Questions with Deevo
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -This is an interview podcast ala "WTF with Marc Maron", "JRE" or "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend". These bite-sized interviews are conducted by Deevo, an on-air personality at Play92 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Guests are Grammy or Juno winning musicians or SNL alumni's, professional athletes, comedians or just plain awesome, whichever it is, they have a story you want to hear! Subscribe and share and tune in for a brand new episode every Monday.
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27. Charlie Puth
January 11, 2021 07:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBCharlie Puth is a 29-year-old singer/songwriter/producer who hails from New Jersey. Charlie graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in 2013 but he really started creating waves on YouTube, so much so that he got invited to perform on the Ellen Degeneres show, which is what led him to signing his first record deal. From there, the ball was rolling, Charlie started writing for other artists and got featured on tracks with artists like Lil Wayne and Cody Simpson. In 2016 he r...
26. Jess Moskaluke CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
December 28, 2020 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBJess Moskaluke is one Canada’s top country artists. At 30 years of age, this native of Langenburg, Saskatchewan, has been making waves since she first got noticed on Youtube. Videos of her performing cover songs were regularly hitting hundreds of thousands of views with every release with a handful hitting the millions. In 2011 she won the New Artist Showcase Award at the Canadian Country Music Association Awards which is no surprise why she became Canada's country sweetheart. To date she...
25. Chrissy Metz
December 21, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBChrissy Metz is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actress from the hugely popular show This is Us which stars Mandy Moore, Sterlin K. Brown, Milo Ventimiglia and Justin Hartley. Chrissy is also a movie star who’s appeared in movies like Breakthrough which was nominated for a Teen Choice Award and also the movie Sierra Burgess is a Loser. She’s also a very very talented singer/songwriter, yes she did sing at the Oscars! Her song Talking to God is on rotation on many country stations acr...
24. Brent Butt
December 14, 2020 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBBrent Butt is the creator of one of Canada's most successful television shows of all time: Corner Gas. He’s also a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, cartoonist and now a singer among many other things. He hails from Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada and started doing stand-up comedy in the late 80’s and has become a staple in the Canadian comedy due to his wildly popular show: Corner Gas. Corner Gas ran for 6 seasons with ratings hitting a viewership in the millions every episode with a record...
23. Lukas Rossi
June 29, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBLukas Rossi is a pure-bred rock star. Although he’s lived all over Canada, he’s from Toronto, Ontario and now lives in Nashville Tennessee. Over the span of his 20+ year career, he’s played in bands like Cleavage, Rise Electric, Switchblade Glory and The Halo Method to name of few but it was really with Rock Star Supernova that Rossi rose to fame. Rock Star Supernova was a supergroup with Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee, Metallica’s Jason Newsted and from Guns N' Roses: Gilby Clarke. They found Lu...
22. Banx & Ranx
June 22, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutes - 24.1 MBBanx & Ranx are a duo of producers, songwriters and remixers from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The duo have been together since 2014 and since then, not only have they signed with one of the most coveted record labels in the world, Parlophone Records, but they’ve produced, written songs and partnered up with artists like: Sean Paul, Dua Lipa, Diplo, French Montana and Nicky Jam to name a few. Although they’re Canadian, they’ve had more hits in the UK such as their song Answerphone with UK’s p...
21. Chris Dudley of Underoath
June 15, 2020 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBChris Dudley is the keyboardist/synthesizer player for Underoath, a heavy rock band from Tampa Bay Florida who formed in 1997. Some of their music has been categorized as Christian Hardcore, Metalcore, Post-hardcore, Emo or Screamo and more, which is to be expected when you're a band who's been around for 23 years and constantly thrives to evolve. To date, the band has released 8 studio albums. Their fourth album They're Only Chasing Safety is really what catapulted them to becoming househ...
20. Sam Reid of Glass Tiger
June 08, 2020 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBSam Reid is the keyboardist and one of the founders of the Grammy nominated and Juno winning band Glass Tiger. The band formed in Newmarket Ontario in 1981. They rose to fame in 1986 with their debut album Thin Red Line which went quadruple platinum in Canada and gold in the U.S. The album featured a few massive international and timeless hits like Don’t forget Me (When I'm Gone) and Someday. Both songs were top 10 hits in the U.S and the album helped them win 3 Juno awards in 1986 for Albu...
