RadioU Episode 1: Romance, work and #metoo

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RadioU is a documentary series created by STU Journalism students. Each episode features a “major” and a “minor”, two topics that are somehow related. This series airs every Wednesday at noon, replacing an episode of The Lunchbox.

On this Valentine’s Day episode, the St. Thomas University radio journalism class does a double major in social psychology and politics, with a minor in anthropology.

The show looks at how the metoo movement is changing romance in the workplace, questions why young people are having less sex than their grandparents, and examines how open and transgender  relationships are advancing the parameters of romantic love. Guests include SallyWells, a workplace consultant in Fredericton.

Producer/Hosts: Cassidy Chisholm and Isabelle Leger

Coming up on Feb. 21 on Radio U: Amazon vs. Fredericton

The St. Thomas University journalism class majors in economics and minors in marketing this week with a look at the evolution of retail and how local businesses can adapt and thrive.

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Homemade Jams 2018-02-15

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Track Listing:Homemade Jams CHSR

1.) The Drug Rugs – Crawlin’

2.) Floodland – Hurricane

3.) David in the Dark – Hard To See

4.) The Hypochondriacs – Two Bottles Of Whiskey

5.) The Hypochondriacs – Hung Up and Hungover

6.) Burgundy Drive – When I Nod

7.) The Waking Night – Third Digit

8.) The Stanfields – Afraid of the World

9.) Gavin Simms – Stranger

10.) Hillsburn – Everything Is New

11.) Dillon Anthony – The Fox

12.) Gypsophilia – Cake Walk

13.) Zac Crouse – Oh My Soul

Homemade Jams 2018-02-14

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Track Listing: Homemade Jams CHSR

1.) The Stogies – You Don’t Look Too Good

2.) The Disasterbaters – Searchin

3.) Off Season – Civil War

4.) Jane Blanchard – Were In Love

5.) Jane Blanchard – Island

6.) Usse – In Through Beyond

7.) The Brood – The Don

8.) Ceeb Dread – Extra Boom Bap

9.) Spoutnique – Euphoria (Oh, Dear Final Frontier)

10.) The Olympic Symphonium – Lost In The Party

11.) Andrew Moore – All Along The Watchtower

12.) The Belle Comedians – Margaret

13.) Don Brownrigg – Sweet Dream Sleeper

TEM Ep.20: Love, Be Loved, and Love thyself.

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Love

This is The Electric Metropolis, I am AD Springer, your musical tour guide to all things future funk, chiptune, synthpop and other reach out and grab you music in the electronica sphere! On this Valentine’s, we celebrate those who seek to love, be loved, and love themselves both within and beyond this brilliant city of sound. Our tour begins with some rising excitement of chiptune souring through the sky by Rock Candy. In the Event Plaza, we’ll catch the exchange of chocolates, cards, hugs, and enjoy lovely music while we’re there; feel free to pick up a lonely cactus on your way out. We’ll then stop by the Future Funk District to enjoy the glittering clubs sparking in the city like stars down here amidst us.  The Synth District will be a nice cool and breezy drive where the night sky shines on you. The Chiptune District is coming at ya mighty aggressive but means well, take what comes your way or don’t, that’s entirely up to you. In the Final Stop, there will be a charming walk to beyond the limits of the Metropolis, soak it in as you leave and know this: no matter what, you are loved, deserving of love, and will can always be loved if only by yourself. So come on the tour, brace yourself, and enjoy.

Tour Itinerary:

First Stop:

“Delirium Overture” by Rock Candy (a DBOYD x Kommisar project) off the album Rock Candy

Event Plaza:

“Gin On The Rocks” by King Ruhtra off the album Fine Dining With An Octopus
“Cactus on Valentine’s (ft. Braz_OS)” by RoBKTA off the album Cactus on Valentine’s – Single
“i know it’s not easy but you’re not alone anymore” by In Love With A Ghost off the album healing

Future Funk District:

“Romance (Take me to the beach) Ft. Gra4ce” by Fairy off the album Slice of Life OVA
“Breakfast Reunion” by Blue Velvet
“Fantasy” by Maid Cafe

Synth District:

