“January 23 was a busy evening. I’d agreed to interview both Motherhood and Ribbon Skirt for Edmonton’s Winterruption Festival, and both were scheduled an hour apart in different places. After finishing about 10 minutes late with Ribbon Skirt, I dashed out of the Red Star pub in downtown Edmonton and jogged nearly the whole way to the CKUA building. I begged someone to open the door for me, asked “WHERE ARE THEY?”, and then bolted into the elevator. When the doors opened, I saw them: as I pulled up a chair, I finally registered two other people in the room who immediately began giving me strange looks. About 10 seconds later, I realized I was interrupting an ongoing interview before I politely exited and sat in stone-cold silence in a leather chair outside the office.”

Check out Ned Kroczynski’s conversation with New Brunswick’s Motherhood, from the Winterruption YEG 2026 festival.

Ernest Hemmingway once titled a memoir A Moveable Feast, a description which depicts the vignettes of the parisian lives of young artists from the lost generation moving through a delectable buffet of artistic delicacies and formative struggles. For me, a gentle late-millenial/gen z cusp, it is a description for how I embedded myself into the rush of excitement and the garden of artistic delights that the 2025 Sled Island had to offer.

Our writers go through some acts they’re looking forward to seeing at Sled Island 2025.

It’s time for a Spring check-in: Cups N Cakes volunteers chime in on which releases they’re looking forward to in the Summer of 2025.

It’s time! It’s the Cups N Cakes Network’s annual round up of the releases we’re most excited for in 2025. A few of our writers took up the task, and are excited to dish on albums, both confirmed and not, that we’re looking forward to in 2025.

We reveal our top 50 tracks of 2023, as chosen by the volunteers at the Cups N Cakes Network.

We countdown our 25 favourite albums of 2022.

We conclude our countdown of the best fifty tracks of 2022.

Our year end coverage continues with a look back at our favourite music videos of 2022.

Find out what we are excited to hear in 2022.

We are counting down the days till we can hear these releases.

Our “Best Of” coverage continues with a list of great releases we missed.

We look back at our favourite albums of the past decade.

At last! The best albums of 2019!

Part II of our countdown of the best Canadian songs of 2019.

Tracks #25 - #1.