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Interview: John Heinstein, Peter Hicks (Sleepy Driver)

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The nature of artists is often change, growth and experimentation.

My guests today are John Heinstein and Peter Hicks, core members of the band Sleepy Driver (among other projects). They join me to talk about exploring new directions with the band, including many of the changes it has already had over its 20 year history, and the many friends they have a chance to work with.

A new album from Sleepy Driver should be in the works over the next year, and singles are being released in the mean time. You can catch them at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre with several of their friends for a concert on April 12.

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People Need Music: April 3, 2025

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Fundrive Show #1 with co-host Emma Chevarie from Music Runs Through It

www.musicrunsthroughit.com

Donate to CHSR FM and enter to win concert tickets courtesy of Music Runs Through It.

Choose between: Owen Steel on April 12th at Gallery 78 and Charlie A’Court on April 23rd at Dolan’s Pub!

Just let Tonya know that you donated to our Fundrive! tonyaprice [at] hotmail [dot] com

https://gofund.me/25d6e412

Playlist ::

The Devin Cuddy Band – Dear Jane ::

Alfie Zappacosta – Overload ::

Owen Steel – Your Own Imagination ::

Josh Bravener & The Hypochondriacs – Waitin ::

Charlie A’Court – Don’t Gimme That Look ::

Connor Fox – Ain’t No Time ::

The Hello Crows – Come Back To Me

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-03 FUNDRIVE

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Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Geoffroy – C.A.Y.A. || Good Boy
2.) Maya Cook – Black Ice || salt
3.) Dorothea Paas – Locked || Think Of Mist
4.) Les Moontunes – All I See Is Blue || Les Moontunes
5.) Moonshine, NegrO, Yend – La Haine || single
6.) Peach Pit – Did You Love Somebody || Magpie
7.) Klo Pelgag – Libra || Abracadabra
8.) The Deep Dark Woods – Ruby || single
9.) Colin Fowlie – Passerby || East Of Nowhere
10.) Mike Trask – Lwanding Day || single
11.) Matt Andersen – Wayaheadaya || single
12.) Foxwarren – Listen2me || single
13.) PUP – Hallways || single
14.) Sunnsetter – Fear it comes in waves || Heaven Hang Over Me

Indie Corruption (Harmony Corruption)-Episode 88-April 1st, 2025

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Hi Folks! Happy April Fools’ Day! This week’s episode features a few surprises to go along with April Fools’ Day. Hope you all enjoy the episode, and make sure to check out the Harmony Whimsy episode on the CHSR website once it goes up if you’d like to hear a familiar voice.

Here’s the playlist for the week:

Wesley Willis-Bolt Thrower

Wesley Willis-Morbid Angel

Bad Religion-Voice of God Is Government

County Medical Examiners-Expeditious Evisceratory Mishap

Type O Negative-Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10?? cm?³ gm?¹ sec?²

Demilich-The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)

Nile-Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns

Perilaxe Occlusion-Vapor Chamber

Dopethrone-Wizard’s Sleeve

Dopethrone-Killdozer

Mr. Bungle-Squeeze Me Macaroni

Faith No More-Smaller and Smaller

Sarcofago-Rhabdovirus (The Pitbull’s Curse)

Impaled Nazarene-The Horny and the Horned

Brujeria-Narclos-Satanicos

Holy Grinder-Transphobe Extermination

Savatage-Necrophilia

Razor-Bad Vibrations

Annihilator-The Fun Palace

Annihilator-Kraf Dinner

Slother-Stoner Sloth

Slother-Scrimshaw

Chat Pile-grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg

Dayglo Abortions-Dogfarts

Archagathus-Canadian Hoser

Carcass-Microwaved Uterogestation

Cannibal Corpse-Orgasm Through Torture

The Stills-Young Band-Fontainebleau

Slowdive-40 Days

Thanks for listening!

 

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Interview with Author Tara Pyfrom

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My guest today was Tara Pyfrom, author of memoir The Ocean in Our Blood. Tara joined me today to give insight into the category 5 hurricane that hit The Bahamas in 2019, Hurricane Dorian. During our interview Tara discusses her experience with environmental immigration, PTSD, her and her family’s mental health journeys and the effects of climate change in areas of the world like The Bahamas.

