I host an hour-long radio program of various genres of music across the last fifty years or so. It airs Tuesdays at 16:00 AST/ADT on CHSR-FM 97.9 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Posts
- Nothing in Particular – Episode 12Aired 2025-Sep-23 on CHSR-FM 97.9. Sarah Slean is the focus of this week’s [x] Years Later segment, with a song from her 1998 debut album Blue Parade and 2017’s Metaphysics.
- Nothing in Particular – Episode 11Aired 2025-Sep-16 on CHSR-FM 97.9.
- Nothing in Particular – Episode 10Aired 2025-Sep-09 on CHSR FM 97.6
- Nothing in Particular – Episode 8Aired 2025-Aug-26 on CHSR-FM 97.9.
- Nothing in Particular – Episode 5The first podcast of this radio show was posted last night and can be accessed at CHSR-FM.
Past Playlists
2025-Jul-08
| Artist | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The The | I've Been Waitin' For Tomorrow (All Of My Life) | Soul Mining |
| Propellerheads /w Shirley Bassy | History Repeating | Decksandrumsandrockandroll |
| Klangphonics, Anna Metko | Ghost (Find Me Again) | Perfect Opposure |
| Goldie Boutilier | Body Heat | Cowboy Gangster Politician |
| Hannah Georgas | Shine | This Is Good |
| The Compassion Pills | Lizzy | Creature of Habit |
| Rose Cousins | How is This (The last Time) | Conditions of Love – Vol 1 |
| Charlie Houston | Lighter | Big After I Die |
| Masayo Ishigure | Midnight Rain | Grace |
| Gary Numan | Bed of Thorns | Savage (Songs from a Broken World) |
| Weak Size Fish | Lost Lagoon | The Drift |
2025-Jul-15
| Artist | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Seabound | Avalost | No Sleep Demon V2.0 |
| Aasiva | Namu | |
| Port Cities | In the Dark | Port Cities |
| Arcade Fire | Wasted Hours | The Suburbs |
| Rachel Sermanni | Tiger | So It Turns |
| Karunesh | Bombay Pure | Global Spirit |
| Senseless Live | I See You | |
| Midnight Oil | US Forces | Best of Both Worlds |
| The Clash | The Magnificent Seven | Sandinista! |
| Speed Caravan | Kalashnik Love | Kalashnik Love |
| Xia-3 | Another Day | Interworlds |
| Our Girl | Being Around | Stanger Today |
| School of Seven Bells | Music Takes Me | SVIIB |
2025-Jul-22
2025-Jul-29
| Artist | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Talking Heads | No Compassion | Talking Heads: 77 |
| Gaudi | Put Your Guns Down | In Betweel Times |
| Izdatso | Someone I Used To Be | I Know Nothing |
| I AWAKE | Constellation of the Heart | The Core |
| Taj Mahal | Everybody's Got to Change Sometime | Taj Mahal |
| Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' | Room on the Porch | Room on the Porch |
| Bow & Antler | Night Robbers | Gather Frolic |
| Geomungo Factory | Dream of the Tree | Metamorphosis |
| Namgar | Sandalwood Saddle | Nayan Navaa |
| Jaron Freeman-Fox & The Opposite of Everything | Burnin' Sun | Jaron Freeman-Fox & The Opposite of Everything |
| Annabel Lamb | The Flame | The Flame |
| ego likeness | Aviary (Stoneburner Remix) | Wolves |
| Kee Avil | Remember | Spine |
| Geddy Lee | Moving to Bohemia | My Favorite Headache |
2025-Aug-05 (Podcast available)
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fingers in the Noise | Apero Beat | Apero Beats | 2010 |
| Annie Lennox | Coloured Bedspread | Songs of Mass Destruction | 2007 |
| Kate Bush | Get out of My House | The Dreaming | 1982 |
| Rhys Fulber w/ Sara Taylor | Slip It In | Diaspora | 2020 |
