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| Jan. 22, 2025 | Resistant Renny | SNAP! Pairs of new shots from Rum Bar Records. High current Canadiana whamma blamma. The roots of the Mooks with a feature on their new album Just A Couple of Mooks. Finishing off with Can-knuckle busting guitar instrumentals. |
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| Jan. 15, 2025 | Resident Renny | A pet peeve that gives me the rockin' disease with songs about doctors, diseases, pills & medications. A musical tribute to Cuba and a CanCon Cram featuring the Legend Killer's 2006 recording, "We're Workin' On It". |
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| Jan. 8, 2025 | Resourceful Renny | Calypso to go. Organ thumpers. Soul for primates. Cowpunk for beginners. A CanCon Cram featuring the whamma blamma guitar of Rob Sweeney. |
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| Jan. 1, 2025 | Ian Jeans | Shhhh, It's 2025! A Quiet Riot for New Year's Day. Mellowness provided by Charlie Rich, Frank Sinatra, Julie Fowlis, Scott Walker and plenty more. Butt-kickin' will resume next week. |
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| Dec. 25, 2024 | Reindeer Renny | THE REINDEER RIOT: Rockabilly, Rock 'n' Roll, R&B, & Jazz stocking stuffers with music from Mabel Scott, Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy, Johnny Guarnieri & Slam Stewart, The Razorbacks, Johnny Rabb, The Real Sickies, Washboard Pete & more. |
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| Dec. 18, 2024 | Ribcrackin' Renny | The return of HouseRockin' in the first hour. Then Turnbuckle Twisters, inappropriate earworms & then some Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five. |
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| Dec. 11, 2024 | Road Rage Renny | Gas powered Chevys, female heavies & horns aplenty. Automotive instrumentals, rock & roll fundamentals & tunes for sentimentals. |
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| Dec. 4, 2024 | Refurbished Renny | BLUES KICK with some kickin' Blues, Soul, Jazz, Punk. New Canadiana whamma blamma from Thee Rogue Telstars, The Taxi Girls, Night Court, The Discarded. |
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| Nov. 27, 2024 | Ian Jeans | LOOK OVER HERE! It's Young Canadian Punks covering Old Canadian Punks. LOOK OVER THERE! It's Solo NY Dolls, Dunville ON represent, and new songs from Corker, Chubby and the Gang, LELEE, and Night Court. Warning: This Riot might cause Whiplash. |
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| Nov. 20, 2024 | Rip-Snortin' Renny | A LOTTA STOMP! A rock & roll romp featuring 60's garage rockers, rhythm & blues, rockabilly & whamma blamma stompers. A CanCon cram on the new Tijuana Bible's compilation: Undefeated - The Best Of The Tijuana Bibles & more of the weird, wild & wooly. |
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| Nov. 13, 2024 | Rejoicing Renny | 1st Riot Armored Thanks Brigade: Rolling over you with THANK YOUS & a barrage of new music from the Wabi Sabis, Amyl & The Sniffers, The Fleshtones, The Ichi-Bons, The Tijuana Bibles & more. Fighting in the Culture wars since 1984. |
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| Nov. 6, 2024 | Ian Jeans | CKCU FUNDING DRIVE RIOT! Hit that DONATE NOW button and help keep independent, community radio on the airwaves and on the web. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Oh, and we have the usual cool tunes today, too. |
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| Oct. 30, 2024 | Deejay D.K. | The special Funding Drive Halloween special: THE RIGOR MORTIS RIOT with the return of deejay D.K. (banned in Iceland). Rotten rock 'n' roll, pestilent punk, rancid rockabilly, country from the crypt, repulsive R&B. Listen if you dare. Donate if you can. |
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| Oct. 23, 2024 | Redoubtable Renny | MAXIMUM WHAMMA BLAMMA & Funding Drive jitters with new music from Rum Bar Records: The Dogmatics, Hotbox, The Cheap Cassettes, Gene Champagne, The Dogs. Songs about the future. New singles from The Wabi Sabis & The Thunder Queens. |
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| Oct. 16, 2024 | Rustic Renny | Roots & Riots: No new punk, just old junk. A blast from the past with more music for hillbillies, a blues harp hop, the big greasy organ of Wild Bill Davis & a crazy R&B square dance. |
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| Oct. 9, 2024 | Retrograde Renny | Stuck in the stall with potty mouthed punk (songs involving the toilet). New music from CLASS, Joe Jenning MVP's, Jean Caffeine, Tony Marsico and the Ugly Thingz, the Okmoniks, the Ichi-Bons, The Moody Loners. The Riot's alright if you like saxophones! |
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| Oct. 2, 2024 | Reprising Renny | Leather jackets for the punks, jean jackets for the rockers, some sequins for the glam set and an all instrumental Can Con Cram. Only on the Riot you say? Pity! |
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| Sep. 25, 2024 | Ian Jeans | INTERNATIONAL WHAMMA BLAMMA! Soul, R&B, Garage and surf from the 4 corners. Indonesia, Poland, New Zealand and Winnipeg all getting seats at the council. |
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| Sep. 18, 2024 | Riotous Renny | Playing boogie woogie snap with pairs by Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, Freddie Slack, Henri Herbert. Playing bitchin' punk, new whamma blamma, 60's music for patchouli people, 3 from Simon & a tribute to Batman. |
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| Sep. 11, 2024 | Re-educated Renny | LOST & FOUND: What happens when you give your mic-shy girlfriend a kick at your show? Lina Lost won't talk but she sure does rock. Get ready for Ramones covers, a bilingual Can Con Cram & plenty of curveballs. |
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| Sep. 4, 2024 | Recalibrated Renny | A FUNKY, PUNKY REGGAE PARTY!!! |
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| Aug. 28, 2024 | Ian Jeans | Look up! Way up! We got some giants of the music world: Joan Jett, John Fogerty, fIREHOSE, Lemmy. Joined by some future giants like CIVIC, The Drin, The Side Eyes and lots more. Trade your hen for some magic beans and take the climb with the Riot! |
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| Aug. 21, 2024 | Relaxed Renny | Songs about killing the dead, eating Cajun sausage, drinking & a shameful public display of affection. In other words DAMN FINE RADIO! |
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| Aug. 14, 2024 | Reflective Renny | A radio show as weird as this summer was. Acoustic instrumentals, bittersweet ballads, post-punk & finishing with fiddles. WARNING: This "sensitive & sappy" Riot could be the sign of the end times |
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| Aug. 7, 2024 | René "Bon Ton Roulet" Godiér, s’il vous plaît, Eh! | With the hot and swampy weather expect to bop in the bayou with swamp pop, zydeco, R&B, blues, rockabilly, Cajun country & more. Finishing with some Thunderbird tippling. Time to introduce gators to the canal and call Ottawa Bayoutown. |
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| Jul. 31, 2024 | Ian Jeans | PHASERS ON STUNNED! A tribble-sized tribute to Trekkies, swirly psychedelic soul, and a nod to a Toronto thunderstick thwacker. And some new melodies from Scratch Buffalo, Twisted Teens, Delivery and Passenger Princess. |
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| Jul. 24, 2024 | Rampaging Renny | Kaboom in the afternoon! The gloves come off!!! A one-two punch to a four to the bar beat. Be prepared for a rock & roll beatdown! |
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| Jul. 17, 2024 | Ruination Renny | A feature on Good2Go, who are playing Friday night at Irene's. The music of The Fabulous Courettes and recently departed Jeremy Tepper. Truckers' music, outlaw country & crazy cover, with a train wreck of a conclusion. |
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| Jul. 10, 2024 | Redemption Renny | TYPICAL RIOT: Harmonica music that sucks & blows. Women who whoop ass. Soul tinged stompers. A Can Con Cram featuring the Calgarian stomp of K.V. RAUCOUS & rounding out the show with a rocking bang. |
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| Jul. 3, 2024 | Rhetorically Renny | Hot, dusty, acoustic & blue in the first hour. New releases from The Mooks, The Wabi Sabis, The Eric Hisaw Band,The Gruesomes, The Goldstars, L.A. Drugz, The Shang-Hi Los & more in the second. |
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| Jun. 26, 2024 | Ian Jeans | STOP, DROP AND ROCK'N'ROLL! New shouters from Night Finger, Supercluster and the Dirts. Classic noise from Minutemen, Bo Diddley and the Young Canadians. Gil Scott-Heron, UB40 and Chumbawama all sing about Gary Tyler. |