If you would like to learn more about Tara’s story, The Ocean in Our Blood will be released July 2025, but is also currently available for preorder on her website.

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-02 FUNDRIVE

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Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Dan Mangan – Melody || single
2.) Poets and Liars – Now That I’m Looking || single
3.) The Merci Buckets – Executive Dysfunction || ALLURE
4.) Joni Void, N NAO – Du Parc || Every Life Is A Light
5.) Bonnie Trash – Haunt Me (What Have You Become) || Mourning You
6.) OMBIIGIZI – Laminate The Sky || SHAME
7.) Brad Sucks – Wasting My Potential || Naturally
8.) Kill Chicago – Moonlight || The Fix
9.) Motherhood – Moat || Thunder Perfect Mind
10.) The Burning Hell – Luna FM || Ghost Palace
11.) Art d’Ecco – Survival Of The Fittest || Serene Demon
12.) Pierre Kwenders, Pierre Lapointe, NegrO – Clair De Lune || Tears On The Dancefloor
13.) Men I Trust – I Come With Mud || Equus Asinus
14.) Caribou – Volume || Honey

Away From The Mire Episode 73 – Fundrive!

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Hi Everyone, thanks for checking out the show! This week we have more new music from The Burning Hell, Absolute Losers and Mckinley Morrison & Williams as well as some other great tracks I’m sure you’ll enjoy.

It is fundrive week here at CHSR so if you enjoy what you hear and can help support the station please do so at chsrfm.ca/donate!

 

The Burning Hell – Celebrities In Cemeteries
Zoot – Eleanor Rigby
Motherhood – Kyle Hangs at Noon
Mckinley Morrison & Williams – Fad Bucker
Eddie Vedder – Brother The Cloud
Apollo Suns – Crybaby
Jake Boss & Rob Cameron – Day Drinking
The Young Evils – Sleepwalking
The Decemberists – The Mariner’s Revenge Song
Weird Al Yankovic – Alternative Polka
Chardon Polka Band – Grab Your Balls, We’re Going Bowling!
Absolute Losers – Star Sweeper
MJ Lenderman – Wristwatch

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-01 FUNDRIVE

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Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Destroyer – Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World || Dan’s Boogie
2.) Housewife – Divorce || Work Song
3.) Basia Bulat – Baby || Basia’s Palace
4.) Yawn – broken baby || single
5.) Yves Jarvis – All Cylinders || All Cylinders
6.) Braden Lam – Beautiful Neighbourhoods || Hurricane Season
7.) Charlie Houston – I Need U || Big After I Die
8.) Two Hours Traffic – On The Spot || single
9.) Terra Lightfoot – Higher & Higher || single
10.) Jay Feelbender – Angel || single
11.) Kestrels – Dream Of You in Black || Better Wonder
12.) Godspeed You! Black Emperor – BABYS IN A THOUNDERCLOUD || “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEB 2024,340 DEAD” 

Mornings Are Hard || 2025-03-31 #LocalAF Fundrive

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Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Nate and the Busy Boys – Birdy Birdy || Busy Doing Nothing
2.) La Patente – Las mal-amies || Le cirque des mal-amies
3.) The Hypochondriacs – Highway #2 || Waitin’
4.) David R. Elliott – Safe || True Love Forever
5.) Adam Mowery – Oldies 93 || Brick by Brick: 2007-2022
6.) Radiator – Fortune Teller || 23 Park Street London UK
7.) Doctor Mother Father – More Than Poor (With My Friends) || single
8.) Shriven – Run || Saints Rest
9.) Motherhood – Sunk || Thunder Perfect Mind
10.) Chillteens – Short King || In Another Dream
11.) Marc McLaughlin – All I Can Say || All I Can Say
12.) El Tata ft. Yoro – Walking || single
13.) XIA-3 – Another Day || Interworlds
14.) Capital 6 – In The Wierd || Not My One

Testing For Echo – Episode 73 – Thoughts Of A Legend – Orig. Air Date March 29, 2025

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Before we start, I’d like to take a moment to send some love and thoughts to David Johansen of the New York Dolls, who reinvented himself in the 80’s as Buster Poindexter and later formed The Harry Smiths.

I’ve been a fan of everything he has done for many years.