“Frozen (feat. Mnynms)” by FM Attack off the album Stellar
“Look To Your Heart” by Dana Jean Phoenix off the album Synth City
“Venus” by Nerex off the Hyperspace EP

Chiptune District:

“I Want You in my Bedroom” by PROTODOME off the album Chipfunk
“Postlude (feat. Emily Yancey)” by Danimal Cannon off the album Lunaria
“Take Them On (feat. Nikki-Chi)” by Nokae & Ben Briggs off the album Still Turning

Final Stop:

“Green Walls” by Kirsten Todd off the album Demos
“Aria di Mezzo Carattere – Mckenna’s Ceilidh – Trip to Casmalia” by The Travellers VGM off the album Ode to the Lovers

Got any suggestions for future tours?

Tweet me @ElectricMetCHSR
or
Email me electricmetropolis@gmail.com

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Homemade Jams 2018-02-13

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Track Listing: Homemade Jams CHSR

Interview with Adrian Underhill

1.) Adrian Underhill – Not Good Enough

2.) the WAYO – Skat

3.) Jessie Brown – Someone Else

4.) Ian Janes – Lying Awake

5.) Nap Eyes – Every Time The Feeling

6.) Little You Little Me – I’m Wasted On Myself

7.) Sound Drown – (Bittersweet) Fault Lines

8.) Melonvine – Summer Says

9.) CHIPS – Lose the Soul

10.) Mrs. Hippie – Do The Kids Know?

11.) Maiden Names – White As Milk

Interview – Bondo chats with Adrian Underhill

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“Playing music is a life long weaving road that sometimes you end up in surprising places.”

Toronto’s Adrian Underhill gets vulnerable with his debut album CU Again, released February 9, 2018 via Indica Records. With such honest, sweet, and almost confessional lyrics set to soulful pop melodies it’s no wonder that they’re making waves throughout the Canadian music scene.

Listen in while Bondo chats with Underhill about the new record, their mutual love for Savage Garden, and what it feels like to finally release such a personal project into the world.

You can follow Adrian Underhill on his social medias here.

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Homemade Jams 2018-02-12

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Track Listing: Homemade Jams CHSR

Chat with Andrew Laite of Rube & Rake

1.) Rube & Rake – From Left to Right

2.) Fortunate Ones – Northern Star

3.) The Barrowdowns – Landlocked

4.) Tye Dempsey – Stone Cold Hustle

5.) Ian Sherwood – I See Red

6.) The Olympic Symphonium – The Middle

7.) Les Jeunes d’Asteure – Geppetto/Pour Donna

8.) Moonwake – Be Still

9.) Art of the Possible – Passerby

10.) This is Our Design – Barely Alive

11.) OUTTACONTROLLER – You’ll Get Yours

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Album Review: Adrian Underhill – CU AGAIN

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Toronto’s Adrian Underhill‘s new album  CU Again blends together pop and R&B sounds to create some chill, smooth, baby-making jams. Working with famed producer Kindness, who has worked with both Solange and pop Goddess Robyn, added a subtle electronic element to the record which gives some tracks a little funk undertone, even disco-esque at times.

It’s also nice to hear a record that’s sweet and about love rather than the trials of failed relationships and how awful the world can be to live in. And what’s most impressive is that this is Underhill’s debut album! With such a strong project launching his solo career I’m really excited to see what comes next.

Recommended Tracks: Cruel; Weather; As I Think Of Something Different

CU AGAIN is out February 9, 2018 via Indica Records.

Anything Goes 2018-02-10

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Track Listing: Anything Goes with Bondo – there is so much great new music out there

1.) King Diamond Tut – DACOU

2.) Matthew Chaim – Passion Soda

3.) CHVRCHES – Get Out

4.) Ascot Royals – Evil I Know

5.) Stimulator Jones – Choosey Lover

6.) *Repeat Repeat* – Mostly

7.) Akeem Ouellet//Dreams & Schemes – Winter Crush

8.) Low Cut Connie – Beverly

9.) Mary and The Ram – The Cross

10.) Monk Tamony – The Good Side

11.) We Were Sharks – Hotel Beds

12.) Colour Tongues – Temper

13.) Twisted Wheel – Oh What have You Done

14.) Preoccupations – Espionage

15.) Starbenders – Zero

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RFYL Episode – TheChallengeEP06

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Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks

 

Same logo, same time, same host, new music!