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| Jun. 19, 2024 | Refreshing Renny | HERE COMES THE SUMMER! Tomorrow's the official start of summer, it's the solstice so let's party like pagans. Get your solstice strut on with 40 summer sizzlers. |
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| Jun. 12, 2024 | Rompin' Renny | ROCK & ROLL RIOT! In the great words of Webb Wilder: "Rock & roll is what I am, it's all I do and if you don't think it's number 1, you're full of number 2." Seventy years of rock & roll in two hours. |
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| Jun. 5, 2024 | Rotten Renny | Big Fun from the Lowest Town Listening Lounge. New releases including some great whamma blamma Canadiana & then decompress to the music of Slim Sandy & The Hillbilly Boppers, The Crazy Rhythm Daddies & The Black Moon Boys. |
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| May. 29, 2024 | Ian Jeans | FUNK TO PUNK! And then to sombre country! And Cancon classics! Touch 'em all, Joe! New stuff from Mad Ones, Motorists, Rat Parade. And old hummables from the usual rogues' gallery. |
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| May. 22, 2024 | Runaway Renny | New releases from Andy Butler, The Thunder Queens, The Yum Yums, Nashville Pussy, K.V. Raucous & The Cave Dwellers & more. Life-Size Men recording release party Friday night with the Atomic Tempunauts. And the usual ruckus of forgotten music. |
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| May. 15, 2024 | Rarin' Renny | RAY'S RIOT! Ray Condo passed away 20 years ago and tomorrow is his birthday. A musical tribute to this frenetic front man with the original songs and his masterful cover versions with both the Hardrock Goners & the Ricochets. |
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| May. 8, 2024 | Rueful Renny | A celebration of life for a good neighbour, Carol-Ann Larocque Lonsdale, who passed away this morning. "Your memory is a blessing." (Also songs that could be about my neighbourhood in Lowest Town & more music for mere mortals.) |
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| May. 1, 2024 | Reverberating Renny | MAY DAY MAYHEM! 52% songs for the Workers. 34% New Releases. 33% Canadian Content. What are the odds? |
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| Apr. 24, 2024 | Ian Jeans | HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE! A real mix from doo-wop to greasy garage skronk to punk chugalug. Squeeze in a nod to Eric Carmen. |
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| Apr. 17, 2024 | Retrorocket Renny | SAY WHAT? Decoding the ancient languages of vout-o-reenee, hep & jive. What is the true meaning of "Tutti Frutti", "Shoobie oobie", or "Oop Shoop"? 2 hours of jump, jive & gibberish in R&B, rockabilly, jazz & rock & roll dialects. |
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| Apr. 10, 2024 | Recumbent Renny | Dub experiments, echo accidents, jazz equivalence & rootin' rock pigs. |
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| Apr. 3, 2024 | Respectable Renny | Do the cab ride slide! More women who could kick my ass with new music from Wise Guise, Good2Go, WiMP! & The Stolen Moans. More of The Wabi Sabis new collection & other assorted tidbits of scrappy music. |
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| Mar. 27, 2024 | Ian Jeans | BITS AND BITES! A different handful every time. 60's Yorkville, slick country, tartan teenagers, and more garage stomp. Myna Birds, Randypeters, Bay City Rollers, with new stuff from Wise Guise, Sleeveens, and Nicolette & The Nobodies. |
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| Mar. 20, 2024 | Retractable Renny | WHAM! BAM! THANK YOU GLAM! Seventies glam, some neo-glam, some whamma blamma and a set of music dedicated to a creep. |
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| Mar. 13, 2024 | Reconstructed Renny | SPRING FEVER: New & old rock 'n' roll, soul, a pinch of blues, country, instrumentals & even some goddamn folk. A feature on The Wabi Sabis, a supergroup from London, Ontario & their new release "22 Heartbreaking Works of Staggering Genius". |
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| Mar. 6, 2024 | Resourceful Renny | SOLO! DUO! TRIO! The second half of a tribute to Dex Romweber, featuring his solo albums & his work with his sister, Sara, in the Dex Romweber Duo. Also featuring Good2Go's brand new EP "If You Want It" & the Battle Of The One-Man Bands at House of Targ. |
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| Feb. 28, 2024 | Ian Jeans | BRAND NEW CLASSIC ROCK! Now sounds from the future and the past. Including New York Dolls, Fall-Outs, Dik Van Dykes. And a few more Dex Romweber goodies. |
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| Feb. 21, 2024 | Regretfully Renny | A musical tribute to "Singer, guitarist, artist and bon vivant, Dexter Romweber..." who has died far too soon. Then a feature of the original blues, R&B and gospel that Elvis covered in his career. Finishing with a request for some Piedmont Blues. |
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| Feb. 14, 2024 | Renouncing Renny | LOVE SHOULD HAVE A WARNING LABEL! Celebrating Valentine's Day with songs about love & the carnage it can bring. Goodbye Mojo. Goodbye Wayne Kramer. |
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| Feb. 7, 2024 | Reprobate Renny | A VOLATILE MIX of soul, reggae, ska, surf, jazz, super rock, boogie woogie, rockabilly; with covers, mothers & instrumentals galore. |
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| Jan. 31, 2024 | Ian Jeans | POST-PUNKS, SOUL SISTERS, AND ROCKABILLY CATS! What more do you need? How about some NY scum skronk, Aussie aggression, and Power-pop pioneers? We got all that, too! |
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| Jan. 24, 2024 | Redline Renny | The Cadillac Riot. 2 hours of V-8 powered, gas guzzling, carbon-emitting musical fun about Cadillacs. |
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| Jan. 17, 2024 | Rediscovering Renny | The reissue of Pearl Harbour's 1980 album, "Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost Too", a new rockabilly album from Jittery Jack with Amy Griffin on guitar and a new EP by grease-a-billy rockers, Diablogato, a set of Canuckabilly and finishing off with the blues. |
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| Jan. 10, 2024 | Rooster Renny | This is what happens when your host is trapped in traffic, in an Uber that is playing Top 40 radio. Enough with the autotuned music! Now I crave hillbilly boogie, jump blues, the chicken rhythm, jazz, funk & sweet pan music. |
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| Jan. 3, 2024 | Rejected Renny | I hate pigeonholes. I ain't no punk. I'm not a hard rock hammerhead. I'm not a rock-pig. I'm not a rockabilly. I'm not a jazz aficionado. This show is like the weather, if you don't like it, just wait 10 minutes. |
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| Dec. 27, 2023 | Ian Jeans | POST CHRISTMAS SOUL R&B REGGAE CHILL OUT. Stress-free melodies from Jackie Mittoo, The Meters, De La Soul, Betty Everett and more, more, more! |
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| Dec. 20, 2023 | Rogue Renny | More music in the blues-punk continuum. A set of BAH HUMBUG holiday music. New release cocktails served up courtesy of Rum Bar Records. Dex Romweber's 1st release in 7 years and the new Barrence Whitfield and the Savages recording. |
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| Dec. 13, 2023 | Ian Jeans | SONGS FROM THE SQUARED CIRCLE: Join Ian to hear a set of singing wrestlers and grappling greats. Plus the usual/unusual mélange of musical mayhem with a few seasonal treats scattered throughout. John Cale, NRBQ, XTC, Reigning Sound, and plenty more. |
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| Dec. 6, 2023 | Relocating Renny | What about Frankie & Johnny? More thanks with some listener requests, the Walk 'Em rhythm & crazy country. |
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| Nov. 29, 2023 | Ian Jeans | SUPER RIOT DANCE PARTY NOW! From dance-floor fillers to 80's Nunavut metal, the Riot covers a lot of ground. Killing Joke, Young Fathers, Northern Haze, L7 and....Cliff Richard? |
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| Nov. 22, 2023 | Ruthless Renny | Today the four R's: A Raucous Rockin' Renny's Riot featuring the scrappiest gut-bucket punk, blues & doo wop. Also a heated musical debate on he pros & cons of Elvis & a set with local punk originators. |
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| Nov. 15, 2023 | Respectfully Renny | THANK YEE DEAR DONORS! |
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| Nov. 8, 2023 | Ian Jeans | FUNDING DRIVE RIOT BAMA LAMA DING DONG! Our second funding drive Riot! Join Ian for tunes about radio and money. Punk, Funk, Reggae, and lots more. Please help keep community radio on the air. Donate to CKCU to keep independent voices alive! |
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| Nov. 1, 2023 | Ripcord Renny | Putting the FUN into Funding Drive with anthems for beggars, killer covers and smut for bucks. Music from 1930 to 2023. |
