and open ended. It is something that travels with you after and during each listen. If this was a strange new chapter for Uschenko, then we are also a part of it by extension of this album. With Anne, If the music is saturated with an analog warmth and feel that provides nuanced musical moments that pull you into the world that it creates.

Continue reading for an interview that Revolution Rock did with Evan Uschenko:

RR: The press release for Anne, If said the album was made “living in a large, expansive house with nothing to do except record music, watch old VHS movies, and cook meals over an open fire in the backyard.” What type of movies did you watch on VHS and do you feel that recording in this way (sort of isolated) informed the songwriting at all for this album? Did it differ from how you recorded the 2022 self-titled album?

EU: “Cannibal Holocaust” on repeat. 

RR: How do you approach songwriting in general? When you come up with songs is it usually in the same way or does it differ from track to track?

EU: I basically have mini-strokes and psychotic episodes. I always keep microphones placed around any room I inhabit for longer than 48 hours.

RR: You mentioned during interviews salvaging and replacing instruments from various spaces, including burned down rehearsal spaces and broken down vans. What sort of equipment were you able to retrieve?

EU: You ever play that game called “telephone”? It’s kinda like that. 

RR: Where did you come up with the name for the project? Does the idea of hauntings influence the way you write lyrics or record your sounds?

EU: “Ghost woman” is probably the worst band name ever conjured. Any name replacement recommendations are welcomed. 

RR: How did you assemble your touring band? What do they offer to the sound of Ghost Woman? What do you see being the most noticeable difference in the project's live sound and sound on record?

EU: The most noticeable difference is: Live, the music actually sounds good. 

RR: Another aspect of Ghost Woman that isn’t talked about as much is your music videos. Maybe you can talk about what inspired you to make the videos for “Broke” from Anne, If and “Behind Your Eyes” from the first album? Perhaps you could tell us a bit about these songs origins?

EU: "Broke" was produced by Bruce the Rabbit, who is in the music video actually. He was passed out in front of our Belgian home when we found him. We brought him in and tried to nurse him back to health. He ended up just raiding the cupboards and draining all our bottles. The video is something that he made when we had gone out to see some friends. I guess he had access to my computer and found a way send the video to various buyers. Safe to say, we don’t keep in contact with him much anymore. 

“Behind your eyes” video was a single roll of exposed Kodak film stock that was mysteriously left in my family P.O. Box somewhere in western Canada. I had access to a dark room and processed the film one evening as a means to avoid drinking. I shelved it because of the horrific nature of the film. There are about 10 mins of footage on that reel that should never see the light of day, but instead I figured I would use the band as a platform to release the less disturbing footage. If anyone has any information on anybody in that video, please contact the band at ggghostwoman@gmail.com

RR: Anne, If features a few contributions from other musicians. Nick Hay appears on lead vocals for “Tripped” and Ryan “Skinny” Dyck provides pedal steel on “Lo Extrano.” How did they become involved in these tracks in this way?

EU: They wouldn’t leave the house when I asked them to. So naturally I figured they wanted to stay. I had a windowless room that I would keep them in and feed them a bowl of unwashed chickpeas a day until they performed the take I was pleased with. 

RR: Ghost Woman has toured Europe quite a bit. Are there any plans for any US/Canadian dates in the future and what is next for Ghost Woman?

EU: Yes. What’s next? I wanna know who’s on first.

Show 988 Playlist (Originally Aired On May 20th, 2023)(Ghost Woman, James Brown, The Smiths):

1.  PONY - Sucker Punch 
2.  Knitting - Fix 
3.  Amos the Kid - Under Thin Eye Lids 
4.  King Krule - Seaforth
5.  James Brown - Introduction/I’ll Go Crazy
6.  James Brown - Lost Someone
7.  The Smiths - This Charming Man (John Peel Session) 
8.  The Smiths - London 
9.  The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel Session) 
10. The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly 
11. Bob Dylan - Watching the River Flow (Live) 
12. William Tyler & The Impossible - Our Lady of the Desert
13. Ryan Hicks - Surf Rider 
14. Tea Leaves - Creature on a Stage 
15. Atomic 7 - Skynyrd 
16. Olivia Jean - Raving Ghost
17. Pretty Matty - Harder 2 Smile
18. Ghost Woman - The End of a Gun 
19. Ghost Woman - Lo Extrano 
20. Ghost Woman - Down Again 
21. Ghost Woman - Dead & Gone
22. Mudhoney - Flush the Fascists 
23. Subway Sect - Ambition 
24. Osees - Intercepted Message

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the May 20 file to download/stream the episode. 

