Tag: Music

By Chris Courtice

Starbucks is probably not the safest place for a vegan to indulge. Dependent on milk products and processed ingredients, the corporate bistro is a virtual minefield for the veggie inclined. Billy takes the safe route, ordering a regular cup of coffee. Flashing a big smile, she sits down in the only corner not occupied by… Continue reading Music Interview: Billy the Kid saddles up

By Kyle Francis

Somewhere back in the memory of music, some record executive got the bright idea to mass-produce Barbie dolls catering to the ever-deteriorating self-esteem of twelve year old girls and their parents’ pocketbooks. Not a bad idea if your goal is to sell sex first and music second, but many music enthusiasts have given MuchMusic a… Continue reading Music Interview: Feminism lives near Magneta Lane

By Nathan Atnikov

RantMusic are a lot of things. A rock band with fiddles, punk band with mandolins and folk band with electric guitars, but most importantly, they are road warriors living out of a bus for the past five years. Vocalist Ramsey Reid shuffles adjectives like a deck of cards when talking about his band, but it’s… Continue reading Music Interview: RantMusic not a bunch of celtics

By Jeff Clemens

On the final legs of the Big Day Out tour, Dave Grohl and Perry Farrel told a raucous crowd The Music was their favorite new band. After releasing their first EP You Might As Well Try To Fuck Me The Music were called “the most important group since Oasis.” Since then, it has been a… Continue reading Music Interview: Dance to The Music

By Kyle Francis

A massive pillar of people huddle inside the MacEwan Student’s Centre. Imposing people in red shirts shuffle along the quivering mass of humanity to make sure no one tries to hurdle the steel gates containing them. When the clock strikes seven, the red shirts converge to the head of the pillar and allow the people… Continue reading Concert Review: James Brown breaches 5th dimensional space to funk up Calgary

By Garth Paulson

Video killed the radio star. Immortalized in our collective conscience as not only a catchy Buggles song, but also as the answer to one of the most widely known pieces of trivia today. The irony was thick when MTV gave birth to itself with the Buggles’ version of “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Who knew… Continue reading Behold the corpse of radio

By Kyle Francis

We live in a world where, in the past year, a major war has started, causing the deaths of thousands. We live in a world where hundreds upon thousands of people die every year from terminal illness and thousands more children die every hour from hunger or hunger related diseases. In light of this, it… Continue reading Music Interview: Sex machine in training preach peace

By Teale Phelps Bondaroff

Some people stay trapped in their homes for a helping of Kraft Dinner music served up by soup Nazi radio DJs to scratch their eardrums, while others blow out their ears with heavy metal binges. But there are those who aurally feast on the generous smorgasbord of styles served up by the likes of Daniel… Continue reading Music Interview: Daniel Heff’s aural feast

By Nolan Lewis

Cradle of Filth, England’s figurehead of metal, is coming. And if you were to look up on a night lit by a pouty moon, you might expect to see figures swarthed in black and buckles swoop over head. But of course, that would be silly. They may not be free, but they’re not here to… Continue reading Cradle of Filth births destruction

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

Chronic passes through the air and when the bouncer warns anyone smelling like weed will not be let in, a few discreetly smell themselves. Others drink cheap Lucky beer to get drunk early with less expense. A crazy motherfucker known as “T”, a.k.a. Taren Melathopolous, freestyles some mad rhymes in exchange for a small token… Continue reading Concert Review: Beatnuts–The opposite of getting hit in the nuts