Artist – Track || Album
1.) Pallmer – Swimming || Swimming
2.) Josh Norrad – One Hand On The Wheel || single
3.) David Myles – Happen Now || Songs From The Gang – A Celebration of Joel Plaskett
4.) Joel Strauss – Unspoken || Noonday Drive At 12AM
5.) Marian – Same Town || Marian
6.) Beauts – Waverley || single
7.) Honey Gut – Buried Alive || Hunter-Gatherer
8.) Marc McLaughlin – All I Can Say || All I Can Say
9.) Kill Chicago – Moonlight || The Fix
10.) Elder Caius – All The Way Down Now || single
11.) Doctor Mother Father – Committed to Something || It All Depends on How You Wanna Hurt
12.) Motherhood – Moat || Thunder Perfect Mind
13.) Weak Size Fish, KDZ – Elevate || The Drift
14.) The Trick – Fearsome Places || Fearsome Places
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-06-19
Artist – Track || Album
1.) Good Dear Good – Better Off Dead || single
2.) Ty Segall – Possession || Possession
3.) The Dears – Babe, We’ll Find A Way || single
4.) Two Hours Traffic – Keep It Coming || I Never See You Anymore
5.) The Burning Hell – Luna FM || Ghost Palace
6.) Joel Strauss – Forever Song || Noonday Drive at 12AM
7.) Black Suit Devil – A Matter Of Time || A Matter Of Time
8.) Pile – Uneasy || single
9.) Mal Blum – Must Get Lonely || single
10.) Wintersleep – Nerves Normal. Breath Normal || Untitled
11.) Bonnie Trash – Hellmouth || Mourning You
12.) Pearly Drops – Ratgirl || single
13.) Tetsuo II – PHASE II || Phase IV
Away From The Mire Episode 82 – Do You Wanna Dance?
Check out this week’s episode where play a couple of tracks in tribute to the recently departed Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. I’ve got some local favorites as well as preview some upcoming shows in the area.
Barenaked Ladies – Brian Wilson (live)
Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice (live)
The Flaps – Dunebuggy
Nate and The Busy Boys – Burger Boy
Motherhood – Hallway
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Wither With You
High Fade – The Jam
Tom Morello – California’s Dark
Bob Mould – Wishing Well
The Evaporators – I’m Your Buddy
AJJ – Disposable Everything
Pearl Jam – Everyday People
Offspring – Mota
Chixdiggit – Hemp Hemp Hooray!
The Ramones – Rockaway Beach
The Ramones – Do You Wanna Dance?
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-06-18
Artist – Track || Album
1.) Owen Steel – Your Own Imagination || COMBE
2.) Foxwarren – Strange || 2
3.) Basia Bulat – Disco Polo || Basia’s Palace
4.) Joywave – Yellowish Sunbeam || Permanent Pleasure (Deluxe)
5.) Art d’Ecco – A Change Of Scenery || Serene Demon
6.) The Bug Club – Jealous Boy || Very Human Features
7.) The Libertines – Don’t Look Back into the Sun || Time For Heroes – The Best of The Libertines
8.) Fomies – Reflection || Liminality
9.) King Gizzard – Aerodynamic || Phantom Island
10.) Babes In Canyon – Too Much || single
11.) Hawksley Workman – Rock Properly || Fly Like An Ego
12.) DON WEST – Friends || single
13.) Tanika Charles – Reasons To Stay || single
14.) Men I Trust – Hard To See || Equus Caballus
15.) Klô Pelgag – Un rêve || single
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-06-17 POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE LONG LIST Part 02
Artist – Track || Album
1.) Richard Laviolette – Florence and Delilah || All Wild Things Are Shy
2.) Wyatt C. Louis – Dancing with Sue || Chandler
3.) Kelly McMichael – Tour From Hell || After The Sting Of It
4.) Men I Trust – Come Back Down || Equus Caballus
5.) Mustafa – I’ll Go Anywhere || Dunya
6.) N NAO – Fleuron || Nouveau Language
7.) Nemahsis – stick of gum || Verbathim
8.) Dorothea Paas – Autumn Roses || Think Of Mist
9.) Klô Pelgag – Libra || Abracadabra
10.) Population II – La Trippance || Maintenant Jamais
11.) Ribbon Skirt – Cellophane || Bite Down
12.) The Weather Station – Mirror || Humanhood
13.) Donovan Woods – Rosemary || Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now
14.) Yoo Doo Right – Ponders End || From The Heights of Our Pastureland
Harmony Corruption Episode 98-The 1990 Retrospective Part 3-June 10th, 2025
Hi folks! This week’s episode features the final part of the 1990 retrospective with Stephanie co-hosting! I hope you all enjoyed the 1990 retrospective. Next week’s episode will be back to the usual programming.
