CD review : Miss Ivy “Your Evil Bride”
Oh, Miss Ivy. I must say, for your first album out, this is not a hit at all. I would seriously suggest going back into…
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CD review : The Paperbacks, “Lit From Within”
One hundred and twenty-six minutes is an unusual length for an album. Yet, that’s the exact duration of Lit From Within, the new album from…
She’s so heavy
Imagine Franz Kafka, but without the joy and hope. You’ll arrive at Caryl Churchill’s Fen — a play as bleak as the landscape from which…
CD review – Will Bonness “Subtle Fire”
Jazz pianist Will Bonness is one of the young lions of the up-and-coming Winnipeg musicians that have arrived as a result of the U of…
CD review : Thousand Foot Krutch “Welcome to the Masquerade”
Somebody needs to tell Thousand Foot Krutch that rap-core died with Limp Bizkit and the first couple Linkin Park albums. The California trio’s latest offering,…
CD Review : Rise Ashen & Stephane Lefrancois “Venenosa”
The last time these two Canadian boys collaborated was on the excellent Mr. Tran Travels in Sound and now they step it up again with…
CD Review : The xx “The xx”
There’s something undeniably refreshing about a group of 20-year-olds writing and self-producing one of the best albums of 2009. I’m referring here to The xx,…
Arrival of the fittest
Departures and Arrivals, the opening play of The Black Hole Theatre Company’s 2009-10 season, is one production where you get a lot of play for…
CD Review : Ultra Mega “Black Wu Jackets”
Certainly an album of lo-fi indie rock covers of the Wu-Tang Clan could be seen as gimmicky. But local act Ultra Mega manages to walk…
CD Review : Everytime I Die “The New Junk Aesthetic”
If you listen closely to his lyrics, Keith Buckley, the screaming front-man of Every Time I Die, certainly seems to be a proud man. Yes,…