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Midnight Looms 074–AUNTY SOCIAL–April 12th 2022 from 2022-04-15T22:21:05
On with tonight’s musical therapy session! We’ve got just an incredible act here not only to chat with our host, GOBS, but also to PERFORM inside our PLAYDEAD CULT DIY concert space. They call them...
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Midnight Looms 073–ZOON–April 5th 2022 from 2022-04-07T02:21:07
Midnight Looms is back on air after a big break. We needed that. But it’s great to be back on this JOURNEY-BY-DJ FOR ADVENTUROUS LATE-NIGHT MUSIC LOVERS. What an amazing artist we have with us to k...
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Midnight Looms 072–TOP 44 of 2021–PT 02–December 28th 2021 from 2021-12-31T00:23:48
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS. We’re running down the TOP 44 SONGS OF 2021, as selected by our host, GOBS aka MUSIC’S BOYFRIEND. LAST WEEK, we covered 44 through 22. Tonight we take you right up to THE...
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Midnight Looms 071–TOP 44 of 2021–Pt 01–December 21st 2021 from 2021-12-24T15:55:40
This was a monumentally challenging year, but the music was amazing, so lets focus on that. We’re spending 2 full shows and half of our monthly CRAZY 88 SPOTIFY PLAYLIST to share with you what, our...
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Midnight Looms 070–KRAMPUS BALL with SQUID LID–December 14th 2021 from 2021-12-17T12:15:11
Tonight, we celebrate KRAMPUS. The dark side of Christmas. And we’re still in near disbelief about the guest we’ve got here to help us do it. If you live in Ontario, Canada, which is where we broad...
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Midnight Looms 069–MERRY SINMAS with NIKKI SIN–December 7th 2021 from 2021-12-09T12:40:05
This month we’re doing four full episodes of HOLIDAYS programming, but it’s Midnight Looms so it’s not gonna be the usual. We can promise you that. We’re gonna do the holidays OUR WAY. We’re gonna ...
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Midnight Looms 068–DAY OF THE DEAD–November 2nd 2021 from 2021-11-04T22:11:07
This broadcast happened to fall on the DAY OF THE DEAD so we decided to spend the entire episode doing something we don’t normally do. We’re gonna celebrate the lives and the music of great musicia...
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Midnight Looms 067–HALLOWEEN SURPRISE PARTY–October 26th 2021 from 2021-10-28T22:12:38
Our host, GOBS, lives for HALLOWEEN so our producer, Sophy, decided to throw them a SURPRISE PARTY in the form of Halloween song REQUESTS from our GUESTS. Tune in to hear spooky favourites from som...
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Midnight Looms 066–BAD WAITRESS–October 19th 2021 from 2021-10-21T22:50:38
Alright who’s already in full HALLOWEEN mode? Show of hands :P Tonight we bring you a DIRTY ROCK N ROLL PARTY because there’s just something so fitting about filthy INDIE ROCK and Halloween. And we...
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Midnight Looms 065–COMIC BOOK WRITER: DANNY GORNY–October 12th 2021 from 2021-10-14T23:22:45
WE LOVE HALLOWEEN. It’s the only holiday that we dedicate a full month to and that month starts tonight! We’re back inside our PLAYDEAD CULT studio space after a week off, still digesting food from...
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Midnight Looms 064–MONOWHALES–September 28th 2021 from 2021-10-02T19:14:49
This is gonna be a big show. In fact BIG is the theme for tonight. We’re focused on 2 things. The official launch of our new PATREON page and our special guests. Toronto INDIE POP sensations, MONOW...
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Midnight Looms 063–CLAIRMONT THE SECOND–September 21st 2021 from 2021-09-23T21:33:30
Tonight, we’re gonna be opening up the REQUEST LINE and dropping this years SUMMER JAMS selected by YOU. And we’ve got a RAPPER coming through who’s just taking the game to the NEXT LEVEL. If you d...
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Midnight Looms 062–DAVE SHELLNUTT from BIKE BRIGADE–September 14th 2021 from 2021-09-17T14:25:30
If you’re like us, you wanna do something to help out your community during these hard times, but money is tight. Well, tonight, we’re joined by a guy who was in the same boat so he started up an o...
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Midnight Looms 061–BIG ANNOUNCEMENT–September 7th 2021 from 2021-09-10T15:12:57
We’re back after a week off and ready to blast into the “fall season”. We now have 60 episodes of this series under our belt. A lot of those episodes have GUESTS and even LIVE PERFORMANCES. BANDS, ...
