CKUT Time Capsule

Upstage talks The Sound of Dogs [with transcript]

The Sound of Dogs Collective is composed of Jennifer Roberts, Pamela Witcher, and Micheline Chevrier. The Collective was formed out of the artists’ mutual desire to amplify Deaf voices and experiences, and to share each other’s knowledge and artistic practice. Transcript at https://ckut.ca/spokenword/upstage-talks-the-sound-of-dogs-transcript/

October 2, 2026 2026 News

Girls Meet World 2026 Soft Launch

A new crew has joined Girls Meet World!

October 2, 2026 2026 Environmental Justice Green Majority

Green Majority: Coming Actions, Federal Climate Report, Gold Mining, Landlords & Doug Ford vs Bike Lanes

We talk about Carney’s investment summit and various climate news. Dave Gray-Donald interviews Michael Longfield, Executive Director of Cycle Toronto, about provincial overreach into municipal affairs and Doug Ford’s bike lane spite.

October 2, 2026 2026 Labour Radio News

Labour Radio: Ukrainian immigration to Canada and internment camps

Labour Radio covers Ukrainian immigration to Canada and internment camps

October 2, 2026 2026 Housing Justice News

The Barricade: Norgate Tenants Fight Back! with OTD/OP Montreal

Today, we will be talking with Hamna and Steve, two members of Off the Defensive who played leading roles in the 2025 conference at which OTD was founded. Our discussion touches on some of their takeaways from previous neighbourhood organizing in Toronto, the reasons that OTD was launched, and how we want to take our neighbourhood organizing to the next level.

October 2, 2026 2026 Trib Talks - Campus Currents

The Trib Talks – Campus Currents

This month, we are highlighting four articles from the Features section of the Tribune, covering a myriad of topics. Today, we’ll be talking about the Quebec separatist movement, the myth of cycle syncing, the harms of pretendians, and McGill’s long history of blackface, read through archived McGill Daily articles.

October 2, 2026 2026 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Remembering the Children: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2026

On September 30, join a national moment of remembrance and reflection. Remembering the Children honours residential school Survivors, remembers the children who never returned home and acknowledges the ongoing journey toward truth and reconciliation. Watch live beginning at 12 pm ET. #EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay #NDTR

October 1, 2026 2026 Flux Festival The Montreal Sessions

Flux Festival on The Montreal Sessions

Flux Festival is happening from October 1st - 12th, 2026! Flux Festival is a Montreal experimental music festival. The fest offers a unique mix of concerts, workshops, roundtables and launches configured around Archiving Improvisation: Community, Culture and the Weight of History. Listen to their takeover of the Montreal Sessions, where they have interviews with participating artists BIll Cole, Deanna Radford, Mostafa Henaway and programming highlights!

September 29, 2026 POP Montreal The Montreal Sessions

Pop Montreal on the Montreal Sessions

Pop Montreal celebrates its 25th edition, running from September 23 - 27th, 2026. Tune into their take over of The Montreal Sessions, where they preview some festival highlights for this year!

August 27, 2026 2026 Cafe MUTEK

Café | Couverture MUTEK #2 | programmation avec Vincent Lemieux et Village numérique

MUTEK Festival takes place in Montreal August 25 - 30, 2026, exploring the intersection of music and technology, and featuring local and international talent. Café interviews Vincent Lemieux about Village numérique

August 27, 2026 2026 Cafe MUTEK

Café | Couverture MUTEK #1 | entrevue avec les artistes NGL Flounce et Abulzooz

MUTEK Festival takes place in Montreal August 25 - 30, 2026, exploring the intersection of music and technology, and featuring local and international talent. Café interviews two participating artists, NGL Flounce et Abulzooz.

August 27, 2026 2026 Butcher T

Butcher T’s Noon Time Cuts

Butcher T’s Noon Time Cuts provides interviews from international/local artists and a wide variety of music genres from Old/New School, Soul/R&B, Hip Hop, Funk, and House. This program also airs the rhythms of Caribbean and Latin music including Reggae, Soca, Zouk, Salsa, Bachata, etc., just to name a few. Featuring legendary DJ Butcher T, Noon Time Cuts began in 1992 and showed Montreal what a real Urban Programme could be like. Butcher T lets the music flow and plays whatever genre suits the mood - full of surprises.

August 27, 2026

Montreal Sound Ark | Outsider tapes 80s 90s Montreal

Outsider tapes 80s 90s Montreal from the digitized collections at ARCMTL. Some demos and live tapes from more established locals. Drawing from local non-profit Archive Montreal’s huge collection of local music scene material, Montreal Sound Ark brings you the best of the Montreal underground from yesterday. Interviews, memories, insights and accompanying ephemera on the show’s blog will flesh out the journey through three decades of do-it-yourself sounds in Montreal. Hosted by longtime scenester and digger Louis Rastelli (DJ LRX80) with regular guests and guest DJs.

