The Strombo Show, The Launch!

Posted by Li Robbins on Sunday November 8, 2009 at 3:00 AM  

The Strombo Show launches tonight, featuring George Stroumboulopoulos, he of CBC TV talk show The Hour fame. Some excited twittering and facebooking about this, so for those who have been eagerly awaiting, here's the lowdown for the inaugural version of the show:

*An interview with Nick Hornby, who has to be credited with making music geekiness fashionable (think: High Fidelity). Apparently a huge fan of Canada' Luke Doucet too.

*George picks new music, including Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas's solo album, and spins old faves.

*Both Rich Terfry of Drive and Bob Mackowycz (new interim host of Radio 2 Morning) drop by to talk music, romance, war and peace, things like that.

And of course, lots more music. (Including a segment called Ten With Tom, a Tom Waits song at ten o'clock. That oughta happen every night of the week. At least, for those of us who are Waits fans).

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Coming Soon....

Posted by ANANDA KORCHYNSKI on Wednesday November 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM  

"The Strombo Show" features four hours of music and focuses on what George does best - talking about music, interviewing musicians and music icons, and bringing listeners a scope of music from the known and popular to the new and unexplored.

Check out the official Strombo website and come back on Sunday when Radio 2 blogger Li Robbins will have details about the first show.

Hear the first episode this Sunday night at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT)

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