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| Oct. 25, 2023 | Ian Jeans | Hallowe'en Spooky Special. Terrifying tunes from garage-rock ghouls, rocking rockabillies, and grotesque goths. |
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| Oct. 18, 2023 | Rat-Bastard Renny | Catl.: are they blues-punk or punk-blues? DO THE MULE BOOGIE. Hear jump blues mother-covers, a set of punk rock, a CanCon cram & some solid soul. |
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| Oct. 11, 2023 | Rearguard Renny | New releases, psychedelic sounds, country instrumentals, mother-covers, whamma blamma & more |
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| Oct. 4, 2023 | Ruthless Renny | WOBBLE WHILE YOU WORK! Another hip swaying, hump day Riot, with everything from five & drum grooves to swamp punk, from jug bands to solid funk. Expect New Orleans R&B, jump blues, sludge-a-billy, surf instrumentals, ska and a waltz or two. |
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| Sep. 27, 2023 | Ian Jeans | OUT OF CONTROL! Delinquent pop, NYC scuzz, Antipodean punk legends, and maybe the weirdest George Jones song ever. Chubby and the Gang, Booji Boys, Basic Bitches and lots more. |
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| Sep. 20, 2023 | Roasted Renny | HOG WILD: Wham! Blam! A Cancon cram! Pearls about swine, new releases, old gems & too much attitude. |
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| Sep. 13, 2023 | Rickety Renny | HARPING ON ABOUT IT: Blues harp in punk rock, country harmonica in hillbilly boogie, Jean Caffeine in Ottawa & a couple of mother-covers included. |
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| Sep. 6, 2023 | Raspy Renny | WHAMMA BLAMMA: BETWEEN ROCK & A HARD PACE. A feature on "Robust Action" a brand new EP from Toronto's Early Tombs, more new releases from NOBRO, the Cruzados & the Cornfed Project. Expecting a Meteors shower in the afternoon & the bands of Austen Morrow. |
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| Aug. 30, 2023 | Ian Jeans | IGGY IS COMING, LOOK BUSY! New treasures, old obscurities. A veritable flea market of the best music on the planet! Along with Mr. James Osterberg Jr. you'll hear Sham 69, Dead Boys, Muffs, and way tons more! And a couple of new Public Animal ditties! |
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| Aug. 23, 2023 | Rancorous Renny | WHISKEY, SEX, GUNNS & THE UNDERTONES. |
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| Aug. 16, 2023 | Rarin' Renny | THE WORLD'S OLDEST TEENAGER: Reclaiming my title with songs about teenagers, trains, "motor sickles" and Who covers. Jazz & Western Swing from the dirty Thirties, to the new whamma blamma of today. 89 years of great music. |
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| Aug. 9, 2023 | Wrongfully Renny | HOT ENOUGH TO KILL A CACTUS! Sizzling new releases from Tav Falco's Panther Burns, JJ & The Real Jerks, Richard Duguay, Muck & The Mires & The Conscience Pilate. Killer country. Two of a kind from Al Perry, The Bug Club, John Schooley & His One Man Band. |
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| Aug. 2, 2023 | Wretched Renny | MOVE TOO FAST; GROOVE TO LAST. Learning to slow down, a feature on the The Vanrays' new album, "Put It Out", organ powered madness and the longest track ever played on the Riot (and it's jazz!). |
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| Jul. 26, 2023 | Ian Jeans | IF YOU'RE NOT PREPARED TO HAVE A HAPPENING...MOVE BACK! Sardonic country, psychedelic boy bands, behemoth organ jams and way more! Plus new songs from Taxi Girls, JEEN., Sweeping Promises, and Private Lives. |
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| Jul. 19, 2023 | Rehab Renny | THAT HORSE HAS ALREADY LEFT THE BARN. Songs inspired by teenage rage, healthcare & more. Featuring the new free Swagger compilation, The Master Plan's new album, new music from CLONE, the Penske File & The Goods. |
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| Jul. 12, 2023 | Reprehensible Renny | More curveballs than a Sandy Koufax no hitter, with island hopping music, roller-skating songs, some country & rockabilly grit & grind & finishing off with some unhinged strings. |
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| Jul. 5, 2023 | Renegade Renny | SLOP, SQUAT & STROLL! Scraping the bottom of the gutbucket with great grunt music past and present. Rockabilly, screamin' R&B, rockin' boogie woogie, wild Canuck instrumentals & more. |
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| Jun. 28, 2023 | Ian Jeans | UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED! Brain bucket required! Strap in for epic sonic derangement, obscure tributes, nods to lost geniuses, and a whole set of Punky Pride Month Thrashing!! Kid Congo, EXWHITE, Bowie, and maybe the fab 4? |
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| Jun. 21, 2023 | Rampant Renny | Sounds for the summer solstice with new releases & old recordings, a set of fight songs, a tribute to recently deceased singer & label owner, Justine Covault & more. |
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| Jun. 14, 2023 | Red Meat Renny | THE GRILL CAN'T HELP IT! Rhythm & Blues Bar-B-Q & picnic. With songs about hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad and ice cream, we've got all the fixings for a cookout! Old school R&B, funk, country, rockabilly & R&R to feed your soul. |
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| Jun. 7, 2023 | Riled Renny | ANGST & ACID: Action packed with music from the Sixties to the present. Expect songs about angst, attitude & acid. |
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| May. 31, 2023 | Ian Jeans | The Taller the Hair, the closer to God! Tune in for whacked-out multi-octave vocalizations, searing Aussie punk, and a tribute to CKCU's The Sixites. Oh, and some vintage hoser rock! Meat Puppets, Goddo, Yardbirds, Hateful Snake, Yma Sumac and more. |
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| May. 24, 2023 | Respiratory Renny | HEAVY BREATHING: Brass & sax powered music past & present, from original Jamaican ska from the 60s to 2nd wave ska, psychobilly, punk & whamma blamma. Also more women who could kick my ass. |
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| May. 17, 2023 | Rancorous Renny | Angry whamma blamma, prickly punk, rebellious rockabilly, cantankerous country, recalcitrant rhythm & blues. Perfect music when you are only halfway through the work week. |
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| May. 10, 2023 | René "Bon Ton Roulet" Godiér, S'il vous plaît,eh!? | Four long sets starting with a set of accordion powered zydeco & rock & roll; a feature on "Deux", the new recording by The Vanier Playboys; a set of whamma blamma inspired by a song and finishing with a set of blistering new releases & Seventies rawk. |
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| May. 3, 2023 | Recycling Renny | ANTHEMS OF KIRKLANDIA - The long lost "Volume, Contrast , Brilliance" fill-in. Celebrating Steve Kirkland's show with an eclectic mix of modern music (including some artists he's recommended over the years). |
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| Apr. 26, 2023 | Ian Jeans | EINSTEIN'S BRAIN'S IN HAMILTON! Tune in for details! Also: cranked-up clatter, corporate cowpunk, and spotlight on the new Confusionaires album "Westernization" |
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| Apr. 19, 2023 | Remix Renny | FUNKY, BUT....Music that's funkier than my armpit on a hot summer day, some covers of Bob Dylan songs, hot harmonica from Texas harp master Ted Roddy & a feature on Peter & The Wolves new rockabilly album, "Worth The Trouble". |
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| Apr. 12, 2023 | Recumbant Renny | New music from Rocket 808, The Atomic Tempunauts, The Tearaways & Vanity Mirror. Older music from Rod Stewart, Dave Davies, The Dragsters, Talking Heads, The Mekons & more. |
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| Apr. 5, 2023 | Repo Renny | THE RETURN OF THE MOTHER COVER: Original songs paired with a cover version. Drinking singles, hearing doubles. |
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| Mar. 29, 2023 | Ian Jeans | TOO MUCH GUITAR! Is there such a thing? New choodlings from Night Finger, The Hitmakers and Ian Blurton's Future Now. Classic snarls from Television, Hellacopters, and Modernettes. Squeezing as much distorted brain rot into the radiowaves as possible! |
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| Mar. 22, 2023 | Responsible Renny | A HUMP DAY HODGEPODGE of great music past & present! Hot off the presses: the new Mystery Date EP from Simon, JJ & friends, with a surf instrumental, a punk cover & two new Doo-wop songs. It's a Riot that starts with Doo-wop & finishes with dub. |
