Due to massive partying, international intrigue and falling commodity prices I have neglected to give you the playlists for the last two shows by Armitage Shanks on the Drastic Plastic Program on CKUT FM. In the interest of rectifying the situation and give Mr. Shanks his due I present to you his last two shows. Ckick away!

ARMITAGE SHANKS PLAYLIST — 3 SEPTEMBER 2007

Artist - Album - Track

The Boyfriends - The Boyfriends - Once Upon A Time
Nine Black Alps - Glitter Gulch EP - Over the Ocean
Apartment - The Dreamer Evasive - Everyone Says I’m Paranoid
The Twang - Love It When I Feel Like This - Two Lovers
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future - Its Not Over Yet
Jamie T - Panic Prevention - Sheila
Editors - Q Covered - Best of 86/06 - Orange Crush
Damien Rice - 9 - Rootless Tree
Paolo Nutini - These Streets - Jenny Don’t be Hasty
Arctic Monkeys - Flourescent Adolescent EP - The Bakery
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City - I Still Remember
We Are Scientists - The Bands 06 - Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt

ARMITAGE SHANKS PLAYLIST — 17 SEPTEMBER 2007

Artist - Album - Track

Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time in the West - Television
Kate Nash - Made of Bricks - Foundations
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future - Its Not Over Yet
The Enemy - We’ll Live and Die in These Towns - Had Enough
Cherry Ghost - Thirst for Romance - 4:00 AM
The Pigeon Detectives - Wait for Me - Take Her Back
Paolo Nutini - These Streets - These Streets
Jamie T - Panic Prevention - Salvador
Amy MacDonald - This is the Life - Poison Prince
Stereomovers  - One EP - Waiting

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Billed as a podcast dedicated to the “do it yourself” musician, the CD Baby DIY Music Podcast is a veritable treasure trove of useful information for the independent musician looking to make it in the biz on their own terms. Featuring both helpful information on the podcast blog as well as the podcast itself, this is a great place to find achievable stuff that is aimed at the working musician (i.e. one who doesn’t have a lot of cash).

This week’s episode is all about video and how it can help your career. Extremely helpful and they always play CD Baby artists so I would consider the podcast a “must listen” if you are a working musician. Check it out.

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Well another Rock and Roll Report Radio has come and gone and except for the glitch with Destination Nowhere due to a faulty CD player I think it went quite well. I owe the Street Brats and Full Breach Kicks one for that fuck up. This is what I played:

Song - Album - Artist

1. Love Somebody - Working Class Dogs - Handsome Devil
2. Let Her Go - Unreleased - The Meddling Kids
3. I Think About You - Unreleased - American Anthem
4. All Together Now - Passion Before Function - The Go Station
5. Hanging Like A Suicide - s/t - The Heavy Drapes
6. Rock and Roll - single - Poets and Pornstars
7. Hometown Hero - Doin’ You Nasty - Babylon Bombs
8. My Best Friends Hot - Because I’m Awesome - The Dollyrots
9. Wasted - Teflon Man - Naked Apes
10. Legs - Black Beauty - Beretta 76
11. Disrespectfully Yours - Disrespectfully Yours - Millions
12. Destination Nowhere - Full Breach Kicks Sampler - Street Brats
13. Back to Then - s/t - Astronaut Academy

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See you in two weeks for our regular 3 Amigos show!

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The next Rock and Roll Report Radio is September 10, 2007 from 10:00 - 11:00 PM EST on www.ckut.ca.

Drop by and have a listen to some great indie and unsigned rock and roll from all over the world. And for God’s sake turn up your speakers!

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As BBC’s Radio 1 hits 40 years old this year, the venerable institution has enlisted some musical heavy hitters to celebrate the event with people like Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney and Paul Weller manning the boards and getting behind the mic. Each show takes place between 9:00 - 10:00 PM.

The full September schedule is as follows:

Paul McCartney (September 17)
Dave Grohl (18)
Gwen Stefani (19)
Paul Weller (20)
Paul Oakenfold (21)
Noel Gallagher (24)
Debbie Harry (25)
Arctic Monkeys (26)
Ozzy Osbourne (27)
Norman Cook (28)

Also, Elijah Wood will be hosting a tribute to John Peel on September 30th at 10:00 PM called “Keeping it Peel.”

