Was a guest on the Storytelling show on Sunday. Hosted by the very talented R Richards. It was my…read morefirst time back in the community radio space after about 5years, when they were last located further East on Wall St. My understanding from folks is that the location moved around a bit in the last decade as renovations were being done. I have memories of the Station from as far back as when it was on the block by Army & Navy. This new space is bright with lots of windows and each booth carries an Indigenous name acknowledge its positionality on these unceaded lands Co-op community radio has always been a source of connection. It's people bringing in content, grassroots in the moment happenings. With our proximity and awareness of First Nations actions of resistance just a few streets away it was an important piece to that nights programming to carry awareness into the shows content in addition to my visit helping to 'daylight' Black History Month and disability justice. Co-op is a forum for building community and fostering allyship whether a producer listener supporter, there's room to plug in to community radio.

The only Vancouver radio station that doesnt play pundit with politics, discusses everything from…read morelabor unions to homosexuality, and plays music from the world, the opera, and the jam spaces of East Vancouver, and is entirely sponsored by its members! My favorite program is Radio Bandcouver on Thursdays at 3PM. Co-Op radio is a very under appreciated gem in Vancouver that could use a more profound following than the Commercial Drive hippies. In addition to their programming, they also teach interested people how to run their own station/programming. They have radio orientation/lessons every 3rd Tuesday of the month. My only complaint is that they dont have any syndicated programing on here, but with some more fans they might? Although radio is a dying breed often used as an un-distracting background noise at work, I believe this station may have something worth listening to once in a while. Maybe listen in sometime? 102.7 FM

If you really want to know what's happening with new music: local and not so local, go here and…read morespeciality programs on Co-op Radio.

Is a Canadian FM radio station based out of the University of British Columbia's Student Union…read moreBuilding in the University Endowment Lands, just west of the city limits of Vancouver, British Columbia. CiTR is operated by UBC students and community volunteers under the ownership of the Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia, an entity closely affiliated with UBC's Alma Mater Society. Shortly after high school I started contributing directly and indirectly to CITR. I have them to thank for really pushing me into writing about music and exploring what is beyond mainstream. I met some awesome DJ's, participating in working with some of the most awesome people, and even worked on air a few times. It was a very welcoming club on campus that allowed me to be a part of something that wasn't a sport. I did write for Discorder before branching out and doing my thing.

Drive with Rich Terfry, always leaves me in a better mood. Drive and Saturday night Jazz are my…read morefavorite programs. I have the radio on all day, even when I am out, the cat could enjoy CBC radio 2. Thank you for being the best radio station!!!!!

Ever since the Harper government got rid of the late night new music/alternative programming like…read more'Brave New Waves', and replaced it with bland fare with no hosts, and axed Jurgen Goth's Disc Drive in the afternoons, and replaced it with programming that sounds like a dull adult contemporary station, it just isn't what it used to be. The AM side in the afternoon with Stephen Quinn is preferable to me. I went online to BBC 6 Music after the death of Brave New Waves. It reminds me of what the indie/alternative music programming used to be like on CBC Radio 2, with live bands in to play and the on-air people programming their own music.

Comin up next! Most annoying line in radio. Thanks for that…read moreNeil Morrison. ha ha I must look like a crazy man on the bus to UBC in the mornings, because it seems like I burst out laughing at randomness. Nope, its the morning show. They always cheer me up.

No song data displayed any longer like it use to. When will this get corrected because hearing the…read moresing but not having the details is not good.

This is the big reveal - my secret favourite radio station is CISL 650 AM. It's so good. Their…read moretarget audience is retired baby boomers, so they seem really oblivious to the fact that all my friends under 30 listen to it regularly. It's probably because all their music has been vetted by decades of time, which means they're digging up some real oldies gold. Be prepared to discover a world of classic pop that will blow your mind. Impeccable song writing and performances that far exceed that British Invasion of the 60s. They're tagline is "smooth and easy." Their talk programs are really funny to listen in to, although a bit too commercial-oriented in my opinion (they really want to sell old people some stuff!). The promos for them are hilarious though, hearing people with thick accents talk about how old people have NO IDEA how to save their money. I also regularly perform karaoke songs I hear on this station for the first time. All hits!

Absolutely love the new revamp! I love all the old music brings me right back to childhood. Totally…read moreabsolutely awesome. I'd like to leave a voice message on 104.9 but I don't know how to get through to it. Not only that it's my weekend or my week off before the long weekend so I'm enjoying myself. Just trying to give you a heads up. I totally enjoy the music brings me right back to high school My name is Tracy Lynn Erickson and you can always get a hold of me at 250-460- -1246

