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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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 ...

One of modern modern music’s most enduring genres, progressive rock has flourished since the late sixties when radio switched to FM and music became adventurous and more artistic outside of the comfort zones of Pop. Progressive rock also branched into sub-genres; progressive folk, progressive metal, RIO — rock in opposition, avant-garde & experimental, progressive electronic, Psychedelic space rock, progressive Italiano, post-rock, krautrock, canterbury, jazz fusion, and many others. Unlike ...

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.

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.

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 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.

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 ...