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| Mar. 15, 2023 | Rooster Renny | ROOSTERS & RELIGION for a rockin' good time. Tune in for some laughs, some tears, some cock rockers (songs about roosters), great gospel & CanCon cover versions. |
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| Mar. 8, 2023 | Resurgent Renny | WOMEN WHO COULD KICK MY ASS: An assortment of female fronted bands for International Women's Day. Estrogen powered punk, rockers & reggae from Amyl & The Sniffers, Claudette, NOBRO, Millie, The Sorels, Nora Dean, The Clams, Thee Headcoatees & more. |
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| Mar. 1, 2023 | Erratically Renny | Run Of The Mill Riot. Gist of the argument, grist for the mill.... Some big boss sounds from Boston, L.A., Vancouver, Toronto: Punk, garage rock, whamma blamma & rock 'n' roll. Old grievances & new releases. |
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| Feb. 22, 2023 | Ian Jeans | BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL!! From the famous to the obscure, tune in to hear great music from The OBGMs, Black Merda, Jackie Shane, Dirtbombs and more, more, more! Two hours of garage distortion, roots shambles, and other aural diversions. |
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| Feb. 15, 2023 | Rip-Roarin' Renny | BEER: THE GATEWAY DRINK. From beer benders to wine, whiskey & weed. |
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| Feb. 8, 2023 | Rousing Renny | The African-American roots of rock & roll & some libation for the nation with an hour and a half of RHYTHM & BOOZE songs. Cheers to Black History Month. Bottoms Up. |
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| Feb. 1, 2023 | Reversing Renny | A collision of the past with the present, starting with a feature on the Welsh trio, The Bug Club. Then a tribute to recently deceased rockabilly, Johnny Powers. A ferocious Can Con cram & in the last half hour, hep music for sugar crazed toddlers. |
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| Jan. 25, 2023 | Ian Jeans | RUNNIN' ON FUMES! Two hours of gunk punk, teenager anger, and pent-up pop. Slip'n'slide in the grease pits of the Riot's cluttered garage. Durango 95, Arson, Black Halos, Pink Fairies, Gun Club keep the wheels spinnin'! |
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| Jan. 18, 2023 | Rebellious Renny | Vintage Sixties music or a reproduction? If it still sounds great, WHO CARES? Also a Can Con Catl. drive & a set of music on Joe Strummer's dime. |
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| Jan. 11, 2023 | Rocksteady Renny | A DOG'S BRUNCH with a mad mix of genres including glam rock, island music with ska, rocksteady & reggae originals, big drums, angry young men, an amphibious assault with songs about frogs & more. |
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| Jan. 4, 2023 | Resolute Renny | FULL CIRCLE! Hepcat jazz from the Forties, more music about underwear, ripping songs, girls groups, new releases & ska. A Can Con cram, featuring Toronto's Ichi-Bons, "Live In Tucson Vol. 3" & Andy Butler's latest CD, "Years Of This". |
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| Dec. 28, 2022 | Ian Jeans | MID-TEMPO MERRIMENT! A mellow holiday breather. Soul, funk, reggae, ska, dub, some vintage Ontario bands and a few seasonal ditties. Relax with Ray Charles, Bob Marley, Bowie, Frank Soda, Tess Parks, a mini Stax tribute, and plenty more. |
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| Dec. 21, 2022 | Reindeer Renny | That seasonal Solstice sell-out: THE RETURN OF THE REINDEER RIOT. What will the Whamma Blamma Santa stuff down your chimney? Rhythm & Blues, boogie woogie, jump blues, soul, country, folk, punk rock, ska & reggae. |
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| Dec. 14, 2022 | Reactive Renny | WHAMMA GLAMMA! The brand new E.P. "Love Your Rock n' Roll" from Winnipeg's meanest trio, The Sorels. Plus some holiday goodies, to wind you up for the yuletide season & some old school Canucklehead punk rock, to keep you warm (& the Riot legal!). |
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| Dec. 7, 2022 | Reverentially Renny | A twofer Riot. Starting with WHAT WAVE SURFING: Great Canadian garage rock from the 80's & 90's featured on the What Wave cassettes. WILKO, OVER & OUT. In memory of the late, great guitarist & pub rocker, Wilko Johnson. |
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| Nov. 30, 2022 | Ian Jeans | PRE-PROTO-POST EVERYTHING! Lean into the garage plonk, country honk, and punk skronk. From right-on classics to left-field pop weirdness. And a couple of new songs mixed-in. |
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| Nov. 23, 2022 | Radio Renny | THANKS FOR GIVING SHOW! More covers than sense. Piano powered rockers. A special live Can Con Cram with The Ichi-Bons & more of the boogie woogie, honky tonk, rockabilly, Rhythm & Blues, punk rock, rock & roll you've come to expect. |
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| Nov. 16, 2022 | Road Rash Renny | GIRLS & GRILLS! Songs about hot girls, hot rods & hot hamburgers. |
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| Nov. 9, 2022 | Requesting Renny | RIOT RADIOTHON: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & Most Importantly - Money. A polite request for donations to CKCU. |
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| Nov. 2, 2022 | Ian Jeans | FUNDING DRIVE PARTY TIME! Help support community radio. If you can make a donation today, it would make a HUGE difference! |
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| Oct. 26, 2022 | Deejay Decay | RITUAL RIOT - Songs about ghosts, monsters, vampires, witches, werewolves & candy. Perfect for some pre-Halloween shivering & shaking, cowering & quaking. |
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| Oct. 19, 2022 | Ian Jeans | GET YOUR KICKS! Hi-Energy rocknroll, Canadian punk duos, international hardcore, and WAAAY MORE! Oh, and two really long songs! |
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| Oct. 12, 2022 | Roots Relic | Starting in the Dirty Thirties with hokum, western swing & jazz mother-covers. Getting country-fried in the second set, ballads for close dancing in the third, ending with a tribute to John Mortensen, guitarist & vocalist in the Mono Men, RIP. |
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| Oct. 5, 2022 | Rough Ridin' Renny | WHAMMA BLAMMA ON A WEDNESDAY - Gritty cow punk, hope from the late Seventies, Mod music for "now" people, a tribute to trash & assorted musical mayhem. New music. Old music. Great music. |
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| Sep. 28, 2022 | Ian Jeans | Nuts and Bolts: a real variety show but no ventriloquists or plate-spinners in sight. New music from Mad Mojo Jett, The Chats, Broken Baby. Classics from Hüsker Dü, Big Boys, Junior Wells...plus a whole bunch of other great tunes. |
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| Sep. 21, 2022 | Kid Caffeine | MEAN FROM CAFFEINE! Two eclectic sets of music in honour of the sacred bean. Wham! Bam! A Can Con cram. Some sizzling soul covers & handclapping jazz. |
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| Sep. 14, 2022 | Red Rum Renny | YO-HO-HO & A BARREL OF RUM BAR! Great new Rock 'n' Roll from the prolific Boston indie label Rum Bar Records. And a frantic attempt to make my 35 percent Canadian content (CanCon). |
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| Sep. 7, 2022 | Recuperating Renny | A set of music inspired by my shoulder surgery. Simon Chardiet's brand new EP: Emotional Support Cockroach. Walter Daniels & The Del Valle Trustees latest album. Some ferocious whamma-blamma Canadiana & a 1/2 dozen smokin' mother-covers! |
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| Aug. 31, 2022 | Ian Jeans | WORK-A-DAY-WORLD! A pre-Labour Day music celebration. Whether you're crunchin' numbers, raisin' kids or pushin' a broom, here's a crew of songs celebrating all the grafters that make it happen. Warren Zevon, Beasts of Bourbon, Wall of Voodoo and more. |
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| Aug. 24, 2022 | Recidivist Renny | GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!: Hillbilly boogie, rockabilly, psychobilly, western swing, honk tonk, punk rock & whamma blamma. |
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| Aug. 17, 2022 | Retro Renny | RETRO-ROCKET RIOT! Boogie Woogie women, wailin' Rhythm & Blues in the 1st hour; Canadian punk pairs & some new whamma blamma in the second. |
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| Aug. 10, 2022 | Responding Renny | GLAM, GLITTER & GRIT - The death of the western frontier, the disappointment of post-punks, tales from the gut bucket, ex-pat soul, reggae & rockabilly & Walter Daniels new single! |
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| Aug. 3, 2022 | Reprehensible Renny | Hot guitar slop, Tex-Mex, mother-covers galore, songs about woodpeckers, rockabilly, R'n'B, whamma blamma & 37% Can Con. Who could ask for anything else? |
