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Harmony Corruption Episode 68-October 1st, 2024

Hi Folks! Welcome back to Harmony Corruption on CHSR-FM! This week’s episode features some classic 80s heavy/power metal, as well as a sneak peak at a band I’ll be doing an interview with in a few weeks! It also features a live show review of Bat Sabbath, Conjurer, Ethereal Tomb, Iron Giant, Messe in Moncton from Saturday, Sept. 28, as well as a mini show review of Ethereal Tomb, Apes, Helsreach, Scorching Tomb and Necrohol at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre.

Here’s the playlist for the week!

Mayhem-Chimera

Mayhem-You Must Fall

Darkthrone-As Flittermice as Satans Spys

Tribulation-Strains of Horror

Savatage-The Unholy

Hypocrisy-Adjusting the Sun

Ethereal Tomb-Landback Stomp

Ethereal Tomb-When the Rivers Dry

Ethereal Tomb-Existing in the False Paradise of Shame

Helstar-Baptized in Blood

Black Sabbath-Symptom of the Universe

Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean-The Chalice

From Dying Suns-Vereor nox

Fluids-Dignity Swindled

Motorhead-Stone Dead Forever

Samael-Beyond the Nothingness

Samael-Worship Him

Warkrusher-Silence

Warkrusher-Shadows

Mitochondrion-Trials

Thanks for listening! Stay tuned for next week, as it will feature an interview with Blood Incantation talking about their new album “Absolute Elsewhere.”

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CHSR News – October 2nd, 2024 – Fredericton Public Library Suffers Extensive Vandalism

Fredericton Police have launched an investigation into an incident of vandalism at Fredericton’s downtown public library that has forced the space to temporarily close.

Members of the Fredericton Police Force and the City Of Fredericton’s Community Safety Services Unit arrived on the scene Monday morning to find a smashed window, flooded bathrooms, discharged fire extinguishers and broken technology. Causing an estimated $50 – 100,000 in damage and forcing the space to temporarily close.

Johnny James reports on the incident and the reaction from public officials.

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Testing For Echo – Episode 60 – Milestones? Sure! Keep Them Coming! – Orig. Air Date September 28, 2024

 

Hello there folks. Welcome to Testing For Echo Episode 60 on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell.

Today I’ve decided to browse through the music archives and focus on a few that I’ve played before and love, but haven’t played recently. So let’s get to it.

Click that little arrow down the left of the page. 

Before I forget to mention again. Testing for Echo is a winner of a Barry Award this year for Most Streamed Online: Testing For Echo 

 

So thank you to you all!

The email for the show is TestingForEchoCHSR [at] gmail [dot] com.  I’d love to hear your comments, suggestions, or requests.

Also, please visit and join our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TestingForEchoCHSR/

“The World of Music, One Song at a Time”

Episode Song List

  1. Robert Plant- Bones of Saints
  2. UK – In the Dead of Night
  3. Not Now – Hear Me Now
  4. Animals as Leaders – Tooth and Claw
  5. Genesis – Dance on a Volcano
  6. Gary Numan, When the World Comes Apart
  7. Lifesigns – Chasing Rainbows
  8. Prism – See Forever Eyes
  9. Nash the Slash – Swingshift
  10. Marcello Ciurleo- The Light of Day
  11. RUSH – Halo Effect
  12. SAGA – Mouse in a Maze
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CHSR News – September 27th, 2024 – Harvest Bounces Back

After Hurricane Lee spoiled the party last year Harvest Music Festival returned to Fredericton’s streets for it’s 34th year.

Johnny James caught up with the festival’s general manager Courtney Steeves to talk about how the festival bounced back and navigated the aftermath of a difficult decision with an outpouring of community support.

