AwesomeOkanagan.com Mixcasts

Guys. I’m still coming down off the high from the We Are The City/Nuuka/Belle Game/Hannah Epperson show at the KCT on Thursday. What a beautiful night. What a beautiful temperature. What beautiful people. It was a perfect start to the long-weekend. Now, here we all are, back at work. Bummer. I don’t know about you […]

Happy First Day of May tomorrow! You may very well remember our last summer Mixtape, The Big Wet Canadian Summer Mixtape, and if you’re anything like us you crave that perfect collection of songs to pair with a flawless summer day. We’ve made this mix 30 minutes longer and added a third side this time […]

Real quick! Pay attention if you live in or near Kelowna or Kamloops today! Two of the artists featured on this Mixcast perform tonight and we wouldn’t want you to miss out on JP Maurice or Trust w/ Eraas + Little Jungles (the last three we are co-presenting!) Alright, now that the business is out […]

Wow, what another great year (maybe the best?). There’s definitely been a shift lately, as some local bands left town to pursue success in a bigger market like Vancouver and to tour Canada, many other new bands have formed and scattered themselves across the landscape. It’s not unusual to see 8-10 shows every Friday and […]

I miss you.  It’s been a crazy, amazing summer and from what I can tell we were all pretty busy just being in the midst of it all so we’re definitely long overdue for another A-OK Mixcast. It was the last day of Summer the other day and it seems like only last week I […]

DubTrub has sent us a bit of a promo mix consisting of songs from their album and a few remixes. DubTrub – City Lights (feat. Rose) DubTrub – Electrik Dawn DubTrub – Kickstart The Heart Steve Aoki – Ladi Dadi feat Wynter Gordon (DubTrub Remix) Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar (DubTrub Remix) Continuum […]

“Spring is in full swing,” is the same lame rhyme I make every year. Yet unlike my bland lack of creative writing, these bands maintain perfect creative composure through our 16th A-OK Mixcast! Get ready for the weather with these incredible performers, 2 of these shows have already happened, but the other 5 are all […]

Hi hi hi! I’m pleased to have just enough time to bring us a new A-OK Mixcast. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get my ish together for January but no worries, February’s Mixcast will make up for it. In the fifteenth A-OK Mixcast we get to share a bunch of new singles from some of […]

It’s been quite a year in the A-OK. Some people claimed local music has taken a step back, but it could just be the tall trees have lost their leaves giving the saplings a chance to emerge and grow. Lots of music, a fair amount of shows and we’ve sorted through a large amount to […]

Believe it or not, Kelowna is on the world map for Electronic Dance Music due to its vibrant Dubstep scene. Locals Excision & Datsik have enjoyed massive global popularity in the past two years. Acts like Nero, Rusko, and Skrillex have taken the genre into the mass media and Dubstep is now a household name. […]

We’re making the most of the season with another selection of CanCon. Three of the five following songs are from artists performing this month, the other five are just good times. So make peace with the temperature (brrrrr) and warm up to these great tracks by: Marry the Sea by Imaginary Cities Cults by Little […]

One of Pop Okanagan’s local feature DJs, JPod mixes up this month’s A-OK DJ Mixtape. Grass and Gospel is a unique and soul-stirring selection of JPod remixes inspired by bluegrass and gospel songs blended with his big beats and heavy bass. Reminiscing in faith-inspired music of the past has never been more fun. Grass & […]

Fall is in full swing. October showers mean it’s getting colder, but also means we’re 9 days away from Pop Okanagan, the music festival replacing BreakOut West. To get you excited about the acts coming through, we spent hours going through the line up, painstakingly narrowing down who to play on this Mixcast for you, […]

Happy September friends! It’s normally that type of year we start to throw on pants, maybe a sweater or hoody at dusk, but not here in the Okanagan. We’ve been blazing the trail with 30 degree weather, unusual even for here. As a September baby myself (26 on the 16th, a-thank you) I’m not complaining, […]

Mix Photo Courtesy of Leah Gair  www.flickr.com/photos/-lg Sunday night at Shambhala was huge this summer for Kelowna local DJ Stickybuds. He played 2 hours of funky music to a massive screaming crowd as the sun set in the magical Fractal Forest. This Mixtape is from Tyler’s set and is filled with party jams, original tunes, […]

Another Mixcast, another month. This all-Canadian Mixcast features songs inspired by showdowns. Two Alpha’s facing off, the heat of a battle, the power of music to convey these feelings. Artists featured this Mixcast: She’s Not There by Neko Case & Nick Cave Last Night by Yes Nice Soft Revolution (The Stills) by Stars Horses by […]

It has been a while, I’ve been riding the coattails of the Big Wet Canadian Summer Mixtape since May, but I suppose it’s time to make another Mixcast. Paritally inspired by an after-party from Saturday—meeting/seeing The Joe & Doug Hoyer perform— partially inspired by guilt, this Mixcast features artists that have either just recently played […]

Hello and welcome to our most ambitious mix yet! Just in time for May Long (and by that logic, summer) I am proud to present the A-OK Big Wet Canadian Summer Mixtape. Yes, mixtape, just like those of us born in the 80’s or earlier used to make for our crushes. This one even comes […]

In these short weeks leading up to our Launch Party on April 16th at the Laurel Packinghouse we’ll be featuring some of our local friends who will be taking part. This is music week, we’ve learned a lot about Behind Sapphire, Fields of Green and Thomas Kjorven (on more than one occasion!) and even saw […]

Happy Monday! Mondays are tough, frankly I can’t get anywhere without my first coffee of the day. Thankfully we have a full helping of Canadian Content to enjoy this morning. I’m inspired by seeing the sun a few days in a row and seeing the snow melt all over the valley, and in dedication to […]

Welcome back! It’s been too long. I was feeling nostalgic and felt like I could still get away with posting a top 10 list from 2010, so I’ve picked songs from my favorite 10 shows of the year to post here! They consist of: 1) There Is XXXX (Within My Heart) by You Say Party […]

Our last Summer Mixcast, number Five – Solid Gold, in homage to Robert Frost, September’s golden sunsets and a colour that ain’t never done me no wrongs. Artists featured this Mixcast are: 1) Grand Archives – Silver Among the Gold 2) The Acorn – Bobcat Goldwraith 3) Dragonette – Gold Rush 4) Familia – Golden […]

Summer Mixcast Four is in full swing, only one more Mixcast after that and our summer series is over! This is music for summer mornings-afternoons and the featured artists this Mixcast are: 1) Little Jungles – Turn to Me 2) Hannah Georgas – The Deep End 3) Black Mountain – The Hair Song 4) Yukon […]

Hey guys and gals, thanks for coming back to Summer Mixcast Three. Music for summer nights, baby! The featured artists this Mixcast are: 1) We Are The City – There Are Very Tiny Beasts in the Ground 2) The Albertans – Anna Rose 3) Fields of Green – I Can’t Believe This Tree 4) Junior […]

Wow, back for another mixcast? Damn, who knew? A pattern is emerging in the way these are playing out, the energy in the songs, and the time of day I feel they’re most appropriate…. Summer Mixcast Two is the late afternoon/evening to Mixcast One’s Afternoon mix. I’m honored in this particular mixcast to share an […]

I couldn’t send you away to a nice hot weekend without some music to listen to on the way to the beach. I love driving, I love driving with my windows down, I love driving with my windows down and blaring great music. In fact, one of my favorite parts of having a car, is […]