Track Listing: 
1.) Gavin Simms – Stranger
2.) Jerry-Faye – Kings College Road
3.) Adyn Townes – Didn’t Mean Anything
4.) Kirsten Ludwig – Borderline (Victoria, BC)
5.) Anne Janelle – Friend Of Mine
6.) Art Of The Possible – Passerby
7.) Pretty Archie – Tell Me You’re Leaving
8.) Whitney Rose – You Never Cross My Mind
9.) The Town Heroes – Everything
10.) Walrus – Regular Face
11.) The Stogies – Gift Horse
12.) The Stogies – Happenstance
13.) Jessie Brown – Debt (We Ain’t Got No Money)
Track Listing:
1.) Erin Costelo – Epilogue
2.) Ian Janes – Any Fool
3.) Colin Fowlie – Running Over
4.) Matt Mays – Ola Volo
5.) Matt Mays – Station Out Of Range
6.) Wooden Horsemen – I’ve Been Changed
7.) Tampa – Fold Yourself
8.) Owen Steel + Motherhood – 50/50 Kid
9.) Janowskii – Genocide
10.) Wicked Vices – Avalanche
11.) Melonvine – Summer
12.) FM Berlin – Yer Honour
13.) Jessie Brown – Ghost
14.) Adam Baldwin – Love You With My Eyes Closed
We often say it is the season of giving; it is often hard to know what to give someone, but sometimes it is obvious.
My guest today is Sabrina, a young woman living in Fredericton far from her home in Newfoundland. She’s here in the city with ambitions to go into journalism, which has kept her from seeing her family for four years. Unfortunately, her great-grandmother has passed away, and she’s seeking help from the public to help her get back home for a while, to support her family and draw some strength from her. She joins me on the show to talk about her grandmother’s influence on her life, and the additional medical difficulties that make travelling home a significant financial burden.
If you feel inclined, you are encouraged to contribute to Sabrina’s GoFundMe campaign, or contact her directly to offer your support via phone: (506) 230-7557.
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Track Listing: 
1.) Single Mothers – Marathon
2.) Single Mothers – Catch & Release
3.) We Hunt Buffalo – Angler Must Die
4.) Panda Bear – Boys Latin
5.) Tennis – Ladies Don’t Play Guitar
6.) Father John Misty – Birdie
7.) Joe Nolan – All You Gotta Do
8.) Braden Gates – Best Of Me
9.) Michael Feuerstack – Birds of Prey
10.) Shadow – Surrounded
11.) Ensign Broderick – Anonymous Incorporated
12.) Caracol – Les Yeux Transparents
13.) Radiohead – Morning Bell
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Track Listing:
1.) The Lifers – Sister
2.) Kalle Mattson – Strangers
3.) Foreign Diplomats – Tender Night
4.) Friends of Foes – Where You Gonna Run?
5.) Matt Boudreau – Marie
6.) Blues Traveller – Secret Agent Man
7.) Alice in Chains – No Excuses
8.) Sleepy Sun – Crave
9.) The Preatures – Girlhood
10.) Peach Kelli Pop – Black Cat 13
11.) Jock Tears – Nasty Boy
12.) Me First and The Gimmie Gimmies – Ain’t no Sunshine
13.) Me First and The Gimmie Gimmies – Isn’t She Lovely
14.) Gogol Bordello – Familla Bonfireball
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Track Listing:
1.) The Ennis Sisters – Sunken Garden
2.) Jon Fidlar – Ten years
3.) Andy Brown – Tin man
4.) Kaia Kater – New Colossus
5.) Ian Sherwood – In The Darkness
6.) The Barrowdowns – The Impostor
7.) Brent Mason – Count The Rings
8.) The Hypochondriacs – Two Bottles Of Whiskey
9.) Nebullama – Secret World
10.) Wangled Teb – Floating Garden ft. Kelly Waterhouse
11.) Jonah Haché – Art>Dance>Party
12.) Instruments – Clocks
“Far From Home” by Chibby off the album Warm Emotions
“Moment in slow motion” by Satellite Young
“Skeletons” by Villainest off the album A Vision of Light
“Adventure Awaits (feat. Themnotyou)” by Dya off the album Fall Damage
“Delirium Overture” by Rock Candy off the album Rock Candy
“Dancefloor Sneakers” by Sparkly Night off the album Beaches
“From The Day I Saw You” by Strawberry Station off the album Strawberry Dreams
“Field of Hopes and Dreams” by Toby Fox off the DELTARUNE Chapter 1 OST
“The Riverlands” by FamilyJules off the album The Eightfold Road: Metal Arrangements from Octopath Traveler
The artist behind The Eightfold Road (Metal Arrangements from Octopath Traveler). He has made hundreds of covers and medleys of his favorite video game music and put them up on YouTube for millions to enjoy. Metal or Acoustic; Ska or Jazz; he takes in the music and breaths out his own sound. 