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| Jul. 27, 2022 | Ian Jeans | Motorcity proto-punk, Cowtown indie, Aussie aggression and Centretown R'n'R! AND ANN-MARGARET! |
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| Jul. 20, 2022 | Repo Renny | ROCK & ROLL RECESS - Celebrate the Wednesday grind with caffeinated music past & present. New music from J Prozac, The Master Plan, The Magnificent. Great whamma blamma Canadiana, rockabilly, soul & some covers of the songs I won't play. |
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| Jul. 13, 2022 | Reluctant Renny | IF IT WASN'T FOR BAD LUCK: Gospel, soul, blues, rock & roll, punk, post punk, whamma blamma & the Can Con Cram. |
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| Jul. 6, 2022 | Recovering Renny | Rock & Roll & it's variants: punk, glam, whamma blamma Canadiana, psychobilly. Plus a little soul, gospel, blues & R&B. Music from '55 to '22. |
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| Jun. 29, 2022 | Ian Jeans | HOTHOUSE HOLLERING! Bar-band blast, punk-blues skronk, Cowtown garage and ...gospel! And much much more for your weekly Wednesday musical funfest! |
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| Jun. 22, 2022 | Rigorous Renny | Whistle through your Wednesday with funk, punk, blues & junk. |
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| Jun. 15, 2022 | Resourceful Renny | Let's all go to the NOBRO show! New music from Abbie Barrett. Why you should never call a harmonica a mouth organ & the stomp & grunt music you've come to expect. |
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| Jun. 8, 2022 | Resurgent Renny | The roots of rockabilly with the music of Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins in the first hour of the Riot & big greasy organ in country, blues, gospel, soul, jazz & ska in the second. |
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| Jun. 1, 2022 | Rigorous Renny | NFT: No F*#king Theme, just a smattering of rockabilly, punk, blues, blues punk, garage rock, hot & dusty honky tonk, a fiddle breakdown, covers & oh yeah, rock & roll. |
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| May. 25, 2022 | Ian Jeans | SUMMER 2022 KICK-OFF! Dig out the pedal pushers and the bermudas for two hours of new, old and everything in between. Black Halos, Saints, Devo, etc. New gems from Romero, Snuff, Chinese Medicine. And dudes, leave the speedos in the back of the closet. |
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| May. 18, 2022 | Regretful Renny | ADAM'S RIB, EVE'S WOMB - Women only. Never underestimate women. |
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| May. 11, 2022 | Wrong-way Renny | In the 1st hour: SO YOU WANNA BE A UNITAR STAR. A special set of screamin' R&B & rock & roll from the late Art Rupe's Specialty Records. 2nd Hour: POWDER IN THE CHOWDER - Featuring a blast o' Boston with the Dogmatics brand new E.P.: "Drop That Needle". |
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| May. 4, 2022 | Recessed Renny | AS SEEN ON T.V. - Songs inspired by the cathode ray tube of stupidity: the television. Who knew the idiot box could inspire such great music? |
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| Apr. 27, 2022 | Ian Jeans | CHILLS, BILLS and PILLS! Push the furniture a back and cut a rug to twangy horse operas, sneering street punk, 60's delinquents, and the usual junk heap of Riot-y greatness! GBH, Nomeansno, Iggy, Chieftones, and a new Chris Page song and plenty more. |
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| Apr. 20, 2022 | Rioting Renny | Thank you & goodbye to Chris Bailey, the lead singer of the Australian band, The Saints, who passed away, on April 6, at the age of sixty five. |
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| Apr. 13, 2022 | Retroactive Renny | MONKEYING AROUND with a Merlot mouth - a feature on Wine Lips, who are playing in town on Friday night. Also the usual jungle jive, with monkey music, Tarzan tunes, cover versions & instrumentals galore. |
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| Apr. 6, 2022 | Retrograde Renny | ROCK 'N' ROLL ESPRESSO - A shot of Punk, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Jazz, Blues & R&B. Saturday night music concentrated & caffeinated for the midweek grind. |
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| Mar. 30, 2022 | Ian Jeans | We got some mutant garage noise, some back porch blues weirdness, and a bit of deep organ funk. If that gets your motor running, we also have an extra scoop of grease-soaked skronk, |
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| Mar. 23, 2022 | Reverent Renny | DROP THAT NEEDLE - Featuring The Dogmatics' brand new single, along with 11 cover versions, 10 blistering R&B instrumentals & 35% Canadian content (as required by law). Expect punk, blues, rock, R&B, rockabilly & the unexpected. |
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| Mar. 16, 2022 | Resurgent Renny | HIJACK THE RADIO! Rock from the early 70's, gutbucket blues from the late 90's, songs about disco, mighty greasy Rhythm & Blues instrumentals & rockabilly. |
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| Mar. 9, 2022 | Re-energized Renny | Covers, originals, obitituaries & some of the gal pals of whamma blamma. |
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| Mar. 2, 2022 | Resistance Renny | PUTIN ON THE FRITZ - Songs to make Mad Vlad sad. |
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| Feb. 23, 2022 | Ian Jeans | Life in the City! Loads of music; everything from coastal city tributes to Soviet-era dance clubs. |
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| Feb. 16, 2022 | Relevant Renny | To celebrate the 110th anniversary of Arizona's statehood the ALL ARIZONA CLAMBAKE. The A-Z of AZ and the L.S.D. (Lower Sonoran Desert). |
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| Feb. 9, 2022 | Rejected Renny | LOVE SONGS FOR LOSERS - A pre-Valentine's Day warning about the pitfalls of love. For all those who harbour a lost love, a broken heart and bittersweet memories. |
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| Feb. 2, 2022 | Rational Renny | TIRED OF TRUCULENT TRUCKERS? Tune in to tune out the big rig, plague rat bullshit. To protest the protest, I won't be playing any trucking songs on this week's show. |
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| Jan. 26, 2022 | Ian Jeans | Bombastic bangers, Grumbling garage grinders, Crunchin' college-radio classics, and way-way more! XTC, Stranglers, Slade, Roky and, yes, the Detroit Cobras. |
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| Jan. 19, 2022 | Raging Renny | ROCK & ROLL WRECKAGE: Slammed, glammed & rammed - A collision of the past & the present. |
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| Jan. 12, 2022 | Irrelevant Renny | RAVE FROM THE GRAVE - 20TH Century, post-modern, angst driven, rock & roll, thump music from 1957 to 2021. |
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| Jan. 5, 2022 | Resolute Renny | Deja vu in 2022. HAPPY GROUNDHOG YEAR! |
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| Dec. 29, 2021 | Ian Jeans | Bowie 75/75 Bowie Minutes. Celebrating the upcoming 75th anniversary of David Bowie's birth. And some high-octane burners to follow including Wine Lips, Average Times, Anti-Queens and more! |
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| Dec. 22, 2021 | Reindeer Renny | REINDEER RIOT - What did the whamma blamma Santa bring you for Xmas? 41 smoulderin' sonic stockin' stuffers. Wait! If it's smouldering, it could be coal.... |
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| Dec. 15, 2021 | Unlucky Renny | NEW & ABUSED - Current Can Con with great whamma-blamma Canadiana from the Real Sickies, pulsing post-punk of Wine Lips & Autogramm & great power pop from Dany Laj & The Looks. |
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| Dec. 8, 2021 | Irascible Renny | Ya wanna fight? |
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| Dec. 1, 2021 | Radioactive Renny | SONIC SMORGASBORD! Fill your plate with punk, post-punk, gutbucket trash, Canuckabilly, country, one man bands, & blues & boogie piano for dessert. |
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| Nov. 24, 2021 | Ian Jeans | NOVEMBER NOISE! 70's glam thud, 80's garage fuzz, 90's gut bucket, 00's gunk punk, 10's aggro-rock, and 20's heavy stomp. So many decades, so many great tunes! |
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| Nov. 17, 2021 | Wrongheaded Renny | DO I SOUND ANGRY? The music of the miffed, starting off with some screamin' punk rock, transitioning from swampy music to country music, finishing off with blues & rockabilly. |
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| Nov. 10, 2021 | Unresolved Renny | Driving Fund... um, I mean...Funding Drive...A fine balance of begging & eclectic music to entice you to contribute to community radio. New music, old music, blue music, blues music. |
