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Author: Brian Cleveland

  • Saint John Represented On Polaris Music Prize Grand Jury

    Saint John Represented On Polaris Music Prize Grand Jury

    Saint John, NB’s campus-based community radio station Local 107.3FM (CFMH-FM) is pleased to recognize that Station Manager, Brian Cleveland, has been invited to participate on the 2017 Polaris Music Prize Grand Jury. The Grand Jury is set to determine this year’s best Canadian album, judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration of genre or record sales.  The winner will be announced at the Polaris Gala at The Carlu in Toronto on September 18, 2017 and will be awarded $50,000.

    The records on the 2017 Polaris Short List are:

    A Tribe Called Red – We Are The Halluci Nation
    BADBADNOTGOOD – IV
    Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
    Gord Downie – Secret Path
    Feist – Pleasure
    Lisa LeBlanc – Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen?
    Lido Pimienta – La Papessa
    Tanya Tagaq – Retribution
    Leif Vollebekk – Twin Solitude
    Weaves – Weaves

    Brian is joined on the Grand Jury by the following jurors:

    Francella Fiallos, CKDU, Halifax, NS
    Erin Flynn, CHUO 89.1FM, Ottawa, ON
    Vish Khanna, Kreative Kontrol, Guelph, ON
    Nick Krewen, Freelance Journalist, Toronto, ON
    Erik Leijon, Freelance Journalist, Montréal, QC
    Tara McCarthy, CBC Radio One, Whitehorse, YT
    Catherine Pogonat, Radio-Canada, Montréal, QC
    Sandra Sperounes, Edmonton, AB, Capital City Records
    Laura Stanley, Freelance Journalist, Toronto, ON
    Brad Wheeler, The Globe And Mail, Toronto, ON

  • Local 107.3FM 2017 Midyear(-ish) Report

    Local 107.3FM 2017 Midyear(-ish) Report

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    It has been such a busy and amazing 2017 thus far at Local 107.3FM that our planned midyear report
    has stretched into mid-August. We wanted to take a brief opportunity to tell you about some of our big accomplishments these past several months and our plans for the near future.

    Since our most successful funding drive ever ($4,298.00!) in October 2016, we have been able to take on many new projects and grow several existing ones. We are increasingly proud of the efforts of our staff and volunteers within this ever-morphing and expanding non-profit arts and culture body. Here are a few of our recent highlights:

    • In January 2017, we hosted volunteer awards where eleven different awards, chosen by staff and the public, were presented to our volunteer base.

    • In February 2017, we hosted the 15th annual Homelessness Marathon, a yearly overnight radio broadcast shared on over a dozen campus and community stations from coast to coast, creating linkages and raising awareness of homelessness in Canadian communities.

    • In April 2017, we sponsored the inaugural Quality Block Party, a new celebration of independent New Brunswick culture and talent. We also co-presented all-ages show during version 1.2 from Aug. 10-13 as well as several other arts & culture events in the summer and fall.

    • In May 2017, we hosted the ninth annual Best of Saint John Music Poll.

    • On June 10, we accepted national awards for “Best In Creative Production” and “Best In Syndicated Radio Show” at the 36th National Campus & Community Radio Conference in Abbotsford, BC.

    • In late June 2017, our staff ballooned to five members thanks to granting programs which allowed us to hire a Volunteer Support Coordinator, Community Outreach Coordinator, and Marketing & Promotions Assistant.

    • From August 21-25, 2017, we are launching our very first free Radio Camp for youth on the UNB Saint John campus with exciting, engaging, and informative workshops on a wide range of topics from improvisational theatre to sports broadcasting.

    We’ve also seen growth in our feminist collective (FemCore), general programming, and community partnerships. You can find additional information about these initiatives and more (including our full summer 2017 programming schedule) at localfm.ca

    Over the next several months, in addition to the continued welcoming of new volunteer programmers, we have plans to install new and updated equipment, begin an engineering technical brief to increase our broadcast range, launch a small local festival in September, and more.

