Michael Elves

As someone who hosts a conversation show with authors, just want to put it out there if you ever get an email purporting to be from me but asking for $ it is 100% a scam. Apparently this is a thing? cjsw.com/statement-on...

Spoke to academic and poet Feisal G. Mohamed for Turning Pages today. We discussed the book-length erasure poem Nowhere Is Safe In Gaza (Brick Books). Conversation is available to stream/DL at the link: umfm.com/programming/...

Turning Pages (11:30am CT on UMFM 101.5 in Winnipeg & online now) features a conversation with Emer O'Toole about Do It Yourself ( @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social ). umfm.com/programming/...

Mike Ditka. RIP

TGIFR tonight (6:30pm CT on UMFM 101.5 & online now) I talk to Miesha Louie of @mandthespanks.bsky.social ahead of their Oct 3 show at the WECC and to Adam Sturgeon of @statusnonstatus.bsky.social before they play Public Domain on Oct 2. umfm.com/programming/...

Today's Turning Pages episode features Will Ferguson discussing Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl ( @gooselane.bsky.social ). 11:30am CT on UMFM 101.5 and online now. umfm.com/programming/...

If you missed it yesterday, my conversation with @billsquirrell.bsky.social about Notes on a Colonial Situation In Hell is online now! umfm.com/programming/... Catch him at @mcnallyrobinson.com Sep 29th!

Back from holidays with a new TGIFR (6:30-8pm CT tonight on UMFM 101.5) and the episode features Sean Burns ahead of his album release Sep18 at Sidestage and filmmaker Sam Dunning (Canoe Dig It?) who has a Q&A Sep9 at the Park Theatre. umfm.com/programming/...

It's Bandcamp Friday.

"A salary cap is not an immutable law of nature, nor is it a method of enforcing fairness. It is just a stronghold that NBA players have yet to breach, one which allows the owners to artificially suppress their employees' earning power."

Special exclusive broadcast on UMFM 101.5 TONIGHT!! Thanks to Dead Oceans I've got "Lost Signals" with Phoebe Bridgers' track-by-track breakdown of her new album. 7pm CT!

Nice to see a Gattaca shoutout in this Russ tribute.

Bunheads 4 Life.

TGIFR tonight (6:30-8pm CT on UMFM 101.5) features interviews with Afrobeat artist Olisae, Vancouver band MELTT (Sidestage Aug17) and LØLØ (Burt Block Party Aug14). umfm.com/programming/...

RIP William Orbit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mffz...

Joining a softball team where we just have fun has done wonders for me. www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...

Not sure how I stumbled upon this piece but it provoked thoughts. "It’s probably true that AI is a “plagiarism machine,” but so is Ableton Live, and so is the electric guitar" is a teeth-grindingly false equivalent. jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/the-public...

I predict the Mets season will continue to be bad.

Today's episode of Turning Pages airs at 11:30am CT on UMFM 101.5 but is online now to stream/DL and features a conversation with @therewasnosound.bsky.social about his history of Canadian electronic music, A Nation of Tinkerers ( @invisibooks.bsky.social ). umfm.com/programming/...

Today's Turning Pages (11:30am on 101.5 UMFM) features a conversation with @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social on Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the Twenty-First Century (Assembly Press). We discuss artistic economics, academia and AI. umfm.com/programming/...

Great line from @brianphillips.lol "Sports promise us intensity, not happiness." www.theringer.com/2026/07/16/w...

To be fair, few things have had as dramatic an impact on the environment as AI stands to than the automobile so maybe the skeptics had/have a point.

On UMFM 101.5 FM in 30 minutes and online now, my conversation with @davidjonfuller.bsky.social about his novel Venue 13, perfect reading as Winnipeg heads into Fringe Fest season. umfm.com/programming/...

Actor Kirk Fox has written a "dirtbag noir" called Palmdale (Meridia Press) and he joined me on Turning Pages to discuss it. umfm.com/programming/...

