About this blog

I want to ask you something dear reader. 

Have you ever stayed up late at night, listening to the radio. You are scrolling through the stations for something other than those mainstream stations that play the same five songs all day. Suddenly, somewhere through the crackle of the static, you find a song, and music style that you have never heard before? This blog has come from that. I have come from that. So this blog is for all us night listeners. 

It is those late night radio programs that made my music tastes, and formed them many moons ago. I remember being a kid, not wanting to sleep, and sneaking my little radio with headphones on, into bed with me. I already loved everything about music back then. Singing to Cindy Lauper and The Bangles into my hair brush. But at some point, as a preteen, I came upon two radio shows put on by the CBC called Brave New Waves with Brent Brambury, and Night Lines with David Wisdom. 

The music they played was unlike anything I heard. We're talking late 80s, and music from Skinny Puppy, Nurse With Wound, Coil, just to name a few. That was what they would play, and it was unlike anything I heard. It was like a secret music that was between me and the DJs, that no one else knew about. I remember the music was creepy, but I was already a kid that loved horror films and things on the creepier side, so I was hooked. Imagine yourself being 11 or 12, and hearing Throbbing Gristle's Hamburger Lady for the first time. Now I am an adult pushing 50, this music has been a part of my life ever since. 

Sadly those shows from the CBC no longer exist, and nothing else of that nature has taken their place. I believe the final broadcast of Brave New Waves ended in 2007 with then host Patti Schmidt. I guess times are easier to find music that is on the fringes now with the internet, but back then, for me in the late 80s and 90s, it was a lifeline to these kinds of bands. It was hard to find some of them in my local record shops, and if I was to get anything, it was through mail orders in zines I found.  But not much I was able to order being a broke teenager. So recording my music off the radio, and a few punk rock shows from the local public radio hosted at the university, was the best thing I could do. What I wouldn't give to have those tapes still. 

So What Is This All About?

What you will find here is a daily song shuffle from my mp3 player every morning to start the day, and just other random videos I find interesting about music. As well as sharing my zine collections, and other music musings of a past era of music that existed deep underground. 

Also starting up this blog, is going to be a learning experience for me as well. I own so much music, and aside from my usual favourite bands, I don't know much about some of the artists stuff I own. I come from a time where it was hard to find out info on these bands and artists, that I sometimes still don't look them up. So we can learn about these artists together. 

So this blog is in homage to that music, those late night radio shows, and all us night listeners still out there, looking for something more than what the mainstream has to offer. This next song is dedicated to you.