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| Nov. 3, 2021 | Requesting Renny | Putting the FUN in FUNDING DRIVE! A Whamma Blamma Extravaganza. Songs about radio. Songs not quite suitable for radio. Local bands, famous bands, unknown bands....even bands from Missouri. Contribute whatcha can.... |
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| Oct. 27, 2021 | Ian Jeans | Halloween Havoc! It's all mini chocolate bars and no crappy molasses kisses. This week's episode is a CKCU Pledge Drive preview. Don't be a-scared! Donate to community radio! |
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| Oct. 20, 2021 | Returning Renny | Woman of music who could kick my ass (most of 'em). And some folk, some country, some rockabilly, The Scarlet Drops new compilation & even some Dylan. |
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| Oct. 13, 2021 | Repeating Renny! | TWO OF A KIND! Songs in pairs, whether it be a pair of songs by the same artist, or in the same genre, or pairs of covers. Twice the fun (with 1/2 the work). |
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| Oct. 6, 2021 | Ian Jeans | MOOD SWINGS! From energetic boogie rock to agitated Canadian power-pop to pessimistic proto-punk. A therapeutic session with the likes of Cheap Trick, Camp Radio, Pere Ubu, Mercy Now and plenty more. |
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| Sep. 22, 2021 | Recoiling Renny | GUN PLAY! Fifty caliber fun with Soul, Ska, old R&B, Country, Jazz, Hillbilly Boogie, Rockabilly, Reggae, Punk Rock & Instrumentals about firearms. |
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| Sep. 15, 2021 | Ravenous Renny | RHYTHM & BLUES PIG OUT! A non-kosher smorgasbord of R&B, jazz & punk about food, including songs in praise of pork, hot dogs, taters & gator meat. Followed by a punk rock dessert with the Can Con Cram & more desert demos from Arizona Al. |
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| Sep. 8, 2021 | Raucous Renny | Not again!?! MOTHER COVERS - Cover versions and the originals that spawned them. Roots of the Raunch Hands & instrumentals galore. |
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| Sep. 1, 2021 | Reluctant Relic | The Good, THE BAD & The Ugly. (Not that I'm one to judge. I've got a face for radio....) |
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| Aug. 25, 2021 | Ian Jeans | 70's VINTAGE to MODERN FUZZ. SPOOKY FOLK to NY PUNK FREAKOUTS. Enter into two hours of sonic reverie and exit totally refreshed. |
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| Aug. 18, 2021 | Relic | Funky soul, TALES FROM THE "BONE BARREL" & assorted space junk. |
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| Aug. 11, 2021 | Relic Renny | BLOWN SPEAKERS & SEARED FLESH. Revolting against the popular with caffeinated music, past & present. |
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| Aug. 4, 2021 | Retro Renny | Puttin' on the go-go boots & GETTIN' THE KINKS OUT. |
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| Jul. 28, 2021 | Ian Jeans | Shiny summer punk, simmering guitar pop, classic street gang r'n'r, thumping Eastern Bloc musings, and even a few crooners. Take a sunny afternoon drive, with a few hard turns, on this week's episode of the Riot. |
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| Jul. 21, 2021 | Relaxed Renny | ROOTS & ALGORITHMS-Resetting the whamma blamma filter, big & black & coming at you, pairs are wild, lots o' covers, Canuckabilly finish. |
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| Jul. 14, 2021 | Reoccurring Renny | WHAMBOOGIE!: A lotta laughs, droppin' horns, gunning for Peter, covering Sonny Burgess, a new punk single, some 60s throwbacks & more. |
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| Jul. 7, 2021 | Respectfully Renny | DANCING TOWARDS THE PRECIPICE - Free shots from Rum Bar Records, some summer funk & music by & about the indigenous. |
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| Jun. 30, 2021 | Ian Jeans | Punky, Funky, Reggae Party! |
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| Jun. 23, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | PRIDE ON THE SIDE with some LGBTQ2S jump blues, rock & roll, soul & punk, also blues for punks, horn powered instrumentals & the chicken songs of the week. |
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| Jun. 16, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | THE ELECTRIC ECLECTIC: (In order of appearance.) A soul raver, whamma blamma with horns, Motorhead covers, wham-bam-thank-you-glam & the chicken song of the week. |
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| Jun. 9, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | HOW HIGH? - Self medication through music. Prescribing some Memphis funk, Cancon punk, one liners, jump music, glam, a Can Con Cram & a full feathered set of chicken tunes. |
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| Jun. 2, 2021 | Unrepentant Renny | From drum machines, to reggae, to early punk, to whamma blamma Canadiana, to the chicken tune of the week. Gonna be a riot! |
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| May. 26, 2021 | Ian Jeans | Today's ingredients: psychedelic organ wheeze, prairie rockabilly, sixties garage pounding, a robot invasion, and a gutbucket of punk snarl. Mix vigorously and dig in! |
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| May. 19, 2021 | Recuperating Renny | FUST JUCKED UP! |
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| May. 12, 2021 | Kid "Spasm Cramp" Caffeine | Lowdown Lockdown Letdown Blues & Whamma Blamma plus the deep desert sounds of Gila Bend's Kim Chee Cowboy & the chicken song of the week. |
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| May. 5, 2021 | Reflective Renny | Covers of songs that I would never ever play, eclectic instrumentals, proto-rock & roll from Mexico, a psychobilly freak out, hot & dusty barn burners, songs about bugs & the chicken song of the week. |
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| Apr. 28, 2021 | Ian Jeans | FIRST SOLO TRIP! Join in as we island-hop from Italian western twang to devilish rocknroll to vintage UK punk. Side excursions include Scottish folk drone, sweaty TO bar bands, and sugar-fuelled dizzy spells. No passport required! |
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| Apr. 21, 2021 | Rueful Renny | KNOCKIN' SIXTY. Come mourn with me as I hold an Irish wake for my youth. Songs about growing old, some long lost cassette culture from the Scarlet Drops, a tribute to Al Foul & the chicken song of the week! |
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| Apr. 14, 2021 | Resentful Renny | SIMON SAYS - Featuring the new split E.P. with Simon & JJ & the Ball Breakin' Pricks, some ferocious N.Y.C. punk rock from the Bar Sinisters & not one, but three chicken songs this week. |
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| Mar. 31, 2021 | Ian & Renny | Two Man Riot! Ian joins Renny for dueling sets of garage wallop, R&B stomp, '60's skronk, and country craziness. Not to mention another chicken song! |
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| Mar. 24, 2021 | Radical Renny | BARRICADES OF MARS - Music that's outta this world with cosmic covers, interplanetary punk, jazz, blues & a jug band or two & a chicken song of the week. |
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| Mar. 17, 2021 | Recalcitrant Renny | BUNKER BUSTERS! |
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| Mar. 10, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | BLAST OFF! A rocket powered riot with rockabilly, R&B, rock & roll, whamma blamma & blues. |
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| Mar. 3, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | PLAGUE PICKS FROM THE CULTURE BUNKER - A rhumba boogie gumbo of jazz piano, calypso, Rico, reggae, ska, gospel, acoustic music, quarantine rock & the Can Con Cram. (Thank you ma'am!) |
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| Feb. 24, 2021 | Kid Caffeine & Ian Jeans | TAG TEAM RIOT - With special co-host, Ian "The Artist" Jeans. Join us as we leap off of the top turnbuckle & wrestle up an eclectic mix of music: punk, power pop, cosmic jazz, ska, soul, rock & roll & Canuck rockabilly. |
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| Feb. 17, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | BLACK WHAMMA BLAMMA & ROCK & ROLL!!! |
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| Feb. 10, 2021 | Kid Caffeine & Ian Jeans | The first set is just a hint, the Scarlet Drops B-sides & in the 2nd hour, IAN'S INSURRECTION - Artist, animator & music geek, IAN JEANS, takes over in the second hour to blow your mind & your speakers with whamma blamma, glam, punk & rock & roll. |
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| Feb. 3, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | DRUNK IN THE AFTERNOON on drunken country, angry blues, retro-punk, stompin' R&B, the Cancon cram, mother covers & wicked whamma blamma. |
