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This week, Tonya counted down her top albums of 2025. Playlist: The Barr Brothers – Let it Hiss :: The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers :: Lou-Adriene Cassidy – Dis-moi, dis-moi, dis-moi :: Dan Mangan – Diminishing Returns :: Amy Millan – Wire walks :: Absolute Losers – In The Crowd :: Zach
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Episode 24. A contemporary and traditional, sweet and melancholy Christmas edition. Artist Song Album Year Hilary Grist Branch’s Arms It’s Officially Winter Now 2012 Leigh Nash Maybe This Christmas Wishing for This 2006 She & Him The Christmas Waltz A Very She & Him Christmas 2011 Jenn Grant Downtown Christmas Eve Forever On Christmas Eve
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I love Christmas, and that’s real. I’m taking next week off, and because of that, I’ve got a double-stuft sack of Christmas goodies for all y’all. So sit back, pour yourself a drink or whatever, and enjoy this special episode sprinkled with Christmas magic (which is what I’m calling the surgery-related stories that I tell
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Enjoy some holiday music from (mostly all) Canadian artists. Playlist: Hey Rosetta! – Carry Me Home :: Logan Richard – Stay in this Moment :: The Darcys – Another Log on the Fire :: Dan Mangan – A Christmas Song :: Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers – A Christmas to Remember :: Tyler Shaw – A
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Hi there everyone. Once again, it’s great to have you here here and I hope that you like my picks. I know you will. By the time this is aired we will all be well into the holiday season. So please be safe but have fun. I realize that this mention is a little
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Episode 05 – Moist In the 1990s, Canadian alternative rock wasn’t just a genre—it was a shared cultural experience. For Jeff Pearce, bassist of Moist, that era is best defined by the chaotic, beautiful energy of the MuchMusic Video Awards. Unlike the polished veneer of MTV, MuchMusic felt accessible and DIY. Whether it was the
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Episode 23. Music from Australia, Japan, UK, Norway, Sweden, Uzbekistan, and Canada. Artist Song Album Year Big Pig Iron Lung Bonk 1987 Mickey Hart Rage On Superorganism 2013 Night Thoughts Century Eyes The Complaint 2017 Moev Miracle Orbituary Column 1991 Pride And Fall December Nephesh 2003 Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren Static Air Artefact 2021
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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: RSS | More
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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: 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: 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: 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