Link Wray's Rumble & Shows # 987, 986, 985, 985, 983, 982

Link Wray is known as the first guitarist to use the power chord in a song. The song was “Rumble.” Originally released in 1958 on the Cadence label, the song had its origins at a Record Hop (an event that would feature live music and dancing popular in the 50s). In 1957, at one of these Record Hops in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Wray and his brother Doug were playing when they were asked by the announcer to play a stroll. “The Stroll” was a popular song at the time by The Diamonds made to accompany the dance of the same name. Link Wray didn’t know how to play the song, but his brother Doug said he knew the beat to a stroll on the drums and Link Wray made up the chords to what would become known as “Rumble.” Upon playing the song, the crowd went crazy for the song. It was played 3-4 times that night.

Originally under the working title “Oddball,” the song was recorded (like many of Wray’s early songs) with his brothers Doug and Vernon, with the addition of their cousin Shorty Horton on bass. Vernon (Known Ray Vernon and Vernon Wray) would produce/manage Link Wray’s early output. He himself has recorded quite a lot of music on his own, many of which feature the other Wray’s on the recordings. Prior to this, Wray and his brothers had a background playing music starting out with country and western music. Link Wray served in the US Army during the Korean War and contracted Tuberculosis, which led to him being hospitalized and then later having a lung removed. Doctors at the time predicted at he would never sing again. This of course would not be true, Wray would sing on many tracks in addition to performing instrumentals. 

But, back to the song “Rumble.” It would go on to have a lasting influence throughout the future generations of rock music influencing everyone from Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and The Kinks to Iggy Pop (to name a few). The edgy track, which featured power chords, distortion and attitude quickly, climbed up the top 40 singles charts of the day reaching #16. It would also be banned because DJs thought it would incite gang violence. In 1959 “Raw Hide” would reach #23 on the US singles charts. Other unhinged, tense and raw sounding tracks such as “Jack The Ripper,” “The Sweeper,” “Run Chicken Run,” “The Shadow Knows,” "Ace of Spades," “Deuces Wild,” and “I’m Branded” would be released throughout this early part of Wray’s career. Wray went on to create numerous instrumentals, but also perform tracks with vocals and branch out into different styles. Also of Shawnee Native American heritage, growing up Wray’s family would be subject to racial discrimination. Including times when his family would have to go into hiding. Link Wray would pay homage to his heritage to honour it in songs such as “Comanche” and “Shawnee.”

In the 1960s Link Wray retired from music and went to work on his family’s farm in Maryland, after tiring of the music industry and their attempts to clean up his music. He did around this time build his own recording studio and would record music again, but it would not be released until the 1970s. Recorded in a converted chicken shack on his brother Vernon’s property, Wray would reinvent himself upon his return to music. In 1971 he returned with a country, gospel, folk and blues influenced album simply titled Link Wray. This roots rock album still featured a primal-ness that was present on Wray’s early recordings as he branched out. The album cover to 1971’s Link Wray also pays homage to his Shawnee background in addition to several of the lyrical content of songs found on the album. It would be the first in a series of albums where Link Wray experimented with sounds in this way, Mordicai Jones followed in 1972 and Beans and Fatback in 1973. In between these albums Be What You Want To Be was released in 1973, featuring several guest musicians such as Jerry Garcia and David Bromberg.

Wray would go on to play and record albums with Robert Gordon in the 70s (Robert Gordon with Link Wray (1977), Fresh Fish Special (1978)) and he continued performing live and recording up until his passing in 2005. The impact of the sounds of Link Wray have been reverberating throughout different decades and genres of music since the first opening notes of 1958’s “Rumble.” In May of 2023, it was announced that Link Wray would be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The sounds he embraced when creating music of distortion, fuzz, tremolo, intensity and attitude continue to be heard.

