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Sep 27, 20200 min read
A Letter From the Editor
As Frank Zappa once said, “Great googly moogly!” I can’t believe the first issue of our little zine is all done. To be perfectly honest,...
Sep 27, 20202 min read
It's a Beautiful Community: Bif Naked Talks Prince Albert Connections
By Mark Allard-Will Canada’s Punk Rock icon, Bif Naked, conjures up images of big city Canada - Vancouver, Toronto, etc - with that...
Sep 27, 20202 min read
Vancouver's Five Alarm Funk Makes Big Smoke Happen
-By Scott Roos Vancouver funksters Five Alarm Funk, as stated in a previous news release by NSMZ, were literally the last artists to play...
Sep 27, 20204 min read
“I Just Want To Humbly Build Guitars" Jack Facca of Fury Guitar Manufacturing
by Will Yannacoulias Jack Facca of Fury Guitar Manufacturing honours the past while embracing the future. Outside of Saskatchewan Fury...
Sep 27, 20206 min read
Chiba! Saskatoon’s Smokekiller Releases First Album In A Long Time
by Scott Roos Leisurely strolling out of the gate with an appropriately Canadian sense of quiet desperation, Smokekiller’s evil genius...
Sep 27, 20203 min read
Lost Souls, Outcasts, and Underdogs: Steve Niles Talks Holy Diver Graphic Novel
By Mark Allard-Will Power Metal, a subgenre of Metal that evokes powerful Fantasy - and occasionally horror - based imagery through not...
Sep 27, 20203 min read
Regina's JJ Voss Is A Good Dude
by Scott Roos Released back in March, Come Along With Me, the third album by Regina based country rocker JJ Voss is a treatise in the...
Sep 27, 20204 min read
Still Swayze After All These years
by Will Yannacoulias Saskatoon punk rock mainstays shine on passionate, furious sophomore release Saskatoon’s Swayze have been a constant...
Sep 27, 20205 min read
Rock in a Prairie Place: An Interview With Into Eternity's Tim Roth
-By Mark Allard-Will (Editor's note: We originally ran this in our very first issue but felt that an issue about metal in Sask without...
Sep 27, 20205 min read
Could the Next Big Thing In Sask Hip Hop Be Tucked Away In The Boreal Forest?
by Scott Roos Nestled deep in the boreal forest on a Treaty Land Entitlement farm near the small town of Spiritwood, Saskatchewan isn’t...
Sep 27, 20202 min read
Rekindling the Fury: Fury Guitars Successor Shares His Story
- Will Yannacoulias reporting NSMZ writer Will Yannacoulias was able to chat via telephone a few weeks ago with new Fury Guitars owner...
Sep 24, 20201 min read
The Kind of Venue You Dream About: Five Alarm Funk Gives Glowing Review of Rawlinson Experience
- Scott Roos February 28th, 2020… That was the last time my shadow saw the inside of a venue. I’ve missed the buzz of activity...
Sep 21, 20204 min read
One More Step Closer To Normal: Rawlinson Releases Fall Schedule of Concerts
-Scott Roos reporting - photo courtesy of the EA Rawlinson Centre for the Arts Via an online announcement today at 3 pm, the EA Rawlinson...
Sep 18, 20203 min read
Wade Fehr to Release Six Song EP "Of Ghosts and Graveyards"
- Scott Roos reporting Dust off your fedoras because Prince Albert based folkster Wade Fehr will be releasing sophomore EP "Of Ghosts and...
Sep 16, 20203 min read
Fury Guitars To Resume Production
-Will Yannacoulias Fury Guitar Manufacturing LTD was founded in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan by Glenn McDougall in 1962. From then until...
Sep 13, 20201 min read
Park Valley Pickers Jake & Ira Play P.A.
By Scott Roos It was a frigid September evening last night in the East Flats of Prince Albert, but that didn't stop 16 year old Ira...
Sep 13, 20204 min read
Belle Plaine Grateful To Be Playing Show In Prince Albert
"This performance for me is very much going to be a storytelling, songwriter style show"
Sep 7, 20203 min read
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