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Josh Kolm ARTS EDITOR Speaking broadly, post-rock seems to fall into one of two camps. Bands either make slow, ambient, plinky instrumental songs or highly technical, aggressive jams. While bands on both ends do have their appeal, talent and creativity, it can be easy for any single band’s work to...
Animated shorts once again provide some Canadian content to Oscar’s most overlooked category H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER uring the media build up to the Oscars, it’s easy to forget the films that aren’t nominated for the big awards; namely, the Academy Award statuettes to documentaries and animated shorts. For a...
Josh Kolm ARTS EDITOR When performing under his Baby Eagle moniker, Stephen Lambke’s music is characterized by numerous minimalist folk-rock trademarks; namely, his simple, dry vocals that don’t seem to suggest there is a great deal of flourish that could be added to his songs. On his fifth album, Bone...
Despite its age and sentimentality, Emma plays genuine Tita Kyrtsakas LANCE WRITER n their fourth play of the season, the University Players sweep you into Jane Austen’s heart as they present Michael Bloom’s adaption of Emma. This whimsical play offers humour, conflict and warmth, like an 1815 version of a...
Joe LaBine LANCE WRITER ith the release of their fifth album Deformer, couple Seth Smith and Nancy Urich stripped the original five-piece line-up of their band down to a smoking two-piece complete with home studio, and may have revived the better side of early 1990’s dream pop-punk-indie. Deformer is “self-recorded,”...
Oscar-nominated doc covers the complicated emotions around the release of the West Memphis 3 H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER Shocking hardly covers the opening moments of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. In 1993, three young boys are murdered in West Memphis, Ark., and the documentary about the hunt for their killers opens...
Josh Kolm ARTS EDITOR heir reputation and first EP may have pigeonholed the Hypnotics as a garage-rock band— which they are, with their guitar driven melodies and shouting vocals. But on Static Fuzz Radio, they manage to find a lot of creative wiggle room within that definition. Ranging from Buzzcocks-meets-Ramones...
Crosstown Players stay factually accurate and emotionally poignant in Sarah Girty’s War Micaela Muldoon LANCE WRITER he Crosstown Players’ latest project is a story of family turbulence and the struggle to maintain a familiar way of life in the midst of mass, adverse change– or to find a better life...