It’s another week here in the land of The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, the program created to be a community-driven plethora of varietal contributions, and was for a long time. Now it’s just me, Ashta, screening good music, selecting, and placing in order a mixtape I think you’ll love. HERE IT IS!! (typing tracklist … Continue reading End Novemb →

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Here we are, on the road again. Here is the file Cab Calloway, Doin’ the Rumba Mariah The Scientist, 2 You Tems / Brent Faiyaz, Found J Dilla, Don’t Cry Flowervillian, Escape to Mars Digable Planets, Jettin’ J Dilla, Yesterday Micha Edwards / Ashton Sellars, I Wonder Freddie Gibbs / Madlib, Crime Pays (Instro) Terrace … Continue reading Hello Neigbour Hello Friend →

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If you’re a follower already, you’ll know that I fuss over the order of the songs to create the perfect mood – just like when we use to make mixtapes. Well, not this week. Everything you’ll hear on this show, was chosen by our listeners! If you want in on the action, follow us on … Continue reading Listening Listeners →

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The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is a one-hour anything-goes festival of sound-good. Every Wednesday morning for 10 years, CHLY 101.7FM listeners in over 40 coastal communities have been subject to the audiocratic whims of local weirdo, Ashta. From 8-9am, she privately relishes the technical reality that terrestrial radio waves saturate a portion of the … Continue reading Facebag →

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CHLY 101.7FM is like your badass next-door neighbour who unabashedly plays their music too loud and who you refer to in times of crises for advice. You switch to it when the overbearing snarky commercials of the other radio stations become too much to handle. It is at times your sonic refuge, and at other … Continue reading Independent Woman About the World →

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I posted a few weeks ago about how I create the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. I said “I spend thousands of hours making this radio show for you ungrateful plebs, and the least you could do is give the radio station some money!” or something. Maybe my recollection is not so kind, but that … Continue reading Good as Gold →

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Carefully curated tunes ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED to fit your tastes exactly*. *not guaranteed The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, every Wednesday morning airs live to about 1.5 million human beings, a few billion notable sea creatures, and literally trillions of bacterium. Yes, every one of these living organisms will be surrounded with the invisible frequency transmission … Continue reading Share the Spice of Life →

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Every week I screen albums and artists that seem like a good fit for The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. Whenever I hear a song that catches me, I do whatever it takes to find out who it is, and mark it to be included in this week’s radio offering. Often a theme or a … Continue reading Curation Nation →

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It’s all orange carpet, brown cardigans, and shamlessly fluffy hair on todays episode of The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. Here is the 8-track Donovan, Clara Clairvoyant Donovan,Hurdy Gurdy Man Jefferson Airplane ,Today Jefferson Airplane,White Rabbit The Zombies, She’s Not There The Animals, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood The Yardbirds, For Your Love Nancy Sinatra, … Continue reading Nineteen Sixties →

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(tracklist coming soon) The file

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