Winnipeg music & culture since 1989
Nap Eyes (from Nova Scotia) are about to release a very thought-provoking album. It is composed of cool melodic blues-folk with lyrics that make you think: think about yourself, how others see you, your life choices, and all of the meanings behind your decisions. It’s a cool mellow way to reassess and self-reflect. To set the mood, the band recorded all seven tracks live on a porch beside the beautiful coast of Pictou, NS. Continue reading “Nap Eyes: Lyrics that make you think”
By Kaitlyn Emslie-Farrell
The Real McKenzies aren’t a new topic of conversation for Canadian punk lovers. They’ve been written about, talked about, and danced to. But if you’re really experiencing The Real McKenzies, you’re drinking to them. Vancouver based Celtic punk rockers aren’t strangers to Winnipeg either. I spoke with front man Paul McKenzie and he told me many stories including one about our own wind spot on Portage and Main. Continue reading “The Real McKenzies”
As a follow up to his April 2015 album release of ok, night, Micah Visser’s new single “I Will Not Return As A Tourist” came out in November of last year. The 19-year old will be embarking on his second tour, headed East on March 17th. The last night of the tour is a homecoming show on March 30th at The Good Will Social Club; Visser hopes that, for his city, this homecoming performance will be his best yet. Continue reading “Micah Visser :: Eastern Canada Tour”
By Chris Bryson
On March 4, Winnipeg experimental pop-rock outfit Boats will be playing their last show at the Good Will. “Probably the last show,” says Mat Klachefsky, Boats’ frontman and songwriter. Continue reading “Boats: One Last Hurrah Before Setting Sail”
By Victoria King
From her home in Saint John’s Newfoundland, and me from the CKUW production booth in downtown Winnipeg, Amelia Curran and I make small talk: How’s the weather there? Did you see the news about Bowie? Yes, it got to -30 here this weekend. Don’t these sorts of things always happen around time of year. Continue reading “The Feast and Famine of Amelia Curran”
By Rachel Narvey
Frazey Ford joins me on the phone a week into the new year. When I ask how 2016 is going, she confesses that for the past few days she’s been in bed with a cold. “I’m just coming out of it,” she says. “I feel a bit like a newborn.”
Hearing her voice, you’d never know she’d been sick. Ford speaks with a warmth that instantly suggests her signature musical blend of folk and soul. You only have to play the first minute of a Frazey Ford song before someone in the room turns to you, a little bit in awe, and asks “who is this?” Continue reading “Frazey Ford”
Roger Roger’s new album Fairweather is a folk-roots album with an injection of country and soul. Continue reading “Roger Roger :: Fairweather”
By Andre Cornejo
It’s Sunday afternoon, and the weather is certainly less than favourable. The Winnipeg winter we all love to hate has shown up over the weekend, and I’m glad that I only have to walk one block with my tape deck to get to Mulligrub’s jam space.
I make my way up to the front door and I’m let inside by guitarist and vocalist, Kelly Campbell. The first thing one notices when entering the home is the impressive collection of written and printed material. Information ranging from and beyond indigenous struggles, animal liberation, gender, and health, to socialism, foreign policy, and radical fiction. Continue reading “MULLIGRUB: Melancholy and Melody meet in the Heart of West Broadway”
By Laura Friesen
With the release of her fourth full-length, Art Angels, everyone’s favourite urban faerie has catapulted herself into the public pop stratosphere. And when I say catapulted herself, it’s in the truest sense of the phrase – the Vancouver native has built her career on her own terms, uncompromisingly hacking out a sonic and cultural space that celebrates the weird, the feminine, the surreal, the twisted. Continue reading “Art Angels – Grimes”
CKUW’s annual FUNDRIVE is back and better than ever.
February 5-12, 2016.
We are having an epic party to kickoff this wonderful week and will be launching the brand new issue of Stylus Magazine!! Continue reading “FUNDRIVE KICKOFF PARTY AND STYLUS LAUNCH”