Hey there, thank you for joining me for another episode of YQG In Bloom.
My name is Tracy Martens and today I am at Wolf and Rebel with Sam Bielanski.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
Now we have some downtime in between podcasts because this is a pop-up today and we needed
to get her in because Sam is a singer.
Yeah.
So, tell me.
Okay, well, yeah, I sing.
I'm in a band called Pony.
We moved here to Windsor from Toronto during the pandemic, so we're still kind of like
getting our roots here in Windsor, but my husband is originally from Belle River, so
that's why we moved to Windsor and yeah, so.
So how's it going?
It's good.
We are trying to tour as much as possible.
We just put our second record out in May.
It's called Velveteen and you can find that on all the streaming services and we also
sell vinyl through our band camp, but yeah, we're just trying to like tour around as much
as possible, get the word out about the band and yeah, we're still writing new music and
we're going back into the studio in February.
I just caught you do vinyl.
It's actually starting to become really popular again, which is really cool and my husband
actually works at Dr. Disks, so they're selling vinyl every day.
Oh, that's great.
I'm really happy about that because I inherited my grandfather's.
It's one of those record players that has the eight track and the cassette, but nothing
sounds as good as vinyl.
It's true.
It feels very real.
Like when you make music and you put it out on a record, it feels like very tangible and
real and it's like so special to have like the songs that you write like in this like
beautiful little package sort of.
It's true.
Now, do you find it is harder?
Were you in Pony when you were in Toronto?
Do you find it's harder being in Windsor to get together, to record, to play than it was
in Toronto?
I actually think it's easier here because when we were living in Toronto, we both had
to have like multiple jobs.
We had to rent a practice space and our rent was obviously really, really expensive.
It's hard to coordinate schedules, but here we practice at our house.
We work less hours because it's more affordable to live here.
Detroit is just a hop, skip and a jump away.
So basically any like networking or shows that would go to Toronto where you would want
to go and see and support your friends, they go to Detroit too.
So it's like just, it's almost even closer because the traffic in Toronto is crazy.
So it takes so long to get places, but here you just go hop on over to Detroit and see
your friends.
That's true.
And the venues there are popping.
Totally.
Really nice venues and everybody goes there and the people there are also very supportive
and lovely.
I'm hoping like we can get more of a music scene here in Windsor because it's like night
and day between Detroit and Windsor, but there's so many talented people here.
So it'd be cool to have like a music scene that's also thriving here.
It's true.
And what we have right now is really eclectic.
So what type of music is Pony?
Pony, I would say is like power pop, like pop music with guitars, distortion and yeah.
Yeah, it's cool.
I'm going to have to listen.
I honestly have not, because I didn't know the name of the band until now.
So now I'm going to get on there, get on Spotify and download you guys.
Yeah, absolutely.
Do you guys play in Windsor at all or Detroit?
We play Detroit a little bit more than we play Windsor just because half of the band
is from New York.
So it's hard to play locally because they live so far away.
So usually we'll play Detroit at like either the tail end or the start of a tour.
Okay.
But it would be really nice to be able to play Windsor more because obviously this is
our home, but we played here once and it was really cool.
Oh, that's nice.
It's nice.
You guys like to go play in New York?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Now what's that like?
It's cool.
Yeah.
It's just really cool and really like really special.
And you also do work here at Wolfram Rubble.
That's true.
You've worked here for how long now?
Two years.
Yeah.
It's been a while and she is the master at the Macha Bar.
I'm the Macha master.
That's what they call me.
Now where can they find your music?
So you can find it on all the streaming platforms.
You can support us directly through our bandcamp page.
You can find all that good stuff on our socials, Instagram, Pony the Band.
And you can also find us at Dr. Disq.
So if you were local and you want to pick up a record, we have them for sale at Dr.
Disq.
That's great.
I was just informed that you are the voice for My Little Pony.
I do have a voice of one of the characters on the new generation My Little Pony.
Oh my goodness.
Now where is that aired?
So that is on Netflix and on YouTube.
So there's two different shows.
Make Your Mark is on Netflix and Tell Your Tale is on YouTube.
That is so cool.
It's very interesting because it fits very well with the brand, even though it was not
intentional whatsoever.
But yeah, my character is called Jazz Hooves and she is a pony, an earth pony, and she
works at a nail salon.
So she loves to just do hoofacures and she loves to sing as well.
Hoofacures.
I like that.
That is so cute.
Yeah, she's really cool.
Okay, so we are going to have to check that on Netflix for sure.
Okay, now I know what I'm doing tonight.
Well, thank you so much for giving me five minutes out of your time, Sam.
Oh, of course.
Thank you for having me.
And again, my name is Tracy.
I want to thank you so much for joining me for another episode of YQG In Bloom.
Make sure you get out and listen to Pony.
Yeah.
Have a good one.