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Mornings Are Hard || 2024-09-27

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Hildegard – Cruel || single
2.) Doohickey Cubicle – Tunnel Vision || Super Smeller
3.) fantasy of a broken heart – Ur Heart Stops || Follow Your Captain
4.) Geoffroy – C.A.Y.A. || Good Boy
5.) Xiu Xiu – Common Loon || 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
6.) Neva Dinova – Outside || single
7.) Chillteens – Short King || In Another Dream
8.) OMBIIGIZI – City Trials || single
9.) Being Dead – Goodnight || single
10.) John Davis – Indifferent Stars || single
11.) The Hello Crows – Come Back To Me || single
12.) Jennifer Castle – Earthsong || single
13.) Kylie Fox – Sequoia || Sequoia
14.) Adam Karch – My Birmingham || Some Awkward Country Ahead

 

The Lunchbox Interview: Terry Graff (Avian Cyborgs)

Sometimes it takes something somewhat outrageous for us to make sense of the world.

My guest today is Terry Graff, a mixed-media artist who combines whatever he can get a hold of into complex, multi-layered, challenging artwork. He joins me to talk about an exhibition of his work, filling one gallery with works from his Avian Cyborgs series and the other gallery with a combination of different series, including his Pandemic Horror Series. Terry joins me to talk about his long history of art-making from combining found objects and found ideas, and his constant inspiration.

Avian Cyborgs is ending its country-wide tour at the UNB Art Centre galleries, and is on display until December 6, 2024.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Don Hannah, Natasha MacLellan (“Greetings”)

What if I told you that you have the chance to eavesdrop on a conversation spanning a century? What if I told you it would come to you as real mail?

My guests today are Don Hannah (playwright & author) and Natasha MacLellan (Artistic Director of TNB). They join me to talk about Greetings, the latest theatrical production from TNB. Or, to give it’s full title: Greetings: One Hundred Years of Family Life — birthdays, funerals, wars, and feuds; engagements, breakups, elopements, elections, school days, and holidays; tears, queers, debts, and secrets; I love yous, I hate yous… and all the news in between — in Twelve Letters. 

You can purchase “tickets” for this “event” right now until the end of October, and the letters will start being sent to recipient later in the year. The event is limited, however, so be sure to act earlier to get a chance to experience it.

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Mornings Are Hard || 2024-09-26

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Death Sells – Dark Gloves || single
2.) Enumclaw – Not Just Yet || Home In Another Life
3.) Feeling Figures – Co-operator || single
4.) WUT – Quiet Quiet || Mingling With The Thorns
5.) Tanukichan – It Gets Easier || single
6.) Dale Crover – Glossolalia || single
7.) Katie Knipp – Mud || Me
8.) The WAEVE – You Saw || City Lights
9.) Capital 6 – Andrew Wears Red || Not My One
10.) Capital 6 – In The Weird || Not My One
11.) Myles Clayton – Dream Out Loud || single
12.) Rory Taillon – Hatchet || Now It’s Quiet
13.) My Brightest Diamond – Safe House || Fight The Real Terror
14.) Alan Sparhawk – Get Still || single
15.) Cardboard People, Del The Funky Homosapien – Afterlife || single

The Lunchbox Interview: Jared Carney (Demonic Brilliance Film Festival)

Horror movies allow us a chance to confront our own fears, but in a safe way.

My guest today is Jared Carney, founder of the Demonic Brilliance Film Festival. This local festival celebrates the creepy, the odd, the horror movies and shorts. Jared joins me to talk about the appeal of horror movies, the origin and shape of the festival, and some of the featured films coming to screams near you.

The Demonic Brilliance Film Festival runs October 3-5 at Theatre New Brunswick.

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Harmony Corruption Episode 67-September 24th, 2024-The Pyrrhon Interview

Hi Folks! This week’s episode features an interview with Doug from Pyrrhon. We got to chat about their new album “Exhaust,” which came out a few weeks back on Willowtip Records. Hope you all enjoy the interview! Also a side note: during one of the two Gorguts songs, my PC did crash, apologies for that!

