The AM
@theam.ca
Weekly radio show on @cjsw.bsky.social hosted by @peterhemminger.com. Offbeat easy listening to start your week right. Live at cjsw.com every Monday morning from 7-10am MT, or stream past episodes at https://linktr.ee/the.am
Based in Treaty 7.
Based in Treaty 7.
Jonathan Richman is joy and sincerity and wisdom and silliness, an absolute blessing to see him perform. It’s a wonder how he makes every song sound so alive, and forces the audience to be so present.
October 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Jonathan Richman is joy and sincerity and wisdom and silliness, an absolute blessing to see him perform. It’s a wonder how he makes every song sound so alive, and forces the audience to be so present.
Can't resist tossing out a few #BandcampFriday suggestions for fans of pastoral ditties, ambient electronics, dreamy psychedelia, and gentle kosmische. A thread of great recent releases from the past month or so, in alphabetical order:
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Can't resist tossing out a few #BandcampFriday suggestions for fans of pastoral ditties, ambient electronics, dreamy psychedelia, and gentle kosmische. A thread of great recent releases from the past month or so, in alphabetical order:
Winter - Adult Romantix
daydreamingwinter.bandcamp.com/album/adult-...
More muscular than her usual gossamer-gaze, but no less considered & intricate.
yanaco - Alone Together
yanaco.bandcamp.com/album/alone-...
Vaguely new age, ambient beats, a hushed tribute to moments of shared solitude.
daydreamingwinter.bandcamp.com/album/adult-...
More muscular than her usual gossamer-gaze, but no less considered & intricate.
yanaco - Alone Together
yanaco.bandcamp.com/album/alone-...
Vaguely new age, ambient beats, a hushed tribute to moments of shared solitude.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Winter - Adult Romantix
daydreamingwinter.bandcamp.com/album/adult-...
More muscular than her usual gossamer-gaze, but no less considered & intricate.
yanaco - Alone Together
yanaco.bandcamp.com/album/alone-...
Vaguely new age, ambient beats, a hushed tribute to moments of shared solitude.
daydreamingwinter.bandcamp.com/album/adult-...
More muscular than her usual gossamer-gaze, but no less considered & intricate.
yanaco - Alone Together
yanaco.bandcamp.com/album/alone-...
Vaguely new age, ambient beats, a hushed tribute to moments of shared solitude.
Steve Gunn - Music for Writers
stevegunn.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Serving inspiration one ambient guitar line at a time.
The New Eves - The New Eve is Rising
theneweves.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
Dark folk & post punk, by far the rowdiest release in this list but impossible to turn away from.
stevegunn.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Serving inspiration one ambient guitar line at a time.
The New Eves - The New Eve is Rising
theneweves.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
Dark folk & post punk, by far the rowdiest release in this list but impossible to turn away from.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Steve Gunn - Music for Writers
stevegunn.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Serving inspiration one ambient guitar line at a time.
The New Eves - The New Eve is Rising
theneweves.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
Dark folk & post punk, by far the rowdiest release in this list but impossible to turn away from.
stevegunn.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Serving inspiration one ambient guitar line at a time.
The New Eves - The New Eve is Rising
theneweves.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
Dark folk & post punk, by far the rowdiest release in this list but impossible to turn away from.
Sewell and the Gong - Patron Saint of Elsewhere
sewellandthegong.bandcamp.com/album/patron...
I'm such a sucker for pastoral British electronics. Pure contentment.
Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats - Wao
josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/wao
Off-kilter pop innovators gonna off-kilter pop innovate.
sewellandthegong.bandcamp.com/album/patron...
I'm such a sucker for pastoral British electronics. Pure contentment.
Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats - Wao
josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/wao
Off-kilter pop innovators gonna off-kilter pop innovate.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Sewell and the Gong - Patron Saint of Elsewhere
sewellandthegong.bandcamp.com/album/patron...
I'm such a sucker for pastoral British electronics. Pure contentment.
Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats - Wao
josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/wao
Off-kilter pop innovators gonna off-kilter pop innovate.
sewellandthegong.bandcamp.com/album/patron...
I'm such a sucker for pastoral British electronics. Pure contentment.
Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats - Wao
josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/wao
Off-kilter pop innovators gonna off-kilter pop innovate.
Postnamers - City Songs
postnamers.bandcamp.com/album/city-s...
Post-goth cut & paste compositions. Hard to pin down, harder to ignore.
Rodrigo Passannanti - Everything Dies
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/everyt...
Existentialism by way of software synth. To sleep, perchance to tangerine dream.
postnamers.bandcamp.com/album/city-s...
