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Spun: Cadeaux

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

“I’m tired of being divided–tired of genres and order.” Cadeaux ironically claims in Fiction and Blues. Stemming from Vancouver, the band is a quintet of two lead female vocals, and three guys who play various instruments. The vocals emphasize harmony, occasional gyrating screams, and various oooohs and aaaahs, with Katie Lapi and Dani Vahon taking… Continue reading Spun: Cadeaux

Movie Interview: How I learned to love the zombie

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

‘Horror films are the teat upon which I was weaned,” says Hussein Juma, writer and director of the soon-to-be-completed 16MM zombie short School of the Dead. Created by his graduating film class at SAIT, the project fulfills Juma’s long-standing dream of becoming a horror filmmaker. Certainly as early as junior high CALM 20 class where… Continue reading Movie Interview: How I learned to love the zombie

Music Interview: The Great White Trash

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

Let’s go back to the good old days when musicians wrote music, when an audience could actually be integrated and engaged and the soul of an artist could be fed by the intricacies of daily life instead of greed. This isn’t nostalgic radio–it’s Craig Cardiff, a man with a mission to honour the sacred connection… Continue reading Music Interview: The Great White Trash

Concert Review: Beatnuts–The opposite of getting hit in the nuts

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

Chronic passes through the air and when the bouncer warns anyone smelling like weed will not be let in, a few discreetly smell themselves. Others drink cheap Lucky beer to get drunk early with less expense. A crazy motherfucker known as “T”, a.k.a. Taren Melathopolous, freestyles some mad rhymes in exchange for a small token… Continue reading Concert Review: Beatnuts–The opposite of getting hit in the nuts

Tommy Stinson

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

Tommy Stinson is better known as the scrawny, spiky-haired bassist from The Replacements. His solo-debut album under the major label Sanctuary appears to be of the pop-rock strain from his garage punk roots. The truth is you will find little of the old Tommy in this album, as it would appear he has grown up… Continue reading Tommy Stinson

Hungry like the music lovin’ “wolves”

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

A red sumptuous mouth with large lips like sex, reminiscent of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, birthing and consuming an eye of translucent blue dripping fluids of burning tears and saliva. This is the startling image gracing the cover of Montreal indie band Starvin Hungry’s latest CD. It causes lead guitarist and vocalist John Milchem… Continue reading Hungry like the music lovin’ “wolves”

Joni Mitchell

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

“… an essay, a tragedy, an opera, a dark comedy…” These words, presented within the insert of The Beginning of Survival, perfectly describe Joni Mitchell’s latest release, an album spanning two decades of socially-conscious music. Each song was specially selected to follow, as Joni puts it, “commentaries on the world in which we live.” From… Continue reading Joni Mitchell