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by Chris Bryson
When Winnipeg punk duo Mobina Galore went into Private Ear Recording to lay down their 2019 release, Don’t Worry, they came out of there with more than an album. Mobina Galore’s Jenna Priestner and Marcia Hanson worked with Marty LaFreniere of Looksmart Video and John Paul Peters of Private Ear Recording to compile 40-50 hours of video, which has since been pared down to turn into band content and a documentary called Sorry, I’m a Mess – The Making of ‘Don’t Worry’.
by Olivier LaRoche
Stylus had the chance to sit down with Nic Dyson, singer-songwriter from rural Manitoba, to ask him some questions about his experience writing music and with the local scene.
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by Jacob Letkeman
Healing Through A Sonic Figure opens up with “Hindsight.” This happens to be my (current) favourite track on the album. It comes on all at once, but gently, with plaintive vocal melodies that swoop and dance over top of the guitars, all of it bathed in lush reverb that washes over you, dreamlike and calm, somehow reassuring in it’s mournful feeling.
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by Olivier LaRoche
On his most recent full length project, NNAMDÏ displays his talents as a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. BRAT is a tight collection of sweet, colourful tracks all tied together with a general theme of introspective intimacy.
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by Mark Teague
As I was getting ready to go meet Roman Clarke, I received a short e-mail telling me to “meet him in the shed”. It was an ominous start to a surprisingly pleasant interview, and the shed, as it turns out, is where most of Clarke’s creative works originate.
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by Olivia Michalczuk
Amos the Kid is set to release an album in the Spring of 2020 following seven years of writing music and a year-and-a-half of recording and preparing to release his EP.
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by Isabella Soares
Winnipeg raised singer/songwriter Taylor Janzen has come a long way in the course of two years. Having released two ground-breaking EPs (Interpersonal and Shouting Matches) that quickly received praises from The New York Times and Billboard, as well as recently signing with Glassnote (same record label to sign bands like Mumford and Sons and Phoenix). While she was preparing for her North American tour with Half Moon Run, Stylus had the chance to speak to her about the liberating power of music to express ones feelings, the urge to create genre-defying work, and what she has learned being on the road.
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by Ryan Haughey
The mystical and enigmatic Winnipeg band Boats released their last album in 2013 and played their final show in 2016. A few years back the wild music of these prairie legends resurfaced with a new moniker: Hut Hut. They’ve exposed the public to several madness fueled performances over the past two years complete with their signature sound clip which gets everyone chanting along, “Down, Set, HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT—!”
by Ryan Haughey
With When I Say to You Black Lightning, Common Holly proves that minimalistic does not have to mean small. Massively orchestrated with endless creative ways to make a sound, the record takes ‘doing a lot with a little’ to a whole new level.
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by Chris Bryson
On Friday the 13th of December, Silence Kit took to the stage of the Garrick to open the night for Australia’s DZ Deathrays and Hockey Dad.
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