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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-10 FUNDRIVE

Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Radiator – You Need To Know || 23 Part Street London UK
2.) Frog Eyes – Television, a Ghost in My Head || The Open Up
3.) Nate and the Busy Boys – Community Radio || Busy Doing Nothing
4.) Bibi Club – La terre || Feu de garde
5.) Basia Bulat – Laughter || Basia’s Palace
6.) young friend – soft light || motorcycle sound effects
7.) Cold Specks – Lingering Ghosts || Light for the Midnight
8.) Cold Specks – Wandering In The Wild || Light For The Midnight
9.) Dan Mangan – Cut The Brakes || single
10.) Andre Ethier – Kids Are || Cold Spaghetti
11.) Kylie V – Year of the Rabbit || Crash Test Plane
12.) Men I Trust – Bethlehem || Equus Asinus
13.) Lou-Adriane Cassidy – Journal d’un loup-garou || Journal d’un loup-garou
14.) Cecile Believe – Blink Twice || Tender The Spark

Harmony Corruption Episode 89-April 8th, 2025

Hi Folks! This week’s episode features some new tunes off a couple albums I picked up in the last few weeks! There’s lots of great tunes from all around the world. Hope you all enjoy, and I hope you all enjoyed the April Fool’s Day episode last week. This week’s back to the regularly scheduled programming. Here’s the playlist for the week:

Malthusian-Remnant Fauna

Malthusian-Primal Attunement: The Gloom Epoch

Gorgoroth-Katharinas Bortgang

Melvins-Goin’ Blind

Kiss-Parasite

Krisiun-Hunter of Souls

Ares Kingdom-Nom de Guerre

Anatomia-Slime of Putrescence

Cryptopsy-Voice of Unreason

Triptykon-In the Sleep of Death

KEN Mode-I Cannot

Noose Sweat-Lesson Learned

Manilla Road-The Ram

Caustic Wound-Visions of Torture

Pig Destroyer-Girl in the Slayer Jacket

Napalm Death-Unchallenged Hate

Woods of Ypres-Career Suicide (Is Not Real Suicide)

Holy Grinder-Suffer

Holy Grinder-Flesh Prison

Slother-Open Jaws

Slother-Sarcophage

Amorphis-Against Widows

Amorphis-Elegy

Mitochondrion-The Erythapside

Thanks for listening!

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-09 FUNDRIVE

Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Rich Aucoin – ElectroComp || Synthetic: Season 3
2.) Caribou – Come Find Me || Honey
3.) Magi Merlin – see!igetit || A Weird Little Dog
4.) Lia Kuri – Cyclone || Motherland
5.) Lou-Adriane Cassidy – Dis-moi dis-moi dis-moi || Journal d’un Loup-Garou
6.) Pierre Kwenders – Everyday || Tears On The Dancefloor
7.) Art d’Ecco – Tree Of Life || Serene Demon
8.) LAL – Self Defence || LAL
9.) Mustafa – Name of God || Dunya
10.) The Burning Hell – Strange Paradise || Ghost Palace
11.) Frog Eyes – I See the Same Things || The Open Up
12.) Joel Plaskett – High Summer || One Real Reveal
13.) Bonnie Trash – Poison Kiss || Mourning You
14.) Book Club – Laugh or Cry || single

Away From The Mire Episode 74 – Fundrive Week 2

We are into week 2 of Fundrive and any contribution you can give will be a big help! Please donate at www.chsrfm.ca/donate!

