Tune in tonight (Friday April 27th) at 9PM EST/6PM Pacific for a livestream of Jack’s show tonight at NYC’s Webster Hall!!.
Here’s an Inside Look at tonight’s Unstaged performance – Youtube
American Express Unstaged: Jack White (Directed by Gary Oldman)
April 27th, 2012 | Posted by in uncategorized - (0 Comments)Tune in tonight (Friday April 27th) at 9PM EST/6PM Pacific for a livestream of Jack’s show tonight at NYC’s Webster Hall!!.
Tune in tomorrow (Monday April 23rd) at 12:30 PM for an in-studio session with Poor Young Things. The Thunder Bay natives will be playing some songs from their album ‘Let It Sleep’. Be sure to tune in!
As we wrap up another season at CFRE, we as staff once again feel humbled and grateful for the amount of quality programming, commitment and dedication our DJs have shown this year. All shows on CFRE were special and great in their own way but here are some shows (and people) we felt the need to particularly honor.
DJ of the Year – Corey Belford (The Audio File)
Best Variety Show – Darren Flower (Rock It Up!)
Best Talk Shows – Ben Whipps (Begging The Question) & Jaren Wade Fabroa (Saturday Morning Arcade)
Best Hip Hop Show – Kristen Shouli (Connect Da Dot)
Best Electronic Shows – Serhat Ongen (HouseAcolique) & Christian Kuruvilla (The Spacecase)
The Help (Volunteer Award) – Shagun Parulkar (Hip Hop Soul)
Lifetime Achievement Award – Ryan Weir (Beard)
CDs!! CDs!! And More CDs!! (and one LP!!)
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Brampton, ON natives The Junction will be stopping by CFRE on Thursday March 22 at 5:30PM to do a little bit of music playing and a little bit of question answering; I guess you could call it a session and interview. The whole thing will be hosted by fellow Bramptonian Borey Celford (just kidding, it’s Corey Belford) who I’m sure will ask the Junction Brampton-related questions that no one else in the GTA will understand.
Anyways, their new album, Grievances, just dropped on March 6th, so they will no doubt be playing songs from the critically lauded album. If you miss it you’ll end up kicking yourself, so don’t end up having to kick yourself!
Irish folk rock band FRED will be stopping by the CFRE studios today at 2:30PM to play a couple tunes and chat with the incomparable Corey Belford. Fresh off their Canada AM live TV performance, FRED will be playing songs off their album ‘Leaving My Empire’, which was released today in Canada.
So don’t forget to tune your dials to CFRE to catch this likely unforgettable performance!
CFRE is proud to welcome Darelle London to our studios on Thursday, March 15th at Thursday 5PM.
Darelle will be playing songs from her forthcoming album ‘Eat A Peach’ as well as answering questions from our host (who wishes to remain anonymous because he does way too many interviews – but I can confidently tell you it’s hosted by Corey Belford). If you have any questions that you want asked, email us at cfreradio.com and we’ll be sure to pass them along. Don’t forget to title your email ‘Darelle London Interview’, and to tune in Thursday!
Our DJ Jordan will be interviewing legendary metal band Woods of Ypres via the good ol’ telephone on Wednesday at 2PM. Make sure to tune in!
Ottawa natives, now Toronto-based The Balconies stopped by CFRE to chat with Corey Belford, and have a little in-studio session before their gig at UTM’s Blind Duck Pub.
To listen to the interview, click here. Maybe they’ll explain how the Senators are ahead of the Leafs right now. Ugh.
You can also download the song Black Cat, which there Balconies recorded right here in-studio right here. You’ll want to hear what they can do with just one tiny, undersized guitar.
Leonard Cohen Contest Winner: Luke Sawczak
February 8th, 2012 | Posted by in uncategorized - (0 Comments)Congratulations to Luke Sawczak, our winner of the Leonard Cohen ‘Old Ideas’ Poetry Contest. He entered a poem called “At 2 P.M.” and won Old Ideas on Vinyl, CD, and a copy of an original drawing by Leonard himself, of which only 5000 exist. Runners up are Peter Swinburne and Christine Law, who both won a copy of Old Ideas on CD.