David has been living with stage 4 cancer, but he’s giving it a damn good fight. We wish him luck

This one’s for you David. Let’s start today off with the New York Dolls – Looking For A Kiss

Take care,

Tim

Episode Song List

  1. New York Dolls – Looking For A Kiss
  2. Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away
  3. Paul MacIntosh and The Lost Keys – Moths In The Kichen
  4. King Crimson – The Night Watch
  5. Red Moon Road – Where My Heart Is
  6. Fifth Daughter – Even Winter
  7. Zebra – Who’s Behind The Door
  8. Saga – Cat Walk (Live)
  9. Rush – A Passage To Bangkok
  10. Gentle Hen – Sit On Roofs
  11. Triumph – Hold On
  12. Waylon Napadogan – Oh Ya For Sure Bud
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New MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing hopes to inspire culture of writers at the University of New Brunswick

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Starting in the winter semesters of 2025, the University of New Brunswick unveiled its new MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing, awarded to one student in each of UNB’s fourteen faculties. The prize is worth $1000 and hopes to support students both financially and emotionally, by encouraging submissions from students who might go under appreciated by similar awards. UNB Chancellor Wade MacLauchlan, who the prize was named after, noted that the prize is meant to recognize “effectiveness” rather than “excellence.” In this way, Chancellor MacLauchlan hopes that it will inspire a wider range of UNB students, with the goal of fostering a long lasting and universal culture of writers at the university. Submissions to the prize remain open until April 1, 2025.

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Interview: Theatre UNB presents Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband”

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Some things are universal throughout time, like political aspirations and those who prey on them.

For the last play of the season, Theatre UNB is staging a production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. Joining me is John Ball (director; professor & acting Chair of the Department of English at UNB), Shannon Munn (actor: “Mrs. Cheveley”) and James Gwathmey (actor: “Sir Robert Chiltern”). We talk about this lesser-known political dramedy of Oscar Wilde’s body of work, the delights and challenges in playing political characters, and the relevancy of a play published over a century ago.

Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband will be staged from April 3 through the 6th at 7:30pm nightly at Memorial Hall on campus.

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Harmony Corruption Episode 87-The Sacrifice Interview-March 25th, 2025

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Hi Folks! This week’s episode features an interview with Gus from Sacrifice! We got to chat about their new album “Volume Six,” upcoming tour dates, the band’s history and lots more. As well, the rest of the episode features lots of great tunes from Canada, Brazil, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK.

Here’s the playlist for the week:

Sacrifice-Antidote of Poison

Sacrifice-Missile

Sacrifice-Terror Strikes

Sacrifice-Homicidal Breath

Sacrifice-Soldiers of Misfortune

Gorguts-Rottenatomy

Kataklysm-Eternal, I Reach Infinity

Katakylsm-Mystical Plane of Evil

Motorhead-Stay Clean

Black Sabbath-Born Again

Black Sabbath-Keep It Warm

Sepultura-Dead Embryonic Cells

In Flames-Dead Eternity

Pestilence-Reduced to Ashes

Witchfinder General-Witchfinder General

Thanks again to Sacrifice and thanks for listening!

 

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STU Lunchbox 2025 EP03: “Virgin Voters”

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Hosts Fernanda Sanchez and Caleb Desjardins look at the upcoming federal election through the lens of young people suffering from information and disinformation overload.

  • Music:
  • “Elected” by Alice Cooper (opening theme)
  • “Vote Baby Vote”  Deee-lite (streeter mix background)
  • “Wheat Kings” by the Tragically Hip (CDN)
  • “Gretzky Rocks” by the Pursuit of Happiness (CDN)
  • “Dale Una Luz” by  Dúo Guardabarranco (foreign language)
  • “Beer Never Broke My Heart”  Luke Combs  (conservative makeup sketch))
  • “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” by Shania Twain (conservative makeup sketch) (CDN)
  • “Political” by Spirit of the West (CDN)
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Movies in Your Head Episode 6

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Originally aired on March 5, 2025.

 

Featured in this episode:

“Drunk in the Chelsea” by Peyton Ballantyne (poem)

“Bringing You to the City” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“Poem Boy” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“The Captain” by Aidan Keenan (short fiction)

“You’re Empty” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“Eat My Words” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“Sisyphus’ Love” by Connor Fraser (poem)

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Movies in Your Head Episode 5

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Originally aired February 19, 2025.

