The Lunchbox 2020-08-12: It’s All Music To Your Ears

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On the show:

  • I hope you wrote something really nice for World Calligraphy Day. Seriously, you’re handwriting could use some work..
  • I caught up with musician, composer, cellist, and experimental music creator Emily Kennedy this week. She’s listening to nature and turning that into music manipulated by a computer for her artist-in-residence this year at Odell Park.
  • And I decided I was fed up with the heat, so I pull out my 2015 interview with John McIntyre about his book about chillier times, Deep Freeze.

News Update:

  • New Brunswick Public Health reported one new case of COVID-19 in the Fredericton region yesterday afternoon.
  • With COVID-19 making online presence more important than ever, two companies are teaming up to give Atlantic businesses a helping hand.
  • A family of four has been forced from their home after an overnight fire east of Fredericton.
  • The City of Fredericton is requesting design proposals from local artists for a new sculpture in Odell Park.
  • A 25-year-old Sackville man has been arrested in connection with a drugs and firearms seizure in Lake George.
  • Codiac RCMP are looking for the public’s help to locate a missing man in Moncton.
  • Horizon Health has removed a COVID-19 test site because of a reduced demand to test for the virus.
  • And a group of world-class sculptors will have to race against time and tides in a new reality show filmed in the Bay of Fundy.
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The Lunchbox 2020-08-14: Back To School Talk

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On the show:

  • Time to treat yourself: it’s both Creamsicle Day and Tattoo Removal Day.
  • And remember that this weekend is National Acadian Day! Bonne fête!
  • Lots to do this weekend:
    • The New Brunswick Summer Music Festival has gone online this year, and has it’s last performance on Saturday night at 7:30pm: Potpourri!: A selection of musical tidbits from festivals and Gala concerts past- a variety of artists you will love to see again.
    • Enjoy GIN & JAZZ with music by Bridge at the Southside Shake in side the Hilton Garden Inn downtown from 7pm to 9pm on Saturday night.
    • There’s a special screening at the Delta Drive-in this Sunday night at 9pm called Repaving The Long Road Home.This Drive-In screening hosted by the Adoption Council of Canada showcases stories from filmmakers aged 13 – 29, exploring their experiences in foster care, with birth families, customary care, kinship care, adoption and/or aging out of care.

      Following the screening will be a panel discussion recorded by Youth Speak Out members aimed at educating legislators, policymakers, social workers, family court lawyers and judges, potential adoptive families, and other decision-makers what it’s like to be in foster care and why they need families who will stick with them long after they turn 16, 18, and 21.

      Limited to 50 cars, reserve your space today: https://bit.ly/2DvZJ5L

    • The first of the new Northside Creators Market at Picaroons Round House is set to open on Saturday at 8am, staying open until 2pm. If you’ve been missing your favourite creatives from the market that closed earlier this year, this is the place! 15 vendors are set to be there on opening day. Since it is indoors, masks will be required.
    • The Fifth Wall (a Social Distancing Project) has one more performance on Saturday night at 6:30pm at the Vanier Hall Parking lot at STU. You are asked to please bring your own chair. Space is limited to 50 audience members per night so RSVP is recommended! RSVP/send E-Transfer to: nastyshadows@gmail.com
    • And The Living Roots Festival 4.5 continues this weekend with the (sold out) show on Saturday at 3pm with Wicked Vices // Colourful Language // Atlas at The Cap; Saturday night at 7pm at The Tipsy Muse with Kristen Martell // Christian Howse; The Walking Contradictions at Grimross Brewing at 8pm; and Sunday features the Roots & Soul Showcase from 11am-3pm at The Cap.
  • Since we’re on the verge of welcoming students back to campus (and they should be arriving around now), I thought I’d remind folks of some of the clubs on campus. I spoke with folks from the Pre-Law Society and The Debate Society in 2018.

