Boats is a Winnipeg band with a taste for absurdist juxtaposition, childlike enthusiasm and a sound that brings to mind xylophones even when they aren’t there. Their latest album, Cannonballs, Cannonballs, is full of...

Ottawa singer-songwriter Jim Bryson’s latest album, The Falcon Lake Incident, features Winnipeg’s own Weakerthans. According to Weakerthans guitarist Stephen Carroll, the collaboration was a natural one, partly because of the artists’ similarities. “I think...

Kristin Nelson has a popular name. She shares it with an American primitive painter and an actress famous for her work on the TV series Psych (although the actress spells her first name with...

Yukon Blonde, Kelowna-born Vancouver indie rockers, will begin their latest tour at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on Feb. 18 — one year since the release of their first, self-titled, album. Jeffrey Innes, Graham...

At the end of Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), a peacock belonging to a local aristocrat escapes from his master’s house and lands in the town square. It’s snowing at the time and the film’s...

Sometimes it takes a fresh set of eyes to see something for what it is, and this is especially true of Manitoba. Manitoba is at the same time introverted and outward-looking. Few of us...

We, as a society, do not always take well to the idea of inherited privilege. Perhaps we think it’s undemocratic; it conjures up some collective memory of monarchy that we’d rather not think about....