Here’s the playlist for the week:
GWAR-Sick Of You
Bathory-Valhalla
Danzig-Killer Wolf
Trouble-RIP
Alice In Chains-We Die Young
Autopsy-Destined to Fester
Carcass-Black Star
Venom-Warhead
Queensryche-Warning
Domesticated-Tactile Vertigo
Domesticated-Tinsel City
Domesticated-Deformed Exterior
Domesticated-Nanocombustion
Abysseral Throne-Wolfthorn
Abysseral Throne-They Will Return
Satyricon-Nemesis Divina
Slayer-Chemical Warfare
Thanks for listening!
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People Need Music: June 12, 2025
The Fredericton Playhouse laughed its Spotlight Series this week. Jeff Richardson, Director of Growth and Development joined Tonya Price in the CHSR FM studios to chat about the new season of great performances from around the world.
Playlist
The Hello Crows – Warbler ::
Bear Grease, LighteningCloud – Summer Snaggin’ ::
Tom Papa – Whole Foods vs Costco ::
Oscar Peterson – Cheek to Cheek ::
Jill Barber, Matthew Barber – Light of the Moon ::
Tom Morello – Human (feat. Barns Courtney) ::
Dwayne Gretzky – S.O.S. ::
Wintersleep – Weighty Ghost ::
Jeremy Dutcher – Oqiton
Away From The Mire Episode 81 – A little something on the side!
On this week’s episode we take a look at solo acts, spinoffs and side projects. Like most of my episodes, this one is all over the place starting with a fun piano driven tune and ending with some 90’s Hard Rock/Metal. Enjoy!
Eddie Vedder w/ Elton John – Picture
Gord Downie – Yer Possessed
Oysterhead – Army’s On Ecstacy
Stephen Malkmus – Black Book
Middle Brother – Portland
Trans Canada Highwaymen – Undun
Talk Show – Hello Hello
Mounties – Headphones
Julian Casablancas – Out Of The Blue
Static In Stereo – Before My Time
Sebadoh – Rebound
A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras
Tom Wilson – Dig It
Down – Stone The Crow
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-06-11 POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE LONG LIST Part 01
Artist – Track || Album
1.) Art d’Ecco – The Traveller || Serene Demon
2.) BACKXWASH – Undesirable || Only Dust Remains
3.) Bibi Club – Le feu || Feu de garde
4.) Caribou – Volume || Honey
5.) Lou-Adriane Cassidy – Journal d’un loup-garou || Journal d’un Loup-Garou
6.) Choses Sauvages – Cours toujourd || Choses Sauvages III
7.) Cold Specks – Venus in Pieces || Light for the Midnight
8.) Marie Davidson – Fun Times || City of Clowns
9.) Destroyer – The Same Thing as Nothing at All || Dan’s Boogie
10.) Gloin – Horse Fighting || All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
11.) Saya Gray – H.B.W. || SAYA
12.) Hildegard – Bach in Town || Jour 1596
13.) Yves Jarvis – All Cylinders || All Cylinders
14.) Kaia Kater ft. Aoife O’Donovan – The Witch || Strange Medicine
15.) Bells Larsen – Composured Veneer || Blurring Time
The Lunchbox Interview: BitB’s “Macbeth”

My guests today are Len Falkenstein (Director), Rebekkah Chasse (Lady Macbeth), Scott Shannon (Macbeth), and Mary Walker (Witch), who are all involved in the upcoming Bard in the Barracks presentation of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. We talk about how to approach iconic characters, and the somewhat disturbing relevance of the story of a tragic, over-ambitious leader.
Macbeth will be staged in the Botanical Gardens in Odell Park.
Bard in the Barracks runs from June 17 to July 7, with Macbeth showing on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays (June 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29 and July 2, 3, 6), with a preview performance on June 19. Patrons are advised to arrive by 7:15, with a curtain time of 7:30pm.
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The Lunchbox Interview: BitB’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor”

My guests today are Len Falkenstein (Director), Shannon Munn (Mistress Ford), and Rhett Ellis (Falstaff), who are all involved in the upcoming Bard in the Barracks presentation of Shakespeare’s comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor. We discuss the farce of this play, especially in contrast to the visual reframing as a mobster story.
