Music
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Still on a Bizarre Ride
If you’re a fan of hip hop, you’ve heard of The Pharcyde - the West Coast quartet from L.A. whose seminal 1992 record, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde is consistently ranked among the best rap albums ever, celebrated for its offbeat, funky eclecticism that separated it from the flock of such G-funk acts as Ice Cube, Spice 1 and Dr. Dre.
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Yes We Mystic’s five favourite sad songs
Fresh off a stint at the Big Fun Festival, local experimental folk act Yes We Mystic’s spirits aren’t as dampened as they might seem.
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“Have you heard my friend’s band?”
Yeah, it’s February, but it took a while to compile this list.
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Band of brothers
Joey Landreth, lead singer and guitarist for new Winnipeg rock trio The Bros. Landreth, is in the recording studio working on the band’s debut album when The Uniter calls.
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A darkly cinematic new aesthetic
Congratulations - you’ve stopped looking at This Hisses drummer JP Perron’s moustache in the above photo long enough to read this article. We couldn’t blame you if you stopped reading right now to keep looking at it, though.
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Klachefsky and Boats and Hall and Oates?
Last March, local indie pop weirdos Boats released a video of themselves recording their new album. Perhaps the most compelling footage shows lead singer/guitarist Mat Klachefsky decked out in gloves, safety goggles and a helmet, smashing a guitar with a hammer in order to get the desired sound for that particular part of the album.
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Friends in low places: Winnipeg’s Lower Companions will get you through it
Local folk rock outfit The Lower Companions released its second recording, the six-song EP Lock & Step, in November.
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Sarah Neufeld’s string theory
As people around the world eagerly anticipate the new album from critically-acclaimed Montreal indie rock band Arcade Fire, Winnipeg music fans will have the opportunity to see the group’s violinist, Sarah Neufeld, in concert this week.
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‘Long live Big Fun!’
Huddled around a table in the warmth of Cousin’s Deli, four friends are having a few pints and pondering the blur of a year they’ve had since creating arguably the best thing to hit the Winnipeg music scene in years: Big Fun.
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This is better
Hannah Georgas isn’t short on confidence.
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Coffee with French Press
When Chantel Emond - better known by her stage name French Press - finished her shift at a Winnipeg coffee shop, she ran to the back to grab herself a cup of black coffee and came back to sit down with a nervous smile.
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‘We were already having a sound and vibe that were making people stop’
While most Canadian twenty-somethings agonize over the minutia of poor job prospects and their grade point averages, Franklin Fernando is debating whether to return to his native Sri Lanka to fight for the rights of his people, the oft-demonized Tamils.
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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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Zrada 2.0: Expect rye bread and vodka shots
You’ve survived the Mayan apocalypse, but can you handle a live Zrada show?
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Taking things up a notch
There are plenty of solo projects with band names that morph into full bands, but few, with the exception of maybe Bright Eyes, rock a pluralised moniker.
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Nothing broken about this scene
Last fall, when The Uniter spoke with Stefanie Johnson and Jodi Dunlop, the two members of Winnipeg pop rock duo Mise en Scene, they were about to head to Banff for a residency at the Centre for the Arts with Howard Redekopp (New Pornographers).
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From the bedroom to the dance floor
Toronto-based electro-pop artist Diamond Rings (a.k.a. John O’Regan) has had rising success over the past two years.
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Where everybody will know your name
The claim that there are no decent live music venues in Winnipeg has been a popular one as of late, as the Albert seems to be in a constant state of “opening soon,” the Lo Pub is searching for a new venue, Pop Soda’s had a fender bender and the Death Trap died out.
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More music this week
More music this week
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More than just Canada’s Kim Deal
Juno award-winning singer-songwriter Julie Doiron has been making pleasant noise for 22 years.