Sounds like the Beeb has it going on!

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Well progress on the Rock and Roll Report Podcast is moving ahead on several fronts. I have ordered a brand new, Canadian-made microphone from Kel Audio and I am trying to make heads or tails of my Tapco mixer and Audacity software. My brand new Dell desktop is sitting in the living room in boxes (well actually it’s for my son but I will use it temporarily until I can order my MacBook!) ready to be set up and I am in the middle of contacting bands and labels to see if they are interested in getting involved (if you are, contact me at rockandrollreport@gmail.com).

The plan is to record four shows in September and launch the first one at the end of that month. Each show will be approximately 20 minutes long to start and will feature 4-5 songs, similar to one of my sets on Rock and Roll Report Radio. I am itching to get this thing going now that summer is rapidly fading away so make sure you check back here often and when the time has come, please subscribe to the podcast.

I am looking forward to having something cool to stick in your ear, if you know what I mean!

UPDATE! Just wanted to give a big thank you to all the bands, labels and PR people that have been so generous in wanting to get involved with the podcast. It looks like this is going to be a hell of a lot of fun as I already have all kinds of ideas about different show themes and features that should keep things fresh. And seeing that Apple has announced that the iTunes podcast directory now contains 125,000 podcasts I will have my work cut out for me to stand out in the crowd but I am up for the task! I’ll keep updating you on my progress as I get closer to the launch. In the words of Kent Dorfman, “this is going to be great!”

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Probably one of the longest running (260 shows and still going strong) and quite honestly one of the most fun podcasts that I listen to is the Rock and Roll Geek Show hosted by American Heartbreak bassist Michael Butler. He actually hosts 2 different podcasts.

The first is The Rock and Roll Geek Show which is the grand daddy of rock podcasts and has featured everything from a detailed dissecting the recent Van Halen reunion press conference to blow by blow reviews of the God-awful Rock of Love reality show hosted by Brett Michaels on VH1.

The second podcast is the Rock and Roll Geek Indie Cast which features the proverbial “less talk, more rawk” with a pretty wide range of rock and roll, some you might have heard but a lot that you probably haven’t.

What I like the most about both shows is the attitude. There is no doubt that Butler lives and breaths rock and roll but he is also cool, laid back and his show will definitely not be confused with your befuddled local classic rock radio morning DJs that you are no doubt ready to throttle any day now. For 2 podcasts that last approximately one hour each I have yet to get tired with it and unsubscribe, it is that good. The fact that he swears and drinks during the show is just icing on the cake. Subscribe to the show and give it a try. I am sure I can speak for Michael and say that he will “really appreciate it.”

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Well progress on the Rock and Roll Report Podcast is moving ahead on several fronts. I have ordered a brand new, Canadian-made microphone from Kel Audio and I am trying to make heads or tails of my Tapco mixer and Audacity software. My brand new Dell desktop is sitting in the living room in boxes (well actually it’s for my son but I will use it temporarily until I can order my MacBook!) ready to be set up and I am in the middle of contacting bands and labels to see if they are interested in getting involved (if you are, contact me at rockandrollreport@gmail.com).

The plan is to record four shows in September and launch the first one at the end of that month. Each show will be approximately 20 minutes long to start and will feature 4-5 songs, similar to one of my sets on Rock and Roll Report Radio. I am itching to get this thing going now that summer is rapidly fading away so make sure you check back here often and when the time has come, please subscribe to the podcast.

I am looking forward to having something cool to stick in your ear, if you know what I mean!

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Well progress on the Rock and Roll Report Podcast is moving ahead on several fronts. I have ordered a brand new, Canadian-made microphone from Kel Audio and I am trying to make heads or tails of my Tapco mixer and Audacity software. My brand new Dell desktop is sitting in the living room in boxes (well actually it’s for my son but I will use it temporarily until I can order my MacBook!) ready to be set up and I am in the middle of contacting bands and labels to see if they are interested in getting involved (if you are, contact me at rockandrollreport@gmail.com).

The plan is to record four shows in September and launch the first one at the end of that month. Each show will be approximately 20 minutes long to start and will feature 4-5 songs, similar to one of my sets on Rock and Roll Report Radio. I am itching to get this thing going now that summer is rapidly fading away so make sure you check back here often and when the time has come, please subscribe to the podcast.

