Brave New Waves
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Brave New Waves is a Canadian radio program, which 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. Schmidt remains the program's official host as of 2006; however, musician Jarrett Martineau currently hosts the first hour, and the remainder of the program currently consists only of repeats of past BNW material. With the rise of CBC Radio 3 on satellite radio and as a weekend program on Radio Two, the ongoing role of BNW on the network has been questioned, with some critics suggesting that it may soon be cancelled.
An album collecting live performances from the show, also titled Brave New Waves, was released in 1991.
