Music Department | CKUT 90.3 FM

Music Department

CKUT’s music programming emphasizes the uncommon, the new, and the daring. We have a variety of specialized music programs as well as open format programs that span many musical genres. DJs make their own musical selections, without the aid of a playlist, choosing from recordings sent to CKUT by artists and record companies around the world as well as from their own private collections.

Check out our radio programming and Music Department Podcast. Recent highlights from our airwaves can be explored here.

This blog is co-authored by the CKUT music department staff and interns. We post about department news, projects and music we are excited about on the regular.

Get in touch anytime: music@ckut.ca or 514-448-4041 ext. 0842. Click here for information about how to file a listener complaint.

Submit music to CKUT

Get involved as a volunteer

—

Click the tags below to sort the posts:

Alenne's Picks Big Shea Say Essays and General Topics From The Floor With Alissa Pop Montreal Previews Ribbon Skirt Sean Holley Sort by artist Sort by author Sort by post style Sort by show Sort by year Themes Upcoming

September 6, 2017 2017 Andy Shauf By Juliana Van Amsterdam

CKUT at FME: Post-Fest Field Journal

Despite the slightly disappointing “summer” weather, the festival-goers and locals alike came through on a collective promise to make the fifteenth FME a fête to remember.

August 28, 2017 2017 By Nadège Radioskid Concert Reviews

Concert Review: Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas at Corona Theatre

This Montreal show was the third in a series of just five North American tour dates for Cult of Luna, where, with Christmas’ help, they’ve been performing Mariner in its entirety.

Default image

August 15, 2017 2017 Album Reviews By Rosie Long Decter

Album Review: Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet

Soft Sounds is a mature album, one that manages to be catchy, heartbreaking and entrancing.

July 31, 2017 2017 By Nadège Radioskid Concert Reviews

Concert Review: Thurston Moore Group and Jessica Moss at La Sala Rossa

The audience that night was full of Sonic Youth lovers who had come to see a living legend.

July 28, 2017 2017 Beep Test By Nadège Radioskid

Concert Review: Institute at Casa del Popolo

Solid proof that punk rock is alive and well in our fair city.

July 19, 2017 2017 Album Reviews Alexia Avina

Album Review: Best Fern – Covers EP

The work of the Montreal-based group Best Fern is not foreign to this blog — their self-titled EP, which was released around the end of the summer in 2016, stayed on CKUT’s charts.

July 13, 2017 (Sandy) Alex G 2017 Cende

Concert Review: (Sandy) Alex G and Japanese Breakfast at Bar Le Ritz PDB

I couldn’t have picked a better way to celebrate America’s birthday.

Default image

July 7, 2017 2017 Album Reviews By Juliana Van Amsterdam

Album Review: Daniel Arthur Trio – Vivid

While their overall performance style still has an air of youthful formality, the raw talent exhibited by these musicians cannot be denied.

June 29, 2017 2017 Alan Licht By Rudy Quinn

Concert Review: Alan Licht at Suoni Per Il Popolo

The concert was been an exclusive peek into another world, Licht’s performances like bedroom renditions of the best rock songs never written.

June 20, 2017 2017 Album Reviews Benjamin Booker

Album Review: Benjamin Booker – Witness

Soulful garage-rock at its finest.

June 8, 2017 2017 Album Reviews By Juliana Van Amsterdam

Album Review: Emmett McCleary – There’s A Better Something

Emmett McCleary is of the opinion that it’s much easier to write a sad song than a happy one, though you might not catch it right away in his intricate, snappy tracks.

Default image

May 19, 2017 (Sandy) Alex G 2017 Album Reviews

Album Review: (Sandy) Alex G – Rocket

Philadelphia’s Alex Giannascoli has released his much-anticipated sixth full-length release, Rocket, and it is as murky and expansive as ever.

May 15, 2017 2017 By Celia Robinovitch Concert Reviews

Concert Review: Mac DeMarco & Tonstartssbandht at Metropolis

Mac DeMarco returned to his old Montreal stomping grounds for two sold-out shows at Metropolis.

May 10, 2017 2017 By Caroline Macari Catfish and The Bottlemen

Concert Review: Catfish and The Bottlemen at Corona Theatre

An entertaining set that harkened back to a traditional rock feel.

May 3, 2017 2017 By Maddie Jennings Concert Reviews

Concert Review: Dengue Fever & Tinariwen

Cambodian-psychedelic rock group Dengue Fever opened for the Saharan blues collective Tinariwen.

April 27, 2017 2017 By Juliana Van Amsterdam Interviews

Artist Profile: Quivers

It took them about 23 hours to reach North America from Melbourne, but for a week now Quivers has been taking Canada by storm with classic Aussie optimism.

April 25, 2017 2017 By Louis Rastelli Concert Reviews

Concert Review: PJ Harvey at Metropolis

She’s back to mostly singing with the booming voice of her first few albums, though she did (thankfully) play songs from White Chalk and Let England Shake.

April 11, 2017 2017 Album Reviews By Juliana Van Amsterdam

Album Review: Swear I’m Good At This – Diet Cig

Diet Cig's first LP shines.

April 4, 2017 2017 Album Reviews By Juliana Van Amsterdam

Album Review: Mozart’s Sister – Field of Love

Field of Love is a vibrant jungle of synth and vocal harmonies with an overarching theme of pleasurable love; the album comes just in time to usher in Montreal’s great thaw.

Default image

March 30, 2017 2017 By Nora Duffy Carla Sagan

School’s Out: An Interview with Carla Sagan

A chat with Carla Sagan about the intersection of academia and musicianship, the success of “Supermoon,” and what the band has planned for the upcoming summer.

March 16, 2017 2017 Album Reviews By Juliana Van Amsterdam

Album Review: Dragonchaser – Fog Lake

I can think of nothing better to do than gaze out of a window at the snowy deluge from the comfort of my home, with Fog Lake’s Dragonchaser playing on loop in the background.

March 9, 2017 2017 Alexia Avina Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles: Alexia Avina

When the topic of McGill student musicians comes up, it’s rare that the name Alexia Avina isn’t mentioned.

March 6, 2017 2017 By CKUT Music Dept. Concert Reviews

Concert Review: Thundercat at SAT

While touring on his latest release, the excellent Drunk, Thundercats Montreal stop did not disappoint the significant crowd that ventured out to catch the show.

March 5, 2017 2017 Artist Profiles By Juliana Van Amsterdam

Artist Profile: Molly Drag

I ventured up to Le Dépanneur Café in the Mile End a few weeks ago to chat with Molly Drag (née Michael Hansford) about his upcoming album, Whatever Reason.