Post-goth cut & paste compositions. Hard to pin down, harder to ignore.
Rodrigo Passannanti - Everything Dies
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/everyt...
Existentialism by way of software synth. To sleep, perchance to tangerine dream.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Postnamers - City Songs
postnamers.bandcamp.com/album/city-s...
Post-goth cut & paste compositions. Hard to pin down, harder to ignore.
Rodrigo Passannanti - Everything Dies
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/everyt...
Existentialism by way of software synth. To sleep, perchance to tangerine dream.
postnamers.bandcamp.com/album/city-s...
Post-goth cut & paste compositions. Hard to pin down, harder to ignore.
Rodrigo Passannanti - Everything Dies
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/everyt...
Existentialism by way of software synth. To sleep, perchance to tangerine dream.
Organic Pulse Ensemble - Oppression is Nine Tenths of the Law
rrgems-records.bandcamp.com/album/oppres...
Worth it for the title alone. Fortunately the one-man spiritual jazz band is also soul-affirming.
Pneumatic Tubes - Runner's High
open.spotify.com/album/7dn8qT...
Can't recommend highly enough.
rrgems-records.bandcamp.com/album/oppres...
Worth it for the title alone. Fortunately the one-man spiritual jazz band is also soul-affirming.
Pneumatic Tubes - Runner's High
open.spotify.com/album/7dn8qT...
Can't recommend highly enough.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Organic Pulse Ensemble - Oppression is Nine Tenths of the Law
rrgems-records.bandcamp.com/album/oppres...
Worth it for the title alone. Fortunately the one-man spiritual jazz band is also soul-affirming.
Pneumatic Tubes - Runner's High
open.spotify.com/album/7dn8qT...
Can't recommend highly enough.
rrgems-records.bandcamp.com/album/oppres...
Worth it for the title alone. Fortunately the one-man spiritual jazz band is also soul-affirming.
Pneumatic Tubes - Runner's High
open.spotify.com/album/7dn8qT...
Can't recommend highly enough.
Modern Nature - The Heat Warps
modernnature.bandcamp.com/album/the-he...
After a few albums seeing how diffuse their sound could get (to brilliant effect), this probably counts as forceful?
No Joy - Bugland
nojoy.bandcamp.com/album/bugland
Omnivorous shoegaze, with no sound left unturned.
modernnature.bandcamp.com/album/the-he...
After a few albums seeing how diffuse their sound could get (to brilliant effect), this probably counts as forceful?
No Joy - Bugland
nojoy.bandcamp.com/album/bugland
Omnivorous shoegaze, with no sound left unturned.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Modern Nature - The Heat Warps
modernnature.bandcamp.com/album/the-he...
After a few albums seeing how diffuse their sound could get (to brilliant effect), this probably counts as forceful?
No Joy - Bugland
nojoy.bandcamp.com/album/bugland
Omnivorous shoegaze, with no sound left unturned.
modernnature.bandcamp.com/album/the-he...
After a few albums seeing how diffuse their sound could get (to brilliant effect), this probably counts as forceful?
No Joy - Bugland
nojoy.bandcamp.com/album/bugland
Omnivorous shoegaze, with no sound left unturned.
Mansur Brown - Rihla
mansurbrown.bandcamp.com/album/rihla
The AR Kane school of dream pop—at turns silky, noisy, hushed & grand. Rainy city streets & existential angst.
Mattias Unneback - Harry Garth Jones Presents Music for Love
ixtahuele.bandcamp.com/album/harry-...
Effortless pop exotica.
mansurbrown.bandcamp.com/album/rihla
The AR Kane school of dream pop—at turns silky, noisy, hushed & grand. Rainy city streets & existential angst.
Mattias Unneback - Harry Garth Jones Presents Music for Love
ixtahuele.bandcamp.com/album/harry-...
Effortless pop exotica.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Mansur Brown - Rihla
mansurbrown.bandcamp.com/album/rihla
The AR Kane school of dream pop—at turns silky, noisy, hushed & grand. Rainy city streets & existential angst.
Mattias Unneback - Harry Garth Jones Presents Music for Love
ixtahuele.bandcamp.com/album/harry-...
Effortless pop exotica.
mansurbrown.bandcamp.com/album/rihla
The AR Kane school of dream pop—at turns silky, noisy, hushed & grand. Rainy city streets & existential angst.
Mattias Unneback - Harry Garth Jones Presents Music for Love
ixtahuele.bandcamp.com/album/harry-...
Effortless pop exotica.
Korb - Korb IV
dreamlordrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/korb-iv
Soundtracky psych that's willing to get wonky, but never loses sight of the groove.
