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.

Last Friday Flying Lotus sold out the S.A.T. on Saint-Catherine street in Montreal leaving a lineup of disappointed fans out in the cold.

The infamous, Rap Hour Half Hour has rappers dropping in the station or calling up on the phone to rap. Take a listen to this one from September 5th, 2012.

Every month, we look at new releases both local and foreign, and break down some not-so-new but under-exposed material.

Howard “Stretch” Carr and Faithlyn Sankar interview the one and only Jimmy Cliff on West Indian Rhythms.

In town for Festival Nuits D’Afrique, Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars performed live on the air.

Manchilde, formerly of the hip hop group The Butta Babees and past host of Ill Groove Garden, swung by CKUT after opening for Mos Def.

The experimental rock duo stopped by CKUT’s Montreal Sessions in June 2012 as part of the station’s Suoni Per Il Popolo coverage.

Tim Darcy’s solo project live the on CKUT airwaves.

Saturday night, Montreal saw the release of Flying Fortress by Saxsyndrum – David Switchenko (sax), Nick Schofield (drums).

The Kills filled L’Olympia, a much larger venue then I was expecting, with their massive sound. You felt like you were a basement with them oh so close to you bouncing around.

The White brothers (Andy and Edwin) were in town playing several shows at the Pop Montreal festival and stopped by the CKUT studio for a live performance on If You Got Ears.

The King of Latin Soul Joe Bataan is interviewed by Andy Williams on CKUT.

Local musician and sound artist Nick Kuepfer is a longtime favourite studio guest here at CKUT.

Philadelphia rockers Lantern were in town for Weird Fest Montreal and passed by New Shit for a live performance.

Tonstartssbandht’s White brothers have each had their own impressive solo acts over the years. This clip features Edwin White’s first live performance on CKUT as Eola.

For the June 2010 edition of Montreal Sessions, Bernardino Femminielli brought his synths down to the CKUT studio and performed this long form instrumental electronic track.

Solo Performance by Rebecca Foon on cello, effects pedals and voice.

An early live set from CKUT intern Claire Boucher, aka Grimes.

K.A.N.T.N.A.G.A.N.O. is a Montreal supergroup made up of Alexander Wilson (01ek), Alexandre St-Onge (Shalabi Effect), and Jonathan Parent (Fly Pan Am).

Known as “the keeper of the flame”, Len devoted his life to listening to, photographing, writing about, and sharing jazz.