After burning up the CJLO metal charts for a while with their 2009 release Unspoken Words, we invited Montreal metal act Derelict into the CJLO studios one quiet April morning to unleash their brand of death metal upon our listening audience. Being the super nice guys that they are, they loaded in effortlessly as Andrew and I set about putting together mics and figuring out logistics.

Victoria idiosyncratic pop duo Run Chico Run were the first band to drop by CJLO studios during one long day of sessions at CJLO for bands that were in town for Pop Montreal.  That day also saw the Chico's Boompa Records labelmates the Salteens and

Julie Doiron dropped by CJLO to record a staff favourite session for Hooked on Sonics on a packed day of Pop Montreal related session recordings (the Salteens and Run Chico Run were also in that day to record sets).  Louis Rozza, Former CJLO Music Director and former co-host of Hooked on Sonics, interviewed Julie and this

Nashville's Blacklist Royals stopped by CJLO's studios on the evening of their Saturday night show in Montreal, sent our way courtesy of publicist extraordinaire, the lovely Melanie Kaye.  Opting to do something a little special and stripped down for the Hooked on Sonics show, the band lugged up an amp and a Les Paul and did it "Billy Bragg-style with frontman Nat playing most of the songs solo, or with some background vocals from the rest of the guys