If you haven’t already, check out his twitter, youtube & bandcamp!
“Your Love is a Drug ft. Adriana Figueroa (insaneintherain arrange)” by Garoad off the album VA-11 HALL-A EX – Bonus Tracks Collections
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Track Listing:
1.) The Tortoise The Hare and The Millionaire – Tell Me Lies
2.) Brandon Isaak – Right Around The Corner (Vancouver, BC)
3.) Manitoba Hal – My Dyin’ Day
4.) Saint-Jack – Enfer Blanc
5.) Floodland – Tangled
6.) Young Satan In Love – Datin’ Satan
7.) Joshua Van Tassel – Chapter 5: The Passenger
8.) Brookside Mall – Canis Major
9.) Owen Steel + Motherhood – Slick Rick
10.) David R. Elliott – I’m not Him
11.) Colin Fowlie – Harmony
12.) Red Herring – Shoulders
13.) Hero’s Last Rite – The Mirror’s Face
Track Listing: 
1.) Shaela Miller – Hard Knock Upside My Head
2.) Mariel Buckley – Wait
3.) Annie Lou – Delilah
4.) Good Lovelies – Daylight
5.) Kandle – Last Breath
6.) Anemone – Bout De Toi
7.) U.S. Girls – Pearly Gates
8.) Monowhales – Real Love
9.) Milk & Bone – BBBLUE
10.) Milk & Bone – Nevermore
11.) Charlotte Day Wilson – Stone Woman
12.) Basement Revolver – Dancing
13.) Baby Cages – Polly
14.) Baby Cages – Gold
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Nancy McLoughlin returns to Python’s Paradise. Talks more Friday the 13th, Part 6 – Jason Lives, Date With an Angel, and Sometimes They Come Back. Also the Doubtfire Face Challenge accepted for suicide / depression awareness. The Greenhouse Productions, a new web series, and more!
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Today on Mornings Are Hard we talk about the new premium YouTube streaming service, and the Chris Cornell music video for When Bad Does Good. Plus we hear tracks from:
1.) Tame Impala – Expectation
2.) Chad Vangaalen – Inside the Molecules
3.) Sun K – I’ll Need You
4.) Ryan Adams – Dirty Rain
5.) Petunia – Cold Heart Breaker
6.) The Lay Awakes – Do You Think We’re Falling In Love
7.) Colin Fowlie – Harmony
8.) Chris Cornell – When Bad Does Good
9.) Tokyo Police Club – New Blues
10.) Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains – I Hate My Friends
11.) The Naked and Famous – Young Blood
12.) Thom Yorke – Suspirium
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Instead of looking up at the stars, we can look over the players upon the stage and know the universe..
My guests today are Robin Whittaker (Artistic Producer at Theatre St Thomas) and Becca (actor). They join me to talk about the upcoming TST performance of an adaptation of a Bertholt Brecht play, entitled “A Life of Galileo”. We talk about the unusual staging of this play, it’s look at Galileo, and how the play fits into a year-long celebration of Galileo’s life and work. The play runs November 21-24 at the Black Box Theatre at STU.
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Each week, our very own Bondo (host of Homemade Jams, Her Turn and Anything Goes) brings her love of music and an album that she’s sure we should be listening to. She’s never wrong!
