2022: The Year In Review:
Well, thankfully things have slowly started happening again.We will
attempt to give you a rundown of what was relevant to our ears.
Venues: We were blessed again to have
a handful of venues willing to book local original acts so cheers to Xeroz,
The Caveau, Timber Lounge, Miss Cue and the Tide & Boar. Please take the time to step outside your cozy routine and support the musicians, the venues and the record stores.
Bands: Three Speed, a
pop-punk trio featuring scene vets Jerms O'Neill and Billy Gallant, made their
live debut in April, released a full length CD and are already planning their new album... 1990's Alt-rock quartet, Thee Suddens played a
jam-packed reunion show at Xeroz back in September. It was their first gig in decades... The Robins, the city's oldest punks, also played
their first gig in years and introduced a few new songs into the set...
East End Rivals are a new streetpunk/oi trio featuring ex-members of
Parlour Tricks, The Atlantix and Sour Grapes. They should be making their
debut sometime early in the new year... Funeral Fog, this city's
premier black metal act (featuring Claude from Nerve Button and Mark from the
Robins, have just released their third album through Ancient Temple Recordings.
Cassette and CD formats currently available with vinyl coming soon...
Neuropleptix are an impressive new Saint-John based quartet featuring
brothers Mel and Mike formerly of The Virals. They recently opened for Three Speed at their
album release show and we hope to hear more... Expired are set to drop a new CD early in the new year... The Phone Jerks, lo-fi
90's garage merchants, have officially called it a day after their last show
supporting Hard Charger in October. All the members will be busy with current
projects or future endeavours... The Follow-Ups and Zero Zero UFO will both be in the studio soon recording for their respective second albums... The Gregories managed to release their sophmore album late in the year and finally.... Moncton's Burning is a very recent 18 song vinyl-only compilation featuring local punk/alternative bands from the past few years. Tracks by Yves Bourque, Bruce, The Disasterbaters, Slashdance, Nerve Button, The Robins, Leather Jackal, Whoregasms, City Bus Hand Jobs, Impulse Items, TJ Cabot, Phone Jerks, Three Speed, Zero Zero UFO, Klackers, Small Package, The Follow-Ups and Another Dose.
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| Phone Jerks last show Oct 21, 2022 |
Elevator To Hell - Parts 1-3 "Extra Edition" January
Les Hôtesses D'Hilaire - Pas l'temps d'niaiser (released May 13)
Three Speed - Long Gone (released October 15)
Various Artists - Moncton's Burning (released December 17)
Our annual tradition is alive and well so we've asked local music freaks to list
off their faves of 2022. Check it out....
Ray 13 (AKG editor, street walking amateur pomologist)
Top Ten Albums of new music in alphabetical order
Alvvays - Blue
Rev LP
Black Halos - How The Darkness Doubled LP
Kiwi Jr. - Chopper LP
Michael
Monroe - I Live Too Fast To Die Young LP
Real McKenzies - Songs of
The Highlands, Songs of The Sea LP
The Sadies - Colder
Streams LP
Sloan - Steady LP
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy LP
Rick White - Plays The Sadies LP
Various Artists - Moncton's
Burning: 18 Slabs From The Underground LP
Top Ten Reissues / Live / Anthologies in alphabetical order
The
Damned - A Night of A Thousand Vampires (Live In London) 2LP
Demolition
23 - Demolition 23 LP
Forbidden Dimension - Sin Gallery LP
Gunfire
Dance - Witness To The Crime LP
The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. - The
Found '77 Masters LP
The Ramones - The Sire Album 1981-1989
6LP Box Set
Redd Kross -Neurotica 2LP
Sex Pistols - The
Original Recordings 2LP
