By Colin Flynn
With the release of their newest album, Chapter V, Staind coaxes their audience into counting the predecessors leading to the latest chapter. In support of the new disc the band has also hit the road giving fans a live taste of fresh tunes as well as some old favourites. “We have a lot more songs… Continue reading Music Interview: It’s been awhile since you heard Staind
Two virtuosos of live performance are making their way to Calgary. The always captivating Hawksley Workman invades MacEwan Hall along with up-and-comers Cuff the Duke as part of Molson’s Molson Canadian Rocks the Campus promotion Thu., Nov. 10.The show marks Workman’s return to Calgary after delighting fans as a headliner at the 2005 Calgary Folk… Continue reading Music Preview: Workman coming
The Calgary music scene is ready to burst. This isn’t a contentious issue, lately it’s being said everywhere. Yet, our scene is still overlooked by most while Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver bask in international acclaim. What we need is a band to come along and give Calgary the nudge it needs to be visible outside… Continue reading Music Interview: Beija Flor
Some artists feel the need to hide behind layers of artifice, carefully crafted personas and vague lyrical metaphors. When Luke Doucet croons “it takes a uniquely fucked up man to break his own heart” on the song “One Too Many,” off his second solo offering Broken (and Other Rogue States) he clearly isn’t hiding. Where… Continue reading Music Interview: A uniquely fucked up man
By Kate Foote
There are few things still qualifying as ‘authentic’ in punk music today. Spending a day pacing outdoors in the summer sun on a racetrack while dust fills any orifice left unprotected, interspersed with indiscriminate flailing in a sweaty crowd is, to some, an experience definitive of punk. Warped Tour, however, has come to take an… Continue reading Music Interview: Radicals for the masses
The term ‘Jack of all trades’ gets thrown around all too often these days. Some people consider it a description of someone who has many talents across many media, others might put this label on a person who has an innate ability to pick up a job or skill without difficulty. Lately, it seems to… Continue reading Music Interview: Funking a Monster Guerilla
Humans are never satisfied. Just when we think we have it all, we’re longing for something to gratify us in new ways. This never-ending endeavour is embedded everywhere and the music industry is no exception. Musicians constantly switch genres throughout their careers from jazz to punk to pop. Bands break up leaving members to embark… Continue reading Music Interview: Ladies and gentlemen, The Ladies and Gentlemen
Capitalism has fully infested the music industry, rotting away its core. You’ve got record companies at the helm of assembly lines manufacturing plastic pop by faux lesbian duos or boy bands with the word “town” in their name. Then you have the musicians in the business for music’s sake, struggling with the delicate nature of… Continue reading Music Interview: We’re big in Iraq
In the olden days–a whopping decade or so ago–the only way a band could break was through hard work, dedication, and touring, touring, touring. These days, with file-sharing’s ability to spread music to internet savvy people in the blink of an eye, you’d think getting your music to the masses would be easier than it… Continue reading Music Interview: Sylvie does it the old way
By Kate Foote
The city of Boston has been called many things: “The city on the hill,” “Beantown,” “The hub of the solar system,” and “The Athens of America,” to name a few. However, understanding what makes the city a unique mark on the American landscape takes more than mere semantics. While everyone knows about the revolutions, massacres… Continue reading Music Interview: Dropkicking out the jams