Arab Strap, Blur, Bush, Catherine Wheel, The Dears, Do Make Say Think, 54-40, Foo Fighters, Sarah Harmer, Headstones, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Matthew Good, Mogwai, Moist, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, Rheostatics, Sam Roberts, Spiritualized, Talk Talk, The Tragically Hip, TV On The Radio, Veruca Salt, VHS or BETA, The Watchmen.
Sounds Like
The Big Sleep, Bowery Electric, Clothes Make The Man, Floor Thirteen, Future Of The Left, Ghost Of The Russian Empire, Maserati, Microbunny, A Northern Chorus, Raising The Fawn, SIANspheric, The Waking Eyes.
Backwards Guitar, hosted by Michael Koval, is broadcast Monday mornings 7:00-9:00am on 94.9 CHRW (London, Ontario, Canada). Beyond the range of the radio waves, Backwards Guitar can be listened to either live or in the show archives at www.chrwradio.com.
Created in September of 2007, the objective of Backwards Guitar is to support up and coming bands from the indie music scene by providing their music with an audience. In an effort to capture the attention of the casual listener, we carefully select a few well-known bands to provide a sense of familiarity, which casual listeners tend to enjoy. This helps to maintain interest and thus draw attention to the lesser-known indie bands that also appear on our show. So rather than lose the interest of the casual listener, who is likely to stop listening when everything they hear on a show is completely unfamiliar to them, we embrace the concept that familiarity is an important part of the music listening experience.
Which is not to say that Backwards Guitar caters solely to the casual listener. For the more devoted music enthusiast, a wide range of genres are drawn from, culminating in a carefully-assembled selection of great songs both recently-released and rediscovered from the past.
Check the Blog for setlists from past shows. Podcasts are available upon request.
Cheers good sir! Glad you dig the tunes, and thanks for the support! We actually got some interesting (good and bad) press from that adventure. I put it in a blog on our page..
hey mike, thanks for the kind words and future rotation. your support means the world to me. look forward to sending you new material in the near future. cheers.
thanks for finding us. good to know those ads in The Big Takeover work! if you need anything from us for your radio show, just let us know. we appreciate your support.
hello, thanks for the add and the kind words! if you'd like to get a promo CD, you can contact our PR agency Nice Promotions (www. nicepromo. com). cheers! - Mirza