By Richard Lam
Hawksley Workman produces his own work and plays nearly every instrument, as well as releasing an album a year on average since his 1999 debut. His latest, Meat, marks a natural progression from his heavy rocking Los Manlicious, and is another solid entry in his remarkably consistent and steadily developing career. After the deceivingly low-fi… Continue reading Spun: Hawksley Workman
By Jordan Fritz
Joanna Newsom is better than you are. You’re just going to have to accept that. Oh, and she’s also the most beautiful person alive. This follow-up to 2005’s Ys is an hour-and-a-half of harp-ful orchestrated folk wonder. Have One On Me is a triple album that doesn’t let up its timeless beauty for a moment.… Continue reading Spun: Joanna Newsom
By Richard Lam
Tindersticks have been startlingly consistent and criminally underlooked for nearly 20 years. From their early lush and orchestrated rock to today’s sparse crooning, they have evolved organically, held together by Stuart Staples’ smooth dark baritone. Falling Down a Mountain marks their second studio album since having lost three of the six founding members. This loss… Continue reading Spun: Tindersticks
Foonyap and the Roar are on fire. For their fourth show they opened for HEALTH, performed at this year’s High Performance Rodeo, have fantastic projection art for some of their shows — all that and they’ve only been playing together for four months. Vocalist/violinist Foon Yap started out, well, classically. Taking classical violin from age… Continue reading U of C student roars in budding group
By Richard Lam
For over three decades, Mainstage Dance has premiered professionally choreographed works performed by students in the Bachelor of Arts dance program. These University of Calgary students get a rare opportunity to participate in a collaborative process and create a piece of original dance work. “I’ve never done this type of piece before,” says Jason Galeos,… Continue reading Student dancers take to the Mainstage
There was no student protest at Parliament Hill today.“We were duped,” said Cam Cotton-O’Brien, disappointed rabble-rouser.Despite the momentum built up from hundreds of University of Calgary students massing on campus to hear vice-provost Alan Harrison deliver the tuition screw-job, no students managed to find their way to the important rally in Ottawa at the Parliament… Continue reading Protestors disappointed by lack of march on Parliament
By Jon Roe
Maybe for this St. Patrick’s Day, instead of dressing up like a leprechaun and wittily asking members of the opposite sex to kiss your Blarney Stone, you should celebrate the holiday with something authentically Irish (other than whiskey and Guinness, of course), like Gaelic football. Gaelic football is the world’s oldest known sport still played… Continue reading Play some football to celebrate St. Paddy’s
By Steven Kelly
The Dinos men’s hockey team’s playoff dreams ended in dramatic fashion after losing a best-of-three series against the top seed University of Alberta Golden Bears last weekend. Both games were not short of controversy as the Dinos were forced to play all three of their goalies. The Dinos lost the opening night match-up against the… Continue reading Bears end Dinos season
By Jon Roe
Women’s wrestling narrowly misses out on second national championship in a rowThe Dinos were only two points behind the Simon Fraser University Clan for the women’s title when the Canadian Interuniversity Sport wrestling championships wrapped up Saturday at the Jack Simpson Gym. The Clan took both the men’s and the women’s titles in their last… Continue reading Sports briefs
It all boils down to this. After months of intense practicing, hard fought matches and enduring bus rides, the Dinos have the opportunity this weekend to define their season. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championships go at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops this weekend from March 12-14. It is a weekend that has been circled… Continue reading Dinos ready for national tourney