On this weeks episode,

The Smashing Pumpkins – The Everlasting Gaze
Doctor Mother Father – Tired Eyes
Local H – OK
Liz Phair – Polyester Bride
Gob – What To Do
Santigold – Lights Out
Absolute Losers – By Design
Arcade Fire – City With No Children
Grand Theft Bus – Street Sleeper
Capital 6 – In The Weird
Phish – Weigh
Bob Dylan – Jokerman

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-08 FUNDRIVE

Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Population II – Maintenant et Jamais || Maintenant Jamais
2.) Population II – Previsions || Maintenant Jamais
3.) The Orchids – Set It Off || The Orchids
4.) Cross Dog – Enemy || All Hard Feelings
5.) Motherhood – Bok Globule || Thunder Perfect Mind
6.) young friend – golden rule || motorcycle sound effects
7.) Julian Taylor – Ain’t Life Strange || Pathways
8.) Richard Laviolette – Milkweed And Motherwort || All Wind Things Are Shy
9.) The New Pornographers – Ballad of the Last Payphone || single
10.) Geoffroy – Early Morning Sun || Good Boy
11.) Leif Vollebekk – Rock and Roll || Relevation
12.) Basia Bulat – The Moon || Basia’s Palace
13.) Klo Pelgag – Sans visage || Abracadabra
14.) Boutique Feelings – Sundried Autumn || boutique feelings

Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-07 #LocalAF FUNDRIVE

Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) The Hypochondriacs – Just Like Before (Live) || The Hypochondriacs Live
Chat with Josh Bravener
2.) The Hypochondriacs – Highway #2 || Waitin’
3.) The Belle Comedians – Rosy || Charlotte
4.) The Burning Hell – Brazil Nuts and Blue Curacao || Ghost Palace
5.) Grand Theft Bus – Gold Mine || Say It With Me
6.) El Tata y Los Taqueros, Maté – Best Life || single
7.) Kill Chicago – Two Drinks Behind || The Fix

Interview // Bondo chats with Josh Bravener of The Hypochondriacs

Credit: www.thehypochondriacs.com

Josh Bravener, frontman of the Fredericton staple The Hypochondriacs, stopped by CHSR on April 5, 2025 for a chat about the band’s upcoming shows, highlights from the past couple of years, and what’s on the horizon for 2025.

Upcoming Dates:
April 7th: The Cap w/ Devon Cuddy (solo)
April 17th: FHS (The Hypos)
April 25th: Tobique River Trading Co. (solo)
April 27th: The Cottage w/ Connor Fox (solo)
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Interview: John Heinstein, Peter Hicks (Sleepy Driver)

The nature of artists is often change, growth and experimentation.

My guests today are John Heinstein and Peter Hicks, core members of the band Sleepy Driver (among other projects). They join me to talk about exploring new directions with the band, including many of the changes it has already had over its 20 year history, and the many friends they have a chance to work with.

A new album from Sleepy Driver should be in the works over the next year, and singles are being released in the mean time. You can catch them at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre with several of their friends for a concert on April 12.

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People Need Music: April 3, 2025

Fundrive Show #1 with co-host Emma Chevarie from Music Runs Through It

www.musicrunsthroughit.com

Donate to CHSR FM and enter to win concert tickets courtesy of Music Runs Through It.

Choose between: Owen Steel on April 12th at Gallery 78 and Charlie A’Court on April 23rd at Dolan’s Pub!

Just let Tonya know that you donated to our Fundrive! tonyaprice [at] hotmail [dot] com

https://gofund.me/25d6e412

Playlist ::

The Devin Cuddy Band – Dear Jane ::

Alfie Zappacosta – Overload ::

Owen Steel – Your Own Imagination ::

Josh Bravener & The Hypochondriacs – Waitin ::

Charlie A’Court – Don’t Gimme That Look ::

Connor Fox – Ain’t No Time ::

The Hello Crows – Come Back To Me

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-03 FUNDRIVE

Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Geoffroy – C.A.Y.A. || Good Boy
2.) Maya Cook – Black Ice || salt
3.) Dorothea Paas – Locked || Think Of Mist
4.) Les Moontunes – All I See Is Blue || Les Moontunes
5.) Moonshine, NegrO, Yend – La Haine || single
6.) Peach Pit – Did You Love Somebody || Magpie
7.) Klo Pelgag – Libra || Abracadabra
8.) The Deep Dark Woods – Ruby || single
9.) Colin Fowlie – Passerby || East Of Nowhere
10.) Mike Trask – Lwanding Day || single
11.) Matt Andersen – Wayaheadaya || single
12.) Foxwarren – Listen2me || single
13.) PUP – Hallways || single
14.) Sunnsetter – Fear it comes in waves || Heaven Hang Over Me

Indie Corruption (Harmony Corruption)-Episode 88-April 1st, 2025

Hi Folks! Happy April Fools’ Day! This week’s episode features a few surprises to go along with April Fools’ Day. Hope you all enjoy the episode, and make sure to check out the Harmony Whimsy episode on the CHSR website once it goes up if you’d like to hear a familiar voice.

