By Diana Lyuber
For the fourth year running, Overflow kicked off the year last Thursday with an unbeatable combination of great music, good vibes, and lotsa booze. The Students’ Union packed MacEwan Hall with help from local talents DJ John Delirious, Dragon Fli Empire and Chixdiggit, along with well known party band Swollen Members. “It went really well,… Continue reading Overflow is over
On Sept. 14, the Students’ Union passed a policy attempting to reconcile their position on smoking with the Smoke-Free University of Calgary sub-committee’s position. Unfortunately, the policy, while well meaning, doesn’t call for any real action. “Essentially, the policy doesn’t change a lot,” said SU Vice-President Operations and Finance Greg Clayton, who went on to… Continue reading Disappointment over SU smoking policy
The first month of school is always tough on students, but imagine walking into your class to find that you’re forced to sit on the floor because there isn’t enough space. Also imagine finding out that you can’t register for a class because there aren’t enough sections offered. Over-crowded classes have become a problem on… Continue reading Trailer park of excellence?
Most of the time a certain mood needs to be set to get into a CD, to feel the rhythms and get hooked into its beats. This time, Sia evokes a specific mood and atmosphere demanding attention. The smooth vocals and soft beats characterizing the album brings about a definite sense of relaxation. After taking… Continue reading Sia
The ghost may have been born and with us for a few months now, but even with so much time to process, it still comes off a little disappointing. Wilco has a lot to live up to following Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, heralded nearly unanimously last year, many said it was the best album since Radiohead’s… Continue reading Wilco
By Trenton Shaw
There seems to be this unwritten law applied to rappers, of needing to pull your homies out of the streets with you. One doesn’t have to look far for evidence, superstar rappers trying to bring up their struggling crews–Eminem’s D12, Freeway’s Ice City, and 50 Cent’s G-Unit are prime examples. In some cases giving fellow… Continue reading Terror Squad
By Falice Chin
From the basement of Calgary’s hip-hop crew Jonny Sootentai, comes the wickedly well-produced album From Classroom to Cubicles. Blessed by producer Aptitude’s multi-talented skills, from being able to play any instrument to a thorough understanding of music theory, the album is a fusion of many musical genres. The songs flow from one to the next… Continue reading Jonny Sootentai
By Ben Hoffman
Boompa Records is a Canadian label started by Scott Walker of The Salteens. To celebrate their first year of business the young company has released an album highlighting their extraordinary pool of talent. Boompa boasts a wide variety of artists and songwriters melding and blending genres, resulting in a truly unique collection of music One… Continue reading Various Artists
“… an essay, a tragedy, an opera, a dark comedy…” These words, presented within the insert of The Beginning of Survival, perfectly describe Joni Mitchell’s latest release, an album spanning two decades of socially-conscious music. Each song was specially selected to follow, as Joni puts it, “commentaries on the world in which we live.” From… Continue reading Joni Mitchell
Is it frightening that an album could be considered strange and inaccessible even by Bjork’s standards? Pop music’s queen of artistic indulgence and that’s meant in the most positive of ways has long gotten away with everything she’s tried. Her eccentric albums, her turn at acting in one of the most depressing musicals ever filmed… Continue reading Bjork