Rose Dale front man Mike Liorti was in the Mano A Mano studio for what has now been renamed as a “Love to Air” performance.
Mike came to us all the way from Toronto and was so good that he was even able to change up his acoustic set to take requests of songs he had not intended to play and pulled out a few unreleased tracks too! Check out the podcast above and make sure to check out Rosedale at Maxwell’s concert and events hall on November 8th.
Check out the podcast above for some great tracks by Moneen and BR/DGES. In most cases that would be enough to get people to check out a podcast HOWEVER we give Kenny Bridges a call to settle a little dispute and then take the opportunity to do a full interview! Check it all out above.
Matt Kras from the newly formed Robot Apocalypse Collective came by the Mano A Mano show to promote the new self titled EP that was just released. Check out the podcast above for some of the music and then Download it FREE on the link below!
The Robot Apocalypse Collective brings together performing members from 54-40, Limblifter, Hot Hot Heat, The Gay Nineties, Fur Trade, The Mounties, The Cursed Arrows, The Gary Cain Band, Elsa Jayne, Cyanide Kiss, Audio Boffins, All Weather Haulage, DJ AdRock’s Country Experience.
Colin Stetson is a past Mano A Mano “Rock Cut Feature Band of the Week” and is featured in an episode of the “Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff” (Mano A Mano’s Radio Comic that features only CDN content)
So, when this new Colin Stetson collaboration with Sarah Neufeld came into the station it immediately peaked our attention. After one listen it is amazing! Check out the new material above in our podcast and if you haven’t see what Colin Stetson can do check him out in the video below:
Coming up on July 24th is the WAYHOME music festival! The line-up boasts some great musicians from across the content including one of our past feature bands: For Esme
This podcast was released a while ago when we found their vinyl in the station! We were thrilled to test out the vinyl and find a rich combination of atmospheric sounds combined with great song writing. For Esme has just released a new track and is set to release a new album called “Sugar” later on this year. The new track is called “You”. This months Rock Cut Video is “You” by For Esme. Check it out below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jLAcxqcXXg
Hi Mano Amigos,
Here is our second installment of our “Comic Corner” or “Comic Book Corner” let us know if you have a better name at: manoamanoradio@soundfm.ca
Anyways, in this episode we talk about the newest issue of our favourite comic Captain Canuck along with our very own Comic “The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff” and some news about the day. Check it out in our video/Radio/podcast:
The final episode of the Electrifying Adventures was released July 1st on CKMS and YouTube. There are even more great Canadian Bands that we would have loved to feature in the episodes and that we will continue to feature here on the radio.
The artwork for episode 5 was created by CKMS’ own Cameron Matthews. Who programs Wednesdays!
Featured Bands (in order of appearance):
1) Vote Robot
2) Buck 65
3) Bass Lions
4) Legato Vipers
5) The Famines
6) Synthcake
7) 54-40
8) Atomic Seven
9) The Darcys
10) Ryan Dahle
11) Siskiyou
12) Chad Vangaalen
13) The Bleating Hearts
14) Prairie Cat
15) Robot Apocalypse featuring Gary Cain of the Gary Cain Band and Brad Merritt of 54-40
Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a band that is near and dear to our hearts. They are the one of the first bands that we featured on “The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff”, our Audio Comic that features great Canadian Bands. As such, when we saw their new album ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’ we knew we had to release it on the same day that we closed out The Electrifying Adventures – Canada Day!
Sit back and enjoy this soundscape! Then go and pick up this album! You will not be disappointed!
We found out earlier this year that Paul Jago was going to be releasing some new songs. He just recently put out a few demo tapes! We aren’t sure if he is going to be taking these into the recording studio or not….but we were so stoked to hear these that we had to do a feature. Check them out above!
Okay so this is less of a review and more a video of one of our favourite performances from the festival. We just got this tech the day before the festival and untested we embarked on the electrifying adventure. Obviously we need to invest in a tripod and a windscreen but this video should get the idea across about how awesome this band is!
Their were soo many bands we had the pleasure of seeing including our shows favourite local band Pick a Piper! But the highlight of this years festival was the band Son Lux who put on an amazing performance! Check out a track here:
We analyze the new Limblifter video for their sweet new track “Dopamine” Check it out here and then listen again to their actual video without all out chitter chatter over top.
