In this episode we review “Monsters University”, “World War Z” and “Looper”.
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Foxwitches – Chapter One
Fredericton’s Hip Hop community has some fresh new faces adding new flavour and dynamics to the scene. Along with Captain 111 and Foxwitch, there is something for everyone – the eclectic nature of the scene is encouraging.
Foxwitch brings two essential elements in what I believe makes a good hip hop album; phenomenal beats and engaging creative lyricism. Lets start with the beats. Are they fresh, ‘yes sir’. The beats are strong and confident, in fact, the obvious influences are apparent but the music is better for it. It’s the culmination of influences and the artists refinement of those influences that separates true artists from hacks or posers. Who do I hear in Foxwitch’s beats? I hear MF Doom’s influence, RZA, and some J Dilla production. Hey man, if those production elements can be found in your music you are doing something right. This is headphone shit. Get lost in it.
Foxwitch’s immediately hooks you from the first sample layered beat. With production levels this high, you have to be a damn good MC to match the imagination found in the beats. Lyrically, Foxwitch is engaging and unique, providing an authenticity that is rarely scene in mainstream hip hop. His personality shines in the lyrics; however, the delivery sometimes has a hard time catching up with beats and the flow can get a tad bit monotonous. This is a minor criticism in relation to the whole.
The glue that holds together the beats with the flow is in the strength of the lyrics. The lyrics are interpersonal thought experiments that shape into allegorical poetic imagery. With line’s, ‘Embrass the demon, become poetic medium’, Foxwitch perfectly encapsulates his stylistic vision. The hush vocal styles makes you feel like you are being let in on a secret that is being whispered to you by a lost subconscious ‘other’ you.
The beats are hard so the style of delivery works. Considering this recording is Foxwitch’s debut, I am impressed at the sophisticated vision that he brings to the table this early in the game. Bring up the flow and the rest will follow, because Foxwitch’s is nothing to ‘Fuk With’.
tim rayne
CHSR Mini Review: Heat and Lights – Where in the World ep
Listen to Heat and Lights while you read. http://heatandlights.bandcamp.com/
Singer/songwriter Tim Walker originally started Heat and Lights as a solo project but on the new EP ‘Where in The World’, Walker has enlisted some fine musicians to the project. With seasoned musicians Brad Perry, Nick Cobham, Dennis Goodwin, Andre Butler rounding out the line up, Heat and Lights sound has become much fuller and dynamic. The album was mixed and recorded by Chris Maclean, who does a phenomenal job capturing the subtle nuances and layers from all the players.
Compared to the previous Heat and Lights demo release (which I previously reviewed), ‘Where in The World’ songs are appear more fully realized. Walker is a strong lyricist and writes on personal observations and reflects musingly on his life experiences fitting snugly into the warm folk/rock/pop sound.
There is a playfulness to Heat and Lights, especially present in the song All I Want is a Dance, where Walker writes a humours take on materialism and greed against his appreciation life’s simpler offerings – like a Dance. ‘Show Me Where to Go’ is the most immediate accessible track on the album with its catchy pop rock hook. While the other tracks are slowburners that get richer with multiple listens, ‘Show Me Where to Go’ is the most uptempo song on the record and a definite highlight. My personal favourite, ‘Your Love’, is a beautifully written love song where Walker sings, ‘You got something I can not speak in words, there is no language or none that I have learned.’ To me that line encompasses the strength of Heat and Lights new record, its how music can move you. An album that is warm as a home cooked meal, familiar as spending quality time with family, and realizing quite simply that happiness is in the eye of the beholder. Great album, highly recommended.
