Page 7 – Winnipeg music & culture since 1989

February 14, 2023March 3, 2023

Concert Review :: Chip’s Vintage 4-Year Anniversary Show :: Carlo Capobianco, JayWood, Jasmyn

by Rish Hanco

Folks trickle into the Goodwill on a Saturday night to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the local shop Chip’s Vintage. The love and community-feeling is palpable, making it easy to forget the bitter cold outside. DJs Co-op and Hunnicutt hone in on the feeling and bring it to the fore, spinning jams to move the crowd and permeating the spaces between bands with warmth and energy.

February 13, 2023February 21, 2023

WINTERRUPTION Photos by Mike Thiessen

January 27th @ The Good Will Social Club

Stephan Hodges, A. Savage, Mulligrub, Jamboree, and Tired Cossack.

February 12, 2023February 21, 2023

Concert Review :: WINTERRUPTION :: January 27 at The Good Will Social Club

Photo of Mulligrub bassist — Photo by Mike Thiessen

by: Myles Tiessen

Two shows took place at The Good Will Social Club on January 27th for WINTERRUPTION. Five bands entertained a crowd of hyperactive fans from 7 PM until well past midnight, making for a jam-packed evening of rock n’ roll music. This is coverage of the high-octane late show, featuring Mulligrub, Jamboree, and Tired Cossack.

February 11, 2023February 21, 2023

Concert Review :: WINTERRUPTION :: January 27 at The Good Will Social Club

by Myles Tiessen

Two shows took place at The Good Will Social Club on January 27th for WINTERRUPTION. Five bands entertained a crowd of hyperactive fans from 7 pm until well past midnight, making for a jam-packed evening of rock n’ roll music. This is coverage of the early show, featuring meditative performances from Stephan Hodges and A. Savage.

February 9, 2023February 11, 2023

Concert Review :: Circuitous album release. Feat Blessed, Stuck, Fold Paper

Blessed performing at the Good Will on Nov. 17, 2022

by Myles Tiessen

As the icy Winter wind whipped down Portage Avenue on November 17, a crowd of eager, cigarette-inhaling, primarily 20-somethings packed into the back of the Good Will Social Club for a night of post-punk brilliance.

Headliners Blessed–who had recently released their outstanding and anomalous new album Circuitous–were joined by underrated scene legends Stuck and Winnipeg newcomer Fold Paper for a night of effects-laden angular guitar rock that shook the entire building with unrelenting determination.

February 2, 2023January 28, 2023

EP Review :: middleTimes :: middleTimes

middleTimes EP cover man in sandals shorts and t-shirt sit-in on a rock underneath trees and sun flare in upper right corner.

by Gabriel Fars

I think that this is the type of EP you would dismiss at first. The type that you need to learn how to love. Like those tracks that you always initally skip but then when you actually give it a listen you discover it’s the best song you’ve ever heard in your entire fucking life.

January 31, 2023January 28, 2023

EP Review :: Zoon :: Sterling Murmuration

by Myles Tiessen

“…this body of work is supposed to display the danger in isolating. While in this state, we set ourselves up to be in harm’s way by outside forces, but breaking out and embracing humility and community, you can finally transcend into a healthy trajectory.”

So writes Zoon’s Daniel Monkman in the press release for their surprise EP Sterling Murmuration.

January 29, 2023January 28, 2023

INTERVIEW :: Fold Paper

by Rish Hanco

Fold Paper is the new project from Chell Osuntade, a Michigan native who moved to Winnipeg in 2016, and has been embedded in the local music scene ever since.

Chell sat down to talk to us about Fold Paper and his journey with music. He discusses his influences, his passion for the post-punk genre, and playing music with his friends.

This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.

January 24, 2023January 28, 2023

Album Review :: Shoehole :: Magic Hate Ball

by Gabriel Fars

Making deals with the devil, the embarrassment of still living with your mom, being a drunken man-child–This album really is about the important things in life. The things that you think about when you’re sad and still awake late at night when all you can do is stare up at your roof and pray that your brain will shut up so that you can just. Go. To. Sleep.

January 17, 2023January 28, 2023

Album Review :: Jacob Brodovsky :: I Love You and I’m Sorry

by Sam Doucet

Jacob Brodovsky has been doing a lot of thinking. At a time when many artists are pumping out material at breakneck pace to keep their names in the conversation, and most of them are already working on their second or third pandemic-driven album, this Winnipeg troubadour has taken his time in releasing his debut full-length, the ever-so-cloyingly titled I Love You and I’m Sorry. It’s the first recordings we’ve heard from him since 2019’s Sixteen Years EP, which introduced many local ears to Brodovsky’s pensive and unhurried brand of indie folk.