The Merry Wives of Windsor will be staged on a purpose-built stage on the grounds of Christ Church Cathedral downtown. (Please bring a folding chair.)
Bard in the Barracks runs from June 17 to July 7, with The Merry Wives of Windsor showing on Saturdays and Mondays (June 21, 23, 28, 30 and July 5 and 7), with a preview performance on June 17 and an opening night on June 18. Patrons are advised to arrive by 7:45, with a curtain time of 8pm.
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-06-10
Artist – Track || Album
1.) Tetsuo II – PHASE I || Phase IV
2.) Tetsuo II – PHASE II || Phase IV
3.) Ambre Ciel – the sun, the sky || still, there is the sea
4.) Foxwarren – Dance || 2
5.) Stereolab – Immortal Hands || Instant Holograms On Metal Film
6.) Phoebe Rings – Drifting || Aseural
7.) Toro y Moi – Stars and Sons || Anthems: A Celebration Of Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot It In People
8.) The Ting Tings – Dreaming || Home
9.) Kassie Krut – Hooh Beat (Panda Bear Remix) || Kassie Krut (Expanded EP)
10.) Purity Ring – many lives || single
11.) Panic Shack – Thelma & Louise || single
12.) Night School – Bitter Pill || For Keeps
13.) Mike Trask – Landing Day || BEET
14.) Florence + The Machine – Ship To Wreck || How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Testing For Echo – Episode 78 – Ready To Roll – Orig. Air Date June 7th, 2025
Hi again folks. I hope that all is well with you and thank you for tuning in for the show.
This is episode 78 of Testing For Echo on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world and I am your host Tim Scammell.
I have a full slate today so I’d best get rolling. I’d like to make sure everything gets played. There’s plenty of Geddy today by the way. You’ll LOVE it!
Tim
“The World of Music, One Song at a Time”
Episode Song List
- Awake and Dreaming – I U Me
- Geddy Lee – The Lost Demos – Gone and I Am…You Are
- Liz Fagan Band – Hurricane Season
- John Wetton – Battle Lines
- Tony Levin – Welcome
- SAGA – Remember When
- David Horner and Robert Sibony – Mojave Monsoon
- RUSH – Not Fade Away
- Sevendust – Waffle
- Steve Vai – Tender Surrender
- Bryan Ferry – Love Letters
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People Need Music: June 5, 2025
Kellie Loder will be performing in Fredericton on June 7th at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. They called into People Need Music to chat about connecting with fans, refreshing their stories and their upcoming tour.
Playlist:
The Hello Crows – Warbler ::
Julie Doiron, Chris Sheppard – Everybody Misses You ::
Kellie Loder – Sunny’s Dream ::
Kellie Loder – When We Kiss ::
Kellie Loder – When It Comes To You ::
Mo Kenney – Love You Better ::
Kathleen Edwards – Say Goodbye, Tell No One ::
Ria Mae – Outside ::
Adam Hill – The Cuckoo ::
Salebarbes – Gin à L’eau Salée ::
Jeremy Dutcher – Nipuwoltin
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Homemade Jams || 2025-06-05
Artist – Track || Album
1.) Little Stone Crow – Garden Style II || Dives Underwater
2.) Stephen Hero, Uncle Fester – Tough Era || The Squeeze
3.) El Tata y Los Taqueros, Mate – Best Life || single
4.) Keeper E., waants – I Don’t Wanna Talk || single
5.) Jenn Grant – Lying On A Beach || Songs From The Gang – A Celebration Of Joel Plaskett
6.) Penny & the Pits – Pool Party || single
7.) Doctor Mother Father – Committed to Something || It All Depends on How You Wanna Hurt
8.) Plumtree – Scott Pilgrim || Predicts the Future
9.) Which Witch is Which – Shot Down || Which Witch is Which
10.) The Orchids – Green Fuzz || The Orchids
11.) Elyse Aeryn – Unstoppable || single
12.) Two Hours Traffic – Moon Baby || I Never See You Anymore
13.) Joel Strauss – Two Wolves || Noonday Drive at 12am
14.) Morgan Toney – Heal The Divide || single
15.) Colin Fowlie – Inside Out || East of Nowhere
16.) XIA-3 – Curious Dragons || Interworlds
Harmony Corruption Episode 97-The 1990 Retrospective Part 2-June 3rd, 2025
Hi Folks! Welcome back to the 1990 retrospective with Stephanie co-hosting! This week’s episode features lots of great tunes from 1990, some discussion about 1990 pop culture including movies, and more.
