Track Listing: 
1.) Hungry Hearts – The Bend
2.) Young Satan In Love – Beef It Up
3.) Janowskii – Genocide
4.) The Waking Night – Vena Cava
5.) Kill Chicago – Heartache to Heartache
6.) Art of the Possible – Passerby
7.) Tampa – Bad Hangover
8.) Adyn Townes – Didn’t Mean Anything
9.) The Olympic Symphonium – The Middle
10.) Ryan Cook – Snowbird
11.) Ryan Cook – Cult Of My Own
12.) Sleepy Driver – Draw The Curtains Down
13.) Joyful Noise – Gimme D’dart
The Great Spirit is in all things, he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us, that which we put into the ground she returns to us… – Big Thunder (Bedagi) Wabanaki Algonquin
Mike Bern, Wolastoqiyik singer-songwriter from Tobique First Nation, releases his first single as a solo artist. Formerly of Indigenous Music Award winning bands Kickin’ Krotch and District Avenue, Bern keeps his alternative rock roots while exploring a more Canadiana sound.
“The Story of the First Mother” is from the book “The Red Man“; woven together with my own impression of the tale.” Known for integrating cultural storytelling into songs, Bern continues “A Penobscot Native wrote the story in 1893 about a mother who sacrificed her life to give food and gifts to the starving. Legends of Mother Earth. I wrote it in my version to keep the stories alive.”
The single is almost a mix of Dirt era Layne Staley meets southern gospel, and if it’s any indication of what else we’ll hear from Bern in the future, we’re in for a treat when the full LP is released later in 2018.
You can check out “First Mother” here.
For more information: https://mikebern.com/
It’s Trade Day, that day of the week where you get paid in turn for services that you already purchased or pre-purchased so really you have nothing but pennies! And they don’t even issue those!
Spend some of your well-earned nonexistent pennies on some music instead of whatever pointless stuff you were going to spend it on. Do it!
I’m sure I could get something more philosophical going on here but instead I’m just going to enjoy the fact that, for once, I’m not melting in my chair.
Playlist:
Ain’t Got A Dollar – The Holy Snappers
Money – HighKicks
Down To The Bottom – Dorothy
Red Sky – Kilmore
Brave II – Sumo Cyco
Lazarus / Severed – 1989
Lucid Dreaming – Cardinels
Electric Rider – Hot Wires
Stranded – Endless Fire
Napalmpom National Anthem – Napalmpom
Great Escape – Like A Motorcycle
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1.) The Town Heroes – Only One
2.) T. Thomason – Bliss
3.) Matt Epp – Mercy
4.) Mike Bern – First Mother
5.) Great Lake Swimmers – The Talking Wind
6.) Astronauts, Etc. – The Boarder
7.) Champagne Superchillin’ – Armée Du Salut
8.) Young Satan In Love – Beef It Up
9.) Dentist – The Latter
10.) Museum Pieces – Salesman
11.) Busty & The Bass – Dance With Someone!!
12.) Deaf Wish – Metal Carnage
13.) Dead Heavens – Basic Cable
14.) Born Ruffians – Tricky
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Track Listing:
1.) The Motorleague – Everyone Is Digital
2.) OUTTACONTROLLER – Prime Time
3.) Kill Chicago – Sharing Space
4.) Monteith – Long Shadow Of Mystery
5.) Alert The Medic – What Are The Odds?
6.) Not You – TwoFour
7.) Baby Cages – Gold (Toronto, ON)
8.) Brookside Mall – Canis Major
9.) DenMother – Gala
10.) Rich Aucoin – Release
11.) The Regal Beagle Band – Lost & Found
12.) The Regal Beagle Band – Levels
Nancy Wilson is a singer, songwriter, producer, and co-fronted the first female-fronted rock band, Heart, with her sister Ann. With over 4 decades of performing under her belt, this Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee is touring to Atlantic Canada with her new project, Roadcase Royale.
Wilson took a moment to chat with Bondo about forming the new band, how writing is now different, her explanation of the Seattle music boom, and leaves advice for the participants of Fredericton’s Girls+ Rock Camp.
You can find more information on Roadcase Royale HERE.
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Track Listing:
1.) Heart – Magic Man (Live At The Royal Albert Hall)
Interview with Nancy Wilson
2.) Roadcase Royale – Get Loud
3.) Jessie Brown – Ghost
4.) Mike Bernard – First Mother
5.) The Town Heroes – Babe Ruth
6.) The Town Heroes – Only One
7.) Brookside Mall – Twenty Fifteen
8.) Adyn Townes – If You Ever
9.) MOROHUBU – Might Be Wrong
Age is just a number, right? 
