My first live in-studio show since the lockdown and it was…not terrible? The music always helps. Here’s what you would have heard:
RFYL Episode – AtharEP180
On this week’s episode, I still have more new stuff that gets to dominate the episode in full as well as falling back into some prog roots. It’s very important for me to randomly whip out a progressive track or three every few episodes, even if they wind up being ten minutes long each.
Anyway, rock out, play it super loud and enjoy having an hour of music carefully hand-picked out just for you. Download the podcast. Or don’t.
Playlist:
Wild Fires – The JB Conspiracy
Wanted All Along – Cory Hotline
Swept Out – Like A Motorcycle
Only Once – The Joy Formidable
Good Times / Lights Out! – Dead Sara [Official]
Breathing Light – Shumaun
Ontongeny – Before & Apace
DTC – Powder for Pigeons
Dalriada – Husky by the Geek
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The Lunchbox Interview: Vita Plume, Weaver (2021-09-22)
My guest today is Vita Plume, who uses the combination of the ancient art of weaving and the modern tools of computers and Photoshop to create artwork that crosses time and discipline.
Vita Plume’s exhibition, Patterns & Portraits, is on display until October 29 in both galleries of the UNB Art Centre in Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive on UNB Campus. The gallery is open Monday – Wednesday and Friday from 9am to 4pm, and from 9am to 9pm on Thursday.
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News Update 2021-09-22
News Headlines:
- You’ll have some new mandatory COVID rules to follow as of today.
- Two bargaining units represented by the New Brunswick Nurses Union have reached tentative deals with the province.
- A 67-year old woman is dead after a head-on collision with a dump truck in Brantville.
- Fredericton City Council says it won’t approve new tax increases as the 2022 budget process kicked off Sunday.
- Construction is ready to begin to replace the Vaughan Creek Covered Bridge in St. Martins.
- Looks like you’ll have to memorize new names for the three main COVID-19 vaccines.
- Fredericton High School is in hot water after taking some culturally insensitive photos of this year’s graduating class.
- And it’s still not clear who has won the Fredericton riding for the federal election from Monday.
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RFYL Episode – CurstEP179
In this week’s episode, can we have another three day weekend? Wait, did we just have one? Where am I, who is this?
Anyway, more stuff coming out very soon – very promising fall so far, solid releases and a solid, proggy episode. Download it and play it loud!
Playlist:
Red-Light Revolver – The Red Coats
Heroes – Dead Sara [Official]
Wide Awake – Like A Motorcycle
Invincible – Shumaun
Berserker (feat. Dave Lambardo) – Gunship
Bring It To The Front – The Joy Formidable
Kingmaker – Osyron
The Alien – Dream Theater
Maverick Slayer / Running Through The Maze – Husky by the Geek
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News for 2021-09-15
News headlines:
- New Brunswick reported 35 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday.
- The First Nations Advisory Council calls for action by the province in a report looking at Youth Suicide Prevention and Mental health.
- The RCMP has arrested a 37-year-old Kingsclear First Nation Man wanted in connection to a suspicious death.
- A former interim leader of the New Brunswick NDP has been named the party’s permanent leader.
- The City of Fredericton will observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as a municipal holiday.
- The province unveiled designs for the new Fredericton courthouse on Tuesday.
- It’s the time of year when a particular cookie does more than just taste good.
- And families, cell phones and healthcare were top of mind for the federal party leaders Tuesday.
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B Street : September 13, 2021
Happy Harvest, fellow babies! Remember last September when we didn’t have a festival to attend and I spent an episode playing bands of Harvests past like a sad girl? So glad that is NOT the case this year!
Here is what you would have heard on this year’s tribute to Harvest 2021:
RFYL Episode – TradeGateEP178
Hope you have your floaties on tight, we’ve got something to keep you above the surface on this week’s episode of Swim for- honestly I’ve done all these jokes so many times I might as well just boilerplate these posts instead of typing them out by hand.
