Tag: Music

By Sherri Shergill

Tune into any radio station in the city and chances are you’ll come across a song devoid of any originality. In today’s sales obsessed music industry it’s rare to find something able to set itself apart from the throngs of uninspired commercial offerings. Madonna, 50 Cent and U2 are all talented in their own right,… Continue reading Music Interview: Boca 45 opens ears his own way

By Katherine Fletcher

There are a couple of things you need to know about Kau’ai. First, it’s the oldest and northernmost of the main Hawaiian Islands–a paradise of various cocktails with colourful paper parasols and hula dancers mimicking the undulations of the ocean, the colour of which parallels the vibrant azure sky. Secondly, it’s the namesake of Chet’s… Continue reading Music Interview: No Chet is an island

By Logan Niehaus

We’re all aware punk isn’t what it used to be. Our noses are rubbed in it every single day with the likes of Good Charlotte and Simple Plan mucking up the airways. Loud, political, poetic and refreshingly original are just a few descriptions of what these albums, made for bed wetting teenagers, are not. However,… Continue reading Music Interview: No one’s against Against Me!

By Kate Foote

As the weather warms up and classes wind down, students’ thoughts turn to excessive drinking and summer love- the overnight kind included. After two gruelling semesters of classes and all the drudgery within, it’s finally time to let loose. So here you are on the eve of BSD, outlining your drinking itinerary and contemplating which… Continue reading Music Interview: Growing into funky city mice

By David Knippers

The recipe for illegal dance moves and new wave revival is clandestine and sensitive. Three parts synthesizer, one quarter addictive-bass lines and three-eighths magic drum explosions add up to a incalculable fractional value of dance-hall danger unprecedented in modern popular music. But a band also needs just enough pop in their sound to take off… Continue reading Music Interview: Critical Overheating

By Garth Paulson

Those English have it good. Not only do they have cool accents, all the good actors and a specified time to drink tea while nibbling on scones, they have a music scene several degrees hipper than we find on our lackluster side of the Atlantic. Now they’ve found ways to make four-guys-with-guitars rock sound innovative.… Continue reading Music Interview: No flying cars here

By Kristin McVeigh

Your worst day ever would go something like this: getting dumped by the love of your life. Take the dog for a walk to ease the pain. Somehow, he slips away and gets run over by a truck. Jump on a horse, you know, just to get away from it all. But the horse breaks… Continue reading Music Interview: Unreliable honky tonks

By Rachel Betts-Wilmott

There are things you need to know about Louis XIV: their meteoric rise in popularity, how they got signed to a major label without seemingly selling their souls or losing their integrity and four boys from the west coast coming to identify with the most famed of French monarchs. It all comes back to the… Continue reading Music Interview: Louis XIV Sexier than 17th Century Ottoman

By Paul Jarvey

The Dudes are ready to burn a crater into the U of C’s campus with an off the hook show during BSD. “We’re going to make it a dance party to remember. An excuse to get loose,” says Bob, guitarist and inventor-in-residence for the Dudes. After a year which included everything from a drug charge… Continue reading Music Interview: Dudesseriously…

By Garth Paulson

Deciding to play sexy dance-rock tunes in a two piece band might not be the best way to ensure people take you seriously. The possibilities of being described as the White Stripes on crack only increase when insisting on only using bass, drums and the occasional synthesizer. In a two piece band, not only must… Continue reading Music Interview: Death to Snobby