| Covenant | In Theory | Sound Mirrors | 2016 |
| Kenji Kawai | UTA I - Making of Cyborg | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 |
| Huun-Huur-Tu | Oske Cherde | Sixty Horses In My Herd | 1994 |
| Alison Moyet | Where Hides Sleep | Alf | 1984 |
| Alison Moyet | Right as Rain | The Minutes | 2013 |
| Frazey FordFrazey Ford | Done | Indian Ocean | 2014 |
| Dan Mangan | Robots | Nice, Nice, Very Nice | 2009 |
| Andrew Kagumba | Nandere | Global Music: Volume I | 2024 |
| Caro | Links Inna Chain | Lowlands | 2021 |
| Podcast available atCHSR-FM. | |||
2025-Aug-12
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Moses | Desire | Desire | 2020 |
| Dreadzone | Mountain | Dread Times | 2017 |
| London Grammar | Non Believer | Truth is a Beautiful Thing | 2017 |
| Junkster | Slide | Junkster | 1997 |
| Saya Gray | Exhaust the Topic | Saya | 2025 |
| Skinny Puppy | Solvent | Remission (EP) | 1984 |
| Skinny Puppy | Paragun | Weapon | 2013 |
| David Bowie | The Secret Life Of Arabia | Heroes | 1977 |
| Colleen | Humming Fields | Humming Fields | 2013 |
| Jane Siberry | The Waitress | No Borders Here | 1984 |
| Nicola Cruz w/ History Of Colour | Paruma | Confluencias II: Montaña | 2016 |
| Martyn Bennet | Blackbird | Grit | 2003 |
2025-Aug-19 (Podcast available)
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Parsons | Chomolungma | A Valid Path | 2004 |
| Darles Flow | Lost Tribes | Deep House Essentials: Blue Edition | 2020 |
| Anne Clark | Homecoming | Hopeless Cases | 1987 |
| Stars | The Night Starts Here | In Our Bedroom After the War | 2007 |
| The Beatles | Julia | White Album | 1968 |
| k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang | The Waters Edge | Sing It Loud | 2011 |
| Mackinaw | To the Salt | Key Anacon Road | 1999 |
| Wire | Mannequin | Pink Flag | 1977 |
| Eardrum Buzz (12" Version) | It's Beginning to and Back Again | 1989 | |
| Primed and Ready | Mind Hive | 2020 | |
| Nguyên Lê & Ngo Hong Quang feat. Paolo Fresu | Cloud Chamber | Ha Noi Duo | 2017 |
| Contrived | The Void | Addicted to Saddness | 2024 |
| Conjure One w/ Jeff Martin | Premonition | Conjure One | 2002 |
| Podcast at CHSR-FM | |||
2025-Aug-26 (Podcast available)
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simple Minds | Someone Somewhere In Summertime | New Gold Dream | 1982 |
| Peter Gabriel | The Tower That Ate People | Red Planet (Soundtrack) | 2001 |
| Margaret Glaspy | You and I | Emotions and Math | 2016 |
| Mother Mother | Latter Days | The Sticks | 2012 |
| The Jam | That's Entertainment | Sound Affects | 1980 |
| The Jerry Cans | On The Rocks | Echoes | 2020 |
| Legendary Pink Dots | I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty | The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse | 1990 |
| Legendary Pink Dots | Junkyard | Angel In The Detail | 2019 |
| Ayub Ogada | Dala | En Mana Kuoyo | 1993 |
| Jaian | Mohamour (Alexis Le Tan Edit) | RePhrase Collection: Hard Fist Edit Series | 2018 |
| Rotersand | Beneath The Stars | Random Is Resistance | 2009 |
| Angelique Kidjo | Born Under Punches | Remain in Light | 2018 |
| John Mann | Ill Placed Monuments | Acoustic Kitty | 2002 |
| Jill Barber | Hold On | Metaphora | 2018 |
| Podcast at CHSR-FM. | |||
2025-Sep-02
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tegan and Sara | Night Watch | Sainthood | 2009 |
