CD Review : Jay-Z “The Blueprint III” & Raekwon “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. 2”
Two legendary rappers, two sequels of legendary albums. One at the peak of his popularity, the other attempting a comeback. In this case, the underdog…
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CD Review : Pet Shop Boys “Yes”
I suppose there is something that can be said for a group that manages to have a sound that is consistent throughout their entire body…
CD Review : The Famines “Free Love is a Sales Technique”
Is there a crueler bait-and-switch than “reality”? All it does is savage the hopes and reveries we lay so desperately at its false altar. Indeed,…
CD Review : Various Artists “Traffic”
Balanced has grown from a small Canadian prairie imprint to a sizable enterprise boasting alternative sounds including broken beat, down tempo, hip hop excursions and,…
Not quite a love story
Twenty years after Roger & Me, Capitalism: A Love Story is Michael Moore’s latest attack on American greed. Beginning with a comparison of modern America…
A rainbow of chaos
Amongst the clutter of the forty paintings that compromise Milos Milidrag’s A Global Inuit (Sex, Jokes and Polar Bears), I was immediately drawn to a…
CD Review – The Dead Letters “The Dead Letters” EP
There’s something quiet about spaghetti westerns. The storylines are basic enough: enigmatic cowboy hero draws-and-fires his way to the bottom of the human condition. But…
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,…
Booze cruisin’ to the bottom
Dan Fante’s new novel, 86’d, is a rip-roaring novel about a forty-two year old alcoholic, pill-popping loser at life on his last legs. The story…
Underwhelming Overture
If it had ended after the first piece, it would have been spectacular. Unfortunately, it went on. On Wednesday, Sept. 9, approximately 700 people attended…