Vince Almond – Host, Blues Boogie and Bop (Tuesdays 4-5 PM)

In no particular order

Robert Finley – Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound)
*Brandon Isaak – One Step Closer (Independent)
*Blackburn Brothers – SoulFunkn’ Blues (Electro Fi)
Dom Martin – Buried In The Hail – Independent
Candice Ivory – When The Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie (Little Village)
*Crystal Shawanda – Midnight Blues (True North)
Eric Bibb – Ridin’ (Stony Plain)
John Primer – Teardrops For Magic Slim (Blues House)
Nick Moss Band – Get Your Back Into It (Alligator)
*Wayne Nicholson – Gin House (Independent)
*Garnetta Cromwell – Time To Shine (Independent)

Best Live Shows

The Robert Cray Band – Blues Peers Festival – Peers belgium – May 27, 2023
Charlie A’ Court Lloyd Spiegel & Suzie Vinnick – Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre – April 4, 2023
Richard Thompson – Canmore Folk Festival – August 6, 2023

Alexis Brett – Host, Hello I’m Indie (Thursdays 8-9 PM)

1) Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)
2) *La Securite – Stay Safe! (Mothland)
3) *Odonis Odonis – ICON (Pirates Blend)
4) Beirut – Hadsel (Pompeii)
5) *Debby Friday – Good Luck (Sub Pop)
6) OSEES – Intercepted Message (In the Red)
7) *Uncanny Valley – Fevering Stare (Independent)
8) Animal Collective – Isn’t It Now?
9) *Ora Cogan – Formless (Prism Tongue)
10) *Priors – Daffodil (Mothland)

Doc Charles – Host, Hiway 61 (Thursdays 7-8 PM)

1) John Primer – Teardrops for Magic Slim (Blues House)
2) Larry Taylor – Generations of the Blues (Nola Blue)
3) Mitch Woods – Friends Along the Way (Club 88)
4) Willie J. Campbell – Be Cool (Blue Heart)
5) *Andre Bisson – Latchford (Independent)
6) Monster Mike Welch – Nothing But Time (Gulf Coast)
7) Mike Bourne – Cruisin’ Kansas City (Blue Heart)
8) Mike Guldin – The Franklin Sessions (Blue Heart)
9) Arlen Roth and Jerry Jemmott – Super Soul Session (Blue Heart)
10) *The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer – Live at the King Eddy (Independent)

Jim Dupuis – Host, Jimmy Jazz (Wednesdays 2-4 PM)

Primarily Instrumental Jazz

1) *Artemis- In Real Time (Blue Note)
2) *Renee Rosnes- Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
3) *Christine Jensen- Day Moon (Independent)
4) *Cory Weeds- Home Cookin’ (Cellar)
5) *Kris Davis- Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic Records)
6) Fred Hersch and Esperanza Spalding- Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
7) *Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington- Bicoastal Collective: Chapter 6 (OA2)
8) *Hutchinson Andrew Trio- The Senator: A Tribute to Tommy Banks (Chronograph)
9) *Nick Maclean- Convergence (Browntasaurus)
10) *The Night Crawlers- Get Ready (Cellar)

Primarily Vocal Jazz

1) *Diana Panton- Blue (Independent)
2) *Laila Biali- Your Requests (Imago)
3) *Sienna Dahlen & Bill Coon- Balladextrous (Cellar)
4) *Carol Welsman – Fourteen (Justin Time)
5) *Nikki Yanofsky- Nikki By Starlight (MNRK)
6) Libby York- Dreamland (OA2)
7) *Eva Schubert- The Feel of Your Love (Independent)
8) *Olivia Maisel- A Moment in Time (Independent)
9) *Dizzy & Fay- Everything is always you (Independent)
10) *Lara Anglade and Sam Kirmayer- Venez donc Chez Moi (Justin Time)

Best Live Shows

The Bad Plus – The Playhouse (Vancouver)
Will Bonness – Frankie’s Jazz Club (Vancouver)
Bruce Freedman’s Collage – Revue Stage (Vancouver)
Blue Rodeo – Sandman Centre (Kamloops)

