This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, 45 minutes of music with dabs of Rose Murphy throughout. Then we hear from global community members at The Real News Network about the nation-wide blockades happening in support of the Wet’suwet’en land defenders.

Here is the file, airing to about a million humans on the west coast of Turtle Island via CHLY 101.7FM at 8am PST

Tracklist

• Elsaine – Slowbirth (Thanks, Lizzy Loo)
• Mark Ronson, Yebba – Don’t Leave Me Lonely
• Tennis – Need Your Love
• Rose Murphy – IN a Shanty In Old Shanty Town
• Poolside, Amo Amo – Around The Sun
• LA Priest- What Moves
• Hazel English – Off My Mind
• TOPS – I Feel Alive
• Rose Murphy – Honeysuckle Rose
• Khruangbin, Leon Bridges – Texas Sun
• Yves Tumor – Gospel For a New Century
• Rose Murphy – Busy Line
• Tame Impala – Tomorrow’s Dust
• The Real News Network – Wet’Suwet’en Protectors and Protesters

This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, we sample some of my favourite tracks heard on the program in the past year, plus a song called Heyoka Crisis by Skookum Sound System (Csetkwe Remix) with a little added Freda Huson. Let’s call it “audio art”.

Here is the file, broadcasting to like, a million people on 101.7FM CHLY

Tracks

• Charles Bradley – Changes
• Washed Out – Feel It All Around
• Kim Jung Mi – Haenim
• The Durutti Column – Otis
• Fleet Foxes – Fool’s Errand
• Sean Nichols Savage – Let Me Out
• The Durutti Column – Sketch for a Summer
• Benjamin Gibbard – Something’s Rattling
• Javelin – Cowpoke
• Jack Stauber – Buttercup
• Jack Stauber – Dead Weight
• Galt MacDermot – Tap Your Foot
• Hercules & Love Affair – Raise Me Up
• Skookum Sound System – Heyoka Crisis (Csetkwe Remix) with added words from Freda Huson

On the radio show this week, 45 minutes of great songs of the sixties, followed by a breakdown of how the major protests in France are targeting neo-liberalism.

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• 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 – These Boots Were Made For Walkin’
• Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child
• Electric Light Orchestra – Strange Magic
• T. Rex – Mambo Sun
• Shuggie Oats – Sweet Thang
• Link Wray – Rumble
• The Surfaris – Wipe Out
• The Dixie Cups – Iko Iko
• The Real News Network

This Wednesday on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, we explore some sounds from Japan, then move all over the place with some old timey stuff.

Here is the file, airing to a million living human souls on CHLY 101.7fm on Wednesday, January 29th 2020

Tracklist

• Susumu Yokota – Traveler in the Wonderland
• Susumu Yokota – Song of the Sleeping Forest
• Yasuaki Shimizu – Kakashi
• Mariah – Shinzo No Tobira
• Dip in the Red Pool – On Retinae, West Version
• Video Age – Hold On (I Was Wrong)
• Abram Shook – Machinery
• Moondog – Do Your Thing
• Jake Xerxes Fussell – Raggy Levy
• The BeachBoys – Vegetables
• Les Paul & Mary Ford – Smoke Rings
• Les Paul & Mary Ford – How High the Moon
• Rosemary Clooney – Come On-A My House
• Sonny Clark – Junka
• Chris Bear – Gatsby Intro

A hunnid percent tunes this week. Beginning with slower-moving morning jams, and transitioning into more energetic feelings, with a 4-track set of A Tribe Called Red to cap things off.

Here is the file

Tracklist:

• My Morning Jacket – Only Memories Remain
• Blaze Foley – If I Could Only Fly
• Tommy Guerrero – Cut The Reins
• Beck – Debra
• Hugh Masekela – Riot
• Spoon – Inside Out
• Beck, St. Vincent – Uneventful Days
• The Polish Ambassador – Shine
• M.I.A. – Bird Song, Diplo Remix
• A Tribe Called Red – Eanan
• A Tribe Called Red – NDN Kars, Remix
• A Tribe Called Red – Bread & Cheese (feat. Black Bear)
• A Tribe Called Red – Look at This, Remix

The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour broadcasts to about a million humans every Wednesday morning via the incredibly valuable terrestrial radio frequency of 101.7FM

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Every Wednesday morning at 8, the program made up of segments produced by community members airs again! This week, we have [most of] the Songs of the Year list for 2019 hot off the press from The Free Wheel ‘zine. After that, we hear a news clip from TRNN about how the RCMP DGAF about murdering peaceful civilians on behalf of an oil corporation. WTAF, eh? Dimitri Lascaris is on the case. Thanks, Dimitri. Thanks Real News. Donate here if you can

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Tracklist

• One South Lark – Japanese Soda
• Yeasayer – Ecstatic Baby
• The New Pornographers – Falling Down the Stairs of Your Love
• Tame Impala – Borderline
• Pinegrove – Phase
• Wye Oak – Fortune
• Men I Trust – Tailwhip
• Billie Elish – Ilomilo
• Caroline Polachek – Door
• Sigrid – Never Mine
• Better Oblivion Community Center – Dylan Thomas
• Sharon Van Etten – Seventeen
• The Highwomen – Highwomen
• The Real News Network: Canada’s Cops Were Ready to Shoot Indigenous Anti-Pipeline Activists RCMP officers were instructed to use as much violence as they wanted at the blockade of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline. Kanahus Manuel, an indigenous activist in British Columbia, said it’s part of Canada’s long colonial legacy.

