It’ll be a high-energy affair when Calgary band L’omelette makes their first visit to Thunder Bay this month. “We love to rock out and play live rock shows. We’re kind of like a festival dance band, and so live you can expect lots of dancing, lots of jumping around, and lots of energy,” lead singer Meg Thompson says.

A new short film has gained international attention after its premiere in New Zealand. My Friend Saabe, directed by Morningstar Derosier and Victoria Anderson-Gardner, was filmed in Migisi Sahgaigan (Eagle Lake First Nation), Derosier says, and screened in late March at the Māoriland Film Festival.

“It’s just been such a wild ride,” says Thunder Bay-born musical artist Megan Nadin, who is no stranger to boldly venturing into the unfamiliar. It was a fortuitous encounter that would lead her to open for country legends Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan on their Grits and Glamour tour this Sunday April 13 at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium, which will be Nadin’s largest show to date. 

The 2025 Wake the Giant festival lineup is here, and festival organizers have got a feeling that festival goers will have the time of their life. This September 6th at the waterfront, international superstar musical group the Black Eyed Peas will headline this year’s festival.

My Morning Jacket have come a long way since their debut album, The Tennessee Fire, which was partly recorded in an improvised studio above vocalist/guitarist Jim James’s cousin’s garage. For the Kentucky-bred rock band’s milestone tenth release, they enlisted Grammy Award-winning producer Brendan O’Brien (known for working with Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam).

Charles Wesley Godwin’s new EP, Lonely Mountain Town, explores themes of love—be it loving someone, or loving the simplicity of life.

Since the early 2010s, BANKS has been making moody alternative pop hits to wide acclaim; now, she has released her fifth studio album, Off With Her Head, reuniting with longtime collaborators and producers Lil Silva and Sampha.

With a federal election called for April 28, The Walleye Magazine spoke to incumbents and candidates from Thunder Bay-Superior North and Thunder Bay-Rainy River ridings about topics ranging from the rising cost of living, the opioid crisis, and tariffs—topics that we felt would be important to our readers and determine who they vote for. Here’s what they had to say.

I do not think that Spring

exists amongst the beige

and grey. 

The bulbs trapped ‘neath

fractal crust as Winter has his

way.

Add a splash of guitar, the essence of Circle Jerks, and a whole lot of angst, bring it to a roaring boil, and voila, there you have it: scalding punk anger—or in other words, RHOADS’s first official release, Idiopathic.

North American conservative politicians continue their ongoing antagonism toward the environment with their “axe the tax” and “drill baby drill” slogans and policies.

Nothing hits quite like a homemade sammy with fresh bread. But where to go when the craving hits? Check out Bread & Butter, one of the newer vendors at Goods & Co. Founded by chef Fred Sorrell, the brainchild behind The Neighbours Cooking, the kiosk offers a tantalizing selection of made-from-scratch sandwiches, soups, and sides. The question is, what to try first?

Closing out Magnus Theatre’s 2024–2025 season is Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade, a historical satire inspired by David Lynch, Hamilton, and the fur trade.

On April 26, the Sleeping Giant Folk Music Society presents Juno-nominated Newfoundland folk band Rum Ragged for a show that promises to lift your spirits with a contemporary take on traditional East Coast music.

“It was a good opportunity to push my art practice in a new direction,” says textile artist Mary Jane MacDonald of her upcoming debut solo exhibition Slow Stitch: The Embroidered Landscape. “I wanted to experiment with embroidery and textiles and show other ways of doing it.”

For many of us, the future is a path well-worn: we might pursue post-secondary education, search for a career, and take on adult responsibilities. For folks with autism and other exceptionalities, however, that path can look a bit different.

This past weekend, the Thunder Bay Blues Society presented Blues House Party 6 at the Da Vinci Centre with performances by Brother John Trio, James Boraski Trio, K.T. and the Rhythm Aces, Dr. Buck and the Bluesbangers, and Rev and the Vintage Sinners.

At this year’s edition of Derelicte, the annual fundraiser in support of Definitely Superior Art Gallery and LU Radio, 32 performing acts including wearable art, musical artists, performance art, and local fashion houses graced the stage at Black Pirates Pub to celebrate a fabulous 15 years of immersive art.

Inspired by a fascination with Thunder Bay’s past, local photographer/videographer Tyler Sklazeski set out to bring the city’s history to life through video. The result is a one of a kind vignette, taking the viewer back to another time and through the bustling streets of the city as it stood then, which he was able to achieve with the assistance of AI technology. 

“They just don’t make music like they used to” is what you might lament, unless you’ve experienced From The Land Of Lakes, the latest album from Loughlin, the band voted best folk group in The Walleye’s Best of Thunder Bay Readers’ Choice Survey.