No Filter – May 12, 2025

Welcome to No Filter, the radio show that brings you the best music you’ve never heard on CHUO 89.1FM.
Each week, I curate a playlist of diverse and unique tracks from up-and-coming artists and established musicians alike.
My goal is to introduce you to new and exciting music that you might not have discovered otherwise.
On this week’s episode, music from Chinese Medicine, Sugar Bomb!, and Becky and the Birds.

Playlist:
Le Prince Harry – A Long Way from the Top from A Long Way Down

Orchidae – Sometimes from True Beginning. Both playing this Sunday at Happy Goat Coffee on 35 Laurel St.

Wine Lips – New Jazz from Super Mega Ultra

Chinese Medicine – Total Happiness (feat. Shiv and the Carvers) from The Trans Agenda EP. Both are playing 27 Club this Thursday

Teens In Trouble – August

Bat Boy – Oh Wee!

Sugar Bomb! – Way Too Late from Way Too Late EP. All three plus Dealbreak are playing House of Targ this Thursday.

Preoccupations – Andromeda from Ill At Ease, Playing 27 Club next Friday.

All Saints – Pure Shores (Tourist Remix)

Erika de Casier – Lifetime from Lifetime

Becky and the Birds – Should’ve known better (choices)

Leif Maine & Jackson Mathod – Transmutator feat. FloFilz

SLICKnBOBBY – Osotb

Matt Berninger – Inland Ocean from Get Sunk which comes out on May 30th.

Fiona Apple – Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)

TVOD – Bend from Party Time. Playing House of Targ on July 6th

Auditive Escape – Hatched in the Sun from Effused Skies

Top 5 Songs of the week
1. TOPS – ICU2 (1) [2]


2. Lido Pimienta – Aún Te Quiero (2) [2]


3. DEBBY FRIDAY – All I Wanna Do Is Party (3) [2]


4. U.S. Girls – Bookends (*) [1]


5. Dan Mangan – Dimishing Returns (4) [2]

Amy Millan – The overpass from I Went To Find You which comes out on May 30th. Playing First Baptist Church on October 17th.

Fleece – So Much Better Now

Men I Trust – Come Back Down from Equus Caballus

Cola – Medicant

Arcade Fire – Alien Nation from Pink Elephant

Utada Hikaru – Mine or Yours / First Love (2022 Mix)


Khruangbin – May Ninth from A La Sala