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| Jan. 27, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | DEAD HORSE MAINTENANCE - No flogging required. Social soul, punk covers, garage harp, guitar boogies, rare reggae, obscure alternatives, alt country, mariachi horns & more. |
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| Jan. 20, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | A KINDER, GENTLER, FUNKIER KINDA RIOT |
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| Jan. 13, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | JUST GO ALREADY! |
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| Jan. 6, 2021 | Kid Caffeine | EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK |
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| Dec. 30, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | Goodbye & GOOD RIDDANCE to 2020. |
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| Dec. 23, 2020 | Mudman the Miserable | Just say HELL NO TO MISTLETOE! For some, the lonely, the poor, the pagans, Xmas is no fun. Here's a collection of songs about the dark side of the holidays. |
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| Dec. 16, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | BLAST ZONES! Songs about riots, proto-soul, more originals & their progeny. You know the drill: Boogie Woogie, Jump Blues, Punk Rock, Hillbilly Boogie, Rock & Roll, Swing & Drunken Country. |
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| Dec. 9, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | HUMP DAY HOWL! Calling all wolves, love in a car & the influence of older R&B & Rock & Roll on punk rock. Beware of the square! |
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| Dec. 2, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | SIMON SAYS! Brand new Rockabilly From Rockaway release, "When You Ain't Got Money, You Gotta Work Fast!!" From Simon Chardiet & J.J. Murphy. The new reissue of Joey Miserable & The Worms L.P. & more big greasy organs than a porn movie. |
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| Nov. 25, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | SOCAN YOU SEE? The latest from Canada's greatest, UIC. Choice cuts from their new album - "FM Hill". Also spinning, a pinch of traditional music, a spoonful of blues, a smidgen of soul & a dollop of jazz. Don't fence me in, Dagnabbit! |
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| Nov. 18, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | The luck of a Canuck & SWEDES WITH NEEDS. A double barreled blast of Northern muscle. Whamma Blamma Canadiana to start & then going under the covers with Stockholm's garage rockers, the Nomads. |
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| Nov. 11, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | ALWAYS SCRAPPY! Brand new music from Michael P. & The Gullywashers. Nearly new music from Bloodshot Bill's latest album. Also local instrumentals, heartbreak in the honky tonk & that old insane shit that rocks. |
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| Nov. 4, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | Beggars can't be choosers but CHOOSERS CAN BE BEGGARS! |
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| Oct. 28, 2020 | Deejay Decay | RENNY'S ROT - A spooky spectacular Halloween Funding Drive Special with monstrous musical tricks & treats. Songs about witches, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, demons, witchdoctors, voodoo & other black arts. Don't be scared, just CLICK & CONTRIBUTE to CKCU |
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| Oct. 21, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | SIZE MATTERS! The big pulsing organ sound in ska, rocksteady, rockabilly, jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues, soul & garage rock. Pre-funding drive pandemonium. |
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| Oct. 14, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | CHICKEN DANCES, big honking tenors, the art of the squat, the Can Con Cram & some female angst. |
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| Oct. 7, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | COPS & ROBBERS-Acoustic, electric, eclectic & hectic with Coronavirus blues, schemes from TV, covers & their mothers & more songs about crime & punishment. |
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| Sep. 30, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | THAT'S COOL, THAT'S TRASH - Fast songs, slow songs, Elvis songs & live recordings for your concert cravings. Oh yeah, lest we forget the CanCon Cram. |
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| Sep. 23, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | HILLBILLY CALYPSO!?! Cover versions, some beat generated bongos, jungle drums, Hal Singer's honkin' tenor sax & other great indie music, past & present. |
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| Sep. 16, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | DRUMS ALONG THE OTTAWA or TIED TO THE TRACKS Mississippi fife & drum bands, the Royal Drummers of Burundi & more songs about trains. |
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| Sep. 9, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | HIPSTER HATRED - Free shots from Rum Bar Records, crazy Kemosabe sounds, soul, blues, the Can Con Cram & more. |
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| Sep. 2, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | MUSIC FOR A COFFEE JUNKIE & SOUL THAT'S A TAD BIT FUNKY |
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| Aug. 26, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | I'M A LITTLE MIXED UP. Who isn't? Maximum whamma blamma, retro-rockabilly, raucous R&B, crazy Cajun & mellow folk. Great gumbo almighty! |
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| Aug. 19, 2020 | Kid Caffeine | THAT TWANG THANG! Dedicated to Dick Altavista & "Both Kinds of Music". Hot & dusty tracks for your Hump Day routine. |
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| Aug. 12, 2020 | Returning Renny | THE RETURN OF THE RIOT! Sizzling seasonal summer scorchers. Sweaty punk, whamma blamma, rock & roll, boogie woogie, R&B, ska & reggae. |
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| Mar. 13, 2020 | Ready Renny | FEELING UNLUCKY PUNK? |
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| Feb. 28, 2020 | Retro Renny | DIGGIN' DEEP! Piano blues & boogie, R&B (Rhythm & Boogie), rockabilly boogie with a feature on Sleepy LaBeef & the Can Con Cram whamma blam, thank you ma'am! |
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| Feb. 14, 2020 | Rebuffed Renny | LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD! |
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| Jan. 31, 2020 | Reticent Renny | ALL COVERS - NO COVER! |
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| Jan. 17, 2020 | Ricochet Renny | DEVIL'S MUSIC AT MIDNIGHT! Put on the retrorockets, baby, cuz we is goin' back tonight. |
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| Jan. 3, 2020 | Reviled Renny | HANGOVER 2020! Head pounding, toilet hugging music for late night revellers. Songs about binge drinking, puking, rocking & anger management. |
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| Dec. 20, 2019 | Reindeer Renny | REINDEER RIOT - Unholy holiday music for solstice celebrations. The Whamma Blamma Santa says: "Oh! Oh! Oh! No future under the tree for you. You've all been bad!" |
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| Dec. 6, 2019 | Ranger Renny | RIOT ON THE RANGE! New alt-country, old honky tonk, barnyard blues, Western tinged whamma blamma & an all rockabilly Can Con Cram. |
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| Nov. 22, 2019 | Reactive Renny | CAFFEINE & ROCKET FUEL. New music from John Schooley's latest project, Rocket 808. Plus a combustible mixture of blues, pub rock, cowpunk, sleaze rock, psychobilly, post punk Marxists, alt-country & the Can Con Cram a la whamma blamma. |
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| Nov. 8, 2019 | Rip Roarin' Renny | MONEY (THAT'S WHAT I WANT)! - A not so subliminal sonic solicitation for funds. Keep whamma blamma, past & present, on the airwaves. |
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| Oct. 25, 2019 | Red Renny | MIDNIGHT MAYHEM - Seven inches of sound with 45's from The Mooks & The Slackers. New reissues of Simon & The Bar Sinisters & Evan Johns & The H-Bombs & a whole lot more. WARNING: The 1st set contains 4 slow songs in a row. |
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| Oct. 11, 2019 | Rocket Fuel Renny | ACTION PACKED - Big 70's RAWK, blues, whamma blamma & the CAN CON CRAM. Plus drinking wine with the Killer & cynical songs about politics. |
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| Sep. 27, 2019 | Rebellious Renny | TRIP 'N' FALL - Acoustic blues, hill country fife & drum bands, Cajun punk, French folk, Bahamian visions, Peruvian panpipes & whamma blamma. WARNING: Not your typical Riot. |
