CKUT Time Capsule

Here is a clip from CKUT's radio show Roots Rock Reggae. Back in the day people used to stay up late and call in their greetings aka shout outs.

Roots Rock Reggae is still on the air today - same time slot, Monday morning (Sunday overnight) from 1am - 4am. And they still get a lot of callers and offer relationship advice, gossip, and lots of reggae music. Check them out!

Ian Mackaye elaborates on Fugazi's reasoning on making "unconventional" decisions such as charging $5 to see them while still playing at recognized venues such as Metropolis. He goes over the history of the band's line, music, and his original hopes for the band.

The classic Mackay interview ends with a critique on the music reviewers and explains his emotional response to the "lazy" journalism music writers seem to indulge in.

Speaking on the controversial lawsuit over Negativeland's U2 album, member Mark Holser delves deeper in the question that arose from the lawsuit: who controls art?

Although the band had used several U2 "cover" slips throughout the album, the main objection arose from the album's cover art which Island Records claimed was deceiving fans of U2 - the band.

Holser explains the magazine, Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2, which gave full transcripts, letters, and official documents concerning the lawsuit. He also exposes SST Records, the records label which they had used to release U2, and the manner in which profit is made by record companies in general.

This episode from the archives reaches into the roots of Funky Revolutions and the First International Dub Poetry Festival held in Toronto from May 8-15, 1993. This was inspirational and transformative event that would shape Funky Revolution's vision of word, sound and power and influence the importance that the program gave to spoken word and the poetic traditions of the Funk in the program's first ten years.

This episode features recordings of the foundational dub poets of the late 70s and early 80s as well as interviews with Oku Onoura, Jean Binta Breeze and rapso poet Brother Resistance.

Bassist Laura Stein calls the station for an interview right before heading out on the band's very first Canadian tour.

She confesses to missing practice for thinking the band was a joke. While still in art school, Stein naively talks about the band’s future plans for the following summer. Hosted by Penny Patterson on CUTS.

Special on Lydia Lunch from May 1992. Produced by Penny on her show CUTS.

An entire show dedicated to the multitalented artist Lydia Lunch. Best known for singing in Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lunch moved from music to spoken word and even writing, directing, and staring in a number of films.

Here are some zany radio promos for CKUT’s 4th Birthday party which took place Nov 14th, 1991 at Foufounes Electriques and featured Wall of Angus (with members of Shlonk, Bliss, Grim Skunk, Lizard & DBC), Sons of the Desert, and Zero Tolerance.

Also listen for some other whacky promos for paying your pledge, one recognizable voice is Puelo Dier (host of Schmoozing & Queer Corps and CKUT sales Rep) and they were probably produced by the sonic scientist Christof Migone (Production Coordinator at the time).

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 watching the boys skate? What do you do when a man walks by you skateboarding and tells you a real woman should be wearing red lipstick and standing by her boyfriend's side? Start a skateboarding crew of your own! As a result of Skater Dykes, these skateboarding ladies feel empowered even when faced with discrimination from passersby and male skaters.

WARNING: featuring some delicious sonic gems from X-Ray Spex + spreading love for thrash, punk & hardcore