Winnipeg music & culture since 1989
Winnipeg’s four-piece Pop Crimes have a great new EP called City/Head coming out in early August and Stylus got its grubby hands on an exclusive first listen! If you want a hard copy of this baby join us and everyone that matters at the LO PUB on Saturday, AUGUST 4th where the OFFICIAL EP RELEASE/TOUR KICKOFF PARTY will be held with the amazing openers The Gunness and The Mystics.
By Andrew Mazurak
Buck 65 made his way through town an enlisted Winnipeg’s Rob Crooks and Edmonton’s Colleen Brown who helped Buck with their endearing cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire”. Here’s some photos and we’ll have a review to follow in our upcoming August/September issue out August 9th, which is also the same day as our second Stylus Launch Party at the LO PUB featuring pretty much everyone from NO LABEL COLLECTIVE!!
Continue reading “Buck 65 + Rob Crooks // 07-14-12 // LIVE @ Pyramid Cabaret”
Feist kicks off the festival by rocking out pretty damn late into the night!
By Andrew Mazurak
Well well well.. another year and another blistering hot weekend+ at Birds Hill Park for the 39th annual Winnipeg Folk Fest. A lethal consumption of alcohol was consumed, glorious costumes became tattered strips of nothing, and Stylus was there to slam ’em back, crash, puke, dance, interview, force food into guts, force coffee into brain, buy many and many dollar watermelon slices, wander through the trees in the dark, hug the shrug guy and shrug at the hug guy with the rest of you. I for one had a great time documenting what bands I could and hereeeee weee gooo: Continue reading “Winnipeg Folk Fest 2012 Photos”
Photo by Andrew Mazurak at the Pyramid Cabaret in Winnipeg.
By Andrew Mazurak
Neon Indian got a little more than they expected from a frenzied Winnipeg crowd back in Spring.
Playing catch-up but here are a couple photos of the group as they were literally/apparently slapped by the face by madness.
Continue reading “Neon Indian // 05-03-12 // LIVE @ Pyramid Cabaret”
Some solid event listings updates to begin Winnipeg’s always excellent slew of spring shows goes like this:
Raekwon the Chef of the infamous Wu-Tang Clan is bringing his freshly sharpened tongue to the Marquee Lounge and Event Centre on Feb. 27th.
April 7th see’s the latest addition to Shady Records and southern boi Yelawolf to the Pyramid Cabaret.
For those whose ears are heavy-set, the Heritage Hunter Canadian Tour is stomping through town with an epic line-up of co=headliners Opeth and Mastodon. Also Ghost will be opening things up, which is a nice addition considering they were supposed to open for Alcest last year and had to drop out.
And lastly, the Pyramid Cabaret had a nice little facebook update today announcing Twin Shadow here on August 8th!!
Photo by Andrew Mazurak at the WECC in Winnipeg.
By Andrew Mazurak
Toronto’s Austra came to town in late November expecting colder weather than that which welcomed them. Despite our less than wintery wonderland of a city being unseasonably warm, the WECC warmed up damn quick as the sold out crowd danced their asses off for opener Young Galaxy who just came through town a few months earlier with Junior Boys:
Continue reading “Austra + Young Galaxy + Tasseomancy // 11-24-11 // LIVE @ WECC”
Stephen Kurz hit up the WECC back in sunny mid-October to shoot the Canadian rapper/producer Socalled.
Here’s what he saw:
Photo by Mike Chiasson at the Marquee Lounge in Winnipeg.
By Andrew Mazurak
Sound Republic brought in Kray-kray-zie Bone and Wish Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to Winnipeg’s Marquee Lounge & Event Centre a few Fridays ago and the night was not so tame. At midnight we arrive to the front doors to find a couple wasted girls verbally brawling a couple bouncers. One gets taken down to the pavement out front as the other screams.
Ouch..
Continue reading ““Bone Thugs-N-Harmony” // 10-21-11 // Marquee Lounge”
By Andrew Mazurak
Talk about icons.
A few days ago it was announced that Prince will be electrifying the MTS Centre on December 8th! Now considering that my baby girl’s due date is on the 15th.. should I be worried that his music might induce an early pregnancy? I think the story would outweigh the trauma! Mum probably wouldn’t agree..
Continue reading “Prince and Roger Waters and KRS-One.. OH MY!!!”
Photo by Andrew Mazurak at the Walker in Winnipeg.
The Arctic Monkeys came through Winnipeg with Chicago’s Smith Westerns at the Burton Cummings earlier this month and it ended up being a verrrry surprising affair.
Let it be known that Stylus was among the (small?) fraction to see Smith Westerns and we agreed with the majority of this fraction that it was not an overly satisfying part of the evening. It may have been that the band was on a larger stage than their look/sound/performance could handle.. but this was only the seventh show on a stretch with the Arctic Monkeys.. so there is really no excuse for such a drab Winnipeg showcase. And this is coming from many attendees who fell for their 2009 self-titled debut and this years stellar Dye It Blonde..
Continue reading “Arctic Monkeys + Smith Westerns // 10-1-11 // Walker”