Music
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Nova Scotia’s Old Man Luedecke brings his sombre songs to Winnipeg
He’s not as old as the name might suggest, but Old Man Luedecke isn’t short on experience either.
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Mise en Scene Tour Blog Part One
Together with the Uniter, local pop duo Mise en Scene brings you their reflections from the road in this first issue of their tour blog.
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Widening the gap
Together for nearly two decades, Saskatoon soul power trio Wide Mouth Mason has been across the country and back many a time.
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One boy’s guide to the classics
After releasing five EPs, one LP and touring extensively with his pop-rock band Quinzy, local singer-songwriter Sandy Taronno required a diversion.
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Dreamy like a sober drug trip
While They Say hails from Winnipeg, the band actually started to form across the border at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee.
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Winnipeg’s Pop Crimes: Getting away with it
While many of us were enjoying the dog days of summer, getting in the last bit of relaxtion for a while, the members of local rock quartet Pop Crimes put their noses to the grindstone.
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The Weeknd: Revolutionary R&B recluse lets everyone else do the talking
Canadian R&B sensation Abel Tesfaye, 22, better known by his stage name The Weeknd, eschews all interviews.
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More music this week
More music this week.
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If it’s a funeral, let’s have the best funeral ever
On April 2, 2011, New York dance punk band LCD Soundsystem played its last show at Madison Square Garden in front of thousands of adoring and heartbroken fans as well as several cameras.
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Bring it back home
“Literally we’re playing music in people’s living rooms and around kitchen tables,” says Andrea Ramolo, who makes up half of the Toronto-based band Scarlett Jane with Cindy Doire.
Ramolo and Doire will perform in houses and small venues over the next couple of weeks in small communities across Manitoba and Saskatchewan on the Central Plains Circuit Home Routes Concert series. -
Madchild: Done with the sickness
If you’re anything like this writer, when you think of Canadian hip-hop artist Shane Bunting, a.k.a. Madchild, you think of him the way he appeared in the video for Steppin’ Thru, the 2002 hit single by his acclaimed group Swollen Members: standing poolside in the summertime, tufts of blonde hair spilling out from under his ball cap, the sun shining down on him as he spits rhymes without a care in the world.
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Local singer-songwriter Renée Lamoureux goes solo with I Fall for You
Renée Lamoureux’s first solo disc, the very personal I Fall for You, is the result of a five-year journey to build confidence in her personal sound.
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She’s a little bit country, she’s a little bit rock ‘n’ roll
It’s not quite a truck stop, but Lindi Ortega is hanging out in a hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, waiting for the phone to ring.
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‘What’s a Tim Hortons?’
Since first making their mark with the underground hit Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - a three-minute song that consists almost entirely of the refrain, “I’m at the Pizza Hut / I’m at the Taco Bell / I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” - New York trio Das Racist have made a name for themselves with their unique brand of hip hop.
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Manitoba summer music festival guide 2012
There’s a lot of music to be seen and heard in Manitoba this summer. Whether you like folk, rock, country, blues or metal, there’s a music festival happening in or near this province that’s just for you.
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Following their hearts
Dropping grad school or a steady day job to start a band is not usually regarded as the smart thing to do, but for indie folk darlings The Head and the Heart, that’s exactly what needed to happen to make the band a success.
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Three to see at this year’s Winnipeg Folk Festival
The nephew of a founding member of the Allman Brothers, Derek Trucks formed the Derek Trucks Band and performed with Bob Dylan before he even turned 20. He has released nine albums and twice appeared on Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
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‘The festival is about discovery’
Simply calling the Winnipeg Folk Festival an outdoor music festival is an understatement.
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Ferro Montanino: Hanging with Skrillex and drawing inspiration from boy bands
What’s it like to spend an evening with one of the world’s most popular electronic musicians? Ferro Montanino knows.
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Playing to a room full of puppets
Masters of puppets.