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

Not in any particular order

1) Candice Ivory – New Southern Vintage (Nola Blue)
2) Angelique Francis* – Not Defeated (Independent)
3) D.K. Harrell – Talkin’ Heavy (Alligator)
4) Charlie Musselwhite – Look Out Highway (Forty Below)
5) J.P. Leblanc* All In My Blood (Acadian Connection)
6) Brandon Isaak* – Walkin’ With Blues (Independent)
7) Various Artists – Antones’s 50th All-Stars: 50 Years Of The Blues (New West)
8) Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo – Room On The Porch (Concord)
9) Chambers Deslauriers* – Our Time To Ride (Forty Below)
10) Miss Emily* – The Medicine (Gypsy Soul)

Jason Beers – Host, The Dance Punk Show (Wednesdays, 6-7 PM)

1) Art D’Ecco* – Serene Demon (Paper Bag)
2) AFI – Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… (Run for Cover)
3) Shame – Cutthroat (Dead Oceans)
4) Lights* – A6 (Universal)
5) Mother Mother* – Nostalgia (Warner)
6) Evil Island – Evil Island (Independent)
7) Model/Actriz – Pirouette (Dirty Hit)
8) Avalanche Party – Der Traum Uber Alles (AMK)
9) Propagandhi* – At Peace (Epitaph)
10) Wooze – Was Father Present (Young Poet)

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

1) Foxwarren* – 2 (Anti-)
2) Gloin* – All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry) (Mothland)
3) MIEN* – MIIEN (Fuzz Club)
4) Cate Le Bon – Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer)
5) Geese – Getting Killed (Partisan)
6) Panda Bear – Sinister Grift (Domino)
7) El Balcón* – El Errante (Independent)
8) Lambrini Girls – Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang)
9) Marie Davidson* – City of Clowns (Because)
10) Beirut – A Study Of Losses (Pompeii)

Jim Dupuis – Host, Jazz Notes (Wednesday 2-4 PM)

Primarily Vocal Albums of the Year 2025

1) Dominique Fils-Amie* – Live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival (Ensoul)
2) Nneena Freelon – Beneath the Skin (Origin)
3) Dawn Clement – Delight (Origin)
4) Holly Cole* – Dark Moon (Rumpus)
5) Molly Johnson* – All I See EP (Universal)
6) Mira Choquette* – Hier Encore (Independent)
7) Don Macdonald* – Short Stories (Independent)
8) Vanisha Gould – She’s Not Shiny She’s Not Smooth (Cellar)
9) Nancy Kelly – Be Cool (Origin)
10) Kellylee Evans* – Show Love EP (Enliven)

Primarily Instrumental Albums of the Year 2025

1) 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band – Interaction (Anzic)
2) Artemis* – Aboresque (Blue Note)
3) Eric Alexander – Chicago to New York (Cellar)
4) Code Quartet* – Code Red (Justin Time)
5) Renee Rosnes* – Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions)
6) Ostara Project* – Roots (Rhea)
7) Triology with Scott Hamilton* – The Slow Road (Cellar)
8) Alain Bedard Auguste Quartet* – Particules Sonores (Effendi)
9) Chad McCullough/Gordan Spasovski/Kirik Tufekcievski/Viktor Filipovski – Transverse (Calligram)
10) Brad Turner Trio Plus One* – It’s All So (Cellar)

Andrew Johnson – Host, Bluegrass, Etc. (Tuesdays 11 AM-Noon)

1) Hilary Hawke – Lift Up This Old World (Free Dirt)
2) Carla Gover – Kentucky Queen (Redbird)
3) Morgan Toney* – Heal the Divide (Ishkode)
4) Sierra Hull – Tip Toe High Wire (Independent)
5) The Grid Pickers* – Heck Yes’m (Independent)
6) Billy Strings – Highway Prayers (Reprise)
7) Downriver Collective – Give It All Away (Kettleridge)
8) Alison Krauss and Union Station – Arcadia (Down the Road)
9) Jake Vaadeland* – Retro Man (Arts and Crafts)
10) The Unfaithful Servants* – Fallen Angel (Independent)

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

1) Mclusky – The World is Still Here and So Are We (Ipecac)
2) Ribbon Skirt* – Bite Down (Mint)
3) Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo – In the Earth Again (The Flenser)
4) Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film (Warp)
5) Scions* – To Cry Out in the Wilderness (Idee Fixe)
6) Devours* – Sports Car Era (STG)
7) Tortoise – Touch (International Anthem)
8) No Joy* – Bugland (Hand Drawn Dracula)
9) Emma Goldman* – All You Are is We (Zegema Beach)
10) Encephalon* – Automaton All Along (Artoffact)

Best Live Shows

Elisapie – Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival
Ginger Beef/Barry Mason Jr. – The Effie

