CiTR -- Powerchord

Powerchord is CITR 101.9 FM’s metal stronghold, presented in the excerpts as a raw, record-first community radio show. It sounds live. The booth matters almost as much as the playlist: tracks misfire, turntables get discussed, announcements interrupt the flow, and the speaker folds the room’s small accidents into the broadcast. The result is not slick programming. It is metal radio with fingerprints on it. Recent episodes lean into space metal, long tracks, and heavy rock with leather-and-studs energy. One set heads into cosmic territory with The Ox, Kal-El, and a plan to “go to space” through the music. Another gives long cuts room to breathe, including Clouds Taste Satanic and material connected to Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou. New releases appear alongside local and regional names. Spell and Sandstorm get enthusiastic attention, with Vancouver ties treated as part of the show’s bloodstream rather than a footnote. The excerpts also place Powerchord firmly in campus and community radio culture. CITR station IDs recur. UBC’s Point Grey campus is named. Territory acknowledgements are spoken on air. Public-service and music-festival announcements share space with heavy albums, which gives the show a lived-in local rhythm. The tone is blunt, funny, and occasionally unruly without losing its core purpose. The speaker is clearly there to play records. Some comments wander, but the records pull the show back into focus. Powerchord suits listeners who want metal discovery without algorithmic polish, especially those who enjoy hearing why a track matters in the moment before it lands. It also suits anyone drawn to heavy music’s slow pressure, theatrical bite, and the strange pleasure of a radio show that lets long songs stay long. Its best quality is its faith in the music. The show trusts a heavy track to do the explaining.