TGIFR tonight (6:30-8pm CT on UMFM 101.5) features interviews with Chance the Rapper (July 13 at Canada Life) and Horse Lords (July 9 at Folk Fest) and a live session with Neighbour Andy. umfm.com/programming/...

Brace yourselves for Folk Fest on the 10th. exclaim.ca/music/articl...

UMFM 101.5's Festival Express series featuring interviews with performers ahead of @winnipegfolkfest.bsky.social airs a conversation with Jacob Brodovksy today at 2:30pm CT, but it's online now to stream. (Photo by Matt Horseman). umfm.com/programming/...

UMFM 101.5's Festival Express series featuring interviews with performers ahead of @winnipegfolkfest.bsky.social airs a conversation with Cat Clyde today at 2pm CT, but it's online now to stream. umfm.com/programming/...

Today's Turning Pages episode features a conversation with Veronique Darwin about Mom Camp ( @pressassembly.bsky.social ) Stream/DL at the link: umfm.com/programming/...

WOWZERS. What a set.

TGIFR tonight (6:30-8pm CT on 101.5 UMFM) features interviews with The Good Sky Woman (Sunday at Public Domain) and Tonky Honk (Tuesday at Sidestage) plus live recordings with Tyson Ray Borsboom & Pony Gold. umfm.com/programming/...

some must-read words on the bigotry, from @samihiggins.bsky.social

Just read @grantbrisbee.bsky.social 's commentary piece about the @sfgiants.com pitchers who put bible verses on their Pride hats and couldn't agree more with his advice to Roupp: "Dig deeper, my dude." www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

Couple great conversations with BC artists coming to MB next week on my show tonight (TGIFR 6:30-8pm CT on UMFM 101.5). Mary Ancheta's MA:Q plays Jazz Winnipeg on June 20th and Pony Gold plays The Handsome Daughter on the 19th. Stream the episode now: umfm.com/programming/...

Really enjoyed this live performance from Alessia Cara and co. Took me a beat to notice the actual desk in the background. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDia...

@brianphillips.lol doing the Lord's work with this list. Nodded my head reading this like a novitiate in genuflection. www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...

Tonight's TGIFR (6:30-8pm on UMFM 101.5) features Jean-Guy from Federal Lights (Jun 12 at Sidestage), Tyson Ray Borsboom (who plays Handsome Daughter Jun19) and a live session with Crooked Ice. umfm.com/programming/...

Had MC Joudrey on Turning Pages (11:30am CT on UMFM 101.5) to talk about Marmalade Parade (Guernica Editions). You can stream it now at the link: umfm.com/programming/...

Can't wait for Scott Pelley on @thepressbox.bsky.social

THIS WEEK! The launch of my debut novel, VENUE 13, at @mcnallyrobinson.com (Winnipeg, Grant Park location) Thursday June 4, at 7 p.m.! /1

"Regulatory pressures"

Today's Turning Pages features a conversation with Todd Dufresne, Philosophy prof at Lakehead about The Future Belongs To Those Who Fight ( @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ). Airs in Winnipeg on UMFM 101.5 FM, but you can hear it online at the link. umfm.com/programming/...

Not saying it's THE moment, but one of the turning points has to be when people decided it was totally fine to take a phone call in a public bathroom.

Mark your calendars. Start your hot-take engines.

Terrible news.

TGIFR tonight on UMFM 101.5 (6:30-8pm CT) features conversations with Noah Derksen and Spencer Krug about their new albums. Derksen plays Sidestage June 7th and Krug will be a Winnipeg Folk Fest with Wolf Parade. Stream the episode at the link: umfm.com/programming/...

After "Blackberry Marmalade" and now this, I'm not sure if there's a record I'm more hyped for than the new Vince Staples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYU1...

TWO live sessions and interviews on TGIFR tonight (6:30-8pm CT on UMFM 101.5) Tofusmell ahead of tomorrow night's release show at the Handsome Daughter. and CEC ahead of the Briefly release May 30 at Sidestage. umfm.com/programming/...