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Here are the latest Local 107.3fm charts for the week ending Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Tune in next week to the Local 107.3fm Top 30 live on Tuesday mornings from 8-10am to hear selections from this week’s charts.

This Week/Last Week/Artist/Title

1 – Rae Spoon I Can’t Keep All Your Secrets
2 – Girls Would Kill Bloodshed
3 re Penny Blacks Harbour
4 – Owen Gilbride Trax
5 – Cannon Bros. Cannon Bros
6 – Long Weekends Don’t Reach Out
7 – nothingilistic Celebrant
8 – Miesha & The Spanks / The Sphinxs Miesha & The Spanks / The Sphinxs Split
9 re Corey Isenor The Hunting Party
10 – The Kirby Sewell Band Bought Myself a Hammer
11 – Yamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//ST
12 re Sandro Perri Impossible Spaces
13 re Adam Mowery They Won’t Know Where We Are – Live at CHSR
14 re Phil Flowers People People
15 re Deadly Hearts, The The Deadly Hearts
16 – Jenny Berkel Here On A Wire
17 – Rat Silo The Great Northern Way
18 – Tessa Kautzman Shredded Eagle, Sad Tambourine
19 – Nicole Aube Philosoft
20 re Various Folk Songs Of Canada Now
21 re Lord Bubba’s Nu Jazz The Nu Standards
22 re Oh My Darling Sweet Nostalgia
23 re The Stretch Orchestra The Stretch Orchestra
24 re Greg MacPherson Disintegration Blues
25 – Jom Comyn Sunstroke
26 – Bleeding Horse Express Going South
27 – Darlings of Chelsea Panic Is Worse Than The Emergency
28 re Al Tuck Under Your Shadow
29 re Feist Metals
30 re Odonis Odonis Hollandaze

This is an exciting weekend for the Saint John music scene.

Friday evening there is an in-store performance at Backstreet Records. Andrew Sisk, über-babe and the talented musician behind Share, performs at 6 PM. He is playing in support of his first solo album “Treelines”, which will be released January 31st.

Saint John legends Ermine are reuniting for a few dates around the Maritimes. The Saint John show will also take place Friday evening at Peppers. On Vinyl will open around 11PM. This is the band’s first show in Saint John since 2008. The band formed in 2001 as super team of local musicians, including Matt Belyea, Mike Belyea, Chuck Teed, & later James Blanchard. The band released two albums, 2003’s “Maps of the Rise and Fall”, and 2006’s “The Murra”, recorded after the band relocated to Halifax. Most of the band members now reside elsewhere around the Maritimes and the world.

On Saturday evening Pepper’s hosts Cape Breton’s whimsical wonders the Tom Fun Orchestra. It’s been a few years since this massive indie rock ensemble has played in the port city. Their music incorporates both electric and acoustic instruments including guitar, piano, violin, stand-up bass, accordion, and banjo. You will usually see no fewer than 8-10 members on stage, led by Sydney’s Ian MacDougall. 2008’s “You Will land With a Thud” netted the band multiple awards including ECMA Galaxy Rising Star Award. A second full length album is forthcoming. There are no advance tickets, so arrive early and pay at the door.

CALL FOR NEW CONTRIBUTORS

We are currently looking for bloggers to join the GC team. If you have a desire to write regular articles, event “picks”, album reviews, or you have a fresh idea for front page content, please contact one of the admins listed below.

Content is not limited to the local music scene, but the local arts scene at large. The only qualifications necessary are decent spelling, grammar, and diction as well as a love for culture in the Saint John/Fredericton regions.

Chuck Teed – cteed@hotmail.com

Kelly Marino – k.marino@gmail.com

Adam Kierstead – adamkierstead@gmail.com

Patrick Reinartz – asecretworthkeeping@gmail.com

Wondering what new tunes our DJs readily have their hands on? Below is a list of the latest selections added into rotation at Local 107.3fm. Call 648-5925 when a DJ is taking requests to hear anything from these albums.

