Radio Laurier

Check out our management positions! Applications due this Friday March 12th.

Radio Laurier is holding DIRTY BINGO on March 10th at Chainsaw. The event is from 6:30pm -9pm.

Come out and play BINGO and win Prizes from the STAG SHOP!

Playing Cards are 3 for $5 at the door with additional cards only $1 or $2 each throughout the night.

Before Dirty Bingo you can come and have a Dirty Burger and a beer for $4 with the coupon from the cord OR you can stay for open mic night which begins at 9pm.

See ya there ya’ll !

Come out and support Radio Laurier, have an awesome time and a SEXY night!

All Applications other than Management are due March 22nd with interviews to follow. Please submit your application to radiolaurier@wlusp.com or drop it off in the WLUSP office.

Radio Laurier is looking for local Laurier bands who are interested in being a part of  Radio Laurier’s Concert Series, happening every month at Maxwell’s Music House! As well as being able to get the opportunity to play for your peers at Laurier and community members in Waterloo, you can look forward to a music spotlight on Radio Laurier and regular rotation of your music on the Radio Laurier music library!

If interested, e-mail Kristine at kristine.lippett@gmail.com and include a sample of your music, or a link to your myspace page.

Let’s rock Radio Laurier with some local Laurier talent!

Come check out Green Go at Wilfs on March 4th. The concert starts at 9pm. This is Radio Laurier’s first endevour with WLUSU since the transistion last year. Come out for good music and support Radio Laurier and help make concerts in the future possible.

This event is open to WLU students only, no cover.

Folk metal catch your attention?
Sorry for the lack of blogs, things are getting hectic!! But last show we did an awesome search through the unique genre of metal, and from a totally different spectrum the week before we did folk rock! Want to know what was played? Check out my facebook page “Operation Breakthrough – Radio Laurier”, and don’t forget to become a fan! This weeks show is going to be pop rock so be sure to tune in!

And my advice to you guys: Go see Alice in Wonderland, it’s awesome.
Cheers till next time!

It seems to me artist like lil’ wayne and 50 cent seem to split rap fans down the middle. Though there’s no doubt they brought something new to the table and changed the industry, is it for better or worse? Personally I like lil’ wayne, he is definitely a hard worker and constantly making new tracks. He puts out a lot of awful music, but he makes so much of it that good tracks surface every once in a while.

Today on my show I asked whether you think Lil’ Wayne is the great free styler he claims to be. I’ve seen him claim that he never writes anything down, and that he free styles many of the tracks that go right on his albums. Joining the ranks of other rap legends like biggie. But I’ve also heard rumours that he gets other rappers on young money to write for him. Someone even told me that drake wrote a lot of the rhymes on ‘tha charter 3′. What do you guys think?

Hey every1!

Great job on tuning in on Friday! We had a lot of people respond positively to the show and I couldn’t have done it without you. Again, this past version of the show was about bands who have broken up and have fallen off the radar and possibly never to be heard of again. There was also a double-shot for most of the artists played in the show but here’s the playlist if you all want to check out the songs and bands yourselves!

1. Moist – Push
2. Moist – Resurrection
3. Headstones – Tweeter And The Monkey Man
4. Headstones – Reframed (Every Single Failure)
5. Spineshank – Beginning Of The End
6. Spineshank – New Disease
7. Pop Will Eat Itself – Ich Bin Ein Auslander
8. Kyuss – Gardenia
9. Treble Charger – Brand New Low
10. XTC – Dear God
11. The Tea Party – Temptation
12. The Tea Party – Heaven Coming Down
13. Death From Above 1979 – Romantic Rights
14. Death From Above 1979 – Blood On Our Hands
15. Audioslave – Be Yourself
16. Audioslave – Revelations
17. Live – Lightning Crashes

Now, this episode focused on bands that broke up and were basically never heard again. But what about bands who were big at one point of their careers but now have faded away however they are still together? You may call them one-hit wonders but at the same time they’re kinda not as well. You’ll see what I mean when you tune into next week’s episode “Resurrected & Reborn Part 2: The Invisible Cloak of Forgotten Legends”

P.S. Due to the highly likely event of people pronouncing my DJ name (DJ hSaY) wrong I have decided to finally change it into something more suitable to the show. So please welcome my new DJ name: DJ RamRock. More on the origins of that name in the future because this blog post has gone on long enough. Catch you guys next week!
DJ RamRock
New Rock Edge
Radio Laurier

Well, we set sail for spring last night with some acoustic guitar tunes, designed specifically for playing in any and every University Quad (Ok, that isn’t exactly what I meant…).