19. Felix Cartal
June 01, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBFelix Cartal is an internationally known DJ, music producer and songwriter who hails from New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Felix played bass guitar in various punk and hardcore bands growing up but then got a liking to EDM and eventually released his first EP called Skeleton in 2009 on Steve Aoki’s infamous label Dim Mak Records. Since then, Felix has released 3 full-length studio albums which featured hits like his New Radicals remix, Get What You Give. The latter came out in 20...
18. Shane Told of Silverstein
May 25, 2020 06:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBShane Told is the lead singer for Silverstein, a post-hardcore/screamo/alternative rock band from Burlington Ontario. The band formed in circa 2000 and signed to the infamous label... Victory Records in 2002. The band quickly rose to the forefront of the Emo movement in the mid 2000’s becoming one of the top bands in the genre alongside bands like Hawthorne Heights, Underoath and The Used to name a few. What really catapulted Silverstein to another level was their second studio album, Disc...
17. Coleman Hell
May 18, 2020 06:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBColeman Hell is a 31-year-old singer, songwriter and producer who hails from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Coleman’s been making music with his childhood friend and producer Latch for a while but it’s really in 2015 that they hit the jackpot with the song 2 Heads which is still getting massive radio play. The song helped him get a Juno nomination in 2016 for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, where he also got the chance to perform on the big show. In 2017 he got another Juno nomination for Pop Al...
16. Shannon Burns
May 11, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBShannon Burns is a radio announcer for CHUM 104.5 in Toronto. She also hosts iHeart Radio Nights across 13 stations in Canada on top of being iHeart Canada’s go-to interviewer for today’s biggest pop stars! Over the last few years she’s talked to artists like Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Backstreet Boys and many more. On top of being on the radio, she’s also appears on television every week as a panelist on CTV’s Fame Factor, she also hosts her own podcast called “Af...
15. Gus of alt-J
May 04, 2020 06:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBGus Unger-Hamilton is the keyboard player/vocalist for the band alt-J. The group is a three-piece band from Leeds, England. They formed in 2007 but it wasn’t until 2012 that their first studio album An Awesome Wave was released. The album later went on to win the Mercury Prize, a prestigious prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act. After that, in 2014, their second album This Is All Yours went straight to number one in the UK. To date, they...
14. Yungblud
April 27, 2020 07:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBYungblud is one of the top-rising rock-and-rollers on the scene today! He’s 22-years-old and he’s full of piss and vinegar, his songwriting kind of reminds us of early punk rock, there’s angst and rebellion hence, he’s not afraid of calling out greedy corporations, politicians and goes to war for who he feels gets taken advantage of…and that's why he’s loved. In just 2 years, he’s released 3 EP’s one live album and one studio album called "21st Century Liabiality". Songs he’s been featur...
13. K.Flay
April 20, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBK.Flay is an American singer, rapper and songwriter. Her music career apparently started off as a joke where she bragged to her friends that writing a rap song was simple and that even she could do it… And well, she proved it and wrote a song of her own, and the rest is history! She released her first mixtape in 2005 and kept writing and performing. Fast forward to 2014 she released her debut album Life As a Dog and not only did it debut at number 2 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart ...
12. grandson
April 13, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBgrandson is an American-born musician who moved to the Toronto area when he was 3 years old. Although he grew up in Toronto, he attended University in Montreal before moving to Los Angeles in 2014 to pursue a career in music. His move proved to be a good move because in 2017 he signed to RCA Records and soon after he made a move to Fueld by Ramen. grandson then started making waves with his hit single Blood//Water. The song made its way on the Billboard charts which then gave him the oppo...
11. Andy Kim
April 06, 2020 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBHe's co-written one of the most popular songs of all-time, he's been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Canadian Walk of Fame and has earned a Juno Award on top of being nominated 6 more times... Needless to say Andy Kim is a Legend. In this interview, he tells Deevo about the time John Lennon handed him his Gold Record, he talks about the gratitude he has towards his song "Sugar, Sugar" and even let's us know what he thinks of the new Archie inspired series on Netflix "Riverdal...
10. Scott Helman
March 30, 2020 06:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBToronto native Scott Helman is one of Canada's top singer-songwriters. Although Scott is is only 24, he's not a newbie to performing, at 15 he signed a development deal with Warner Music. In 2014 he released Bungalow which became an instant hit all over Canada. The song was off his first studio album called Augusta. The hit opened the door to jumping on tour with artists like Shawn Mendes, Vance Joy, Tegan and Sarah and Walk Off The Earth. Since then he’s toured all over the world as both a...