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Midnight Looms 060–ICE THA ONE&HEYBOMBAY–August 24th 2021 from 2021-08-29T17:43:42
If you can get down to some URBAN music vibes, you’ve come to the right place. Tonight, inside our PLAYDEAD CULT DIY concert space, we’ve got our first HIP HOP performance happening. Reppin’ Scarbo...
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Midnight Looms 059–ADHD COACH MATT RAEKELBOOM–August 17th 2021 from 2021-08-20T17:22:20
Tonight we get to do something new. Our host, GOBS is gonna be chatting with a family member, who also happens to be a TIKTOK INFLUENCER with currently over 183k followers. But it’s not the numb...
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Midnight Looms 058–DJ HIGH VOLTAGE–BACK IN STUDIO–August 10th 2021 from 2021-08-13T18:27:51
Tonight, we’ve got our first in-studio DJ set in 18 months. DJ ME TIME christened the space back in Feb of 2020, and then something weird happened to the world and we couldn’t do in-studio DJ sets ...
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Midnight Looms 057–POLARIS PRIZE MEGAMIX–August 03rd 2021 from 2021-08-05T18:01:55
We are back on air after 5 weeks vacation and stoked to start up a new CRAZY 88 PLAYLIST with you. The POLARIS PRIZE SHORT-LIST has been announced. It’s Canada’s most important music prize. There’s...
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Midnight Looms 056–PARTNER–June 22nd 2021 from 2021-06-24T20:07:33
Tonight, we wrap up another month and our Pride celebrations and we’ve got such a fun band joining us to do it. Montreal based, QUEER, POST CLASSIC ROCK duo, Lucy and Josee, better known as PARTNER...
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Midnight Looms 055–RUSSELL LOUDER–June 15th 2021 from 2021-06-18T01:37:09
Our host, GOBS, spent the past week doing a lot of thinking about the recent act of TERRORISM committed in our home city, LONDON, CANADA, along with the PANDEMIC, and came to the studio with someth...
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Midnight Looms 054–POP CULT SUMMER with NIKKI SIN–June 8th 2021 from 2021-06-11T19:01:53
PRIDE MONTH continues and how the hell do we match the inertia of LAST WEEK? By reaching out to our official POP CULTURE correspondent, NIKKI SIN, from THENIKKISIN.COM. This’ll be Nikki’s fourth ap...
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Midnight Looms 053–PRIDE PARTY REQUEST LINE–June 1st 2021 from 2021-06-03T18:37:35
Tonight, we kick off PRIDE MONTH proper and we do it with YOU. Our host, GOBS, opens up the REQUEST LINE and plays your favourite PRIDE PARTY JAMS. We wish we could just focus on the party, but th...
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Midnight Looms 052–PARAMEDIC WEEK with SCOTT LOYST–May 25th 2021 from 2021-05-28T17:53:25
Splatter Art Zombie Portrait that Scott made for Gobs This week is an important week. It’s PARAMEDIC WEEK here in Canada and you might not have known that because, for some reason, it’s not a week ...
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Midnight Looms 051–ROBIN HATCH–May 18th 2021 from 2021-05-20T17:55:04
It’s gonna take something really special to top last week’s 50th episode with Vancouver Retro Wave band, ACTORS, but we think we’ve done it. Tonight, we have our first IN-STUDIO PERFORMANCE in 7 mo...
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Midnight Looms 050 – ACTORS – May 11th 2021 from 2021-05-13T17:13:04
Wow, time flies when you’re having fun! This is the 50th episode of our weekly JOURNEY-BY-DJ FOR ADVENTUROUS LATE-NIGHT MUSIC LOVERS, and we are just getting started! To celebrate this milestone ep...
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Midnight Looms 049–MCA DAY + MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU–May 4th 2021 from 2021-05-05T21:09
It’s May 4th, and Beastie Boy Stans know this day as MCA DAY. We’re gonna hit you with a big BEASTIE BOYS tribute. We also take care of the STAR WARS fans with some epic MASHUPS from the galaxy fa...
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Midnight Looms 048 – TEVA’S NIGHT – April 27 2021 from 2021-04-28T14:40:58
Tonight, we spend a full 90 minutes paying tribute to our host’s real life hero, TEVA HARRISON, on the anniversary of her passing. Every song that you’re going to hear was suggested by someone who ...
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Midnight Looms 047 – 4/20 with ASHLEY CALIA from SOFA KING GOOD BAKERY – April 20 2021 from 2021-04-22T20:09:27
With our guest, Ashley, covering Classics from the likes of VAN HALEN, STEPPENWOLF, PINK FLOYD, JETHRO TULL, DEEP PURPLE and DEF LEPPARD, our host, GOBS, explores fresh stoner friendly sounds from ...
