Today's episode is a great chat with Saskatoon three-piece W3APONS. No. That's not a typo. Yes, if you want to ask Alexa or Siri to play their music, you have to say W - 3 - APONS... and then the name of the song. It's slightly more work but a hell of a lot more fun! (There's actually a fun story about how that name came into existance We learned t…

Today's guest is the king of the low B, Sheldon Dingwall. From humble beginnings in a garage in Saskatoon, Sheldon has built his business into one of the most recognizable and respected names in the world of bass guitar. We learned that he toured relentlessly for three years (playing around 900 gigs!!!) leading up to moving into the world of guitar…

Randy Bailer joins us from Wetaskiwin, Alberta for episode 9! Randy is the energetic front man and songwriter with festival favourites Punch Drunk Cabaret and has had a wildly varied musical career. He's also the artist for all the band's albums and is the main creative force behind their hugely popular, usually outrageous videos! We dug into Punch…

Today’s guest is a friend of ours who we love to talk music with! Nathan Saggs is fondly remembered from his tenure with good time band Slab Drab and as the bass player for Firing at the Sky. His musical journey has taken him from drums to guitar to bass and from a mouse-infested sleeping bag in Alberta to the heady heights of the Toronto music sce…

Today's guest is the wonderfully talented, insightful, and absolutely hilarious, Mark Kleiner. Mark was known through the late nineties and 2000s, primarily on the West Coast, for his tenure in the bands Sister Lovers and Jungle, who he stunned, along with the entire Vancouver music scene, by heading back to Saskatoon to study theology, before retu…

Our guest in today's episode is national treasure Jay Semko! Jay is obviously best known from his tenure as bass player, singer, and songwriter with the Northern Pikes; one of Canada's most influential bands of late 80s/early 90s. Jay and Randy have worked together lots over the past decade or so and the conversation was relaxed, warm, and very fun…

Today we're talking to Oral Fuentes who heads up the Oral Fuentes Reggae Band as well as organizing the Saskatoon Reggae and World Music Festival. We find out how a kid from the mean streets of Belize ended up in Saskatoon, Sasktchewan, via the jungles of Guatemala. We also discover why there are so many Lords in Belize (hint; it's poking fun at th…

In this week's episode, we caught up with one of our favourite Reginans; Mark Heise. Mark is best know these days as the President and co-founder of Rebellion Brewing Co; one of Canada's best craft breweries. Mark is also a huge music fan, with varied eclectic tastes. We talked about The Kinks, Steve Earle, Waylon Jennings, and scores of other band…

Our guest on this week's episode is Ross Nykiforuk, whose storied career has seen him tour with the Northern Pikes, perform under his alter ego, "Styles Montreaux", and run a successful studio in Saskatoon, engineering and producing albums for bands like The Sheepdogs, The Northern Pikes, and Punch Drunk Cabaret. We talked about Elvis Costello, stu…

You probable know Kris Klyne from his head-banging, guitar-shredding days as the front man of Saskatchewan metal staple, Morally Sound. But Kris has songwriting chops galore and has branched into melodic heavy rock, pop, and even country-oriented vibes. His talent as a songwriter is to guage the feel of a song and write what is appropriate. Maybe t…

In our lead-off episode, Kevin talks to Randy about his two-plus decade career in the Saskatchewan music scene. We learn that Randy's first guitar only had four strings, that Lydia's fire escape is a real bitch to haul a Hammond Organ up and down, and that he is passionate about advocating for local musicians in his role as a board member with the …