News update:

  • New Brunswick Public Health reported two new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
  • Talks are expected to continue today between Premier Blaine Higgs and the province’s three opposition parties.
  • Talks about the upcoming school year are bringing some changes to bussing and a new essential item.
  • Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Indigenous peoples and leadership should be credited for limiting the spread of COVID-19.
  • A Sackville man has received a total of eight charges after police searched a home in the region on Tuesday.
  • A Fredericton man was sentenced to almost two years of jail time after a brutal attack that shattered his girlfriend’s face.
  • Approximately 60 homes in Hanwell are under a boil water order after officials conducted a routine sample to find coliform bacteria.
  • And a prominent name in the global theatre community is becoming the hero everyone needs.
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The Lunchbox 2020-08-11: Go With The Flow

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On the show:

  • I don’t think I got the chance to mention that it was Play In The Sand Day, but if I know you, I’m sure you got it anyway. (If I don’t know you, I may be wrong.)
  • Since it’s Water Quality Month, I felt it was a good idea to revisit my chat with Jared Durelle from last summer, when he spent time with the Nova Scotia Grandmother Waterkeepers. He shares his first-hand experience of the tension and fight to keep water protected from resource exploitation.
    • During the discussion, Jared requested a moment of silence for contemplation and respect. Unfortunately, on the replay, I needed to have some sound there, so I substituted a little natural sound:
  • I also pulled out a phone interview with Jenny Mitchell from 2017, when she was touring the country with a portable music venue on “The Golden Bus Tour”.

News updates:

  • New Brunswick Public Health reported no new cases of COVID-19 yesterday afternoon.
  • Wolastoqey chiefs say they’re disappointed Premier Higgs is ignoring calls to establish a public inquiry into the deaths of two Indigenous people.
  • A 32-year-old Oromocto man is dead after a head-on collision southwest of Fredericton yesterday morning.
  • Premier Blaine Higgs is asking provincial party leaders to sign an agreement to avoid an election before 2022 or until the pandemic is over.
  • A Sussex man has been charged with possession of child pornography after an investigation by the Mounties’ internet child exploitation unit.
  • Sussex RCMP are looking for the public’s help after a dog was shot and killed in Waterford earlier this month.
  • The City of Fredericton has received $90,000 from the province’s environmental trust to help fund three different studies.
  • And U.S. President Donald Trump was evacuated from the white house briefing room yesterday after shots were fired outside the building.
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RFYL Episode – CounterspellEP129

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

We’ve got a lot of amazing new tracks for you guys this week of each and every flavour! I do want to shout right back at you folks for getting back to me. Arguably, last week’s episode may have been the most heavily responded to episode in quite some time and I have /NO IDEA/ what changed. Keep making those requests and sending stuff my way!

Anyway, hope you enjoy a heavier episode! Next week we’ll be helping celebrate Kitchen Witch’s brand new release on August 21st, and let me tell you it’s absolutely amazing.

 

Playlist:
Sorrow (Love In Vain) – Freeways
Warren & Jimmy – Loser Points
Ghost / Dark Side – Rezurex
Diamond Back / Will To Survive – Lutharo
Bike Club – Black Mastiff
Apnea – Puta Volcano
The Cross – Osyron
Immortal – From The Depth
Abyss – Unleash The Archers
JENOVA – RoboRob

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earshot20 // 2020-08-07

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Hour One:
Bonus Track – Good Lovelies – Waiting For You
#20 – Dehd – Flying
#19 – The Jerry Cans – Nain
#18 –  Land Of Talk – Indistinct Conversations
#17 – Little Kid – All Night (Golden Ring)
#16 –  Owen Pallett – The Sound Of Engines
#15 –  Brenna Lowrie – Skin
Bonus Track – Julian Taylor – Ballad of a Young Troubadour
#14 – Margo Price – That’s How RumorsGet Started
#13 – Crack Cloud – Post Truth (Birth of a Nation)
#12 – Khruangbin – If There Is No Question
Bonus Track – Fake Shark – Superstitious Thing
#11 – Austra – Mountain Baby
Hour Two:
#10 – Protomartyr – June TwentyOne
#09 – Gum Country – Waterfall
Bonus Track – Cedric Noel – Nighttime (Skin) 
#08 – Ora Cogan – Sleeping
#07 – Run The Jewels – JU$T
#06 – Braids – Note To Self
Bonus Track – Pallmer – Allude to What 
#05 – Pottery – Reflection
#04 – Pantayo  Taranta
#03 – Lido Pimienta – Te Queria – Chancha Via Circuito Remix
#02 – Phoebe Bridgers – Moon Song
Bonus Track – Tough Age – Possession
#01 – Zoon – Was & Always Will Be