Anyway, we’ve got brand new releases coming your way, as well as just a solid playlist to get you through your evening/weekend/space journey.
Playlist:
Lower the Wires – Blue Hour Ghosts
Egos at the Door – The JB Conspiracy
Hotel Hallway – Like A Motorcycle
Living Too Fast / Black Hill Creek – The Standstills
The Lion and the Keeper – Motion Device
Space Blanket – Puta Volcano
Waste My Hate – Icon For Hire
Power & Control – Sumo Cyco
Intuition Underground / Under The Sun – Shumaun
Reach For The Stars – BLACK FATE
Divine Fury – Silver Talon
Breakaway – Tsunami Bomb
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The Lunchbox 2021-09-10: Jason Anderson & Rick Sparkes
Feature:
On today’s show, a pair of local musicians with upcoming shows!
I caught up to Fredericton artist Jason Anderson during his residency at Killarney Lake, and he shared some of his songwriting process and a brand new song (called Summer Gone). Jason will be playing at The Tipsy Muse Café on Friday, September 10 at 7pm.
Rick Sparkes (of Rick Sparkes + The Enablers) has been enthralled by music from a very young age, but has only recently been getting it recorded to share with the world. He joined me via Zoom to chat about his history with music, and the inspirations and efforts for the new album Pleasure in the Pathless Woods. Rick Sparkes + The Enablers will be playing with Hum & Hollow at The Cap on Saturday, September 11 at 7pm.
News Headlines:
- Public Health reporting 17 new cases of COVID-19 with 8 recoveries on Thursday.
- New Brunswick’s Green Party is calling on the province to reinstitute some COVID rules.
- A Moncton man faces charges after drugs and two firearms were seized on Tuesday.
- Even with post-secondary students back to class, Elections Canada won’t offer its on-campus voting program.
- New Brunswick’s top doctor will receive the province’s highest honour this year.
- The Fredericton airport is now offering COVID tests for its travellers.
- The Canadian Vaping Association says proposed flavour bans will increase smoking, cause economic harm and jeopardize product safety.
- And affordability, climate change, pandemic recovery, reconciliation, leadership and accountability were the key topics at last night’s leaders’ debate.
Events coming up:
(for full details, check out our Events Calendar)
- Friday (10):
- Gallery Hopping, 4pm, Gallery 78/UNB Art Centre
- The Annual Society of Canadian Artists’ Elected Members’ Exhibition, 4pm, Gallery 78
- Vita Plume: Patterns & Portraits, 5pm, UNB Art Centre
- Live @ The Park: Keith Hallet // Chillteens, 7pm, Garrison Skate Park
- Chickahominy Mountain Band // Womb to Tomb, 7pm, The Cap
- Jason Anderson, 7pm, The Tipsy Muse Café
- Mark Currie, 7pm, York County Cider
- The Garry Hansen Band, 7pm, Southside Shake
- Lilly Hiatt // The Hypos Trio [HJ&B], 7:30pm, The Playhouse
- Cathy Hutch, 8pm, The Hollywood Star Room
- Guns N’ Roses (GNR) Tribute Band, 9pm, NBEX
- Shameless, 9:30pm, Dolan’s Pub
- Gallery Hopping, 4pm, Gallery 78/UNB Art Centre
- Saturday (11):
- Battle of the Arts Online: Maritime School of African Dance
Battle of the Arts New Brunswick will host an eleven-part online series of dance, music and conversations beginning on September 11. The upcoming series will feature guest performances by the Maritime School of African Dance, Ceeb Dread, Hero B, Rey-D, and others. All performances and conversations will take place online through the BOTA YouTube channel. battleofthearts.ca - Kings Landing: Crime & Punishment & Last Rites, 10am-5pm, Kings Landing
- Feeding the Future: chillteens // Camilo V // Not Now, Madame!, noon-4pm, The Cap
We are raising funds to help feed and provide supplies to over 100 children daily in Caracas Venezuela. Nutriendo El Futuro (Feeding the Future) is empowering low income communities in Venezuela and helping children enroll in school. - NB Country Showcase, 6:30pm, NBEX
- Rick Sparkes & The Enablers // Hum & Hollow, 7pm, The Cap
- GIN & Jazz with music by BRIDGE, 7pm, Southside Shake (downtown Hilton)
- TNT Classic Country: The Bakersfield Sound // Anna Thibideau, 7pm, Hanwell Community Centre
- Hazzard, 7:30pm, Burtts Corner Lions Club
- Shameless, 9:30pm, Dolan’s Pub
- Pitifully Low, 10pm, The Hollywood Star Room
- Fever Dreams, 10pm, The Cap
- Battle of the Arts Online: Maritime School of African Dance
- Sunday (12):
- Kings Landing: Crime & Punishment & Last Rites, 10am-5pm, Kings Landing
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RFYL Episode – TorchEP177
Three day weekend? Three day weekend! Three day weekend, Three day weekend. Three. Day Weekend.