Here’s the playlist for the week:
Death-Altering the Future
Nocturnus-Andromeda Strain
Obituary-Body Bag
Atheist-I Deny
Deicide-Sacrificial Suicide
Cannibal Corpse-Born In A Casket
Cancer-To The Gory End
Napalm Death-The Chains That Bind Us
Carnage-Deranged From Blood
Entombed-Premature Autopsy
Dopethrone-Spirit Ruiner
Dopethrone-Abraxas
Dopethrone-Power Violence Forever
Tomb Mold-Intro/The Grow Inside
Tomb Mold-Twisted Trail
Tomb Mold-Vernal Grace/Outro
Acid Bath-Toubabo-Koomi
Thanks for listening!
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Harmony Corruption Episode 96-The 1990 Retrospective Part 1-May 27th, 2025
Hi Folks! This week’s episode is the first part of the 1990 retrospective with Stephanie! We chat about metal from 1990, the direction it was headed in, and what came next. As well, some of the big changes that occurred between 1985 and 1990. Here’s the playlist for the week!
Judas Priest-Painkiller
Megadeth-Tornado of Souls
Slayer-Seasons In the Abyss
Testament-Souls of Black
Anthrax-Belly of the Beast
Artillery-Equal At First
Razor-Shotgun Justice
Razor-Meaning of Pain
Annihilator-Imperiled Eyes
Annihilator-Sixes and Sevens
Sacrifice-In Defiance
Demolition Hammer-Crippling Velocity
Morbid Saint-Beyond the Gates of Hell
Kreator-People of the Lie
Thanks for listening!
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-06-03
Artist – Track || Album
1.) Laamar – Dream/Grief || In The Light
2.) Foxwarren – Deadhead || 2
3.) Tall Juan + Delicate Steve – Brothers || single
4.) mary in the junkyard – drains || single
5.) TOPS – Chlorine || single
6.) Hawksley Workman – Save My Life || Fly Like An Ego
7.) Faint Louis, Eve Jones – I Wish I Knew || Details
8.) Milk & Bone – Deception Bay || Deception Bay
9.) Mint Simon – 2007 || Chimera
10.) Saxsyndrum – As I Wait || Room Of Endless Days
11.) Shriven – Blameless || Saints Rest
12.) Family Man – Company of Portraits || single
13.) Motherhood – Bok Globule || Thunder Perfect Mind
14.) King Gizzard – Dragon || PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Mornings Are Hard || 2025-06-04
Artist – Track || Album
1.) Preston Woolsey – stumbler || bubba
2.) The Burning Hell – Birds of Australia || Ghost Palace
3.) David R. Elliott – Devotion || True Love Forever
4.) Jennifer Castle – Mary Miracle || Camelot
5.) David in the Dark – Hard to See || Fire
6.) Saya Gray – PUDDLE (OF ME) || SAYA
7.) Claudia Bouvette – CALL ME BACK! || DIARY FOR THE LONELY HEARTS
8.) Stereolab – Melodie Is A Wound || Instant Holograms On Metal Film
9.) Find My Friends – Misquoted || find my friends
10.) Push Puppets – All Together On 3 || Tethered Together
11.) Capital 6 – Give It To ‘Em || Not My One
12.) Keep – Hurt A Fly || Almost Static
13.) Lung – Clown Car || The Swankeeper
Away From The Mire Episode 80 – That 90’s Show!
This week’s episode focused on bands that from the 90’s both famous and not so famous.
I’ve got tracks from bands that shook the music world and some that had their one crack at fame on MTV’s 120 minutes but never took off. I think you’ll enjoy this one!