The Stonemen - Faded Colors b/w In The
Evening 7"
Voivod -Alveol: An Angel Rat Demo LP
Top Three Magazines in alphabetical
Maggot Brain
Ugly Things
Vive Le Rock
Top Ten Shows (chronological order)
Hawksley Workman, Sarah Slean
- March 10 @ The Capitol Theatre
Maldita - June 3 @ The Caveau
Iron
Horse - June 25 @ Xeroz
Kate Wyatt / Adrian Vedady Quartet - July 13 @ Xeroz
Cursing & Swearing - Aug 18 @ The Caveau
Which Witch Is Which - Sept
3 @ Xeroz
Hard Charger - Oct 21 @ Xeroz
Ripcordz - Nov 11 @ The
Caveau
The Mahones - Nov 21 @ Xeroz
Moncton's Burning Record Launch (featuring Another Dose, The Robins & Zero Zero UFO
- Dec 17, 2022 @ Xeroz
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| Which Witch is Which |
Daryl Buote (Port City correspondent)
Top Ten:
Black Halos - How The Darkness Doubled LP
Hammered Hulls - Careening LP
Suzi Moon - Dumb & In Luv LP
Off! - Free LSD LP
Various Artists - Digging Up The 90's Vol 2 LP
The Cheap Cassettes - Ever Since Ever Since LP
Defiance - War On The Streets LP
Savageheads - Service To Your Country LP
Conditions Apply - Rage And Ignorance CD
Michael Monroe - I Live Too Fast To Die Young CD
Jeff Cheyne (hyperthymesiac)
Jean-Michel Blais - Audilades mp3
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork mp3
You Doo Right - A Murmur, Boundless To The East LP
Mitsky - Laurel Hell LP
Chat Pile - God's Country mp3
Preoccupations "Arrangements" LP
The Sadies - Colder
Streams LP
Big Thief - Dragon LP
New Warm Mountain - I Believe In You LP
Gilla
Band - Most Normal mp3
Beach House - Once Twice Melody LP
Marc Doucet (the Robins)
1) The Sadies - Colder Streams LP
2) Voivod - Synchro Anarchy LP
3) The Dickies - Gary Glitter Getaway 7"
4) Rick White - Rick White Plays The Sadies LP
5) Voivod - Alveol LP
6) Various Artists - Moncton's Burning LP
7) Sloan - Steady LP
8) Redd Kros - Neurotica (2LP 35th anniversary reissue)
9) Billy Idol - The Cage 12" EP
10) Voivod - Ultra-Man 12"
Mark Eveleigh (local music supporter / full-time dad)
Top Ten Albums:
1. Wet Leg - S/T (CD)
2. The Linda Lindas - Growing Up (CD)
3. Thick - Happy Now (Digital)
4. Off - Free Lsd (Digital)
5. The Sadies - Colder Streams (Digital)
6. The Chats - Get Fucked (Digital)
7. Ian Blurton's Future Now - Second Skin (Digital)
8. Old - Old (Cassette)
9. The Paranoyds - Talk Talk Talk (Digital)
10. Pleasure Venom - Rebirth/Return (Digital)
Top Ten EP's
1. Fu Manchu - Fu30, Pt.2 (10")
2. Crisis Party - Welcome To The Party (Digital
3. Matty Grace - Winter Trash (Digital)
4. TJ Cabot - Pissin' Ammo EP (Digital)
5. Puffer - Live and Die in the City Demo 2022 (Cassette)
6. 偏執症者 (Paranoid) - Tatari (7", reissue)
7. TJ Cabot - King Grove EP (Digital)
8. TJ Cabot - SD Action EP (Digital)
9. Gord Downie - The Raven and the Red-Tailed Hawk (Digital)
10. Partner - Time Is a Car (CD)
Grant Forsythe (lead shouter at Neighbourhood Watch)
Top Ten Records of 2022 (in
alphabetical order)
End It! - Unpleasant Living LP
Eye
For An Eye - Teraz LP
The G.R.I.M. - The Orange Demo 10" EP
Peace Decay - Death Is Only... 12" EP
Pig Children - The Torment Continues 1983-1986 LP+CD
R.K.L. - Live In A Dive LP
Voivod
- Ultraman 12" EP
Various - Moncton's Burning LP
Various - Punk Canada Vol 1 LP
Various - Punk
For Ukraine 2XCD
Top Ten Favorite Vinyl Acquisitions of 2022
Armed Citizens - Make Sense 7" EP
Bitter Uproar - Live From CBGBs LP
Channel
3 - Rejected LP
Dr Know - This Island Earth LP
House of Commons - Patriot 12" Mini-Album
Insanity
Defense - Pilgrim State LP
The Mob - Upset The System 7"
EP
The Viletones - Screamin Fist 7" EP
The Violators - Summer of '81/Live Fast - Die Young 7"
Seven Sisters of Sleep/Ilsa - Messiah And The IVth
Crusade split 7"
Top Ten Favorite Mystic Records Acquisitions of 2022 (This includes sub-labels such as Super Seven, Solar,
etc...)