Here’s the playlist for the week:

Wesley Willis-Bolt Thrower

Wesley Willis-Morbid Angel

Bad Religion-Voice of God Is Government

County Medical Examiners-Expeditious Evisceratory Mishap

Type O Negative-Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10?? cm?³ gm?¹ sec?²

Demilich-The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)

Nile-Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns

Perilaxe Occlusion-Vapor Chamber

Dopethrone-Wizard’s Sleeve

Dopethrone-Killdozer

Mr. Bungle-Squeeze Me Macaroni

Faith No More-Smaller and Smaller

Sarcofago-Rhabdovirus (The Pitbull’s Curse)

Impaled Nazarene-The Horny and the Horned

Brujeria-Narclos-Satanicos

Holy Grinder-Transphobe Extermination

Savatage-Necrophilia

Razor-Bad Vibrations

Annihilator-The Fun Palace

Annihilator-Kraf Dinner

Slother-Stoner Sloth

Slother-Scrimshaw

Chat Pile-grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg

Dayglo Abortions-Dogfarts

Archagathus-Canadian Hoser

Carcass-Microwaved Uterogestation

Cannibal Corpse-Orgasm Through Torture

The Stills-Young Band-Fontainebleau

Slowdive-40 Days

Thanks for listening!

 

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Interview with Author Tara Pyfrom

My guest today was Tara Pyfrom, author of memoir The Ocean in Our Blood. Tara joined me today to give insight into the category 5 hurricane that hit The Bahamas in 2019, Hurricane Dorian. During our interview Tara discusses her experience with environmental immigration, PTSD, her and her family’s mental health journeys and the effects of climate change in areas of the world like The Bahamas.

If you would like to learn more about Tara’s story, The Ocean in Our Blood will be released July 2025, but is also currently available for preorder on her website.

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-02 FUNDRIVE

Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Dan Mangan – Melody || single
2.) Poets and Liars – Now That I’m Looking || single
3.) The Merci Buckets – Executive Dysfunction || ALLURE
4.) Joni Void, N NAO – Du Parc || Every Life Is A Light
5.) Bonnie Trash – Haunt Me (What Have You Become) || Mourning You
6.) OMBIIGIZI – Laminate The Sky || SHAME
7.) Brad Sucks – Wasting My Potential || Naturally
8.) Kill Chicago – Moonlight || The Fix
9.) Motherhood – Moat || Thunder Perfect Mind
10.) The Burning Hell – Luna FM || Ghost Palace
11.) Art d’Ecco – Survival Of The Fittest || Serene Demon
12.) Pierre Kwenders, Pierre Lapointe, NegrO – Clair De Lune || Tears On The Dancefloor
13.) Men I Trust – I Come With Mud || Equus Asinus
14.) Caribou – Volume || Honey

Away From The Mire Episode 73 – Fundrive!

Hi Everyone, thanks for checking out the show! This week we have more new music from The Burning Hell, Absolute Losers and Mckinley Morrison & Williams as well as some other great tracks I’m sure you’ll enjoy.

It is fundrive week here at CHSR so if you enjoy what you hear and can help support the station please do so at chsrfm.ca/donate!

