By Ryan May
Too busy with class and studying to sit down and watch the news or keep up with your favouritehobby? Maybe it’s time to investigate the burgeoning new medium of podcasting. Podcasts are the public and pirate radio of the Internet. Anyone with a microphone, computer and Internet connection can produce their own podcast. Fortunately, the… Continue reading Feeding your brain
As the leaves turn yellow, students are settling back into their books while artists are picking up their paintbrushes. If you are in need of some artistic enlightenment, head down to one of these great events.While you are getting your classes in order this week, leave time to get your last look at the university’s… Continue reading The colours of fall make for good inspiration
By Amanda Hu
Apparently, not using bass is the new mini piano of the music world. Winter Gloves, the latest act out of Montreal, has utilized this new sound with ease, producing a fresh yet poppy effort with About A Girl. Taking some of the remaining lo-fi grittiness from founder Charles F.’s self-produced EP, the full-length works well… Continue reading Spun: Winter Gloves
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, look out Calgary it’s Jay J. time. Jay J. Fresh is the sickest, dopest, most illin’ Cow-tizzown rapper arizzound. He’s the baddest gee on the mean streets of the C-dot. His beats are mind blowing– they’re so hot they sound like default FruityLoops samples. Jay J.’s flow is a… Continue reading Spun: Jay J. Fresh
Montreal has produced some well put together bands featuring beautiful vocal talent. Unfortunately, like most valuable resources, it eventually ran out. The aptly named Tour EP serves as a promotion for Archipelagos’ summer tour and as a bridge between the band’s 2007 album Battles and Scars and their forthcoming effort expected next year. Weighing in… Continue reading Spun: Archipelagos
On the track “Ability to Rap,” Calgary-based emcee Mantrakid asks an important question: how did he get his unusual talent to rap? If he went the usual route, the best bet is that he got smacked in the face by a radioactive microphone. Mantrakid’s album is on the cutting edge of hip hop. He doesn’t… Continue reading Spun: Mantrakid
Period films have a knack for focusing a little too heavily on the aesthetics of the period which they are portraying and a little too lightly on the drama that should be taking place, often offering audiences barely more than visual entertainment. The Last Mistress doesn’t bend these rules, making for an overwrought piece that… Continue reading Mistress proves misguided in focus
Getting a job isn’t so much what you know, but what you know about getting to know people. It’s all about networking, printing up some business cards and putting your face out there. Curtis Santiago knows all that, especially after spending a few years in Vancouver paying his dues. When asked how Van-city’s been treating… Continue reading Getting to know you
Don’t get between a mother bear and her cub– she might eat your soul. Put this scenario to music and you have the new project from a quartet of Calgary music scene veterans. Cody Coates and Andrew Woods– from Lions and Tigers and Bears– and Ian and Paul Baker– of the Silent Auction– channeled the… Continue reading Soul-devouring rock and roll bears
Fact: the world, at a population of about 6.7 billion, has a relatively even ratio of males to females. This reality seems to be completely unnoticable in The Women, which exaggerates the miniscule female advantage by excluding the male sex from the movie altogether. Not only do you never see their faces or hear their… Continue reading It’s like deja vu