CiTR is having their annual frundrive, donate to The Morning After Show and Friday Sunrise.
Donations can also be made in-person at CiTR Radio offices. We accept Visa, MasterCard, Personal Cheque, Money Order & Cash, and Direct Deposit. You can also send a cheque payable to UBC with “CiTR Fundrive” in the memo, to the following address:
CiTR Radio
#233-6138 SUB Blvd.
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z1
CiTR is pleased to thank is donors with 2011 Fundrive swag!
Also, Show Specific Swag is available. Donate on your favourite show for a customized prize pack while supplies last! Call …

Don Alder is truly gifted with an amazing talent to capture any crowd!
Don Alder plays acoustic fingerstyle guitar with a passion that has quickly earned him a reputation as Vancouver’s “best kept little secret”. Don is a world-class fingerstyle guitarist with a “wow factor” that has let to multiple endorsement deals with major manufacturers and a collaboration with Greenfield guitars to produce a signature acoustic guitar- the “Don Alder G4″ model.
Don currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His unique style of playing incorporates fingerpicking with simultaneous percussion on the …

We Enjoyed The Music, We Enjoyed The Yukon!
The 2011 BreakOut West Festival and Western Canadian Music Awards were an amazing success, for both the Western Canadian Music Alliance and for the Yukon! Delegates from across the planet descended on the little city of Whitehorse for four days in October, and they enjoyed not only the fantastic music that came out of the weekend, but a little northern hospitality too…
MusicYukon showcased their talented membership to the music industry with a style of their own. For musicians and their friends, the MusicYukon …

Watch the trailers of the films that are coming to the Amnesty International Film Festival in Vancouver from November 17th to November 20th
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street Presented by Amnesty International and the
SFU School for International Studies

Thursday 17
7 pm
Cultures of Resistance
Iara Lee / USA / 2010 / 73m
Can music and dance be weapons of peace? On the eve of the Iraq war director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict. She found graffiti and rap artists fighting government repression …

The Top 5 Have Been Announced!
Music BC and 100.5 the PEAK would like to congratulate the top 5 artists in the 2011 PEAK Performance Project!
our Top 3 Artists, in no particular order (ranking to be announced at the PEAK Performance Project Finale Concert on November 17th), TICKETS for the PEAK Performance Project Finale are now on sale through Ticketmaster, for $10.05 plus service charges. Commodore Ballroom, November 17th, 2011 @ 8:00pm.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of avant guard composer and musician Iannis Xenakis’ death, Vancouver New Music’s 2011 Festival will celebrate the work and influence of one of the most original and prolific creative figures of the 20th century.

VanMusic is proud to present an astounding film at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
By Oswaldo Perez Cabrera.
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is a love story between one of the parents of Industrial Music and a dominatrix almost half his age. Their love story is unique because they underwent a physical transformation that confused many people. Genesis P Orridge metamorphosis is almost unreal, pretty much like his music. Nobody knows what goes inside his head. The documentary filmed by New York resident Marie Losier is beautifully shot, its comprised …

It seems like everything worth doing in The United States of America is worth doing big. The beers on average can be found in sizes proportioned for a mammoth. National pride is judged by the size of the flag you have flying outside. Cars can often be seen driving down the streets large enough to roll over a single family home. So music it seems is no different, and with the first day of Bumbershoot out of the way, the Vanmusic team were treated by Seattle and the Bumbershoot organizers to an epic day of sunshine, fair food and music, all in overwhelming proportions.

Could you give a brief history of Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party. I know that the band was formed in Glasgow, what’s the story behind moving to Vancouver?

The band formed in 2006 in Glasgow, Scotland. Upon writing a bunch of
material in Scotland, we went our separate ways only to reunite in 2009 to
start gigging and recording. We ve since spent a lot of time in Russia
studying oligarchs as this is something we eventually hope the band will
emulate.

VIFF is coming this year with a lot of movies about art.
30th VIFF: September 29-October 14th.
Read their Press Release and check some of the music films they are bringing this year. VanMusic will be sponsoring one of these films. If you guess which one is it you will win a pair of tickets to the screening. E-mail us your guess to promotions@vanmusic.ca

The 30th anniversary VIFF is coming up fast! This is the first of several major program announcements leading up to opening night celebrations on September 29.
We’re toasting our 30th …

Interview and photos of the visit of one of the best indie bands in Mexico.
The band visited Vancouver for the fourth time with their second album (Tocadiscos) under their arms and this is what it happened:
Video interview: Nick Pannu.
Photographs: Ashley Irwin (Nevena photos) and Stephanie Bentzen.
Write up: Oswaldo Perez Cabrera.

Mama Pulpa almost didn’t come into the country, but being a well known band in this territory and in Mexico Immigration gave them green light at the last minute. So their visas came through, but with a catch: They could only …

NEW COUNTRY REHAB PLAYED AT VANCOUVER FOLK FESTIVAL.
Humble kitchen roots translate into big buzz for Toronto band.
By AJ Lee.
Toronto-based act aptly-named New Country Rehab  are rising quickly in the Canadian roots scene and delivering revved-up, revamped, 100-proof country sound to a genre that deserves more than the watered-down warblings heard on the radio all too often these days.
Their live shows have received rave reviews and they have a faithful following back east. Expect this band to get the crowd up and dancing,
“Champagne” James Robertson, guitarist for the quartet, talks with …

Alpha Yaya Diallo, guitarist, singer, songwriter is a three-time Juno Award winner. A true multi-cultural artist, he performs in French, English and his native Guinean languages of Fulani, Malinke, and Sosoxi. He was discovered in the late 1980’s by Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records when he was touring as the lead guitarist for the group Fatala.

Natalie Pa’apa’a got the crowd as excited as humanly possible bringing us into a frenzied riot of pleasure and dancing. A musician with the message of ONE LOVE Natalie Pa’apa’a and Blue King brown are an inspiration. If you ever get the chance to check them out, do it! You will be glad you did and you will leave the show feeling like you were just part of something unimaginably great.

Jon Anderson is a legend in his own spare time as he jokes about it. He was the founder of the legendary band YES, lead singer and composer of many of the tracks including the hits “Owner of a lonely heart” “Leave It” and “It can happen”. YES was always labeled as a progressive rock band “there has always been progressive music, I don’t call it progressive rock, I would like to call it progressive music, we were not just progressive, our music was based on rock, jazz, folk, it was a combination of all that