Have I been looking forward to this Three Day Weekend? Maybe. But also, there’s tons of new music that came out and we’re going to play…. some of it. This episode is significantly more prog-y than the last one, so hopefully you have your prog hats on. If you don’t have a prog hat, it’s in the mail. You live at 123 Fake St, right?
Playlist:
Tanner – Like A Motorcycle
Hands Up – Dead Sara [Official]
Walking Backwards – Blue Hour Ghosts
Definite & Quick – Thera
Steelier – The Wring
Gotta Feed My Dog / Sevier – The Joy Formidable
Turning Point – Sacrifice to Survive
Memories of Water – Shumaun
The Wind That Shapes The Land – Unleash The Archers
Don’t Mess With Me – Brody Dalle
The Hunt – Megan McDuffee Music
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News for 2021-09-02
Headlines:
- The provincial COVID-19 dashboard says more than 84 per cent of New Brunswickers have both doses of a vaccine.
- Police have issued an AMBER alert for a missing Quebec toddler in Northern New Brunswick.
- A fishing boat registered to the Saint Mary’s First Nation was seized over the weekend.
- The province is planning on cultivating blueberry fields in the northeast of the province.
- Police say they have discovered the vehicle connected to the disappearance of a 76-year-old Musquash man.
- Drivers will pay more at the pump this week.
- A worker was injured at the Fredericton landfill when a thrown-out battery exploded.
- And around 1,250 Canadians are still in Afghanistan.
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Mornings Are Hard // 2021-09-01
Track List:
1.) Fake Shark – Quicksand
2.) Atlantic Canyons – See The Hue
3.) Fried Fruits – Duo Fruit
4.) Yukon Blonde – Your Heart’s My Home
5.) THNDR – A Difficult Time
6.) Chad VanGaalen – Starlight
7.) Sin Soto – Retrograde
8.) Endrick & The Sandwiches – Hot Spot
9.) Sonny & The Sunsets – Ring My Bell
10.) Sue Foley – Dallas Man
11.) Run The River – A Fool’s Fate
12.) Kevin Towill – Better Friend
13.) Oliver James Brooks – Storm Chasing
14.) Celia Hollander – 1:17PM
15.) Suzie Ungerleider – Ships
Homemade Jams // 2021-08-31
Track List:
1.) Behrooz Mihankhah – Lydium
2.) The Town Heroes – The Jam
3.) The Town Heroes – 1999
4.) Golden Cinema – Little Sunscreen
5.) Young Satan In Love – Young Satan In Love
6.) This Ship – Memory
7.) Chillteens – Suite Life
8.) Wicked Vices – Liquor
9.) Amelia Curran – Song On The Radio
10.) Colin Fowlie – Inside Out
11.) Jamie Comeau & The Crooked Teeth – Tall Pine
12.) Andre Pettipas and the Giants – No Fools No Fun
B Street : August 29, 2021
August came and went like…well, you know.
