“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.

The Cups N Cakes Network’s Steve Haley visited Vincent Cacchione of Caged Animals in his home studio on a chilly January day to talk. They dug into his journey from New York to Sackville, anti-folk, the 30 minute play that concludes Make Strange Friends and, of course, the new album itself.