Music
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Splish, splash, they’re making you thrash
The Uniter sat down with The Thrashers at The Toad for a few beers to discuss the past year.
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School’s out!
Even though Mise en Scene will be rocking Orientation Week at the University of Winnipeg, the local duo, made up of Stefanie Johnson and Jodie Dunlop, are taking a year off from educational pursuits in favour of touring, recording and being accepted into a prestigious artist residency in Banff.
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More music this week
More music this week
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Five days of folk music in July
When the lineup for the 2011 Winnipeg Folk Festival was announced, standout acts included k.d. Lang, Blue Rodeo and an acoustic set by Tegan and Sara, leading some to believe the festival was catering to its older, committed attendees.
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Extreme music and social responsibility
Two months before the 2011 Arsonfest, festival organizer, metal promoter and musician Mike Alexander is looking back at how it all began 11 years ago.
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Opera and garage rock, together at last
Just home from Toronto’s North by Northeast Music Festival, This Hisses played Old Market Square on June 18 to kick-off the Winnipeg Jazz Festival and have had a busy weekend touring their haunting surf sound – a genre that became the name of their upcoming debut album, Surf Noir.
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The Uniter at NXNE
Over 500 bands are in Toronto this week for Canada’s largest music festival and industry conference, including 16 acts from Manitoba.
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Better after all these years
After eight albums and performing together for over 18 years, Blonde Redhead’s lead vocalist Kazu Makino describes the progression to what the band is now in one word:
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More music this month
More music this month
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Ten days and nights of jazz set to get the downtown swinging
Winnipeg’s music festival season will start with a bang later this month as the TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival welcomes a star-studded lineup of artists to join with local talent.
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Popular jazz musician, hip-hop collaborator appeals to a wide audience
Even if you’ve never heard of jazz pianist Robert Glasper before, the list of acts he’s associated with might be enough to pique your interest and get you to come to his first-ever Winnipeg concert at the end of this month.
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More than just a party
“I hate electronic music” is a sentence commonly heard by Nathan Zahn.
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A five-point plan for Winnipeg
One man’s bold vision for our civic future
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Live music this week: Curtis Nowosad
Make way for the smooth jazz drums of Curtis Nowosad, whose modesty does little to distract from his success.
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Winnipeg’s one-hit wonders
Neil Young, The Weakerthans and The Guess Who are just a few of Winnipeg’s successful musical talents – so maybe that’s why Winnipeggers are so often convinced that they’ve birthed the next big musical act.
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Grassroots growing
How can you not love an event with drum circles?
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More music this week
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Garage rock and cupcakes
The four-woman garage rockers and whale (or sea cave) enthusiasts in The Blowholes have been keeping a particularly low profile for a band set to release their self-titled debut album.
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Make it good and they will come
A few years ago, Winnipeg composers Heidi Ugrin and Luke Nickel were talking with some friends about how Winnipeg doesn’t have very many new music groups, at which point they turned to each other and simultaneously had an epiphany: “We should start our own festival!”
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More music this week
More music this week