In Episode 004, local musicians Jaclyn Reinhart and Colin Fowlie admit to being late bloomers in the music scene, but both are determined to make music their career! Reinhart and Fowlie both chat about getting into the scene late and figuring out exactly where they fit in. It can be intimidating to give something new a shot, especially in front of those who have been doing it awhile already. Learn from these two how to maybe make it easier on yourself, and where you can find some good resources.
You can find out about their monthly songwriting group HERE.
Whether you like it or not, the music business is a business. This podcast series is meant to help the emerging musician navigate the music industry by talking to those in the local scene who are actually “doing it”.
Did you know that the summer’s almost over? Did you know that has absolutely no bearing on me except the promise that my oven of an apartment will stop cooking me like a sad potato in a microwave?
Well, join me on my adventures through awesome music! Here’s the playlist! And a fake complaint letter I generated using a website that pretends to complain for me!
Playlist:
Ghost Bike – Napalmpom
The Shake – The Unwashed
In These Shoes – Greystone Canyon
Sand Coffin – 1989
Dark Energy – Hot Wires
Get A Grip / Short Sighted – Cardinels
After The Fire – Magick Touch
They Kill For Gods – INFRARED
Earthless – Night Verses
Zero In – Rockyard
Stream Stutter – Psychostick
Complete BS to follow:
It may sound like the kind of bogus claim made on late-night infomercials, but trust me when I say it’s true: It is axiomatic that Streaming services belongs to the “Can’t we just fail to respond to violence and call it peace?” school of political sanctimony. Whoa! Don’t stampede for the exits! I promise I’ll get to the main topic of this letter, Streaming services’s immoral, clumsy biases, in just a few sentences. I simply feel it’s important first to provide some additional context by mentioning that it is mathematically provable that we must stand united against the forces of intolerance, against the forces of violence, and against the forces of ageism. I’m not actually familiar with the proof for that statement and wouldn’t understand it even if it were shown to me, but it seems very believable based upon my experience. What’s also quite believable is that I sometimes encounter people debating whether or not it would be beneficial to society for Streaming services to canonize inhumane four-flushers as nomological emblems of propriety. The arguments pro and con are familiar. On one side is the vile assertion that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible. On the other side is the more reasonable assertion that if I chose to do so I could write exclusively about its socially inept effusions and never be lacking for material. Nonetheless, I’d rather spend some time discussing how one can consecrate one’s life to the service of a noble idea or a glorious ideology. Streaming services, however, is more likely to create a Streaming services-centric society in which spleenful bureaucrats dictate the populace’s values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.
If we question orthodoxy and convention then the sea of irrationalism, on which Streaming services so heavily relies, will begin to dry up. To get even the simplest message into the consciousness of fundamentally odious geeks it has to be repeated at least fifty times. Now, I don’t want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following fifty times, but Streaming services’s propositions will have consequences—very serious consequences. We ought to begin doing something about that. We ought to balkanize Streaming services’s anti-democratic cabal into an etiolated and sapless agglomeration. We ought to spread the word that it occasionally shows what appears to be warmth, joy, love, or compassion. You should realize, however, that these positive expressions are more feigned than experienced and invariably serve an ulterior motive, such as to jawbone aimlessly.
Documents written by Streaming services’s companions typically include the line, “Streaming services can change its harebrained ways”, in large, 30-point type, as if the size of the font gives weight to the words. In reality, all that that fancy formatting really does is underscore the fact that I’ve found that most conniving, audacious nose-in-the-air snobs display complete and utter nescience of Streaming services’s plaints. To help educate them, let me say a little about how Streaming services has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then nitpicky, unhinged ratbags will be free to cater to the basest instincts of pudibund mouthpieces for tyrannical Bulverism. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how Streaming services is the picture of the insane person on the street, babbling to a tree, a wall, or a cloud, which cannot and does not respond to its canards. In case you don’t know, Streaming services should have been placed long ago in a locked psychiatric unit. I would have committed it to such a facility under the justification that it hates people who eschew obstinate, childish Satanism. It wants such people nabbed, grabbed, and thrown out of the country. Now for some parting advice: Look at the facts. Analyze the arguments. Think about the motives of the people who are telling you that Streaming services’s tactics prevent smallpox. And have confidence in yourself. Remember, questions of Streaming services’s motivation and intent are compelling.
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Technology once used to produce commercial art can gracefully retire to make an impression as higher art.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Scott McAllister, an artist exploring the use of a heavy-metal letterpress device to make art that is explicitly reproduceable and shareable. Scott muses about what attracted him to this physical medium, and how he wants to use the idea of currency to explore the current topic of the summer challenge: the river.
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Artist don’t try to show the world as it is, yet try to show the truth that sometimes is hidden by reality.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Matt Watkins (Instagram), an artist primarily working in metal jewelry, but in the barracks this week to demonstrate his interest in plein air painting (Facebook). We talk about the process of going out in nature to find that perfect inspirational moment, which is transformed by the artist’s vision into a representation.
