Inside the Music with StereoRuss

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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https://www.instagram.com/theglorioussons/
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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/frank_koren/
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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Keegan Powell (May 23, 2024)

Canadian musician Keegan Powell makes songs that explore the mystery of pain, the release of demons and how through it all, life actually may be some kind of miracle. Start with the lofi experimental EP’s from 2019 ‘Is+Was’ and ‘Headspun’, doused in reverb, guitar solos and electronic drums. Lines from songs like ‘All That Is and Ever Was’ describes the mundane process through one’s day ‘Can’t quite decide how to pass the time/Forever on call to be great’ On ‘Previous Pain’ from 2022, Powell melancholically sings ‘Tonight everybody wants you/To be a star and sit upon your throne’ Foretelling if anything, the record garnered his first bout of serious airplay, racking up five radio single rotations on SiriusXM Radio.
The soothing acoustic howls that made Powell’s sophomore record,‘Fear Be Gone’, a college radio staple across North America proves something very clear-Powell has never stayed in one spot artistically. Not because he doesn’t want to, but because he is incapable of it. If evidence of this is his past work, Alien Radio is the sentencing in which nails his hand to the coffin. Imbued with infectious hooks and ferocious energy, Alien Radio is a compilation album composed of tracks previously released and unreleased from Powell’s archive, spanning across several separate recordings from the years 2016-2019. The tracks are a glimpse into an artist trying to overreach his ability and achieving it, only to forget about it altogether. Unearthed years later, what remains is an ultimate companion piece to his current released work. The results are crystal clear pop songs in the guise of quarter life angst that make for some of the most exciting rock music heard this decade.
Songs from Episode: 
Knocking on My Window - Keegan Powell
In My Cave - Keegan Powell
 
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AOIFE (May 16, 2024)

Meet AOIFE, the moniker of Irish-born, Hamilton-based singer-songwriter Aoife-Louise Doyle. A mixture of folk ethos, rock inflection and pop melodicism influences the surface of AOIFE’s soulful musical makeup. Her passion can be traced to an upbringing filled with family acapellas, later to be followed by a postsecondary trajectory as a vocal major. This paved the way for a vast array of experiences - R&B stints, jazz ensembles, compositional outlets - which informed her abilities, as well as her creative peripherals. Amidst her musical colleagues, AOIFE drew ambition to document her own world through songwriting.
The foundation of her efforts solidified as she deconstructed lines between personal themes of love, heartbreak, despondency, isolation, independence and solace. AOIFE best utilizes her voice to release subjugated emotions through a flurry of melodies, aiming to project an internal release through her message. AOIFE’s EP “when all is said and done” available for streaming now.
 
Songs from Episode:
SID - AOIFE
SAD - AOIFE
Heavy - AOIFE
I Won't Be the One - AOIFE
Daydreaming - AOIFE
 
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