CiTR -- Duncan's Donuts

It's FunDrive time, babies. Please say YES to CiTR and show your support with a donation: DonateToCiTR.ca Thanks to Izzy, Naomi, Alex, Jasper, Ciara, Nate, Shirley & Sheila for helping out with the opening sketch, and Ruby for popping by a little later. What fun!

And we're back! Tributes to Melanie and Mary Weiss (of the Shangri-Las), both of whom died this week. New tunes from Aaron Read, LOVING, Free Play Angel, Discovery Zone, Jane Penny (of TOPS), Non La & Chastity Belt. Fundrive starts next Thursday! Get excited, get, get excited!

Snow day, baby! University's closed so I recorded in my kitchen. Thanks to CiTR's Ciara for getting it on air at the last minute! NEW tunes from LOVING, TJ Felix, Soft Fossil, Jackson Ramsey, Kim Gordon & Shabason, Krgovich, Sage Peter Doolan's fantastic Thai music blog https://monrakplengthai.blogspot.com/ Rage Moulton & Andy Resto's "A Christmas Codicil: Love and Lies at the Honeydew Mountain River Lodge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSX9Trjl0I

Happy new year! New tunes from *deep breath* Patrick Holland, Born At Midnite, Julia Holter, Waxahatchee, Kacey Johansing, Marika Hackman, and an album release by the Golden Age of Wrestling this Saturday! Also: Happy 102nd birthday to Kaye Kaminishi, a member of the Vancouver Asahi baseball team, and happy Asahi Day in the City of Vancouver! And: Listen to Kris Rothstein's great new podcast "In Search of Lost Venues": https://insearchoflostvenues.libsyn.com The debut episode features the one and only Chris-A-Riffic!

So much great music this year! Some of the highlights, with guest co-hosts Ellie and Alice.

Yet again we are BACK to the North Pole for our annual trip to the CiTR Arctic Research Station, and we get a visit from Kris Kringle! An assortment of holiday hits and misses, with new tunes from Be Afraid, la lune & Morgan Reese. Happy holidays, everybody!

New tunes from Bill Can, L CON, Yuma Abe, IN MIRRORS, and Tiga & Hudson Mohawke NEXT WEEK: the Duncan's Donuts holiday spectacular from the CiTR Arctic Research Station at the North Pole. TWO WEEKS: the Duncan's Donut best-of-2023 super special

Felt inspired to play some park songs, not just because of the tool at City Hall. Premiered the DEBUT song by local rockers la lune, and new tunes from Discovery Zone, Joseph Shabason, clairo, White Poppy, The Golden Age of Wrestling (with Future Star), L CON, Empress Of & Feeling Figures. And a happy Hanukkah!

Rest in Peace to Shane MacGowan of the Pogues (and good riddance, Henry Kissinger). New tunes from Non La, Ducks Ltd., Feeling Figures, Hotline TNT & Kevin Romain. Congrats to SHiNDiG 2023 finalists Seeing Grey, The Hausplants, worrywart & Feedlot. The winner will be crowned on Tuesday, December 5th at Red Gate!

A mostly mellow ep. New tunes from Titanic, André 3000, WOODS, Sofia Kourtesis, V Vecker Ensemble, doohickey cubicle & bloom effect. Be well!

New tunes from Cat Power, Born At Midnite, Matmos, Cosmetics, Chastity Belt, Ducks Ltd., Surveillance, SoyJoy, Kellarissa & Kylie V. What an ep.

Tough Age celebrated a decade as a band and a new tune from Julia Holter. ALSO, a ticket giveaway for Atlin Gun, who play the Commodore on Wednesday, Nov 15th.

Pretty mellow episode, overall.

The 16th Annual Duncan's Donuts' Halloween Spooktacular! One hour of wall-to-wall creeps. Don't listen, too spooky!