Girls Would Kill – Girls Would Kill
Owen Gilbride – Trax 2011
Phil Flowers – People People
Nothingilistic – Celebrant
Rae Spoon – I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets
Long Weekends – Don’t Reach Out 7″
Age of the Glaive – New Horizons
The Barmitzvah Brothers – Growing Branches
Hypnotics – static FUZZ radio
Jaidene Veda – Pisces Pendulum
The Lost Lovers Brigade – Little Skeletons
River – Light Up to Burn Out
Tim Bastmeyer – Tim Bastmeyer
Jenny Berkel – Here On A Wire
Carlo Meriano – Sticka Ikebana
Darlings of Chelsea – Panic Is Worse Than The Emergency
Bleeding Horse Express – Going South
Cannon Bros. Firecracker/Cloudglow
Ballgag N’ Chain Gang – Bang!
Vanessa Cardui = Thought Experiment
Edda Magnason – Goods
Collen Brown – Dirt
Simon TJ – Each Sparrow
Kirby Sewell Band – Bought Myself A Hammer
Darrelle London – Eat a Peach
Carly Maicher – Hiding
Eucalyptus – Eucalyptus
Sikala, Lemanczyk, & Hornby – Able To Fly
Stopped Caring – Grown-Ups
Breathe Knives/Kataplexis – Split
Society’s Ills – S/T
Corgasm – Corgasm

OK, it’s 2012, and we’re hoping to revamp the site even more this year. Here are some plans we have in the horizon:

Saint John Music Poll Five Year Anniversary -  We’re hoping the take the event to the next level this year, so expect some changes to the format, and a few new categories. We’ll be posting the poll in the next few weeks, so stay tuned for updates.

Updates to the Main Page – We’re hit and miss with the weekly front page updates, so we’re currently looking for new blood to help with content. If you’re interested in contrubuting to the main page or shows section (which also needs upkeep), drop me a line at cteed@hotmail.com.

Forum Updates – We have improved the back end of the forum, which has resulted in less spam and quicker response times to people signing up for accounts. We’re still investigating ways to make the process more efficient, so expect more updates from this front.

Public Visibility – For one of the longest running cultural websites in the community, we don’t do a good job of putting ourselves out there. Expect some GC related public events and promotion in 2012.

That’s it for now. Happy New Year!

 

 

 

First, the bad news – I have not been able to put a band together for the Saint John playlist (personal time constraints), so there will be no Saint John Playlist live show. Sad, but true.

Now, the good news – Chris Fudge and I are currently producing a Saint John Playlist program for Local 107.3FM. I have yet to confirm a date or time, but expect it to air between now and Christmas. Stay tuned for updates!

Join Mike, Brent Mason, Zwerg, Dann Downes, Laura McNeil, and Grant Heckman at the Sanctuary Theatre tonight for a musical kickoff to the Christmas season. A portion of the proceeds will go towards CBC’s Harbour Lights Campaign, so enjoy the music and support a good cause! Show starts at 8:00PM, and tickets are $12 at the door.

Pepper’s roof is still intact despite the Schomberg Fair’s best efforts to blow it off during their last show in the Port City. They roll through again Saturday evening, December 3rd. If you’re a fan of Elliot Brood but can man up to something a little harder, I suggest you not miss this show. Jason Ogden (Penny Blacks) opens and cover is a mere five bucks.

UPDATE: The band are also doing an in-store at Backstreet Records Saturday 1:30PM.

Read a review of the new EP “Mercy” and listen to the song “Raise My Hand” here

Here are the latest Local 107.3fm charts for the week ending Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Tune in next week to the Local 107.3fm Top 30 live on Tuesday mornings from 8-10am to hear selections from this week’s charts.

This Week/Last Week/Artist/Title

1 1 Penny Blacks Harbour
2 2 Marine Dreams Marine Dreams
3 – Corey Isenor The Hunting Party
4 7 Bad Vibrations Black Train
5 – Del Bel Oneiric
6 5 Dan Mangan Oh Fortune
7 3 Sandro Perri Impossible Spaces
8 10 Deloro Deloro
9 9 Atlas Sound Parallax
10 6 Adam Mowery They Won’t Know Where We Are – Live at CHSR
11 8 Sports Sports
12 11 Bruce Peninsula Open Flames
13 12 Charlotte Cornfield Two Horses
14 13 Nordic Nomadic Worldwide Skyline
15 14 Elliott BROOD Days Into Years
16 15 Treasa Levasseur Broad
17 16 Mastodon The Hunter
18 17 Feist Metals
19 20 Odonis Odonis Hollandaze
20 18 Gabrielle Papillon The Currency Of Poetry
21 19 Various Folk Songs Of Canada Now
22 21 The You Are Minez Having Your Heart Broken Means Once Having Had Somebody To Love
23 22 The SSRIs Effeminate Godzilla-Sized Windchimes
24 23 Jon McKiel Tonka War Cloud
25 25 Bjork Biophilia
26 – Huddle All These Fires
27 28 St. Vincent Strange Mercy
28 29 1977 So Is The Sea
29 30 The Balconies Kill Count
30 – Great Aunt Ida Nuclearize Me