This is Mark Rodgers, your producer for season two of the Capital City Records podcast in partnership with the CKUA Radio Network and the Edmonton Public Library. I put together this last episode to recap the season and use some audio clips that didn’t land in the original episodes. Also if you listen till the end you’ll hear some of the outtakes which are always fun.

In producing this season I confirmed what I had known all along. Edmonton is a healthy close-knit community, by no means perfect, but positive with energy and a quiet momentum that will hopefully continue. In talking with people about other people in the scene, nothing but positive vibes is the consistent aspect of the discourse. 

This podcast is about the music living on the website of Capital City Records which is an amazing digital snapshot of the Edmonton music scene. It’s also a free way to access local artists while seeing them getting compensated for their  music being consumed at the same time.

Voices featured this season include: Kennedy Jenson, Dave Sawchuk, Dan Lenz, Brittany Lyne Rudyck, Jason Norman, Brent Oliver, Mike Ross, Ben Sures, Tyler Butler, Philip Muz, Kat Danser, Lindsey Walker, Beth Portman, Amy Van Keeken, Celeigh Cardinal, F and M, Jesse Northy, Dave Von Bieker.

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This week’s podcast ends up on more the crunchy side of the music spectrum. Brittany Lyne Rudyck talks about her youth and how it relates to the pure punk rock sound of Edmonton group Hellen.

Hellen is Evan Truscott, Mark Miller, and Sam Malowany. Punk in its purest form sometimes doesn’t need more info than this.

Brittany Lyne Rudyck writes for BeatRoute Magazine, Western Canada’s Indie Arts & Entertainment Monthly Magazine found across the province in Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Canmore and Banff.  

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This week’s episode features long time Edmonton musician and arts administrator Brent Oliver chatting about the legendary Edmonton act Wilfred N and the Grown Men and the song ‘I’m In Love with the City’ as found on Capital City Records.  

Edmonton’s Wilfred Kozub has a long history of making rock and pop music sprinkled with innovation and electronic experimentation. Wilfred N & the Grown Men grew out of the New Wave music phenomenon of the early 80s when Wilfred and his band mate, Jamie Philp, hunkered down in Kozub’s basement recording studio. They produced a string of radio singles and the early album that spawned the hits "I Could Get Closer To You" and the still-well-loved title track, "Thunder on the Tundra". You can now find their 2013 album ‘I’m In Love with the City’ on Capital City Records.

Brent Oliver is in love with the city, having moved to Winnipeg and back. He is heavily involved through his work as the City of Spruce Grove Arts Director , UP+DT Festival Director, Alberta Music - Director/ Vice Chair and BOP MGMT Director. His resume expands over three decades in Edmonton and along with Wilfred N and the Grown Men, they have made Edmonton a healthy place to live with their contributions to the arts.

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This is another week of a Capital City Records act chatting about another Capital City Record act. Tyler Butler has had two of his songs featured on past podcasts and he wanted to get in on being a guest host himself.

F and M are active in the Edmonton Music community and were co-hosts of a Capital City Records podcast talking about the group Concealer.  F&M have toured and recorded extensively garnering chart success, critical acclaim and a loyal fan base across Canada & internationally.  A new F&M album entitled "Lessons From Losers," is set for a late 2017 fall release.

The sea may be in his blood but the prairies are in his heart. Tyler Butler was born on Canada’s east coast but taps into his Alberta roots. Tyler seeks to understand what makes a true folk musician, scouring Canada to find those tireless troubadours who craft stories of the land, in turn creating place through their song.

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This week’s guest host is Celeigh Cardinal, a future Capital City Records artist. Look out for her soon-to be released record “Everything or Noting at All” on Capital City Records. Celeigh chats about Kimberley MacGregor and her song “Building a Case”, the second last selection on Kimberley’s record “I am My Own” as found on Capital City Records.

