Essentially a play list
It may have been more than 15 years since I was there, but the memory of a year living in Japan has remained with me…
music
Integral arts
“Collaborative” and “multimedia” are two words that get thrown around a lot in today’s art world. As art becomes more of an intellectual exercise and…
Watching Armageddon
What does a Manitoba-born, Toronto-dwelling piano student turned guitar “partisan” have in common with rappers Chuck D and Flavor Flav? Please write in if you…
Try a little tenderness
Everybody likes music, which is why it should be illegal to call listening to it a hobby. It’s not a hobby if everyone on Earth…
Boats to launch
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…
Essentially a play list
Change is afoot in the Middle East, and while Hosni Mubarak finally saw the light and acceded to the protestors call to resign, Libya is…
Rap it up
The debate over music and over different music styles has been raging for years. I am sure that ever since music started being played, someone…
Five Questions
Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity…
The Weakerthans’ cabin collaboration
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…
Remembering Nodar
I’m in the process of reading VANOC CEO John Furlong’s memoir of the 2010 Olympics, Patriot Hearts, and certainly one of the central events in…