Spare Room Tunes Weekly Round Up for Week Ending May 9/25
Update on SRT #182
Hello Everyone!
Spare Room Tunes #182 will be live streamed through Mixcloud on Sunday May 11th at 8pm AST Moncton time. (4pm PST, 7pm EST, Midnight UK).
Tuning in is free. You can stream through a web browser or download the Mixcloud app on your phone/tablet. If you create an account on Mixcloud you can join the chat while I am on air.
Artists to be featured:
Michael Feuerstack! Luc Lemans! Cut Cult! The Painters! Night Committee! Casper Skulls! La Lune! TeethOut! Between Daze! Weird Lines! Benjamin Dakota Rogers! Alexander Gallant!
And More!
Running Time: 1hr
Warning: Explicit Language
Facebook Event:
Link to Facebook Event for SRT #182
Or you can listen to the replay on air at 10pm ADT every Wednesday night through CHMA on 106.9 FM in the Sackville New Brunswick area or at chmafm.com
If you missed out on SRT #181, you can stream it anytime on Mixcloud, Spotify or Apple. Note some songs are only available by streaming the Mixcloud showreel.
SRT #181 Full Showreel on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/spareroomtunes/spare-room-tunes-181-e/
SRT #181 on Apple:
SRT #181 on Spotify:
Music Shared on SRT:
New Single Alert!
Peter Dreams - Try a Little Tenderness (Toronto)(alternative rock)
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LeafGreen - And I’ll Say (Nova Scotia)(pop punk)
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Something French - LEMONS (Saint John)(indie)
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Cola - Mendicant (Montreal)(punk)
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Lammping - Never Never (Toronto)(experimental rock)
New single alert!
Toronto psych-rock experimentalists LAMMPING return with “Never Never,” a full-tilt collaboration with Montreal rockabilly legend Bloodshot Bill, out May 6 via We Are Busy Bodies. The track supports their upcoming album Never Never, set for release on June 27, which marks the first installment of an ambitious four-album journey that will span genres, collaborations, and sonic time-travel over the next year.
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New Music Alert!
Life Of Crime explores two sides of the economic spectrum from a criminal point of view in classic punk-rock single, (Side A/ Side B , fashion. Each song tells a story, one from a point of desperation, one from a point of privilege, both from a Life Of Crime.
The songs were written and recorded by Kim Carson and Jillian Comeau in home studios in Halifax, NS and Winooski, VT - except for drums played by Clare Macdonald and recorded at Ocean Floor Studio in Halifax, NS. Life Of Crime was mixed by Dave Casey and mastered by Fransico Lopes.
We Should've Been Plumbers is the indie-rock brainchild of longtime collaborators Kim Carson and Jillian Comeau. After 6 years of writing and performing together in their first project, Like A Motorcycle, the duo has regrouped and stripped things down to the essentials -raw songwriting, and a name that reflects the "what ifs" of life.
Drawing inspiration from the gritty sounds of '90s Canadian rock, We Should've Been Plumbers delivers a blend of punchy, melodic rock with an a sound that is unmistakably their own. Their self-titled debut EP, released in March of 2022, quickly made waves, earning a nomination for Rock Recording of the Year at the Nova Scotia Music Awards.
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New Music Alert!
Daniel Romano’s Outfit - Event If It’s Obscure / Sweet Dew of the Kingdom (Welland)(pop rock)
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New Ep Alert!
La Lune - Everything is an eternal circle and it repeats and repeats itself
After kicking off 2025 with two standout singles and a string of live performances, Vancouver, BC’s la lune returns with a new EP, everything is an eternal circle and it repeats and repeats itself—a follow-up to their 2024 debut release, disparity
Across the EP’s eight tracks—including the previously released singles “quiet considerations” and “expressionless”—La Lune delves into the subtle disorientation of living with trauma. The EP takes its name from a concept introduced in a therapy session—a “trauma vortex,” which describes the repetitive, spiraling nature of unprocessed emotion. The band leans into repetition, distance, and disorientation, using slow-building arrangements to reflect the lingering pull of past experiences that never fully let go. Rather than confront it directly, the songs drift around the edges, circling the same ideas in loops of sound and repetition. There’s no clear resolution, but a steady pull inward.
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New Music Alert!
Daniel Sparrow With The Visions - Peace Out (Abbotsford)(alternative rock)
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The Eh! List — by Exclaim!
The best new songs from Canadian artists, as selected by exclaim.ca.
Updated every Friday!
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The Cups N Cakes Network is a volunteer based, not-for-profit music media site that covers independent Canadian music.
Cups N Cakes Top 40
An eclectic countdown of the best new Canadian independent music. Updated every Sunday.
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One Chord To Another is a Finnish pop site.
OCTA New Music Weekly: Episode #324
This is a weekly playlist of new music for onechord.net. A new set of songs that are dear to me will be posted every weekend and old ones will be removed. Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop, Soul etc.
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Rosy Overdrive:
To be perfectly honest with you, readers, right now, this moment, is the busiest that I (the person behind this blog) have been in a very long time (in terms of things outside of the world of Rosy Overdrive, I mean). So far I’ve been able to keep the blog posts coming at a normal pace, but for the first time in quite a while I’ve had to consider the fact that I might not be able to at some point in the near future. Hopefully this doesn’t happen! There’s still a ton of good new music on which I’d like to put a spotlight. The good news is that the April 2025 playlist is here, though, and it features a ton of this aforementioned good, new music. Check it out!
https://rosyoverdrive.com/2025/05/06/new-playlist-april-2025/
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Retrospect 674 - Think the US had a monopoly on raw, fuzz-drenched rock in the '60s? Think again! This week, we're digging deeper than the Pacific Northwest, unearthing the wild and wonderful sounds of garage rock scenes from around the globe, all kicking off with a new [to me] cover of Gloria!
Retrospect is created by Phil Grey in New Zealand. The world’s only weekly radio show and podcast presenting obscure '60s garage punk, garage rock, proto-punk, freakbeat and psychedelia from every part of the planet!
https://linktr.ee/retrospectgaragepunk
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Too Much Rock - Sid Sowder - Kansas City
Podcast #737 empties the fridge eating dishes from The Members, Off-Ox, Phase Distorter, Ghost, Lordi, & Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires.
https://www.mixcloud.com/sidmuchrock/too-much-rock-podcast-737/
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National Top 50 by Earshot online for week ending May 6th/25
Top 5
1. Bria Salmena - Big Dog
2. Marie Davidson - City of Clowns
3. Destroyer - Dan’s Boogie
4. Sister Ray - Believer
5. Ribbon Skirt - Bite Down
https://www.earshot-online.com/charts/index.cfm
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Bandcamp:
Today, we're thrilled to announce Bandcamp Notes, a free music discovery newsletter created and written by the Bandcamp Daily editorial team, published on Substack! Our first issue goes out this Wednesday, May 7. Find out more:
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Too Many Tunes, Too Little Time!
S~