Highlights from last night include The Band, George Clooney, Serena Ryder, and Moxy Fruvous.

I also expressed my disappointment in Chris Cuthbert’s play by play on the Sidney Crosby gold medal winning goal. Here’s Foster Hewitt calling Paul Henderson’s Summit Series winner, and Dan Kelly in 1987 with Mario’s goal during the Canada Cup. I like Chris Cuthbert as a play by play man, but you’ve got to be on the ball, because you only get one chance. I suppose it was a good game anyways. For good measure, take a look at Rick Mercer’s twitter feed to get a sense of how the game went for most Canadian fans.

Last night’s playlist is posted on the Facebook group. Next week’s mix continues the instrumental theme and is dedicated to the instrument we all took lessons on when we were kids and then stopped because it wasn’t fun and now wish we could play again (…or is that just me?). It is, of course, the piano. And to wet your whistle, I offer up my top three piano geniuses of all time: Victor Borge, this guy, and Victor Borge.

Have a great weekend, I’ll talk to you next Thursday at 9pm.

Ian

Hey Every1!

Tonight will kick off a two part show showing bands who have seemed to have once held a high point in their music career with a few breakthrough songs but now they are currently under-appreciated and overlooked, especially in today’s music genre. By giving them some resurfacing the next two episodes will “resurrect” these artists and help give them some more appreciation because you know what, they totally deserve it!

Judging by the title of this episode you might need some clarification as to what exactly this episode is all about. Tonight’s episode is going to focus on bands who have broken up (hence dismantled) but have seemed to have been forgotten as well. Now, I’m not talking about bands like Nirvana, The Smiths, or Soundgarden (who got back together in January 2010…so they don’t count anymore but you catch my drift) but bands who have seemed to actually be forgotten. Such examples that you will be hearing tonight includes:

-Death From Above 1979
-Moist
-The Tea Party
-Kyuss
-Live

On that same note, because we are “resurrecting” and “re-birthing” these artists you will hear a double-shot of songs from most of the artists that will be played on this show. So make sure to tune in tonight on Radio Laurier via: (www.radiolaurier.com) from 6-8pm to hear these once great but now almost forgotten artists in Part 1 of Resurrected & Reborn!

DJ hSaY
New Rock Edge
Radio Laurier

First off, sorry for the lack of blog-ness for the past couple weeks

Hope you all enjoyed your reading weeks.

The sixth show, was the CASBY week, Canadian Artists Selected By You!  A Show dedicated to the radio station “The Edge” and their yearly music awards.  We saw artists like Men Without Hats (FINALLY!), Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker (Check them out, and if you have a chance to see them live DO IT, you won’t regret it!  and bands like Martha and the Muffins too!

The seventh show this week was the start of something somewhat different, instead of genre/theme based shows we switched over to a more regional approach to the show.  This week we focused on the prairie provinces, Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.  We heard bands like Bachman Turner Overdrive, Our Mercury, and a band called Birds are dinosaurs, check them out, instrumental progressive, its really cool!

Also, check this out!

Do you idealize the super famous? Well it would be strange if it never crossed your mind these days. It doesn’t matter if its a “guilty pleasure” or a well deserved love interest, some people just incite the feeling in you. I figured this might be a place where I can finally put out my top 5, because hey, when else do I get the opportunity to? Also, i’m a boy so I think i’ll do the hetero-normative thing first.

Hotties are as follows:

1. Chan Marshall AKA: Cat power
Not the most flattering of pictures,  but I would be hard pressed not to include Chan. She’s kind of the troubled one on this list. A very public drinking problem and suicidal tendencies plagued her for a good while but she’s back on the wagon!

2. Yelle (Julie Budet)
Cute Electro-Pop princesses are a rare sight. GO FRANCE!

3. Joanna Newsom
Is it possible not to love the folk-sichord

4. Jenny Lewis
I would never imagine that Las Vegas could produce a redhead without a burlesque show.

5. Taken By Trees AKA: Victoria Bergsman
Animal Collective covers? Swedish? I never had a chance

Stay tuned for the boy-crush version!