London Ontario's first punk/new wave/whatever club, The Cedar Lounge (formerly known as The Blue Boot) first opened it's doors to this new music in Dec 1977 and closed for good on May 1 1982.
Frank Ridsdale and Jack Whiteside of... Read More
This year record store falls on Sat April 21st. It's a great day to visit one of your favourite vinyl vendors and pick up some records to enjoy on the old hi-fi at home.
And after a day at the stores shopping for real music, what... Read More
On Mar 22 1982, local rock'n'roll faves Uranus did a live to air broadcast on CHRW from The Embassy Hotel in London Ontario. At the time, Uranus consisted of Jack Whiteside (guitar/Vocals), Frank Ridsdale (guitar/vocals), Dexter... Read More
CHRW's Radio What Wave is doing an all women led band show for International Women's Day, Thursday Mar 8th at 6PM (note new start time) until 7:30PM EST on CHRW 94.9 FM.
You just might hear such bands as; The Poison Girls, Neo... Read More
This week on CHRW's Radio What Wave, we bring you an exclusive live to air acoustic/electric set by London's The Oily Birds as a warm up to their big show at Brennan's Bistro on Sat Feb 4th.
Here's one of the facebook events for... Read More
Since it's local music month at CHRW, we're pulling out the cassette deck and spinning live/demo/unreleased tapes of London combos from days gone by (and a few current bands) and maybe even some live stuff recorded this past... Read More
This week's Radio What Wave, Thursday Jan 19th 7PM EST and probably continuing the next thursday.
Since it's local music month at CHRW, we're pulling out the cassette deck and spinning live/demo/unreleased tapes of London combos... Read More
This thursday, Dec 15th on Radio What Wave we're bringing in that crazy 2 piece combo from Windsor Ontario, Weirdonia to play a session live over the airwaves. This will be the first of what will hopefully be many visits to... Read More
Since CHRW is celebrating it's 30th year on the airwaves this October, we've decided to ONLY play bands that played here in London Ontario approximately 30 years ago, for the next 3 consecutive shows. And what does that exactly... Read More
CHRW's Radio What Wave and garagepunk.com Present:
An evening of 60's garagepunk music for your dancing, drinking and dining pleasure, starring:
The Hook-Up (Montreal), The Reply (Toronto) & local lads The Fine Print all... Read More