    We hope we can count on your support in late October 2017 during this year’s funding drive. We have some great items in the works and look forward to releasing more information in the next couple months.

    Sincerely,

    Brian Cleveland, Station Manager

  • Local 107.3FM Picks Up Two National Community Radio Awards

    Local 107.3FM Picks Up Two National Community Radio Awards

    From June 7-11, 2017, Local 107.3FM joined over 100 delegates in Abbotsford, BC to represent community radio stations from all across Canada at the National Campus & Community Radio Conference. Along with several days of panels and workshops, the week’s events included the National Community Awards. With 20 categories receiving over 200  topnotch submissions, competition was certainly fierce from producers all across the country. It is with ecstatic fervor that we can announce that for the first time ever, we took home two separate awards.  These awards will sit alongside previous national awards for Best Small Station (2002) and Community Development (2012).

    Best In Creative Production
    Michael Mohan/Abigail Smith/Mike Specht/Sadie Donahue

    Judge’s Comments: “Beautiful, simple production. Haunting. Reminds me of WireTap.”

    Funded by the Saint John Community Arts Funding Board, local photographer/filmmaker and St. Stephen native Michael Mohan was chosen as Local 107.3FM’s first-ever artist-in-residence in August 2016. Working with Local-FM staff, Mohan created a fictional call-in show titled “Loveline” in which film, radio, and memory overlap. You can view the trailer for the accompanying short film here. There were pieces about this project on The East and CBC.

    Best In Syndicated Radio Show
    !earshot 20 (Anthony Enman & Brian Cleveland)

    Judge’s Comments: “Interesting to discover Canadian Artists – Great hosts.”

    Produced from Local 107.3FM, !earshot 20 is a nationally-syndicated radio program presently airing on over 30 campus and community radio stations across Canada (from Halifax, NS to Kamloops, BC). The program features a countdown of !earshot’s top 20 most played albums on campus and community radio stations in Canada, musician interviews, entertainment news from Exclaim!, and more.

  • Best of Saint John Music Awards 2017 – Winners!

    Best of Saint John Music Awards 2017 – Winners!

    The 9th Annual Best of Saint John Music Awards took place on Saturday, May 27, with the 13 trophies going to a wide range of different local artists. The event took place at the beautiful Sanctuary Theatre in front of a lively, full audience and included performances by Kylie Fox, Brent Mason, and Burgundy Drive. The evening was capped off with an afterparty at Taco Pica and preceded the night before by an artist round table at Five & Dime.

    Please see below for a full list of winners.

    Special thanks to Picaroons Traditional Ales, the SOCAN FOUNDATION, and Chuck Teed.

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  • 2016 Releases By Saint John Musicians

    2016 Releases By Saint John Musicians

    Do you need a refresher on 2016 releases to vote in this year’s Best of Saint John Music Poll? Here’s what we’ve collected and recall. Did we miss a release? E-mail brian@cfmh.ca

    1995 Zellers – “family restaurant”

    Adam Washburn & The Elements – “Lift Me Up”

    Bad People – “You’re This Close”

    Balaclava – “Tour Demo EP 2016”

    Brother Faye – “Brother Faye”

    Bustin’ – “Crystal Clouds”

    Dye Pack – “Make A Mess”

    Elephant Skeletons – “The Traveller pt​.​I”

    FWLR – “Outsider”

    Heavy Seas – “Mirage”

    Isaiah Lightning – “Starry Crown”

    Jessica Rhaye – “Song In Me”

    Papal Visit – “A Little Further Down The Flame”

    Right Shitty – “Bachelor of Arts”

    Shrimp Ring – “Humanity’s Last Hope”

    SIRR – “BEGAT”

    SIRR – “LIAR CAKE”

    The Boyer Bunch – “Not Singin’ The Blues”

    The Honeyboys – “The Honeyboys”

    The Not So Dandy-Lions – “Rough Translation”

    The Tasty Wangs – “The Tasty Wangs Go Goth”

    Tomato/Tomato – “I Go Where You Go”

    Tooth & the Fang – “Void, moving without having moved.”