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-08-11

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Track Listing:
1.) Free To Grow – Bad Bear
2.) Evan Dando – The Ballad of El Goodo
3.) Cake – Never There
4.) Pottery – NY Inn
5.) Tough Age – Self-Confidence
6.) Said The Whale – UnAmerican
7.) Bend Sinister – I’m Tired
8.) Video Age – Aerostar
9.) Dehd – Flying
10.) The Beths – Don’t Go Away
11.) Fast Romantics – Pick It Up
12.) Esthero – Indigo Boy
13.) Twin Peaks – What’s The Matter
14.) Ian Kelly – Montreal

Homemade Jams // 2020-08-11

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Track Listing:
1.) Quinn Bonnell – Clubman Estate
2.) Jon McKiel – What Kind Of Light?
3.) Grand Theft Bus – Private Wars
4.) Austin Eatman – Walking Paranoia
5.) Land Of Talk – A/B Futures (Montreal, QC)
6.) Amanda Jackson Band – The Warrior
7.) Rey D – 4 Love
8.) Capital 6 – Dante
9.) Weak Size Fish – Lost Lagoon
10.) Aquakultre – Legacy
11.) Elephant Skeletons – Blindfold

The Lunchbox 2020-08-10: Breaking The Fifth Wall (News)

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On the show:

  • Monday was Lazy Day, so you can be forgiven if you got nothing done.
  • Looking forward to the return of a Northside Creators Market at the Picaroon’s Roundhouse! It’s schedule to start this Saturday, August 15, and run from 8am to 2pm.
  • It’s a big week!
    • Join friends on Wednesday night for Capital 6 live & in person on the patio at The Cap!
    • We’ve got the return of the Living Roots Festival starts with Shaun Ferguson // Palmer on Thursday, August 13 at 7pm at The Cap. It continues with performances on Friday and Saturday, and ends with a big showcase on Sunday.
    • Herbert The Cow Productions and Nasty Shadows Theatre Company have combined forces for some brand-new theatre: The Fifth Wall (a Social Distancing Project) runs Thursday and Friday nights, starting at 6:30pm each night. Listen to the show for my interview with Corinski Nowlan and Scott Shannon about the performance!
    • The upcoming Design Works Wednesday from the UNB Art Centre is all about Blue Cubism! Tune in their Facebook page after 10am on Wednesday to learn about a hundred shades of blue.
    • Halifax Pier will on stage at Dolan’s Pub this week, too!
    • And don’t forget to get your tickets for the Delta Drive-in on Thursday or Friday. This week’s selection: The Sandlot.
  • As I suggested above, I got a chance to connect with Corinski Nowlan and Scott Shannon to ask them about doing theatre in the midst of the pandemic, from the postponed performances of Veils earlier this year to the “uncancellable” upcoming outdoor, in-a-parking-lot performances of The Fifth Wall (a Social Distancing Project).
  • And because this is Water Quality Month, I jumped back to spring of 2019 and a chat with Marie Maltais about the UNB Art Centre’s Water Panel.