Here’s the playlist for the week:

Pyrrhon-Not Going To Mars

Pyrrhon-Out of Gas

Pyrrhon-Luck of the Draw

Pyrrhon-Last Gasp

Pyrrhon-Hell Medicine

Anaal Naathrakh-This Cannot Be the End

Nile-The Burning Pits of the Duat

Gorguts-Absconders

Gorguts-Reduced to Silence

Inter Arma-Desolation’s Harp

From Dying Suns-Calamity

From Dying Suns-Ascent

Brujeria-Desperado

Dopethrone-Shlaghammer

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Mornings Are Hard || 2024-09-25

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Dan Mangan – All My People – elsewhere version || Being Elsewhere
2.) SUUNS – Fish On A String || The Breaks
3.) Volunteer Department – Old Friend || Fountainhead
4.) beabadoobee – Beaches || This Is How Tomorrow Moves
5.) Kelly McMichael – Dreamer || After The Sting Of It
6.) Easy Sleeper – Timekeeper || A Sacred Way Of Living
7.) Cool Band – Sugar Baby || Cool Band
8.) Chloe Doucet – Driving || single
9.) The Medium – The Day Dale Died || City Life
10.) Falcon Jane – I Get Myself || Legacy
11.) Tasha – So Much More || All This and So Much More
12.) Dog Day – Bordering || A T-Shirt with Writing On It
13.) WUT – Guts, Brains || Mingling With The Thornes
14.) WHYGO – Silk || Silk

CHSR News – September 25th, 2024 – UNB holds grand opening of newly renovated Student Union Building

 The University of New Brunswick had their grand opening of the newly renovated Student Union Building yesterday afternoon.

The project, which began in October 2023, was recently completed in August., and features a complete overhaul to the buildings main floor layout, a new outdoor social space, the removal of the old Campus Shoppe and the relocation of the campus pharmacy and bookstore.

 

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CHSR News – September 24th, 2024 – Fredericton City Council Votes On Next Steps For Aquatic Centre

Fredericton city council voted on their next course of action in building a new regional aquatic centre last night. 

Chief Administrative Officer Steven Hart made a presentation to Fredericton’s counselors on paths forward in the municipal governments pursuit of building a new regional aquatic center to replace the close Sir Max Aitken Pool. 

This past June, the Capital Regional Service Commission ruled that the proposal the city brought forth did not fit the definition as regional. Pushing against the Fredericton regional aquatics facility feasibility study council had accepted back in 2021, that deemed the project necessary as long as an appropriate representational governance model as well as proportional capital and operating cost sharing were implemented.

Johnny James spoke with counsellors on their next steps with the project.

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Mornings Are Hard || 2024-09-24

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Broadcast – Come Back To Me [Demo] || single
2.) Begonia – Stay Forever || Open Swim
3.) Bon Iver – SPEYSIDE || single
4.) Hippo Campus – Everything At Once || Flood
5.) Moon Bride – Knocking On Exits || Insomnie
6.) Kylie Fox – Confetti || Sequoia
7.) Miya Folick – La Da Da || single
8.) knitting – Sleeper || Some Kind Of Heaven
9.) Energy Slime – Throw Me A Bone || Planet Perfect
10.) Deep Sea Diver – Billboard Heart || single
11.) Joan As Police Woman – Back Again || Lemons, Limes and Orchids
12.) Honeyglaze – Pretty Girls || Real Deal
13.) The Bug Club – Lonsdale Slipons || On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System
14.) Lutalo – Ocean Swallows Him Whole || The Academy
15.) Bonnie Trash – What Have You Become || My Love Remains The Same
16.) Alex Henry Foster – Alchemical Connection || A Measurement of Shape and Sounds

CHSR News – September 23rd, 2024 – Fredericton’s 2SLGBTQIA+ Community Joins National Counter Protest

Joining a national cross-country counter-protest, Fredericton’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community and allies gathered to fight against policies and rhetoric they deem hateful and dangerous to the province’s youth.

Over 80 Frederictonians gathered in front of the NB Legislature on Friday in support of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and to counter a movement called 1 Million March For Kids, a movement seeking to eliminate sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum and policies from Canadian schools.

The gathering was organized in unison with three other counter-demonstrations across the province and 35 total across the country. Where those impacted spoke out and shared their stories.

Johnny James spokes to the organizers about the importance of this demonstration.