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

1) Ayla Tesler-Mabe* – Let Me Out! (Independent)
2) Jeremy Kneeshaw** – 4th Try (Independent)
3) The Soundwriters** – Better Than Before (Independent)
4) Robots & Gods* – Robots and Gods (Independent)
5) Piper & The Hard Times – Revelation (Independent)
6) Maddisun* Home Is Where The Music Is (Independent)
7) Karma Glider* – From The Haze Of A Revved Up Youth (Mothland)
8) Jimmie Kilpatrick* – Jimmie (You’ve Changed)
9) Marlaena Moore* – Because You Love Everything (Independent)
10) Jared Jackal’s Bad Vibrations** – Bad Nauseum EP (Independent)

Best Live Concerts of 2025

Jeremy Kneeshaw (Barn Stage) @ Salmon Arm Roots & Blues- July. 26, 2025
Ayla Tesler Mabe @ Effie Arts Collective- August. 15, 2025
Jesse Roper (Main Stage)- @ Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival- July. 25, 2025
The Heavy Heavy (Main Stage)- @ Salmon Arm Roots & Blues- July. 26, 2025
Burton Cummings (Main Stage) @ Salmon Arm Roots & Blues- July. 26, 2025
The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer (Main Stage) @ Salmon Arm Roots & Blues- July. 25th, 2025
Andrew Johns (Classic Elton Tribute) @ Ribfest @ Riverside Park- August. 8, 2025
Alexandr Misko @ The Effie Arts Collective- May. 18, 2025
Danny Bell & His Disappointments @ The Effie Arts Collective- May. 17, 2025
Krang @ The Effie Arts Collective- August. 30th, 2025

Neil Russell – Host, Hiway 61 (Thursdays 7-8 PM)

1) Buddy Guy – Ain’t Done with the Blues (Silvertone)
2) Taj Mahal and Keb Mo – Room on the Porch (Concord)
3) Tommy Castro and the Painkillers – Closer to the Bone (Alligator)
4) Charles Mussellwhite – Hiway 61 (Forty Below)
5) Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Young Fashioned Ways (Thirty Tigers)
6) Steve Marriner* – Hear My Heart (Cordova Bay)
7) Chambers Deslauriers* – Our Time To Ride (Forty Below)
8) Sue Foley* – One Guitar Woman (Stony Plain)
9) Big Dave McLean* – This Old Life (Cordova Bay)
10) Cat Wells Blues Band** – Brand New Shoes (Independent)

Jeremy Salamadyk – Host, Country Heat (Wednesdays 3-4 PM)

1) John Lee Sanders** – Bucket Full of Blues (Independent)
2) Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir* – Ten Thousand (SAP)
3) Richard Henderson* – Seventh Day (Independent)
4) Big Dave McLean* – Faded But not Gone (Cordova Bay)
5) Gary Daggitt* – Wheels and Strings (Independent)
6) Mud Bay Blues Band* – Colebrook Road (Independent)
7) The Onlines – You Climb the Mountain (Independent)
8) Ken Stead* – Fear Has No Place Here (Independent)
9) Stuart and Russell* – Over Stones (Independent)
10) Tanya Davis* – Clocks and Hearts Keep Going (Independent)

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

1) The Beaches* – No Hard Feelings (AWAL)
2) Wet Leg – Moisturizer (Domino)
3) Pretty Reckless – Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas (Fearless)
4) Aysanabee* – Edge of the Earth (Independent)
5) Florence and the Machine – Everybody Scream (Polydor)
6) Jared Doherty** – Island Chain (Independent)
7) The Vicious Cycles** – Get Wrecked (Pirates Press)
8) Marlaena Moore* – Because You Love Everything (Independent)
9) Lydia Night – Parody of Pleasure (Independent)
10) The Planet Smashers* – On The Dancefloor (Stomp)

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

1) Lido Pimienta* – La Belleza (Anti-)
2) Kara-Lis Coverdale* – From Where You Came (Independent)
3) Pierre Kwenders* – Tears on the Dancefloor (Moonshine)
4) Blanc Dehors* – Diaphane (Independent)
5) Satellites – Aylar (Batov)
6) Thelonius Garcia* – Marche Nocturne (Independent)
7) John Gunther – Painting the Dream (Origin)
8) Ginger Beef* – Ginger Beef (Independent)
9) Ribbon Skirt* – Bite Down/Pensacola EP (Mint)
10) Good Flying Birds – Talulah’s Tape (Rotten Apple)
11) Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto – Djiyo (Independent)
12) Damon Locks – List of Demands (International Anthem)

Mike Woloszyn – Host, The Void (Thursdays 5-6 PM)

1) Spoils of Grace** – Suffer//Long (Independent)
2) Bill Leeb* – Model Kollaps (Artoffact)
3) The Birthday Massacre* – Pathways (Metropolis)
4) Mark Pharrow* – RNDR 032 (Render)
5) BB and the Bullets – High Tide (Independent)
6) CHXMERAS* – Terminal City (Apparatus)
7) Rich Aucoin* – Synthetic Season 3 (We Are Busy Bodies)