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”.

The East Vancouver band Tyranahorse will be special guest at Tuesday`s Live@Lunch, a free September lunchtime music series. The gig will be hosted by Oswaldo Perez Cabrera on The Morning After Show, live broadcast between 12-1:00 pm.
Tyranahorse describes itself as a noise, grunge, classical, pop, old country, hip hop, rock, and early hardcore band. Its last album, Ghostwolfmotherhawk-prairieunicornlionlioness, is inspired by noise, grunge, kazoo, pop, classical country. hardcore, The Pixies and the B-52′s.

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.

After 10 years of existence they went into the studio with Steve Albini to record the self title LP.

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.

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.

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

Robin Guthrie is playing with Brendan Perry at the Venue June 9th “I don´t think I am coming to promote my latest release” he told me via telephone from Britany, France where he has been living for the past 10 years, we are chatting On Air on my radio show The Morning After Show on CiTR 101,9 FM “I don´t think I am going to play anything from it, generally when I play on my own I do nice guitar things and I don´t generally play with a band, but now I am doing a little tour with Brendan so I am going to do something different. I am playing with some other musicians, I am doing a few new things, some old things, probably nothing that I have recorded before, I don’t like to promote records I don’t do that stuff, I just like to play”.

The documentary named Who took the bomp? follows the band members Johanna Fateman, JD Samson, and Kathleen Hanna through and extensive tour all over the world in 2004 and 2005. Their last tour. It was directed by Kerthy Fix, a friend of the band and their light designer. She also directed the awesome documentary about the Magnetic Fields, Strange Powers. Le Tigre were based in New York where they worked with the director. Kerthy Fix didn’t shoot the whole documentary, she organized all the footage and made a couple of interviews and edited everything together for the fans’ pleasure. A goodbye present for their followers.

The best documentary I have seen this year focuses on one of the most interesting plant and its derivatives: Papaver somniferum.

Chico Mann played at the Waldorf at the first Tropidelica with DJs Operacion Bikini.

Ramolo and her band started with “O Brother”, a great country pacifist song. The rest of the repertoire was a mix of blues and country. It seems Ramolo is moving into blues-rock territory, and the recruiting of Pinchin for the tour is a proof. Neverhteless, singer/songwriters love ballads and Ramolo is no exception: “Cold in the City” is indeed “a pretty song”, as she described it.

The set and setting was cozy, intimate and warm. If you closed your eyes you could imagine being in a cabin in the woods where a bunch of friends are drinking wine around the fireplace or a bonfire, sharing a laugh with Ramolo’s music playing.

The Waldorf will be transformed into a real Mexican cabaret from the 50s, so expect to find a lot of surprises, including an electric shock machine, Cuban sensual dances, tacos, tequila specials, old music, new music, dance music, electronic music, its going to be madness. Toy Selectah was member of the legendary hip hop, rock band Control Machete who went to sell more than 100,000 units in Mexico and 400,000 in Latin America of their debut CD Mucho barato at the end of the 90s. Their second album also went Platinium.Now Chico Mann or the first Cuban in space as he calls himself is the electronic alter ego of Maruitos García, an accomplished musician, he was the guitar player of Antibalas, one of the most popular Afrobeat bands in the world.