Whale – Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe
Lucy’s Fur Coat – Treasure Hands
Possum Dixon – Watch The Girl Destroy Me
Fastball – America
The Lemonheads – Deep End
The Age of Electric – Untitled
Sloan – I Love This Town
Thrush Hermit – The Day We Hit The Coast
Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea
Nirvana – Heart Shaped Box (live)
Pearl Jam – Off He Goes (live)
Rick White – My Favourite Game
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-05-29
Artist – Track || Album
1.) PSILK, Thando Zide – With You In Mind || single
2.) Joe Nolan – Wake Up Sleepy Anna || single
3.) Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On || Fear Fun
4.) Sunflower Bean – Nothing Romantic || Mortal Primetime
5.) Car Seat Headrest – Equals || The Scholars
6.) cootie catcher – Friend of a Friend || Shy At First
7.) cootie catcher – Dumb Lit || Shy At First
8.) Frog Eyes – Put a Little Light on the Wretch That Is Me || The Open Up
9.) Casper Skulls – Spindletop || Kit-Cat
10.) Doctor Mother Father – Hard On Systems || single
11.) Radiator – Fortune Teller || 23 PARK STREET LONDON UK
12.) These New Puritans – Wild Fields || Crooked Wing
13.) GY!BE – SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS || “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”
14.) Lou Tides – Map Maker || Autostatic!
15.) Marie Davidson – Fun Times || City Of Clowns
“You can make art here”: First film shot in New Brunswick to be featured at TIFF since 2013 comes to Fredericton Cineplex
Do I Know You From Somewhere, the first film to be shot in New Brunswick and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival since 2013, is coming to the Fredericton Cineplex on May 30. The opening weekend in Fredericton sold out days before the premiere, prompting Cineplex to add a full week of screenings from June 2 to June 5. The film is the directorial feature debut of local filmmaker Arianna Martinez who co wrote the film with her husband Gordon Mihan. Martinez, Mihan, and Lance Blakney, make up Strike Pictures, the company that produced Do I Know You From Somewhere. All three emphasized that shooting the film in New Brunswick was more than a financial consideration. Keeping shooting locations local meant that film’s crew could maintain a healthy work-life ballance while still finding employment in their field. The trio behind Strike Pictures noted that this production style sharply contrasts the industry norm, which favours long hours in major filmmaking hubs like Toronto and Vancouver. Shooting in New Brunswick also meant that the crew could highlight the natural beauty in the Picture Province, shooting exteriors on the Maquapit lake and interiors at the Fredericton Delta.
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“Let the art breath”: new running club for artists at the Charlotte Street Art Centre
Starting on May 20th, and continuing every Tuesday at 5:30pm, the Charlotte Street Art Centre is offering a free running club for local artists. The Art Centre’s Artreach Coordinator, Oscar Tecu, explained that he wanted to share his love for running and its meditative potential with the Fredericton art community. While art is a much needed creative outlet, Oscar emphasized the importance of staying active and ensuring that the often sedentary process of creating art is balanced with exercise.
Several running club members agreed with Oscar, noting that the act of running itself is often akin to art, allowing one to make mental space for creative thinking while exposing artists to the natural beauty of Fredericton’s trails.
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Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew celebrates 200 years of “Scottish Benevolence” with new museum exhibit
On Sunday, May 25, 2025, the Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew (FSSA) and the York-Sunbury Historical Society (YSHS) unveiled a new exhibit at the Fredericton Region Museum celebrating the 200th anniversary of the FSSA.
According to FSSA President and Second Vice President of the YSHS, Dr. Cynthia Wallace-Casey, the tagline of the exhibit, “200 years of Scottish Benevolence,” is an homage to the FSSA’s early roots when it served as an aid organization for Scottish immigrants arriving in Fredericton to harsh 19th century conditions.
Many of the artifacts on display at the Fredericton Region Museum are related to the FSSA’s pipe band, which was founded in the 1920s and now competes in bagpiping competitions around the world.
Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers — whose great grandfather and brother were a pipers in the FSSA band — noted that honouring cultural organizations like these helps to preserve the rich history of immigration in Fredericton, and it reminds Frederictonians that cultural diversity contributes to the city’s unique character.
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UNB Community Garden sees increased interest after starting new “Garden Therapy Thursdays”
From May 8th to June 5th, the University of New Brunswick’s Sustainability Office is hosting “Garden Therapy Thursdays,” a drop-in mindfulness program that sees participants weeding and preparing garden beds. UNB Sustainability Engagement Coordinator, Bailey Saunders, explained that this new program is meant as a pilot to gauge interest in guided gardening programs. The Sustainability Office expected a modest response from intermediate and seasoned gardeners, but was surprised by the number of participants with no gardening experience. Bailey noted that this increased interest in gardening could be linked to rising grocery prices and the the personal satisfaction that preparing a garden bed provides. Interest in Garden Therapy Thursdays was high enough that the Sustainability Office has already decided to continue the program next year.
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