tim rayne
1.) Bat For Lashes – Horses Of The Sun
2.) The Joy Formidible – Bats
3.) The Roseville Band – She’s In Love
4.) The Transplants – Something’s Different
5.) The Motorleague – Burned In Effigy
6.) Matt Mays – Ain’t That The Truth
7.) Zeus – Vasoline
8.) Long Distance Runners – The Great Escape (Acoustic and LIVE at CHSR)
9.) UBT – The Boys Are Out For Blood
10.) UN – Rich You Find Love
11.) Ootheque – Partrait D’Une Panthere
12.) Two Hours Traffic – O My Love
13.) Ninety Pounds Of Ugly – Neither Here Nor There
1.) The Waking Night – Hanging Cloud
2.) The Motorleague – Burned In Effigy
3.) Brothers – Too Old To Die Young
4.) Billie Dre & The Poor Boys – Bye Baby Bye June
5.) Goofetroope – 2Hot
6.) Gloryhound – Let You Down Again
7.) The Odd Bit – Hitch A Ride
8.) The Creaks – Run Run Run
9.) Jayde Hunter – Catch Me If You Can
10.) Gianna Lauren – Anchor Down
11.) Coyote – Fossils
12.) Caravan – The Groove
13.) Ghettosocks – Value Village
14.) In Dreams – Crazy Enough
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Robert Johnson joined Cedric Noel and myself to talk about one of the often-overlooked historical fixtures of downtown, the venerable NB Sports Hall of Fame. Robert is working there for the second summer as a guide.
In the rest of the hour, Cedric and I talk about the state of sport in the province, and run down a rabbit-hole about soccer!
Get outside and enjoy the good weather with movement unrestricted by snowfall! 🙂
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Check out my website at www.maritimevinyl.ca for more reviews, interviews and ramblings. Plus check out my new online record store stocking new and used vinyl!
Just in time for your shorts, t-shirts and sneakers, the Barenaked Ladies are back with Grinning Streak, their eleventh studio album and second as a four piece band. The band has had their share of turmoil in recent years including record label shuffles, a poorly-timed children’s album as well as the departure of co-lead vocalist Steven Page, but they were able to leave all of this behind and hammer out another great sounding album.
Branded as jokesters by most, Grinning Streak carries a more serious tone than their prior releases. Ed Robertson’s voice sounds stronger than ever, almost as if he upped the ante to fulfill the sole lead singing duties. Keyboardist Kevin Hearne, drummer Tyler Stewart and bassist Jim Creeggan sound as tight as ever with what seems like minimal effort. This album has the typical BNL sound with acoustic guitars, harmonies and tastefully used sound effects. A couple of my personal favorite songs are Boomerang and Best Damn Friend. Full of mildly seriously lyrics, a catchy beat and well-crafted choruses, these songs stick in my head for hours after every listen.
I know many fans are hesitant to pick up any Steven Page-less Ladies album thinking that it’s impossible for it to work, but you may be surprised. Sure five Barenaked Ladies are gorgeous, but four are pretty damn hot too. As a fan myself, they will always be incomplete without Page in my eyes too. Regardless, the remaining Ladies still have some solid material up their sleeves and Grinning Streak is a true testament of this. I’m still holding my breath that the differences, addictions, or whatever the hell happened between Steven Page and the band can eventually be ironed out so we can get back to the true full Barenaked Ladies sound that I miss so much. In the meantime, Grinning Streak is the next best thing.
Playlist:
TRUCKER DIABL0 – Highway Radio
Headstones – SOS
Verse The Sun – Nothing Left
The StandStills – Jesus
The Dyadics – Dead & Gone
MachetE – Make My Day
Kandia had the song of the day from Beneath the Grid Music with “All Is Gone”, their title track!
Hawkai – The Machine
HighKicks – Not Enough People
The Holy Snappers – Straight To Hell
We’re Doomed – How To Destroy Something Beautiful
Blood Red Shoes – You Bring Me Down
Tsunami Bomb – A Lonely Chord
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The Epic crew get moving in the game of Ingress
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1.) Bad Habits – How About You
2.) Ben Caplan – Conduit
3.) Bigger Brighter Lights – #Probz
4.) Shattick – Where Do I Belong
5.) Oh No,Theodore – Cannibals
6.) Josh Bravener – OCD
7.) Hey Rosetta! – Seeds
8.) Paper Lions – Travelling
9.) The Band Before Time – Pow!
10.) Elephant Skeletons – Mythology
11.) The Motorleague – Hymn For The Newly Departed (Acoustic)
12.) Bloody Diamonds – Baby Don’t Be Nice
13.) Bloody Diamonds – Twisted
This week Drew and Fred gave a quick rundown of TNA’s recent roster cuts and the possible reasons behind them; Ricardo Rodriguez’s Wellness Policy suspension; a quick rundown of Monday’s Raw; and a prediction of this Saturday’s UFC 162 main event bout.
