The Nora Kelly Band’s set at Sled Island was stunning. The band was funny, charming, and knew how to take themselves seriously when the music demanded it. They were playing at Pin Bar on 17th Ave in Calgary, a bar with—you guessed it—pinball machines, about eight of them in a small room to the right of the stage. Nora and I agreed to interview after her set, by which point I’d drunk two tall cans of PBR and had grown quite sweaty from all of my head-nodding and slight swaying.

“When Tashiina and Billy sat down, they appeared weary, as though they had ridden in on horseback. They had just landed in Edmonton that afternoon, and only two nights before, opened for Shame at Montreal’s Club Soda. After letting them settle in, I made an unfunny joke about how I’m going to give them a rapid-fire round of questioning, they laughed politely, and we began.”

The Cups N Cakes Network’s Ned Kroczynski caught up with Ribbon Skirt before their performance at Winterruption YEG 2026.

Following Patche from album to album and stage to stage is like witnessing a continuous process of experimentation, mutation, and revelation. Right before their performance at M for Montreal, Cups N Cakes caught up with the minds behind the modular synthesizers, Eliott Durocher Bundock and Jean-Bruno Pinard.

Louise Jaunet sat down with Rose Cormier of the band MULCH at the 2025 edition of M for Montreal.