I am looking forward to having something cool to stick in your ear, if you know what I mean!

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Well progress on the Rock and Roll Report Podcast is moving ahead on several fronts. I have ordered a brand new, Canadian-made microphone from Kel Audio and I am trying to make heads or tails of my Tapco mixer and Audacity software. My brand new Dell desktop is sitting in the living room in boxes (well actually it’s for my son but I will use it temporarily until I can order my MacBook!) ready to be set up and I am in the middle of contacting bands and labels to see if they are interested in getting involved (if you are, contact me at rockandrollreport@gmail.com).

The plan is to record four shows in September and launch the first one at the end of that month. Each show will be approximately 20 minutes long to start and will feature 4-5 songs, similar to one of my sets on Rock and Roll Report Radio. I am itching to get this thing going now that summer is rapidly fading away so make sure you check back here often and when the time has come, please subscribe to the podcast.

I am looking forward to having something cool to stick in your ear, if you know what I mean!

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I really don’t listen to what I like to call “traditional” radio anymore. Oh sure once in awhile in the car I will switch on the local classic rock or alternative rock radio stations but the majority of my listening is done to non-commercial and public radio (and even that is dropping dramatically. Don’t tell CKUT!) and especially podcasts. I am not a paid schill for Apple but the iPod and iTunes make a killer combination that makes subscribing to great rock and roll podcasts merely a matter of a click or two. No fuss, no muss.

One of the things that I have learned is that because it is so easy to subscribe to podcasts in iTunes, you tend to go crazy at first and I subscribed to a ton of podcasts originally if they had any connection to rock and roll, no matter how tenuous. The thing I discovered quickly is that it becomes impossible to listen to all this stuff unless you plan on wearing your iPod 24/7 and not sleeping so I have now joined the “quality over quantity” club and subscribe to far less podcasts than before.

One of the podcasts that I do subscribe to is the Plan Nine Rock Show. Hosted by Jasper, the owner of graphic design and screen printing studio Plan Nine Print, the Plan Nine Rock Show plays a lot of very cool rock and roll and Jasper conducts great interviews with bands, mainly because he comes across to them as a genuine fan and not some asshole “in the biz.” The podcast is usually a good hour and what is so nice about podcasts is that you can review his playlist after the show and check out the websites of the bands he has played and purchase a CD or download. This is a great show and definitely a priority listen for me.

You can check out the show’s MySpace page here: http://www.myspace.com/plannineprint

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Well Doug Ford manned the boards for last Monday’s edition of the Drastic Plastic Program on CKUT FM in Montreal and he played his usual wonderful and eclectic selection of rock and roll that you don’t get to hear on commercial radio.

Check out what he played:

Artist - Album - Song

The Assistants - s/t - This Time
The Krinkles - The Mordorloff Collection - Dirty Girl
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls of America - Clips Ahoy
Bishop Allen - the Broken String - Rain
The Deer Park - s/t - Bluebird Queue
Viarosa - Where the Killers Run - Only Child
The Safes - Well Well Well - Phone Book Full of Phonies
The Hedrons - One More Won’t Kill Us - Once Upon a Time
The Legitimate Businessman’s Social Club - s/t - Room in Hell
Arizona - Fameseeker and the Mono - Life is Great
The Everybody Fields - Nothing is Okay - Aeroplane
Golden Smog - Blood on the Slacks - Can’t Even Tie Your Own Shoes

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During the Swinging Sixties, few people swung more than Playboy magazine publisher, Hugh Hefner. In 1969, Hef offered the public a chance to vicariously experience a piece of his swinging lifestyle by launching a TV show called, “Playboy After Dark.” Set in his penthouse, or possibly a studio tricked out to look like one, “Playboy After Dark” was essentially a big cocktail party presided over by a very genial Hef.

A typical show featured a mixed crowd of fifty or sixty people milling around or lounging on couches drinking, smoking, and carrying on like they were having a great old time. The older guests wore suits or evening gowns, while the young people favored bell bottoms, paisleys, love beads, and headbands. There was always a celebrity guest or two to be interviewed, as well as some of the popular musical acts of the day, including Deep Purple, Steppenwolf, James Brown, The Grateful Dead, and Iron Butterfly.

