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Testing For Echo – Episode 47 – Pretty Lucky These Days – Orig. Air Date March 30, 2024

Hi again everyone. Welcome to Episode 47 of Testing For Echo on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. I’m feeling pretty lucky that I have a couple of new songs to play for you today from our friends. In addition to feeling lucky, I’m feeling grateful that

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Away From The Mire Episode 30 – Original Air Date March 25th 2024

Hello and welcome to Episode 30 of Away From The Mire! With it being episode 30 I’ve decide to bust out the time machine and take a trip back 30 years to 1994. A great year for music that saw the loss of a legend, the beginnings of some new scenes, breakthrough albums from some

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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP06: “Legends of Newfoundland & Labrador”

Hosts Jonas May and Frey Blake-Pijogge visit the folklore and mythologies of their home province, exploring not only those passed down from the English and Irish, but discovering how the Inuit and Innu draw strength from beliefs that connect the spirit and animal worlds to our own.

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Harmony Corruption Episode 42-Ihsahn Interview (Ihsahn/Emperor)-March 19th, 2024

Hi folks! Welcome back to Harmony Corruption on CHSR-FM. This week’s episode features an interview with Ihsahn, the mastermind behind the solo project Ihsahn, as well as the lead singer/guitarist of Emperor. We got to talk about the new self titled album by Ihsahn, as well as his influences, his work with Emperor and lots

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Away From The Mire Episode 29 – Original Air Date March 18th 2024

Hi all and welcome to another episode of Away From The Mire. With March being Women’s History Month I thought this would a good opportunity to play some of my favorite female musicians. There is no shortage of great women creating some great rock music and I hope you will enjoy!   1 – Hole

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Testing For Echo – Episode 46 – Let’s Rock – Orig. Air Date March 16, 2024

Hi again everyone. Welcome to Episode 46 of Testing For Echo on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. I’ve noted before that I don’t get too much correspondence for my show and that’s okay with me. I take it to mean that the listeners are happy with

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Harmony Corruption Episode 41-March 12th, 2024-The Necrophobic Interview

Hi Folks! Welcome back to Harmony Corruption on CHSR-FM. This week’s episode features an interview with Joakim Sterner from Swedish metal legends Necrophobic. We got to chat about their new album “In the Twilight Grey” and lots more. This week also features some new tunes from my road trip where I got some new albums!

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Away From The Mire Episode 28, Original Air Date March 11th 2024

Hi All and welcome back to another episode of Away From The Mire. This week we take the new Pearl Jam single for a second spin and I share my updated thoughts on it, we spin some 311 in honor of 311 day and share some news from The Tragically Hip as they announce their

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2FER || 2024-03-11

Artist – Track || Album 1.) Chillteens – Mush || Green Tea 2.) Chillteens – Short King || single 3.) Mildlife – Return To Centaurus || Chorus 4.) Mildlife – Musica || Chorus 5.) Population II – C.T.Q.S. ||Électrons libres du qu?é?bec 6.) Population II – Beau bapt?ê?me || Électrons libres du qu?é?bec 7.) MUNYA

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Harmony Corruption Episode 40-March 5th 2024

Hi folks! Welcome back to Harmony Corruption. This week featured a bit less talking than usual, as I lost my voice a bit. Nonetheless, lots of great tunes this week! Also some exciting news. Next week’s episode will feature an interview with Joakim Sterner from Necrophobic, and the following week’s episode will feature an interview

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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP04: “Anatomy of a Champion”

With his team primed for the ACAA championship tournament on the weekend, Ben Dool talked to his Tommie teammates, coaches, fans, and trainers to find out what separates a collection of good players from a championship team. (The Tommies lost in overtime to Mount St. Vincent in the final Sunday, March 3.)

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Away From The Mire Episode 27, Original Air Date March 4th

A couple more new songs to play this week as we have new music from Canadian indie rockers Mother Mother, music from the highly anticipated first album by Last Dinner Party from London England and a new song from Kings Of Leon that harkens back to their early grittier work. Starting things off we have

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Testing For Echo – Episode 45 – Feels Like Such a Long Time – Orig. Air Date March 2, 2024

Before we begin this episode I would like to mention with sadness the recent passing of local radio legend Don Roberts. In my mind Don was the finest radio personality this town has ever heard. In fact, it was his show “Musical Memories” on CHSR that first caught my interest of CHSR. He will be

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