By Marina Foo
Where Dallas Green rocks in screamo act Alexisonfire, he shows off his softer side with acoustic side-project City and Colour. With Bring Me Your Love, it shows he’s willing to take both roles seriously. While the band’s first release, Sometimes, wasn’t overpowered by Green’s guitar, it suffered from clumsy arrangements. Bring Me Your Love buries… Continue reading Spun: City and Colour
By Ryan Pike
Originally called Saron Gas, Seether rose to prominence in their native South Africa by bringing their alt-metal stylings to various small clubs and university venues. Eventually changing their name due to a request from their label, Seether crossed over to North America and made an impression with their second studio album, Disclaimer. Now fairly entrenched,… Continue reading Spun: Seether
By Jordan Fritz
The Mars Volta seems to have received a bad rap from all the cool kids, of late. None of them can tell you why but that won’t stop the hate. The Bedlam in Goliath gets right to the point and doesn’t stray far from it: a couple intertwining guitar riffs, singer Cedric’s angelic falscetto and… Continue reading SPUN: The Mars Volta
One of the most horrifically pretentious things to hear is someone going on about the electronica genre. Moby’s Play album is considered electronica, as is Aphex Twin’s entire back catalogue–calling it a wide and disparate genre has become cliche. Crystal Castles’ self-titled LP is a breath of fresh air into the electronic genre with their… Continue reading SPUN: Crystal Castles
By Ryan Pike
As I was growing up, I spent many summers visiting my grandparents in Nova Scotia. Visiting my mom’s parents was one of the highlights of the summer, as her father had a ridiculously large video collection. One thing that always struck me as peculiar, though, were his television viewing habits: originally from England, he seemed… Continue reading British television: simply the best?
By Ryan Pike
It’s difficult for a video game adaptation of a successful media property to effectively duplicate the atmosphere of its source material. Sometimes, the reason is simple: it’s hard to ape the tone and scope of a feature film or television series with a relatively small budget. Ubisoft has attempted to do so with the video… Continue reading This game is a Lost opportunity
While Alberta has slowly become more multicultural, with the increasing oil boom bringing in people from all over the world to partake in the profits from the black gold being dredged from the earth, there was a time when it was viewed as a redneck hellhole. When a Holocaust denier like James Keegstra could be… Continue reading Alberta: historically not very progressive
By Ryan Pike
The creative process can be a fascinating thing to examine. That perhaps explains why a sub-genre of films and plays have been emerging which examine the arduous journey that is creation in the entertainment industry. Writer’s Block, Eugene Stickland’s first new play in four long years, joins a laundry list of amazingly self-indulgent stories about… Continue reading Headlining the metanarrative
Beginning with a pink wristband and ending with a pink Speedo, Pi Week may have been strange, but holy hell, it certainly was fun. In accordance with their annual tradition, the engineering faculty purchased 500 pies, printed some “order” forms and prepared themselves for a week of light-hearted pranks and pied-faces this past week. This… Continue reading Life of Pie
Darjeeling, India–Mar. 17, 2008 For the around 250,000 Tibetan refugees living in northern India, the recent protests in Lhasa and China signify an opportunity to draw international attention to their ongoing crisis. Darjeeling, a city in the northeast Indian province of West Bengal, is barely 80 kilometres from the border of Tibet and is home… Continue reading Dispatching from Darjeeling