Mac DeMarco - Guitar
macdemarco.bandcamp.com/album/guitar
Understated, not so much as an unneeded flourish, just concise, well-observed indie folk tunes.
dreamlordrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/korb-iv
Soundtracky psych that's willing to get wonky, but never loses sight of the groove.
Mac DeMarco - Guitar
macdemarco.bandcamp.com/album/guitar
Understated, not so much as an unneeded flourish, just concise, well-observed indie folk tunes.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Korb - Korb IV
dreamlordrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/korb-iv
Soundtracky psych that's willing to get wonky, but never loses sight of the groove.
Mac DeMarco - Guitar
macdemarco.bandcamp.com/album/guitar
Understated, not so much as an unneeded flourish, just concise, well-observed indie folk tunes.
dreamlordrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/korb-iv
Soundtracky psych that's willing to get wonky, but never loses sight of the groove.
Mac DeMarco - Guitar
macdemarco.bandcamp.com/album/guitar
Understated, not so much as an unneeded flourish, just concise, well-observed indie folk tunes.
Edena Gardens - Dispossessed
open.spotify.com/album/5CQTwo...
More sprawling psych jams from the good folks at El Paraiso Records.
Ivan the Tolerable & Hawksmoor - Atoms in the Void
libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/atoms-...
Haunted jazz, ASMR, cosmic jazz—trippy in all the right ways.
open.spotify.com/album/5CQTwo...
More sprawling psych jams from the good folks at El Paraiso Records.
Ivan the Tolerable & Hawksmoor - Atoms in the Void
libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/atoms-...
Haunted jazz, ASMR, cosmic jazz—trippy in all the right ways.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Edena Gardens - Dispossessed
open.spotify.com/album/5CQTwo...
More sprawling psych jams from the good folks at El Paraiso Records.
Ivan the Tolerable & Hawksmoor - Atoms in the Void
libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/atoms-...
Haunted jazz, ASMR, cosmic jazz—trippy in all the right ways.
open.spotify.com/album/5CQTwo...
More sprawling psych jams from the good folks at El Paraiso Records.
Ivan the Tolerable & Hawksmoor - Atoms in the Void
libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/atoms-...
Haunted jazz, ASMR, cosmic jazz—trippy in all the right ways.
C.R. Gillespie - Island of Women
crgillespie.bandcamp.com/album/island...
Warm & balmy ambient sounds, gently percussive & consistently inventive.
David Boulter - Whitby
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/whitby
An instrumental detour from the Tindersticks organist, another lovely Clay Pipe ramble.
crgillespie.bandcamp.com/album/island...
Warm & balmy ambient sounds, gently percussive & consistently inventive.
David Boulter - Whitby
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/whitby
An instrumental detour from the Tindersticks organist, another lovely Clay Pipe ramble.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
C.R. Gillespie - Island of Women
crgillespie.bandcamp.com/album/island...
Warm & balmy ambient sounds, gently percussive & consistently inventive.
David Boulter - Whitby
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/whitby
An instrumental detour from the Tindersticks organist, another lovely Clay Pipe ramble.
crgillespie.bandcamp.com/album/island...
Warm & balmy ambient sounds, gently percussive & consistently inventive.
David Boulter - Whitby
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/whitby
An instrumental detour from the Tindersticks organist, another lovely Clay Pipe ramble.
Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and the Madman
amitafra.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...
Maximalist jazz-prog, high-concept, played without a whiff of restraint but who needs it.
Avi C. Engel - Mote
fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote
Drone-folk, rich and loamy, with the haunting tone of gudok.
amitafra.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...
Maximalist jazz-prog, high-concept, played without a whiff of restraint but who needs it.
Avi C. Engel - Mote
fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote
Drone-folk, rich and loamy, with the haunting tone of gudok.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and the Madman
amitafra.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...
Maximalist jazz-prog, high-concept, played without a whiff of restraint but who needs it.
Avi C. Engel - Mote
fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote
Drone-folk, rich and loamy, with the haunting tone of gudok.
amitafra.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...
Maximalist jazz-prog, high-concept, played without a whiff of restraint but who needs it.
Avi C. Engel - Mote
fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote
Drone-folk, rich and loamy, with the haunting tone of gudok.
Today's episode is live: Interviews with filmmakers Cordell Barker and Elyse Bouvier, plus the usual mix of hazy sounds to start your week on the right footing—a bit easier than usual with the long weekend, but still a worthy goal.
Streaming links here: theam.ca/post/7935240...
Streaming links here: theam.ca/post/7935240...
