Music
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Movement, progression and sound at the art gallery
Jim Hiscott is one of the curators of GroundSwell, the influential Winnipeg music group that presents five new symphonic shows a year.
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WSO New Music Festival brings Iceland to Winnipeg
Alexander Mickelthwate has a lot to do these days.
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Migrating from Winnipeg to Churchill to Italy and back again
“Everything I do, I have no choice,” says local musician and visual artist Demetra Penner, 26. “I’ve just needed to create ever since I was 15.”
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Local rock act Salinas set to release All These Choices EP
Recorded at MCM Studios with Mike Petkau Falk (Les Jupes, Record of the Week Club), the new EP from local four-piece Salinas showcases a new direction and musical growth from their 2010 self-titled effort and its power pop punk.
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WSO brings Iceland to Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is ringing in the New Year with world premieres and a roster packed with internationally renowned talent.
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Let’s hope it doesn’t snow again
Although musicians receive the label “pretentious” far too often, the word does not apply to Canadian singer-songwriter Chad VanGaalen.
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Turn on, tune in, drop out… and find the others
Veteran jazz/folk artist Andy Sheppard has ventured into video making to create Find the Others, an innovative project connecting music and film.
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Willing and able, even after 20 years
Wil Mimnaugh cut his teeth like most artists - or maybe unlike most artists.
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Death came a-knockin’
An Albert Street music venue shut down last month after eight months of operation.
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Breaking the buzz
Since the release of Toronto-based trio Austra’s debut record, Feel It Break, back in May, the band has been lauded by the likes of NME and Pitchfork, and has been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.
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Trying to find those good vibrations
Basements, garages and lofts. These are the places where most people store old magazines, park their cars and hide all variety of contraband. These rooms exist on the periphery of your house and your consciousness, but it is in these places that a good deal of musical creation and production occurs.
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Cannon Bros: Raw, poppy and catchy
When you’re getting props from campus radio stations, local alt-weeklies and scene veterans like Greg MacPherson, you’ve got to be doing something right.
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Brothers in a band, touring with some friends
Brotherly love takes on a whole new definition for Ontario indie rockers San Sebastian, who seemingly tore up the Canadian music scene overnight.
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Vancouver’s No Gold: More than just great music
Jack Juston’s creative output as part of Vancouver band No Gold is more than just playing picturesque tunes sparked with hip moving beats. He believes it is a more general undertaking.
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Intimate and interactive
Toronto’s Peter Katz hasn’t even turned 30 yet, but the Ryerson grad has already received the CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, won the Grand Prize at Toronto’s IndieWeek and has been nominated for the COCA Emerging Artist of the Year Award and the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
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From shining beacons to meeting metal
Well, it’s that time again. We’re hurtling towards the year’s end at breakneck speed and, according to the doomsayers, the apocalypse.