In our first ever episode we check out the new Captain Canuck series that we picked up at Carry-On Comics!
We heard that Gilt Restaurant had our favourite Lake of Bays Brewing Company beverages and so we had to check out this restaurant to see how it was.
To Start things off the Lady fox has some food allergies and this restaurant was very accommodating! The server even went over with her which items she should choose from and worked out a personal mean just for her. Not only that, most “Special Orders” in other restaurants are just thrown together in an attempt to get something out. This looked and tasted amazing!
The Rest of us decided upon 6 tapas to share.
The first was some amazing chicken that was like nothing I have ever tastes before. It can be seen in the skillet in the image here. Those pieced of heaven in front of the skillet at the puff potatoes…WOW, they were AMAZING! Let move along to the next course..
This was my (DJ Steel’s) favourite dish of the evening. The Lobster Rolls. A close second was the puff potatoes seen above. These lobster rolls were loaded with lobster!
The Next Selection here was DJ AdRock’s favourite dish of the evening the pork belly perogies!
On the menu is a Lake of Bays Brewing Company IPA beer. We confirmed with the server this is the 10 point ale. This was a perfect complementary drink for these dishes, as seen in the photo’s they didn’t last too long.
DJ AdRock then went with a Lake of Bays Brewing Company Crosswind pale ale and I got another 10 point.
The next part of the meal was the scallops! Perfectly cooked! What a way to finish off the dinner part….but we were not done there! We had to stick around for some dessert!
Gilt Restaurant did not disappoint! Everything was so good! In addition to the restaurant being so good we hear that a few days after we were there they had an outdoor concert on their patio!
We definitely give Gilt Restaurant two thumbs up! Check them out online here:
This past week on the Electrifying Sessions we released an episode near and dear to the station! The SoundFM Stealer. Each episode of the series is based on actual events…see what happens to this culpret! And then there are only two more episodes to go! Things finish on a huge climax in this episode! But everything will be revealed in 2 weeks!
The Artwork for Episode 3 was created by Colleen Temple.
Featured Bands (in the order they appear):
1) Ryan Dahle
2) Stone River
3) Neil Young
4) Kandle
5) Dragging the Mule
6) The Gary Cain Band
7) Mohagany Frog
8) Rehashed
9) Thee Silver Mt. Zion
10) Culture Reject
11) Adverteyes
12) Robot Apocalypse featuring Mike Cattanach “Goose” of Cyanide Kiss
We recently released Episode 1 and 2 of our Audio Comic that promotes arts and culture from across Canada. A HUGE part of this multimedia comic is the artwork that is done by various local artist. Our Audio Assault for this past week was to play some songs in dedication to our Episode 1 and 2 artists.
I’m not sure why we decided to do Batman voices in their honour but we did.
Artist for Episode 1:
Alex Palczewski is a local Waterloo artist who recently wrote a children’s book called “The Princess of Lost Things”. Her visual art is mainly done using oil paints and water colours. Find more art from Alex here:
http://fated—to—pretend.tumblr.com/
Artist for Episode 2:
At the time of creation, Sophia Westrop was a local High-school student who was interested in getting involved with the comic. Find more of her artwork here:
http://the-art-of-brainwash.tumblr.com
Check out both of their artwork here in Episode 2:
Last night on the SoundFM program “Electrifying Sessions”, DJ Jeff E Jeff released Season 2 Episode 2: Interrogations from the series “The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff”. This episodes is the 10th installment in the series. Artwork for this episode was created by Sophia Westrop.
We continue to feature great Canadian Bands in this series. Here is the next group of great Canadian bands (in order of appearance):
1) Hayden
2) The Zolas
3) After Dark
4) Blind
5) Foxtrott
6) Last Ex
7) Hoosier Poet
8) Mean Red Spiders
9) The Marble Index
10) Robot Apocalypse featuring Parker Bossley of Fur Trade and The Gay Nineties
Season 2 was kicked off last night with the release of Episode 1: Coleman on The Electrifying Sessions with DJ Jeff E Jeff. Tune in two weeks from now for Episode 2!
