By Emily Senger
Corb Lund is a country boy at heart, true to his small town Taber, corn-lovin’ roots. His latest album Hair in My Eyes like a Highland Steer has propelled him into the spotlight but even with exposure on Country Music Television and country radio stations across Canada, Lund and his Band of Hurtin’ Albertans keep… Continue reading Music Interview: Country Outlaw at Large
Most bands never make it. They play as much as they can, get a local following and then sputter out, only to be remembered by pretentious snobs looking for something no one else knows about. Some of them even sign with a local record label but fail to make the big jump to international recognition.… Continue reading Music Interview: Cuff the Duke gettin’ lucky
The Canadian indie music scene has never been hotter. Thanks to bands like the Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, and Broken Social Scene, even the hippest of hipsters down south are looking north for their new favourite band. With this in mind, a new record label, Vulpine Records, is launching in our very own city, not… Continue reading Music Interview: First Calgary, then the world
Home grown in the most literal way, Good Question is made up of Sean Goebel, a University of Calgary student and Anthony MacDonald, a current Mount Royal College student. The band has a new 10-track CD out, New Retro, playing gigs all over town and receiving a fair chunk of airplay on CJSW, making it… Continue reading Music Interview: Good Question makes a New Retro
Possessing a host of East Coast Music Awards and Juno nominations under their belt, Great Big Sea have just released their ninth album this past Tuesday. With a seamless fusion of traditional Anglo-Celtic music and rock, blending instruments like the mandolin and the fiddle with traditional drums and a guitar, Great Big Sea have built… Continue reading Music Interview: Great Big Sea Hard and Easy
By Kate Foote
You may not have heard of Money Money yet, but the Peterborough, Ontario quintet won’t let this situation last long, they’re on a mission to save the world from bad music and fashion. Having toured with a cornucopia of different bands in their two year existence, Money Money is ready to start cashing in on… Continue reading Music Interview: Money Money
At 13, a girl is growing and changing. Her once perfectly pink bedroom clashes with new tubes of bright red lipstick. Her once beloved stuffed toys and unicorn figurines fight for a place amongst scented candles and binders scribbled over with boys’ names. If life were a movie complete with soundtrack, New Buffalo’s The Last… Continue reading Music Interview: new buffalo
I really like to just listen to records at my house and figure out where they’re coming from,” confides Black Dice’s Aaron Warren. “That includes our records too. I’ll put it next to something else and just see how it fits with that stuff.” It’s a sentiment most music fans can share. A well-made record… Continue reading Music Interview: Black Dice get noisy
By Dasha Taikh
Classical piano performances don’t usually inspire a great deal of excitement, but Calgary has an organization determined to change this. The Calgary Honens International Piano Competition was founded in 1992 by Esther Honens. Instead of acting as a regular competition though, Honens is more of a festival of music. As a warm-up to the fifth… Continue reading Music Interview: Honens makes piano cool
By Jason Paul
Ears ring, sweat drips and a crowd becomes so engulfed by what it is witnessing appearances become irrelevant. This feeling of euphoria – now strangely unfamiliar – is the cornerstone which made Chixdiggit the punk-rock institution it is today. Sadly, these pundits of the power chord have been on hiatus for the past five years,… Continue reading Music Interview: Digging touring again