 

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Mornings Are Hard || 2024-09-23

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Korean Boyfriend – Closing In – Remix || single
2.) Housewife – Life Of The Party || single
3.) DenMother – Sunskin || I Chased The Water
4.) Elias Ronnenfelt – Worm Grew A Spine || single
5.) Chinese American Bear – Kids Go Down || single
6.) bob junior ft. Dent May – The Last Sad Song || single
7.) Chillteens – Cap || In Another Dream
8.) Japandroids – All Bets Are Off || single
9.) The Black Pacific – I Think I’m Paranoid || Here Comes Our Wave
10.) The Motorleague – Alone In The Universe || single
11.) A Place To Bury Strangers – Bad Idea || single
12.) Samael Pelletier – A Famliar Goodbye || Cascadia
13.) Yoo Doo Right – Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown, Part 2 || Spirit’s Heavy, But Not Overthrown

Mornings Are Hard || 2024-09-20

Artist – Track || Album
1.) Kelly McMichael – Nature Man || After The Sting Of It
2.) Kelly McMichael – Tour From Hell || After The Sting Of It
3.) The Medium – Golden Apples || City Life
4.) Sexy Mathematics – Especially You || Sexy Mathematics
5.) Plants And Animals – House Of Fire || The Jungle
6.) The Olympic Sympgonium & Wolf Castle – Maybe It’s Nothing || Greville Tapes Music Club Vol.3
7.) Louis Sanchez – One Thing I Can Afford || single
8.) Elizabeth Moen – Empty Bottle || single
9.) Kylie Fox – Alberta || Sequoia
10.) Jessica Rhaye – Rocky Hills || single
11.) Capital 6 – The Shiznit || Not My One
12.) Capital 6 – Give It To ‘Em || Not My One

Indie Whimsy Episode 23 (September 17th 2024)

heya heya! on today’s episode of indie whimsy you’ll hear:

1) half passed dead – sci-fi caper (star stuff)

2) write what you know – stars (nightsongs)

3) rush hour – the shermans (moshi moshi pop international style)

4) hands free – wut (now)

5) nowhere fast – the smiths (meat is murder)

6) we can have it – the dears (no cities left)

7) my heart won’t break – club 8 (the friend i once had)

8) your type – alvvays (antisocialites)

9) doorstop rhythmic bloc – prolapse (pointless walks to dismal places)

10) hlemmur song – u.s. highball (short songs vol. 2)

11) we laugh indoors – death cab for cutie (the photo album)

12) charms around your wrist – the softies (it’s love)

13) sensurround – they might be giants (s-e-x-x-y single)

14) toy tambourine – aberdeen (fireworks and other singles)

15) pastels badge – talulah gosh (backwash)

16) if you find yourself caught in love – belle and sebastian (dear catastrophe waitress)

17) saturday’s cool – eggs (eggs teenbeat 96 exploder)

18) shelia take a bow – the smiths (louder than bombs)

spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1DpVievUuFIafwf4QKNTOA?si=33dbedff3b9e4501

 

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The Lunchbox Interview: Fawn Parker (Poet Laureate)

Sometimes, it takes a poem to truly express the world.

My guest is Fawn Parker, newly-minted Poet Laureate of the city of Fredericton. Fawn joins me to talk about their process for writing, the novels they have written (and the new one just released), and their job as the Poet Laureate.

Fawn Parker’s latest book, Hi, it’s me is currently on bookstore shelves.

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CHSR News – September 20th, 2024 – 12 Neighbours Expanding Neighbourhood

One of Fredericton’s most forward-thinking housing projects is looking for community members to join its neighborhood.

In the over two years since their first move-ins in early 2022, which came to fruition after the previous two years of construction, they have delivered and expanded on their mission to create a context where people can use their talents and gifts in dignified work.

Their most recent expansion, Neighbourly Coffee, opened on June 1st, providing not only a cup of quality joe, but quality work for it’s residents.

Johnny James spoke with members of the organization about their recent expansion and their plan moving forward.

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CHSR News – September 19th, 2024 – Kylie Fox Pays Tribute To Her Idol, Releases Second Album Sequoia

Local singer-songwriter Kylie Fox recently released her new studio album Sequoia as a part of Harvest Music Festival. Bringing her new songs to life, while also paying tribute to the voice that has inspired her the most. 

