Sunday, January 8, 2023

2022 Year End Review.

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.

Three Speed 

Phone Jerks last show Oct 21, 2022

2022 Release Roundup: The locals keep pumping them out proving once again that things are indeed happening no matter who's listening or the size of the audience

Elevator To Hell - Parts 1-3 "Extra Edition" January

The Stonemen - Fades Colors b/w In The Evening 7" reissue (released April)
 

Les Hôtesses D'Hilaire - Pas l'temps d'niaiser (released May 13)


Elevator Through - Vague Premonition "Extra Edition"  June 28

Julie Aubé - Contentement (released September 9)

Three Speed - Long Gone (released October 15)

Rick White - Rick White Plays The Sadies (released November)

Funeral Fog - 13th Moon (released November 25)

                                
The Gregories - Tonight's The Day (released December 2)

     

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 

Which Witch is Which

Tyler Boutilier (Cape Breton liberationist)
10. Alicia Penny – Fox Sparrow

9. Three Speed – Long Gone
8. S.U.G.A.R – II
7. Klazo – Demik Dementia

6. Trash Brain – Hot as Luv
5. Ghostown Belle – S/T
4. Outtacontroller – Come Alive
3. Sonic Hz – Synesthesia
2. Retail Simps – Reverberant Scratch
1. Brad Marino – Basement Beat 

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


Those who have served, those we have lost..

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)

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