Bookended by two tight instrumental tracks, the Magnificent 7s’ sophomore release, All Kinds of Mean, is mean indeed. Continue reading “The Magnificent 7s – All Kinds of Mean”
The Magnificent 7s – All Kinds of Mean
Samantha Savage Smith – Tough Cookie
Samantha Savage Smith chronicles a tale of wrecked love on Tough Cookie, and despite it obviously being the result of a painful and poisonous relationship, I couldn’t be happier to have this album in my collection. Continue reading “Samantha Savage Smith – Tough Cookie”
Raleigh Moncrief – Watered Lawn
COMIN AT YA, ALL THE WAY FROM SACRAMENTO! ITS RALEIGH MONCRIEF! Continue reading “Raleigh Moncrief – Watered Lawn”
The Magnificent 7s – Making Friends and Getting Mean across the Continent
illustration: Natalie Baird
By Sheldon Birnie
By Sheldon Birnie
Winnipeg’s Magnificent 7s are a hard traveling, hard rocking bluegrass band. Preparing to release their sophomore album for local imprint Transistor 66, Matt Magura and Andy Bart recently sat down with Stylus to chat about All Kinds of Mean over a couple pitchers of Two Rivers. Continue reading “The Magnificent 7s – Making Friends and Getting Mean across the Continent”
BIG FUN FESTIVAL
photo: Silas Chipelski
By Kaeleigh Ayre
By Kaeleigh Ayre
Winnipeg music fans will be able to shake, rock and roll off the snow this January with the inaugural Big Fun Music Festival. Continue reading “BIG FUN FESTIVAL”
Hillbilly Highway – Prairie Roots Revue rolls into Winnipeg
by Sheldon Birnie
On Monday, December 12, four prairie songwriters will descend on the Park Theatre to pick some tunes for all of y’all. The Prairie Roots Revue is cruising the Highway from Saskatoon to Winnipeg, then back across Saskatchewan, hitting smaller towns like Dauphin, Gravelbourg, and Swift Current along side larger centers like the ‘Peg. Continue reading “Hillbilly Highway – Prairie Roots Revue rolls into Winnipeg”
Eleven Twenty-Nine – Eleven Twenty-Nine
If you have access to a room with a wood floor and a large window that faces the southwest, you need this album. Continue reading “Eleven Twenty-Nine – Eleven Twenty-Nine”
D.O.A. – Talk-Action = 0
These Canadian punks have been at it for over thirty years, which is impressive in itself, but even more impressive is the fact they have played a single genre, which they helped create, the entire time. Continue reading “D.O.A. – Talk-Action = 0”
Ten Second Epic – Better Off
With three independently released albums, Edmonton’s Ten Second Epic is well on their way to building a strong following in North America and around the world. Continue reading “Ten Second Epic – Better Off”
Breath Grenades – 25 years of Blowing Minds and Bewildering Audiences
By Kent Davies
I wanna play this song but the radio just won’t play,
We’re going to play it now. Hell… we’re not gonna go away.
– Breath Grenades song “Blasting Pad” from CBC radio’s Brave New Waves in 1996.
No one sounds like the Breath Grenades. No one acts like the Breath Grenades. These legendary space rawkers are so far gone from anything resembling a conventional band that they often defy logic. Beginning with their uniquely destructive bass-snyth sound, they do things their own way. In their decades of playing they have only released one rare album. They don’t play out very often, having a sincere hatred for most venues. Few bands stay together for more than a few years let alone a band that has had staple members pass away. But despite the hardships this groundbreaking punk act has managed to stay a band for more than 25 years. Now with the inclusion of drummer/sound/visual arts genius Richard Altman a.k.a. Vinegar Rich, the Grenades: Don Bailey a.k.a. Vom Doom and Al Conroy (Not Half) a.k.a. Vortexo are coming out from the basement to play shows again. On the eve of the first Breath Grenades show of 2011, Vom and Vinegar gave Stylus a history lesson of the Breath Grenades past, present and future. Continue reading “Breath Grenades – 25 years of Blowing Minds and Bewildering Audiences”