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Midnight Looms 046–MAYA KILLTRON Home Performance–April 13 2021 from 2021-04-17T02:18:42
What a way to end off a night! With a home performance from Toronto funkstress, MAYA KILLTRON. A first for this show! Maya is an accomplished violinist, incredible vocalist, 80s culture enthusiast,...
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Midnight Looms 045–THANYA IYER–April 6 2021 from 2021-04-08T05:12:35
It’s good to be back! Five weeks off and now we’re thrilled to be back on air for our weekly JOURNEY-BY-DJ FOR ADVENTUROUS LATE-NIGHT MUSIC LOVERS. We have officially unlocked the next phase of thi...
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Midnight Looms 044–MARK OLIVER–February 23 2021 from 2021-02-25T05:52:27
Tonight we’re celebrating an anniversary. 10 years ago, our host, GOBS, published an article that he wrote for Toronto’s seminal harm reduction org, TRIP (Toronto Raver Info Project). The article w...
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Midnight Looms 043–YVES JARVIS–February 16 2021 from 2021-02-18T05:28:45
We have an amazing guest joining us tonight, via Zoom, from his home in Montreal. YVES JARVIS is on the show! If we had to describe his sound, we would say he makes “AVANTE-PSYCHEDELIC-FOLK-POP” bu...
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Midnight Looms 042–PERFECTLY NORMAL HUMANS!?–February 9 2021 from 2021-02-10T23:40
We broadcast from the province of Ontario, Canada, and only in Ontario we have a February holiday called FAMILY DAY. To celebrate, we’re breaking new ground by inviting an entire family on as guest...
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Midnight Looms 041–FRESH FIRE DANCE PARTY&RANDOM REQUEST LINE–February 2 2021 from 2021-02-05T05:42:53
After last weeks monumental DRUMMER SPECIAL, our host, GOBS, is excited to take it easy and just drop some tunes. We’re only a month into 2021 and so much great music has already come out, so Gobs ...
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Midnight Looms 040–CAN A DRUMMER GET SOME?–January 26 2021 from 2021-01-28T05:30:39
So this is what 40 feels like. Tonight is the 40th episode of our weekly JOURNEY-BY-DJ FOR ADVENTUROUS LATE-NIGHT MUSIC LOVERS, and we think that calls for something SPECIAL. We’ve invited back the...
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Midnight Looms 039–ZAHRA HABIB&MF DOOM TRIBUTE–January 19 2021 from 2021-01-23T00:02:54
Tonight, we’re celebrating the one year anniversary of this this weekly JOURNEY-BY-DJ FOR LATE-NIGHT MUSIC LOVERS, and we couldn’t have a more fitting person to spend this anniversary with because ...
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Midnight Looms 038–AUTHOR: NIKKI SIN–January 12 2021 from 2021-01-14T05:50:59
After a totally insane week in the world, our host, GOBS, is in dire need of some audio therapy, and hang outs with a good friend, so tonight, that’s what we’re gonna do. Our POP CULTURE correspond...
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Midnight Looms 037–NEW YEARS REQUEST LINE–JANUARY 5 2021 from 2021-01-08T05:30:06
Happy New Year! On our PREVIOUS EPISODE, our host, GOBS, got to say his piece on the music of 2020, so tonight, we wanted to open up the REQUEST LINE and play YOUR favourite tunes. The resulting JO...
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Midnight Looms 036–TOP 22 of 2020–December 29 2020 from 2020-12-31T17:02:31
Tonight, we run down the TOP 22 SONGS OF 2020. Why"22"? It just so happens that on this show, we pretty much always play 22 songs per episode and that formula has worked quite well for this first y...
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Midnight Looms 035–X-MAS PYJAMA JAM with HIGH VOLTAGE–December 22 2020 from 2020-12-24T22:22:36
We celebrated XMAS with our first MULTI-CAMERA TWITCH STREAM and it went pretty awesome. DJ HIGH VOLTAGE, puts out a mix every year, around the holidays, called FESTIVE SPECIAL, and it’s always o...
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Midnight Looms 034–GOODBYE DAVIDE–December 15 2020 from 2020-12-17T03:06:39
Every once a while we get to use this platform to do something really unique and special. Tonight is one of those nights. Our guest is DAVIDE FERRARA. He used to be a DJ and passionate record colle...
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Midnight Looms 033–METZ–December 8 2020 from 2020-12-11T17:05:44
After a 5-week break, we are BACK and feeling good, because the world may be totally"effed up"but MUSIC IS STILL SO AWESOME and tonight we're joined by a band who are prove that true. One of the mo...
