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The Buttless Chaps

By Becky van Bussel

The Buttless Chaps are a Vancouver-based band. They formed in 1998, putting out an album that year and every year since, including this year. Love This Time is the band’s 2003 release. The Buttless Chaps seem to take pride in their ability to collaborate on any type of music, to write music without boundaries. Unfortunately,… Continue reading The Buttless Chaps

Fountains of Wayne

By Becky van Bussel

Welcome Interstate Managers is the newest release by the New York-based Fountains of Wayne. It is the third album of a band previously known as Are You My Mother? and Three Men Who When Standing Side By Side Have A Wingspan Of Over 12 Feet. They ended up naming their band after a lawn ornament… Continue reading Fountains of Wayne

Saybia

By Becky van Bussel

Saybia is an emo-ish rock act from Denmark. They sing many lovely songs about loving girls who either don’t, shouldn’t or won’t love them back and this problem seems to tear them up on nearly every track. The frontman of the group, Soren Huss, provides his band with vocals that sound incredibly similar to Coldplay’s… Continue reading Saybia

Scenes One Through Thirteen

By Becky van Bussel

Hot Hot Heat is a punk-influenced band straight out of Victoria, British Columbia. Scenes One Through Thirteen is a collection of some of the band’s earlier vinyl releases and singles. The glory of this CD is the combination of out-of-control screaming/singing, unrelenting keyboard pounding and merciless drumming. Notice the omission of a lead guitar, resulting… Continue reading Scenes One Through Thirteen

Antifolk Vol. 1

By Becky van Bussel

After listening to this CD a few times, I can honestly say that I would rather shoot myself in the face than to have to listen to it again. It is just that painful. I began listening to Antifolk Vol. 1 laughing until I realized these guys were serious. Then it wasn’t so funny. It… Continue reading Antifolk Vol. 1

Departing experience

By Becky van Bussel

What do you say to somebody who has devoted 30 years to the U of C? How about “good-bye”?Dr. James S. Frideres came to the University of Calgary in 1973 as a Sociology professor, teaching in the first interdisciplinary course on campus focusing on the development of the Canadian North. After a joint appointment between… Continue reading Departing experience