 

The Burning Hell – Celebrities In Cemeteries
Zoot – Eleanor Rigby
Motherhood – Kyle Hangs at Noon
Mckinley Morrison & Williams – Fad Bucker
Eddie Vedder – Brother The Cloud
Apollo Suns – Crybaby
Jake Boss & Rob Cameron – Day Drinking
The Young Evils – Sleepwalking
The Decemberists – The Mariner’s Revenge Song
Weird Al Yankovic – Alternative Polka
Chardon Polka Band – Grab Your Balls, We’re Going Bowling!
Absolute Losers – Star Sweeper
MJ Lenderman – Wristwatch

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-04-01 FUNDRIVE

Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Destroyer – Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World || Dan’s Boogie
2.) Housewife – Divorce || Work Song
3.) Basia Bulat – Baby || Basia’s Palace
4.) Yawn – broken baby || single
5.) Yves Jarvis – All Cylinders || All Cylinders
6.) Braden Lam – Beautiful Neighbourhoods || Hurricane Season
7.) Charlie Houston – I Need U || Big After I Die
8.) Two Hours Traffic – On The Spot || single
9.) Terra Lightfoot – Higher & Higher || single
10.) Jay Feelbender – Angel || single
11.) Kestrels – Dream Of You in Black || Better Wonder
12.) Godspeed You! Black Emperor – BABYS IN A THOUNDERCLOUD || “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEB 2024,340 DEAD” 

Mornings Are Hard || 2025-03-31 #LocalAF Fundrive

Donate: CHSR’s Fundrive: March 31st to April 12th

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Nate and the Busy Boys – Birdy Birdy || Busy Doing Nothing
2.) La Patente – Las mal-amies || Le cirque des mal-amies
3.) The Hypochondriacs – Highway #2 || Waitin’
4.) David R. Elliott – Safe || True Love Forever
5.) Adam Mowery – Oldies 93 || Brick by Brick: 2007-2022
6.) Radiator – Fortune Teller || 23 Park Street London UK
7.) Doctor Mother Father – More Than Poor (With My Friends) || single
8.) Shriven – Run || Saints Rest
9.) Motherhood – Sunk || Thunder Perfect Mind
10.) Chillteens – Short King || In Another Dream
11.) Marc McLaughlin – All I Can Say || All I Can Say
12.) El Tata ft. Yoro – Walking || single
13.) XIA-3 – Another Day || Interworlds
14.) Capital 6 – In The Wierd || Not My One

Testing For Echo – Episode 73 – Thoughts Of A Legend – Orig. Air Date March 29, 2025

Before we start, I’d like to take a moment to send some love and thoughts to David Johansen of the New York Dolls, who reinvented himself in the 80’s as Buster Poindexter and later formed The Harry Smiths.

I’ve been a fan of everything he has done for many years.

David has been living with stage 4 cancer, but he’s giving it a damn good fight. We wish him luck

This one’s for you David. Let’s start today off with the New York Dolls – Looking For A Kiss

Take care,

Tim

Episode Song List

  1. New York Dolls – Looking For A Kiss
  2. Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away
  3. Paul MacIntosh and The Lost Keys – Moths In The Kichen
  4. King Crimson – The Night Watch
  5. Red Moon Road – Where My Heart Is
  6. Fifth Daughter – Even Winter
  7. Zebra – Who’s Behind The Door
  8. Saga – Cat Walk (Live)
  9. Rush – A Passage To Bangkok
  10. Gentle Hen – Sit On Roofs
  11. Triumph – Hold On
  12. Waylon Napadogan – Oh Ya For Sure Bud
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New MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing hopes to inspire culture of writers at the University of New Brunswick

Starting in the winter semesters of 2025, the University of New Brunswick unveiled its new MacLauchlan Prize for Effective Writing, awarded to one student in each of UNB’s fourteen faculties. The prize is worth $1000 and hopes to support students both financially and emotionally, by encouraging submissions from students who might go under appreciated by similar awards. UNB Chancellor Wade MacLauchlan, who the prize was named after, noted that the prize is meant to recognize “effectiveness” rather than “excellence.” In this way, Chancellor MacLauchlan hopes that it will inspire a wider range of UNB students, with the goal of fostering a long lasting and universal culture of writers at the university. Submissions to the prize remain open until April 1, 2025.

