Trucking in all the way from the west coast, Vancouver, BC’s the Salteens brought their peppy power pop to CJLO September 30, 2004. In town to headline the CJLO sponsored Boompa Records showcase at the Pop Montreal music festival, the Salteens got to be part of what was probably the most problematic SONiCs Session yet. Every technical problem that could go wrong did. While station engineer Manic Panic dealt with the situation (“gimme 10 minutes alone in the studio and I’ll fix those goddamn wires…”), the ever rad and patient Salteens gang kicked up their feet and hung at the station.

Buuut, time was ticking. Eventually pressed for time (the venue called, “where are you guys...

The Posies

One of the highlights of hosting and producing this very show is that sometimes I manage to luck out and get to interview some of my musical heroes like Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices) or John Reis (Rocket from the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu). This time I managed to up the ante and got Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies to come on down to chateau CJLO and spend a good hour talking about their music & careers as well as record four acoustic versions of some of their songs.

In town on a dark Saturday evening, October 2, 2005, for Pop Montreal, I managed to hook this up by doing a little…uh…cyber-stalking.

I had emailed Jon and Ken, but...

Pattern is Movement

Philly poppy math rock indie quartet Pattern is Movement made their way to the CJLO studios on a Sunday afternoon, October 2, 2005, before their show for Pop Montreal. Funny thing with this session is it was initially supposed to happen in the summer but got botched up by yours truly. See, I had called back their label to set up the session when lo and behold, I had accidentally marked down the wrong weekend for when I thought they’d be in town. Turned out, they had already passed through the previous weekend. Good job.

Then, by fluke, at a lunch party at CMJ, the CJLO contingent ran into the the Pattern is Movement guys and from there, personal email and phone...

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