It's (A)Live - Really Live Radio
It's (A)Live at Toronto's CIUT 89.5FM is luckier than most since it has a large recording studio with a 24 track mixer available right on site. Hosted by CIUT Program Manager Ken Stowar, It's (A)Live, features live recordings of local, regional, national, and some international musicians who perform from a wide variety of disciplines. Some of the bands Stowar has featured live sets from are Harry Manx, The Toronto Taiwanese Choir, David Murray & The Gwo-Ka Masters, Mr. Rick & The Biscuits, Swing Rosie, Afrodizz, Chet, Mika Bomb, Tumi & The Volume, Noisettes, Rizwan-Muazam Qawwali and Los Van Van. Not every live session is recorded in-house specifically for the show. Many are recorded straight from the mixing board at shows (with permission, of course) using a minidisk or Marantz 660 portable recording unit. Stowar also occasionally digs deep into the vaults of CIUT's extensive music library to fill out the program. It's (A)live can be heard every Monday afternoon in the Greater Toronto area starting at 1pm EST or online at www.ciut.fm. Stowar hosts a second program at CIUT called Global Rhythms a weekly 3 hour world music program he started in 1989, heard Sundays from 3-6 PM EST. More shows that feature regular or occasional in-studio performances: Live From Thunderbird Radio Hell on CiTR 101.9FM in Vancouver, BC Live In The Rhythm Hive on CFBU 103.7FM in St. Catharines, ON Live And Direct on CFMU 93.3 in Hamilton, ON Songwriter's Circle on CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, BC Straight On 'Til Morning on CJSW 90.9FM in Calgary, AB |
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This Month
!earshot Top 200 of 2021For January to December 2021
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| TW | Artist - Title - (Label) | ||
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| 1 | TEKE::TEKE 
Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars) |
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| 2 | The Halluci Nation
One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) |
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| 3 | Chad VanGaalen
World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye) |
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| 4 | The Weather Station
Ignorance - (Next Door) |
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| 5 | Kiwi Jr.
Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club) |
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| 6 | Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive) |
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| 7 | Ada Lea
one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door) |
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| 8 | Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz
jooj two - (Mint) |
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| 9 | Suuns
The Witness - (Secret City) |
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| 10 | Andy Shauf
Wilds - (Arts & Crafts) |
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| Specialty Charts #1s | |||
| Electronic: | The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) | ||
| Hip Hop: | Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released) | ||
| International: | Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray - Leave The Bones - (Anjunadeep) | ||
| Jazz: | Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead) | ||
| Loud: | Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact) | ||
| Folk/Roots/Blues: | Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy) | ||
