Tag: Music

By Peter Hemminger

“I hope to never be cool,” says Hawksley Workman. Workman, the epitome of the slash artist (singer-slash-songwriter-slashproducer-slash-multi-instrumentalist slash-poet-slash-etc.), is talking about the current standard of cool. Artists like the Strokes, the Vines, and the reigning garage elite are definitely lacking in his eyes. "I guess I just never bought into the ‘it’s cool to be… Continue reading Lover/Fighter, Workman

By Falice Chin

Life has taken a major turn for Canada’s beloved Buck 65 since his milestone record deal with Warner Brothers. Just over a year ago, he often performed in small urban bars with bad sound systems, small audiences and little money. Today his music videos air on Much Music and it’s one sold-out show after another.… Continue reading Buck 65 talks about change

By Ivan Danielewicz

An otherwise normal beginning to the school year was loudly interrupted by the screaming guitars, crashing drums and powerful vocals of the Swingin’ Utters. It rang through a quiet MacEwan Hall as they got ready for their Mon., Sept. 8 show. Punk rockers for over ten years, the Swingin’ Utters visited Calgray as their third… Continue reading The Swingin’ Utters rock out. Oi!

By Josh LaVoie

In the land of punk there is a distinct division between groups. You’ve got your old school punks who have been enjoying the scene in some cases since the early ’80s. Then, you’ve got your new school punks whose interest was spurred when Blink 182 made it big in the late ’90s. The second group… Continue reading Strung Out plays MacEwan Ballroom and speaks to us

By Tara Lyn Tiangha

They’re talented, they’re edgy, they do alt-country-bluegrass and they do it well. They are the Austin-based Meat Purveyors and on Monday night they were at Inglewood’s Ironwood Stage and Grill for their first Calgary gig. With double bassist Cherilyn diMond, front woman Jo Walston, guitarist Bill Anderson and mandolin-tickler Pete Stiles, this band pushes the… Continue reading Meet the Meat Purveyors

By Peter Hemminger

“The music you listened to in high school is no longer cool,” warns Mark Macarthur, bass player for Calgary’s Hot Little Rocket. “If you don’t listen to indie-rock you’ll get beat up, you won’t get a girlfriend, and you won’t get passing grades.” Of the three members of Hot Little Rocket sitting around the table… Continue reading Hot Little Rocket explains what they do and why they do it

By Karoline Czerski

52nd Street, New York, 1944. In smoky, dim-lit clubs, a jazz beat penetrates the walls as masters Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk improvise to the beat of Bebop, leading a growing rebellion against the commercialized swing jazz music of the ’20s and ’30s. Bebop soon became the king of jazz culture in the… Continue reading Jazz beats digress

By Jerome Mazandarani

Idlewild is a band that stands alone among their British contempories. While Blur and Oasis were battling it out for Britpop supremacy, Idlewild were touring every inch of the British Isles, playing their own unique brand of Minor-Threat-meets-Sonic-Youth influenced indie-rock. After already touring Australia and Asia, Idlewild released The Remote Part and are five weeks… Continue reading Britpop meets redneck Alberta

By Kyle Young

Last week my brother and I were riding home when a troublesome noise came over the radio. Some poor fellow was singing about taking his clothes off because the club he happened to be in was warm. After listening for several seconds longer than was necessary, I concluded that the song was bad, and requested… Continue reading Sex? No thanks, I’m an artist

By Kevin Rothbauer

Where does one begin when interviewing Frank Black? The man is a musical icon. He’s been releasing albums and touring since 1987. He is responsible, if you trace it back far enough, for the surge in popularity of underground music in the early 1990s. He’s been the lead creative force behind the Pixies, one of… Continue reading Frank Black