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Midnight Looms 032–HALLOWEEN REQUEST LINE–October 27 2020 from 2020-10-30T21:23:25
Our host, GOBS, absolutely LOVES HALLOWEEN. We've been celebrating it for the past 2 weeks here. Tonight, it's time for the finale. A full hour of creepy tunes and the special guest is YOU. During ...
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Midnight Looms 031–PTERODACTYL PROBLEMS–October 20 2020 from 2020-10-24T22:24:59
Part 2 of our 3 week HALLOWEEN celebration. This week, we wanted to have a DIRTY ROCK N ROLL PARTY, and we've invited in the perfect band to bring that vibe. They're called PTERODACTYL PROBLEMS. ...
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Midnight Looms 030–LOVINA YAVARI–October 13 2020 from 2020-10-18T03:48:37
Good job, everybody. We totally crushed Canadian ThanksGiving. Now, it's officially HALLOWEEN season! We've got the perfect guest to help kick it off: Actor LOVINA YAVARI. If you think you don't kn...
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Midnight Looms 029–JESSY LANZA–October 6 2020 from 2020-10-11T19:18:22
It's a new month and we're kicking it off big. JESSY LANZA is joining us via Zoom. We assumed that she was back safe and sound in her home town Hamilton, Ontario, but it turns out she's still do...
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Midnight Looms 028–PANTAYO–September 29 2020 from 2020-10-03T22:47:36
Tonight we have a band inside our PLAYDEAD CULT DIY concert space with such a buzz around them, and this appearance is their first performance in 6 months! It's also the closest thing to a live c...
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Midnight Looms 027–WAP Dancing With NIKKI SIN–September 22 20 from 2020-09-24T22:04:37
This week, we're gonna take care of the pop culture heads. When we want an update on what's happening with movies, TV, and pop music, we turn to our official pop cult correspondent. A journalist an...
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Midnight Looms 026–POLARIS DnB–September 15 2020 from 2020-09-18T19:44:29
We broadcast from the campus of Western University in the city called London, Canada, and the new school year is now in full swing. The streets are bustling with life once again, so we need a music...
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Midnight Looms 025–SUMMERS END REQUEST LINE–September 01 2020 from 2020-09-04T02:51:42
I t's a new month, meaning we begin a new CRAZY 88 PLAYLIST, but in a big way, tonight's show feels like an end. For most people, this week is the end of summer vacation. You're going back to schoo...
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Midnight Looms 024–HOT LIPS–August 25 2020 from 2020-08-30T20:32:08
For the first time since lockdown, we had a band come through our PLAYDEAD CULT concert space, with our new partners, SEEROCKLIVE.COM, contributing gear. What band did we choose to mark this monume...
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Midnight Looms 023–A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO TEVA HARRISON–August 18 2020 from 2020-08-20T03:31:18
If you caught EPISODE 012 of this show, towards the end of it, you heard our host, GOBS, talk about his real-life hero, TEVA HARRISON. She was an accomplished ARTIST, WRITER, POET, and CANCER ACTIV...
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Midnight Looms 022–MEZZMUREYES–August 11 2020 from 2020-08-15T02:50:35
We've been super focused, lately, on using art to fight for a better world, but we also need to remember to make time to celebrate life. That's what makes all of this fighting worth while. So on...
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Midnight Looms 021–POLARIS SHORTLIST&BLM REQUEST LINE–August 5 2020 from 2020-08-08T22:54:04
This is a program where we appreciate music as art. Here in Canada, we have an annual prize called the POLARIS and it is the ultimate award for artistic excellence in Canadian music. The shor...
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Midnight Looms 020–WILSEN–June 30 2020 from 2020-07-03T18:49:28
Tonight we're joined joined by the frontperson of an Indie Folk Rock band from NYC, known simply as WILSEN, That's the name of the band. Their lead singer, guitarist, and song writer is TAMSIN WI...
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Midnight Looms 019–JUNIA-T–June 23 2020 from 2020-06-25T23:57:54
Wherever JUNIA-T goes, he spreads positive vibes, and tonight he comes through to spread them all over this show. Junia is the music director for JESSIE REYEZ and a prolific urban music producer wh...
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Midnight Looms 018–TIM ELLIS–LEADNOW.CA–June 16 2020 from 2020-06-20T01:42:27
Tonight we have an amazing activist, named TIM ELLIS, dropping by our PLAYDEAD CULT studio space to tell us all about an organization he's heavily involved in, called LEADNOW. In addition to explai...
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Midnight Looms 017–REQUEST LINE FOR THE FRONTLINE–June 9 2020 from 2020-06-11T21:30:08
This is an important episode. Music is always a catalyst for change, and so you can't call yourself a true music lover without also longing for change, and on this show, where we are building a com...
