By Andréa Rojas
If you happen to see an ultramodern-looking vehicle making its way down Alberta’s highways this week, it won’t be stopping for gas. This car is powered completely by the energy of the sun. Last Friday, the University of Calgary Solar Team took their Schulich Axiom solar car for an eight-day province-wide tour – the Schulich… Continue reading Solar cars race across Alberta in preparation for Australia
By Andréa Rojas
They play Super Nintendo, go to hip-hop shows on the weekends and their lead singer also plays the ukulele. All the characteristics of your quirky next-door neighbour kid are, interestingly enough, the eclectic elements that come together to form the endearingly aggressive metalcore act Fall City Fall.To the untrained ear, it might seem as if… Continue reading Thrash-inducing metalcore sounder than metropolitan infrastructure
By Andréa Rojas
Scientific knowledge and childlike wonder aren’t mutually exclusive, especially when they’re combined by artist Luke Lukasewich into the pieces that will comprise his upcoming gallery exhibition, the aptly titled “Renewal.”The collection, to be unveiled at Calgary’s Axis Contemporary Art gallery this week, is characterized by eclecticism and experimentation, incorporating diverse pieces everywhere from metal sculptures… Continue reading Steel, stone and bone
By Andréa Rojas
If your salt-stained winter boots have you yearning for clear springtime sidewalks again, Raleigh’s sweet folk-pop are like that perfect pair of canvas sneakers, to help you transition into spring. And if those canvas sneakers weren’t already more than welcome after a dreary season of cold, what’s better is that not only have you already… Continue reading Members of Calgary staples come together to form Raleigh
By Andréa Rojas
“I don’t capture aesthetics, I capture emotion,” says Keith Skrastins. But what happens when a photographer transmits as much emotion through the lens as he captures? He becomes one for whom every snap of the lens is like a pump of blood through the heart and every developed image is a breath exhaled. Such is… Continue reading Calgary music through the lens of Keith Skrastins
By Andréa Rojas
You know the end of a feel-good high school movie where the class nerd finally dates the head cheerleader? If you were to substitute his awkward skin condition for a guitar and her pom-poms for a set of drum sticks, you would wonder why Bell Tower wasn’t playing in the background. Calgary four-piece Bell Tower… Continue reading Bell Tower wed grimy garage and sweet indie-pop
By Andréa Rojas
If you’re between the ages of 18 to 24 and attending a Canadian institution of higher learning, you’re well aware that our musical generation is, unfortunately, one of three-chord progressions, verse-chorus-verse song structures and hooks manufactured with the help of a little white laptop. Given that context, it is unusual that an artist primarily known… Continue reading More than just a couple of soundtracks
By Andréa Rojas
The forces of lo-fi distortion, freshly-pressed vinyl and microwaveable tour food have given birth to their next generation — an indie-rock progeny that goes by the name of Man Legs. The four-piece, comprised of Josh Boguski, James Perry, Joe Simmons and absentee guitarist Bryce Cloghesy (currently pursuing his studies at McGill), is the product of… Continue reading MAN LEGS
By Andréa Rojas
Punk rock mixology 101: One part sour candy, one part beer in an unwashed glass, two parts ska-tinged riffs. Shake, stir, filter through a guitar amp and what do you get? A pint of raucous party rock ‘n’ roll that tastes a lot like Caught Off Guard. The four-piece Calgary outfit specializing in what bassist… Continue reading Caught Off Guard
By Andréa Rojas
Hey, you! Yes, you, with your penchant for both Purple Rain and mythical Halloween monsters. Key to the City wants to turn your friendly neighbourhood haunted house into an indie-rock discotheque and all that’s missing is you. After a name-change and lineup-swap circa 2007, previous local staples Vailhalen have switched gears to establish their own… Continue reading The Dudes, Dojo Workhorse, Vailhalen, Key to the City