CD Review : The Famines “Free Love is a Sales Technique”
Is there a crueler bait-and-switch than “reality”? All it does is savage the hopes and reveries we lay so desperately at its false altar. Indeed,…
Arts & Culture
CD Review : Various Artists “Traffic”
Balanced has grown from a small Canadian prairie imprint to a sizable enterprise boasting alternative sounds including broken beat, down tempo, hip hop excursions and,…
Not quite a love story
Twenty years after Roger & Me, Capitalism: A Love Story is Michael Moore’s latest attack on American greed. Beginning with a comparison of modern America…
Essentially a playlist : So sue me…
I like to come up with playlist themes ripped from the headlines, but as easy as it would have been to do a “burning man”…
Beats without borders
Hip hop has long been a platform for political messages. Starting out in the Bronx in New York City, MCs would use powerful rhythmic vocals…
A new noise
Crowds. Lights. A new noise. I stumble into the Toad on Osborne. The vast hum of the outside world recedes behind me, overcome by the…
A rainbow of chaos
Amongst the clutter of the forty paintings that compromise Milos Milidrag’s A Global Inuit (Sex, Jokes and Polar Bears), I was immediately drawn to a…
TV in the cinema
TV is often hailed as the greatest mass communications advance of the 20th-century, but viewers worldwide are being challenged to do away with it this…
UMFM Show Spotlight : The Scene
The UMFM Show Spotlight is monthly column showcasing various programming on the University of Manitoba’s campus and community radio station. To recommend a show for…
CD Review – The Dead Letters “The Dead Letters” EP
There’s something quiet about spaghetti westerns. The storylines are basic enough: enigmatic cowboy hero draws-and-fires his way to the bottom of the human condition. But…