Clips of some of the musical performances are now available on Youtube, and they provide some tasty little nuggets of pop culture history. It’s positively surreal to see a very clean-cut Hef in his tuxedo “rapping” with the musicians and self-consciously uttering the occasional “groovy” and “far out.” Interestingly, some of the artists played live while others lip-synched for some reason. Either way, though, it’s a lot of fun to watch some legendary names in rock and roll, often sporting some truly wild get-ups, back in their early days. To check them out, go to Youtube.com and search for “Playboy” and any of the band names listed above. Enjoy!

By Wayne Wayne, the world’s foremost authority on the legendary band The Modest Lads

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If you are looking for something new to listen to that you just know you won’t hear on the radio then I urge you to check out the Bands Under The Radar podcast.

Hosted by Kami Knake, Bands Under the Radar focuses on unsigned bands and indie artists and I have already been turned on to a ton of new bands in just the short time that I have been listening. BUTR is just another example of a growing number of passionate music fans who, fed up with the total lack of mainstream attention that their favourite artists are getting are taking matters into their own hands.

You can check out Kami’s MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/KamiKay and don’t forget to sign up for her mailing list to receive the podcast playlists and iMix’s that she has produced for each podcast. Cool stuff.

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Well since I was on vacation last week I didn’t get a chance to post what turned out to be a marathon 3 hour Armitage Shanks show on the Drastic Plastic Program on CKUT FM here in Montreal on August 13th as he ended up covering for two DJs that were due on after him. After a glance at his playlist it looks like the madman from Manchester performed admirably.

I am also posting the 3 Amigos playlist from last Monday, August 20th.

Thanks for listening!

Armitage Shanks Playlist for August 13, 2007

Artist - Album - Song

1 Happy Mondays - Greatest Hits - 24 Hour Party People
2 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures - She’s Lost Control
3 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare - Balaclava
4 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare - Florescent Adolescent
5 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black - Tears Dry on Their Own
6 Amy Winehouse - Mark Ronson Version - Valerie
7 Jamie T - Panic Prevention - Sheila
8 Jamie T - Panic Prevention - Calm Down Dearest
9 The View - Hats Off to the Buskers - Superstar Tradesman
10 The View - Hats Off to the Buskers - Same Jeans
11 New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playground - Ice Cream
12 The Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men - The Decision
13 The Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men - Weekends & Bleak Days (Hot Summer)
14 Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future - Golden Skans
15 Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future - Its Not Over Yet
16 Klaxons - Xan Valley - The Bouncer
17 The Coral - Roots & Echos - Who’s Gonna Find Me
18 Ash - Twilight of the Innocents - End of the World
19 The Cribs - Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever - Men’s Needs
20 Kelly Jones - Only the Names Have Been Changed - Suzy
21 The Thrills - Teenager - Nothing Changes Around Here
22 The Thrills - Teenager - Restaurant
23 Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! - American Wedding
24 The Thrills - Teenager - The Midnight Choir
25 The Fratellis - Costello Music - Chelsea Dagger
26 Happy Mondays - Greatest Hits - Hallelujah
27 Jamie T - Panic Prevention - Salvador
28 Lily Allen - Mark Ronson Version - Oh My God
29 Maccabees - NME Essential Bands - X-Ray
30 Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future - Gravity’s Rainbow
31 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare - Brianstorm
32 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare - Teddy Picker
33 The View - Hats Off to the Buskers - Wasted Little DJ’sT

The 3 Amigos Playlist for August 2o, 2007

1. Bang Sugar Bang - Greatest Hits - Punk Rock Holiday
2. The Catholic Girls - Meet the Catholic Girls - Rock’n America
3. The Sleepers - Push it Nationwide - Bad for Me
4. The Blessings - BareBones - The Way it Has to Be
5. Primal Scream - Unbelievable - Loaded
6. Client - The Football Factory - Rock ‘n Roll Machine
7. The Stranglers - Greatest Hits - No More Herds
8. Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lanterns - Wide Open Space
9. The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass - Blue
10. Poplord - s/t - Uncover Each Other

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What a great way to spend a Monday night, sitting in a radio station spinning fantastic rock and roll at full volume for friends (and myself for that matter) and really, that is the heart of Rock and Roll Report Radio. Since it is not dictated by any corporate entity or program director but from my very own rock and roll heart I think it reflects in the show and so far those who have listened have been very kind and have tended to agree with me. The bottom line with anything is always passion. If you are passionate about music, whether you be playing it on the radio, on stage or on your home stereo you just want to share it with as many people as you can because it feels good and you hope that they will get the same buzz out of it as you do. I really hope my passion shines through on the air.

