Rock and Roll radio is alive and well, it's just well hidden sometimes. There are huge syndicated rock and roll radio shows broadcast all over North America and small one hour slices of rock 'n' roll madness on community radio stations all over the place there for the taking. The Internet, despite its twisted rules and regulations, has added some amazing rock and roll radio thrills and spills that, technology allowing, make for great listening day and night. At first blush it might seem we are losing the radio diversity wars but a careful peek around shows that there is more radio worth listening to than ever before.

A perfect example of great rock and roll radio hails from my hometown of Montréal. "Dodécaphonique Twist" hosted by Montreal radio legend Mimi la twisteuse is a primo slice of rock and roll heaven. Playing anything from British Invasion to glam to Sunshine Pop to r'n'b/soul and to anything else her heart fancies from the '60s to now, Mimi knows her rock 'n' roll.

An avid fan and hardcore collector of French '60s pop, her previous show "Dans le Garage" was at one time one of the only radio shows around to strongly feature a wide variety of obscure French '60s pop on a weekly basis, bringing in a strong local and even North American cyber following to her show (the show also had a brief syndication run for a few years in a French station overseas), before the Ultra Chicks and other '60s French pop comps craze was to hit North America.

She has compiled volume 10 of the infamous "Girls in the Garage" series, an all French volume of '60s gogo girls! Mimi's love of 20th century pop culture as well as her love of comedy, novelties and international rock n roll from then and now make her show's weekly playlists unique and interesting, as well as continuously rockin'! Broadcast every Saturday night from 10 to 11 pm, on CIBL, 101.5 FM, in Montréal you can listen live with Real Audio at www.cibl.cam.org. Not only does she play great rock and roll but her show is broadcast in French! Woah you cry, I don't speak French!