Show 987 (Originally Aired On May 13th, 2023)(Link Wray, Via Mardot, Sloan, Protomartyr):

1.  Spider Bite - Human Body Human Brain
2.  Dumb - Quarter Stereo
3.  Mason Lowe - Plastered
4.  Iceage - Sociopath Boogie
5.  Biker Priests - Dodge Babylon
6.  Westelaken - Fixed Up By Orange Light
7.  Slim Harpo - Shake Your Hips
8.  Link Wray - I'm Branded
9.  Link Wray - Raw-Hide
10. Link Wray - The Shadow Knows
11. Link Wray - Commanche
12. Link Wray & The Raymen - Big City After Dark
13. Link Wray - Falling Rain
14. Link Wray - Hidden Charms
15. Link Wray - Son of Rumble
16. Via Mardot - Static
17. Via Mardot - Towers
18. Gris Gris - Cuerpos Haran Amor Extrano
19. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Here I Am, Here I Always Am
20. The Courettes - Hop the Twig
21. Shadow Show - Radiant Hue
22. Spooky But Nice - Everytime
23. Priors - Optimizer
24. Plastic Act - What's in the Water

25. Sloan - Keep On Thinkin'
26. Sloan - On the Horizon
27. Preoccupations - Zodiac
28. Uh Huh - Citrus Song
29. Sneakpeak - Strawberry Reality
30. The Particles - The Trumpet Song
31. Protomartyr - Elimination Dances

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the May 13 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 986 (Originally Aired May 6th, 2023)(PJ Harvey, New Order, Gordon Lightfoot):

1.  PJ Harvey - Man-Size
2.  PJ Harvey - 50 ft. Queenie
3.  Wednesday - Hot Rotten Grass Smell
4.  Divorcer - Tiny Devil
5.  Yessica Whoaneil - Again Again
6.  Orange Juice - I Can't Help Myself
7.  Pulp - Something Changed
8.  New Order - Age of Consent
9.  Destroyer - Leave Me Alone
10. Broadcast - Michael A Grammar
11. Gordon Lightfoot - Early Morning Rain
12. Gordon Lightfoot - Negotiations
13. Gordon Lightfoot - Spin, Spin
14. Century Palm - If You Could Read My Mind
15. Datblygu - Casserole Efeilliad
16. Psychedelic Furs - Heaven
17. La Securite - Try Again
18. Steve Adamyk Band - Do You Wanna Know
19. The Golden Shitters - CIty of Doom
20. SQURL - Berlin 87
21. The Hives - Bogus Operandi
22. The Jackets - Life's Not Like the Movies
23. The Routes - A Day in Hell
24. Link Wray - Deuces Wild
25. The Horrors - Primary Colours
26. Wax Mannequin - Love is a Hunter
27. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Gimme Hell

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the May 6 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 985 (Originally Aired On April 29th, 2023)(David Bowie's Aladdin Sane 50th Anniversary):

1.  Tea Leaves - Cicada Song
2.  Twin Rains - You're The Only One
3.  Olinda - World Within
4.  Mononegatives - Testing Capability
5.  Priors - Daffodil
6.  Tunic - Indirect
7.  B.A. Johnston - You're Like a Steve Miller Band Song
8.  Buddie - Worried
9.  David Bowie - Watch That Man (Live)
10. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
11. David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday (German Single Edit)
12. David Bowie - Panic In Detroit (Live in Detroit 1974)
13. David Bowie - Cracked Actor
14. David Bowie - Time
15. David Bowie - The Prettiest Star (1970 Single Version)
16. David Bowie - Let's Spend the Night Together Llive)
17. David Bowie - The Jean Genie (Live)
18. David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with the Night
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (Four Track Demo)
21. The Replacements - Color Me Impressed
22. The Replacements - Take Me Down to the Hospital
23. Minor Threat - Think Again
24. Minor Threat - Cashing In

25. The Government - Real Computer
26. Harry Belafonte - Brown Skin Girl
27. Harry Belafonte - Go Down Emanuel Road

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the April 29 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 984 (Originally Aired On April 22nd, 2023) (R.E.M.'s Murmur 40th Anniversary):

