The concept of giving art a birthday was introduced by French born artist / peacenik Robert Filliou (associate of John Cage, by the way) In 1963 asserted that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art.

Cole Petrone is an accomplished singer-songwriter who has been entertaining audiences all over the world. Combining a smooth tenor voice with an artistic finger-picking style, Cole has crafted a unique indie sound that has often been compared to that of modern James Taylor and Paul Simon. Widely acclaimed throughout the music industry, his original and catchy melodies include obvious influences from the Beatles, Neil Young, Burt Bacharach, and jazz standards from the “Tin Pan Alley” era. As a finalist in both the “John Lennon Songwriting Contest” and “Great American Songwriting Contest”, and as acknowledged on “Billboard Magazine” and radio stations throughout North America, Cole’s originals are truly heartfelt gems that resonate with authenticity. Listen to the podcast of The Morning After Show on CiTR 101.9 FM where Cole Petrone performs LIVE on studio and talks to host Oswaldo Perez Cabrera.

Psychedelic band is ready to make waves in Vancouver with their trippy, well crafted music. They have two EPs Welcome to the Planetarium and the new one is Moon Aura and they are working on an acoustic album called Purple Sun. “We like to call it sonic rock whatever that is, sort of cracking the distortion a bit and definitively some psychedelic there” tells me Caelin Roza one of the members and singers, “We have three lead singers, kind of Eagles style”.

Synthcake came with a blast, their music added the missing part to complement an hallucinatory trip that converted the Cobalt into a room that you could only enter through the rabbit hole.

In 2009, The Beauties were declared “Best Roots/Country Band” by Toronto’s NOW magazine. Listen to the podcast

This weeks episode includes a spotlight on Speedway a blast from the past on Toronto’s indie music scene. The Harvest, a band from Vancouver who are breaking out on the scene and an interview with Matt Bryant from Headwater.

The band has a unique sound and they are true warriors of the independent scene. Talented musicians that got together in March of 2009 as an acoustic experiment. They have played and play in groups like the SSRIs, Like Animals Again, The Barcelona Chair and Friends From School, also you can see them jamming with other musicians like Brasstonaut, Olenka and Sciences.Listen to the podcast so you can hear them experiment on AIR with their music and listen to their newest song playing on the radio for the first time.

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

A great mix of reggae, folk and some garage punk with The Ultimatemost High call in from Toronto!

April Fool’s Day episode & Jason 1st day back! Also featuring an extra hour of Bruce Cockburn’s latest album: “Small Source of Comfort”.

Brave By Numbers live in studio with Mark Ferraby and Toronto Tracks with Jason Pawlett, this weeks tracks from Clothes Make The Man, The Mercy Now and William Fitzimmons (Actually a track from Jacksonville Illinois.)

Listen to the podcast in the postcast. I was blown away by the quality of this band. I have an EP called Simon Says and it is really good but it doesn’t capture the energy and the charisma that they portray when they play LIVE! The songs will crawl into your head and stay there until you have to play them in your stereo at loud volume.
A lot of bands and influences rushed through my head when I was watching at them, the first one was De Lorean, that Spanish band, but also some songs really remind me of The Strokes, so I guess they pop indie rock is between the electronic ambient of De Lorean and the guitar riffs of the Strokes. “Joy Division” says Miso, the singer “The Smiths” replies Valentino, other answers start flowing “New Order, The Cure, Britpop, Donosaur Jr. The Velvet Underground, T-Rex”. I saw them at the Biltmore and invited them to The Morning After Show a couple of weeks after that to know more about this indie band.

This week’s episode features No Island live in studio along with” Toronto Tracks” from Hands & Teeth with an “Indiana Track” from Nicholas Gunty.

Friday Sunrise with Mark Ferraby and High Society live along with Jason Pawlett in Toronto with an Interview with The Mark Inside. Check it out!

This show was to support the fundraiser for the Galiano Conservancy Association so we had Marley Daemon playing LIVE! on the show plus Tamara Nile calling in. Some of the best folk artists played that night at the Waldorf. MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert was there speaking and besides CiTR, CJSF CIVIL radio and Shaw TV were there among other musicians and friends.

We started the show with Silvania from their fourth album Juniperfin, it goes back to building atmospheres and creating images out from sound textures: industrial soundscapes, ambient, a present for the sensibility, as a walk among the clouds. Always a step ahead of their time. We heard Aldrin