News updates:

  • New Brunswick Public Health reported no new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend.
  • University students are finding this year’s meal plans a little hard to swallow.
  • Starting tomorrow, education minister Dominic Cardy will begin offering a return to school plan update twice a week.
  • New Brunswickers will find a bright yellow envelope from Elections New Brunswicker waiting for them in the mail this week.
  • The Codiac RCMP is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing man in Moncton.
  • Police in Saint John are warning residents about phone scams from individuals claiming to be connected with a law enforcement agency.
  • Fredericton’s LGBTQ community may have a new place to call home by October 1.
  • And starting on Wednesday, all Walmart customers and staff across Canada will be required to wear face masks.
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Homemade Jams // 2020-08-10

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Track Listing:
1.) Matt Boudreau – Patio
2.) Adyn Townes – Leave It Alone
3.) Alert The Medic – The Weatherman (Pt.2)
4.) Émilie Landry – Le creux de nos mains
5.) Terra Spencer – Raining On A Saturday
6.) Free To Grow – Silence
7.) Wicked Vices – Appetite
8.) Chloé Breault – Quand on y pense
9.) Jamie Comeau & The Crooked Teeth – Fortune
10.) Jessie Brown – Ghost
11.) Sound Drown – Your Princess Is In Another Castle
12.) The Kendra Gale Band – Make You Love Me
13.) Adam Mowery – Risk Factor

Homemade Jams // 2020-08-07

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Track Listing:
1.) Deep Fryer – Jeremy
2.) Heat $heets – Groger
3.) The Motorleague – Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen
4.) Little You, Little Me – My Thinking
5.) Kill Chicago – Made Up
6.) On Vinyl – Strode Dodger
7.) Honey Gut – Buried Alive
8.) Marian – Same Town
9.) Brookside Mall – Twenty Thirteen
10.) Tough Age – Possession (Toronto, ON)
11.) Subtle – My Favourite Morning
12.) Motherhood – #224
13.) My Black Ram – Un Huh
14.) Mike Bern – First Mother
15.) Colin Fowlie – Work To Live

RFYL Episode – ZoneOfTruthEP128

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

On this week’s episode, we use the power of checking email to see all the awesome stuff I’ve been missing out while I’ve been wallowing in my own crapulence / being messed up on my medication. That being said, I’m still fairly messed up but at least I’m more up to date now?

Anyway, this episode is significantly heavier than usual, and if you don’t like that, I’m shocked you’re even reading this in the first place? Cool that you’re still here though, I mean, mad props.

Playlist:
Happy Man – Jungle
Pressure – Cory Hotline
Guiding Lights – The JB Conspiracy
Free (But Nothing More) – Orc
Head Fast – Striker
Future Sun – Sacrifice to Survive
Ignite / The Ones Below – Osyron
Veiled Aurora – Every Hour Kills
Spread Your Fire – From The Depth
Soulbound – Unleash The Archers
Short Change Hero – The Heavy
Hollow – Yosh

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Mornings Are Hard // 2020-08-06

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Track Listing:
1.) Adrian Underhill – Not Good Enough
2.) Dream Wife – Old Flame
3.) Washed Out – Time To Walk Away
4.) The Know – Someday Maybe
5.) GoKart Mozart – 20s Teen
6.) Mass Electric – Double Money (Remix)
7.) Fishstixx – Visa
8.) Born Ruffians – I Fall In Love Every Night
9.) The Zolas – Ultramarine
10.) The Elwins – Weight of the World
11.) Land Of Talk – Footnotes
12.) Hooded Fang – Tosta Mista
13.) Jon McKiel – Cold Hand Becomes The Master
14.) Wolf Parade – Against The Day

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-08-05

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Track Listing:
1.) Jesse Hite – I’m Glad You Called Me
2.) Flume, Toro Y Moi – The Difference
3.) Washed Out – Time To Walk Away
4.) Tame Impala – Borderline
5.) Rachel Beck – Warrior
6.) AeTopus – Interhalation
7.) Find the Other – We Stared At The World
8.) Strangelands – Into The Night
9.) Baie – Suzie
10.) Liza Anne – I Shouldn’t Ghost My Therapist
11.) Moscow Apartment – 18
12.) Ora Cogan – Skull
13.) Buffalo Rose – Borderline (Live)
14.) Mike Bern – Waponahkew
15.) The Pretty Flowers – The Long Con