9. Joe Dandeneau of Theory of a Deadman
March 23, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBDrummer of Theory, Joe Dandeneau and Deevo talk about why the band decided to abbreviate their name and why they're okay with fans calling them Theory of a Deadman. They also geek out on drums and talk about the feeling of going from working in a music store to being a rock star. Theory is a 5-time Juno nominated band from Delta, British-Columbia. They formed in 2001 and have since had a slew of hits such as "Bad Girlfriend", "Santa Monica" and "Rx (Medicate)". The band has toured the world...
8. Ryan and Sam of The Sheepdogs
March 16, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBIn this interview Ryan (bassist) and Sam (drummer) of The Sheepdogs talk about joining the military, adding Canadian touches to their album Changing Colours and throwing the first pitch at a Toronto Blue Jays game. The Sheepdogs are one of the biggest rock bands to come out of Canada. They formed in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan circa 2006. In 2011 they became the first unsigned band to make it on the cover of the coveted "Rolling Stone" magazine. They've also performed on Late Night with Jimmy ...
7. Steve Mazur of Our Lady Peace
March 08, 2020 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBSteve Mazur is a humble rockstar. He's the guitarist of one of the biggest bands to ever come out of Canada: Our Lady Peace. OLP's been around for close to 30 years and 4 Juno Awards and 10 MMVA's later, they are still going. To add to their legacy, they remain one of top-selling Canadian bands/artists of all-time. Steve himself is a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston but thankfully, he's not a Boston Bruins fan. He joined the band in 2001 and has been rocking ev...
6. Dennis Casey of Flogging Molly
March 02, 2020 06:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBDennis Casey is a rockstar! He's the guitarist of Flogging Molly, an Irish–American Celtic punk band that formed in Dublin, Ireland, 23 years ago. If you've been to the Vans Warped Tour or pretty much any rock festival, there's a good chance Flogging Molly was there. The band has participated in 7 Vans Warped Tour festivals as well as Lollapalooza, Coachella and many more. The band has released six studio albums as well as a few live and acoustic albums and DVD’s like 'Whiskey on a Sunday...
5. Elijah Woods X Jamie Fine
February 24, 2020 06:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBElijah Woods X Jamie Fine are Canadian gems! They are a pop music duo who hail from the Ottawa region. The duo is songwriter and producer Elijah Woods and singer-songwriter Jamie Fine. They started making music together circa 2014 but it was in 2017 that they got their big break on CTV’s reality music competition show, “The Launch”. The duo won the entire thing and got to release their now global hit “Ain’t Easy” co-written by One Republic’s Ryan Tedder and Camilla Cabello. The song went to...
4. Loud Luxury
February 17, 2020 06:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBLoud Luxury is one of the hottest Electronic Dance Music (EDM) group's in the world. Their hit song "Body" has quickly become a favourite on pop radio and in dance clubs around the globe. In 2019 the duo was nominated for four Juno Awards and took home one (Dance Recording of the Year for "Body"). On top of performing at some of the biggest music festivals in the world, they also got the chance to perform on The Late Late Show with James Corden. At the 2020 Juno awards coming up next month,...
3. Jim Breuer
February 04, 2020 02:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBJim Breuer is one of the most respected stand-up comedians in the world, he's a Saturday Night Live alumni, he's been in major films such as "Half Baked" starring alongside Dave Chappelle, as well as being a regular on the biggest radio shows in the world: Opie & Anthony and Howard Stern. Jim talked to Deevo about his love for baseball, his relationship with his dad and how he got the best gig of his life: touring with METALLICA! Don't miss some of Jim's best impressions in this episode!
1. Piff the Magic Dragon
February 04, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBPiff the Magic Dragon is a comedic magician that you might've seen on national television. He's appeared on shows like "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" and was also a finalist on "America's Got Talent" (where he got the Golden buzzer). Variety Magazine ranked him in their top 10 comics to watch in 2019 and also has his own Las Vegas residency gig at the infamous Flamingo Hotel. Deevo chatted with Piff ahead of his show at Casino Regina. They talked about Piff touring with a back-up dog, his experie...
2. Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees
February 04, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBJeff Timmons is a pop star! He is a founding member of the Grammy nominated boyband 98 Degrees. The group signed with Motown at the peak of the "boyband mania" era. While his bandmate Nick Lachey was making reality TV history with his then wife Jessica Simpson, Jeff turned to producing and working in other parts of the entertainment industry. Jeff talks about touring as a 46-year-old in a boyband, playing on the Tonight Show with Stevie Wonder and if he'd like to play in the Canadian Footba...