Venus – Girl Divided
City Taster – Un Peu de Wat?
Simeon Wiley – Bright Lights
Adrian Hu – Switchblade
Fleece – On My Mind
Glenny – [Bracket]
Jaymes – Good Morning
Brother Joe – Le Sony’r Ra
Alexia Avina – Plans Fall Through
Carla Sagan – Make Believer
Thanks to everyone who has been following this project throughout the spring, and a special thank you to CKUT, Joni, and all the musicians who helped make this such a fun and fulfilling experience.
– Nora Duffy
It’s been a great week for CKUT and Underground Sounds, all to thanks to Cult Montreal readers. The station has once again been voted #1 in the city. Underground Sounds ranked as #1 Radio Show, Venus as #2 and myself, Nick Schofield as #1 Radio Host. What an honour!
To celebrate, tonight from 8-10pm we’ll be airing music by bands performing at the upcoming CKUT Total Eclipse concert series (so many rad bands!!) and interviewing local stalwarts Brave Radar about their new tunes and DIY label Fixture Records. Tune in at 90.3 FM or online at CKUT.ca – that’s a wrap!
Tune in today to CKUT from 12-2pm for Venus to hear an interview with Ghanan/Canadian synth-soul songstress A K U A !
Born to an immigrant father from Ghana and a Canadian mother, Akua Carson was raised in a relatively uneventful suburb of London, Ontario. As a biracial child in a culturally homogenous community, Akua’s childhood would bear a certain uneasiness surrounding identity and categorization; a theme that has persisted its way into her music and undoubtedly influenced the diversity and ambiguity one hears in her sound today.
She’ll be playing a show presented by the Howl Arts Collective tonight at La Sala Rossa alongside Detroit MC Invincible. Definitely don’t miss it if you’re into good vibes, soul or hip hop.
http://howlarts.net/post/43701591888/howl-invincible-a-k-u-a
Rye Rye
Good lord, yesterday’s edition of VENUS RADIO was rad! Check out the archive of the show or their blog to get the playlist for lady-rap-laden two hours. xo
From the extremely rad Venus Radio blog:
“The year was 2007. MySpace was the coolest, an ancient melon had been discovered in Japan, Avril Lavigne had just released her third album, and Facebook was worth less than $15 billion. And a young performer named Merrill Garbus was beginning to get a name for herself as tUnE-yArDs, playing around Montreal and her native Vermont.
We on Venus had noticed her iconoclastic and theatrical performances, her fierce songwriting, and her DIY ethos. We invited her to our show when tUnE-yArDs was only a few months old. Listen below for an interview, a live performance (including three unreleased songs!) and a guest DJ set from Merrill. We think it’s really cool to see where she was at back then, when she was just starting to put together the project that would eventually take her to the top of the indie charts and critics’ lists (and it’s fun to hear our embarrassing 2007 baby voices). We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we loved having her as a guest.”
…but are afraid to ask: check out the new Venus Radio blog and their recent post about the show, the collective and female-focused programming! Venus Radio is a CKUT 90.3FM radio show that plays music by women and airs from noon to 2pm every Thursday and on-line whenever you want at ckut.ca.
Azealia Banks
Check out the archives from Venus Radio‘s latest show (all the best music by all the best women for all the best listeners), cuz guest DJ Rachie Hall came in and helped spin and hour’s worth of lady MCs. Listen to it here and check out the track listing below:
Tune into Venus every week from 12-2pm every Thursday on CKUT 90.3FM or ckut.ca.
Patsy Cline
It’s Venus Radio‘s annual funding drive edition, and that means RADIOKE! Tune in to hear your friends, colleagues, co-workers, radio hosts, and members of local bands sing their hearts out live on air for your pledges!
This year’s special guests include:
Tune in Oct. 27th between noon and 2 to hear these dear, brave, shameless people sing it for ya. Make a pledge to keep female radio around for another year online or by calling 514-907-9424.
Every pledge of $25 gets a thank-you gift! Pledges of $60 or more get, in addition to the regular thank-you gifts, a limited edition Venus tank top, designed by NOMN RYN of the Venus collective and silkscreened by us with love!
The first edition of the Total Eclipse music series has come and gone and it was a nutty and lovely way to kick off the CKUT Annual Funding Drive! Just in case you hadn’t heard about this happening, the concert series involved three consecutive nights of music at three different Montreal venues which were curated by three different CKUT radio shows and featured righteous local arteests…and this is what it looked like! Thanks to all the volunteers, CKUT staff, venue staff and local media who helped make this first crack at the series a successful fundraising venture for the station!! (All photos by Amber, Karen R. and a bunch of different music department volunteers! More photos to come!)
DAY 1 /// Thursday Oct. 20th /// Hosted by Underground Sounds at Casa del Popolo! Keywords: Gorgeous introspection + shimmering wall of effects/voice/rhythms + hilarious and disconcertingly intense stage relations complete with hip gyrations + epic-ly husky-vocal-ed rock music complete with harmonized guitar and honeyed bass lines + good buds everywhere.
Stranger a.k.a. Jordan Robson Cramer
Sean "Nicholas" Savage
Wind-Up People
DAY 2 /// Friday Oct. 21st /// Hosted by the Venus Collective at Divan Orange! Keywords: Black-masked post punk with big pre-recorded drums + lovely, primal poncho-draped dance party times + dark punk lighting the room with heraldic melodies.
ManyMental Mistakes
un!
Dekoder
***Word to the wise: get in contact with the funding dept. at CKUT to find out about nabbing a limited edition, silkscreened Venus radio tank top!
Me (Amber) resting before the third and final (over)night(er)
LimbsWanderedAlone
DUCK TRUCK! Aaron models some headgear.
DJ Fiberglasspants
DJ Julie D!
Pyscho-strong jello shot
DJ Aaron Maiden
DJ otherpeoplesmusic
DJ Backdoor
DJ Backdoor
After this amazing-ness, Zimo played an amazing set…those photos are not yet available, but will be soon!
People! Dancing!
Behold: UN