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 Marina Foo
The holiday season traditionally sees the same favourite plays, books, songs and films return to entertain audiences year after year. This year, Alberta Theatre Projects brings a modernized version of Oliver Twist to Calgary for the Christmas season. With dark, haunting undertones, Charles Dickens’ classic play tells a story of an orphan boy set in… Continue reading Modern Twist is orphan-tastic!
By Marina Foo
Daniel Snaith, the mastermind behind Caribou, has done more in the past six years than what most people will in their entire lives. Releasing his fourth studio album, Andorra, earlier this year, Caribou has trekked a fair distance. Along the journey, Snaith picked up a PhD in Mathematics from the University of London, watched some… Continue reading Caribou is chock-full of woodsy wisdom
By Marina Foo
By Marina Foo
Is graffiti art or vandalism? This question has been a controversial issue for decades but it really just depends who you ask. The documentary Bomb It spoke to people on both sides of the track about the explosive form of media. Director Jon Reiss travelled around the world to the cities with the best graffiti… Continue reading Calgary International Film Fest: Bomb It
By Marina Foo
Coming from Broadway, David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole opens the 35th season of Alberta Theatre Projects. The Broadway version was directed by Daniel Sullivan with Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon and Judging Amy’s Tyne Daley among the cast. Although the cast a little closer to home doesn’t have the same household names as the Broadway… Continue reading Rabbit Hole brings Broadway brilliance to Calgary
By Marina Foo
Aviophobia, fear of flying, is a common psychological problem that afflicts many people. Approximately 10 to 40 per cent of travelers have some sort of related phobia. In Flight Safety’s front man, John Mullane, shares this fear. “Every time we take off John turns green,” explains the band’s drummer Glen Nicholson. “Every time we land… Continue reading Upright and locked positions
By Nicole Scarbossa and Marina Foo
Their songs spewing discontent and misery, most screamo bands are left unnoticed by the masses, but continue to drudge on hoping that one day success will come. Most quit, others toil in obscurity, while a select few actually make it. The Reason are one of these bands, but the only way they could really get… Continue reading Reasonably successful
By Marina Foo
Treading through aural water, Tony Dekker is leading what originated as his solo project, Great Lake Swimmers, into a whirlpool of success. It started out in 2003 when Dekker recorded his self-titled album in a grain silo with an accordion, piano, lap steel and acoustic guitar, taking advantage of the silo’s natural reverb. Four years… Continue reading Great Lake Swimmers: Make sure to coat yourself in Vaseline first
By Marina Foo
Never judge a book by its cover–or so goes the old cliche. Despite an ingrained aversion to them, cliches are sometimes incredibly apt. Sadly, though, City and Colour’s latest release, Live, is an exception–its plain, brown, cardboard cover speaks volumes as to its content. Dallas Green wanted to paint a picture for the hapless souls… Continue reading Spun: City and Colour