Blogs
CKUT blogs are run by staff and volunteers. We archived a ton of our blog posts from our old websites below and will be adding more new stuff weekly.
Music Department
CKUT’s music programming emphasizes the uncommon, the new, and the daring.
This is CKUT's Music Department blog... weekly music charts, interviews with artists, reviews of local shows, and more.
American Old-Time: An interview with Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman
Blk Music / Blk Montreal | CBMA x CKUT Takeover
This past week was a milestone for CKUT as we welcomed Phil Vassel and Donna McCurvin from the Canada Black Music Archives and Mark Campbell from U of T's Afrosonic Innovation Lab…
Stomp Clap Huh? A Reexamination of Hipster Music and Aesthetics
Momento Magico: A Conversation with Satoshi Tomiie
Spoken Word
CKUT’s spoken word programming features alternative community news, public affairs and arts and culture shows. We cover queer culture, environmental and social justice issues, feminism, theatre, African and Latin American current affairs, Indigenous languages and more.
This is our blog!
World Building Through Sound / Moving Towards Radical Joy | interview w/ Djeity – ffiles Aug. 20, 2025
Djeity premieres their first body of work at Mutek titled “Things Are Not What They Seem” as a spectacle within SAT’s Dome that passes through traditions of negro spirituals, live…
Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) Fundraiser + Panel Discussion
Based in Vancouver, DULF ran a compassion club that provided tested, pure drugs to users to prevent overdoses. Not a single person died. Now, their founders are facing life in pris…
Arabophonics: A Livebroadcast from Maktaba Bookstore
On May 31, 2025, Funky Revolutions went live from Maktaba bookshop for a special broadcast dubbed Arabophonics.
“International Radio Report” featured on Radio World!
One of our longest-running Spoken Word shows was recently featured in Radio World!
Dawson College New Shit Takeover
On January 17, 2025, CKUT hosted 18 students from Dawson's Social Change and Solidarity Program to learn about the intersections between activism and student/community radio and th…
Time Capsule
A history of some of our most interesting stories, 1987-today.
Stories about the station in the form of interviews, audio clips, scanned materials, and more.
A History of Older Women Live with Rose Marie Whalley
From A Piece of Chalk to the Microphone - A lookback at OWL’s 20 years at CKUT with Rose Marie Whalley!
CKUT’s Time Capsule ‘Zine
The Time Capsule blog in a nutshell. 30 Years of stories and station history crammed into 100 pages of paper and PDF. Check it out for a crash course in CKUT history.
A History of Krak
KRAK was a citywide print publication started by staff at CFRM (pre-CKUT) which ran from 1986-1988 and gives a look into the scene which spawned the station that became CKUT.
A History of Statik
CKUT's archiving team has been hard at work over the past couple years - check out a collection of old CKUT print publications and get a glimpse into the station's history.
A History of Amandla
An interview with Gwen Schulman, one of the founding members of Amandla!, CKUT's long running African current affairs program - on the air from 1988 to 2024.