 

Featured in this episode:

“The Laundry Room” by Connor Fraser (short fiction)

“Bite” by Aidan Keenan (short fiction)

“we all have eyes, so why can’t we see” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“Blood” by Aidan Keenan (prose poem)

“Devious Muck: SUB Tim Horton’s” by Patrick Donovan, Connor Fraser, and Aidan Keenan (review)

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Movies in Your Head Episode 4

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Originally aired February 5, 2025.

 

Featured in this episode:

“I Was Once” by Ken Spragg (poem)

Excerpt from “The Wrong Place at the Right Time” by Connor Fraser (creative non-fiction)

“Three Months” by Aidan Keenan (creative non-fiction)

“Being Young” by Aidan Keenan (creative non-fiction)

“The Absence of Eve” by Connor Fraser (sonnet + free verse)

“Women are the Creator” by Connor Fraser (free verse)

“The Hornet” by Aidan Keenan (poem)

“New Brunswick” by Aidan Keenan (poem)

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“An experience from the perspective of a parent”: new Baby Crafters workshop at the Charlotte Street Art Centre

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On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the Charlotte Street Art Centre began offering a “Baby Crafters” workshop, aimed towards new parents. Tiziana Zevallos, the workshop’s coordinator, noted that Baby Crafters is open to all parents, but tries to specifically address the isolation that many new parents feel. The workshop runs from 10:00am to noon every Wednesday and Zevallos provides all the materials necessary to participate. The Charlotte Street Art Centre itself takes special precautions to accommodate a workshop centered around babies, including a deep clean of the room the workshop takes place in. Zevallos noted that many parents benefit from both the artistic outlet Baby Crafters provides and the sense of community it fosters.

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Arts Matters Conference tenth anniversary sees highest numbers since COVID

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The University of New Brunswick’s Arts Matters Conference is celebrating its tenth anniversary from March 20th to 22nd. This year’s conference marks the first time since 2020 that the number of submissions and participants matched pre-COVID numbers.

Arts matters is an interdisciplinary conference that accepts topics in the humanities, social sciences, and creative disciplines and is open to undergraduate in Eastern Canada, hosted in at UNB’s Fredericton campus.

To celebrate the the anniversary the Arts Matters organizers, who are almost entirely undergraduate students from UNB, are hosting a formal gala at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

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UNB Student Union overhauls vice presidential positions, adds new Director of Communications

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On March 7, 2025, the University of New Brunswick Student Union announced the results of their General Election, as well as changes to its leadership structure.

Three of the vice president positions in the election differ significantly from their current iteration, both in name and responsibilities:

The Vice President Events and Services, who oversaw both administrative services (like the UNBSU foodbank) and campus events (like concerts), is now split into two separate positions, one handling services and the other handling events. The Vice President Communications, who handled media communications and marketing, was removed from the executive and replaced by a non-VP Director of Communications.

Finally, the Vice President Academic was renamed Vice President Policy and Relations to better reflect the scope of their work, although that position’s responsibilities and mandate remained the same.

These changes were the result of several months of effort from the UNBSU executives (the VPs and President), who hope that this new structure will more evenly distribute workload and increase the UNBSU’s efficiency.

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UNB signs Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism

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On Monday, February 24, 2025, University of New Brunswick President Paul Mazerolle signed Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Higher Education. The Charter was created in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, and various community stakeholders at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, between 2020 and 2022. Over sixty other Canadian universities have signed the charter. Joanne Owour, the Advocacy and Education Officer in UNB’s Human Rights and Equity Office explained the history of the charter and how it is intended to encourage accountability and future actions from UNB in regards to anti-Black racism.

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UNB Reds Men’s Hockey’s new head coach finishes first regular season

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On February 15, 2025, the UNB Reds Men’s Hockey team finished their last game of the regular season under new Head Coach, Rob Hennigar. Hennigar has worked with the Reds for over twelve years, serving as an Assistant Coach under previous head coach Gardiner MacDougal. After MacDougal led the Reds through a perfect season in 2023-24, not losing a single game, Hennigar emphasized that nothing major has changed for the Reds on the ice. Hennigar and UNB Reds players Colton Kramerer and Cole MacKay attributed the smooth transition between head coaches to UNB’s legacy of hockey excellence, while still noting that the Reds have benefited from a new “Hennigar twist” this year.

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