Inside the Music with StereoRuss

Mattie and Mike Leon - Live Performance (July 25, 2024)

Mattie and Mike Leon are singers/songwriters hailing from Hamilton. Mattie (guitar and piano) and Mike (guitar and drums) refuse to leave the past behind. Their sensibilities are informed by the songwriting of the sixties and seventies. Their voices, whether soaring or soulful, are their own. The result is a fresh take on a classic form; familiar but unmistakably new.
Songs from Episode:
Can't Wait to Find Out - Mattie Leon
These are the Days - Mattie Leon
If I Ever Lost You - Mattie Leon
Hey Boy - Mike Leon
Bright Side - Mike Leon
The Little Things - Mike Leon
 
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Rick "The Temp" Campanelli (July 24, 2024)

Rick "The Temp" Campanelli is a Canadian television and radio personality best known for his work as a VJ and host for MuchMusic and for co-hosting ET CANADA. 
In 2024, he joined CHFI-FM as an afternoon host.
Songs from Episode:
Let's Dance - David Bowie
In Bloom - Nirvana
 
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Ego Death Trip (July 18, 2024)

Ego Death Trip is a Hamilton, Ontario based band that infuses groove-laden, hypnotic psychedelia with sounds from around the globe. The band is on a mission to create a new musical vocabulary that reflects the diasporic roots of the band while engaging deeply with musical forms like funk, folk, and psychedelia. The band was forming in the winter on 2023, and it consists of Anan Rahman on vocals, guitar, and other stringed instruments; David Byer on bass; Justin Bennett on drums; and Krutarth Shitut on tabla.
While the deep grooves and kaleidoscopic jams are supremely important to the band, the music is informed by explicitly anti-colonial worldview that is nourished by distinctly non-western sources ranging from South Asian classical and folk traditions, and Islamic mysticism.
Songs from Episode: 
Khruangbin - Maria También
Bab L' Bluz - El Gamra
Tony Allen - Secret Agent
 
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Nolan Gibson - Live Performance (July 11, 2024)

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nolan Gibson creates music that is grounded, yet embraces growth and curiosity. At 14 years old Nolan began sitting in with a number of Norfolk County blues and roots bands, most notably The Shoeshine Boys and Jesse Murphy Trio. Nolan has since branched out performing in a bluegrass duo with Eric Brousseau, a folk/soul/roots duo Amber Banks, and a number of other collaborations and projects.
Informed by these experiences, Nolan carries a respect for the music that has come before, but a desire explore what is yet to be. Not a single performance is the same as the last, and no song is safe from creative reinterpretation.
Today he joins @stereoruss in studio for a live on air performance on 93.3 CFMU.
Songs from Episode:
Ashes - Nolan Gibson
Soup Can Man - Nolan Gibson
Three First Names - Nolan Gibson
Suzy - Nolan Gibson
Brother Don't You Tell On Me - Nolan Gibson
 
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FFCS RETURNS (July 4, 2024)

FFCS is a music collective from Hamilton, Ontario.
Songs edited from episode:
Supa Scoopa and the Mighty Scoop - Kyuss
Green Eyes - Chris Cohen
Maybe - Ingrid Michaelson
Wizardly Jam - FFCS
 
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Superstar Crush (June 27, 2024)

Superstar Crush formed about two years ago and play power pop. Sam (guitar/vocals), Marzieh (vocals), and Truaxe (drums/vocals) became friends in middle school and met Chloe (bass) in high school and started performing original music at the end of grade 12. They all go to different universities but rock in the summer and on breaks. They have a dynamic stage energy that is not to be missed! 
Songs from Episode:
Tru Blu - Superstar Crush
Do What U Wanna - Superstar Crush
Venus in the Drywall - Superstar Crush
Fernando - ABBA
 
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Jocelyn June (June 20, 2024)

Jocelyn June hails out of Hamilton, now residing in Brantford, Ontario with a natural talent in music. Her sound is a Janis Joplin meets Amy Winehouse, sprinkled with Alanis Morissette. Over the years Jocelyn has studied privately in classical and jazz vocals, guitar with Gord Lewis, and piano with various privet teachers. She has fronted the Hamilton All Star Jr. Jazz Band, funk band 'Skirtcheck', classic rock banda 'The Falcons', and 'Black Rose'. Jocelyn June has grown her solo career, releasing 2 singles and now extends her work with her own band Jocelyn June & The Bugs. 
Songs from Episode:
Feeling Good (cover) - Jocelyn June
Kosmic Blues - Janis Joplin
Drag Me to Hell - Jocelyn June
 
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Peter van Helvoort of Glorious Sons (June 13, 2024)

Peter van Helvoort is the bassist for The Glorious Sons and is a solo artist under his own name, the singer in Darling Congress, and the singer/guitarist in Teenage Kicks.
Song from Episode:
Houselights - Glorious Sons
Motion Sickness - Phoebe Bridgers
Baby You're So Rich - Teenage Kicks
 
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Bend it Like Beck (June 6, 2024)

Bend It Like Beck is Frank Koren and Chris Wheeler as main writers/guitarists. Started as a charity tribute for Jeff Beck and the chemistry was undeniable so it quickly morphed into an original music project. Members are some of Hamilton’s finest including Miles Evan’s-Branagh on keys, Andrew Marshall on bass, and Matt Burns on drums.
Songs from Episode:
Wonky Wednesday - Bend it Like Beck
Big Smoke - Bend it Like Beck
Don't Want to Hurt You - Bend it Like Beck
 
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https://www.instagram.com/chriswheeler21/
 
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Max Wray (May 30, 2024)

From touring the country as a song-writer to expanding the minds of music students of all ages, music has been the through line to Max's entire life, allowing him to connect with people world-wide. 
Max Wray is a Hamilton based musician, teacher, songwriter, show promoter/producer - all the hats!
 
Songs from Episode:
Always - Daniel Caesar
Good Enough - Your Boy Tony Braxton
Consider Me - Allen Stone
 
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