Agression - Live At The Underground Railroad 7" EP
Battalion
of Saints - The Best Of Battalion pf Saints - Rock In Peace cassette
Doggy
Style - Work As One 7" EP
The Faction - The Last of.... cassette
The
Flower Leperds - The Original Group LP
The GRIM - Gettin' Revenge In
'Merica Valu-Pack LP + 7"
The GRIM /Unknown gospel artist- Gettin'
Revenge In Merica mispress LP
The Incognito Rockers - 12" EP
Vox Pop
- The Band, The Myth, The Legend 12" EP
Various - Mutiny On The Bowery cassette
Best Gig of 2022 (Didn't see enough to qualify as even a Top 3, so just picked
my one favorite)
Circle Jerks/7 Seconds/Neighbourhood Watch (April 2nd,
Corona Theatre, Montreal)
Mark Gaudet (Purple Knight, The Robins, Funeral Fog)
1) Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
2) Funeral Fog - 13th Moon
3) Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
4) Voivod - Alveol
5) The Cult - Under The Midnight Sun
6) The Sadies - Colder Streams
7) Sloan - Steady
8) Billy Idol - The Cage EP
9) Julie Doiron - I Thought of You
10) Julie Doiron et Dany Placard - Julie & Dany
Ren Gaudet (Spin-It)
Top Ten Albums (in alphabetical order)
Boris - Heavy Rocks (2022)
Beyonce - Renaissance
Charli XCX - Crash
Confidence Man - Tilt
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time
Kavinsky - Reborn
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
PVA - Blush
The Weeknd - Dawn FM
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
Pete Leger (Bagtown correspondent)
Top Ten
1) The Beatles - Revolver (special edition 2022 stereo mix)
2) Donovan - Gaelia
3) Bjork - Fossora
4) Warpaint - Radiate Like This
5) Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
6) Foals - Life Is Yours
7) The 1975 - Being Funny In a Foreign Language
8) Arctic Monkeys - The Car
9) Archers of Loaf - Reason In Decline
10) Ribbon Stage - Hit With The Most
Kyle McDons (Superbob Records)
Top Ten Albums
1. The Sadies - Colder Streams
2. Firebreather -
Dwell In The Fog
3. Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
4.
Melvins - Bad Mood Rising
5. Dream Widow -s/t
6.
Stöner - Totally
7. OFF! - Free LSD
8. VR SEX - Rough
Dimension
9. Wardruna - First Flight Of The White Raven
10.
Rope Sect - Metanoia Sessions
Gavin MacNeil (cookie monster)
Top Ten Releases
Various Artists - Moncton’s Burning
Alvvays - Blue Rev
The Sadies - Colder Streams
Rick White - Rick White Plays The Sadies
Various Artists - First 6 Dischord Records (7”box set)
Wet Leg - self-titled LP
Camera Obscura - Making Money
Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools
Otoboke Beaver - Super Champon (band camp/digital)
Ombiigizi - Sewn Back Together
Favourites Shows of 2022:
- Bloodshot Bill @ Tide and Boar April 8
- Jeffery Lewis & The Burning Hell @ Struts Gallery (Sackville) & @ The Cap (Fredericton)- Apr 15 & 16
- Crywank @ Xeroz May 21
- Sappyfest 17 (Sackville) - July 29-31 performances by: Zaki Ibrahim, Ombiigizi, Cedric Noel, Apollo Ghosts, Tough Age
- Which Witch is Which/Thee Suddens/Purple Knight @ Xeroz Sept 3
- Hardcharger/Phone Jerks/ LeBaron @ Xeroz - Oct 21
Shane Mazerolle (Expired)
Top Ten Metal Releases
10. Municipal Waste - Electrified brain
9. Tymo - the art of a maniac
8. He Is Legend - Endless Hallway
7. Satan - Earth Infernal
6. Terror - Pain into Power
5. Moon Tooth - Phototroph
4. Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon
3. Autonoesis - Moon of Foul Magics
2. Spiritworld - Deathwestern
1. Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Sonia Noel (local music supporter)
1. Rick White Plays The Sadies LP
2. The Sadies - Colder Streams CD
3.