Here’s what you would have heard on this show:
RFYL Episode – XaosEP176
The unending heat of the plague that is our summer continues. Is it too soon to use the word “plague”? Anyway, there’s some announcements on this week’s episode but I was too busy melting to think up anything terribly clever, so we just have a solid lineup of tracks to both keep things chill and give you something to have in the background of a heat-induced rage.
Find some shade, play it loud, don’t melt.
Playlist:
Back Burner – Like A Motorcycle
El Diablo – Tsunami Bomb
Aeroplane – Sonic Circus – AU
No Way Out / Never Say Goodbye – Nightingale – Music & Videos
Tome of Deceptions – Shades of Sorrow
No Surrender – Sumo Cyco
Millenium – Cellar Twins
Razor’s Edge – Osyron
Resistance 2029 (feat. Andy La Rocque) – Silver Talon
Song of the Ancients / Fate – Husky by the Geek
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The Lunchbox Interview: Gary Crosby
I caught up with Gary Crosby at his workshop via Zoom, and he shared his story of becoming a woodcarver as well as what he looks for in wood to direct what it becomes. See his beautiful work at Darkwood Carving.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Kaitlyn Hoyt
I spoke with Kaitlyn Hoyt about her precise work in creating beautiful illustrations of natural subjects, particularly birds. She spent her time in the Botanic Gardens observing nature and refining her skills.
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RFYL Episode – AutomataEP175
Welcome to YET ANOTHER WEEK of summer I guess? I don’t know what’s happening outside, but I do know that there’s some more great music entering rotation with the show. I’m not the greatest at following up with releases but when they’re pretty much waved in front of my face, who am I to say no?
Anyway, if you want to send anything off to the show (requests, new stuff your band has, etc) I’ll at the very least read it if I don’t wind up playing it. Now have a podcast.
Playlist:
Feelin’ Better / Pressure – Cory Hotline
Heroes – Dead Sara [Official]
The Start or The End – Die So Fluid
Chase The Sun – Kitchen Witch
Skin – Powder for Pigeons
Maze – BLACK FATE
Venus Lullaby – Puta Volcano
Griefmaker – Osyron
Salao – Worse
The Alien – Dream Theater
Running Through The Maze – Husky by the Geek
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B Street : August 16, 2021
Is it time for sweater weather yet?
Here’s what you would have heard on the August 16th show:
RFYL Episode – TheSpireEP174
On this week’s episode – STAY INSIDE IT’S MISERABLE OUT. And I’m not just talking about the random diseases out there. YOU know what diseases I’m talking about.
Anyway, we’ve got more cool stuff we’re showcasing, and hopefully we will once again usher you into the weekend with something wonderful and loud and crazy. And if we don’t do that? .. Well maybe you were listening to something else.
Playlist:
Side B Track 1 – Sea Mouse
Battles – The JB Conspiracy
Wide Awake – Like A Motorcycle
Under The Sun / Intuition Underground – Shumaun
Frontal Lobe – Kitchen Witch
ENtropica – Puta Volcano
Virus Buster / Maverick Slayer – Husky by the Geek
In Metal We Trust – Lycanthro
Divine Fury – Silver Talon
Destiny – ProleteR
Rich – Megan McDuffee Music
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RFYL Episode – MaelstromEP173
In this week’s episode, we feature more music and it’s great and you should get the podcast. Not convinced? I spent so much time looking into new music and chilling / rocking out to new tracks that I didn’t bother coming up with anything clever here.
Honestly this is so repetitive at this point that you know I’m bringing you quality, cool stuff. Grab a free podcast, play it loud, go buy music to keep more music flowing. Do it.