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1.) Moonshine Ramblers – Rising Sun
2.) Owen Steel – Time Machine Blues
3.) Charlie A’Court – High Heeled Heartbreaker
4.) Scott Nicks – She Will Come To You, She Will Come To You
5.) Chris Dalziel Band – Falling
6.) Grand Theft Bus – Gold Mine
7.) Matt Mays – Indio
8.) Coyote – Fossils
9.) The Wax – Departure
10.) Verse The Sun – Nothing Left
11.) Bloody Diamonds – Monsters
12.) Bloody Diamonds – Bright Lights Darling
This week I covered everything from The Beatles, Professor Longhair and even some new Barenaked Ladies!
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This week on your favourite LIVE comics radio program, we welcome to the Monster Cave: Ed Brisson and Johnnie Christmas, the creative team behind ‘Sheltered’, a brand new ‘Pre-Apocalyptic’ comic series from Image comics
You’ve seen Ed’s writing on another excellent Image series; The Comeback and you have seen Jonnie’s work on the Ed Brisson written Murderbook webcomic anthology. Tune in LIVE, Wednesday night, July 3rd to listen in on our chat with these two hot creators. Heck, If you have a question for Ed Brisson and/or Johnnie Christmas, feel free to post it on our Facebook wall or give us a call at 506-453-4949.
Where Monsters Dwell is brought to you by Strange Adventures and Club Fred Grafx.
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1.) Ross Neilsen – Heartbreak Apart (The Shack Up Sessions)
2.) The Stanfields – Jack Of All Trades
3.) Wet Grow Light – Great Big Nite
4.) The Waking Night – Hanging Cloud
5.) Milks & Rectangles – Boston Brahmin
6.) Panos – Marred
7.) Long Distance Runners – The Great Escape
8.) Motherhood – Youngest Fool
9.) Repartee – Hello Hello Hello
10.) Gloryhound – Let You Down Again
11.) Quiet Parade – Ghosts
12.) Paper Lions – Philadelphia
13.) Bloody Diamonds – I’m Not A Machine
14.) Bloody Diamonds – Monopoly
CHSR’s Instant Breakfast interviews Josh Bravenor and plays the entire new EP!!
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CHSR’s Mini-Review: Lovestorm’s ‘Free to Love’
LISTEN to Album while reading the review! http://lovestorm.bandcamp.com/album/free-to-love
It is a fairly known fact that music often becomes permanently connected to our psyche while literally becoming the soundtrack of our lives. With the good times and the bad, we often listen to music while reflecting and meditating, to party with, rage against, cry too, while making love, and dance. Music is truly an intimate medium that allows us to feel a form of expression vicariously through an artist. And if the artist is Lovestorm, the subtle complexity of the music, combined with deeply personal lyrics, form a unique brand of authenticity in their culmination of pop/world/electronic music and organic soul searching reflections on human relationships and the spirit – while being very danceable! This is a new kind of club energy that would sound as good walking down the street, cranked out in your living room, or at a huge festival with glow sticks.
Lovestorm’s new full length ‘Free to Love’ surprised me in its new direction upon first listen, but at the same time, it fits perfectly with the bands previous releases. The band is made up of partners Nina Khosla and Tim Issac who freely use their own life experiences’ as a couple for creative inspiration. The last time I spoke with Nina was for the release of their catchy folk pop release ‘Overripe’, and she hinted that she wanted to make a dance record. And on ‘Free to Love’, Loverstorm deliver on what they promised. They have made an emotionally raw, extremely intimate, if not epic, dream pop record.
Nina Kholsa’s gentle and sweet vocal style perfectly fits the upbeat energy found on the pop tracks. A constant heart beat, pulsating through the music, enhances the intimate nature of the songs. When Tim Issac adds back up vocals and/or when Nina and Tim sing to each other…the band soars. There are moments when I can hear similarities to bands like Stars and Postal Service, but those bands do not have the intimacy heard in Lovestorm’s music or their LIVE performance. In fact, you have to see them to believe it. Not only is their music deeply personal, their LIVE performance is captivating. Watching two people deeply in love, creating music in front of your eyes while Nina and Tim get lost in each other gazes, is unique and provides an organic experience on an electronic musical bed. Watching Nina dance and play keys, while Tim plays the Cello in staggeringly inventive ways, is astonishing.
