On Beautiful Rewind, Four Tet’s latest LP, electronic artist Kieran Hebden lifts sounds from the United Kingdom’s bygone underground dance-music scene and appropriates them to fit his signature sound. The track “Kool FM” shares its name with an infamous pirate radio station that was among the first frequencies in London to play hardcore and jungle.… Continue reading Spun: Four Tet
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Spun:Bon Iver
Those familiar with Bon Iver’s first album, 2008’s For Emma, Forever Ago, will find that the Wisconsin-based band’s signature sounds are preserved on their newest release, along with some welcome new additions to strum your heartstrings. Bon Iver includes much of the same crooning vocals and ethereal sound but moves the band into a more… Continue reading Spun:Bon Iver
Spun: We Are The City
High School, the six-track experiment from Kelowna-based band We Are The City, takes you into the lives of the members’ high schools days. It’s one part bubblegum, one part young love and one part nostalgia. The album explores stories of love, rejection and all manner of things one can remember from their high school days.… Continue reading Spun: We Are The City
Adventures in snowshoeing
As a skier, I have always viewed snowshoeing as the lame half-brother of cross-country skiing. It seemed slow, sort of boring and you look kind of silly with those big things on your feet. That was until I went out snowshoeing over the winter break. We were supposed to be going out to bow summit… Continue reading Adventures in snowshoeing
Spun: Bonjay
If someone were forced to describe Bonjay’s newest album Broughtupsy, the only word that their noise-addled brain would be able to manifest would likely be “weird.” Beyond that, it would be a lot of head scratching and inconclusive descriptors punctuated with some “ums” and “ahs.” From the first abrasive Casio-beat to the final electronic clap,… Continue reading Spun: Bonjay
Spun: Savk
Beija Flor is far from dead. Though the band itself may be no longer, former frontman Stephen van Kampen has kept the music alive with his new solo project Savk. Van Kampen is no fresh face to the Calgary music scene and his experience rings through in both lyrics and instrumentation. Armed with a banjo… Continue reading Spun: Savk
Kodachrome fades away
Those greens of summer / Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah / I got a Nikon camera / I love to take a photograph / So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away.” When a type of film manages to not only be memorialized in song by Paul Simon, but also… Continue reading Kodachrome fades away
Cursing eleven-year-olds Kick-Ass
Take a kid in a wetsuit, team him up with a faux-Batman, a purple-wigged preteen and a dude with too much eye makeup and you have the recipe for one very interesting superhero movie. Taking the classic superhero story — a socially conscious nerd sees an opportunity to do good in society and works unrelentingly… Continue reading Cursing eleven-year-olds Kick-Ass
Keith and Renee make Detours to Kenya
It doesn’t matter where people start, paths change and often lead to in interesting places. Winnipeg-based pop-rock duo Keith and Renee know all about it. With their fourth album, Detours, released April 16 on Easily Amused Music, the pair have proved that changing paths is what life is all about. Having moved away from the… Continue reading Keith and Renee make Detours to Kenya
Grand home to new CBC music TV show
When an event combines the very best of three presentation mediums, you know it’s going to be a big deal. Bands @ The Grand is a CBC-organized event bringing Alberta’s best to the stage, the screen and the airwaves. Bands @ The Grand features eight Alberta bands performing over two nights at the Theatre Junction… Continue reading Grand home to new CBC music TV show