It is interesting to note that the majority of songs I played on Monday night’s show were only in my possession for no more than a few weeks with at least a quarter of them being MP3s e-mailed to me by bands. Such is the power of this Web 2.0 world where I can get into contact with a band on MySpace on a Tuesday, have an MP3 or two on my iPod within the hour with the CD in my mailbox by the end of the week. It is the reason why I will never run out of material for the radio show, podcast or blog which is always a comforting thought.

For those of you that tuned in live or have listened to the podcast or streamcast from the CKUT archives you will no doubt have noticed that I started things off a bit differently with a brand new intro for the upcoming Rock and Roll Report podcast courtesy of Miami-based Featured on Fridays. I am in the planning stages (for what seems like forever) for the podcast but I fully intend to launch it this fall with a projected end of September start date. If you are interested in getting involved by all means give me a shout. Same great rock and roll but with more opportunity to experiment and try some different things so it should be a lot of fun and I hope it will make your MP3 player proud.

OK, let’s get to the heart of the matter. This is what I played on the show with links to the band websites so you can see for yourself what they are all about. Thanks for listening as always and a big thank you to everyone who sent me kind words and encouragement, it is greatly appreciated.

Song - Album - Artist

1. King of Cool - Year of the Cock - Big Cock
2. Stay - Fully Automatic - Handsome Devil
3. Main in the Sky - s/t - The Soft Explosions
4. Real Thing - Unreleased - American Anthem
5. Bang Bang - We Are Saints - KLIK
6. Wired for Sound -Wired for Sound - Certain Stars
7. Hit Parade - Black Beauty - Beretta76
8. Knock on Wood - Now Playing - Shameless
9. Give it Up - A Bitch is a Bitch - Lick & a Promise
10. Comedown Baby - Let You Down Easy - The Masons
11. Energy - New Magnetic Wonder - Apples in Stereo
12. Great Big Hat - Debbie Does Nothing - Deluxe Leisure King
13. Charlie & His UFO - Kasablanca BLVD - Kasablanca BLVD

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The podcast link is only good for one week from the date of broadcast. After that you have to listen to the show streaming from the CKUT website so if you missed it or had trouble listening to it Monday night, by all means download the podcast now and listen to me struggle on how to announce “Big Cock.”

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Just a reminder that Rock and Roll Report Radio is on tonight, August 6, 2007 from 10:00 - 11:00 PM EST on www.ckut.ca.

Hope you can check it out!

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Well we once again laughed our way through another 3 Amigos show on the Drastic Plastic Program Monday night on CKUT FM. I decided to do something completely different and play 4 country tunes from rock artists that I have played on my show. We had a lot of fun with that! Armitage Shanks continued his tradition of playing cool UK gems that never seemed to make it big in North America and Doug Ford played his usual fine, eclectic collection of rock and roll.

Here is what we played:

Song- Album - Artist

1. $100 A Week - S/T - Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kicking Team
2. I’ll Be Gone - Catching Flies with Vinegar - Jana Perri
3. Drinkin’ Myself to Sleep - Tales of Drunkenness & Cruelty - The Condors
4. At Least For Awhile - Varying Degrees of Failure and Tunelessness - The Piper Downs
5. Reward - Alternative Eighties - The Teardrop Explodes
6. The Killing Moon - Alternative Eighties - Echo and the Bunnymen
7. Orgasm Addict - The Best Punk Album in the World - The Buzzcocks
8. Wonderlust King - Super Taranta - Golgol Bordello
9. Circadian Rhythm - The Search - Son Volt
10. Wild Mountain Jam - Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper
11. Fake Empire - The Boxer - The National
12. Diamond Ring - Let’s Just Be - Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts

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Drastic Plastic Program schedule for the month of August 2007

• August 6 - The Rock and Roll Report
• August 13 - Armitage Shanks
• August 20 - 3 Amigos
• August 27 - Doug Ford

