In 1969 a group of students occupied the 9th floor computer center of Sir George Williams University (currently known as Concordia University) to object to racial bias in academic grading. 50 Years later we revisit this page in Montreal history through an event called Protest & Pedagogy. Khalid M’Seffar of Funky Revolutions interviews Kaie Kellough…

Sunday Aug 19th The Goods Radio show went live from Casa Del Popolo for a live interview with Andy Williams conducted by Doug Miller (co-host of Amandla, CKUT’s African News Programme since 1987). They go through Andy’s musical origins in Derby, England, Jamaica, Toronto, Lennoxville and now Montreal. He speaks of the music he listened to growing u…

(above picture Donnie Rossiter and Martha Marie Kleinham) As part of CKUT’s 30th Anniversary Oral History project, we interviewed Martha Marie Kleinhans who was one of the key driving forces behind CKUT’s fm licence application and move to FM. She says that Concordia University was expected to get the licence because of their active ties to the loc…

Andrea Jane began listening to the CKUT radio show AACK as a teen. When in University Alex Moskos walked into her class and did a presentation. He mentioned volunteering opportunities at CKUT and before long she was filling in for Where’s the Beat , then became the Music Resource Coordinator and then Music Department Coordinator (2006 – 2011). She …

Ian Pringle was a Bookkeeper, then Spoken Word Coordinator from 1987-1991. He discovered CKUT when he was a McGill student, assigned to do a piece on CKUT getting our FM license for the student newspaper The Tribune. Taken with the diversity and excitement of the station he became a volunteer and ultimately staff member. In this interview he talks …

Stuart volunteered and worked at CKUT from 1991-95. He worked in the Spoken Word and News Department. He describes arriving at a time that spawned a lot of activism as it just followed the Oka Crisis and infamous Sex Garage also just following the Gulf War. He describes what news gathering looked like during this period, receiving communiques in th…

Bryan Zuraw was at Radio McGill/CKUT from 1983-1997 as a volunteer, music librarian and music coordiantor. He discusses what was going on musically at the time, musique actuelle, (the beginnings of Ambience Magnetique), college indie rock (pre-Nirvana), hip hop, dancehall reggae (when these genres really started to bloom)… the interest of community…

As part of CKUT’s 30th Anniversary festivities we hosted a panel on the evolution of CKUT’s News Department. CKUT has covered issues from street level emphasizing the voices of those not heard in mainstream media, namely those affected by the policies, regulations and political decisions. In this panel past Community News Coordinators, Gretchen Kin…

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King. In commemoration of this historic event, Christopher Heron, host of Mind Soul & Spirit conducted an interview with Reverend Jesse Jackson. Rev Jackson speaks of his love for gospel music (he grew up with Aretha Franklin). Christopher asks him to contrast today’s “State of America”…

CKUT intern Eve Fiertag looks at experimenting with the radio on the radio for this time capsule installment. She speaks to ex CKUT Music Coordinator and Production Coordinator Christof Migone who participated at CKUT from 1987 – 92. He also hosted the radio show “Dangers In Paradise” which he described as anything other than college rock. He colla…

The Montreal Sessions dug into this CKUT Time Capsule for the Month of March 2018. In this episode we look at 30 Years of feminist radio. Your hosts, Alex Moskos and Louise Burns interview Penny Patterson who hosted the radio shows CUTS, Thread the Needle and Beach Blanket Bingo on CKUT and who speaks about her experience interviewing Riot Grrrl ba…

As part of the 30th Anniversary Oral History special programming we interview Pat Dillon Moore aka The Dreadhead aka The Empress aka Sistah P, former host of Positive Vibes, former station manager of CKUT and current co-host of Bhum Bhum Time. Pat tells us what it was like growing up in Montreal in the 70s. We discuss race relations at CKUT, money,…

Eve Parker Finley Celebrates International Women’s Day in the Transiest way possible. She profiles women such as Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson gay activist in the time of Stonewall and co-founders of STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolution) and educates us on other women we should know including Miss Major Griffin-Gracy executive Director…