This week, Bondo brings us Matt Boudreau, a French rocker from Moncton. From his album Goéland, she chose 800km.
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Part of east coast metal’s 10-year club, the Annapolis Valley trio Doom Machine returns with their fifth album “The War Inside”.
This album shows the band in a very comfortable spot in their sound and has balanced the dosage they mix traditional, thrash and stoner metal elements with their overarching theme of doom metal.
The album starts with its lead single “Disasteroid”, which is accompanied by a video which parodies CNN, Trump quotes and fear mongering. The tune itself is a bass-heavy anthem which has the classic slow-burn of the doom/stoner genres accompanied by a sonic guitar line paired with the Maiden-esque tones from vocalist Bill Arsenault.
We then transition into the chunky groove of the track “At Last….WE REIGN”. The vocals on this track bounce between the previous anthemic tones with gravel-filled growls that trail in at the end of each phrase of lyrics. The riffs become more chopped up as the track ramps up with a vengeful thrash vibe with shredding guitars on the songs final kick.
This song features the first dose of a plethora of great solos from guitarist Colin Birnie, some of the best coming on tracks like “Edge of Time”, “Sprocket” and “Rising.”
Next is the instrumental “Amaranantha/The Next 1000 Years” which begins with a prog-based intro layered with a brief splash of piano which builds into a series of chord progressions and solos that worship the alter of Black Sabbath.
We then hear the track “Scarecrow II: The Fallen”, which is a sequel to the track “Scarecrow” off their previous album, that is chock full of apocalyptic overtones.
The albums title track comes in with a circling, crunchy stoner riff that makes you want to stomp your feet. Arsenault’s raspy growls really blend with the guitar tones to give the music some bite.
“Just Like You” is the most peculiar track on the album. The band blends chord progressions derived heavily from AC/DC with their signature tone to give the classic sound some extra muscle. The lyrical content branches into a very personal narrative about being the bigger person and are delivered with a lot more angst, most comparable to Twisted Sister. While this track is an awkward fit within the rest of the album, the experimentation should be applauded.
We resume the album’s trajectory with the track “Rising” which serenades the losers and cheaters of the world. Again, we hear a lot of low-end on this track and of course its previously mentioned solo which soars off an impressive, well-pitched note from Arsenault.
The album continues its dark attitude with the track “The World Burns” with robotic vocals that provide a canon harmony on the chorus and imagery of the complacency we display towards global issues.
“Against The Grain” follows with another heavy, condescending riff that is layered with creepy synths, complemented with defiant vocals.
The album ends with “Ascension” which clocks in at just over 10 minutes. It brings back the element of piano on the album, this time in layers, fading into another spaced out intro before tightening into its full rhythm. The track follows a downward spiral; dropping, or rather ascending, further into a dark place. This reflects in the lyrics with lines like “These chains cannot bind, but they cannot free me.” The piano from the intro bubbles to the surface again, chilling your spine once more before its conclusion.
Track Listing: 
1.) Joshua Van Tassel – Failure
2.) Dark Orchard – Lenin & McCarthy
3.) Church of Trees – Like Gary Numan ft. DeeDee Butters
4.) Shadow – Broken Record
5.) Ensign Broderick – Ever Only
6.) Nebullama – Elemenopé
7.) Wangled Teb – Tea For Two ft. Alexandra Peters
8.) Michael Feuerstack – Don’t Make Me Say It
9.) Kalle Mattson – Kids on the Run
10.) Colin Fowlie – Running Over
11.) Kaia Kater – Canyonland
12.) Belle Plaine – Golden Ring
13.) Caracol – Flooded Field ft. Illa J
14.) Single Mothers – Marathon
Hi friends! Welcome to the friendship hour! On this week’s episode, we explore special concepts like making up sentences as we go along and procrastination! Why not!
Anyway, we have a bunch of really great tunes spanning the last five years that sound like 80’s metal AND new-metal all mixed together in one happy, friendly melting pot.
SO, please proceed to melt your face off as recommended on the instructions printed on the back of the one sheet. Please note: You will have to print this sheet to read the instructions.
PS: Don’t print this.