The Artwork for this episode was created by Alex Palczewski
Our comprehensive list of great Canadian bands continues this season with more exciting new and old bands (in order of appearance):
1) Econoline Crush
2) The Gay Nineties
3) Jon McKiel
4) Fresh Snow
5) Le Pelican Noir
6) Finger Eleven
7) Sinewave
8) Ought
9) Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche
10) Robot Apocalypse – Featuring Ryan Stanley of Cursed Arrows
Mano A Mano is now in 2D….at least in this segment!
Check out this great video by The Gay Nineties with us!
This Saturday is Free Comic Book day!
We will be talking about Comics that look interesting including “The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff” That will be released next week on Mano A Mano.
We continue our comprehensive list of more of Canada’s top bands with our story “The Electrifying Adventures of DJ Jeff E Jeff”. In true Hollywood style we released the last episode as a part A & B. (also to allow it to coincide with our Night\shift installment at the time)
Find the rest of the story, including Season 2 coming this may here:
www.manoamanoradio.com
Episode 6A Artwork by Amanda Hordyk: Episode 6A
Music in order of appearance by:
1) The Tea Party
2) Three Crowns
3) Daphni
4) Sandro Perri
5) Fur Trade
6) Friendly Rich and the lollipop people
7) Cessna
8) Kitchens & Bathrooms
9) Monster Truck
10) Britt Black
11) Royal Canoe
12) Japanese Girls
13) Arcade Fire
Go right into Park B: The Final Intervention below!
Artwork by various artists: Episode 6B
Music in order of appearance by:
1) Silvergun and Spleen
2) Apostle of Hustle
3) Barenaked Ladies
4) The Nefidovs
5) Holy F___
6) Life in Vaccume
7) Colin Stetson
8) Grand Format
9) Dexter Homes
10) The New Pornographers
11) Quarterback
12) Age of Electric
13) Sunset Rubdown
14) MSTRKRFT
15) Do Make Say Think
This past Tuesday on “The Electrifying Session with DJ Jeff E JEff” we re-released Episode 5: Detective J. Steel while gearing up for the season 2 release. We also released the Season 2 promo that can be seen below. This is the first issue where DJ Steel is introduced into the story to help DJ AdRock figure out what is going on with his Mano A Mano co-host! This also brought Big Poppa Higgs in as the voice of DJ Steel.
Episode 5 Artwork by Fred Start:
Episode 5
Music in order of appearance by:
1) Mind of A Squid
2) Bella Clava
3) Fujahtive
4) K-OS
5) Falcon Punch
6) House of Velvet
7) Quarterback
8) Mise en Scene
9) Kid Koala
10) Yamantaka | Sonic Titan
11) The Tragically Hip
12) My Dad vs Your
13) New Wings
14) UBT
15) Matthew Good
16) Wax Mannequin
17) Bryan Adams
The Electrifying Adventure Begins Again!
Featuring Music By:
Mentions of “The Robot Apocalypse Collective” band that will release one original track each episode.
This collective has contributions from:
1) Gary Cain of the Gary Cain Band
2) Parker Bossley of Fur Trade, The Gay Nineties and The Mounties
3) Ryan Stanley of the Cursed Arrows
4) Ryan Dahle of Limblifter, The Mounties and the Age of Electric
6) Brad Merritt of 54-40
7) Ian Somers of Limblifter and Love and Mathematics
8) Elsa Jayne of Elsa Jayne
9) The #TDIT DJ’s fleshing out the band.
9a) DJ Jeff E Jeff of the Electrifying Sessions
9b) DJ Moses Bogart of Straight outta the pit punk rock radio
9c) DJ Mattador of Mano A Mano
9d) DJ AdRock of Mano A Mano
9e) DJ Steel of Mano A Mano
The High Dials are playing the Starlight in Waterloo this Thursday March 19th. We were spinning some High Dials and then got to chatting about what TV show you could hear that track on. We gave Trevor Anderson from the band a call to settle the dispute. Find out what program and hear some more High Dials tracks on the podcast above!
This extremely interesting album came into the station the other day and since we have been interested in many bands that have removed the vowels from their names we checked it out. The first great thing about this band was that they are from our old stomping ground of “The Hammer” (Hamilton for those not from the hammer or those who did not know it is sometimes call that for some reason)
Secondly, it is some damn great music! It is darker electronic music that has some wicked hooks to it! Some songs have elements of piano that complement the electronic songs – check it ttwwrrss in the podcast above!
Then go to their bandcamp page here and get more of their music!