“Free to Love’ is truly a summer record and Lovestorm has created one of most addictive pop records of the year. These guys have a rich palette to work from and have brought something much needed in the music scene – a highly personal, inspired work of art that is incredibly danceable. My favourite tracks are Rejoice, Beauty, and I Want to be Your Angel.
Tim Rayne
I haven’t had a chance to post pictures of the albums I played this week, however I was anxious to share this podcast (especially since the next episode is live at 8pm tomorrow). On this episode we hear everything from Nardwuar’s band the Evaporators to Leonard Cohen!
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Years ago, Remy was co-host of another radio show on another station here in Fredericton. He asked Mike to come in to ‘liven things up a bit’. Once Mike got in, he convinced Remy to turn the show into a comic/pop culture talk show and the rest is heresy…I mean history.
Mike and Remy have been friends since 3rd grade. They grew up on a steady diet of sugary cereals, cartoons, horror movies and of course comics. Mike likes anything superhero and Remy gets some kind of weird enjoyment out of police procedurals. Chuck pays attention to things Mike and Remy normally miss.
Remy has already had his dream guest in the form of comic superstar and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane. Mike is still waiting patiently to land the elusive John Byrne. Chuck has always dreamed of being the WMD producer so I guess we can put that baby to bed as well.
At CHSR we enjoy the freedom to produce our show in our own way without any corporate meddling. The equipment is top notch and the staff are always helpful. CHSR welcomed us in when we didn’t have a home and now, 4 years later, we wouldn’t want to do this anywhere else.
We are currently trying to raise some money to help us get to a few more conventions in Canada. We just got back from the East Coast Comics Expo in Moncton, we are always mainstays at Hal-Con in Halifax as well as the Dartmouth Comic Art Festival, and we are hoping to make it to Toronto in August for Fan Expo. All of these Canadian produced conventions have top notch comic industry guests, so we like to bend their ear a bit here and there to get some tasty audio to play on the radio show and podcast.
Tune in Wednesday nights and be sure to like WMD on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, and visit their own website at www.wheremonstersdwell.ca
Is it the light wandering of thoughts, like dandelion fluff in a breeze?
Or is it the traversing of boundaries, like a butterfly migrating?
To me, it is this, and it is darker places to let the mind wonder, free and without limits.
This mix is what it sounds like to me.
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CQ: Name some aspect of human culture that has yet to be remixed, reinvented or otherwise significantly changed or abandoned due to modern technology — and then propose how it could or should be changed.
Full list of 38 articles and the podcast at TheWEIRDShow.com!
Bellusira – Cachango
The StandStills – Pushing Electric
MachetE – I Don’t Think So
CHAOS THEORY – Broken Dream
Verse The Sun – Impact
Bloody Diamonds – Monsters
The Beneath the Grid Music song of the week was “Our Final Day” by Kandia !
Diablo Strange – Prowlers
MOMENT OF INERTIA – Foot in the Grave
A Primitive Evolution – Lord of Reason
HighKicks – Money
the black frame spectacle – The Mob Awaits
Send any and all requests (or random messages / mp3s to play!) to RunForYourLifeCHSR@gmail.com !
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A look through some of the movies we think are (or will be) classic ones.
Intro sketch recorded by the comedy group: “Wasted Tape”.
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1.) Oh No,Theodore! – Cannibals
2.)Motherhood – Youngest Fool
3.) Paper Lions – Philadelphia
4.) In-Flight Safety – Destroy
5.) Bloody Diamonds – I’m Not A Machine
6.) The Band Before Time – Song For The Lovers
7.) Arrows In The Air – Young Lovers
8.) Two Hours Traffic – O My Love
9.) Josh Bravener – OCD
10.) This Ship – Typical Speakers
11.) This Ship – The City
The guys quickly went over the list of superstars for the 2 MitB ladder matches at the upcomming PPV and whom they believe should win; plus go over other matches announced for Money In The Bank; offered a quick rundown of what got their attention on this past Monday’s Raw: how CM Punk & Paul Heyman hugged it out; the brutal Daniel Bryan/Randy Orton street fight; and quite a bit more.
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