    Usse – “Cancelled Crop”

    Usse – “In Through Beyond​/​Maximilian, Help Me”

    Yes/Now – “Yes/Now”

  • Top 107.3 Most Played Albums Of The Year 2016

    Top 107.3 Most Played Albums Of The Year 2016

    Since 2007, staff at Local 107.3FM have compiled and released the 107.3 most played albums of the past year. Better late than never, here is the most played albums of 2016! This list is influenced directly by the plays of our many volunteer DJs and are also directly impacted by your requests. Thanks for continuing to support local, Maritime, and Canadian music.

    We added 305 albums to our library and charted 289 albums in 2016 on !earshot, the national campus and community radio report.

    The 107.3 most played albums of 2016 on Local 107.3fm were:

    – 100% Canadian artists
    – 43% Maritime artists
    – 30% New Brunswick artists
    – 22% Saint John artists

    1. Tomato/Tomato – “I Go Where You Go”
    2. Nap Eyes – “Thought Rock Fish Scale”
    3. Earthbound Trio – “Ditch Flowers”
    4. Right Shitty – “Bachelor of Arts”
    5. Motherhood – “Baby Teeth”
    6. Tooth & the Fang – “Void, Moving Without Having Moved”
    7. Walrus – “Goodbye Something”
    8. PAPAL VISIT – “A Little Further Down The Flame”
    9. Various – “It’s Always Sunny In New Brunswick”
    10. Hard Charger – “Bad Omens”
    11. The Pack AD – “Positive Thinking”
    12. Erin Costelo – “Down Below, The Status Quo”
    13. Supermoon – “Playland”
    14. Wintersleep – “The Great Detachment”
    15. 1995 Zellers – “Family Restaraunt”
    16. SIRR – “Liar Cake”
    17. Cellarghost – “In The Whiteout”
    18. Brave Radar – “Lion Head”
    19. Jessica Rhaye – “Song In Me”
    20. Dylan Menzie – “Adolescent Nature”
    21. Shrimp Ring – “Humanity’s Last Hope”
    22. Hooded Fang – “Venus on Edge”
    23. Laura Sauvage – “Extraordinormal”
    24. Like A Motorcycle – “High Hopes”
    25. Towanda – “Playthings”
    26. Bad People – “You’re This Close”
    27. Little You Little Me – “I’d Watch The Day Til It Died”
    28. Black Mountain – “IV”
    29. Beauts – “Waves/Wash”
    30. AA Wallace – “In Alpha Zones”
    31. Hand-drawn – “loafin’”
    32. Holy Fuck – “Congrats”
    33. PUP – “The Dream Is Over”
    34. Heaven For Real – “Kill Your Memory”
    35. Various – “CiTR Radio 101.9FM Pop Alliance Vol. 4”
    36. LE MATOS – “Chronicle of the Wasteland”
    37. The Tasty Wangs – “The Tasty Wangs Go Goth”
    38. Reversing Falls – “Reversing Falls 2”
    39. Penny Blacks – “Moleskin Weather”
    40. Ghost Vines – “Ghost Vines”
    41. Kat McLevey – “Evergrown”
