Arts & Culture

“It's a hip hop world and you are living in it,” writes pop culture critic Dalton Higgins in his newly released book, aptly titled Hip Hop World. The tome is a comprehensive study on...

An Education is set in 1960s suburban London and tells the story of a teenage girl whose life is changed when she falls in love with an older man. Adapted from a memoir, the...

Four walls in the Fitzgerald building have been changing colour. Outside of Gallery One One One the rotunda area was at one point blue, transforming to orange, then green. Currently, the squares of colour...

Is Civet the greatest female rock group since the Runaways? No. Their official bio calls them, “the hottest all-girl rock n' roll band (both literally and figuratively) to erupt from the Los Angeles rock scene since...

Now, here is an album that came so close to being something really special. This Montreal-based MC mixes his outstanding harmonica playing into familiar hip-hop beats and rhythms. Obviously, it's a combination that has...

Local fellow Grant Davidson’s album, Tired Limbs for Ashes, is a quiet affair, evoking a dusty late-summer afternoon spent reflecting on life’s highs and lows, likely on a front porch, enjoying a cigarette and...

Reading recent Musical Memories regarding “mosh-pit misadventures,” I was painfully reminded of a tale of shame and violence all my own. It was in late November, in the Okanagan. By the time the sun...