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Midnight Looms 016–PHANTOM HIGH–May 26 2020 from 2020-05-29T21:01
This is an episode for the kids dressed in black. We're going on a trip through the wide world of Hard, Heavy and brutal music, and that means lots of METAL, but we never do things conventionally a...
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Midnight Looms 015–RICH GREEN–May 19 2020 from 2020-05-23T20:03:58
Who can get down to some ELECTRO SWING?! Tonight, we're joined by New York City DJ, Rich Green. Live, multi-camera, video mix show's are the new frontier for DJ's and Rich is at the forefront of it...
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Midnight Looms 014–NIKKI SIN–May 12 2020 from 2020-05-16T18:58:38
Admittedly, this show has been lacking in Urban music. Tonight we're gonna fix that by playing lots of HIP HOP and NEO SOUL. Here to help me with the selections is a woman who runs a pop culture...
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Midnight Looms 013–Community Takeover–May 5 2020 from 2020-05-08T18:48:54
Tonight, we begin a brand new CRAZY 88, but tonight, it's not our host, GOBS, doing the selecting. We broadcast on Radio Western but the Covid-19 outbreak continues and as a result the station is c...
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Midnight Looms 012–The Beaches–April 28 2020 from 2020-05-01T20:13:50
So much happened during this week's journey-by-DJ. April was a tough month for most people, and our host, GOBS, believes that the best way to deal with adversity is to do what you can to create hop...
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Midnight Looms 011–High Voltage–April 21 2020 from 2020-04-24T21:34:37
Let's talk about MASHUPS. They're generally regarded as nothing more then novelty, used by DJs to breathe new life into overplayed tunes, but when unusual songs are combined in unusual ways, with c...
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Midnight Looms 010–Matty’s Patties–April 14 2020 from 2020-04-18T20:40:17
4/20 is just around the corner, and we're gonna make the most of it with a full hour of Cannabis inspired music. STONER JAMS, if you will. We've got the perfect guest helping me out. THC chef, MATT...
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Midnight Looms 009–Quarantine Edition–April 7 2020 from 2020-04-10T23:23:10
MUSIC FROM THE END OF THE WORLD. Our show's theme has never felt so relevant. It might seem like everything's terrible, but we can definitely tell you one good piece of news and it's that MUSI IS S...
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Midnight Looms 008–Cancer Bats–March 3 2020 from 2020-03-07T01:36:37
What a jam-packed and epic way to end off a new Crazy 88 Spotify playlist. In this hour of musical power, our host, GOBS, makes some exciting announcements, drops a vinyl, our first BEASTIE BOOT, a...
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Midnight Looms 007–DOLLY MOMOIRO–February 25, 2020 from 2020-02-28T19:29:25
Some artists create their own identity as an art piece, and occasionally, they manage to make something that is quite unique. Tonight's guest is one of those artists. Her name is DOLLY MOMOIRO a...
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Midnight Looms 006–DJ ME TIME–February 18, 2020 from 2020-02-21T18:26:48
One of Toronto's busiest and most passionate DJ's, ME TIME, sets up inside our Playdead Cult DIY concert space, to drop our first In-Studio DJ session. Me Time is a promoter, researcher, educator ...
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Midnight Looms 005–Big On Requests from 2020-02-14T20:11:41
It's a new month, and a new Crazy 88 begins here. We've got amazing guests appearing on the show in the coming weeks, but tonight it's just our host, GOBS and YOU.
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Midnight Looms 004: Jordan St. Claire of the Tarna Art Car from 2020-02-08T02:06:51
There's a blossoming mutant vehicle scene in Ontario, that began with a giant metal dragon called Heavy Meta, and one of the people that helped create that dragon, then branched off and designed he...
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Midnight Looms 003–Smalltown DJs from 2020-02-01T20:44:22
Our host, GOBS, drops some Indie selections before one of the world's best DJ duos take over the flow. Mike and Pete are SMALLTOWN DJs. Global ambassadors for their home city, Calgary, which is whe...
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Midnight Looms 002: The Anti-Queens from 2020-01-21T17:00:19
THE ANTI-QUEENS are 4 punk rock ladies from Toronto known for their rowdy energy. They perform songs from their recently released, self-titled album live for a room full of their friends and fans. ...
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Midnight Looms 001: The Debut from 2020-01-14T17:00:11
In this episode, Gobs calls up his number one fan, stops a local rapper on the street to ask him what he’s listening to, starts a silly sing-a-long to a They Might Be Giants classic, and takes a re...
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