Evangeline Gentle

In Win­nipeg to play Win­ter­rup­tion, Evan­g­line Gen­tle (and back­ing vocal­ist / gui­tarist Nick Fer­rio) stopped by the sta­tion to play some selec­tions from their self-titled record released on Son­ic Uny­on last fall.

À La Mode

À La Mode is an incred­i­bly soft and sin­cere project. They’ve come to UMFM to shed some warmth in the deary win­ter days here in Winnipeg.

Paige Drobot

Paige Dro­bot­’s live per­for­mance is quite dif­fer­ent from the record­ings she has released. Char­ac­ter­ized by exten­sive impro­vised gui­tar solos, an instant­ly rec­og­niz­able voice, and a rhythm sec­tion sec­ond to none.…all mak­ing Paige Dro­bot­’s music come alive and drip with soul and expression. 

Busch, Stones & The Lucky

Busch, Stones & The Lucky are one of Win­nipeg’s best kept secrets, but hope­ful­ly not for too long… These guys came in a n non­cha­lant­ly laid down one of the best ses­sions of the year. Go check out the video ses­sion here!

Freaking Snap

Freak­ingSnap is the solo project of Chris Friesen. Spon­ta­neous elec­tron­ic compositions.

Freak­ingSnap is pri­mar­i­ly fueled by cof­fee and pan­cakes, sweet glo­ri­ous IPAs, at least 1 of the 3 avail­able 1882 Fruit Based Hot Sauces, spe­cial occa­sion lemon meringue pies, pug pho­tos from Kevin, a desire to to fill an entire iPod Clas­sic with itself so its inter­nal nar­cis­sist can only lis­ten to itself, bad inside jokes and a lot of love for Lost and Michael Giacchi­no’s score for said pro­gram. I also have no real idea of what I’m doing most of the time except here (pic­ture a pic­ture of me sit­ting at The Nook), I know exact­ly how to method­i­cal­ly dec­i­mate a plate of pan­cakes, side of bacon and a cou­ple of cups of cof­fee at The Nook. Any­one that wants to join me some­time hit me up. Freak­ingSnap is the solo musi­cal project of Win­nipeg artist Chris Friesen and also a Scor­pio.

Check out the full video ses­sion here!

Trampy Trails

Trampy Trails is the singer song­writer project of Win­nipeg’s Thomas Steur. Since 2018, he has been the biweek­ly host of open mic at Sam’s Place.

Recent­ly play­ing in sup­port of the Glob­al Cli­mate Strike, Thomas caught our ear and took some time to come share his music and ideas with us. Look for his first album, released in ear­ly 2020. Check out the 360 video here!

BLACK PINE

Local Win­nipeg hard­core sludgers BLACK PINE came into the Stu­dio 101 this week­end and peeled the ​‘eff­ing paint off the walls with their blud­geon­ing sound. 

Virgo Rising

Vir­go Ris­ing is Emi­ly, Lau­ren, and Jen­na. Cre­at­ing music togeth­er in Win­nipeg since 2018, they focus on blend­ing del­i­cate indie folk and catchy bed­room pop.

They came into sup­port us dur­ing our annu­al Pledge-O-Rama event, and per­form­ing these songs live on air for our very own Venus Envy. Check out their band­camp here.

Julien's Daughter

“…this band has con­sist­ed of many peo­ple over the last 6 months-
we are the ones left stand­ing. we are julien’s daugh­ter.“

Check out one of Win­nipeg’s newest indie acts here!

Ivan Coyote & Sarah MacDougall

In town to per­form their col­lab­o­ra­tive work, Trad­er Time, artists Ivan Coy­ote and Sarah Mac­Dougall stopped by to per­form an excerpt and sit down for a dis­cus­sion of how it came to be. The pair — along with a wood­wind sec­tion and visu­al accom­pa­ni­ment — play The Park The­atre on Thurs­day, Novem­ber 14^th.