August 27, 2026 2026 Harmony Express

Harmony Express Live From le Mal Necessaire

Sensual bangers for the Monday night heads. Hex P's love for the tunes drips from the airwaves.... she's playing tracks inspired by local dancefloors and late night connections, so pull out the futon and get grooving.

August 27, 2026 The Montreal Sessions

wetdogg live on Montreal Sessions

wetdogg goes live on The Montreal Sessions. wetdogg is an experimental artist, currently based in Montreal, and originally from Detroit, Michigan. Their work spans genres, playing with vocals and enchanting listeners as they spin a web of sound.

August 27, 2026 2026 QueerCorps

QueerCorps | Featuring Festival Ctrl+Alt

QueerCorps features artists from Festival Ctrl+Alt. Ctrl+Alt does not simply seek to showcase unfamiliar faces. It platforms voices that have been ignored for far too long. From July 24 to 26, the Village is reborn as the epicentre of a politico-artistic act of expression. The Ctrl+Alt Festival materializes a space where the Arts of the night intertwine to compose a living portrait of Montréal after dark: a city shaped by its under-recognized talents, its Queer scenes, its creative margins, and its underground legacy.

August 8, 2026 2026 Other Worlds on Earth

Other Worlds on Earth: Hysterical journalism on drugs & AI’s war on printed knowledge

Breaking down and critiquing hysterical journalism on drugs. Plus an ephemerality update about AI's war on printed knowledge.

July 9, 2026 2026 Ecolibrium Harbinger Showcase

Off The Hour x Unrigged x Suoni Per Il Popolo LIVE from Casa Del Popolo pt. 2, Saturday 27 June 2026

Nelson and Andrea from the News Collective joined Andre Goulet from Unrigged at Casa Del Popolo on Sunday June 21st during the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival to talk about the goings-on that provide the political backbone that holds up this legendary Montreal experimental music festival, now in its 26th year. They were joined by Rosie Long Decter (Maisonneuve/New Feeling), Nik Barry-Shaw (Council of Canadians), Ole Hendrickson and Conor Curtis (Sierra Club Canada), independent journalist Rachel Gilmore, and tech writer Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us).

July 9, 2026 2026 Free City Radio Harbinger Showcase

Off The Hour x Unrigged x Suoni Per Il Popolo LIVE from Casa Del Popolo pt. 1, Sunday 21 June 2026

Nelson and Andrea from the News Collective joined Andre Goulet from Unrigged at Casa Del Popolo on Sunday June 21st during the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival to talk about the goings-on that provide the political backbone that holds up this legendary Montreal experimental music festival, now in its 26th year. They were joined by Stefan Christoff (Free City Radio), Kalden Dhatsenpa from CUTV, Katia Lo Innes from the Breach, Savannah Stewart from The Rover, and Niall Ricardo, the federal NDP president.

June 23, 2026 2026 Suoni Per Il Popolo The Montreal Sessions

SUONI x CKUT 2026 vol. 4: iWant2BeOnTV – 23 June 2026

Alex Apostolidis (iWant2BeOnTV, Criminal Trap, Durex) does a Suoni Per Il Popolo Montreal Session - reviewing Suoni past, present, and future - taking calls and some personal picks in the lead up to "The Spelling Bee Of The Century" on Friday, June 26th, 2026.

June 9, 2026 2026 Suoni Per Il Popolo The Montreal Sessions

SUONI x CKUT 2026 vol. 2: Smash the Patriarchy! + live performance by Jahsun & Engone Endong – 9 June 2026

Kiva Stimac, Artistic Director, and CKUT fav Alexis O'Hara joined us live in studio for the second of four Suoni takeovers to talk about this year's 26th edition of this legendary experimental music festival, happening from June 16-28 this year on the Plateau. This episode featured a chat with members of the Smash the Patriarchy! show and a live performance by Jahsun & Engone Endong.

June 8, 2026 2026 Other Worlds on Earth

Other Worlds on Earth: Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience

We talk with historian Kate Brown about the past, present, and future of the self-provisioning city.

June 2, 2026 2026 Suoni Per Il Popolo The Montreal Sessions

SUONI x CKUT 2026 vol. 1 – The Jellicle Ball & Harmony Syndrome Live – 2 June 2026

Kiva Stimac, Artistic Director, and CKUT fav Alexis O'Hara joined us live in studio for the first of four Suoni takeovers to talk about this year's 26th edition of this legendary experimental music festival, happening from June 16-28 this year on the Plateau.

April 16, 2026 2026 Funding Drive Hersay: The Teachings

The Teachings LIVE from CKUT for Funding Drive 2026

The whole cast of The Teachings made it to CKUT's studios with their kids in tow to do an extra special live episode for our 2026 Funding Drive and beautiful chaos ensued.