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Program Directory

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  • Beer For Breakfast

    **cur­rent­ly on a COVID-induced hia­tus, enjoy some ​“clas­sic” episodes until we even­tu­al­ly return**

    Tasti­er than toast, Beer For Break­fast is a full-serv­ing of home­grown artists, with a side order of vis­it­ing musi­cians.

    Span­ning all gen­res with the sweet sounds of Peg City since 1999, Broose deliv­ers direct to your radio; news, show list­ings, inter­views, per­for­mances, and tons of tunes; live, baby, live, every Sat­ur­day morn­ing at 8am.

    Plus, we end every show with the Near­ly Sci­en­tif­ic Six Pack — the six hottest songs from Peg City.

    Thank you for sup­port­ing local music.

  • Coalescence

    **cur­rent­ly on a COVID-induced hia­tus, enjoy some ​“clas­sic” episodes until we even­tu­al­ly return**

    A sat­is­fy­ing mix of indie, alter­na­tive, and beyond, fea­tured in lan­guages from around the globe.

    Expect yodel­ing from time to time.

  • Expansive Prairie Skies

    Expan­sive Prairie Skies draws inspi­ra­tion from the wide open vis­tas that sur­round Win­nipeg.
    It’s the oppo­site of feel­ing hemmed in.
    It’s the sound­track to a late night dri­ve beneath a boun­ty of con­stel­la­tions.
    Con­tem­po­rary clas­si­cal and actu­al clas­si­cal.
    Avant-garde and musique con­crete.
    Noise and ambi­ent music.
    Jazz and more jazz.
    The host pro­vides the son­ic stratos­phere,
    the music does the talk­ing, you do the dreaming.

  • Festival Express

    Join some of your favorite UMFM hosts as they pre­view fes­ti­val sea­son here in Win­nipeg, fea­tur­ing inter­views and music from just a few of the great artists head­ed to Winnipeg!

  • Free Range Radio

    Your ol’ pal Skip­py cov­ers the musi­cal land­scape! Tune in each week for great music and what­ev­er else comes his way!

  • International Feel


    From the hosts that brought you Gold­soundz, 3D Radio, and Crude Radio, comes a new hour-long show for the ages. Broad­cast­ing a kalei­do­scope of obscure Funk, Jazz, Reg­gae, and spaced-out weird­ness from around the world every Wednes­day night from 9 – 10, Inter­na­tion­al Feel will be locked into your dial, whether you’re aware of it or not. Enjoy.

  • Live on KEXP

    Live Music record­ed local­ly and dis­trib­uted around the world. Brought to you by KEXP.

    Under the Nee­dle is a week­ly series fea­tur­ing the best of KEXP’s live in-stu­dio per­for­mances. With finan­cial sup­port from the Cor­po­ra­tion for Pub­lic Broad­cast­ing, KEXP is mak­ing this week­ly series avail­able at no cost to col­lege and com­mu­ni­ty sta­tions from across the coun­try. Each show is also archived and avail­able on this site. KEXP hosts over 400 in-stu­dio ses­sions each year, includ­ing a range of gen­res and a mix of well-estab­lished and up-and-com­ing artists. Kevin Cole and his staff choose among these ses­sions to bring an eclec­tic mix of incred­i­ble live per­for­mances to Under the Needle.

  • Pastoral MIDI

    Dreamy, vin­tage, under­ground, and out-there sounds from Cana­da and around the world. Explor­ing the cos­mos of synth pop, rock, AOR schlock, ita­lo, folk, exper­i­men­tal, indie, ambi­ent, house, soul, tech­no, shoegaze, dream pop, and every­thing in between. 

  • Planet Mainstage

    Plan­et Main­stage is tru­ly music with­out bor­ders, play­ing you the best in World and Folk music from near and afar each and every Sat­ur­day after­noon from 2 to 4 pm! (Face­book: Plan­et Mainstage)

  • Revolution Radio

    UMFM’s answer to Brave New Waves, Rev­o­lu­tion Radio is an eclec­tic mix of punk, new wave, ska and reg­gae, with even some Brit pop thrown in for good measure!

    Your host Twist spins a com­bi­na­tion of clas­sic and new­er tracks from each genre, plus a healthy dose of local music.

    Be part of the Rev­o­lu­tion every Tues­day, from 4 to 5:30, on UMFM 101.5 !!

  • Ryan Inc.

    Join me each week as we lis­ten to and dis­cuss music and musi­cians, both new and old, that push bound­aries, broke moulds, and exper­i­ment­ed with style, genre, and instrumentation.

  • Thank God It's Free Range!

    Thank God It’s Free Range! Join host (and UMFM Pro­gram Direc­tor) Michael Elves as he starts the week­end off with a run­down on upcom­ing shows; inter­views with local, nation­al and inter­na­tion­al artists; and all sorts of good music. Here on 101.5 UMFM, the week­end starts now!

  • The Bassment Sessions

    The Bass­ment Ses­sions is a week­ly radio show focus­ing on the his­to­ry & music of reg­gae, dub, hip-hop the gen­res they spawned. Host­ed by Dub­matix, a Juno-award-win­ning artist/​producer with a deep back­ground in radio and production.

  • the rest is noise

    doing it to you in your earhole

  • The Sentinel's Marvellous Kaleidoscope

    Through this lens, you will be guid­ed on audi­ble explo­rations, gaz­ing across the ever-chang­ing hori­zon of music. The fan­tas­ti­cal sound­scape is filled with land­marks, relics and anom­alies in pro­gres­sive, fusion and alter­na­tive styles, near and far. Each obser­va­tion­al ses­sion is con­stel­la­to­ry, pul­ver­iz­ing, mys­ti­fy­ing… and sim­ply marvellous.

  • UMFM Night Mix

    laten­ite robot sounds

  • Witchpolice Radio

    A bunch of dudes sit­ting around lis­ten­ing to records and argu­ing. The dis­cus­sion and musi­cal selec­tions of each epsiode are based around a week­ly theme. Fea­tur­ing hosts Sam, Jon and Rob, all of whom are in or have been in bands togeth­er in var­i­ous com­bi­na­tions since 1995. 

    Guest hosts appear week­ly, includ­ing local musi­cians who per­form live on the show.