By Hayden McBennett, January 22 2015 —
Australian DJ and producer Anna Lunoe will bring her vibrant, punchy blends of deep house, rap and future bass to Calgary’s music fans next week.
Lunoe is the first woman to create mixes … Read the rest
By Babur Ilchi, January 22 2015 —
Professor Bruce Barton is the University of Calgary School of Creative and Performing Arts’ (SCPA) first permanent director since the school opened in 2013.
Barton came from the University of Toronto where he … Read the rest
By Liv Ingram, January 15 2015 —
When floods swept Calgary in 2013, countless homes and businesses suffered catastrophic damage. Among the destruction was the National Music Centre’s (NMC) collection of rare instruments, kept in their basement on 11 Ave. … Read the rest
By Alexander Kim, January 15 2015 —
Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Inherent Vice, makes no sense. And that’s the point.
Set in Los Angeles in 1970, the tail end of the hippie era, the film is an absurdist … Read the rest
By Susan Anderson, January 15 2015 —
Imagine creating your own currency by stamping existing bills with an anarchist image. Or being in such a rush that there are spelling mistakes and crooked cutting on your new notes. Then imagine … Read the rest
By Connor Sadler, January 15 2015 —
Though Winnipeg is more known for its cold winters than its experimental music, the city is home to a provocative musical fusion.
Winnipeg musician Greg Rekus mixes punk music with acoustic guitar in … Read the rest
By Jason Herring, January 8 2015 —
Giddy up, cowboys and cowgirls — the High Performance Rodeo (HPR) is back in town.
For four weeks starting in January the festival will bring the performing arts to venues around Calgary.
The … Read the rest
By Kaleem Khan, January 8 2015 —
Calgary musician Bryce Maruk, known as Orthicon, released his debut EP, Boundary, in fall 2014.
Effortlessly weaving complex bass-lines, reverb-drenched guitars and drowned-out synths, Maruk resembles a goth-inspired James Blake.
On the surface, … Read the rest
By Melanie Bethune, January 8 2015 —
She & Him, with Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, is a band usually associated with lightness and ease.
Their first three albums, fittingly titled Volumes 1-3, encapsulate the sort of music you’d listen … Read the rest
By Liv Ingram, January 8 2015 —
Before Gary Shteyngart was topping bestseller lists and kissing James Franco in a pink bathrobe for book trailers, he was Igor Shteyngart, a sickly, asthmatic child of the former Soviet Union. His memoir, … Read the rest