Who: Mason Tikl (also has a project called Striatum)
Extra: I go Mano A Mano with Mason to chat about the recording process of Head in a Box during a pandemic. He also gives me a bit of a lesson about a Baritone 8 guitar complete with live performance!
Who: Kim Manning, Mikey Vukovich, Sean Steele, Eric VanierNew Album: Birdbrain
Extra: I go Mano A Mano with the members of Zuffalo to chat about their recording process during a pandemic and the creation of their newest album "Birdbrain".
Bands: The Age of Electric, Static in Stereo, Sin City Sinners, Todd Kerns (solo), Slash and the Conspirators, minefield, Togue
Guitar: TK has his own custom guitar and bass guitar. TK plays bass for one of the best guitarists ever, no not Gary Cain, SLASH!
Extra: BC Hall of Fame, Juno Nomination, "Remote Control" was on the Diamond selling "Big Shiny Tunes 2" compilation album.
Bands: Wax Mannequin
Guitar: Often performs as a solo act almost entirely on an acoustic and/or classical guitar. The Wizard of finger picking & other stuff he talks about that I don't fully understand but pretend to.
Extra: He used to perform with a lit candle on his head!
Bands: The Gary Cain Band
Guitar: Possibly the fastest guitar player I have ever seen! Don't get too close to the stage otherwise you might suffer from first degree burns. I cant really tell you what he is good at because he plays so fast I cant see what he is doing.
Extra: Originally from KW!
Bands: Giraffes? Giraffes!
Guitar: King of Looper pedals.
Extra: Most tracks are recorded in such a way that they can reproduce the same sound with looping live. It is crazy to believe that all the sounds happening in these songs can be created by only two people.
Bands: Do Make Say Think, Lullabye Arkestra
Guitar: Guitar symphony, Guitar ambience
Extra: Juno award winner. If you ever wanted to listen to a symphony of music on rock instruments Do Make Say Think is the band for you.
Who: Neil Osborne (vocals/guitar) & Brad Merritt (bass)
Extra: Brad and Neil join DJ AdRock and I in studio for over an hour talking about all things 54-40. We get into some fan questions and do a feature band about Neil's daughter Kandle Osborne's new album.
Who: Matt Kras (vocals/keys) & Mike Cattanache (vocals/cow bell)
Extra: Matt and Mike chat for a bit about some new Cyanide Kiss that might surface. We play one of these new unreleased tracks and the rest of the band swings by to perform acoustically a few classics.
Bands: The Gandharvas, Said Dog, Balls Deluxe, and more!
Extra: I sit down with Paul Jago for an hour before a legendary "Unearthing the Gandharvas" performance in Kitchener to talk about all things Gandharvas and scratch the surface on new projects.
Why: To blame it on the good times
Extra: Poor Young things join DJ AdRock and I in studio to answer questions and perform some of their super catchy songs live acoustically over the FM airwaves.
Who: Ryan & Jackie Stanley
Extra: The Cursed Arrows meet me at the secret "Down the Alley" performance location for an interview and acoustic performance.
Why: So that nobody is losing sleep....or I guess so that everyone listening is losing sleep.
Extra: In My Coma join us in the studio for a chat about recording, performing and a nice Love-To-Air performance.
Who: aka Aisles
Extra: Atlas join us in the studio to promote their new album and to promote an upcoming show at the Starlight which later would turn out to be quite the doozy of a show!
Podcast coming soon
Who: Brad Weber, Angus Fraser, Dan Roberts
Extra: Pick a Piper join us in studio the night that their debut album is dropping! We chat for a while and then rock out to the tracks that we have at our disposal.
Who: Chuck Coles (vocals/guitar) & Dave Baksh (guitar)
Extra: Two members of Organ thieves join us in studio to chat new album, leaving SUM 41 and starting new, the music machine AND some acoustic live performances.
Who: Allyson Baker (guitars/vocals)
Extra: We figured out how to connect all the stuff and had our first phoner with Allyson Baker of Dirty Ghosts before driving down to TO to check our here band and her debut album!