Anna Haverstock is a Canadian alternative rock artist known for her raw, emotive sound, unapologetic queer identity, and dynamic live performances. Based in Saskatoon, SK, Anna blends gritty guitar riffs, silky harmonies, and introspective lyrics that explore themes of self-discovery, love, and resilience. Drawing inspiration from Best Coast and Sheryl Crow, her smooth and profound vocals effortlessly complement her band’s soulful and grungy alt-rock energy.

Bitterfly is a five-piece alternative rock band from Saskatoon, SK, blending intricate instrumentation and heavy rhythms with a dreamy, progressive finish. Self-described as “Dream Prog”, their sound draws influence from artists like Queens of the Stone Age, Sweet Pill, and Metric. After forming as a one-time cover act, the band transitioned to original songwriting, releasing their debut single, Host Club, in January 2025 and their first EP Imposter Syndrome in August of the same year. Known for energetic live shows, Bitterfly has built a strong local following.

Drawing inspiration from the 70s revival of bands like Rival Sons, Marcus King, The Black Crowes, and fellow prairie rockers The Sheepdogs, Black Tea’s music is rich with nods to British and Southern rock royalty, with heartfelt delivery. Their debut album, Now That You’re Here, is a coming-of-age tale of love, loss, growth, and gratitude that will resonate with rock and roll die-hards and casual listeners alike. The "fellas," as they refer to each other, have been performing together since their early teens, building a strong rapport that only comes from a decade of rock and roll together.

Blackrain is a trailblazing band consisting of brothers Ryan and Jamie Peekeekoot, with Jay Campbell Ross on lead guitar, and Stephen Williams on bass guitar. They recently took home the Best Rock/Metal/Blues/Group Award at this year's Saskatchewan Indigenous Music Awards, a testament to their innovative sound. With a rich musical heritage as their foundation, they're fearlessly exploring new genres, from hard rock to country to metal. Blackrain is forging a bright future, driven by their creativity and passion for music. A new album is coming soon.

blind commentary is an up-and-coming hardcore emo band based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The band’s signature sound can best be described as a dynamic fusion between emogaze, shoegaze, and grungegaze–essentially any and all variations of ‘gaze’.

Award-winning, multi-instrumentalist Bloodshot Bill has been perfectinghis brand of raw rhythm & honky tonk punk for over 25 years. A true stylist - taking early roots influences & spitting them out as he pleases. His unique sound and vocal style are easily recognizable and like none other in his field.

Immensely prolific (over 20 albums & countless singles), this Montreal mad man has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. Showing no signs of slowing down, Bloodshot Bill continues to expand musical vernacular with each new release and performance.

Cat’s relationship with music began through a vent in the floor. “I’d lift the rug up to hear my grandfather playing his fiddle along to cassette tapes in the basement.” After a fleeting, childhood stint with the piano, Clyde took on the guitar around age thirteen. “When I discovered Blues music—well—that changed my life.” She busked through adolescence, joined a punk band called Shit Bats in college, and recorded her first album in a friend’s basement before she graduated. Four full-lengths later, Clyde’s voice vibrates with that ferocious confidence of one who’s been doing this her whole life.

Chunder Buffet is a thrashy rock and roll foursome created to provide the weirdos of the world with hell-raising, glam trash music. Chunder Buffet is an ever evolving band that meticulously writes and explores hedonism and human behaviour in a world full of capitalist corruption and greed. Their post punk and grunge sound, sway into each other melodically with a high energy that is both thoughtful and aggressive. Their March 2025 EP release titled Luxury Scraps will soon be born into the Luxury Trash, Chunder Buffet was always destined to be.

Rocky Lakner and Donny Millikin, the son of Jack Millikin "The Grandfather of Ness Creek", are two of the Crooked Creek scribes, best buddies and song writing masters. Their joyful music is the perfect way to kick off your weekend! Big River’s own Crooked Creek are affectionately known as the Ness Creek house band and with 50 years of creating and performing together they have written legendary favourites representing their homes, lives, and loves in a way that instantly includes you too. Come find all your friends on the sand!

A combination of the unruly and the refined, Cupid’s Heart uses cello, electric guitar, drums, and low female vocals to deliver casually passionate songs that live somewhere between grit and grace. This North Saskatchewan trio wears alternative rock like a baggy sweater. Founded on emotional energy and painted with a restless edge, their live shows linger after the last note. Cupid’s Heart’s music has been played in venues and across airwaves from coast to coast as they carve out a sound that’s equal parts cathartic and electric, and all parts their own.

What do garbage-eating seagulls and your local bar-star have in common? They both listen to Dump Babes, and so should you. Formed in 2019 on the foundations of garbage, glitter, and friendship, this group delivers irresistibly danceable and surprisingly heavy psych-pop tunes. 

