Thank God It's Free Range!

We led off last week's episode with a selection from When They Start Rebelling, Imogen Moon's re-working of her grandfather Doug Randle's 1971 album Songs for the New Industrial State, and this week we're joined by Moon to discuss the path that led to her project, working with Ian Hendrickson-Smith, plus her personal pick from the record for us to play.

Nick Friesen - former host of Jaded & Elated and current producer of One Great History - discusses putting together the tribute to Transistor Sound & Lighting Co.'s classic record, which is available on tape and CD at Into The Music and online at Bandcamp.

Kathleen Martens is the creator and host of a podcast series via APTN called Our Relatives which examines the over-representation of Indigenous Peoples in Winnipeg's unhoused community. She joins me to discuss the project before we air the first portion of the series (and we'll be running the remaining 5 parts each subsequent Friday).

Scott Nolan released his new record, Before Tonight, today and discusses making it (and a whole lot more) in advance of his January 12 2024 album release show at the Times Change(d).

Return guest Laila Biali talks about her forthcoming return to the city for Wintersongs & Holiday Classics at the Crescent Arts Centre on December 13th, Quinn Greene - who'll be performing in the role of The Grinch at the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra's holiday show December 14th at the West End Cultural Centre - talks sharing a bill with Elvis, aka his father Dave Greene, the Interlake's foremost Elvis Tribute Artist. And finally, joined in studio by Mason Melle in advance of his album release show.

Serena Ryder talks Christmas music and more in advance of her Merry Myths tour stop at Club Regent on December 8th and comedian Joe Gatto is coming to the Burton Cummings Theatre on December 10th and talks moving from TV's The Impractical Jokers to stand-up.

In honour of the 10th Anniversary Re-release of Royal Canoe's Today We're Believers - and in advance of the band's two-night stint at the Park Theatre, I sat down with Bucky Driedger and Matt Peters to go song-by-song through the making of the album.

In honour of the 10th Anniversary Re-release of Royal Canoe's Today We're Believers - and in advance of the band's two-night stint at the Park Theatre, I sat down with Bucky Driedger and Matt Peters to go song-by-song through the making of the album.

Calgary's Tea Fannie comes to town to open for Super Duty Tough Work at their Paradigm Shift album release show and joins me to discuss how that happened. And the man behind Sushi Worms relates how he came up with the name and how he creates the music under the moniker.

Documentarian David Rabinovitch, whose family and book Jukebox Empire have a Manitoba connection discusses both. And since tonight is Game 1 of the World Series between the Rangers and Diamondbacks, it's the perfect time for a baseball book interview with Jonathan Mayo about his exploration of scouting in Smart, Wrong, and Lucky: The Origin Stories of Baseball's Unexpected Stars.

Joined by Sean Burns talking about his new album Lost Country, which gets its release October 27th at the Times Change(d). Edmonton's Audrey Ochoa joins the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra this Sunday at the West End Cultural Centre and she talks about her new record The Head of a Mouse. And finally Polaris Prize winner Jeremy Dutcher discusses his new album Motewolonuwok before playing the Burton Cummings Theatre on October 28th.