Here we go, into the month of February once again to scale past the challenge and provide all you zombie lovers some solid tunes to listen to. We revisited a few older albums this week (is 2016 old?) while also running with some new singles released from bands that are show favourites. I’m still eagerly awaiting a few releases from bands I only found out about a few months into the show back when it all started.

Anyway, keep up the requests! I’ve been SUPER busy this week so I haven’t been able to get to them, but I have time set aside before next week’s episode. We may even get an all-request episode in at this rate. Craziness!

RunForYourLifeCHSR@gmail.com !

Playlist:

Oh My God – JPNSGRLS
Hard To Move – Ruby Bones
Bad Moon – Kat Meoz
Who Do You Love – Dorothy
Tik Tok – Secondhand Habit
The Impact – Rockyard
After The Fire – Magick Touch
They Tell me – Powder for Pigeons
Gemini / Planetary Space Child – Ruby the Hatchet
Undefeated – Sumo Cyco
Who’s Your Maker – A Primitive Evolution
Run – Dr. Rage & The Uppercuts

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Bondo chats with Andrew Laite // Rube & Rake

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St. John’s NFLD’s folk duo Rube & Rake are ambitiously touring Eastern Canada this February with New Brunswick dates in Perth-Andover, St. Andrew’s, Sackville, and Fredericton.

Listen in while Rube & Rake‘s Andrew chats with Bondo about their tour so far, some valley love, and where you can find them over the next few days.

Rube & Rake play Grimross Brewing Monday, February 12, 2018. Show. 8pm//tickets available here.

 

 

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Episode 7 – 1 in 7 with Joanne Gabriel, Part 2

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Episode 7 is the second of a two part interview. Once again our guest, Joanne, who has struggled with poverty through part of her adult life, will give you her First Voice experience with poverty, homelessness and working through the maze that is government bureaucracy.

Joanne does not sugarcoat her experiences but with her educational background (she has a BA and Masters in Sociology and began her PhD at McMaster University) she is uniquely equipped to observe, study and understand the system first hand.

Host: K Brookland, Technician: Colm Lee-MacPhee

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Episode 6 – 1 in 7 with Joanne Gabriel, Part 1

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Episode 6 is the first of a two part interview.

Today our guest is Joanne, who has struggled with poverty through part of her adult life. This interview is a perfect example of First Voice experience with poverty, homelessness and working through the maze that is government bureaucracy.

Joanne does not sugarcoat her experiences but with her educational background (she has a BA and Masters in Sociology and began her PhD at McMaster University) she is uniquely equipped to observe, study and understand the system first hand.

Host: K Brookland, Technician: Colm Lee-MacPhee

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Episode 5 -1 in 7 with Natalie Hicks

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Interview with Ms. Natalia Hicks who works at The Human Development Council in Saint John, New Brunswick. The HDC identifies and addresses social issues in Greater Saint John through research, information, coordination and networking. Ms. Hicks’s primary focus with the HDC is the maintenance and development of their Community Services Database; actively advocates for the adoption of a 211 information and referral service in New Brunswick and also researches local social conditions for the HDC.

Ms. Hicks has a BA in Politics from UNB-SJ and an MA in Socio-Legal Studies from York University and is the co-author of the 2017 New Brunswick Child Poverty Report Card.

Host: K Brookland, Technician: Colm Lee-MacPhee

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The Lunchbox Interview: Ryan, Caroline, Emma (The February Bruns)

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Temptations, inhibitions, relaxations and celebrations: the fundamental sways of human existence have changed forms over the years, but what’s the contemporary experience like?

My guests today are three of the editors from UNB’s own monthly magazine, The Brunswickan: Ryan Gaio (Arts Editor), Caroline Mercier (Sports Editor) and Emma Macdonald (News Editor). The next issue is on the presses and soon to appear, and carries the theme of the classic trio of modern indulgences: Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll! We chat about some of the experiences and research that went into finding an angle in each department’s mandate.