Here’s 2 A.M. by Luke Sawczak:
“At 2 p.m.”
The sun, for an evening contained in a second, was hid
The sun doesn’t know that I wished it would go, but I did
There’s somewhere I go in the wheel of the world when we kiss
There’s somewhere I know I can just circumnavigate this
The truth is I love you, just like I love everyone else
You’re a way to make sure I am never alone with myself
The truth is there’s nowhere, not even the dark, we can hide
My brain or my heart said to hold you, and so I complied
You weren’t complacent
the love that lay latent
prevented contentment
it couldn’t be patient
and it’s not convenient
but nothing’s been seen yet
I’m only dreaming
I think I’ll continue to kiss you at every full moon
After all, I’m convinced they’ll be holding my funeral soon
I can choose not to mind if it doesn’t work out in the end
If I can’t be your lover, I’ll probably still be your friend.
leonard cohen poetry contest/giveaway
January 30th, 2012 | Posted by in uncategorized - (0 Comments)Legendary Canadian folk singer Leonard Cohen is releasing an album of new material January 31st entitled Old Ideas. In honor of this gifted lyricist, CFRE is having a poetry competition.
The first prize (as determined by staff) will win a vinyl copy of Old Ideas, the album on CD, and a lithograph of an original drawing made by Cohen. Two runners-up will each receive a copy of the album on CD. Winners will be announced Friday February 3rd. Be creative!
To enter, email your poem to staff@cfreradio.com with the subject “Leonard Cohen Poetry Contest”, and we will respond once we’ve received your submission!
Check out Cohen’s original drawing (that you could win) below! Good luck!
No, we’re not giving away actual dinosaur bones, we’ve got tickets to see the very fantastic band of the same name at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. If you want to go see Dinosaur Bones, Young Rival and Prussia next Thursday (February 2nd) , keep yourself glued to our Twitter or Facebook page.
When we ask what your favourite dinosaur is, the first person to reply (on either page) will win two spots on the guestlist to the show. And just to make things slightly challenging, we will only accept the names of actual dinosaurs – so no, Raptor Jesus does not count.
Good luck!
Acclaimed Canadian funny man Tom Green will be chatting with CFRE’s own resident funny man Ryan Weir January 12th at 7:00 AM. For all of you up finishing homework or going to early classes, make sure you tune in for this must-hear interview.
And for those of you who can’t tune in, stay tuned for the podcast, or check out Tom Green Friday January 13th and Saturday January 14th at Yuk Yuks Toronto. More information can be found here.
Top albums of 2011, as voted by CFRE DJs and staff.
1. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
2. St. Vincent- Strange Mercy
3. The Weeknd- House of Balloons
4. Atlas Sound- Parallax
5. Drake- Take Care
6. M83- Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
7. Real Estate- Days
8. Destroyer- Kaputt
9. Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues
10. Wilco- The Whole Love
11. WU LYF- Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
12. The Drums- Portamento
13. Los Campesinos!- Hello Sadness
14. Future Islands- On the Water
15. Girls- Father, Son, Holy Ghost
16. Black Lips- Arabia Mountain
17. Kate Bush- 50 Words for Snow
18. Lykki Li- Wounded Rhymes
19. Youth Lagoon- The Year of Hibernation
2o, PJ Harvey- Let England Shake
Tune in today (November 21st) at 6PM (ET) to hear an interview with Douglas Lavin, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He recently spoke at U of T’s Centre for Ethics ‘Ethics at Noon Seminar Series’ where ‘Begging The Question’ hosts Ben and Spencer caught up with him.
Listen in to hear him discuss (among other things) the state of Philosophy in the 21st century. This could very well be the most fascinating interview you’ll hear all year on CFRE, so don’t miss out!
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