Playlist:
Sunrise – Kitchen Witch
Swept Out – Like A Motorcycle
Egos At The Door – The JB Conspiracy
Tales of Autumn / Social Waste – Cellar Twins
Fearless – Blue Hour Ghosts
Queen of Shadows – BLACK FATE
Neon / Raindance – Puta Volcano
Memories of Water – Shumaun
The Light – The Wring
Hands Up – Dead Sara [Official]
Leader of the Pack – Husky by the Geek
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The Lunchbox 2021-08-06: Ridge Works Studio
Feature:
- This year, there have been a number of artists-in-residence out at Killarney Lake. I caught up with the mother-and-daughter duo of Kim Stillwell and Anne Stillwell-LeBlanc, who work together under the name of Ridge Works Studio. During their time in residence, they were both expanding their experience with plein-air painting, including how it doesn’t work very well when it rains.
- And today is International Sailor Moon Day! I went back to 2016, when I had the chance to talk to two local fans of the anime, Stephanie and Cassie, who were preparing to hold one of only four celebrations across the country.
Headlines:
- New cases of COVID-19 continue to climb after New Brunswick reported 13 yesterday.
- The New Brunswick Medical Society says COVID vaccines should be mandatory for health care workers.
- Police seized a loaded handgun after a single-vehicle crash in Florenceville-Bristol on Monday.
- Ottawa is shelling out $2.3 million to help the City of Fredericton with 16 infrastructure projects.
- Organigram has its new CEO.
- Expect some delays at borders and airports as nearly 9,000 workers hit the picket lines.
- Canada is getting a new stat holiday to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
- And researchers say they haven’t found unmarked graves connected to the Shubenacadie Residential School.
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The Lunchbox 2021-08-05: Donna Mulholland
Feature:
- Today, I spoke with Donna Mulholland, a multi-disciplinary artist who was one of the artists-in-residency at the Botanic Garden this summer. While her normal art is painting, she’s rediscovered a long-buried interest in rug hooking, both conventional and unconventional. We chat about the way she’s adapted to the hooked art, and the way she’s adapting the art to her other practice. See more of her work at her website, Donna Mulholland Studio.
- I also revisited another interview I did earlier this year with Rose He, a university student involved with the UNB Divestment Project and RAVEN.
News Headlines:
- The province says 68.2 per cent of New Brunswickers have both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
- A provincial information resource for health and government services has gone digital.
- Police conducted a second aerial search for a missing Bathurst teen yesterday.
- A campground near Moncton will be outfitted with new gear.
- Drivers will pay a little more for gasoline this week.
- Canada’s health agencies are investigating outbreaks of Hepatitis A in Quebec and Nova Scotia due to frozen mangoes.
- A capitol fire station aiming to be completely self-sufficient with green power.
- And the first plane carrying dozens of Afghan workers who helped troops in their deployment arrived in Canada yesterday.
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Mornings Are Hard // 2021-08-05
Track List:
1.) Debra-Jean Creelman – Threshold
2.) Thanya Iyer – I Forget To Drink Water (Balance)
3.) Dana Sipos – Skinny Legs
4.) Nick Ferrio – Worthy Of Love
5.) Whitehorse – Why So Cruel
6.) Alle The Dreamer – Clumsy Heart
7.) Alyson McNamara – After Hours
8.) Steve Marriner – Enough
9.) Evan Cheadle – Some Fool
10.) The Town Heroes – Queen
11.) High October – Worker And Parasite
12.) PACKS – Silvertongue
13.) Slow Down, Molasses – Some Fine Action
14.) FHANG – King Blame
Homemade Jams // 2021-08-04
Track List:
1.) Wrote – Houseplants
2.) The Olympic Symphonium – Blood From A Stone
3.) David Myles – Birch Lane
4.) Leanne Hoffman – Turning The Truth
5.) Erin Costelo – All In Your Head
6.) Baie – Suzie
7.) Ian Janes – Vital Signs
8.) Brookside Mall – Redignation
9.) Sluice – Runnin’ The Roads
10.) Joey Robin Haché – Imbécile
11.) Keegan Dobbelsteyn – Fear
12.) Andre Pettipas and The Giants – Homesick
13.) Honey Gut – Something’s Gotta Give
14.) Les Moontunes – Paper Boat
15.) Capital 6 – Dirty Funk