New tunes from boymoder, Geese, Ora Cogan, Total Chroma, Caroline Polachek & The Painters, and happy birthday to Chris-A-Riffic & Patrick of Gal Gracen

New tunes from Sean Nicholas Savage, Lost Girls, VOICE ACTOR, Total Chroma, Yaris Paris, Vanishing Twin, Faith Healer, Wetface, Anna McClellan & White Poppy

Reissues for Hiroshi Yoshimura & S.C. Sharma, and NEW tunes from ML Buch, Tiga & Hudson Mohawke, and Blue Hawaii

New tunes from The Golden Age of Wrestling, DEBBY FRIDAY, Tough Sell, PLEASEBENiCE, YEP & KCAR, and R.I.P. to Valeria Fellini, member of cub and many other Vancouver bands.

Congrats to Debby Friday on the Polaris win! New tunes from Tinashe, Yu Su, Grimm, KCAR, A. Savage, Mitsk & Wildflower, plus a cameo from Alice.

New tunes from Rec Centre, and lots of shows happening this week. Get into it!

Not quite, but goodness gracious that drilling is really something. NEW TUNES from BE AFRAID, Tirzah, Discovery Zone, Who Is She?, Famous Mammals, THEEE RETAIL SIMPS & Helena Deland

New tunes from SHEER MAG, pooched, Hotline TNT, Devon Parkin, TJ Felix & Σtella

New tunes from Connie Converse (!?), Ace Martens, Aster Dawn, Fortunes Favor, Splitter & pudding, plus a visit from my parents.

An interview with Jeff of Devours. We talk Pride weekend, Golden Age of Wrestling's forthcoming record, Devours summer tour, and soap!

R.I.P. Sinead O'Connor. Some great shows happening this weekend: boy genius, P:ano & Freak Heat Waves/Cindy Lee. Also, new tunes from Failing, Mulch & Mitski.

New tunes from Faith Healer, Lost Girls, Freak Heat Waves, Patrick Holland, Sea Lemon, Big Thief, ANOHNI and the Johnsons & Grimm, plus a preview of this weekend's Green Auto Fest. Woo!

Happy birthday, mom! New tunes from Who Is She?, Sweeping Promises, The Baseball Project & Girl Ray.

Newly released tracks from Arthur Russell, Olof Dreijer [ex-Knife] & John Carroll Kirby

Summer has arrived. New tunes from Freak Heat Waves & Cindy Lee, Speed Reader, Bile Sister, Faye Webster, Sorry Girls, and Jeremy Dutcher.

New tunes from Jack J, John Carroll Kirby, Decisive Pink, Tough Age, TJ Felix, FLAT EARTH, SoyJoy, Hand Habits, Pantayo, Jayda G & My Name Is Del, and previewing an absolute stack of great shows on Friday.

New tunes from MA$$ANK, Pantayo, Julia Holter, Helena Deland, Stem Champ, Sweeping Promises, Beach House, SEX & Dawson Forsey

Bay Area pop phenom Tony Molina calls in to talk about his tour (and friendship) with the Softies and the scene in SF. Also, previewing the most wondrous weekend of the year: MUSIC WASTE WEEKEND. Hope to see you in the pit. Music Waste runs Thursday to Sunday across East Van: musicwaste.ca Tony Molina plays the Biltmore with The Softies, All Girl Summer Fun Band & Mo Troper on Sunday night.

CiTR alums Ryan, Nellie & Eleanor say hi and pick some tunes to celebrate CiTR's 85th anniversary. Plus, previewing Friday's night anniversary party at Red Gate featuring Kellarissa, Devours & Cherry Blu, and tributes to Selina Koop and Kenneth Anger.

Former CiTR station manager Brenda Grunau picks some tunes and joins me (& my daughter Alice) for a pre-recorded chat about her time at the station, Vancouver's music scene in the late '00s to mid-2010s, Shindig, and the move from the old SUB to the new studios in the AMS Nest. Part of a month of special 85th anniversary programming.

CiTR legend Luke Meat is back in studio to play some records and shoot the breeze. Off-the-chart nostalgia levels. Very good times. This May, CiTR is celebrating its 85th anniversary, so I'll have some CiTR luminaries of yesteryear on as guests. The station has lots of fun planned, including special programming and some live shows. Tune in!

Live in-studio, and it feels great. NEW tunes from Yaeji, Devours, Westerman, WOOLWORM, Tough Age, Aaron Read, PJ Harvey, EDDIE CHACON & Dayshade. A special month of programming celebrating CiTR's 85th anniversary starts next week, and kicks off with a show at Red Gate this Friday night.