1.  The Pop Group - She is Beyond Good and Evil 
2.  The Pop Group - Words Disobey Me 
3.  R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe 
4.  R.E.M. - Pilgrimage (Live Toronto 1983) 
5.  R.E.M. - Laughing (1982 RCA Demo) 
6.  R.E.M. - Talk About the Passion 
7.  R.E.M. - Moral Kiosk (Live Holland 1987) 
8.  R.E.M. - Perfect Circle 
9.  R.E.M. - Catapult (Stephen Hague Demo 1982) 
10. R.E.M. - Sitting Still (1981 Demo) 
11. R.E.M. - 9-9 (Rough Mix) 
12. R.E.M. - Shaking Through (1982 RCA Demo) 
13. R.E.M. - We Walk 
14. R.E.M. - West of the Fields 
15. Tough Age - Give It A Day 
16. Eddie Current Suppression Ring - Our Quiet Whisper 
17. By Divine Right - How Soon Is Now 
18. Leather Rose - Space Girl 
19. Julie Doiron - Back to the Water 
20. Apollo Ghosts - Pink Tiger 
21. Whitehorse - I Miss the City 
22. Packs - Smallest One 
23. Love Language - New Power 
24. Cat Clyde - Mystic Light 
25. The Beths - Watching the Credits 
26. R.E.M. - There She Goes Again 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the April 22 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 983 (Originally Aired On April 15th, 2023)(Uh Huh, Olinda, David Lynch, Home Front, The Specials):

1.  Tee Vee Repairmann - Time 2 Kill
2.  Mononegatives - Television Funeral
3.  Uh Huh - Rain (In the Afternoon)
4.  Universal Cleaner - Her Mind Was A Psychic Slaughterhouse
5.  Chain of Flowers - Serving Purpose
6.  The Tubs - Wretched Lie
7.  Sniffany and the Nits - Good Boy
8.  Es - Swallowed Whole
9. The GN Band - The Bell Song
10. Olinda - Dreams in Transit
11. The Jellies - Jive Baby On A Saturday Night
12. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Pure Jam
13. The Scarlet Ribbon - Four in the Morning
14. Breanna Barbara - Rise
15. The Ketamines - Midnight Dawn
16. Messer Chups - Blue Velvet
17. Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - 3 Piece Suit
18. The Waterheads - WAHWAHWAH :(
19. Good Throb - Slick D***s
20. The Rebel - Why Must I May?
21. The Ex - The Rise of the Dutch Republic
22. You’ll Never Get To Heaven - Exquisite Tension
23. David Lynch - Star Dream Girl
24. Home Front - Focus
25. Kim Gray - No Moonlight
26. Carol Kim - Saigon
27. The Mob - Witch Hunt
28. Milk Music - No, Nothing My Shelter
29. The Specials - Do Nothing

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the April 15 file to download/stream the episode. 
 

Show 982 (Originally Aired On April 8th, 2023) (Violent Femmes 40th Anniversary):

1.  Sloan - Nice Work If You Can Get It
2.  Alvvays - Pressed
3.  Mad Ones - Molly Moth
4.  Hotkid - Letters
5.  The Leather Uppers - You Know I Do
6.  The Gruesomes - Won't You Listen (Live)

7.  The Gruesomes - My Dad's A Ho-Dad (Live)
8.  Violent Femmes - Promise
9.  Violent Femmes - Prove My Love
10. Violent Femmes - To the Kill
11. Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone (live)
12. On Film - Blister in the Sun
13. The Dandy Warhols - Kiss Off
14. Yo La Tengo - Add It Up
15. Beck - Painted Eyelids
16. Shana Cleveland - Gold Tower
17. The Courettes - Misfits & Freaks
18. Ghost Woman - Tripped
19. The Ichi-Bons - Show Me the Ropes
20. Bloodshot Bill - Vertigo
21. Calvin Johnson - Pink Cadallac
22. Deerhoof - And the Moon Laughs
23. Amos the Kid - Enough as It Was
24. Doctor Mother Father - Act Like I Like You
25. Mister Rabbit - Anyone
26. A Certain Ratio - Samo
27. Kosmetika - Psycho Tv
28. Dragnet - Strike
29. Husker Du - Do You Remember? (Live)
30. Mudhoney - Move Under

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the April 8 file to download/stream the episode. 

CJAM FM 2023 Pledge Drive & Show # 981, 980, 979, 978, 977

This week CJAM FM is holding its annual pledge drive. It is the only time of year CJAM reaches out to the community for financial support to continue daily operations at the station. This year, the station is celebrating 40 years on the FM dial come November as independent non-commercial radio, giving a voice to underrepresented artists, viewpoints, and cultures. We are playing with one of our nicknames, The Jamming One, for creative inspiration in our new exclusive line of t-shirts, tote bags, stickers and flyers. CJAM FM is a non-profit campus community radio station located at the University of Windsor. It has been on the FM dial offering alternative programming to the mainstream since 1983. The station is also available online and has past programs available to listen for 30 days, in addition to live streaming options.

