For over 30 years, NOISE has been the home of the avant-garde, experimental, and free expression! Join host Steve as he takes you on a journey through all that is NOISE. You'll hear everything from improvisational composition, free jazz, neo-classical and plunderphonics to post rock, extreme, outsider, and more! So sit back, turn it up, and embrace the NOISE!

The best of Hardcore Techno, Speedcore, Gabber, Rotterdam, Experimental and Techno Classics.

Your weekly beach vacation – broadcasting tasty radio waves and good vibrations out to the sagebrush sea every Monday night, with a cosmic mix of country, psychedelic, garage and pop rarities from around the world.

Beat Salad is a fresh take on your weekday morning CJSW jazz routine. A recipe to ease you into your day, jazz is complimented by hip hop and soul with flavours that explore the sounds that link the three together.

2 heavy hours a week of no wave neo wave noise wave neu wave new wave weird wave post wave outsider wavez tsunami waves maybe raves and punkpunkpunk. This is a punk show for the weirdos. Sponsored by the Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club

This program is dedicated to the best of contemporary jazz music, affirming that jazz music is relevant and thriving today. In each episode, expect to hear music from current and recent releases and some classic jazz.

Welcome to the Blues Witness, with your host Cindy McLeod, featuring the best in blues from across Canada and beyond.

Katharsis/Processed is a weekly journey to the polar regions of contemporary music. These unfamiliar musical frontiers are scoured for adventurous new sounds still grounded in harmony, melody and beauty. Selections range from the sublimely quiet and reverent to overwhelming aural overload, but more often than not sustain a tranquil and soothing mood appropriate for later on a Sunday evening.

Artslink is a half-hour monthly program about the arts in Calgary. We will bring to listeners interviews on theatre, dance, visual arts and film that happen mostly in Calgary while being mindful of a larger audience. Hear from dancers, theatre artistic directors, filmmakers, performers and many more artists.

The Voice of Ethiopia is one of the many multicultural shows broadcasted on CJSW 90.9 FM. The Voice of Ethiopia focuses on current affairs and radio dramas in the Amharic language. We also air a variety of Ethiopian music, some of which very similar to blues and jazz. This program is the only source of information on Ethiopia on Calgary airwaves.

Joan Sarro spins new top tracks & all eras of punk, post-punk, garage, electronic, indie, k-tel gold, everything between & outside the lines. Sit back, dance in your car, do what you want, enjoy. Music freaks of the world unite. Sponsored by International Avenue BRZ

Join your flight captain Adam Kamis every Thursday from 2 to 4 PM for a sonic trip through the hot sounds of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Remember, keep those seat belts buckled, tray tables secured, and that dial locked on 90.9 FM. Sponsored by Hot Wax Records

Thoughtfully curated new music spanning the genres of experimental, avant-pop, electronic, folk, world, and hip-hop featuring interviews on the subjects of art, politics, the environment, and community in Calgary, Alberta and beyond. Sponsored by the Establishment Brewing Company Alternates with What's Your Niche every Thursday morning.

A program dedicated to educating, helping, informing, and inspiring the general public to be better versions of themselves and enjoy an enhanced quality of life. The topics offered cover a variety of lifestyle areas such as social, cultural, health and wellness, business, civic programs and initiatives, provincial and federal programs which impact local Calgary life - all presented in a new, fresh and dynamic package which listeners will easily understand and identify with.

The Good Medicine Show aims to cultivate connections with the local Indigenous community and with music. Host Hannah Tapson offers a blend of genres, focusing on folk and indie rock. Share in wahkotowin, connect with community and listen to good music in a good way. Sponsored by Last Best Brewing & Distilling

This program is dedicated to the education and exploration of disabled life, giving voice to the life and experience of people with disabilities. We cover a wide array of issues and disabilities. We are people who discuss issues we are passionate about and topics we are interested in. We show how disability is in the mind of the beholder.

English: Every Saturday morning we are on air for our local and international listeners with our German radio show “Bunte Welle”. We are focused on the most beautiful German hits of all times, and entertain a wide range of people with our music selection, information about the artists, current affairs and local events. We are part of the multicultural program. Responsible for radio “Bunte Welle” are Hilli and Fritz Schmitt, whereby Hilli leads you through the show as a moderator and Fritz ac ...

Crushing posers since 1986, Megawatt Mayhem stands as one of the world’s longest running Heavy Metal programs. Each week JP brings a range of all styles and all genres of Heavy Metal. From the Golden Gods of the 70’s to the newest, latest, greatest, unsigned garage bands, Megawatt covers it all. Featuring all eras and all genres, with themes, features, spotlights and more, Megawatt plays the truest of the true.

Classicool is a show where we listen to classical music and talk about it in a fun, accessible way.

Some of the newest and most exciting music at CJSW, fresh from the desk of Music Director Whitney Ota. Sponsored by the CJSW Friends Card

Bumping into Walls is a monthly, conversation-style spoken word program about living with vision loss, the challenges, the successes, and the day-to-day walls we all bump into.

The Dog House, co-hosted and mixed by DJ BLKFT and Cowboy, will bring you through a complex journey of hip-hop and house music that will keep the dogs barking all night long. Sponsored by Confluence Distilling

CJSW’s monthly foray into literature. Hosted and produced by a student driven collective, Writer’s Block is focused on local events, writers, poets, publishers, while keeping an eye on the bigger literary picture across the country and around the world! Writer’s Block airs at 90.9 on the FM dial in Calgary on the third Wednesday of every month at 8 p.m.

'Lift The Bandstand' is Wednesday evening Jazz on CJSW. The show is hosted by Gordon Hilton Fick. Gordon has been with CJSW since June of 1995. Most weeks, 'Lift The Bandstand' has a specific theme. The theme might be based around the compositions and performances by a specific artist. Sometimes an entire show is devoted to a single composition and the varied interpretations of that tune. The show title 'Lift The Bandstand' comes from a Steve Lacy quote: 'When I used to work with Monk, he us ...

Where day shifts to night and for some, night to day; Where crepuscular creatures come out to play. The night is just beginning, and there’s no better time For some dark and dreamy music that sounds so sublime. Awaken with Tyra as she digs deep Into the dark sounds of the night that will thwart you from sleep.

Journey into a dark and primeval world of post rock, math-rock, and post-metal, as host Sean Willett guides you through your brooding Tuesday nights. Every show features a new discovery from the forefront of paleontological science, from the skeletons of colossal dinosaurs to the pint-sized remains of Burgess Shale predators. So sit back, relax, and welcome to The Lost World.

Here we discuss and explore the past, present, and future of Calgary's built environment and how we get around it.

A national day of broadcasting from the Ontario Provincial Advocate’s Office and CJRU 1280 to spread the message of youth and child rights throughout the country on the U.N Dayof the Child, Nov. 20th. Each broadcast contains stories created by youth and about issues that are significant to them.