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Sorry for the delay in posting Armitage Shanks’ playlist from last Monday but I have been on vacation. Anyhow, here it is:

Artist - Album - Song

Editors - An End Has A Beginning - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
Jamie T Panic - Prevention - Salvador
Maccabees - Colour It In - X-Ray
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures - Books From Boxes
The Twang - Love It When I Feel Like - This Wide Awake
The Rakes - Ten New Messages - Suspicious Eyes
Jack Penate - Spit At Stars - Spit At Stars
The Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs - Robot Man
Mumm-Ra - These Things Move In Three’s - Out Of The Question
Ash - Twilight Of The Innocents - You Can’t Have It All
The Hedrons - One More Won’t Kill Us - I Need You
Art Brut - It’s A Bit Complicated - Nag Nag Nag Nag
Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak - The Photos On My Wall

And just a reminder that I will be joining Mr. Shanks and Doug Ford for our monthly 3 Amigos show Monday, July 30, 2007 from 10:00 - 11:00 PM EST on CKUT FM so by all means drop by and have a listen!

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For those of you that enjoy The Rock and Roll Report’s regular feature “Rock and Roll Postcard from France” written by Gérard Girard you may or may not know that he is also a DJ at France’s Radio Dio. Unfortunately, Radio Dio is undergoing a severe cash crisis. I post here Gérard’s comment on the subject:

Dear music devotee,

As you may already know, Radio Dio, the FM station which has been hosting my weekly sweet pop programme is in great financial trouble. After having suffered many financial bankruptcies, mainly due to the fact that Radio Dio is fiercely ad-free and independent from all forms of commercial bound, the station is now facing a major turning point of its history. In the next six months we’ll all be waiting for a sort of miracle to happen – an unexpected and extraordinary financial support from our local politicians, a wonderful and reliable sponsor, a major public upheaval that would lead to a positive riot, a magic wizard offering us three wishes…

I will definitely keep you informed as to what will be happening in the next few months but I already would like to thank all of you who expressed their total support via e-mail. I also encourage the others to pass on their comments and/or thoughts to me. These messages will really be useful to show to all those concerned that Dio is an important voice and a much followed reference throughout the world.

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As a big supporter of community/independent radio and a volunteer myself at CKUT FM, I like to encourage people to volunteer or at the very least listen to their local community radio stations as much as possible. Here are some stations with news that you will find interesting.

WXPN is asking for the Top 885 Music Moments. While 885 corresponds to this University of Pennsylvania’s FM frequency, it certainly gives us a lot of room to maneuver. Get in your moments now! You have until August 31, 2007 to submit your contributions. I always thought that the Grateful Dead playing at the pyramids in Egypt was a particularly cool musical moment.

WPRB on the other hand bills itself as the United States oldest college radio station (67 years and counting!) and since they get no money from Princeton they are finding the need to conduct their very first on-air membership drive. If you want to support independent radio in the U.S., this is a great way to do it.

Finally, WOXY ,which went from a broadcast FM operation to an Internet-only station and then was knocked off the air due to a serious lack of funds but was then rescued with the financial support of LaLa.com, are back on the airwaves! They have signed an agreement with Cincinnati Public radio station WVXU to broadcast over one of their High Definition multicast channels. Great news from a station that bills itself as the “future of rock and roll” and which seemed to be out for the count not too long ago.

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This edition of Rock and Roll Report Radio on CKUT 90.3 FM featured a great bunch of tunes about kids, machine guns, living in Oz, filthy habits, nymphomaniacs and dirty girls. Just another typical day in the rock and roll office! Check out what I played. If you missed the show you can always download the podcast from the link below. Remember though that it is only good for one week from the date of broadcast.

Song - Album - Artist

1. Kids - It’s Time - Nooner
2. If It Feels Good Do It - Pretty Together - Sloan
3. All I wanted - Single - Hailer
4. Ten Seconds Ago - Fully Automatic - Handsome Devil
5. The Machine Gun Song - Thwak Thwak Go Crazy! - Bang Sugar Bang
6. Weapons of Love - Single - The Soft Explosions
7. Living in Oz - unreleased - Endsway
8. Place Like This - One More Won’t Kill Us - The Hedrons
9. Red Eye - Filthy Habits - The DT’s
10. Little Nympho - Teflon Man - The Naked Apes
11. Dirty Girl - 3: The Mordorlorff Collection - The Krinkles
12. Fall - You Can’t Change the World - The Morning Stars

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Hope you enjoyed the show!