Playlist:
What It Takes – Dead Sara [Official]
Mercy – Stone Iris
Close Your Eyes – A Primitive Evolution
iFeel – Dk-Zero
No More Stars – Die So Fluid
Meat List – Damn Cargo
Simian Nature / Passes For Reason – the black frame spectacle
Drain the Blood – The Distillers
On The Run – Striker (CAN)
Anxious Children – We Hunt Buffalo
Going Under – Electric Mountain
Down – Toy Called God
Hey Ya – Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
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The eighth studio album for UK metal-core outfit Architects proves that they remain one of the most relevant groups in their genre and that the emotional knife they carve their music with is still sharp.
The record is a 42-minute ode to founding member Tom Searle, who died on August 20th, 2016, three months after the release of the bands last album “All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us.” Searle had been living with skin cancer for the previous three years.
This album is lyrically driven and doesn’t pummel the ear with as many buzz-saw guitar riffs as their previous work. They instead capture those moments in a much more efficient manner and demonstrate a keen sense of melody. There are also obvious sacrifices made in the layering of the instrumentals to give the lyrics the main stage and above all deliver a beautiful tribute to their fallen band-mate.
The album starts with “Death Is Not Defeat” which begins with orchestral strings that are a theme throughout the track list. The lyrics attempt to make sense of the band’s loss, the most gut-wrenching being “Why do we fight what we can’t define?”, likely referring to the enigma of cancer.
The track “Hereafter” wrestles with being unprepared for the worst. Every member gives their all with vocalist Sam Carter’s screams ringing out, taking every ounce of his breath and Dan Searle (Tom’s brother) hitting this physical drum fill at each climax of the song.
“Mortal After All” is a sobering reminder that life ends in a grueling way. The strings come in again at the beginning of each chorus which leads with the line “Another part of this symphony, lost between eternity,” adding dimensions to the song’s aesthetic.
The title track brings the most anger with frantic chord progressions and pockets of madness where Carter’s voice takes over, cutting deep with lines like “Don’t forget to breathe when the knife begins to twist.” The words in the pre-chorus are almost inaudible as Carter pushes the strength of his vocal chords. The song references the track “Broken Cross” off the band’s 2014 album “Lost Forever/Lost Together””, the opening line of which is “God only knows when we were born to burn” to which Carter asks on this track “Remember when we were born to burn?”
While tracks like “Damnation” and “Royal Beggars” handle more common messages like seizing the day and fighting complacency, the track “Modern Misery” shines the spotlight on first world problems. This song hits another passionate vein, touching on the bands environmental activism and discussing how world resources are being abused.
“Dying To Heal” ponders why life is fleeting and how Searle was taken at the pinnacle of his career. The track mixes racing instrumentals and soaring open chords paired with the painful imagery of false security. Carter belts out a powerful scream at the end of the final chorus which bleeds into a climbing guitar outro, chugging the song to a slow, furious halt.
“The Seventh Circle” is the shortest track on the album and the rawest. The band strips back to a brutal sound to convey the pure hell the band has suffered. Buzzing notes between each release help the track seethe with rage as the band hits their breaking point, rejecting the reality around them.
“Doomsday” was the first single off the album, originally released alongside a music video which brought Searle back through special effects to give him a proper goodbye. Instrumentally, the track didn’t seem strong as a single but made perfect sense in its place on the album. The band accepts that no amount of mourning will ever change things, that their doomsday will persist, and they must push their lives forward despite it.
“A Wasted Hymn” is the band laying Searle’s spirit to rest, further accepting that all is not lost and understanding the impermanence of life itself. Carter’s range provides beautiful transitions between glistening cleans to emphatic screams as the string section adds a final golden touch as the record concludes.
Best Tracks: Mortal After All, Holy Hell, The Seventh Circle
Worst Tracks: Damnation, Royal Beggars
Rating: 8.5/10
Some people just seem to be naturally composed of music.
My guests today are Richie Young and Glenn Love. Richie is a familiar face for Fredericton music fans, a living embodiment of his music. Glenn has been seen playing guitar with The Crossroad Devils, and is working on his own project. Both share their love of music with me, and Richie performs a few songs live in studio.