    42. Sheik – “Go Away From Yourself”
    43. Usse – “In Through Beyond”
    44. Dye Pack – “What A Mess”
    45. Jay Arner – “Jay II”
    46. Basia Bulat – “Good Advice”
    47. REPARTEE – “All Lit Up”
    48. Tanya Tagaq – “Retribution”
    49. Usse – “Cancelled Crop”
    50. Weaves – “Weaves”
    51. Rococode – “Don’t Worry It Will Be Dark Soon”
    52. Wooden Wives – “Workers! Strike Down These Enemies Of Victory”
    53. The Apex – “Underbelly EP”
    54. Paupière – “Jeunes instants”
    55. Shotgun Jimmie – “Field of Trampolines”
    56. Bad People – “Live At The Bourbon Quarter 7/14/15”
    57. Dilly Dally – “Sore”
    58. Operators – “Blue Wave”
    59. ttwwrrss – “ttwwrrss_3”
    60. Crystal Castles – “Amnesty”
    61. Lisa LeBlanc – “Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen?”
    62. Dark for Dark – “All Dressed”
    63. BADBADNOTGOOD – “IV”
    64. Hannah Georgas – “For Evelyn”
    65. Learning – “Dirger”
    66. Rae Spoon – “Armour”
    67. Solids – “Else”
    68. Tim Hecker – “Love Streams”
    69. Weird Lines – “Weird Lines”
    70. Beauts – “Beauts”
    71. betterhalf – “cute doom e.p.”
    72. Sarah Neufeld – “The Ridge”
    73. Bart – “Holomew”
    74. SIRR – “Begat”
    75. The Radiation Flowers – “The Radiation Flowers”
    76. ELEPHANT SKELETONS – “The Traveler Pt 1”
    77. Peaches – “Rub”
    78. Programm – “A Torid Marriage of Logic & Emotion”
    79. Rah Rah – “Vessels”
    80. The Dirty Nil – “Comfort”
    81. Blank Banshee – “MEGA”
    82. Jaguar Knight – “Jaguar Party Edits Vol. 2”
    83. Monomyth – “Happy Pop Family”
    84. Ought – “Sun Coming Down”
    85. Stegosaurus – “PUMMELLED”
    86. SUUNS – “Hold / Still”
    87. The Zorgs – “Chew On It”
    88. Elaquent – “Less is More (Lo Definition)”
    89. Gawker – “Demo 2016”
    90. Jons – “At Work On Several Things”
    91. MINOTAURS – “Weird Waves”
    92. The Submissives – “Do You Really Love Me?”
    93. Various – Fixture Records 4″
    94. ZAUM – “Eidolon”
    95. Andy Shauf – “The Party”
    96. Autumn Still – “When It Was”
    97. Beard Springsteen – “Downer Punks of Fredericton”
    98. Brother Faye – “Brother Faye”
    99. Code Pie – “Pop Cycle”
    100. DIANA – “Familiar Touch”
    101. Fake Tears – “Nightshifting”
    102. Fox Opera – “Nowhere Native”
    103. Plants and Animals – “Waltzed In From the Rumbling”
    104. TV FREAKS – “Bad Luck Charms”
    105. What Seas, What Shores – “Spiritual Nap Machine”
    106. Fossil Cliffs – “Enter The Realm”
    107. LAL – “Find Safety”
    107.3. Michael Feuerstack – “Adult Lullabies”

