Music
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DrumTalk brings smart percussion discussion
Question: How can you tell when a drummer’s at the door? Answer: He doesn’t know when to come in.
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Saskatoon Rock City
For most Canadians, Saskatchewan brings to mind but few things: painfully long, boring drives; farmer’s fields; tractors; the astonishing flatness; and bad jokes about an unfortunately named city.
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Party all night long
The rhythm is gonna get ya this weekend when NAfro Dance Productions presents Let Me Dance Before I’m Gone, another one of its stellar productions. This time, the Osborne Village-based troupe is incorporating the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean.
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Just doing what he does
For alt-country rocker, studio musician and producer Luke Doucet, being on the road since the age of 18 is finally paying off.
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All choked up
Fans of Edmonton punk four-piece Choke should be familiar with the names Clay Shea and Shawn Moncrieff. The two played in that band for 13 years, putting out six releases and garnering critical acclaim in the process.
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Love is all around
What do Boyz II Men, Jann Arden and Bruce Springsteen have in common? They’re all part of local musician Don Amero’s list of all-time favourite love songs.
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Five local artists to watch in 2009
If you’re anything like the music critics at The Uniter, you love the fact that it’s impossible to walk two feet downtown without seeing a gig poster. If your problem isn’t deciding whether or not to go to a show, but rather, deciding which show to go to, here are five local acts you should make a priority to check out.
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How to win fans and influence people
Remember when punk-rock was challenging? When kids would cram into dark, sweaty basements to hear bands scream about real issues and radical ideas? Winnipeg legends Propagandhi do, and they’ve returned to make the rest of us take our medicine.
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More than just a simple hobby
Darcia Senft is a busy woman. When she’s not fighting for justice in her full-time job as a lawyer or kicking some serious butt boxing at the Pan Am Boxing Club in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, the 44-year old is promoting her new CD, Storms in the Cellar.
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Christopher Lake is the new Walden Pond
Less than a week from today, local musician Ingrid Gatin will be secluded in a cabin in the forests of northern Saskatchewan, alone with an accordion and a looping pedal, penning songs for her upcoming solo album.
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The passion of The Ripperz
Go to The Ripperz’s MySpace page and you’ll be greeted by five words: “There’s just too much passion.”
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Manitoba Chamber Orchestra satisfies audience with sounds from the east
One standing ovation after another standing ovation after another – that was the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra’s Jan. 21 recital in a nutshell.
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Radio Scars 2008
Taking a cue from an annual feature in Spin magazine, six young music fans—Bucky Driedger, Jonathan Dyck, Aaron Epp, Thomas Epp, Les Friesen and Theo Wiebe—gathered to listen to and discuss some of 2008’s biggest pop music hits. This is what they had to say.
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A pinch of this and a dash of that
Not many bands take hundreds of years of musical history from diverse genres and present it in a way that packs dance floors and makes any musician in the audience run back to their teacher in tears, but Winnipeg’s Flying Fox and the Hunter/Gatherers have proven to be such an act.
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Honesty is always the best policy
However cliché it may be, it’s rare to see musicians who stay true to themselves. Winnipeg rapper Wab Kinew makes it look easy and, most importantly, makes it sound refreshing, urgent and original.
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Justifying our love of ‘top 10s’
They littered your favourite newspapers, magazines, and blogs last month—year-end “best music” lists. No longer just for Rolling Stone and Spin, crafting a list of the year’s most loved albums has become an important activity for all self-respecting music lovers.
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Classical guitar hero
A Winnipeg-based classical guitarist is hoping his next performance will expose the audience not only to masterpieces of the guitar repertoire but to some lesser known works as well.
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Escape from Neverland
Every new beginning comes from some beginning’s end. With the end of its days as an independent recording act and the beginning of its major label career, Florida rock quintet Anberlin has been given opportunities it never had before.
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The ska(-mmunist) manifesto
At a time when CDs are quickly becoming a thing of the past, local ska-rockers The Afterbeat decided to give the cyber world a try with the release of a free five-song EP.
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Rockers just wanna have fun
For Haunter, fun is the most important thing. “I don’t think we’ve ever taken ourselves too seriously,” Jory Hasselmann, guitarist for the quartet, said over beer at Carlos and Murphy’s.