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Interview: Theatre UNB presents Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband”

Some things are universal throughout time, like political aspirations and those who prey on them.

For the last play of the season, Theatre UNB is staging a production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. Joining me is John Ball (director; professor & acting Chair of the Department of English at UNB), Shannon Munn (actor: “Mrs. Cheveley”) and James Gwathmey (actor: “Sir Robert Chiltern”). We talk about this lesser-known political dramedy of Oscar Wilde’s body of work, the delights and challenges in playing political characters, and the relevancy of a play published over a century ago.

Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband will be staged from April 3 through the 6th at 7:30pm nightly at Memorial Hall on campus.

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Harmony Corruption Episode 87-The Sacrifice Interview-March 25th, 2025

Hi Folks! This week’s episode features an interview with Gus from Sacrifice! We got to chat about their new album “Volume Six,” upcoming tour dates, the band’s history and lots more. As well, the rest of the episode features lots of great tunes from Canada, Brazil, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK.

Here’s the playlist for the week:

Sacrifice-Antidote of Poison

Sacrifice-Missile

Sacrifice-Terror Strikes

Sacrifice-Homicidal Breath

Sacrifice-Soldiers of Misfortune

Gorguts-Rottenatomy

Kataklysm-Eternal, I Reach Infinity

Katakylsm-Mystical Plane of Evil

Motorhead-Stay Clean

Black Sabbath-Born Again

Black Sabbath-Keep It Warm

Sepultura-Dead Embryonic Cells

In Flames-Dead Eternity

Pestilence-Reduced to Ashes

Witchfinder General-Witchfinder General

Thanks again to Sacrifice and thanks for listening!

 

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STU Lunchbox 2025 EP03: “Virgin Voters”

Hosts Fernanda Sanchez and Caleb Desjardins look at the upcoming federal election through the lens of young people suffering from information and disinformation overload.

  • Music:
  • “Elected” by Alice Cooper (opening theme)
  • “Vote Baby Vote”  Deee-lite (streeter mix background)
  • “Wheat Kings” by the Tragically Hip (CDN)
  • “Gretzky Rocks” by the Pursuit of Happiness (CDN)
  • “Dale Una Luz” by  Dúo Guardabarranco (foreign language)
  • “Beer Never Broke My Heart”  Luke Combs  (conservative makeup sketch))
  • “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” by Shania Twain (conservative makeup sketch) (CDN)
  • “Political” by Spirit of the West (CDN)
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Movies in Your Head Episode 6

Originally aired on March 5, 2025.

 

Featured in this episode:

“Drunk in the Chelsea” by Peyton Ballantyne (poem)

“Bringing You to the City” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“Poem Boy” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“The Captain” by Aidan Keenan (short fiction)

“You’re Empty” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“Eat My Words” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“Sisyphus’ Love” by Connor Fraser (poem)

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Movies in Your Head Episode 5

Originally aired February 19, 2025.

 

Featured in this episode:

“The Laundry Room” by Connor Fraser (short fiction)

“Bite” by Aidan Keenan (short fiction)

“we all have eyes, so why can’t we see” by Connor Fraser (poem)

“Blood” by Aidan Keenan (prose poem)

“Devious Muck: SUB Tim Horton’s” by Patrick Donovan, Connor Fraser, and Aidan Keenan (review)

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Movies in Your Head Episode 4

Originally aired February 5, 2025.

 

Featured in this episode:

“I Was Once” by Ken Spragg (poem)

Excerpt from “The Wrong Place at the Right Time” by Connor Fraser (creative non-fiction)

“Three Months” by Aidan Keenan (creative non-fiction)

“Being Young” by Aidan Keenan (creative non-fiction)

“The Absence of Eve” by Connor Fraser (sonnet + free verse)

“Women are the Creator” by Connor Fraser (free verse)

“The Hornet” by Aidan Keenan (poem)

“New Brunswick” by Aidan Keenan (poem)

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