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Tonight we feature an extensive interview with Brad Merritt, the bassist for 54-40 talking about the group s 15th album West Coast Band, which was released in late 2023. Brad explains how this album grew out of online band meetings during the COVID lockdowns, a period they spent looking back at the early days of 54-40. We talk about some of the great stories behind the songs on this recording. As 54-40 is one of my favourite Canadian rock bands, we also dig into the group s deep back catalogue and play some of my favourite tracks from the group s 40 year recording career. For more information about 54-40 visit their website: https://www.5440.com Also enjoy a couple of songs from the band new Sleater-Kinney album which is garnering rave reviews all over the place. Thanks for listening and support independent music in any way that you can. ....
We open the show in conversation with members of the metalcore/hardcore Ottawa band The Sink. Ryan Clark (guitars/vocals) and Dylan Parsons (bass/vocals) join us to talk about the group s debut e.p., Reaching For Light, which was released last week. They tell us how the group got started and Ryan talks about some of the themes in his songs. They also tell us about the concert on Saturday (Jan. 27th) at the Dominion Tavern where they will be celebrating the release of the e.p. along with Salem Trials, Premeditated and No Hope X Mankind. For ticket information: https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/salem-trials-the-sink-premeditated-dominion-tavern-tickets/13382583?pl=spectrasonic For music from The Sink visit their Bandcamp site: https://thesink.bandcamp.com/album/reaching-for-light And here is The Sink s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thesinkband Next up we continue our conversation with Brad Merritt, the bassist with Vancouver s 54-40. The group recently released its 15th ....
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