Nicholas Friesen
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Demetra’s “Lone Migration”
Produced by local go-to guy Matt Peters, Demetra Penner’s Lone Migration is a beautiful little album.
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Talk - Action = 0: An Illustrated History of D.O.A.
For complete and casual fans alike, Joe “Shithead” Keithley’s Talk - Action = 0: An Illustrated History of D.O.A. is as close as you’ll get to hearing (and seeing) the story of Canada’s most important punk band directly from the man himself.
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From firearms to filmmaking, he’s no chump
Dave Brown has been the only name in firearms safety on Manitoba film sets for about 20 years, but last year he switched gears to direct his first short film, the 12-minute romantic comedy Chump Change.
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A new twist on an old tale
Vladimir Mayakovsky’s The Bedbug, a satire of 1929 soviet bureaucracy and abandonment of the revolution to New Economic Policy men and five-year plans, has been adapted by Adhere and Deny to take place in 1990s North America and eventually, 2042 (after its hero, Bobby Markowski’s body is frozen and thawed in the future).
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GEMINI CLUB
Chicago electro-indie popsters Gemini Club have an incredibly familiar sound - think a more natural Shiny Toy Guns - but it’s worth checking out.
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Bog River
Holy heck, Bog River is the closest thing to a rock band in the roots scene.
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The Eardrums
Oh, The Eardrums. From your cheeky sense of humour in the visuals (the album cover features shots of Winnipeg skylines with the CN Tower crudely taped onto it) and the lyrics, your We’re Not From Toronto EP is just what the Canadian music scene needs - a band that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
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Turn out the light
You have to be in a certain mood to watch Nostalgia for the Light.
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YUKON BLONDE
This 12” from Vancouver retro rockers Yukon Blonde is somewhat of a bridge to the next record, but it acts as its own little animal.
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LOU CANON
The just-sweet-enough (and only once or twice too-sweet) vocals of school teacher by day/sister-in-law of Hayden by night Lou Canon are infectious and lovely, and are perfectly accented by the sparse, poppy instrumentation of Canon and her kin.
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Vancouver’s Rococode: Stepping into the spotlight
“I’ve watched so many interviews over the last five years but it’s definitely weird, especially when you feel like you’re speaking for three other people as well,” says Rococode co-leader Andrew Braun. “I try to think about it as talking about a band as opposed to myself.”
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Paper Bag Records Fall Sampler
Stepping things up yet again, Paper Bag Records unveils a free collection of album tracks, hard-to-find covers and remixes.
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Sweatshop Union
Vancouver’s favourite hip-hop collective has returned for this sixth release, a quasi-tribute to Bill Murray.
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Rambling Dan Frechette
This second brand new Dan Frechette disc is a rowdy blues jammer with hot licks, piano and guitar (They Call Me Crazy), backporch twangers (Hell in a Handbasket) and cool cruisers (Good Time Charlie Blues).
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Rambling Dan Frechette
The first of two brand new records by prolific Winnipeg singer-songwriter Dan Frechette kicks off with Life Without Toys, a Joe Strummer-esque take on modern electronic gizmos, and only gets better from there.
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This juice is worth the squeeze
It’s crazy to think that Juice, the University of Winnipeg’s journal for student writing, is already in its 11th volume. The collection of writing includes poetry, dramatic prose and more, and provides a launch pad for unpublished students to finally carve that notch in their belt.