!earshot20 // 2020-07-31

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Hour One:
#20 – The Dears – Heart Of An Animal
#18 – Protomartyr – Processed By The Boys
Bonus Track – Neighbourhood Watch – Face The Nation 
#17 – Bad Buddy – Simultaneously
#16 – Sargeant X Comrade – Romance In Outer Space
#15 – David Strickland – Turtle Island
#14 – Arca – Afterwards
Bonus Track – Foreign Diplomats – Tedium 
#13 – Ora Cogan – Fixe
#12 – Owen Pallett – The Sound Of The Engines
Bonus Track – Baby Cages – Gold 
#11 – Wares – Complete Control

Hour Two:
#10 – Austra – Risk It
#09 – Braids – Just Le Me
Bonus Track – umLäb – Chroma
#08 – Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto
#07 – Khruangbin – So We Don’t Forget
#06 – Run The Jewels – Goonies vs. E.T.
Bonus Track – Mike Bravener – The Banks of the Miramichi
#05 – The Jerry Cans – Echoes
#04 –  Pantayo – Eclipse
#03 – Pottery – Down In The Dumps
Bonus Track – Krief – Never Without You
#02 – Lido Pimienta – Nada
Bonus Track – Adam Mowery – The Girl With No Tattoo
#01 – Zoon – Never Without You

Homemade Jams // 2020-08-04

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Track Listing:
1.) M3D14 – Torn Apart
2.) Wangled Teb – Dark Place (Black Water Mix)
3.) Nebullama – Groovin’
4.) Wolf Castle – Cha Cha
5.) Super Duty Tough Work – Hypnotic (Winnipeg, MB)
6.) Lil Omar – El Puente
7.) Before The War – The Wreck
8.) Pallmer – Allude To What
9.) Blue Lobelia – Somewhere Calm
10.) Colin Fowlie – Sanctuary
11.) Richie Young – Daytime Rambler
12.) The Tortoise The Hare & The Millionaire – Pick Up Lines
13.) Sleepy Driver – Big Wheels
14.) Two Piece Empire – 8.19

Her Turn // 2020-08-04

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Track Listing:
1.) Taylor Swift – August
2.) Anna Ternheim – Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
3.) Catherine MacLellan – This Storm
4.) Ora Cogan – Fixe
5.) Jane Blanchard – Still, Again
6.) Anna Burch – Can’t Sleep
7.) Madeline Kenney – Sucker
8.) Hannah Georgas – Love Is A Stranger
9.) Marlana – Midnight Special
10.) Sharky – Love and Ownership
11.) TATYANA – Need 2 Know
12.) The Beths – I’m Not Getting Excited
13.) Les Hay Babies – Jacqueline
14.) The Damn Truth – I Want You (He’s A Lightweight)

Her Turn // 2020-07-28

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Track Listing:
1.) Justine Vandergrift – Stay
2.) Soccer Mommy – Royal Screw Up
3.) Pantayo – Divine
4.) Ellis – Pringle Creek
5.) Paragon Cause – Lost Cause|
6.) Cayley Thomas – Blue Jean Baby
7.) Rachel Beck – Dancin’
8.) Vivienne Wilder – Jimmy
9.) Cassie Noble – Madness
10.) Aimee-Jo Bandit, Trio Velocity – This FLight Tonight
11.) Tamar Ilana, Ventanas – Asfour (Sparrow)
12.) Mallory Chipman & The Mystics – Fruits
13.) Laila Biali – Revival

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-07-30

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Track Listing:
1.) Photay – The People
2.) Liza Anne – Desire
3.) Jehnny Beth – Flower
4.) Whoop-Szo – Amaruq (Doomsquad’s Weatherall Tribute Mix)
5.) Ice Cream – Peanut Butter
6.) Super Duty Tough Work – Hypnotic
7.) OBUXUM – Moooors (A.H) Dream’s
8.) Weak Size Fish – Reflect/Rewind
9.) Pantayo – Bronsé
10.) Alice Ivy, Cadence Weapon – Sunrise
11.) The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers
12.) Certain Animals – Too Long
13.) Bombay Bicycle Club – Let You Go (Acoustic)