According to Kimberley’s website , she is reformed bank manager, Kimberley realized she was doing a successful job of living someone else’s life—and a poor job living her own. In 2013, she launched her original songs into the world and took centre stage. She has since released two full-length albums and was awarded Female Artist of the Year at both the 2015 and 2016 Edmonton Music Awards. Other nominees from the Edmonton Music Awards are also found on Capital City Records.

Celeigh is from the north country of Alberta and moved to Edmonton in 2010. She can perform solo, with her duo, trio or full band. A Celeigh Cardinal performance is a profound, soulful triumph of songs that blend roots, folk, rock and pop. Her voice at once evokes gentleness and control which can turn to raucous, gut wrenching, twisted, turn-yourself-inside-out blues within a single phrase.

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This week’s episode features local impresario Dave Von Bieker and according to his web site he’s “your bow-tied tour guide to the other side”. He chats about the Lucas Chaisson song “My Lover and My Ghost” found on the record “Telling Time” as discovered on Capital City Records.

Produced by Grammy winner Colin Linden, "Telling Time" highlights Lucas’s strong songwriting, and very distinctive vocal delivery. An honest and confident songwriter, Lucas isn’t afraid to tread familiar ground with new eyes. When he is on stage, he is exactly where he is supposed to be.

Dave is the Founder/Artistic Director of the Bleeding Heart Art Space. Also a local musician, he talks about how “My Lover and My Ghost”, “…puts you in a zone”, and why it still strikes a positive chord with him years after its release.

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This week’s podcast features Amy van Keeken, another artist on the Capital City Records website. She talks the group Switches, a fellow act on the electronic arm of the Edmonton Public Library.

Switches live up to the rep of the place they call home: a prairie city with big skies and big sound. The band straddles the worlds of ruthless garage-punk and gritty, sing-along rock.

Amy van Keeken is deep into the Edmonton music scene as a musician, singer, educator and broadcaster on both CJSR and CKUA. The Amy van Keeken Rock and Roll Sing Along experience is something to behold for people of all ages. She also has two solo releases on capitalcityrecords.ca “Live Right” and “So Long. She can be heard as well as part of the group Dub Vulture also featured on the web site through the album “Brother Can You Spare A Gun”.

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This week’s podcast features local writer and publisher Jason Norman chatting about the mellow sound of Tyler Butler. He talks about how the music is almost the ‘opposite of sound’ when seeing Tyler play live as a solo act.

The sea may be in his blood but the prairies are in his heart. Tyler Butler was born on Canada’s east coast but taps into his Alberta roots. Tyler seeks to understand what makes a true folk musician; scouring Canada to find those tireless troubadours who craft stories of the land, in turn creating place through their song.

Jason Norman is behind projects like the ’40 below” volumes one and two and the #yegwords Coffee Sleeves you may have seen around Edmonton. He’s very active on twitter under the handle @bellyofawhale .

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Two weeks ago on the Capital City Records Podcast Lindsey Walker talked about Jesse and Dandelions and this week we turn things around as Jesse Northey, from Jesse and Dandelions, talks about the Consilience song “Walking Through a Dead Night”, a song which he recorded twice.

Consilience’s lead Tusy Hudson and the bands live off the floor version gives us a rawer feel to “Walking Through a Dead Night”. When Jesse Northey and Aidan Lucas-Buckland took over the rhythm section of Consilience in 2014 the band was able to create a different musical landscape.  

Jesse Northy is deep into the music scene in Edmonton and is working for Alberta Music. He takes us behinds the curtain of the production of both versions of “Walking Through a Dead Night”.

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This week’s episode looks at some straight up honest rock n’ roll as Dave Sawchuk weaves some kind words about Stepmothers’ song “Leave Your Light On”

Leave Your Light On 7" was recorded in one day in August 2012 by Devin Fortier, mixed by Devin Fortier and mastered by Stu Mckillop. Stepmothers have released four albums since 2012 with the latest being “Oh Here/We Are” in 2015.

Dave Sawchuk has been in radio for 18 years, having worked in Grande Prairie, Victoria and Edmonton. He loves straight up rock n’ roll, so have a listen to this week’s episode to find what legendary acts he connects to the local group Stepmothers.

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