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Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper

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Was just saying this earlier today

02.12.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Song of the year โœ…
Album of the year โœ…
GQ's man of the year โ“

02.12.2025 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Charts | week ending December 2, 2025 Visit the post for more.

Jeff Tweedy, Geese and local musician Paula Kirman are at the top this week's CJSR chart: www.cjsr.com/2025/12/char...
Tune-in on Wednesday at 9-11am MT when we listen through the music chart.
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๐Ÿ’ป stream via listen.streamon.fm/cjsr

#yeg #yegmusic #radio #edmonton

02.12.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

helping a perfectly healthy 35 year old man across the street

18.11.2025 03:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 142    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Jen

28.11.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Alyx!

28.11.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks!

28.11.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Got the news this week that I'll be promoted to full professor in july, so here's a nice picture of my kids at the office helping me write an article. Seriously grateful for excellent colleagues/friends and immensely inspiring students, and all that. โค๏ธ

28.11.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can watch yesterday's Questions About Music talk on Music In Orbit on the series' YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/30JUwd5...

28.11.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

so funny that the bills ravens and chiefs all decided to do a silly one in the same season

28.11.2025 04:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 200    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Questions About Music | Brian Fauteux: Music in Orbit, or, The Value of Music in the Streaming Space Age

In half an hour I'll be chatting with Fabio Morabito about Music in Orbit as part of the Questions About Music lecture series.

You can join in here: www.ualberta.ca/en/music/con...

27.11.2025 22:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Trouble at the Henhouse," a beloved 1996 studio album by The Tragically Hip; or, what the server exclaims when I roll up for wing night.

26.11.2025 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This Thursday ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

25.11.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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They are discounting the Meta Glasses because nobody wants to be known as the local pervert.

25.11.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For all of twitter's faults, and there are so many, I laugh there all the time. People are hilarious on twitter.

24.11.2025 23:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They are calling it the most BlueSky post of all time

24.11.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SOTY contender

22.11.2025 01:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Snowplow Operator Drives Through Pro-Palestine Demonstration Despite videos of the incident being published and a photo showing the driver giving the finger to the pro-Palestine crowd, Toronto police say there was โ€œno reason to believe there was any maliciousโ€ฆ

A snow plow operator drove her vehicle through a crowd of Palestine supporters in Toronto this week.

โ€œThis just seems like part of a pattern of violence against Palestinians thatโ€™s going unchecked,โ€ organizer Omar Mahmoud told me.

For @thegrindto.bsky.social

21.11.2025 00:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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10 year journey into Imaginary Landscapes Visit the post for more.

10 year milestone!
Host Caitlin Sian Richards has been guiding CJSR listeners to auditory vistas for a decade, with Imaginary Landscapes.
#yeg #radio #edmonton #yegradio

20.11.2025 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

More than ever you have simply got to give it up for anyone and anything that is doing it right and doing it well outside of the ghoulish major label-tech startup hellscape!

20.11.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Could a New Ticketing Law in the U.K. Finally Curb Scalpers? The U.K. said it plans on banning reselling tickets above face value in an effort to stop fans getting gouged for in-demand shows on the secondary market.

"Fixing the dysfunction in live entertainment requires looking at all the pieces. We must cap resale, create and enforce strong rules of the road to protect fans and workers, and we must break up Live Nation"

20.11.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Amazing song to wake up to, drink coffee, make kids' lunches, and watch a pink sky turn to blue

20.11.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy #InternationalMensDay

20.11.2025 03:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's important for universities to move to a "shared services" centralized model so you get to spend every day sending confused emails, getting website error messages, clicking on broken links and so forth. This is what gets you featured on the Maclean's Top Universities list

20.11.2025 03:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.

I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didnโ€™t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause

18.11.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 413    ๐Ÿ” 181    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Next Thursday I'll be in conversation with my colleague Fabio Morabito to discuss Music In Orbit as part of the Questions About Music series at the U of A. Open to public/livestreaming at this link: www.ualberta.ca/en/music/con...

17.11.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Ive never been to AMS, btw

14.11.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm pretty aware of the shortcomings of some of the scholarly associations/conferences I'm a part of, but I'll often learn about what goes down in some of the ones I'm not a part of, and it's like, what the fuck?

14.11.2025 19:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy birthday to Neil Young, the greatest songwriter of all time.

13.11.2025 01:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Be extra careful today if you find yourself leaving fully loaded for Cleveland

10.11.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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