First, she stepped into the shoes of her idol Joni Mitchell, performing her 1974 album Court & Spark from front to back to celebrate the record’s 50th anniversary. Then performed songs from her second studio album Sequoia, which was released the same day, bringing it to her audience’s ears for the first time.

Johnny James sat down with her to dive into Joni Mitchell’s influence, making an album with a new band, the imagery and inspiration of Sequoia and getting to experience the first reactions from her supporters in person.

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Harmony Corruption Episode 66-September 17th, 2024

Hi Folks! Welcome back to Harmony Corruption on CHSR-FM! This week’s episode features lots of dissonant metal, as well as a few classic heavy and doom tunes. I also played material from bands that share members with Pyrrhon, as I will be doing an interview with Doug (vocals) from Pyrrhon on next week’s episode!

Here’s the playlist for the week:

Mercyful Fate-Come to the Sabbath

Pentagram-Death Row

Overkill-Deny the Cross

Eyehategod-Take as Needed for Pain

Godflesh-Dream Long Dead

Immolation-Lost Passion

Cancer Bats-Crocodiles

Cancer Bats-Shadow of Mercury

Cancer Bats-Rattlesnake

Cancer Bats-Winterpeg

Gorguts-La Vie Est Prelude

Gorguts-The Carnal State

Ulcerate-We Are Nil

Rotting Christ-Semigod

Full of Hell-Crawling Back to God

Phobocosm-Knives In the Senate House

Weeping Sores-Song of Embers

Seputus-The Forgetting Curve

Scarcity-Venom and Cadmium

Glorious Depravity-Ocean of Scabs

Pyrrhon-Strange Pains

Noose Sweat-End It

Razor-Mental Torture

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Mornings Are Hard || 2024-09-18

Artist – Track || Album
1.) The Jesus Lizard – Falling Down || Rack
2.) Doctor Mother Father – Happiness || Feelin’ Fine
3.) knitting – Heaven || Some Kind Of Heaven
4.) FUUDGE – Allo? || single
5.) Chillteens – Sour Smoke || In Another Dream
6.) Bad Buddy – You Don’t Own Me || Bad Buddy II
7.) The Secret Beach – If You Don’t Love Me, Let Me Go || We were born here, what’s your excuse?
8.) Jon McKiel – Hex || Hex
9.) Teenage Dads – Speedracer || MAJORDOMO
10.) Starcleaner Reunion – The Hand That I Put Down || single
11.) renforshort – getting over you || clean hands dirty water
12.) Melt – Fake Romantic || If There’s Heaven
13.) Raavi – Henry || The Upside
14.) Doohickey Cubicle – Cafe Au Lait || Super Smaller
15.) DenMother – MermaidsX || I Chased The Water
16.) Matilda Lyn – Sunwarmed || single

CHSR News – September 18th, 2024 – Provincial Leaders Present To Fredericton City Council

New Brunswick provincial political leaders, Premier Blaine Higgs (Progressive Conservatives), Susan Holt (Liberals) and David Coon (Greens) made their cases to Fredericton City Council on Monday ahead of next months election. The leaders had 15 minutes each to address the capital regions concerns, followed by a number of questions from council members, and how those needs will be addressed if they are elected.

Fredericton’s wishlist includes items such as a new aquatic center, help with transit, fiscal reform to reduce the city’s infrastructure deficit and property tax burden as well as more primary healthcare physicians.

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Away From The Mire Episode 50

Episode 50, where has the time gone! I hope you’ve been enjoying the shows as much as I enjoy putting these together. This was my second live show and we played some great local music and discussed some of the music news going on today!

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Cyboogie
La Luz – Floating Features
Keepy Uppy – The Saxby Gale
Shotgun Jimmie – Cool All The Time
The Heavy Heavy – Happiness
The Breeders – Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Soulive – I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Jane’s Addiction – Had A Dad
Guided by Voices – Glad Girls
Chillteens – Young Sheldon
Young Satan In Love – Bibles For Missions
Merle Haggard and The Strangers – Skid Row
Southern Culture On The Skids – Freak Flag
Slugmilk – Backstreet Records
Butthole Surfers – Pepper

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