Their latest release, Known Liar, claimed Recording of the Year (2025) at the WCMAs and the group was named Saskatchewan's Rock Artist of the Year (2025). Through their textured releases and captivating live performance the band has quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic voices of the Canadian Prairies, and a staple of the region's garage music scene.

Ezra Gales Ross is a Two-Spirit musician from Saskatoon Treaty 6 and is a member of Montreal Lake Cree Nation. Ezra writes about mental health, intergenerational trauma, love, heartache and addiction.

Shrimp fuelled party band with ADHD and too many sequins. Fancy Diamonds plays rock and roll with sexy sax, whimsical guitar, and a distinguished twist of absurdity.

Indigo Joseph is back. Disbanding in 2014 after a string of successes in the Canadian music scene, the band has found new life and inspiration within the collective. Indigo Joseph has two lead singers. Members are well known for switching instruments, performing in both English and French and rapid-fire genre changes throughout their captivating high energy sets. The wait is now over and Indigo Joseph is back with a new EP "Something Shiny" coming summer 2026 and the group is ready to hit the stage once again.

Through his fascinating and electrifying Afro-Electro Congolese music, Kizaba offers a unifying show that will move the crowd! Reminiscent of the Congo, Kizaba’s Afro-futurist journey, “Fumu na betu”, is an inspired vocalization of his ancestors through the sounds of Congolese soukous, afrobeat, and pop rock. On stage, he uses his singing, drums and percussion while mixing electronic music and traditional sounds from Congo to create an Afro-futuristic universe.

KOYOT is a psychedelic rock and indie/alternative band from Regina, Saskatchewan. Rooted in the creative visions of Cree/Metis heritage, KOYOT’s music carries the depth, storytelling, and cultural resonance of their backgrounds while pushing into multi-genres with their sound. Drawing inspiration from modern indie, classic psychedelia, and the diverse musical histories of the Prairies, their energetic live performances quickly gave the band a following, surpassing 100,000 streams across major platforms. KOYOT was nominated for Fan’s Choice and Rock Group of the Year at the Saskatchewan Indigenous Music Association Awards.

Lacey Joyce is a singer/ songwriter with deep roots in Saskatchewan music. Her thought-provoking lyrics delivered with captivating vocals blend her love for folk, pop, and rock sounds, while always referencing the country and western music that she grew up hearing in the rural Northwest.

MELODNA is a dynamic, genre-fluid artist redefining Saskatchewan’s music landscape with a sound rooted in emotional truth and fearless expression. Creating across R&B, Hip Hop, and Afrobeats, she delivers music that is raw, reflective, and timeless, resonating deeply with audiences drawn to authenticity and storytelling. Her artistic journey began early, shaped by singing alongside her guitarist-songwriter father, an experience that sparked her songwriting at just five years old and cemented a lifelong devotion to music as narrative. MELODNA’s work extends beyond performance—she is a cultural force amplifying underrepresented voices while remaining grounded in her roots.

Calgary two-piece Miesha & The Spanks, comprised of mixed-secwépemc singer-songwriter Miesha Louie and drummer Sean Hamilton, winners of the 2024 WCMA for Breakout Artist of the Year, are back with a new single, “Cut My Bangs”, on a new label, Red Music Rising. Produced by Juno Award winner Hill Kourkoutis (Aysanabee, Royal Wood, SATE), this is the first single since 2023’s Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi, and it is clear The Spanks are back and stronger than ever.

My Son the Hurricane is a multi-horn, multi-drummer, multi-singer brass funk beast from Niagara, On. The 12-piece brass-dance crew has toured multiple countries and played some of the world’s biggest festivals. In 2023, their “Mr. Holland’s Locust” received over 30 million views online. In 2025, the band took an over 70 date tour, sharing the stage with acts like Foo Fighters, Jason Isbell, I Mother Earth, and Colin James.

Sam Corbett was a founding member of The Sheepdogs, and played with the band for over 20 years. During that time, he was fortunate enough to record eight albums, win four junos, and tour all over the world. He released his solo debut album under the name NUTANA in 2023, and the songs on the album are a response to his cancer diagnosis and becoming a father in 2018. The live version of NUTANA contains an eclectic mix of stellar Saskatchewan musicians, including Ellen Froese, as well as members of The Deep Dark Woods and Wolf Willow.

Canadian trio P.P. Cauldron conjures sprawling, psychedelic epics that crash somewhere between post-punk chaos and astral drift. Born from a love of increasingly complex soundscapes—and a fierce need to rip them apart—their music hits like a thunderstorm in slow motion: raw, heady, and hypnotic. Fueled by the spirit of ex-hippies gone rogue, P.P. Cauldron’s sound will make you feel like you’re orbiting a dark star, all at once violently alive and weightlessly calm. Emerges from within, it’s P.P. Cauldron…

Dive into the world of Ponteix, a psyche-pop project with spellbinding sounds led by multi-instrumentalist producer Mario Lepage. From the heart of the Canadian prairies, Ponteix distills hypnotic grooves, skillfully blending psyche-pop-electronic with the melancholy of RnB and indie rock. On stage, the Fransaskois project appears as a trio, delivering an electrifying experience with lyrics focused on the roots of Mario Lepage, hailing from the hamlet of St. Denis in Saskatchewan.