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Just a reminder that Rock and Roll Report Radio will be on tonight from 10:00 - 11:00 PM EST on CKUT FM. You can listen online at www.ckut.ca.

Tonight I will be playing songs about kids, machine guns, nymphomaniacs and filthy habits so it should be a good show! Tune in and enjoy.

If you are interested in what I have played on Rock and Roll Report Radio in the past check out my post A Re-Introduction to Rock and Roll Report Radio. This is all indie and DIY stuff that is sadly overlooked for the most part by commercial rock radio which insists we only want to hear the same bands ad nauseum or only bands on major record labels. Get off your asses and dig people and you will discover a treasure trove of rock and roll that is literally no further than your fingertips. Jeez it drives me crazy!

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(From Save Net Radio.Org)

We are appealing to the millions of Internet radio listeners out there, the webcasters they support and the artists and labels we treasure to rise up and make your voices heard before this vibrant medium is silenced.

This situation is grave, but that makes the message all the simpler and more serious.

CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT AWAY and urge them to support the Internet Radio Equality Act. If they’ve already co-sponsored, thank them and tell them to fight to bring it to the floor for an immediate vote. If the line is busy, call back. Call until you know your voice has been heard. Your voices are what have gotten us this far - Congress has listened. Now, they are our only hope.

We are outmatched by lobbying power and money but we are NOT outmatched by facts and passion and the power of our voices.

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I have been getting some nice comments about my monthly stint on the Drastic Plastic Program on CKUT FM here in Montreal and heard around the world on the ‘Net called Rock and Roll Report Radio. What started out as a fill-in gig for regular host Doug Ford has evolved into a regular solo monthly radio show with another monthly appearance as part of the 3 Amigos, which is myself, Doug and UK rock and roller Armitage Shanks who also has a monthly radio show in the same 10:00 - 11:00 PM EST time slot.

I originally got involved in CKUT because I was looking for some real world training in radio before embarking on my podcast (which is to debut any month now!) and volunteering at a community radio station was just the ticket. While working in the record library I somehow managed to fill in on a two hour all-Canadian indie show called Underground Sounds which is still broadcast Mondays from 8:00 - 10:00 PM EST right before Drastic after a full 30 minutes of on-air training (it was summer so a lot of people were on vacation). On the drive home I was listening to Doug’s show and I really liked what I heard so I called him up and not long after he asked me to fill in on Drastic Plastic and from there we never looked back.

The cool thing about Rock and Roll Report Radio, which will next be broadcast on July 16th, 2007 is that there are multiple ways to listen. You can listen the old fashioned way over the air at 90.3 FM here in Montreal, you can listen to it live over the ‘Net at www.ckut.ca or you can download the podcast for a full week from the date of broadcast, the link to which I always post on The Rock and Roll Report along with the playlist and links to the bands that were played. If you missed the show and more than a week has passed you can still listen to it streaming at the archives, all you need to know is the date, select Drastic Plastic and enjoy!

So for those of you new to Rock and Roll Report Radio or current listeners wanting to listen to a show you might have missed, here is the complete listing of show dates with links to the playlists for your reading and listening pleasure. I hope you can tune in on Monday night and get your rocks off with me. Now does that sound kinda weird or what? LOL

• September 5, 2005
• September 26, 2005
• July 10, 2006
• September 4, 2006
• October 9, 2006
• November 20, 2006
• December 4, 2006
• January 22, 2007
• February 19, 2007
• March 26, 2007 (playlist seems to be missing. I’ll get that up ASAP)
• April 16, 2007
• May 14, 2007
• June 18, 2007

The mission of Rock and Roll Report Radio has not changed since its inception and will carry over to the podcast. It is to have fun playing some of the greatest rock and roll out there that is sadly overlooked by commercial rock radio, usually because it is on some small indie or DIY label or the band is unsigned. One listen to Rock and Roll Report Radio and I think you will be convinced that it puts the rock back into rock radio. If only some of these big shot commercial DJs and program directors would do a bit of digging as they would be amazed at the gold that they would find.

See ya on Monday!

Later.

Mark

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