Arts
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Summer Lovin’
Being able to see music live in a bar is one thing, but to be able to experience local music outside in an energetic, dazed frenzy is an entirely different animal, and the local music collective behind the Beach Station Blues compilation series, Real Love Winnipeg, aims to do just that.
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Secret Broadcast
Produced by Grammy-winner Adam Kasper (Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age), the debut LP from Calgary trio Secret Broadcast follows up 2012’s Hungry Ghost EP, and is consistent in delivering riff-and-radio-ready-rock that has just enough dirt on the vocals to trick the indie kids into liking ‘em, while delivering the “hits”.
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Timber Timbre
These guys just creep up on you, like Nick Cave’s little brothers (kinda moody, but quite harmless). Opening with “Beat the Drum Slowly”, a methodical dirge that surges and cuts, the listener is treated to nine other tracks of similar depth and attitude.
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Chad VanGaalen
It doesn’t have an immediately hooky opener (there’s no “Willow Tree” or “Clinically Dead”) but the warbly meander of “Cut Off My Hands” is warm and welcoming just the same.
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Unconsciously Screamin’
"I almost died last night," David Dobbs says as he walks into The Uniter office. He’s wearing a hospital bracelet. Seems legit.
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Jodorowsky’s Dune
In the 1970s, the surrealist director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo) set out to adapt Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune into an epic motion picture. Years before Star Wars, Jodorowsky set out to make a science fiction fantasy that would forever alter the collective consciousness.
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Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Director Jeff Barnaby’s debut feature, Rhymes for Young Ghouls, is about the darkest parts of Canada’s history.
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Superheroes are often described as the modern American mythology. I don’t think I fully grasped that premise until Christopher Nolan’s Batman series began while I was in my teens.
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Thank you for being a friend
Sarasvàti Productions will take over the Ralph Connor House when it puts on Fefu and Her Friends, a feminist play which was written by Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés in 1977.
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Forward thinking
Comedians make a living making people laugh, which usually means making fun of people and things.
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Transcending past Cinematography
This past Friday, April 18, Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence was released in theatres across North America.
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Micah Visser
This intimate little EP is the second in under a year from local boy Micah Visser.
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Kevin Drew
This one’s tough. We love Drew’s will-they-won’t-they Broken Social Scene project, but the man who is just as likely to jam with J. Mascis as he is to have tea with Feist’s mom is a bit of a mouthpiece.
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Box of Wolves
It’s hard to keep up with local chillwave producer Gabriel Akinrinmade - he’s released more EPs and singles than anyone I can think of, in addition to remixing, blogging and doing a radio show on UMFM.
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H & G
Babies havin’ babies, man.
I’m still in my early 20s, so the phrase “babies having babies” does admittedly have some significance to my age bracket. I just wish H & G had given me something more thematically resonant to latch on to than outrage over neglectful parenting.
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Divergent
In the wake of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight, Hollywood seems to have decided that every young adult novel of even minor note is worthy of a big-budget movie adaptation. Divergent is a product of this trend.
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Finn performing at The Uniter Fiver
Finn performing at The Uniter Fiver
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Greek Riots performing at The Uniter Fiver
Greek Riots performing at The Uniter Fiver
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Hearing Trees at The Uniter Fiver
Hearing Trees at The Uniter Fiver
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Distances
This three song follow up to 2012’s four song EP finds local punk quintet Distances delivering a slew of hard-hitting, well produced punk radio classics.