“For 40 years, CJAM has been a leader in alternative spoken word and music programming; carving out a space to provide experiential learning opportunities to students and providing them opportunities to learn how to record audio, edit, and create original radio programs for audiences in Windsor and Detroit,” says Walter S. Petrichyn, Station Manager at CJAM 99.1 FM.

Program partnerships with student life such as the law department’s Magna Carta Pro-Bono Students, the nursing department’s No Scrubs and St. Clair College’s MediaPlex program are a few examples of shows that highlight the station’s ever-growing program base that has been a launching pad for careers in the music industry, journalism, and sports broadcasting. “We have had Jammers go on to work for AM 800, SOCAN, CBC, Bell Media, The Maple Leafs, and plenty more. It’s incredible to see our volunteers take flight with their professional careers and we want to continue supporting them and providing these rich opportunities,” says Petrichyn.

Last year, the station did not hold a pledge drive. Shows like Revolution Rock would not exist without something like CJAM FM. The program as mentioned before is curated to offer a different side of independent music and it often digs deep. Branching off from 70s punk/new wave, the program also focuses on garage, indie, surf and alternative genres. Featuring new/old music within and beyond those genres, it offers something different. CJAM offers a voice to artists of all genres and to different spoken word and language based programs that would not have a platform otherwise. That alone is a great reason to support CJAM FM during this time.

This year, CJAM is offering the following prizes at different donation levels.

$5 – CJAM 2023 Pledge Drive “The Jamming One” Sticker design by CJAM’s Batool Yahya // @artbybatool.io on Instagram

$10 to 20 – Music Prize Pack (CDs/vinyl) accessible from the CJAM Prize Room

$20 – Classic Vintage CJAM T-Shirts

$50 – CJAM 2023 Pledge Drive “The Jamming One” t-shirt designed by Windsor artist Kristina Bradt // @krizzlepie on instagram

$100 – CJAM prize pack (including 2023 t-shirt, sticker, music prize pack and vintage t-shirt)

Donation and merch site: https://cjam-merch.square.site or www.cjam.ca

There are also some events in the Windsor/Detroit area this year. One occurred at Green Bean Café on April 4th, the second will take place on April 8th at Craftheads at 7 PM.

Below you can find some playlists to recent episodes of Revolution Rock and an example of the type of programming that we offer.

Show 981 (Originally Aired On April 1) (2023 Pledge Drive Edition):

1.  Pylon - Crazy
2.  Martha & the Muffins - Walking Into Walls
3.  Terapi - Rock'A'Tchooka
4.  Daniel Johnston - Walking the Cow 
5.  The Cramps - Faster Pussycat
6.  The Hold Steady - Sideways Skull 
7.  New Pornographers - Really Really Light 
8.  PACKS - Brown Eye
9.  Blessed - Felt 
10. The Replacements - Hayday
11. Ramones - Somebody Like Me
12. Butthole Surfers - Hey 
13. Lou Reed - Make Up My Mind 
14. Neil Young -Payola Blues 
15. The White Stripes - Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
16. The White Stripes - It's True That We Love One Another
17. Al Green - Stand Up 
18. Al Green - Your Love is Like the Morning Sun 
19. Paul Jacobs - With My Friends 
20. The Stools - Eyeball Crush 
21. Trophy Knife - Class Outside 
22. Gloin - Brique Chaude 
23. Noble Rot - Medicine 
24. Johnny West - Funeral Face

25. Magazine - Touch and Go

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the April 1 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 980 (Originally Aired On March 25th, 2023)(The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Suede, Wire):

