“You Get a Few Hours of Honesty”- Will Ardell and Berk Jodoin’s Black Bird Sessions
By Will Yannacoulias It’s rewarding for both the audience and the artists when two like-minded songwriters creatively connect. Examples...
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Mar 15, 20222 min read
“Life, Frustration and Just Loud Weirdness!”- Fusarium Release Debut Album
By Will Yannacoulias March 4th saw Saskatoon psychedelic rock band Fusarium release A Setup, an eight track experiment that wanders...
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Mar 8, 20222 min read
Letter From The Editor - March 2022
By Will Yannacoulias Editor Scott Roos invited one of us writers to take a stab at opening the issue this month and I drew the short...
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Mar 8, 20225 min read
New irons in the fire for La Ronge's Set To Flames
As readers of North Sask Music Zine will know, I chose Set To Flames debut album, "Set To Flames", as one of my top three albums of 2021....
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Mar 8, 20221 min read
Regina’s Funeral Bell Release New Single
By Will Yannacoulias ”Where Bones Are Piled” is the latest release from Funeral Bell, an experimental death/doom duo from Regina....
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Mar 8, 20223 min read
"Left-of-Center Heavy Music": New Single, New Lineup from Saskatoon's Adolyne
By Will Yannacoulias Unrelenting, intelligent and defiantly unorthodox, Saskatoon's Adolyne have long been admired for delivering...
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Mar 8, 20223 min read
“We Worked Our Asses Off For This Album”: Ashes Of Yggdrasil’s Viking Metal Masterpiece
By Will Yannacoulias From the frozen fjords and impenetrable alpine forests of Lloydminster hail Ashes of Yggdrasil, a melodic death...
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Mar 8, 20224 min read
"We Finns and Canadians share a lot in common" Omnium Gatherum on upcoming Regina show
Omnium Gatherum is a great description for the Finnish Melodic Death Metal band of the same name. Latin for "a collection of...
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Mar 8, 20226 min read
"Once I Started I Never Stopped!”: Rory Lawford's Guitar Menagerie
By Aidan Orison & Will Yannacoulias For over thirty years, performing live music has been Rory Lawford’s passion. Whether as a solo...
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Mar 8, 20224 min read
"My music resume looks like a meme" One Bad Son's newest Guitarist Tara McLeod
by Scott Roos “My (musical) resume looks like a meme,” quips guitarist Tara McLeod as she explains the different projects she’s been a...
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Feb 27, 20222 min read
Nice Horse and Tebey Rock the Rawlinson with a Heaping Portion of Country Twang
By Scott Roos photos by Scott and Deanna Roos This past Friday, February 25th, country music fans of Prince Albert and surrounding area...
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Feb 24, 20223 min read
Nice Horse Returns to Rawlinson This Friday, February 25th
by Scott Roos photo by James Greig “I was pretty new to the band,” reminisces Nice Horse guitarist Tara McLeod of her band’s last gig at...
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Feb 17, 20222 min read
Patrick Moon Bird Continues to Evolve on Latest Release “Going Through The Motions”
By Will Yannacoulias February 12 prolific Prince Albert Lo-Fi producer Patrick Moon Bird released his fourth full length album, Going...
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Feb 12, 20223 min read
"The venue exceeded my expectations" renowned countertenor Terry Barber wows EA Rawlinson audience
by Scott Roos It was a concert two years in the making this past Wednesday, February 9th as critically acclaimed, world renowned...
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Feb 6, 20221 min read
A Letter From the Editor: February 2022
Well, it's been a tough few months with COVID19 rearing it's ugly head again with yet another variant but, as they say in the business,...
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Feb 6, 20223 min read
"When you're writing a song, you start with a blank canvas" Donny Parenteau On Purpose and Process
By Scott Roos Pics by Deanna Roos of Contingent Colours Photography “Once COVID hit, I had to rethink everything that I do. It totally...
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Feb 6, 20224 min read
Reprint: Let’s Get Ready To Ramble: Celebrating The Napatak Ramble’s 10th Annual Music Festival
*Editor's note: this article originally appeared in our February edition* By Shelbey Savoie “It’s really about enjoying the people and...
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Feb 6, 20222 min read
Advice from Hot Dog Helen: What to do about Valentines Day
By Hot Dog Helen Pics by Deanna Roos of Contingent Colours Photography Hi, Hot Dog Helen here! I hope you are staying warm with the cold...
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Feb 6, 20229 min read
Telecasters, Bunnyhugs and Vico: Why Fender's First Guitar Became A Sask Indie Icon
By Will Yannacoulias In 1950, Californian radio repairman Leo Fender launched the Fender Telecaster, which would become the first...
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