Influential Halifax post-punk/math rock band North of America were in town playing a special reunion show on Saturday Feb 27th for the Blue Skies Turn Black 10th Anniversary show @ Il Motore. Here's an old session they did @ CJLO 5 years ago when they reunited for a brief tour with Ted Leo.

When we heard North of America had reunited and was playing a date in Montreal, Hooked on Sonics got to work.

Stalking them out courtesy of Meyer at Blue Skies Turn Black who passed us Micheal's email, we managed to get in touch with them and...

MOGGs

Scrappy San Francisco post-punk duo Moggs paid a visit to the SONiCs show September 6, 2005, and became the first band to ever perform live-to-air on our show. In town for a CJLO sponsored performance, part of our old “Upstairs is Underground” nights at (the now departed) Le Swimming.

A rad duo, Sir Plus and Miss Minor were nice and patient with us while our Program Director became defacto session engineer after our main engineer had to cancel at the last minute. All in all, the session went off without a hitch and the duo joined me in the broadcast studio for what was a really funny interview....

Murder By Death

Uncategorizable band Murder by Death dropped by CJLO studios to record a special acoustic SONiCs Session for us on June 3, 2004, right before playing the CJLO/Blue Skies Turn Black co-sponsored Braid reunion tour, a night now remembered in CJLO history as the “Colossal Failure"© (if you want to know why, contact us). Having the Murder by Death gang come down was definitely the highlight of that night and it was also the first SONiCs sessions we ever did after our return from "extended hiatus" (and, to my knowledge, the second one recorded in the new CJLO recording studio).

Anyhow, they brought in...

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