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This week we look back at my favourite releases of 2025. We’ve got lots of great local music (7 bands!) from what was another strong year for alt rock/indie in Atlantic Canada and I’ve got some great cuts from not so local acts as well. I hope you’ll enjoy! Podcast: Play in new window |
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THRILLS – An assortment of deeep cut party starters! SPILLS – I make a huge mistake partway through the show! CHILLS – Enjoy me being flustered for like 10 subsequent minutes. Grey Temples 36 has got it all! But that’s ok. No chance of fun without risk of failure! Starting out this week we’ve got
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Episode 03 – Not By Choice For Liam Killeen of Not By Choice, the 2000s Canadian music landscape was defined by one powerful force: the MuchMusic monoculture. In an age before endless streaming and personalized algorithms, MuchMusic acted as the singular, national curator of cool. Liam explains that the network “dictated” the culture, exposing an
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Episode 22. Artist Song Album Year Bel Canto Shimmering, Warm & Bright Shimmering, Warm & Bright 1993 Levon Minassian Forest Big Blue Ball (Compilation) 2008 Nine Horses The Day the Earth Stole Heaven Snow Borne Sorrow 2005 The Waking Eyes Wolves At the Door Holding On to Whatever It Is 2008 Jenn Grant Under The
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Episode 101 starts off with a great cover of a Counting Crows classic by MJ Lenderman and we’ve got lots of great alt rock this week. New music from Moncton (Sprawl), Corner Brook Newfoundland (Horse Chops), and the new project from MJ Lenderman/Waxahatchee (Snocaps) Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS
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Grey Temples is officially surfing the information superhighway (once a week, because as we all know the internet is terrible, but probably necessary in the grand scheme of things, like a lamprey eel). But man, if there was a representative episode of Grey Temples to start with, this is a gooder. Entrenched firmly in the
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This is Testing For Echo Episode 91 on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world and I am always pleased to be your host Tim Scammell. There are a couple of things that may be old news by now but important regardless. I ask that you give your thoughts to the family and
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Episode 03 – The Tea Party In this episode, Jeff Burrows looks back on the 90s as a wild, defining decade — a blur of massive festivals, MuchMusic-fueled momentum, and moments that didn’t feel surreal until years later. From the chaos and camaraderie of Edgefest to touring with Foo Fighters and Green Day (“walking through
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Episode 21. Surf guitar, ‘steam punk’, guerrilla folk punk and beyond. Artist Song Album Year Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet Zombie Compromise Savvy Show Stoppers 1988 Hoodoo Gurus Bittersweet Mars Needs Guitars! 1985 The Screaming Blue Messiahs Wild Blue Yonder Gun Shy 1986 Abney Park Katyusha The Circus At the End of the World
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Episode 20. This week’s segment of X Years Later features the late Jimmy Cliff. Artist Song Album Year Fadi Sabri Silver Morning Sun (Eastern Dawn Mix) Viva! Beats Presents Global Chillout Cafe 2012 System 7 Song for the Phoenix Phoenix 2008 Kristy Thirsk What If I Under Cover 2008 Gaudi w/ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Lordy lordy, look who’s 100?!? Check out this week’s episode that is chock full of great jams to celebrate the 100th episode of Away From The Mire! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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hiya! welcome back to another episode of the fox den, where i bring you tonal inconsistency, consistently! in this episode you’ll hear .. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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welcome back to another episode of the fox den – where i bring you tonal inconsistency, consistently! in this episode you’ll hear.. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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you’re listening to the fox den – where i bring you tonal inconsistency, consistently! in this episode you’ll hear .. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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hiya! welcome back to another episode of indie whimsy, in this episode you’ll hear.. bright eyes – mushaboom (live) (motion sickness: live recordings; 2005) broken social scene – stay happy (hug of thunder; 2017) saturday looks good to me – are you kissing anyone? (one kiss ends it all; 2013) amy millan – lost compass
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hiya hi! welcome back to another episode of indie whimsy, in this episode you’ll hear.. 10,000 maniacs – candy everybody wants (our time in eden; 1992) broken social scene – protest song (hug of thunder; 2017) kitty craft – top of the key (catskills; 2000) amy millan – i will follow you into the dark
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Episode 02 – Econoline Crush In this episode, I sit down with Trevor Hurst, the unmistakable voice of Econoline Crush, to revisit the electric landscape of late-’90s and early-2000s Canadian rock. Trevor reflects on a moment when MuchMusic helped build a true star system at home, giving Canadian bands space to break through in a
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-28 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Jungle – Back On 74 || Volcano 2.) Begonia – Hotter Than The Sun || Fantasy Life 3.) Sudan Archives – DEAD || The BPM 4.) Shad – Slanted || Start Anew 5.) Scott Hardware – Costume Off || Overpass 6.) The Afghan Whigs
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-27 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Alexisonfire – Fully Completely || Copies of Old Masters Vol. 1 2.) Danko Jones – Everyday is Saturday Night || Leo Rising 3.) Hollerado – Keep On Moving || Start A Band 4.) LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean || This Is Happening 5.)
New music this week from Chris Ballew and Superchunk and I play a couple of songs from the recently departed Todd Snider. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-25 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Beach House – Myth || Bloom 2.) SPELLING, Weyes Blood – Destiny Arrives || single 3.) Purity Ring – place of my own || Purity Ring 4.) Hannah Jadagu – Normal Today || Describe 5.) Austra – Siren Song || Chin Up Buttercup 6.)
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-11-24 Artist – Track || Album 1.) Metric – Help I’m Alive || Fantasies 2.) Hatchie – Sage || Liquorice 3.) Hayley Williams – Showbiz || Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party 4.) Hawksley Workman – Striptease || (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves 5.) Econoline Crush – New Gold
Hi there everyone. It’s great that you’ve tuned in today and for that I thank you. This is Testing For Echo Episode 90 in Fredericton and around the world and I’m your host Tim Scammell This episode feels pretty interesting to me. I think you will feel as I do as it goes on. Let
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Episode 01 – Hawksley Workman In this episode, I sit down with the inimitable artist, Hawksley Workman, to explore his genre-defying career, the legendary days of MuchMusic, and what it was like creating his early, influential records. He opens up about the invigorating energy of the late ’90s and early 2000s Canadian music scene, a
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Episode 19. New music from Quebec City’s Men I Trust. X Years Later with Killing Joke, featuring a song from their first and most recent albums. Artist Song Album Year Loscil Straw Dogs Monument Builders 2016 Intermix Voices Intermix 1992 The Mission Paradise Will Shine Like The Moon Carved In Sand 1990 Fluke/Blair Lee I
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