The closing keynote at this year’s National Campus and Community Radio Conference (happening this year in Halifax, don’t cha know!) will be delivered by Rich Terfry/Buck 65. It’s sort of fitting because according to popular lore, Terfry grew up on CKDU and apparently used to climb trees in his Mount Uniacke yard with radio in […]
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CKDU seeks homeless or low-income musicians for compliation
CKDU is looking to put out a CD in order to raise cash for the homeless, and it needs help from low-income and homeless people. In fact, CKDU is looking for homeless artists to perform on the record. Songs should be centred around what the homeless experience is like, while staying positive and informative. And […]
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Happy Funniversary CKDU
dance dance As of today, February 1, CKDU 88.1 FM — along with Pauly Shore and Boris Yeltsin — will be celebrating its birthday. The station is now 26 years old, and as part of the celebrations, the station is welcoming back old programmers to revise their radio show during the week of February 1 […]
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CKDU’s top-played releases of 2010
I’ve been grappling with writing a best-of songs list of the year and if I can get my druthers together between drinking piles of nog and watching Six Feet Under I’m totally gonna do it. In the meantime you can look at a list of CKDU’s most played new releases of the year as chosen […]
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She’s Eclectic: DJ Edition
who wants to drink from the fire hose? Eclectic Avenue, the monthly dance night that also helps raise money for CKDU, is happening again this Wednesday. A cluster of sweet local DJs will be providing the ennatainment this time around: Innez Da Future, DJ Regalia, the delightfully-named Bourbon Jungle, DJ Goldilocks, DJ Fancy Pants Adventure, […]
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Get Eclectic
The second installment of CKDU’s monthly dance party Eclectic Avenue is TONIGHT and there will be enough genres present to satisfy all of your friends’ discerning tastes. The station’s DJ Anderoc and DJ Megabrain will do you for reggae and funk respectively, Jenocide will pummel your face with electro beats and Duzheknew provides a sweet […]
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Gonna Walk Down Thru Eclectic Avenue
hey, look, it’s DJ Pizza! CKDU is kicking off a new monthly fundraiser tomorrow night (Wednesday May 5) at the Seahorse called Eclectic Avenue. The first edition is happening tomorrow with DJ Bumpsie, DJ Zack Shave, the First Aid Kit and a “surprise guest” whose name rhymes with Itch Ow Loin. Think about it for […]
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Windom Earle, B.A. Johnston and Quivers at CKDU
pooters for all CKDU Program Director Erica Butler tells us that CKDU is cranking their transmitter up to high power again today, just in time for an all-ages afternoon show in the station lobby with our favorite B.A. Johnston, Windom Earle and new outfit Quivers (featuring members of the Gideons, Cold Warps and others.) The […]
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Best Radio Station
Sometimes our only entertainment on Metro Transit is the cool CKDU bus ads that popped up last year. Station coordinator Erica Butler says they’re designed by the genius co & co design, who also designed all of CKDU’s funding drive swag and merch for the last five years, “in exchange for a wee bit of […]
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CKDU 88.1FM celebrates 25 years of community broadcasting
Someone buy them a silver microphone! From Press Release HQ: “This February 1st through February 7th, radio listeners in HRM will take a trip back in time as CKDU 88.1FM celebrates 25 years of community broadcasting with archival clips and visits from former radio hosts. Celebrations will start on February 1st with a special collaborative […]
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Decade in review: music scene, not a machine
Ten years is an awfully long period of time to cover, at least in the life of the average Halifax musician. Because of our diverse scene, turnover is high—Halifax could be named the call centre of Canadian music scenes. From the end of the 1990s’ “new Seattle” to a new mecca for weird punk, local […]
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Hoserfest: Back and Plaider than ever
A fundraiser for CKDU has never been so full of national pride as Hoserfest (Saturday, October 10, $6/$5 if you dress like a hoser). Hosted by Mat and Dave from Let’s Get Baked and featuring local bands performing their favourite CanRock hits such as York Redoubt (Tom Cochrane), Mike O’Neill (Burton Cummings), The Prospector’s Union […]