Arts & Culture
Sam Singer — ‘Don’t Mistake Me for a Lovebird,’ 4/5
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Though electronic music and programmed sounds can have every bit as much humanity as live instrumentation, there may always remain that pervasive belief that real instruments manipulated by human hands say something that little...
Bluebloods — ‘Make It Rain,’ 3.5/5
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The nature of the growing pop music monogenre — music that’s promoted largely on the way it blends multiple, supposedly incompatible genres — means that music like Bluebloods’s debut EP Make It Rain rarely...
Jiving and swinging into the roaring ’20s with UMSwing
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Welcome to the ’20s everyone. While war, violence and environmental collapse seem to encroach more and more each day, maybe there are some trappings of a bygone era that aren’t all that bad.
For instance,...
The tragic hilarity of hate mail
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If you missed the Manitoba debut of Cranks in October, you luckily have a second chance to see the film at Cinematheque. The film is best pitched by adapting the opening lines from Canadian...
Casati — ‘This Is Just To Say,’ 3.5/5
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In Casati’s wide-eyed vision of folk music, there’s a refreshing absence of whisky and murdered wives — rather, the trio crafts a gentler world, one that sidesteps the genre’s more obvious tropes in favour...
The devastating consequences of “tech bro culture”
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The short documentary Losing Lena is a dense but educational film that examines how women were pushed out of the tech industry.
The film thoroughly explains how women — who were thoroughly involved in the...
Fox Glove — ‘Dead of Winter,’ 3/5
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Whether you enjoy Fox Glove’s brief three-song holiday EP will be entirely predicated both on your pre-existing feelings about Christmas songs.