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No matter when, start doing art as soon as you can. It will change all of your future.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Vanshika Khaitan, a young painter seeking to add more surrealistic elements into her painting. We talk about her variety of artistic interests and how much these residencies help her grow as an artist.
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“Stylostyler” by Mayhem off the album BEST OF LAPFOX VOL 4: It’s Murder
“Venus” by LUCKYandLOVE off the LP Lucky + Love
“Tauron Industries” by Starfarer off the album Starfarer
“New Survival” by Ellevator off the album Ellevator
“Nintensis (Sunvox Patched Redux)” by Lazy Nerd 204 off the album Soul Searching
“claude raigns” by the sex weirdos off the album DuD Vol16 RETRO SONIC
“Doppelganger Masquerade” by Rock Candy ( a DBOYD x Kommisar chiptune project) off the album Rock Candy
“Azures” by Aloe Island Posse off the album Goodnight Aloe Island
“all night” by CeeCee
“Work !T Out” by Pan!c Pop & Sixtroke
“Raid” by A New Low
“Double Dragon Theme/Mission 1 (from “Double Dragon”)” by The Hit Points off the album The Hit Points
“Shining Force “Armageddon” OC ReMix” by GrayLightning off the website ocremix.org
“Whispering Willows feat. Emily Kennedy” by Wangled Teb off the EP Final Earth
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The music business is hard enough to navigate, now you have to worry about protecting your butt?
In Episode 003, Halifax entertainment lawyer Matt Gorman covers some of the things you might want in writing, even when just starting out your career. Also be aware of some potential red flags in contracts/agreements (which don’t have to long and arduous documents), and get a 101 on business structures and copyright.
You can join Gorman’s Legal Guide For Musicians Facebook group HERE; or just download his legal guide HERE; and follow him on social media HERE.
Whether you like it or not, the music business is a business. This podcast series is meant to help the emerging musician navigate the music industry by talking to those in the local scene who are actually “doing it”.
I’m sorry for not posting the lyrics to the last song here so you can sing along. I never promised I would, though, so you’ll just have to listen to it on repeat.
For those of you who have NO IDEA what I’m talking about, well MAYBE you should listen to the show when it goes live. I guess you can still get the podcast and figure it out, though! So I forgive you or whatever. Grab it, it’s free.
Nobody take that last statement out of context of anything ever.
PLAYLIST:
Acceleration – Hot Wires
Stand A Little Closer / Mojo Hand – The Unwashed
No One’s Looking – Tsunami Bomb
Every Breath – 1989
Under My Skin – Kilmore
Move Mountains – Sumo Cyco
Overcome – Cardinels
The Conjuring – SAATE
Saviour – Infrared
After The Fire – Magick Touch
The Coward’s Way – Unleash The Archers
Do – Psychostick
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Theatre is the translation of the real world into an imaginary world, and then transforming the imaginary into a shared hallucination on a stage.
My guests today are Kat Hall, Greg Everett and Len Falkenstein, all people responsible for elements of the 17th Annual Notable Acts Theatre Festival. Kat has joined the Notable Acts Board of Directors, as well as being a Director and an actor in this year’s plays. Greg has written one of the one-act plays in this year’s festival, and Len — besides maintaining his role as “Grand Poobah of Theatre”, is taking a position on the stage this year, acting in the mainstage performance. We chat about the bigger picture of the theatre festival that most might not see, the path from writing to drama to stage, and the multiple ways of engagement that each member of the company has.
The 17th Annual Notable Acts Theatre Festival opens with the mainstage performances of the horror/comedy “The Dangers of Geothermal Heating” at the Playhouse on July 26, and continues through to August 4 in various locations around the town.
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“MUS_GRDN” by HALLEY LABS SOUND CREATION off the album B-Side ME 2018
“Electric Entropy” by melvin dovinte off the album Pink Dystopia
“Stardust Disco” by BIGWAVE off the album Lonely Girl
“B GRL” by LemKuuja off the album Cheesecake+
“Save Me From Myself” by Radiant Baby off the EP It’s My Party
“Spacetime Thoughtcrime” by Mirrorvoid off the album Neon Tattoo
The artists behind the Perscription for Sleep: Game Music Lullabies album series including two compilation volumes, Secret of Mana and UNDERTALE focused albums, a compilation of battle themes turned into Lullabies and a charity EP in honor of Satoru Iwata. Just recently they have released their Vol.1 Remastered Version; a re-issue of the 2014 album featuring lullabies of game music of years past. Filled with Jazzy goodness that you can get some nice sleep to or just relax and enjoy on a nice cool night.
“Song of the Ancients (NIER)” by GENTLE LOVE off the album Prescription for Sleep Vol 1 Game Music Lullabies REMASTERED
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Welcome to a brand new episode of Run For Your Life, where a ton of bands released a ton of stuff this week – some, even today! It’s kind of insane to go on over to my musical resource places and see thousands of releases to dig through, but there you go.
