Winnipeg and Manitoba Artists To Keep Your Eyes and Ears On

Federal Lights - I See Love



Les Jupes - Hold Me Down


Les Jupes - Love is a Battlefield


Greg McPherson - 1995




Slow Leaves - Life of a Better Man


Pop Crimes - City Head


Ken Pinchin - Why Do You Call Me

Warsaw - Carrion Talker



Sybil - April Showers


Attica Riots - Talking in Your Sleep


Del Barber - Everything is Not Enough


Cannon Bros. Soft View


Cannon Bros. - Out of Here


Scott Nolan - You Rock We Roll


Matt Epp - Learning to Lose Control


KEN Mode - Romeo Must Never Know


KEN Mode - Counter Culture Complex


Royal Canoe - Exodus of the Year


Sights & Sounds - Nothing at All


JD Edwards - Going down to Mexico




JD Edwards Band - Going Down to Mexico from Procter Bros. Industries on Vimeo.


Distances - Tangled Feet

Shotgun Jimmie - Suzie


Shotgun Jimmie - Captain Howdy


Shotgun Jimmie - Mind Crumb


Les Sexy - La La La

Former Winnipeggers you may want to give some attention? Here you go.

Garfield/Odario Williams keeps getting more ambitious and broadening his palette. If he becomes a star in music, film, television or otherwise I will not be surprised.

Grand Analog - Howl (Like Wolves)


Jahmeel Russell has been putting out his own stuff with Red Vienna, working with Fine Times, and is now playing with San Angelus. Quit being so lazy, slacker.

Red Vienna - Lights Out


San Angelus - All Bets on the Slow Kid


Fine Times - And it Happened at Midnight


Luke Doucet is doing pretty well with Whitehorse. It's about time he got the respect and success he deserves.

Whitehorse - Devils's Got a Gun


Upcoming/Due for some new music?
The Mariachi Ghost - Mariachi Ghost


JP Hoe - Nothing's Going to Harm You




Ridley Bent - Crooked and Loaded
Ridley Bent - Nine Inch Nails


John K. Samson - Letter in Icelandic From the Ninette San


Scott Hinkson - All I Need


The Rowdymen - Ode to Possum


The Rowdymen - Rode Hard

Scott Nolan - Award-winning You Rock, We Roll and Hooking up With Ozzy, Tom Waits, and Kelly Clarkson

Winnipegger Scott Nolan's song "You Rock, We Roll" has won Third Place in the Americana category in the 2011 International Songwriting Competition. There were over 16,000 entries from 112 countries. Winners were selected by a diverse panel of judges that included Tom Waits, Jeff Beck, Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Smith (The Cure), Tori Amos, Kelly Clarkson, and John Mayall. Do you think they sat around and listened to everything? Together? I'd love to be in the room, with Ozzy mumbling, Waits growling, Beck sitting there silently, Smith arguing just to be contrary, and Clarkson doing...well, what would she be doing? I have no idea, but as the real "pop" star in that list, perhaps she would represent that faction. I wouldn't mind hearing Nolan doing a collaboration with any of those artists. I know Nolan is a Tom Waits fan, I've seen and heard him do a mean Waits cover. Anyhow, 3rd place Americana (Canadiana?) is cool, n'est-il pas? Upcoming Scott Nolan live extravaganzas: July 4 Sask tba July 6&7 nanton auditorium July 12 ironwood Calgary July 14 the slice lethbridge July 18 vancouver tba July 20-22 island folk fest Victoria July 27 gitters pub high river Alberta July 29 medicine hat house show

Scott Nolan - Bad Liver and a Broken Heart

Heard Scott Nolan's Bad Liver and a Broken Heart the other day on Sirius XM the other day and was reminded of how great he is, especially on this trak from 2008's Receiver/Reflector. I'm pretty sure I have posted this before. Too bad, here it is again, listen up.

Scott Nolan: Montgomery Eldorado and Pulling Rabbits Out of His Hat

Scott Nolan recently released a new album called Montgomery Eldorado. At the moment, I'm thinking that this Winnipeg-based fella might take on the world. His warm, honest approach to roots rock music might make it seem like he's simply pulling out songs from a hat, and maybe he is, but I'd be willing to bet that Nolan labours over his his well-wrought tunes. Well-recorded without being over-polished, rough and ragged yet easy on the ears, Nolan has pulled off a magic trick all of his own. He's not afraid to throw in some overt soul and funk flavours (My My Hey Hey), he enjoys covering junkyard genius Tom Waits songs, and he's got people like Hayes Carll covering his tunes (Bad Liver and a Broken Heart). I told Nolan's record label guy a while back that I think Scott Nolan would have a nice long career, and he grinned and gave the succinct reply: "Yeah. We think so too".

SCOTT NOLAN-MONTGOMERY ELDORADO by Transistor 66

Scott Nolan - Trial Separation



Hayes Carll - Bad Liver and a Broken Heart



Here's your bonus, Hayes Carll doing Tom Waits. Serendipity.

Hayes Carll - I Don't Wanna Grow Up (Tom Waits) by toodrunktodream

Buy Scott Nolan here or any of the usual joints (you know, iTunes, Amazon, yer local cool record shop).