Throughout the month of March, the Montreal Sessions is being devoted to cracking open the time capsule and exploring what 30 Years of free form, independent, underground radio sounds like. This episode includes an interview with longtime CKUT volunteer Margo Lane, Roots Rock Reggae listeners calling in with their shout outs and greetings, an inter…

Tamayugé perform live on CKUT 90.3 fm radio show Chaud Pour Le Mont Stone – Collaboration with Tamara Filyavich (electronics) and Maya Kuroki (vocals). Show hosted by Francois Letourneau https://archive.org/download/TamayugeLiveOnChaudPourLeMontStoneJan112018/Tamayuge%CC%81%20Live%20on%20Chaud%20Pour%20Le%20Mont%20Stone%20Jan%2011%202018.mp3…

Samaa Elibyari is a member of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and has been doing programming at CKUT since 1997. CKUT Culture Coordinator, Tamara Filyavich, speaks with Samaa (the week after Trump announced the move of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem) about covering issues affecting the Muslim community for over 20 years. She began…

Special hour long episode of the International Radio Report in honor of 30 year on the air. Hosts Sheldon Harvey and David Asselin, are joined by past contributors Janice Laws, Gilles Letourneau, CKUT culture Coordinator Tamara Filyavich, Alan Roberts and Zack Rynar. Clips from the very first broadcast and discussions about their shared fascination…

Margo Lane has volunteered at CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal since 1987. She was our weather girl, eco-environmental receptionist, and host of the radio show Adventures in Music. Margo is infamous. Most of us who have been part of the CKUT community have a Margo story. This is her story in her words. https://archive.org/download/MargoLaneStory/Margo%20Lan…

In celebration of CKUT’s 30th Anniversary on the fm dial, we will be exploring our past through a series of podcasts, time capsule posts and live events such as this first one. Sun Oct 15th 2017 we sat down with Rickey D, host of Sound of Soul since 1988 and hip hop promoter and influencer for 32 years! Rickey was interviewed at Art Gang by Malik S…

Manchilde formally of the hip hop group The Butta Babees and past host of Ill Groove Garden swung by CKUT, Ill Groove Garden after opening for Mos Def and dropped this free-style. https://archive.org/download/Manchilde/Manchilde%20.mp3Autor: ckuttimecapsule

XX files celebrates 20 years of feminist radio on CKUT 90.3fm. In this clip Valerie Walker who has contributed to this show for 19 years speaks of the origins. Keeping it real cause “we have the power to learn and teach each other.” https://archive.org/download/ClipOfTheWeekOriginsOfXXFiles/Clip%20of%20the%20Week%20-%20Origins%20of%20XX%20files%20.…

Montreal musicians, Sam Shalabi and Alexander Moskos hosted the radio show If You Got Ears in the Month of December 2015. They played a game of free association -here is a sample. https://archive.org/download/SamMoskosFreeAssociate/Sam%20%26%20Moskos%20Free%20Associate%20.mp3Autor: ckuttimecapsule

West Indian Rhythm’s Howard ‘Stretch’ Carr and Faithlyn Sankar talk to Lady Saw about infidelity, infertility and staying strong. This was taken from the August 2015 live broadcast from the Montreal International Reggae Festival. Only CKUT can get interviews like this from renowned artists, its like they are talking to family. https://archive.org/d…

Josh Marquis host of the radio show QueerCorps interviews ex CKUT staff and former host of QueerCorps and Schmoozing, Puelo Dier and photographer Linda Dawn Hammond about the infamous event known as Sex Garage that galvanized the queer community in July 1990. Sex Garage was a loft party put on by Nicholas Jenkins. The event was raided by policeman …

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 in May 2013. On “Quebec,” the pair create a synth soundscape that is somehow both calming and unsettling. Listen for yourself below. https://archive.org/download/Les_Momies_De_Palerme_musique_concrete/Les_Mom…

The theme song to the radio show Dykes on Mykes on CKUT 90.3fm has always been a bit of a mystery. Listeners would call in asking about its origins and pre – Goggle much of this information was based on hearsay and intuition. Finally, in honour of CKUT ‘s 25th Anniversary on the FM dial, some staff at the station decided to get to the bottom of it……