I’ve done the digging, so you just need to make sure your ear holes are clear to listen. Do your due diligence!
As always, you can make requests by harassing me on various forms of social media or just right here in the comments!
Playlist:
Going Nowhere – The Unwashed
Make Me Sick – Worst Part
Bad Habit – Secondhand Habit
Borrowed Minds – Cardinels
Meat List – Damn Cargo
Mortality / Sand Coffin – Neon Nightmares
Seven Seas – Kilmore
Blackstar – Parasol Caravan
Earthless – Night Verses
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Track Listing: 
1.) Frazey Ford – Can You Get To That
2.) Busty and the Bass – Dance With Someone (LIVE)
3.) ART the Band – Big Track
4.) Natalie Prass – Oh My
5.) Grounders – Bringin’ It In
6.) Yung Heazy – Baby Don’t Chu Worry
7.) Dan Mangan – Troubled Mind
8.) Brookside Mall – Joan?
9.) Pat LePoidevin – Broadcast
10.) Baby Cages – Gold
11.) Dorothea Paas – Soon (On Keys)
12.) Astral Swans – What Are You Gonna Do With Yourself
13.) Ben Kunder – Hard Line
Art can be the imagination that tells us the truth about the world by showing it as it isn’t.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Emilie Grace Lavoie, a sculptural artist working with fabric to create organic, otherworldly creations. She talks about her process and inspiration, transforming bits of cloth and wet plaster into fascinating, unnerving beings that would be unsurprising only far beneath the hidden oceans.
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Track Listing:
1.) Eric’s Trip – Behind the Garage
2.) Andre Pettipas and The Giants – The Swedish Motel
3.) CHIPS – Lose The Soul
4.) The Motorleague – Alone in the Universe
5.) The Marwills – Runnin’ Out Of Time
6.) The Marwills – Dirty Old Dog
7.) The Waking Night – Hanging Cloud
8.) Les Païens – Septembre
9.) Alert the Medic – What Are The Odds?
10.) Moment Of Inertia – In These Riot Streets
11.) Deep Fryer – Jeremy
12.) Not You – Mabel
13.) Les Jeunes D’Asteure – Geppetto//Pour Donna
There’s a lot we can do collectively that is hard or impossible to do on our own, especially when we use our hands to get in dirt or pick up a tool rather than manipulate our phones…
My guest today is Aaron Peters, Marketing Coordinator for the summer at the local cooperative umbrella, The Ville. He joins me to catch me up on the great programs they’ve added to the Ville since I last spoke to Jeff Macfarlane when it started. From the gardens to the incubated Mexican restaurant, from edible plant walks to DIY summer programs, the Ville is an exciting, busy, vital place!
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Track Listing:
1.) Loyal Thieves – Empty Room
2.) Loyal Thieves – Leave Me Alone
3.) Janowskii – Did
4.) Chastity – Heaven Hell Anywhere Else (Whitby, ON)
5.) Kill Chicago – Count To Ten
6.) Brookside Mall – O.K.
7.) Tampa – Fold Yourself
8.) Adyn Townes – Didn’t Mean Anything
9.) Adyn Townes – After The Fall
10.) Cursees Connect – Sleeping In Ropes
11.) Partner – Gross Secret
12.) Jeremy Dutcher – Mehcinut
13.) Dr. Thunder & The Electromagnetic Funk – Ouroboros
Music is the endless and fruitful recombination of an infinite variety of memories, stories and ideas, spread out across the aural spectrum.
During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.
My guest today is Katherine Moller, well-known fiddler and violinist, composer and teacher of music. I caught up with her at the casemates to chat about the various projects she’s been working on, including the new release of the live album by Different Folks and her own album last year, Storm Queen.
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“Why Do I” by Rococode off the album Young Ones EP
“Cry” by Yukon Blonde off the album Critical Hit
“Endless Connections” by Bitzen off the album Circuitry
“Fuji Sunset” by gwEm by instruMENTAL
“It’s Murder [UNMIXED]” by Mayhem off the album BEST OF LAPFOX VOL. 4: It’s Murder
“Radiant Memories” by TANUKI off the album Kanji Title
“Joy” by Tender Grasp off the album EP
“Dissension” by Roex off the album Dissension
“St. Cecilia” by Ellevator off the album Ellevator
“Glitch” by Distractor off the album This Time I Got It Figured Out
“Secret Weapon” by Fake Shark off the album Faux Real
“A Ray of Light” by Ryan Fogleman off the Ceress and Orea (Original Soundtrack)
“Battle Against a True Hero” by toby fox off the UNDERTALE Soundtrack
“Fornsigtuna” by Dmitrii Zavorotny off the Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok – Original Soundtrack
“Hope” by Icicle off the album Silence
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