Deborah Remus
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Hardcore in the middle of the day
All-ages hardcore matinee shows are making a comeback in Winnipeg, and it’s all thanks to Ray Guyot and Jon Mayo, the two men who co-founded Icebox Productions earlier this summer.
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No help wanted
Canadian country rockers the Sadies are back with Internal Sounds, the highly anticipated follow-up to Darker Circles, a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.
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Hillbilly hope
Three years after the release of the To the Last Drop LP, Cheering for the Bad Guy returns with Next Year Country, its third full-length record.
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Iron men
Cancer Bats are bringing their alter ego Bat Sabbath to the Pyramid Cabaret on October 10, banging out tunes originally recorded by British heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath.
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Label Makers
Many Winnipeg record labels are gearing up to release music by a variety of local artists and out-of-town musicians this fall.
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Everyman theatre
Local theatre lovers can finally catch Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire’s 1989 off-Broadway musical revue Closer Than Ever right here in Winnipeg.
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Frosh financial
Be it tuition or textbooks, post-secondary school expenses seem to climb every year, but two Winnipeg bloggers are helping students get through university without being swallowed up by debt.
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Tensile strength
In August, Montreal-based art rock band Braids released its second full-length album Flourish // Perish.
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Rapper’s delight
Local hip hop artist M-Kaps unveils his sophomore full length, Another Day, Another Sodoku on Saturday at the Park Theatre. The MC started getting into hip-hop as a teenager a decade ago, but things didn’t get serious until 2009 when he released the Supremium EP, a collection of tracks he had been working on during the five years prior.
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A new chapter
After some blood, sweat and tears, Winnipeg band Electric Soul is releasing Second Paradise, its debut full-length album which incorporates elements of rock, funk and jazz.
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First Australia, then the world
Vance Joy doesn’t even have a full-length record out yet, but the Melbourne-based folk-pop singer/songwriter is already generating a lot of buzz in his home country.
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Winnipeg BBQ & Blues Festival
Last year 10,000 people descended upon Red River Exhibition Park to check out the inaugural Winnipeg BBQ and Blues Fest, a brand new event which came into fruition for two reasons according to managing partner Kevin Walters.
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River City Rumble
Winnipeg rockabilly enthusiasts will finally have a festival to call their own when the inaugural River City Rumble takes over the Metropolitan Entertainment Centre during the weekend of August 3-4.
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New cinema. New wave. New festival.
This June, the very first Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) gets underway, and the entire event is being put together by Open City Cinema, a local collective that’s been screening films in the city since May of last year.
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An American trilogy
On May 14, 2013, Philadelphia’s The Wonder Years released The Greatest Generation, the final record in its realist pop-punk trilogy which started back in January 2010.
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Indiegogoing the distance
Since forming in April 2012, local melodic punk group Distances have released an EP and opened up for Pennsylvania punks Title Fight.
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Working with heroes
After forming in 2009, Winnipeg pop-punkers Kids and Heroes are finally ready to unleash their debut full-length record to the masses.
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Don’t panic, it’s nothing major
After a brief stint on Interscope Records, Maryland’s favourite punks, All Time Low, returned back home to indie label Hopeless and the band couldn’t be happier.
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The 2012 Uniter 30
What does it take to create change? What does excellence look like?
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2012 in review
It’s that time of year again: That time when members of the arts community look back and obsessively compile their favourite pop culture moments from the past year.
Here are a few lists of records, shows, films and… Well, you’ll see.