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July 3, 2023June 25, 2023

Artist Interview: Wild Rivers

*We are excited to cover the Winnipeg Folk Festival again! Here is some of our highlights from last year!*

by Isabella Soares

Indie trio Wild Rivers might have started their career in 2016, but their music reached other parts of the world through streaming during the pandemic. Now that touring and playing festivals are back on the table, Devan Glover (vocals), Khalid Yassein (vocals and guitar), and Andrew Oliver (guitar and bass) have been witnessing crowds singing along throughout Europe, the US, and Canada. After the band members left the Snowberry Field Stage at the 2022 Winnipeg Folk Festival, they talked to Stylus Magazine about their favourite songs to play live, the process behind their latest album Sidelines, and weighed-in on writing love and heartbreak songs.

June 30, 2023June 25, 2023

Concert Review :: Winnipeg Folk Fest :: Richard Inman

*as we gear up for this years Winnipeg Folk Festival we thought it would be fun to revisit some of our highlights from last year!*

by Myles Tiessen

On Saturday afternoon, nestled in the far back reaches of the Winnipeg Folk Festival grounds, Richard Inman performed a set as thoughtful and pensive as his reflective songwriting.

June 25, 2023June 25, 2023

Album Review :: Nickybaby :: Nickybaby

by Jakob Sheppard

Nickybaby’s self titled album was a very intriguing listen. It has elements of folk and indie rock that combine to form one of my favourite indie releases of the year so far. It has almost deceptively good production, meaning that it sounds very rough, but that lack of fidelity only aids in conveying the theme of the record.

June 13, 2023May 14, 2023

EP Review :: Tinge :: Big Deep Sigh

by Mykhailo Vil’yamson

In the song “Pennyroyal Tea,” Kurt Cobain once sang, “Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally.” Not every artist possesses the ability to impel listeners to breathe deeply, but this is definitely the case with Tinge’s debut EP Big Deep Sigh. The project hearkens back to when Indie was more Punk than pretentious and when Emo was less of a post-goth fashion statement than an angst-ridden, authentic, and worthy successor to Grunge-era music.

June 9, 2023May 25, 2023

Review :: Love You to Death

by Paul Newsom

The Park Theatre is not quite packed as Love You to Death’s first film begins, yet the venue feels no less alive for that fact.

June 6, 2023May 14, 2023

EP Review :: Noah Derksen :: Sanctity of Silence

photo of Noah colour edited to look aged.

by Paul Newsom

Winnipeg singer-songwriter Noah Derksen makes strikingly earnest music. It’s probably thanks to this fact that seeing his most recent album come up marked “Explicit” on streaming services feels momentarily surreal – if only for the presence of several pointed and beautiful breakup songs on the record.

June 2, 2023May 14, 2023

Interview :: Softswitch

by Keeley Braunstein-Black

Stylus caught up with Softswitch at No Fun Club. Their self-deprecating sense of humour might only bleakly shine through in print compared to the way it does in person.

This interview has been edited for clarity and conciseness.

May 30, 2023May 14, 2023

Album Review :: Yes We Mystic :: Trust Fall

by Jakob Sheppard

Winnipeg’s own Yes We Mystic’s third and final album, Trust Fall, was released on October 21st, 2022. The group describes it as (in addition to being heavily inspired by Kate Bush) “the songs were most proud of, and that we fought the hardest to bring into the world.”

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023

POP AND SPIRIT :: An Interview with Carlo Capobianco

by Rish Hanco

Carlo Capobianco, one of Winnipeg’s newest quickly rising stars, sat down with Stylus to talk about the upcoming album Pray To You. Carlo shares the story of the album, of an underlying sense of God present in his art and life, and of the toxic, one-sided love that inspired each song.