This blogger heard rumours about (very in-famous) Montreal punk Shlonk! around the CKUT hallways while looking for some diversity in the male-dominated 80s-90s cassette section.

Composed of Montreal natives Martin Dumais and Daniel Langlois, Odds is a noise project from the early days of the Montreal electronic avant-garde underground.

Blakey’s solo beats down like the desert sun, cymbals chiming with the breeze. The rest of the album restates and expands on tones and themes first presented, a true bop classic.

This old country blues seems to suit any occasion well, particularly hot Montreal summers.

This piece of Canadian music history compiles songs from a multitude of Halifax bands approaching their fourth decade.

A chat with The RZA, who was in town presenting a screening of his film “The Man With The Iron Fists”.

Andy Boay, aka Andy White (one half of Tonstartssbandht and former CKUT Music Librarian) wows us with a live in studio (and out of studio?) performance.

Gateway (the album) is filled with surreal interweaving and dazzling textures; the trio seems to speak as one.

Local avant-garde duo Les Momies de Palerme (Xarah Dion and Marie Davidson) reunited for a special live performance on CKUT’s If You Got Ears.

This week’s pick quickly jumped out at me as I perused the Super Lock-Up section of our library. Mingus Ah Um was released in 1959.

Sampaloo talks about coming to Montreal from Jamaica, being an illegal immigrant and starting to get into music.

Last Sunday night, CKUT had the pleasure of sitting down in a back room of La Brique with local trumpeter/improvised music promoter Ellwood Epps.