Each year, we ask our volunteers to send in their favourite albums of 2024.

Vince Almond – Host: Blues Boogie and Bop (Tuesdays 4-5 PM)

1. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats – The Hits Keep Coming (Alligator)
2. Colin James* – Chasing The Sun (Stony Plain)
3. Sue Foley* – One Guitar Woman (Stony Plain)
4. Danielle Nicole – The Love You Bleed (Forty Below)
5. J.D. Simo & Luther Dickinson – Do The Rump (Forty Below)
6. Jerron Paxton – Things Done Changed (Smithsonian Folkways)
7. Bywater Call* – Shepherd (Independent)
8. Candice Ivory – When The Levee Breaks : The Music Of Memphis Minnie (Little Village)
9. Shemekia Copeland – Blame It On Eve (Alligator)
10. Blue Moon Marquee* – New Orleans Sessions (Independent)

Best Live Shows

• The Cash Box Kings – Edmonton Blues Festival – August 17, 2024
• Rick Estrin & The Nightcats – Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival – July 26, 2024

Jason Beers – Host: The Dance Punk Show (Wednesdays 6-7 PM)

1. Idles – Tangk (Partisan)
2. Home Counties – Exactly As It Seems (Submarine Cat)
3. The Dare – What’s Wrong With New York? (Republic)
4. Family Man* – Iconoclast (Indica)
5. The Darcys* – Rendering Feelings (Warner)
6. Leathers* – Ultraviolet (Artoffact)
7. Font – Strange Burden (Acrophase)
8. SPECTRES* – Presence (Artoffact)
9. Cursive – Devourer (Run for Cover)
10. Folly Group – Down There! (So Young)

Alexis Brett – Host: Hello, I’m Indie (Thursdays 8-9 PM)

1. IDLES – Tangk (Partisan)
2. Cindy Lee* – Diamond Jubilee (W. 25th)
3. Goat – S/T (Rocket)
4. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers OST (Milan)
5. Corridor* – Mimi (Sub Pop)
6. Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice (Matador)
7. Annie Claude Deschenes* – Les Manieres De Table (Bonsound)
8. Crack Cloud* – Red Mile (Jagjaguwar)
9. Bab L Bluz – Swaken (Realworld)
10. Lemon Bucket Orkestra* – Cuckoo (Independent)

Doc Charles – Host: Hiway 61 – The Blues Hiway (Thursdays 7-8 PM)

1. Mitch Woods – Happy Hour (Mo’ Mojo)
2. Blue Moon Marquee* – New Orleans Session (Independent)
3. Johnny Ray Jones – Mystic Chiefs (Moondogg)
4. Albert Castiglia – Righteous Souls (Gulf Coast)
5. Jennifer Lyn – Live From The Northern Plains (Independent)
6. Big Dave MacLean* – This Old Life (Cordova Bay)
7. Gerald McClendon – Down At The Juke Joint (Delta Roots)
8. Sue Foley* – One Guitar Woman (Stony Plain)
9. Wicked Lo-Down – Out Of Line (Sono)
10. Bobby Christina’s Caravan – True Blues Brother: The Legacy Of Matt “Guitar” Murphy (Nola Blue)

Jim Dupuis – Host: Jazz Notes (Wednesdays 2-4 PM)

Primarily Instrumental

1. Christine Jensen* – Harbour (Justin Time)
2. Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
3. Melissa Aldana – Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
4. Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y – A New Beat (Cellar)
5. Neil Swainson Sextet* – Here For A While (Cellar)
6. Kris Davis* – Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
7. Bria Skonberg* – What It Means (Cellar)
8. Brenan Brothers* – Valley of Silence (Death Defying)
9. Eric Alexander and Mike LeDonne – Together (Cellar)
10. Brian Dickinson* – Ballads (Modica)

Primarily Vocal

1. Laila Biali* – Wintersongs (Independent)
2. Diana Panton* – Soft Winds & Roses (Independent)
3. Angela Verbrugge* – Somewhere (OA2)
4. Caity Gyorgy* – Hello! How Are You? (LA Reserve)
5. Adonis Rose Trio + One – For All We Know (Storyville)
6. Florence K* – Bresil Mon Amour (Ad Litteram)
7. Andrea Superstein* – Oh Mother (Cellar)
8. Aimee-Jo Benoit* – Horns of Hope (Chronograph)
9. Bruna Black and John Finbury – Va Revelacao (Independent)
10. Tina Schlieske – The Good Life (Shifting Paradigm)

Steve Marlow – CFBX Programming Coordinator, Host: Do Not Touch This Amp (Fridays 8-9 PM)

1) Kim Gordon – The Collective (Matador)
2) Chat Pile – Cool World (The Flenser)
3) Dermabrasion* – Pain Response (Hand Drawn Dracula)
4) BIG|BRAVE* – A Chaos of Flowers (Thrill Jockey)
5) Psychic Graveyard – Wilting (Artoffact)
6) The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac)
7) Idles – TANGK (Partisan)
8) METZ* – Up on Gravity Hill (Sub Pop)
9) Cyberaktif* – eNDgame (Artoffact)
10) Renonce* – Nuisance Sonore (Mothland)

Best Live Shows

• Bab L’ Bluz – Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival
• Stephen Hamm – The Effie Arts Collective

Dylan Olson – Host: Alternative Eye (Thursdays 2-3 PM)

1. Sombre Seas* – Laser Eye Tiger (Independent)
2. Down the Lees* – Dirt (Independent)
3. Jeremy Kneeshaw** – 4th Try (Independent)
4. Nick Fast** – Better Late Than Never (Independent)
5. Stephen Hamm* – Songs of the Future (Independent)
6. Cawston* – Therapy Sessions (SBG)
7. Flat Black – Dark Side of the Brain (Fearless)
8. Piper and the Hard Times – Revelation (Hard Times)
9. Shemekia Copeland – Blame it on Eve (Alligator)
10. Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley* – Forever Blues (G-Three)