70 80 90 ITALIA D'AUTORE

Despite the Canada location, this station's name tells you everything: it's focused on Italian music from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, the era when Italian songwriting peaked. The station celebrates autori - singer-songwriters - who understood craft and poetry. Think Lucio Battisti, Enzo Jannacci, and the wave of introspective Italian pop that never went out of style. The programming honors a musical lineage most Canadian radio ignores completely. Italian music from this era had sophistication that modern pop rarely attempts - the arrangements were precise, the lyrics were literary, and the produ…