As you may have heard, CKUT had a pretty great party to celebrate our 25 years on air. One of the highlights was a unique rap written & performed live by Logic Johnson, host of Listen You Smell Something. It was a one-time only performance but it’s too good to not share. Check it out! https://archive.org/download/25thAnniversaryRapLogicJohnson/25th…

Venus Radio started in 1996 by Laura MacNeil, Delphine Foo and Erin MacLeod. The show is run by a collective of hosts and “explores women’s impact on music and the impact of music on women in various jobs, stations and positions in life” (show proposal Nov 1996). The show went on to win many #1 Best Radio Show in the Montreal Mirror/Cult Montreal r…

Interview with Dorothy Proctor Produced by: CKUT-Dee LeCompte While imprisoned in the 1960s, Dorothy Proctor was experimented on and forced to electric shock, sensory deprivation, and even LSD-25. Many years after being released, Proctor began her investigation on the experiments that were done to her and countless others in the 1960s and 70s. She …

Skater Dykes – MTL Skateboarding Group Produced by: Ronit & Melanie Turn up your volume ’cause this audio’s O-L-D! In this clip two women, part of an all-dyke Montreal skating crew, talk about what it means to be a female skater. What do you do when you love the hardcore scene and skateboarding, but are totally sick of standing on the sidelines and…

Interview with Valerie Scott Produced by: CKUT Former sex worker, Valerie Scott, discusses the obsession the public has with sex while still being reluctant to speak about the need to educate on safe sex practices. She rebukes the stigma that prostitutes spread STD’s. Scott explains why apprehending all sex-workers or making prostitution legal whil…

Montreal Reggae artist Sampaloo being interviewed by CKUT’s Skills Link Crew. Sampaloo talks about coming to Montreal from Jamaica – being an illegal immigrant and starting to get into music. Skills Link was a programme CKUT ran with the Cote Des Neige Black Community Center empowering youth through media skills in April 2013. The radio show they h…

Interview with The Sugarcubes Produced by: Lorrie Edmonds Members Einar Benediktsson and Magga Örnólfsdóttir talk with Lorrie about their uncertainty as The Sugarcubes, their publishing company Bad Taste, the music scene in Iceland. Their life on tour is one that amuses them – everything from the hotel rooms to the limousines! They also explain how…

If you happened to tune in to CKUT in the middle of a Monday night in late 2012 you may have stumbled upon Craigslist Confidential, a short-lived but fascinating delve into the world of Craigslist. Only two episodes have survived, but you can listen to them here: Episode 1, aired November 7, 2012: https://archive.org/download/CraigslistConfidential…

Off The Hook Radio airing every Wednesday from midnight to 2am – for multiple years – tune in and listen to them discuss just how many years each week -but definitely upwards of 20. The infamous, Rap Hour Half Hour has rappers dropping in the station or calling up to rap. Take a listen to this one featuring House Shoes on the phone and Penzo Gritty…

Howard “Stretch” Carr and Faithlyn Sankar interview the one and only Jimmy Cliff. This interview took place July 28th 2012 for CKUT radio show West Indian Rhythms. They cover the inspiration behind The Harder They Come and Many Rivers to Cross, riots in Brixton, and his commitment to uplifting his audience. https://archive.org/download/JimmyCliffIn…

The Montreal Mirror was a weekly, anglo, alternative newspaper founded in 1985. It focused on Arts & Culture, entertainment listings, and local politics. It was bought by Quebecor in 1997 and subsequently sold in June 2012 much to the shock and dismay of its employees and numerous readers. This clip is from interviews with Mirror writers Chris Barr…

Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars dropped by BasabasaSoukous Soundz July 10, 2012 to perform live. They were in town to perform at Festival Nuits D’Afrique. Performing Big Fat Dog. https://archive.org/download/SierraLeoneRefugeeAllStarsOnBasabasa/Sierra%20Leone%20Refugee%20All%20Stars%20on%20Basabasa.mp3…

