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Volume 50, Issue 32 March 11, 2010 ![[image]](/imgcache/150_images_covers_20100311.jpg)
Previous Issues News • SU '10/11 executive elected • Relaxation class helps students de-stress • Robotic technology removes brain tumour • And the battleship is sunk: Gauntlet elections (1 reply) • Alumni Association reaches out to students with senior class ambassador program • U of C students create Wildrose Club • City of Calgary donates over $3 million to Nickle Arts Museum • Ombudsperson receives "recognized standing" Entertainment • Spun: Hollerado • Spun: Shiest • Spun: Versicolour • Snakes explores humanity's grotesqueries • Ricca’s on the Razor’s Sharp edge Opinions • Re-thinking the green car • Helping your waistline and your wallet • Our national anthem needs revision (1 reply) • The STI dilemma: to tell or not to tell? And when? (1 reply) • Sarah Palin preaches to the choir • Editorial: Research funding in danger Sports • Play some football to celebrate St. Paddy's • Bears end Dinos season • Sports briefs • Dinos ready for national tourney Features • Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds |
Content by Garth Paulson
AP Co-Editor (2007-2008), Features Editor (2006-2007), Entertainment Editor (2005-2006), E&P Editor (2004-2005) Images
2005-07-28 - Entertainment Chad VanGaalen concentrates really hard on his guitar. Story: Folk Fest: Chad VanGaalen breaks out StoriesThe last supper2008-04-17 - Everyone knows that masturbation is pretty alright. Well, except for maybe a few Christians with exceptionally good vision, but it's a pretty widely held fact within the rest of population. Thing is, it's a little hard to unabashedly whack it in a room full of people, unless you're a homeless exhibitionist. Then anything goes. I mean, hell, you could have been clandestinely taking the goat for a trot in everyone's presence for years, but it's a different story when you're standing there, looking into their disapproving eyes that are aimed squarely at your truly amazing groin, wondering when the last time you trimmed your pubes was and if they now bear a resemblance to the Amazon. Oh my god, it's a metaphor! Do you get it? I'm all, like, grade 10 Englishing all over your chest. Or maybe not, if you think about it. Or actually, yeah, grade 10 English is perfect because, you see, I'm using masturbation as a metaphor for masturbation so give me a B+ and lets get on to watching 10 Things I Hate About You because there ain't no way anyone's going to be able to understand Shakespeare unless it's put in a modern context and rendered mediocre. More... (1 comment) The Gauntlet's NHL 2007-08 Season Picks: Western Conference 2007-09-27 - More...  Local band the Cape May showcased at Folk Fest2007-08-02 - The Cape May have been an institution in the Calgary music scene for years now. Their moody, poetic lyrics and understated musicianship have provided the band with a devoted and constantly growing fan base. Still, the band was exposed to a largely new audience and a different atmosphere than they're used last weekend at the Calgary Folk Festival. The Gauntlet briefly sat down Cape May frontman Clinton St. John after a crowd-pleasing workshop with Final Fantasy and Eleni Mandell to discuss his band's experience at the festival. Gauntlet: What have you managed to see so far, and what did you think of it? More...  Spun: Stars2007-06-21 - Spun - The last few years have seen an interesting trend develop in indie rock: the remix album. Remixes are common territory for hip hop and dance music, but rock remixes are still largely in their first steps, complete with all the awkwardness and stumbles one would expect. The latest band to receive the remix treatment is Toronto's Stars and their winsome, sometimes overly sentimental 2005 album, Set Yourself on Fire. The resultant, Do you Trust your Friends?, is a confusing, unnecessary album full of track-by-track remixes by a bunch of artists who shouldn't be making remixes. The album begins with Final Fantasy's attempt at Fire standout "Your Ex-Lover is Dead." The cut is a muddled affair that removes the propulsive elements of the original and replaces them with random violin scribbles. The rest of the album largely follows this example. The Most Serene Republic take the lush, wall-of-sound on "Ageless Beauty" and turn it into a sparse honky-tonk backdrop, but leave Amy Millan's heavily filtered vocals intact. The Dears mercilessly chop up "What I'm Trying to Say" into two parts, neither of which have a point. The Russian Futurists turn the chic, metropolitan pop of "The First Five Times" into a stadium-ready, power chord-filled mess. The list goes on and on. More...  Spun: Wilco2007-06-21 - Spun - Wilco has always embraced change. Since their inception, Jeff Tweedy and company have undergone a near-constant evolution, both in terms of band members and musical leanings. During this time they've moved from their country origins to summery pop fiends to rock deconstructionists to brazen experimentalists. On their latest release, Sky Blue Sky, Wilco continue their metamorphosis, but this time the move isn't necessarily in the right direction. Sky Blue Sky mainly explores a folk-rock landscape similar to their 1996 double album, Being There, along with the blistering guitar theatrics of 2004's A Ghost is Born. Sometimes this contrast of gentle and explosive produces engrossing results like on album opener "Either Way" and "Impossible Germany," but too often the guitar freak-outs detract from the quiet nature of the songs. More...  