Brave New Waves

Brave New Waves is a Canadian radio program, which currently airs weeknights from midnight to 4 a.m. on CBC Radio Two. The show profiles alternative and indie music and culture.

The show aired for the first time on February 5, 1984. Its original host was Augusta La Paix. The following year, La Paix left the show and was replaced by Brent Bambury. Throughout the 1980s, Brave New Waves was an enormously influential and legendary show, providing many Canadians without access to campus radio with their main exposure to alternative music. When alternative rock became the dominant commercial genre of the 1990s, Brave New Waves kept its focus on the underground. It remains one of Canada's most important and influential radio programs for promoting music outside of the mainstream.

In 1995, Bambury left the program to become cohost of CBC Television's Midday, and was replaced by Patti Schmidt, who also became the executive producer of the program.

On January 17, 2007, it was announced that Brave New Waves would be removed from the CBC Radio 2 line-up later this year as part of a rebranding of the network.

An album collecting live performances from the show, also titled Brave New Waves, was released in 1991.

External link

• Brave New Waves, official site
• Brave New Waves - CBC program guide
• 20 Years, 20 Interviews CBC Radio 3 Magazine feature on Brave New Waves 20th Anniversary with 20 of its best interviews.