Joshua Hensley and Garth Mason discuss their band the Rutabega and their excellent new album, Leading Up To, being immunocompromised during a pandemic, the sunny arrangements, bright singing, and heavy lyrics on their new record, working on the cover art with illustrator Jay Ryan, playing more outdoor shows, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Murray A. Lightburn discusses his emotional new album, Once Upon a Time in Montreal, how its narrative is inspired by the romance between his mother and late father, a man he never really got to know, parenting during a pandemic, communicating via music, pride and distance, big love, jazz and punk, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Meg Remy discusses the new U.S. Girls album Bless This Mess, making and raising twins, parenting perspectives, provocative new music videos, progress and private property, Daedalus, Icarus, and Stanley Kubrick, the irrational fear of death, surviving vs. coping, home videos and social media performances, dancing again, exciting future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes talk about their beautiful band Quasi and their excellent 10th album, Breaking the Balls of History, Janet’s long, hard recovery from a debilitating 2019 car accident and how much more joy she's gotten from drumming ever since, Sam’s intuitive songwriting and zen outlook on what it all means, how people are good and people are bad, whether Janet had any doubts about leaving Sleater-Kinney, the medical toll of being a musician, how reality is real, touring, other future plans and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Pierre Kwenders discusses his new No No No EP and winning the 2022 Polaris Music Prize for his LP, José Louis and the Paradox of Love, cities like Edmonton, Kinshasa, and Montreal, life in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rumba and Celine Dion, singing in five languages, touring again, other future plans and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Baron Vaughn discusses his upcoming show at Just for Laughs Vancouver, his Comedy Central show The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle, his theatrical studies, wordplay, and getting into stand-up, agoraphobia and racism, comedy pigeonholes, America and Canada, future plans and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Andy Shauf discusses his compelling new album Norm, thoughts about a perceived Andy Shauf multiverse, narrative inspiration from George Saunders and Nicholas Olson, employing synthesizers for various reasons, god and Seinfeldia, touring again, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Ira Kaplan discusses the lovely new Yo La Tengo album, This Stupid World, health, wellness, and the movies, writing and recording the new album in an unusual way, longevity and external expectations, John McEntire and Rick Moranis, remembering Dallas Good of the Sadies, an Edmonton visit, touring again, other future plans and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Noah23 discusses his brilliant new album, Ikosi Tria, numerology, synchronicity, temporality, pharmacology, sanity, reality, hilarity, hip-hop superiority, future plans and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Kid Koala discusses his elaborate new album and board game, Creatures of the Late Afternoon, music interactivity, self-recording, self-sampling, and self-pressing his records, what scratching does to vinyl, the night time, ambitious stage shows, films, upcoming tour dates, other future plans and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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