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This week on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, a collection of tunes your kid will like, and you will (hopefully) not hate.

Raining down upon every single child and child-at-heart in the terrestrial radio frequency range of 101.7FM including 40 coastal communities around the Salish Sea on Wednesday January 8th 2020, here is the file.

• Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Imaginary Friend
• Charlie Parr – Rocky Racoon
• Pickin’ On Series, Iron Horse – Ocean Breathes Salty
• Okee Dokee Brothers – Big Rock Candy Mountain
• John Prine – Fish and Whistle
• Charlie Hope – When the Ice Worm Nests Again
• Belle & Sebastian – Poor Boy
• M. Ward – Chinese Translation
• Pickin’ On Series, Iron Horse – New Slang
• Sharon, Lois, & Bram – Kiddy Kum Kimo
• Slim Gaillard – Potato Chips
• The Hot Sardines – Your Feet’s too Big
• Count Basie, Herschel Evans – Stop Beatin’ Round the Mulberry Bush
• Rose Murphy – Honeysuckle Rose
• Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson Trio – Mumbles
• Melanie- Brand New Key
• Gnarls Barkley – Smiley Face
• Talking Heads- This Must Be The Place

Kicking off the new Gregorian year with some thick CanCon tracks.

Here is the file, airing on New Years Day, 8AM on CHLY 101.7FM

Carmanah – I did it all for you
Carmanah – Roots
Blue Moon Marquee – Shading Tree
Carolyn Mark – Flaming Star
Carolyn Mark – Not Like the Movies
Painted Fruits – Gender
Painted Fruits – Mechanical Rhythm
Great Speckled Fritillary – Polar Star
Wolf Parade – Fine Young Cannibals
Wolf Parade – Solders Grin
Wolf Parade – Lousy Pictures
Aaron James and the Black Water – Fear II
Harp’Axe – She’s Got
Harp’Axe – Get Out

Dubmatix – Wicked Part of Town

Music to open gifts to. One part Aretha, one part sleigh bells, with a sprinkling of unconventional holiday sound at the very end.

Here is the file, airing from 8-10am on Wednesday December 25th to 40 coastal Cascadian communities on CHLY 101.7FM

• Harpers Bizarre – Witchi Tai To
• Chilly Gonzales – Wintermezzo
• Morgan Delt – Some Sunsick Day
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Oh Bother
• Dungen – Det Du Tanker Idag Ar Du I Morgon
• The Free Design – The Proper Ornaments
• Gordon Lightfoot – Song for a Winter’s Night
• Walter Wanderley – Rain
• Martin Denny – The Enchanted Sea
• Harry Nilsson – Lullaby in Ragtime
• Andy Shauf – The Magician
• Portico Quartet – Prickly Pear
• Aldous Harding – THe Barrel
• Alice Coltrane- Turiya & Ramakrishna
• Calexico- Midnight Sun
• Beirut – Varieties of Exile
• Beirut – Gauze fur Zah
• Karen O, Danger Mouse – Ministry
• Wilco – Love is Everywhere (Beware)
• Aretha Franklin – Just for You
• Aretha Franklin – Don’t Cry, Baby
• Aretha Franklin – I Surrender, Dear
• Aretha Franklin – Rock-a-bye Your Baby
• Aretha Franklin – Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
• Aretha Franklin – Im Wandering
• Aretha Franklin – It’s So Heartbreaking
• Aretha Franklin – Lover Come Back to Me
• Aretha Franklin – Exactly Like You
• Aretha Franklin – I’m Sitting on top of the World
• Aretha Franklin – One Step Ahead
• Freedom Fry – What Child is This?
• Freedom Fry – Silent Night
• Freedom Fry – God Rest Ye
• Freedom Fry – Merry Christmas

Some brand new tracks from BADBADNOTGOOD, Tame Impala,Caravan Palace, Caribou, and more. The final few minutes is MP Paul Manly speaking in the House of Commons to a crowd of heckling nincompoops.

Here is the file, airing on CHLY 101.7fm to 40 coastal communities around the Salish Sea on Wednesday December 11th 2019

• Jonah Yano, BADBADNOTGOOD – Key To Love
• Devandra Banhart- Shabop Shalom
• Cotton Jones – Marula
• Jonathan Wilson – Trafalgar Square
• Tame Impala – Posthumous Forgiveness
• Caribou – You and I
• Caravan Palace – Miracle
• Francoise Hardy – Juke Box