Check them out on November 15 at the Affirmation Lounge at 7pm.
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Alan Ford discusses his famed role as Brick Top in Snatch. Reflections on his various horror film appearances including An American Werewolf in London, Venom, The Exorcist: The Beginning, Cockneys vs Zombies, and Strippers vs Werewolves. We also discuss his book, “Thin Ice” and more!
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There is nothing like a distorted walk through the city of sound and shimmer that is The Electric Metropolis! I am AD Springer, your musical tour guide into the dazzling sounds of this great city. Tonight, we will start our journey from the West Mansion and work out way Far And Away to the Palace of Destruction on this chilly November night. As some are like to say, ‘we are of one dream and one destiny: to see this empty town escape our distorted past and rise the shining heights of the stars!’ So come with me, listen close, and enjoy the tour as you can, while you can.
“West Mansion [UNMIXED]” by Mayhem off the album BEST OF LAPFOX VOL.4: It’s Murder
“New Survival” by Ellevator off the album Ellevator
“Far And Away” by Dana Jean Phoenix off the album PixelDust
“Slow Motion Gunfights” by Villainest off the album A Vision of Light
“Cyberhero Disco” by Fearofdark off the album Soundchip Salad
“Forwardspace (Pain Perdu’s Coherent Remix)” by Pixeltune off the album CheapBeats x CheapBeats VOL02
“Ys – Palace of Destruction” by Heosphoros
“Violets” by R E M L A R R
“Nausicaa” by eleven eastern off the Sinto Muito – EP
“November” by LemKuuja off the album CHEESECAKE+
“Octopath Traveler Main Theme” by FamilyJules off the album The Eightfold Road: Metal Arrangements from Octopath Traveler
“Final Fantasy X “One Dream, One Destiny” OC ReMix” by Bluelighter off the website http://ocremix.org
“Empty Town” by Toby Fox off the DELTARUNE Chapter 1 OST
“Let the Snow Fall as Our Memories Begin to Fade” by Chibby off the album Warm Emotions
“Our Distorted Past” by Chibby off the album Warm Emotions
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It’s time to turn our attention to the other group of people who occupy your games: NPCs. What approaches do you take to making them? How do you bring them to life? And why are some of them so evil?
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Airing every Sunday evening 7-8 pm, Contemplative Affections is an all female, all electronic show. Hope you can tune in!!
Ira Heiden Interview: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 – Dream Warriors 30th anniversary exclusive! Heiden is the WIZARD MASTER! Reflections on Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and working with Cassandra Petersen. Also Father of the Bride, Zapped Again, Illegally Yours, and more!
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Don’t worry, we’re still here! Despite any prior warnings, I’ve decided to go against my better judgement and continue entertaining you people for some reason. Enjoy this finely-cobbled together episode of music and/or mayhem as I struggle to find things to talk about after a long week of trying to get out of my lease.
PS: I am trying to get out of my lease.
Playlist:
Better Off Dead – A Primitive Evolution
Path We Stray – Greystone Canyon
Game Over – Black Earth
Lazarus – 1989
Ash and Dust – Grim Dylan
This Time Around – Orbital Express (Official)
Position of Power – Striker (CAN)
I See Red – Diemonds
Borrowed Minds – Cardinels
Keep It Refreshing – We Hunt Buffalo
Dance of the Lotus – The Joy Formidable
Afterword (feat TaskRok) – ProleteR
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Track Listing:
1.) Shadow – Moon
2.) Rich Aucoin – The Fear
3.) Shadow – Lonely Fun
4.) The Belle Comedians – Rosy
5.) The Tortoise The Hare & The Millionaire – When The Blues Come To Town
6.) Christine Campbell – Nobody Cares
7.) Wordburglar – Rhyme Your Business
8.) Belle Plaine – Are We Good
9.) Kathleen Gorey-McSorley – Pamplona (Extended Jam)
10.) The Olympic Symphonium – Choral Voices
11.) David in the Dark – Hard To See
12.) Dennis Ellsworth & Kinley Dowling – Panorama High