     

  • Quality Block Party

    Quality Block Party

    Local 107.3FM are proud sponsors of the upcoming Quality Block Party!

    A new celebration of independent New Brunswick culture and talent, the Quality Block Party will bring together some of New Brunswick’s most talented artists for five days of music and mayhem during the 2017 East Coast Music Award Week in Saint John: April 26th-30th.

    Reflecting on the breadth and passion of New Brunswick talent, this block party offers a supplement and added experience to the ECMAs to those living in Saint John and to friends visiting from away.

    Music, art and speaker performances will take place all week in multiple Uptown Saint John businesses found on the Quality Block on Germain and Princess Streets. The amazing line-up already includes:

    Julie Doiron, Motherhood, Little You Little Me, Galpines, The Squirts, Janowskii, Keith Hallett, Bad People, CHIPS, The Waking Night, Reagans Rayguns, Jane Blanchard, The Hypochondriacs, Owen Steel, Young Satan In Love, Beard Springsteen, Nerve Button, Right Shitty, Some Dads, Penny Blacks, Graeme Kennedy, Cellarghost, Math Class, Butcher, ER and the Other, Wrote, 1995 Zellers, plus more artists and events to be announced.

    We can’t wait to bring you more details along the way!

  • 15th Annual Homelessness Marathon Schedule

    15th Annual Homelessness Marathon Schedule

    Pleasantly countering the above promotional material, the ever-expanding 15th Annual Homelessness Marathon schedule now runs for 13.5 hours from Wednesday, February 22nd at 7pm Atlantic to Thursday, February 23rd at 8:30am Atlantic. Please find the full schedule below

    7pm CiTR (Vancouver, BC): Profiles of folk who live and work in the Downtown Eastside live from Megaphone Magazine; along with discussion of the opioid crisis and the resilience/activism with which the community has faced it.

    8pm CICK (Smithers, BC): A compilation of interviews from people living on the street and those who provide services to them.

    9pm CJSR (Edmonton, AB): Intimate portraits of individuals in academia who have experienced homelessness.

    10pm CJSR (Edmonton, AB): Exploring displacement, specifically the challenges faced by newcomers to Canada and the displacement of Edmonton’s homeless population.

    11pm CKUT (Montreal, QC): A discussion featuring the voices of women of colour on homelessness and communities of colour.

    12am CKUT (Montreal, QC): An open format space for people to share their experiences.

    1am Local-FM (Saint John, NB): The FEMCORE Collective interviews local figures about the role of gender in homelessness. Abigail Smith speaks with Jennifer Megeney from the Coverdale Women’s Centre, and Diane Kerns and Julie Dingwell from AIDS Saint John.

    2am CFCR (Saskatoon, SK): Laundry List – Women & Gender Topics

    2:30am CFCR (Saskatoon, SK): Civically Speaking – Local Saskatoon Civic Politics

    3am CHUO (Ottawa, ON): Interviews with people currently experiencing homelessness in Ottawa.

    4am CKXU (Lethbridge, AB): Interviews with support workers involved in Lethbridge homelessness initiatives.

    5am CFUR (Prince George, BC): Interviews with people working on the front line and people who have, or are presently, experiencing homelessness. Includes a feature on Prince George’s Street Humanities Program.

    6am CFUZ (Penticton, BC): Focusing on themes of “Sharing When You Have Nothing” and ‘Keeping Your Dignity When You Are Ostracized.”

    6:30am Groundwire: A collaborative production of community radio producers across Canada present a collection of pieces relating to homelessness.

    7am CFCR (Saskatoon, SK): Laundry List – Women & Gender Topics

    7:30am CFCR (Saskatoon, SK): Civically Speaking – Local Saskatoon Civic Politics

    8am CFCR (Saskatoon, SK): Snake Mountain Mixtape – Open Music Show

     

  • 15th Annual Homelessness Marathon

    15th Annual Homelessness Marathon

    On Wednesday February 22nd, 2017, Local 107.3 FM in Saint John, NB will host the 2017 Homelessness Marathon.  Having aired the annual overnight radio marathon for a number of years, we are proud to take the opportunity to organize this year’s broadcast.

    This year marks the 15th annual Homelessness Marathon, a yearly overnight radio broadcast shared on campus and community stations from coast to coast, creating linkages and raising awareness of homelessness in Canadian communities.

    The Marathon began in 1998 in Geneva, New York and the 19th annual Homelessness Marathon was held in January at WMPG in Portland, Maine. The concept moved north to Canada 15 years ago with CKUT-FM in Montreal as the host station who took the reins for 11 years. The marathon has begun rotating hosts across Canada in recent years including Edmonton, Kingston, and Abbotsford.

    The 2017 marathon will air on 17 broadcasters representing 6 provinces and will feature local and national programming including 30-minute to two-hour segments. Topics will include the displacement of homeless populations, organisations and community members who provide resources, and in depth portraits of individuals who have experienced homelessness.

    This year’s broadcast will last 11 hours, starting on Wednesday February 22nd, 2017 at 7 PM (AST) and running until Thursday, February 23rd at 6 AM (AST). Regular Local-FM programming will be pre-empted for the entirety of the broadcast, airing instead public forums, pre-recorded stories, and other content from community broadcasters.

  • FEMCORE Collective Newsletter – December 15, 2016

    FEMCORE Collective Newsletter – December 15, 2016

    Check out the latest newsletter from our Women’s Collective Coordinator, Abigail Smith, here. It includes information about a collective name change, the radio program, upcoming events, and more.