Sunday August 26, 2010…read more Slogan: Hits. Now. Advertises more music, and less ads. 3:15pm Katy Perry - Wide Awake Is actually putting me to sleep. K'naan - Take a Minute Never heard this song before. I hope it's the last. David Guetta, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne - I Can Only Imagine I can only imagine how these 3 dudes are laughing all the way to the bank. Already 3 songs in and there's commercials. Not different than other stations I've reviewed so far. Nicky Minaj - Pound the Alarm Actually is not a bad song. A real Republic dance floor burner. Although I have no wish to listen to this again. Kanye West - Stronger Relies heavily on Daft Punk's "Harder, Faster, Stronger". It's a strange choice because most of the time, hip hop artists will use samples from hidden gems. Daft Punk is not a hidden gem. Mia Martina and Adrian Sina - Go Crazy Not a completely annoying song, but pretty boring basic dance floor number. I see a pattern of three here. I wonder if there's actually someone programming these songs, or if it's just done by a computer. The on air host came back to talk a bit about nothing really. Not really sure what her purpose is, but they went back to music which is different than other stations have. Maroon 5 - One More Night These guys were on the soft rock station too. I don't really understand. This song is by far the worst one played. Dragonette - Live in this City I was wondering when the CanCon content was going to come out. It has hampered radio stations for years, and continues to ruin Canadian artists, but I feel some are catching on to realize they can be that niche Canadian artist that gets play on Canadian radio. This song is incredibly plain and boring. Fun - Some Nights I guess this is as "alternative" as Sonic gets. I would not have recognized any of these songs, but their website actually had live updating of the songs that were playing, even with with tabs so you could buy and download the song. I believe that Sonic is a group that has stations across Canada. It seems like a well run station with a web site that is easily navigatable, if you're into any of the music.

The Peak is no more. Well, not exactly -- it's digital now. 102.7 traditional radio has a new…read moreformat. Based on the Peak's recent ratings, change was overdue. So how good is the station? A matter of taste, but worth at least a few listens. Music: 3 stars. Like most stations these days, the playlist is repetitive However, you get songs off the beaten track, mostly through requests, more often than other stations. The request segments are mostly genuine requests, not songs-they-play-anyhow songs. On the balance, the type of music sounds like about 80 percent Z95.3, and 20 percent Jack FM. Two issues: repeating popular songs every 2 hours on a variety and conversation station isn't the way to attract listeners wanting a regular station. Also, the Cancon regulation is an issue for many stations including this one, but there's got to be a better way of filling the Canadian content requirement than playing a song by the Weeknd every hour. Conversation: 2.5 stars. I have no idea what the Now topics are like in other markets, but they're usually very light. Sometimes it's fun to hear listener stories, but personally I'd like to hear topics sometimes with a little more depth. Granted, I'm at the upper end of their 25-54 target market and the station isn't intending to compete with CKNW, but we don't need topics to include stories of passing gas, for instance. Programming: 3.5 stars. The on-air hosts genuinely seem to enjoy themselves and it's refreshing to hear live programming rather than mass-marketed playlists. The hosts don't need to repeat the same weather forecast every 10 minutes on the morning show, though.

Like that (proverbial) sad boomer uncle who insists on playing "Dust in the Wind" whenever he picks…read moreup an acoustic guitar, this show is in the similar vein. On a weekly basis, we get to hear Randy sap the excitement and enthusiasm out of beloved rock classics with just a couple of tired strums from his guitar and a phoning-it-in vocal. But there's also a history lesson involved. Really, Randy? The Beatles were influenced by Motown? What other trenchant insights into the world of classic rock do you have? Oh, the fact that "Big Old Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller sounds like "Taking Care of Business?" FASCINATIN....zzzzzzz. I'm being nice and giving it another star because sometimes golden oldies beat the hell out of what passes for radio in our fair city of Toronto. But, this is the aural equivalent of the willies.

These kids today don't appreciate what rock'n'roll's pioneering generation had to do, in order to…read morecreate the genre we now love and take for granted. Back in Randy Bachman's youth, if you wanted to play an electric guitar, you had to grow, fell, and mill the tree. That's why, 30-odd years later, Seattle grunge rockers dressed like early Canadian coureurs du bois. This was a knowing tribute to pathfinders like Randy. Then, if you wanted to put strings and pickups on your electric guitar, you had to mine the nickel yourself. That's why there's now that big hole in the ground in Sudbury, kids: It's where all that tone was born, during the famous Southern Ontario Nickel Rush of 1959-75. (Today's rock musicians face a new problem: tightening restrictions on the endangered tropical tonewoods that make the best-sounding axes. Blame this on a Mahogany Rush that started in Montreal, toward the end of that period.) The rest of the 1970s were a sad time, the global Dark Age of Disco. Keyboards and synths went nuts; rock was in retreat, and went back underground. Inspired by the period's ecological ethos, some recycling-minded young rockers even tried to bring the nickelback. Today, for two hours every weekend, Randy - a true rock'n'roll survivor, and a gifted raconteur - spins tales like this to enlighten us. While also spinning an enjoyable, and intelligently themed, selection of discs from the days when music was music. With no idiot commercials. And all we have to do is sit back, listen, and enjoy. Sometimes we event get Randy's recollections of studying with Winnipeg jazz genius guitarist Lenny Breau. Is that really so bad? I'm grateful to CBC for broadcasting and Webcasting this unusual gem to the global Anglosphere, every weekend. Enjoy it, Greg and friends.