| Test Dept | Chillo (Sunrise) | Totality | 1992 |
| VNV Nation | When is the Future? | NOIRE | 2018 |
| Shera Kelly | Black Chariot | A Bicycle Commuter's Anthem | 2011 |
| The Alarm | Father To Son | Strength | 1985 |
| Boy & Bear | Southern Sun | Harlequin Dream | 2013 |
| Midnight Oil | Short Memory | 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 | 1982 |
| Midnight Oil | We Resist | Resist | 2022 |
| Neil Young | The Needle and the Damage Done | Greatest Hits | 1971 |
| Phöenix Lazare | Undone (Live) | Live Sessions | 2014 |
| Amiina | Crocodile | Fantômas | 2016 |
| Ria Mae | Leaving Today | (Single) | 2012 |
2025-Sep-09 (Podcast available)
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boy Harsher | Fate | Careful | 2019 |
| Men 2nd | White Clouds Ahead | The Antibody Songs | 1988 |
| Midival Punditz | Har Ek Baat | Hello Hello | 2009 |
| Delhi 2 Dublin | Dil Nachde (Radio Edit) | Delhi 2 Dublin | 2007 |
| David Francey | Pandora's Box | So Say We All | 2013 |
| Nada Surf | What Is Your Secret? | The Weight Is a Gift | 2005 |
| R.E.M. | Wolves, Lower | Dead Letter Office | 1987 |
| Peter Murphy | The Light Pours Out Of Me | Should The World Fail To Fall Apart | 1986 |
| Peter Murphy | Time Waits | Silver Shade | 2025 |
| Northcore | Oxygen | Desatero | 2012 |
| David Sylvian | September | Secrets of the Beehive | 1987 |
| Ché Aimee Dorval | Afraid | Between the Walls & the Window | 2018 |
| Chloé Breault | C'est Fini | Plage Des Morons | 2020 |
| Rose Chronicles | Nothing's Real | Shiver | 1993 |
| Podcast at CHSR-FM 97.9 | |||
2025-Sep-16 (Podcast available)
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brixx | Double Axe | Conversion Therapy | 2021 |
| Apoptygma Berzerk w/ Claudia Brücken | Unicorn (Duet Version) | Harmonizer | 2002 |
| Yello | Planet Dada | The Eye | 2003 |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 4 + 20 | Déjà Vu | 1969 |
| Foy Vance | Into the Fire | Melrose EP | 2012 |
| Mike Oldfield feat. Maggie Reilly | Crystal Gazing | Discovery | 1984 |
| Sully | Otherd | I Have Much To Report | 1998 |
| Cyberaktif | Nothing Stays | Tenebrae Vision | 1991 |
| Cyberaktif | Bitter End | eNdgame | 2024 |
| The Cure | One Hundred Years | Pornography | 1982 |
| Econoline Crush | Devil You Know | Devil You Know | 1997 |
| Dolores O'Riordan | Stay With Me | Are You Listening? | 2007 |
| Agnes Obel | September Song | Aventine | 2014 |
| Podcast available at CHSR-FM 97.9 | |||
2025-Sep-23 (Podcast available)
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pagalve | Rubber Dog | Shades & Echoes - Finest Dub Techno, Vol. 2 | 2014 |
| IAMX | I Am Terrified | Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction | 2009 |
| James Hill | What Would You Have Me Do? | Man With A Love Song | 2011 |
| Caravan Palace | Queens | Panic | 2012 |
| Thomas Dolby | The Ability to Swing | Aliens Ate My Buick | 1988 |
| Sarah Slean | Habit | Blue Parade | 1999 |
| Sarah Slean | Perfect Sky | Metaphysics | 2017 |
| Annie Lennox | September in the Rain | Nostalgia | 2014 |
| Baaba Maal | One Day | The Traveller | 2016 |
| Pukka Orchestra | Might As Well Be On Mars | Pukka Orchestra | 1984 |
| Crash Test Dummies | All You Pretty Girls | A Testimonial Dinner : The Songs Of XTC | 1995 |
| Alison Goldfrapp | Gatto Gelato (Niina Remix) | The Love Invention | 2023 |
| Podcast available at CHSR-FM 97.9 | |||