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| Sep. 13, 2019 | Ritual Renny | New releases from Boston's Rum Bar Records by The Dogmatics, The Gotham Rockets & Indonesian Junk. Blast off with Rocket 808's 1st single & news of a new L.P. on 12XU. This ain't Rock & Roll; this is ammunition! |
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| Aug. 30, 2019 | The Zen of Ren | Land of at least 21 dances....by Chris Montez, Evan Johns & The H-Bombs, The Swingin' Neckbreakers, Andre Williams, Otis Redding, Eddie Kirk, The Great Gaylord & more. |
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| Aug. 16, 2019 | Repugnant Renny | DYNAMITE AT MIDNITE: whamma blamma past & present with music about rockin' joints, revvin' motorcycles & how to dance the stomp. 1949-2014=65 years of musical mayhem in 2 hours. |
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| Aug. 2, 2019 | Restless Renny | Bad movies & good music. |
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| Jul. 19, 2019 | Rocksteady Renny | WHY JULY? A midnight sonic trip through rockabilly, country, blues, R&B, original Jamaican ska, New Orleans jazz & whamma blamma. The world's a mess, it's in my show... |
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| Jul. 5, 2019 | Rebellious Renny | Insomnia in stereo - Funk, punk, blues, garage & more. |
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| Jun. 21, 2019 | Reckless Renny | SOLSTICE STOMPERS - Music for insomniacs! |
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| Jun. 7, 2019 | "Bon Ton" Renny | Tonight at midnight: big boss harp, Cajun punk, Texan whamma blamma, Cancon drama & some fine chicken music. |
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| May. 24, 2019 | Renny | A twisted musical detour. |
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| May. 10, 2019 | Reactionary Renny | How fast is too fast? Caffeinated whamma blamma for your listening pleasure. |
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| Apr. 26, 2019 | Rock Pig Renny | Midnight blues, new music from Winnipeg's Danny Z & The Riff Raff & jungle music a la whamma blamma. |
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| Apr. 12, 2019 | Rampaging Renny | Organ music you won't hear in church. A genre jumpin' good time. |
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| Mar. 29, 2019 | Retro Renny | THERE'S A RIOT GOING ON! Midnight music about riots, more rock & roll, blues, rockabilly, instrumentals, old school R&B, soul, whamma blamma & original ska. This ain't your typical radio. This is music that matters. WARNING: May cause insomnia. |
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| Mar. 15, 2019 | RetroRocket Renny | ROUGH RIDE! Rockin' horse tunes (rockin' tunes about horses & mules), undercover muthas (inspired covers & the originals) & the Can Con Cram. |
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| Mar. 1, 2019 | Ragged Renny | March starts at midnight, so march into the month with Motorhead, The Monkees, The Revelators, The Replacements, Big Guitars From Texas, The Cattle and so much more. (WARNING: Loud, fast music! May cause insomnia.) |
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| Feb. 15, 2019 | Rejected Renny | POST VALENTINE'S DAY CARNAGE! Songs of heartache for the heartbroken, rawk & roll for the rejected & country for the wretched. Expect bitterness, cynicism & stupidity (& that's just the music). |
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| Feb. 1, 2019 | Retro Renny | For the first 2 hours of Black History Month: GREAT BLACK MUSIC! Blues, gospel, doowop, soul, funk, rhythm & blues, rock & roll & jazz. |
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| Jan. 18, 2019 | Rocket Renny | RUCKUS OR RIOT? Commander Cody, the Flamin' Groovies, Bob Dylan, the Fendermen & more manic midnight music that hopefully you've never heard before. |
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| Jan. 4, 2019 | Resolute Renny | First Riot of the year with music from Mickey Baker, C.C.R., Iggy Pop, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles & more. Renny's Riot, keeping you awake since 2018. |
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| Dec. 21, 2018 | Revelry Renny | PAGAN PARTY! Take back the solstice & party like a pagan should. Xmas songs by the New Bomb Turks, The Lazy Cowgirls, The Sonics & other solstice stocking stuffers from the whamma blamma Santa. |
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| Dec. 7, 2018 | Resurgent Renny | J.S. Bach & roll, rockin' fife & drum bands from Mississippi, a one man Can Con Cram with Bloodshot Bill and more noise from the garage. |
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| Nov. 23, 2018 | Relentless Renny | Hot tunes for the bitterly cold and coldly bitter out there: Rhythm & Blues for a cold night, punk/reggae reconstructions, scorching rockabetty divas and even a slow waltz or two. |
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| Nov. 9, 2018 | Retro Renny | MOTHER COVERS - Whamma blamma cover versions of popular songs from the Seventies, Sixties & Fifties. Groups covered include Cheap Trick, Jimi Hendrix, The Nightcrawlers, Big Joe Turner, BTO and more. |
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| Oct. 26, 2018 | Rotting Renny | RENNY'S RITUAL: A witches brew of terrifying tricks & treats & tunes about ghost, ghouls, vampires, zombies & werewolves. Listen if you dare, donate if you can. During office hours at (613) 520-3920, or online at www.ckcufm.com |
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| Oct. 12, 2018 | Resident Renny | MIDNIGHT MUSICAL MEDICINE - Blues, soul, R&B and punk rock songs about doctors, diseases & drugs. Plus some psychedelic soul & a shadowy countdown on the Can Con Cram. |
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| Sep. 28, 2018 | Renny the Relic & Java the Bean | ROCKIN' POSSESSED! Smelling sacrilegious with songs about religion...not religious songs! Kicking it off with a retro '60's thang, into some blues, soul, ska, punk and a Can Con Cram about our neighbours to the south. The weekend starts at midnight. |
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| Sep. 14, 2018 | Wrecked Renny & Java Man | Cajun, blues, punk, rock & roll, surf, psychedelia, whamma blamma, my favourite one man band and please stand for the Can Con Cram. Give a listen & join the riot! |
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| Aug. 31, 2018 | Relentless Renny & Java, the Rut | Midnight mayhem with Fish Karma and/or The DeRailleurs, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Three O'clock Train and other odds & sods. Plus a blues punk blowout & the ever popular Can Con Cram. Music to keep you up! |
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| Aug. 17, 2018 | Restless Renny & Kid Caffeine | DRUMS ALONG THE RIDEAU - An eclectic mix with a little punk, a little blues, a little rockabilly & a little jazz with a big ol' dash of hot Louisiana drumming makes for a whole lotta fun. Special guest cohost: Kid Caffeine |
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| Aug. 3, 2018 | Rabid Renny & Kid Caffeine | Another caffeine fuelled Whamma Blamma extravaganza with punk rock, pub rock, garage rock, surf rock, retro rock, alternative rock and a whole lotta roll to go with it. |
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| Jul. 20, 2018 | Ripsnortin' Renny & Brother Bubba | Insomnia in stereo with some old school punk, gutbucket stomp, whamma blamma and a hot & dusty CanCon cram. |
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| Jul. 6, 2018 | Raucous Renny & Java Man | Featuring tracks from the latest & greatest FISH KARMA &/or THE DeRAILLEURS download, "TIME TO SAY GOODBYE". Some old school reggae, the usual raunchy rock & roll & Whamma Blamma Canadiana. Tonight's theme: It's too hot! |
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| Jun. 22, 2018 | Rotten Renny & Brother Bubba | The Riot continues. What's this weeks mysterious midnight track gonna be? Plus tunes from the Evil Farm Children, Shadowy Men, Tom Waits, The Fleshtones, Devo, the Buzzcocks and The Cancon Cram: protecting Canadian culture since last month. |
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| Jun. 8, 2018 | Ready Renny & Kid Caffeine | Caffeinated music to keep you up and moving into the wee hours. Expect rockabilly, psychobilly, blues and some whamma blamma Canadiana. |
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| May. 25, 2018 | Revisionist Renny | RENNY'S RIOT: The weekend starts NOW! On tonight's show an eclectic mix of music, past and present. An old school generalissimo music program. Tonight's lesson: Not all that is jazzy is necessarily jazz. |
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| Jan. 29, 2015 | Ian Jeans |
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