Radio Program: the-reference-desk

UneXpect

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Hailing from Montreal, UneXpect was an avant-garde extreme metal band with a sound combining aspects of progressive, black, heavy, and …

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Vic Horvath

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An episode in tribute to the late Calgary/Victoria singer-songwriter Vic Horvath. Vic’s music includes everything from hard hitting rock to …

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LARD

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What happens when you mash together the industrial metal riffs of Ministry with the frenetic lyricism of The Dead Kennedys? …

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Amanda Palmer

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CJSW plays just about every kind of music you can think of. But is musical theater perhaps underrepresented? In this …

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Boards of Canada

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In this episode Andrew goes over an all encompassing, yet cautious, examination of the enigmatic electronic music duo Boards of …

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Magma

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A band so influential they’re credited with creating their very own progressive rock subgenre. In this episode Andrew does a …

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Turntable History

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Buried deep in CJSW’s Experimental music collection is this incredibly bizarre album from American composer and visual artist Arnold Dreyblatt. …

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