Prairie Gamble is a southern blues rock band forged in 2009, evolving through countless iterations before solidifying its current lineup in fall 2023. Officially adopting the name in April 2022, the band embodies an eclectic mix of musicians whose diverse backgrounds fuel a sound both gritty and soulful. With roots in the blues and a penchant for rock and roll, Prairie Gamble channels years of risk, reinvention, and resilience. Their debut album, set for release in the spring of 2026, promises a bold testament to their journey and genre-bending spirit.

This is what surf music would sound like if it was made in the dark near the frozen shores of the Baltic sea. Benadetta, Victoria and Teresa (definitely not their real names) are a trio of Lithuanian mermaids who create “zero-waste trash music” under the name “shishi”. They sing about how it feels to be living in times when nothing makes sense anymore. Their music is for people who care about what’s going on, but don’t really know what’s happening. Genre-wise shishi takes sugar, spice and everything nice from surf rock and blends it with a chemical formula distilled from the best riot-girl and punk bands.

Slow Leaves is the project of Winnipeg’s Grant Davidson. He writes songs about the vulnerability of being a human and it’s within this honesty of expression that listeners have found comfort in knowing none of us are truly alone in our thoughts, beauty reveals itself in vulnerability, and poetry lives in the most banal of moments. His folk and psych-rock inclinations, though rooted in the tradition of former fingerpicking songwriters, are unbound in today’s post-genre landscape. “The Ruins of Things Unfinished”, releases in May 2026 on Birthday Cake Records and Make My Day in G/S/A and Benelux.

Sylvie Walker, francophone “prairie folk” musician, follows her own quiet seasonal rhythm, shaped by long Saskatchewan winters and the slow, steady pulse of the Canadian prairies. With her soft, fluid voice, Walker builds a world both charming and disarming - “c’est rough mais ça rend doux”. Her songs explore the tangled threads of identity - the holy and human contradictions that define her: defiance and devotion; confession and revolt; guilt and pleasure, creating a tender contrast. Sylvie’s presence is unexpectedly light, her storytelling often playful and full of wry humour, making space for somewhere between laughter and longing.

The Bon Vivants bring Motown and soul vibes into the modern era. This ensemble of Saskatoon music veterans includes members of The Great Fuss, Il Creatura, Skaravan, Johnny Grit, and VBND. With five distinct songwriters, they craft a tapestry of stories and styles that make them vibrant and vital. The Bon Vivants deliver solid grooves, rich harmony, and infectious energy at every performance! Their debut single, Lost in the Dream is set for release in summer, 2026.

The Great Fuss have steadily built a reputation for their emotive and energetic performances. Their visibly joyful approach to music has made them a desirable opening act for many internationally-acclaimed acts, including Crash Test Dummies, Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies, Chris Murphy of Sloan, Five Alarm Funk and Wide Mouth Mason. With an homage to the pulsing piano melodies and indelible electric guitar riffs of classic pop-rock, this Saskatoon foursome go for a generational collision, capturing an old-school Brit pop vibe within a contemporary kaleidoscope of rhythm, lyrics and low-fi indie rock riffs that earworm into your consciousness.

Theia makes trailblazing alternative music with ethereal folk, Indigenous soul, and art rock

influences. Hailing from New Zealand, she is a proud descendant of the Ngaati Tiipa, Ngaati Aamaru and Te Ahiwaru people from the Waikato-Tainui tribal confederation. A fierce proponent for the revitalisation of Māori language and culture, Theia is known for weaving her native tongue into her songs. Her debut album, Girl, In a Savage World features haunting harmonies, Māori instrumentation and contemporary soundscapes defying categorisation.

Part indie rock, part dream pop, part folk, and ALL heart, TWIN VOICES offers up anthemic ballads and catchy choruses that encourage audiences to sing along. Embracing music as a form of collective catharsis, lead member Laura Beach writes songs about love and loss that go beyond romantic relationships to the realm of apocalyptic dreamscapes and existential angst, articulating experiences of mental illness, political depression, self-medication, and the importance of friendship within the context of late-stage colonial capitalism. 

For the last two years Shannon Elizabeth and Ray Elliott have been writing, rehearsing, and performing songs from our self titled album, Western Medicine. On the album we are joined by friends Stevie Brown, Laurel Sapp, Aiden Armstrong, Luke Goetz, and Wyndham Thiessen. Great Plains, Bad Lands, and Mountain songs. Fall of 2023 we began recording what was supposed to be a three song EP. Here we have an album in the can. Ready for the real work of a release.