Pip Skid – Fake Blood, Real Beats
By Sarah Petz With a sound that is raw, honest and provocative, you wouldn’t expect that Pip Skid (a.k.a. Patrick...
Review: The Lonely Vulcans – Night Date
The key influence of the mostly-instrumental band is Santo & Johnny’s “Sleepwalk,” which is, duh, a sleepy number. But that...
Review: Various Artists – Peg City Enterprise Vol. 2
I’ve been hard on rap music in this magazine before. So before I begin this review, I need to make...
Review: Keith and Renée – Detours
Despite being named as musical ambassadors for both Manitoba Homecoming 2010 and Free the Children’s Adopt a Village Program, Keith...
Review: The Idgets – New Is the New Old
Shawn Bergen gets my respect. On the follow up album to 2007’s Come On EP, Bergen wrote every song, played...
Review: Tom Keenan – Romantic Fitness
Actor/artist/drunkard Tom Keenan’s long-awaited solo debut is a dose of stark poetic folk-rock that tells tales of punch-ups at weddings...
Review: Boats – Cannonballs, Cannonballs
The sophomore album from one of Winnipeg’s most fully-realized bands plays through like a Saturday-morning cartoon jamboree, with Mat Klachefsky’s...
Vampires – Will Give You the Clap
By Taylor Benjamin Burgess For the past year, Vampires have been racking up bigger and bigger live shows, including the...
Review: Right Through – The Sun Hot
I know these guys have said that they like Fugazi and a number of other bands on Dischord Records, but...
Review: Steve Basham – Thicker
Local weirdo-rocker Steve Basham’s follow-up to his previous solo disc Thick comes at you with the same lo-fi hilariousness that...