1.  Shadow Show - Contessa 
2.  Strobobean - Kitchen 
3.  Leggy - Lipstick on the Mic
4.  Tough Age - Time & Again 
5.  Packs - EC
6.  Ron Leary - Our Dogs
7.  Aleks Stoykoysky - This Year’s Loser 
8.  Tea Leaves - Traveller 
9.  Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire - Dream 
10. Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward - Donuts 
11. The Beatles - Misery 
12. The Beatles - There’s A Place
13. Led Zeppelin - The Crunge 
14. Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days (Rough Mix)
15. Suede - Moving 
16. Suede - Metal Mickey (Island Demo)
17. Love Language - New Power 
18. Frankie Flowers - Bad Dream 
19. Pile - Loops 
20. Bonnie Trash - Shades of You 
21. Telegenic Pleasure - Polarized
22. Olinda - The Chalice 
23. Buzzcocks - Hollow Inside
24. The Damned - You Know
25. Wire - It’s the Motive
26. Wire - Ignorance No Plea (I Should Have Known Better) 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the March 25 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 979 (Originally Aired On March 18th, 2023)(Roxy Music, Shadow Show, The Black Angels) :

1.  Shadow Show - Radiant Hue
2.  The Sadies - So Far, So Few

3.  The Facials - Never Learn
4.  The Routes - Attention
5.  Ancient Shapes - Another Century of Ice

6.  Stripmall - Meat (Live at CJSW)
7.  Mononegatives - Cro-Magnon

8.  Roxy Music - Do the Strand

9.  Roxy Music - Editions of You
10. Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache
11. Roxy Music - The Bogus Man (live 1974)
12. Galen & Paul - Lonely Town
13. Leonard Cohen - Teachers
14. Norma Tanega - A Street That Rhymes at 6AM
15. Willie Dunn - Bear and Fish

16. Vision Eternel - Sometimes in Absence
17. The Black Angels - El Jardin
18. The Black Angels - Make It Known
19. The Black Angels - 100 Flowers of Paracusia
20. The Black Angels - Icon

21. Dry Cleaning - Swampy

22. Yves Tumor - Echolalia
23. Co-Op - Magic Eraser
24. boyhood - Stranger
25. Cake Function - Interior is Lifestyles

26. Fidlar - Sand on the Beach

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the March 18 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 978 (Originally Aired On March 11th, 2023)(Minute Men, Husker Du, Meat Puppets, Uh Huh, Ghost Woman):

1. Sun Room - Outta Their Minds
2. Death Valley Girls - Islands in the Sky
3. Moonwalks - Heavy Tears
4. TEKE::TEKE - Garakuta
5. King Tuff - Tell Me
6. Husker Du - Pink Turns to Blue
7. Meat Puppets - Plateau
8. Minutemen - Games
9. Black Flag - TV Party
10. Tunic - Whispering
11. Shame - Six-Pack
12. Noble Rot - Casting No Light
13. Universal Cleaner - Her Mind Was A Psychic Slaughterhouse
14. Kinetic Ideals - No Exit
15. First Man Over - Somewhere
16. Uh Huh - Babylon
17. The New Pornographers - Angelcover
18. Pony - Tres Jolie
19. Ghost Woman - 3 Weeks Straight
20. Yo La Tengo - Fallout
21. The Men - Eternal Recurrence
22. Blackbelt Eagle Scout - Fancy Dance
23. Shana Cleveland - A Ghost
24. Outtacontroller - Less is More
25. Motorists - Natural Targets (Live CJSW)
26. Protomartyr - Make Way

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the March 11 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 977 Playlist (Originally Aired On March 4th, 2023)(Tom Verlaine, Television, The Feelies, U2, John Cale, Tom Waits):

1.  Television - The Blow-Up (Live)
2.  Television - (I Look At You and Get A) Double Exposure 
3.  Television - Friction
4.  Television - Days 

5.  The Feelies - Original Love 
6.  Ducks Ltd. (Featuring Mo Troper & Ratboys) - Invitation (Feelies Cover)
7.  US Girls - Only Daedalus 
8.  Packs - 4th of July 
9.  Knitting - Throwaway Year 
10. U2 - Seconds 
11. John Cale - Graham Greene 
12. Tom Waits - Virginia Avenue

13. Television - Mars 
14. Tom Verlaine - Breakin' My Heart 
15. Tom Verlaine - Fragile
16. Olinda - World Within 
17. Decliner - Dirty Money
18. Mononegatives - North Carolina Atomic Bomb 
19. C.C. Voltage - Bummer Party
20. Andy Shauf - Halloween Store
21. The Burning Hell - All I Need 

22. Cub - Exit

23. Television - Venus

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the March 4 file to download/stream the episode.