The Brunswickan‘s February 2018 is due to drop on February 8 — barring snow storms and other seasonal delights.

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TEM Ep.19: Night Rises, Night Falls

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Tour Itinerary:

First Stop:

“Concept” by tech noir off the album Tide

Future Funk District:

“Deep Down In Your Soul” by R E M L A R R off the  album soon…
“Breezy Day” by Ayaka
“You Look So Good” by Moe Shop off the album Pure Pure

Synth District:

“The Lights” by Doot Dedoot off the album Syncromesh
“Shadow Run” by Dimi Kaye 
“More Time” by Dana Jean Phoenix off the album Synth City

Chiptune District:

“Young Crescent” by chibi-tech off the album Psycho-Somatic Generation
“Joy Ride (Norrin Radd)” by virt, Freaky DNA and Norrin Radd off the Retro City Rampage Soundtrack
“Static Hearts” by Rock Candy (a DBOYD x Kommisar project) off the album Rock Candy

Final Stop:

“Pumpkin” by DELTANOYZ off the album SOIL
“Cream Cheese Crepe” by Scythe off the album Chipscape

Got any suggestions for future tours?

Tweet me @ElectricMetCHSR
or
Email me electricmetropolis@gmail.com

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Homemade Jams 2018-02-06

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Track Listing: Homemade Jams CHSR

1.) Paper Beat Scissors – All We Know

2.) Motherhood – Hocus Pocus

3.) The Olympic Symphonium – Comedy

4.) Oh No, Theodore – You Can Do Better Than Me

5.) Ariel Sharatt & Mathias Kom – I Love You

6.) Mauno – Hands

7.) Gabrielle Papillon – Overture for the Fire Keeper/Three Years

8.) CHIPS – Something That Tells Me

9.) Beard Springsteen – Bored at the ECMAS

10.) Deep Fryer – Jeremy

11.) Kill Chicago – Heartache to Heartache

12.) Clouds Become Oceans – Distances

13.) The Hypochondriacs – Just Like Before

The Lunchbox Interview: Erin Bond (Readful Things)

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The greatest achievement that humanity has ever achieved is the ability to transmit what is in one mind to other minds through simple scribbles and ink on paper…

My guest today is the host and producer of Readful Things, Erin Bond. (You may also know her as our Station Manager, and the host of numerous other programs here.) Readful Things is CHSR’s own monthly book club, where eager readers gather to discuss a different book (and possibly an entirely different genre) every month. She joins me to talk about her love of books and stories, and to talk about how the book club works.

If you are interested in joining the bookclub, just send an email to recruiting@chsrfm.ca and let her know! We’re always looking for folks to join us for the discussions.

Readful Things cohabits its timeslot with the audio drama program The Sonic Society, once a month on Sunday evening at 7pm. The next episode will be airing on February 11. Previous episodes can also be found on the Readful Things page, where you can subscribe to never miss an episode.

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General Distortion – Episode 19 – Tactus

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On this episode, Adrian Barnes and Steve Parish from Fredericton’s favourite prog-metalers Tactus join me to talk about being nominated for an ECMA, their new single Glass Atlas and their thoughts on the late Chester Bennington.

 

Listen to Glass Atlas here: https://tactusband.bandcamp.com/album/glass-atlas

 

Tune in every Monday from 10-11:30pm from new episodes on CHSR-FM.

 

Cheers!

 

Johnny

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Her Turn 2018-02-06

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Track Listing: 

1.) Milk & Bone – TMRW.

2.) Christine Campbell – Take Me Back

3.) Holly Miranda – Exquisite

4.) LIGHTS – We Were Here

5.) Saint Yves – Praying for the Pain

6.) Eden Samara – Upside Down

7.) Shred Kelly – Jupiter (Any Other Way)

8.) Rxchelle – Light Me Up

9.) Sheila & The Kit – Good Love Stories

10.) Anna Burch – Tea Soaked Letter

11.) Kaylah Truth – Like Truth

12.) TYGAPUSS – Queen of the Western Jungle

13.) Vulvets – La Garconne

14.) The Avulsions – The End

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