Mornings Are Hard // 2020-07-29

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Track Listing: 
1.) Foreign Diplomats – Tedium
2.) Krief – I Am The Pillar Of Darkness In Your Life
3.) Arcade Fire – Ready To Start
4.) Ellis – Fall Apart
5.) Braids – Young Buck
6.) The Dears – The Worst In Us
7.) Born Ruffians – Wavy Haze
8.) The Gonks – I’m A Lonely Night Driver
9.) Jon McKiel – What Kind Of Light?
10.) Walrus – Glam
11.) Dan Edmonds – Softie
12.) Wicked Vices – Appetite
13.) Sleepy Driver, Northeastern Chorus – Every Single Day

!earshot20 // 2020-07-24

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Hour One:
#20 – Little Kid – Losing
#19 – Basia Bulat – Are You In Love?
Bonus Track – Corb Lund – I Think You Oughta Try Whiskey
#18 – Pharis & Jason Romero – Bet On Love
#17 – Arca – KLK
#16 – Whoop-Szo – Cut Your Hair (Zachary Gray Remix)
#15 – Austra – Messiah
#14 – Khruangbin – So We Won’t Forget
#13 – Wares – Surrender Into Waiting Arms
Bonus Track – Camille Delean – Idle Fever, Out Of Tune
#12 – Ora Cogan – Skull
#11 – Gum County – There’s A Crumb

Hour Two:
#10 – Run The Jewels – Out of sight
#09 – The Jerry Cans – SOS
Bonus Track – Mike Bern – Apatapasiq 
#08 – Backxwash – Adolescence
#07 – Braids – Snow Angel
#06 – Pantayo – Kaingin
#05 – Owen Pallett – In Darkness
#04 – Phoebe Bridgers – Garden Song
#03 – Lido Pimienta – Te Queria
#02 – Pottery – Texas Drums Pt I & 2
Bonus Track – Wet Cigarette – Six Feet of Ice 
#01 – Zoon – Help Me Understand

RFYL Episode – ExpeditiousRetreatEP127

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

Hey folks! Anyone keeping score at home might be a bit confused over what happened between this episode and last, and that’s because my health didn’t really allow me to get another episode out in time for airing. So, here we are, pretending otherwise that nothing skipped a beat.

This year has sucked, and I do regret not being able to get out more episodes and how many episodes I’ve missed as it is.

That being said, the line-up is killer and the hour is good. Try not to mind my shaky voice.

Playlist:
We Were Born To Kill Each Other – Die So Fluid
Son Of A Gun – Reignwolf
Death Club – Deaf Radio
Unwoven – A Brilliant Lie
Behind Closed Doors – SoulHealer
Hide Mind / Welcome To The World – Gygax
Days Will Remain – Ian Blurton’s Future Now
Overdrive – Tzimani
DTC – Powder for Pigeons
Clear The Air – Woodhawk
Fear The Fire – Orbital Express (Official)
Siren Song – Magick Touch

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Homemade Jams // 2020-07-31

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Track Listing: 
1.) Adam Mowery – On The Take
2.) Jon McKiel – Mourning Dove
3.) Subtle – Calculus Class
4.) Long Distance Runners – Knuckles
5.) Mike Trask – Bad News
6.) Little You, Little Me – Traveled
7.) Protomartyr – Processed By The Boys (Detroit, MI)
8.) Motherhood – Bird Chirp
9.) Cedric Noel – Nighttime (Skin)
10.) Jane Blanchard – Care
11.) Honey Gut – Buried Alive
12.) Young Satan In Love – PC Satan
13.) Ms. Thomas – Headspin
14.) Atlas – Alibi