Steve Marlow – Programming Coodinator, Host, Do Not Touch This Amp (Fridays 8-9 PM)

1) *TEKE::TEKE – Hagata (Kill Rock Stars)
2) *Renonce – Ombre (Mothland)
3) Slowdive – Everything is Alive (Dead Oceans)
4) The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Hives Music)
5) *Debby Friday – Good Luck (Sub Pop)
6) *Tunic – Wrong Dream (Artoffact)
7) *Zoon – Bekka Ma’iignan (Paper Bag)
8) The Armed – Perfect Saviors (Sargent House)
9) *KEN Mode – Void (Artoffact)
10) Joey Joesph – Triple Fantasy/Taking it Easy (Eyebrow Palace)

Best live shows

Ghostly Hounds/Clanna Morna – The London Creative
Indications – Effie Arts Collective

Dylan Olson – Host, Alternative Eye (Wednesdays, 2-3 PM)

1) *The Stonefruits – Pine Street EP (Independent)
2) *Apollo Suns – Departures (Do Right!)
3) *Karma Glider – Future Fiction (Mothland)
4) *Shred Kelly – Blurry Vision (Independent)
5) *Tarbox – Monochrome Dream (Independent)
6) *Space Queen – Nebula (Independent)
7) *The Rawn Side of Town – Singles EP (Independent)
8) Nelson Blanchard – Nelson Blanchard (White Car)
9) *Hillsburn – Stories (LHM)
10) Motive Black – Auburn (AFM)

Richard Tronson – Host, This Microphone Smells (Mondays 8-9 PM)

In alphabetical order:

*B.A. Johnston – Argos Suck (Transistor 66)
Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)
Foo Fighters – But Here We Are (Roswell/RCA)
*The Glorious Sons – Glory (Independent)
The Kills – God Games (Domino)
*Lightning Dust – Nostalgia Killer (Western Vinyl)
*LUNR GIRL – S/T (Independent)
*Miesha and the Spanks – Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi (Mint)
*Reve – Saturn Return (Universal)
*Sarah Jane Scouten – Turned To Gold (Light Organ)

Best live shows:

B. A. Johnston – Quadra Island Music Festival/Quadrapalooza. Quadra Island, BC.
Day 3 of Purple City Music Festival 2023. Highlights were Rae Spoon, Brain Bent, Lightning Dust, and Death Valley Girls. Edmonton, AB.
Deap Vally with LA Witch – The Pearl, Vancouver, BC.
Monowhales with Vox Rae – The Blue Grotto, Kamloops, BC.

Chris Weddell – Station Manager, Host, The New Fangled Whistle Test (Fridays 3-4 PM)

1) *Beverly Glenn-Copeland- The Ones Ahead (Transgressive)
2) *La Securite- Stay Safe! (Mothland)
3) Matana Roberts- Coin Coin 5: In the Garden (Constellation)
4) *Zoon- ‘Bekka Ma’iingan (Paper Bag)
5) Jaimie Branch- Fly Or Die or Die Flying (International Anthem)
6) *Jeremy Dutcher- Motewolonuwok (Secret City)
7) The National- Laugh Track (4AD)
8) Fever Ray- Radical Romantics (Mute)
9) Sufjan Stevens- Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
10) *Peggy Lee Band – A Giving Way (Songlines)

Rob Wiens – Host, The Sink (Thursdays 4-5 PM)

1) *La Securite – Stay Safe! (Mothland)
2) *Perseide – Les Couleurs D’ete (Dure Vie)
3) *Pastel Barbo – Microcosme (Independent)
4) *Gawbe – Ciseau Zigzag (Independent)
5) *Boy Golden – For Jimmy (Six Shooter)
6) *Kelland – Things Changed (Independent)
7) *Chance Brown – The World is On Fire (Independent)
8) *Kobo Town – Carnival of the Ghosts (Stonetree)
9) *Conflict at Serenity Pools – Type A (Independent)
10) *Bedouin Soundclash – We Will Meet in a Hurricane (Dine Alone)