This experimental rock duo stopped by CKUT’s Montreal Sessions in June 2012 as part of the station’s Suoni Per Il Popolo coverage. Maica Mia may not be together anymore, but their dark, slow-burning songs still resonate. https://archive.org/download/Live_at_CKUT_on_Montreal_Sessions_1418-12700/Maica_Mia_-_Johnny-o.mp3…

Isle of Pine (Tim Darcy of Ought’s previous band) live performance on CKUT’s Underground Sounds (Mondays 8pm – midnight). Produced by Caroline Dutka. https://archive.org/download/Live_at_CKUT_on_Underground_Sounds-11979/Isle_of_Pine_-_01_-_Coat_of_Arms.mp3Autor: ckuttimecapsule

This piece of radio inspired the Clip of the Week. It was/is that good. Clip of the Week is CKUT’s way of highlighting some of the sounds, ideas, personalities that define us. You can find more of them on our website. This clip, from Bhum Bhum Time is a discussion about racial profiling in Montreal. Sadly the “hoodie march” spoken of was cancelled …

Tonstartssbandht’s Andy and Edwin White know their way around CKUT – Andy was the station’s music librarian in 2010, and the two have performed on air many times over the years. In town for POP Montreal 2011, the brothers stopped by CKUT’s If You Got Ears, treating listeners to a live rendition of their entrancing psychedelia. Produced by Joe Winer…

The King of Latin Soul Joe Bataan is interviewed by Andy Williams of CKUT Radio Show The Goods September 6th 2011. The Goods is hosted by DJs Andy Williams and Scott C. The show began in August 2002 and is still on the airwaves. https://archive.org/download/JoeBataanInterview/Joe%20Bataan%20interview.mp3…

Lantern passed by New Shit June 2011 and performed live. They were in town for a performance at Weird Fest Montreal. Hometown Philadelphia. Engineered by Joe Winer produced by A.J. Cornell. https://archive.org/compress/none_given_1745-9990/formats=VBR%20MP3&file=/none_given_1745-9990.zip https://archive.org/download/none_given_1745-9990/Lantern_-_0…

Local musician and sound artist Nick Kuepfer is a longtime favourite studio guest here at CKUT. In June 2011, he stopped by Montreal Sessions for a particularly captivating and chilling experimental set. https://archive.org/download/none_given_1556-9991/Nick_Kuepfer_-_02_-_A_River.mp3Autor: ckuttimecapsule

This radio art “Rock Story” was produced by Louise Burns in 2010. The text is from a letter she intercepted while working at PolyGram Records in the early 80s. It is based on a piece of fan mail to the group Kiss, written at the time when the group decided to perform without their traditional makeup (1983 – a decision the eventual went back on). Th…

Bernardino Femminielli is a Montreal dance musician whose persona precedes him. For June 2010 edition of Montreal Sessions, he brought his synths down to the CKUT studio and performed this long-form instrumental electronic track. 22 minutes very well spent. https://archive.org/download/Live_At_CKUT_on_Montreal_Sessions_June_15_2010-9975/Bernardino_…

Solo Performance by Rebecca Foon on cello, effects pedals and voice recorded and mixed by Erin Weisgerber and Andrea-Jane Cornell at CKUT for broadcast on the June 8, 2010 edition of the Montreal Sessions. https://archive.org/compress/Live_At_CKUT_on_Montreal_Sessions-9974/formats=VBR%20MP3&file=/Live_At_CKUT_on_Montreal_Sessions-9974.zip https://a…

Claire Boucher, aka Grimes interned at CKUT while studying at McGill University. She performed a live set on our music department’s program New Shit on March 15th 2010. https://archive.org/download/GrimesLiveOnCKUTNewshitMarch152010/grimes%20Live%20on%20CKUT%20newshitMarch15_2010.mp3Autor: ckuttimecapsule

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). The trio hosted Montreal Sessions in November 2009, gracing the airwaves with their experimental improvisations each Tuesday. Here’s one of the tracks they performed – you can find the rest on archi…