Records & Rockstars

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around. Sang Sting. Here's the condensed podcast version of the latest weekly radio show, featuring nothing but songs about the world.

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Last time we looked at nice pairs – songs you typically expect to hear one right after the other. And we did. This time, the adventure continues with, threesomes and the recording studio art of blending one song right into the next, and the next. It's a finely curated playlist of some of rock's finest threesomes.

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People REALLY have their favourites when it comes to those songs that go so well one straight into the next. Songs that alone are fantastic, but together! Nothing but those, this time. 

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Reviving a theme from season 5, with more songs about that thing that sometimes feels like it's all you do.

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It's the 3rd of 3 parts in our look at how bands got their names. This time, after expressions, and songs, and lyrics, and everything else, from body parts, to animals, drugs, body parts, and more.  

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This time, bands who found their names in books and movies.

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One smoke-show of a record with the most great songs back-to-back. For “Hands Held High”, Jake Chisholm has assembled a monster four-piece, featuring producer/bassist Darcy Yates, multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Bowskill and Ian Mckeown on drums. Whether you know Jake from his playing at the legendary Skyline on Queen West, or from his earlier days killing it at The Cameron House, or even if he's just catching your attention for the first time, this record is landmark stuff, and we give you 5 cuts from the studio and Jake performs two live at Wild Woods Blue.

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Reviving a much loved theme in the first of a 3 part investigation into where bands got their names.

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Here's the 3rd of 4 episodes in the recurring theme featuring nothing but classic albums from 1972. This time it's choice cuts and stories from albums out that July/August/September.

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She grew up in a music store on her way to becoming a full time singer/songwriter and she's got game. Introducing Bernadette Connors and her full length debut “Monarch”, created with producer John-Angus MacDonald (The Trews), and featuring songs born out of the experience of a life lived mostly in a small town. Kind and clever, she's been writing and performing since she was fifteen and she's a vocal coach.

Guitar in hand, here comes Bernadette Connors.

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