When it comes to volunteering, Radio DJ has to be the best of both worlds! Spinning Canadian musicians' tunes is the best of all the best. Here are the Canadian musicians who showed up in the New Wax this week:

Bombproof the Horses, The Ground The Sky, Springtime in My Hometown;
The Olympic Symphonium, Chance to Fate, All In Your Head;
Biblical, Monsoon Season, All Justice No Peace;
Kevin Drew, Darlings, Mexican After Show Party;
Sabota, Sabota, Hi + Lo;
Dr. Music, Retrospective, Long Time Comin' Home;
Jay Malinowski & the Deadcoast, Martel, Meet Me At the Gate;
Howl Live, Howl Live, Sedgewick Ave;
Thus Owls, Turning Rocks, How In My Bones;
Jung People, Gold Bristle, Sleeping Near the WLT Warmth;
Numbersix, Telekinetic Lovers, Smoke & Mirrors;
Misery Mountain Boys, Little Smoky, She's a Wild Rose;
Murder Murder, Murder Murder Murder, The Ballad of Robert Moore & Betty Coltrane;
Kevin Roy, Taller Than the Trees, Salvation on the Shore;
Misery Mountain Boys, Little Smoky, Everybody Wants To Be a Cat;
Pete Mills, Sweet Shadow, Shiner;
Jeff Presslaff, The Complete Rebirth of the Cool, Sleepless;
Jay Malinowski & the Deadcoast, Martel, A Fools' Tattoo;
Jesse MacCormack, Music for the Soul, Away;
Kyp Harness & the Dinner Is Ruined Band, Armageddon Blues, Low Dishonourable Men;
Joe Nolan, Tornado, The Pawnshop;

Background airwaves graciously filled by Dr. Music and his Retrospective vinyl. It hit the CJSR vinyl stacks back in the early 1970's … now that's Canadian history for you!

Thanks for lending me your ears this fine Tuesday morning.

One thing we will never lack is awesome Canadian tunes - as always, many thanks to the dedication of the Canadian musicians who offer up their CDs and vinyl for us to fill the air waves:

Here is who we sampled today:

A Tribe Called Red, Nation II Nation, Bread & Cheese;
Diamond Mind, Fake Tape, Closed Circuit;
Monkey Junk, All Frequencies, Yearnin' for Yesterday;
Kinnie Starr, Kiss It, Home is Everywhere;
Nap Eyes, Whine of the Mystic, Oh My Friends;
Free Judges, Above the Dust and a Little Below the Angels, Tip of the Spear;
Crissi Cochrane, Little Sway, Nobody's Bird;
Poppy Seed and the Love Explosion, Beyond the Seventh Sun, Saw You Outside;
Poppy Seed and the Love Explosion, Beyond the Seventh Sun, Melt Away;
Kim Beggs, Blue Bones, Longest Dream;
Van Funk, 13, Contagious Sound;
Casper Hollands, Seven Pieces, Polka Dot Dress;
Jeff Presslaff, The Complete Rebirth of the Cool, Sincerely Ours;
Rachel Nightingale, Rachel Nightingale, Just You Just Me;
Sugar Brown's Sad Day, Sugar Brown's Sad Day, 2 O'Clock;
Corin Raymond & the Sundowners, Paper Nickels, Bucket of Time;

Two wonderful pieces of Canadian vinyl kept us company in the background; from the Jazz stacks, The Rick Morrison Project and his self-titled Mini-LP as well as the Ted Moses Quintet from a selection that was put out as part of the CBC Transcription series titled Sidereal Time. Both excellent samples of the historically healthy Canadian Jazz scene.

Don't forget - you'll have to double park your boots at the front door; that is, your winter boots right beside your rubber boots. The big melt is upon us! Happy spring!

The weather has finally broken with its own tradition of Winter, but Put R in D for Dangle continues with its tradition of playing 100% CanCon; why play second rate I ask?

Here's the awesome stuff we heard this morning:

Jom Comyn, In the Dark on 99 (All the Time, All the Time), Shivering Cold;
The Written Years, The Written Years, The Station;
Pif Paf Hangover, Curry Love, Some Say;
Boids, We Stalk Each Other Like Animals, Off We Go;
Harlan Peppers, Take Out a Twenty & Live Life to the Fullest, Party Shoes;
Red Ram, Slip Away, Land of Dreams;
Sink This City, Sink This City, Third Place in the Moustache Contest;
Bend Sinister, Animals, Through the Week;
The Heavyweights Brass Band, Brasstronomical, Booze Hounds;
Cory Weeds Quintet featuring Steve Davis, Let's Go, Tetracosmos;
David Blake, Next Year People, Not Your Lanai;
Poppy Seed and the Love Explosion, Beyond the Seventh Sun, Bales of Pot;
Visions of Freedom, Pathway to Infinity, Pot's a Herb;
Livingston, Artificially Intelligent Folk Songs of Canada Vol.1, I Am A Weary Immaterial Labourer In A Post-Industrial Wasteland;
Hunting, Hunting, Lonely Happy;
Kaley Bird, Don't Say You're Sorry, High Level Bridge;
Khotin, Normals Welcome, You Could Feel the Sky;
Khotin, Normals Welcome, Dawn Flowers;
The Souljazz Orchestra, Inner Fire, One Life to Live;
Jody Weger, On Land & Living, Talkin' Daytime Drinkin' Blues;
Merkules, Hunger Pains, Front Page;

Thanks to Sonny Greenwich for filling the background air waves so beautifully; we heard both sides of his LP vinyl titled Evol-ution, Love's Reverse.

Don't forget to keep your rubber boots handy - the Big Thaw is imminent! Hurrah!!

If March came in like a deep freeze, does it go out like an oven? It'll be hot no matter what because you listen to hot Canadian musicians on CJSR. Here's how we heated up the air waves this morning:

Thru Colorado, Ephemera, Where You Belong;
Ruff Talons, Tuff Stuff, Put You In a Box;
Slates, Taiga, New Factory;
Wax Atlantic, Wax Atlantic, Bunker Heart;
Connoisseurs of Porn, Dead Pets, Go Run Lady Zoro;
Poppy Seed & the Love Explosion, Beyond the Seventh Sun, The Comet;
Picastro, You, Temur;
Ruff Talons, Crushed, Breakup;
Matt Newton, Within Reach, Ends;
Mike Janzen Trio, Metronome, Sunshine Coast;
Bill Coon Quartet, Scudder's Groove, Fred's Bossa;
The Fretless, The Fretless, Big Trip;
Jenny Mayhem, Jenny Mayhem, Wide Open;
Nudie, Remember This, Walking the Streets;
Del Barber, Prairieography, Tell Me Where To Start;
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, South, North;
Hunting, Hunting, Everytime I'm With You;
Tigerwing, `Xela, Ether;
Valiska, Shifts, A Denseness of Trees;
Yankee Yankee, Segments, Track #1;
Bluesland with the Cold Sweat Horns, Down in New Orleans, Tobacco Blues;
Canadian Winter, The Snowball Effect, Breakfast on Bloor Street;

Background graciously filled in by Aroma, some Canadian Jazz vinyl that hit the CJSR stacks in 1987. This group comprises the following musicians: Michel Charles Therrien, John Rudel, Daniel Mathieu, Estelle Ste-Croix, Wayne Stoute, Daniel "The Rent" Loyer, Pierre Marcel Plante, Patrice Dubuc and Stephane Tasse.

Thanks for joining me. Stay warm; keep listening to CJSR.