Three Speed - Long Gone CD
4. Alvvays - Blue Rev CD
5. Sloan - Steady CD
6. The Beths - Expert In a Dying Field CD
7. Kiwi Jr - Chopper CD
8. Dumb - Pray 4 Tomorrow CD
9. Julie & Dany - s/t CD
10. Harry
Styles - Harry’s House CD
Mat O'Blenis (Spin-It Records, Rotting Head Distro)
Top Ten LP's:
1. Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
2. Verdict - Time To Resign
3. Long Knife - Curb Stomp Earth
4. Nightfeeder - Cut All Of Your Face Off
5. Bombardment - La Futur Est La
6. Syndrome 81 - Prisons Imaginaires
7. Hellshock - self-titled
8. Rigorous Institution - Cainsmarsh
9.Wormrot - Hiss
10.L.O.T.I.O.N. - War In The Digital Realm
Top Ten Seven Inchers:
1. Paranoid - Tatari
2. Scarecrow - Crisis
3. Wolfbrigade - Anti-Tank Dogs
4. Systema - Muerte
5. Poison Ruin - Not Today, Not Tomorrow
6. Mess / Chisel - split
7. Fatal - 6 Songs
8. Horrendous 3D - self-titled
9. Decade - self-titled
10. Warthog - self-titled (2022)
Remi Vienneau LeClair (thee Comic Hunter)
1. Elder - Innate Passage
2. King Buffalo - Regenerator
3. Sergeant Thunderhoof - This Sceptred Veil
4. Meat Wave - Malign Hex
5. Perennial - In The Midnight Hour
6. Limousine Beach - Limousine Beach
7. Humanotone - A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand
8. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs,
Mushrooms And Lava
9. The Heavy Heavy - Life and Life Only
10. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Anita Pointer (Pointer Sisters), Vivienne Westwood, Jeremiah Green (Modest Mouse), Bob Urh (Ultra 5), Tom Harrison (rock journalist and vocalist with Bruno Gerussi's Medallion), Ian Tyson, Rick Anderson (The Tubes), Martin Duffy (Primal Scream), Terry Hall (The Specials, Fun Boy Three), Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown), Sol Amarfio (Osibisa), Jerry Allison (The Crickets), Gary Brooker (Procol Harum), Mike Cross (Sponge), Betty Davis, Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Dino Danelli (The Young Rascals), Shirley Eikhard, Charlie Gracie, Ron Harkai (The Outsiders), Bertha Barbee McNeal (The Vevelettes), Benjamin Bossi (Romeo Void), Roddy Jackson, Jet Black (The Stranglers), Hamish Kilgour (The Clean), Steve Smith (Red Alert), Christine McVie, Ralph Dillon (Buddy & The Boys), Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood), Keith Levene (The Clash, Public Image Ltd, Cowboys International), Chris Koerts (Earth and Fire), Nik Turner (Hawkwind, Inner City Unit), Gary Roberts (Boomtown Rats), Mimi Parker (Low), Tommy Jay (True Belivers, Mike Rep & The Quotas, Junior Waite (Musical Youth) Sonny West, Don Wilson (The Ventures), Jerry Lee Lewis, Rodney Graham (UJ3RKS, Volumizer), Robert Gordon, Steve Roberts (UK Subs, The Exploited, Cyanide), Chris Meagher (New Breed), Steve West (Paul Revere & The Raiders), Loretta Lynn, Karla Duplantier aka Mad Dog (The Controllers), Raybo aka Raymond Vogelman (Bonecrusher), Justin Hische (Bonecrusher, Crate Digger), John Mortensen (The Mono Men), Sonny Riggs (Zeke), Pharoah Sanders, Anton Fier (Lounge Lizards), George Boyter (Headboys), Paul Dufour (Libertines), John Till (The Hawks, Full Titlt Boogie Band), Derek Pelley (Figgy Duff), Gord Lewis (Teenage Head), Lamont Dozier, Daryl Hunt (The Pogues), Philip