Winnipeg music & culture since 1989
How to Dress Well is the musical project of Tom Krell, a former PhD philosophy student with an elegant falsetto and a fixation on difficult emotions – especially those dealing with loss, death and heartbreak. Continue reading “How to Dress Well – “What Is This Heart?””
This is the debut album by respected author, journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace International, Rex Weyler. Continue reading “Rex Weyler – Catch the Light”
After five years off The Other Brothers (Chris Neufeld, Donovan Giesbrecht, William J. Western) have released their second album. Continue reading “The Other Brothers – Everything Can Change”
by Gil Carroll
Fast Romantics from Calgary will be in Winnipeg on August 15 at the West End Cultural Centre on their last leg of their second tour in support of Afterlife Blues, produced by Howard Redekopp and released by Pipe & Hat, an influential Winnipeg label. In anticipation for their high energy live show on Friday with locals The Hours, Stylus caught up with singer/songwriter Matt Angus in Calgary by the way of telephone. Continue reading “Fast Romantics :: Blood, guts, and whatever else”
by Anastasia Chipelski
While they trade in the haunted howls of the blues, the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer are not the doom-soaked reapers one might expect. “We’re not a dark band, it just sounds like a dark name. We’re jovial people, really,” asserts Shawn Hall, aka the Harpoonist. Continue reading “The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer :: Jovial folks, really”
Listening back to Fields’ all-too-brief modern catalog, I’m left to marvel at how we’ve moved from the swagger of My World’s “Ladies” to the surrender of Emma Jean’s opener “Just Can’t Win.” Is this the same Lee Fields? The one once called “Little JB”? The one who owned the stage and wowed the crowd at Jazz Fest last year? Continue reading “Lee Fields & the Expressions – Emma Jean”
Unsettled strings introduce the first song on Owen Pallett’s second solo album, a decidedly more autobiographical collection of songs than his first. Continue reading “Owen Pallett – In Conflict”
The second album from Manitoba folk/roots band, The Sturgeons, is filled with the well crafted harmonies and catchy hooks that fans have come to expect from twins Calan and Lucas Hamilton. Continue reading “The Sturgeons – This is The Sturgeons ”
by Martyna Turczynowicz
Winnipeg-based John Norman has played everywhere from Toronto to London to Ibiza and major festivals like Detroit Sound. Last year, he signed to KMS records. Kevin Saunderson and Carl Cox have been playing his mixes internationally. Now, the homegrown DJ is back for a stint as artist ambassador for the 2014 MEME festival. Continue reading “MEME 2014 :: Local DJ John Norman to be artist ambassador”
by Victoria King
“Sparkly” is an appropriate word to describe glitter glue, sequins, maybe even slumber parties – but now it is also the word that Carl Newman of the New Pornographers chooses to describe the vibe of Brill Bruisers, the band’s latest release. Continue reading “Propulsive Pornographic Sparkles :: The New Pornographers release ‘Brill Bruisers’ on August 26”