CD Review : NDU “The Rebel Zone”
Hip-Hop is a genre of music but it is more often than not called “rap,” which is technically the vocal style. In many ways, people…
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Essentially a Playlist
Despite the ever-present threat of terrible weather, I firmly believe October is one of the best months of the year. The hubbub of back-to-school insanity…
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…
Amber Alert
In the past few years, a coterie of musicians, many, if not all, graduates of the University of Manitoba’s School of Music’s Jazz Studies program,…
Essentially a playlist : Radio? Radio!
It must be September again. The echoes of U1 tour guides saying “That’s the radio station” are receding and the most common questions of people…
Straight outta Winnipeg
Winnipeg’s hip-hop scene, like any in Canada, is constantly overlooked and often regarded as a pale imitation of an American art form. In response, the…
CD Review – Iggy Pop “Preliminaries”
Artist: Iggy Pop Album: Preliminaries Year : 2009 Label: Astralwerks .5 out of ** The latest from the punk rock God (or Dog, Iggy Pop’s…
Essentially a Playlist : Click, click, bang
I’m writing this shortly after reading about the latest shooting death in Winnipeg, which has led me to thinking about the whole notion of “gun…