September 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Today's episode is live: Interviews with filmmakers Cordell Barker and Elyse Bouvier, plus the usual mix of hazy sounds to start your week on the right footing—a bit easier than usual with the long weekend, but still a worthy goal.
Streaming links here: theam.ca/post/7935240...
Streaming links here: theam.ca/post/7935240...
A little more classic-heavy than your average episode, but this week’s AM on @cjsw.bsky.social has new sounds from its share of show favourites, too—including Postnamers, Dungen, and Sam Prekop.
Hope you enjoy it, because I definitely did.
Listen here: theam.ca/post/7922640...
Hope you enjoy it, because I definitely did.
Listen here: theam.ca/post/7922640...
August 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A little more classic-heavy than your average episode, but this week’s AM on @cjsw.bsky.social has new sounds from its share of show favourites, too—including Postnamers, Dungen, and Sam Prekop.
Hope you enjoy it, because I definitely did.
Listen here: theam.ca/post/7922640...
Hope you enjoy it, because I definitely did.
Listen here: theam.ca/post/7922640...
Such a treat seeing CG Tears (new project from Clinton St John, Morgan Greenwood, and Chad VanGaalen) make its live debut last night at Calgary’s High Line Brewing.
August 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Such a treat seeing CG Tears (new project from Clinton St John, Morgan Greenwood, and Chad VanGaalen) make its live debut last night at Calgary’s High Line Brewing.
Laid-back sounds for a holiday Monday, featuring the on-air debut of Calgary band CG Tears (Morgan Greenwood + Clinton St John + Chad VanGaalen), a throwback to Belgian jazz-prog legends Placebo, and a hazy mix to welcome in August.
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7909883...
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7909883...
August 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Laid-back sounds for a holiday Monday, featuring the on-air debut of Calgary band CG Tears (Morgan Greenwood + Clinton St John + Chad VanGaalen), a throwback to Belgian jazz-prog legends Placebo, and a hazy mix to welcome in August.
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7909883...
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7909883...
If I was putting together a 40-album list of Canadian albums released from May 2024 through May 2025, and a 10-album short list within it... it'd probably look something like this. Maybe not exactly like this, but definitely more like this than like some other lists.
July 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
If I was putting together a 40-album list of Canadian albums released from May 2024 through May 2025, and a 10-album short list within it... it'd probably look something like this. Maybe not exactly like this, but definitely more like this than like some other lists.
This week's AM on @cjsw.bsky.social looks back at the best of the first half of 2025, from neo-classical and jazz to psych-rock and dream-pop. A playlist of the nearly full list (130-ish albums) is in the thread below, condensed down to a more convenient 30 on air: cjsw.com/program/the-...
July 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This week's AM on @cjsw.bsky.social looks back at the best of the first half of 2025, from neo-classical and jazz to psych-rock and dream-pop. A playlist of the nearly full list (130-ish albums) is in the thread below, condensed down to a more convenient 30 on air: cjsw.com/program/the-...
A (mostly) all-Canadian edition of the AM on @cjsw.bsky.social this week. One or two songs are a stretch, I’ll admit, but it’s not officially Canada Day yet, so maybe just let it slide.
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7878065...
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7878065...
June 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A (mostly) all-Canadian edition of the AM on @cjsw.bsky.social this week. One or two songs are a stretch, I’ll admit, but it’s not officially Canada Day yet, so maybe just let it slide.
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7878065...
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7878065...
This week's AM is a Sled Island spotlight, with just over half the tracks pulled from acts playing the festival this week. That, a (too small) tribute to two giants who died this week in Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, plus your usual mix of morning sounds.
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7865564...
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7865564...
June 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This week's AM is a Sled Island spotlight, with just over half the tracks pulled from acts playing the festival this week. That, a (too small) tribute to two giants who died this week in Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, plus your usual mix of morning sounds.
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7865564...
Streaming links: theam.ca/post/7865564...
🇨🇦Wihtikow - ᐊᐦᒐᕽ
wihtikow.bandcamp.com/album/--5
Darkly beat-driven shoegaze, or distorted BoC-ish electronica, or both at the same time.
wihtikow.bandcamp.com/album/--5
Darkly beat-driven shoegaze, or distorted BoC-ish electronica, or both at the same time.
June 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
🇨🇦Wihtikow - ᐊᐦᒐᕽ
wihtikow.bandcamp.com/album/--5
Darkly beat-driven shoegaze, or distorted BoC-ish electronica, or both at the same time.
wihtikow.bandcamp.com/album/--5
Darkly beat-driven shoegaze, or distorted BoC-ish electronica, or both at the same time.