Local (by way of Philadelphia) rockers BUDDIE join me to chat about their new record, Agitator, cricket & birdwatching. They play the Lido TONIGHT! Also, a new tune from Pantayo. It's good.

Term 2 is done here at UBC, and we have new tunes from pardoner, Arthur Russell, boygenius, Terry, miesha & the spanks, and Jess Williamson. Good stuff!

Mega Bog graces us with another single, boygenius's record gets released, previewing Buddie's new LP, and but also brand new divorcer, Terry, Hand Habits, Jana Horn & Jayda G.

It's a SOCAN CanCon smorgasbord. New tunes from Tough Age! Tractor Beam! Lightning Dust! Debby Friday! Babe Corner! Nick Krgovich! Elan Noon! And...introducing Ira Hardly!

It's a Francophonie Week special! Guest co-host Antje Ziethen takes us on a pop music tour of the francophone world. Also, happy birthday Celina of Future Star!

Amy Tan of Ramen Fog joins us to chat about the band's new double A-side single, plus new tunes from Rick White, DEVOURS, manadaworld & Yves Tumor.

An post-IWD special ep showcasing an all-female playlist. New tunes from Jana Horn, U.S. Girls & a track from the Kate Fagan comp reissue.

Big show! New tunes from Uh Huh (aka Teenanger), bernice, Masahiro Takahashi, U.S. Girls & Marker Starling, Jana Horn, boygenius, Dry Cleaning, Anodyne, Caroline Polachek, Men I Trust, Feist, Yo La Tengo Oops forgot to podcast this episode. One week late! My apologies.

A Black History Month special, featuring new music from Jayda G, Yves Tumor, Vagabon, Witch Project & Jairus Sharif. There are lots of Black organizations in Vancouver that could use your support! Vancouver Black Library: https://www.vancouverblacklibrary.org The Hogan's Alley Society: https://www.hogansalleysociety.org Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Foundation: https://vancouverblacktherapyfoundation.com/ UBC Black Student Union: https://amscampusbase.ubc.ca/bsu/

Thanks to everyone who pitched in on the FunDrive! Hot show: new tunes from Devours, MIDI Janitor, Westerman, Mega Bog, and tune in for a ticket giveaway for Andy Shauf's March 11th show at the Orpheum. Oh yeah.

Fundrive follow-up! Featuring new tunes from Anodyne, Hank, H Hawkline & DEBBY FRIDAY, and a preview of tonight's Fundrive Finale and the tomorrow's return of Mixed Gems.

The FunDrive kickoff show! Featuring an original-ish radio play, "The Transmitter of Love." New tunes from Meggo & Hank, and a tribute to Tom Verlaine. Help out the station if you can: citr.ca/donate

Le Tigre make a return, and new tunes from Kylie V (hbd!), Fever Ray, Yaeji, Braids & bananahaus. FunDrive starts next week! Help out if you can: citr.ca/donate

New tunes from bananahaus, Apollo Ghosts, Species Traitor, boygenius, DEBBY FRIDAY & Lee Paradise, plus a Domestic Departure Records label spotlight.

Wondering what birds you're likely to hear today? BIRDNOTES has you covered. Get your daily avian auditory forecast, with host Duncan McHugh and field reports by Bryan Zandberg & Tim Martin. Featuring… American Crows Song Sparrows Dark-eyed Juncos Spotted Towhees Anna's Hummingbirds European Starlings American Robins Northern Flickers House Finches Varied Thrushs Glaucous-winged Gulls Northern Shovelers Great Blue Herons Double-crested Cormorants Canada Geese Barrow's Goldeneyes Common Mergansers American Coots Horned Grebes Ring-necked Ducks Bald Eagles Red-winged Blackbirds Fox Sparrows Red-breasted Nuthatches Downy Woodpeckers American Goldfinches Bushtits Golden-crowned Kinglets Steller's Jay?s Red-tailed Hawks Redheads American Avocets Prairie Falcons California Scrub-Jays Northern Mockingbirds Black-capped Chickadees Mallards Widgeons Great Black-backed Gulls Buffleheads