Spun: Handsome Furs2007-06-21 - Spun - As a genre, indie rock isn't known for its subtlety. Instead, it usually goes straight for the jugular in a desperate attempt to leave an impression and move a few units. A prime example of the approach is Wolf Parade's 2005 debut album, Apologies to the Queen Mary, which was ferocious in its immediacy. A few years have passed since Apologies got the blood of scenesters across the world pumping and now the side projects are starting to emerge. Last year it was Spencer Krug's Shut Up, I am Dreaming from his other band, Sunset Rubdown, and now it's Dan Boeckner's turn with Handsome Furs' debut, Plague Park. Comprised of Boeckner and fiancee Alexei Perry, Plague Park is certainly a very different beast than Boeckner's usual wolf. Where Apologies rushed at listeners with its pedal to the floor, Plague Park opts for a more restrained, understated and, yes, even subtle approach. Building sparse frames out Boeckner's simple guitar work, background synth atmospherics and understated drums, these songs are more concerned with nurturing a melancholy mood than taking over listeners' heads. More... Online Exclusive: Me and Mr. Jones 2007-06-21 - Being privy to beginnings can be a fascinating experience. It's no wonder prequels are so successful, every comic book has to have an origin story or that a show like How It's Made continues to keep viewers interested. We simply love to dissect, to take things we know as wholes and reduce them to their component parts. Fans of this process and classic rock were in for a rare treat Sun., Jun. 17 with Ken Scott's illuminating talk "Me and Mr. Jones." A record producer and engineer who has worked on seminal albums by the likes of the Beatles, Jeff Beck, Lou Reed, Supertramp and Elton John, Scott was in town to impart behind-the-scenes wisdom on some of rock's sacred cows. Though he touched on elements of his entire career-from getting a job at Abbey Road studios as a 16 year-old, to working with George Harrison weeks before his death-Scott primarily focused on his work with a gentleman named David Robert Jones, known better to most as David Bowie. More...  Producer brings us behind the music2007-06-14 - The name Ken Scott might not mean much to casual fans of classic rock, but his resume is one of the most polished in the business. Getting his start in the music industry as a 16-year-old at the now-legendary Abbey Road studios, Scott worked his way out of the tape libraries and into the realm of rock and roll legend. In addition to working on Beatles classics Magical Mystery Tour and The White Album, Scott has engineered, mixed or produced such seminal albums as Lou Reed's Transformer, Elton John's Honkey Chateau, Jeff Beck's Truth and Supertramp's Crisis? What Crisis? Despite this impressive list, Scott has arguably left the biggest mark on pop culture through his work with David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust period. Scott recently spoke with the Gauntlet in preparation for his upcoming Calgary appearance, where he will be discussing his life in rock and roll. Gauntlet: You started working at Abbey Road studios when you were 16. What was it like being a kid working with the Beatles during the height of Beatlemania? More...  Golden Goyette gets the gig2007-05-31 - The University of Calgary has added to its already impressive list of Olympic glory with the hiring of three-time Olympic medalist in women's hockey and eight-time world champion Danielle Goyette as the new coach of the Dinos women's hockey team. When not representing Canada in international tournaments, Goyette was a member of the Calgary Oval X-Treme in the Western Women's Hockey League since 1999. Though the prospect of coaching has never been far from her mind, the offer from the Dinos surprised her. More...  Spun: LCD Soundsystem2007-03-22 - Spun - Dance music isn't known for being too concerned with maturity. After all, its primary concern is to get people up and shaking, not contemplating the passage of time. Sound of Silver, the new album by LCD Soundsystem, however, is a grown-up affair, but that's not to say it's light on the ass-shaking. This maturity is first evident in the music itself. Frontman James Murphy has never shied away from wearing his influences on his sleeve. This reverence for what came before him led LCD's self-titled debut to sound a tad stuck in the past. Murphy rights this in Sound of Silver by allowing more of himself to take centre stage. The normal reference points are still here, but they're now used as guidelines instead of maps. The result is a cohesive dance-rock album both comfortably familiar and satisfyingly original. More... [Next Page] More stories by Garth Paulson: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 |
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