Drucker (Savage Republic), Raymond Raposa (Castanets), Craig Chesser (Virgin Tear, Birds of Passage), Jimmy Sohns (Shadows of Knight), Tony Malone (The Dishes, Drastic Measures), Brian Cram (Do Make Say Think, GUH), Bob Heathcote (Suicidal Tendencies), Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays), William Hart (Delphonics), Dale Snowdon (Fermeller), Mark Astronaut (The Astronauts), Manny Charlton (Nazareth), Dan McCafferty (Nazareth), Ian Showalter (Suppositories, The Dagger Eyes), Bryam McCallum (Bishops Green, Karen Foster), Massimo Morante (Goblin), Steve Bennett (Inepsy, CCSS, Wisigoth, Disagree), Andrew Fletcher (Depeche Mode), Alan White (Yes), Ricky Gardiner (David Bowie, Iggy Pop), Howie Pyro (Blessed, D Generation, Danzig), Gabe Serbian (The Locust, Dead Cross, Cattle Decapitation), Ric Parnell (Atomic Rooster), Judy Henske, Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers), Susan Jacks (Poppy Family), Re Styles (The Tubes), Jerry Doucette, Mike Armstrong (King Cobb Steelie, Change of Heart), Bill Bourne, Clifford Pusey II (Steel Pulse), Ray McRiner (The Sweet), Chris Bailey (The Saints), Francisco González (Los Lobos), Pamela Rooke aka Jordan, Tabby Diamond (The Diamonds), Bob Bastard aka Bob Poirier (Hyper-Active Adults), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Calvin Sewell (Conflict, Grand Collapse), Jason Thrasher (00 Spies), Ron Miles, Ziggy Sigmund (Scramblers, Slow, Econoline Crush), Eliot Kidd (The Demons), Bob Butler (Schwarzeneggar), Nick Tesco (The Members), Don Craine (Downliners Sect), Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Gutter Twins, Queens of The Stone Age), Sam Henry (The Wipers, Napalm Beach, Posion Idea, The Rats), Derek Hussey (Ian Dury & The Blockheads), Dallas Good (The Sadies, Elevator, Shadowy Men, Phono-Comb, The Unintended, Satanatras, Filthy Gaze of Europe), King Louie "Bankston" (King Louie & The Loose Diamonds, Royal Pendletons, The Persuaders, Bad Times, Exploding Hearts), Ian McDonald (King Crimson), Rowan Godel (Levellers, Oysterband), Myke Leach (Johnny Rocket and the Space Cadets), Jon Appleton, Daniel Hortter (Yellow Payges), Hargus "Pig" Robbins (recorded as Mel Robbins), Steve Pallow (The Beguiled, Satan’s Cheerleaders, Haunted George, Necessary Evils), Davey Bales (The Wraith), Norma Waterson (The Watersons), Leesa Gallentine (The Creamers), Sam Lay (Paul Butterfield Blues Band), Michelle Puska (Seraphic Lights), Peter Dunton (Please, Neon Pearl, T2), Bill Von Hagen (The Cynics), Abby Aucoin (Horse, Zylan, Killer Egg), Rachel Nagy (Detroit Cobras), Ronnie Spector, Bruce Anderson (MX-80 Sound), Mike Harrison (McKenna-Mendelson Mainline, Grant Smith & The Power), Real "Ray" Pelletier (Zylan), Burke Shelley (Budgie), David Whitehead (Lost Patrol), Steve Real (The Hated), R. Dean Taylor, Brian Redz Anderson (The Gears), Christine DeVeber (The Zellots), Tyrone Downie (Bob Marley & The Wailers), Inez Foxx, Rosa Lee Hawkins, Mable John, Fred Parris (Five Satins), Fred Johnson (The Marcels), Bill Pitman (Wrecking Crew), Sonny Turner (The Platters), Calvin Simon (Parliament, Funkadelic), Rick Price (The Move, Wizzard), Guy Georges Gremy (Little Bob Story), Donal Finn (Flash Bastard)
