Winnipeg music & culture since 1989
If you’ve never seen a Dub Rifles show, don’t feel bad but don’t hold your breath either: they last graced a stage just over 30 years ago and there are apparently no plans to reunite. Continue reading “Dub Rifles – No Town, No Country: EPs and Rare Recordings 1981-1984”
Kyle Loewen : “The worst part about being a Winnipeg band is that we have to be compared to Royal Canoe. “ – Stylus Interview January 2014. Continue reading “Surprise Party – Heart of Love”
by Martyna Turczynowicz
The Unbelievable Bargains don’t take themselves too seriously. Their songs cover everything from catching the breakfast special to how it would feel to hug an octopus. The trio is made up of Steve Basham who was born on the “ Taurus Gemini cusp. My bass playing is informed by my Taurus side, but I play drums like a Gemini,” Marshall Birch is on vocals and guitar, and for the record, he’s a “Sagittarius, pretty close to Scorpio” and JP Perron on drums who’s a “Virgo and year of the Rooster.” They’re releasing second full length album Boiled Egg at the Windsor on Saturday, July 26th. Continue reading “The Unbelievable Bargains :: Talkin’ Boiled Egg and Potato Salad”
by Martyna Turczynowicz
Iskwe is a Winnipeg native. Her debut album has been nominated for Electronic Advanced Album of the Year at the WTMAs and her song, “Slack Jaw,” was the regional finalist for Manitoba finalist for the CBC Searchlight Competition. Stylus caught up with Iskwe leading up to her homecoming show at the Park Theatre. Continue reading “Iskwe :: “Truth is the Art I’m Doing””
The third full length from Winnipeg’s Ridley Bent delivers 12 tracks of the kind of country fans of Ridley’s have come to expect. Continue reading “Ridley Bent – Wildcard”
by Paolo Santos
“There’s a bigger fish to fry in this industry – record label producers should realize that,” Immortal Sacraments’ guitarist Marron Verzosa said during a break in practice session at a basement studio in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for his band’s forthcoming sophomore album. “Once in a while there will be metal shows, but there is still a lot of room for progress.” Continue reading “Immortal Sacraments :: Frying fish and the cure to the body slam itch”
“Chill Ride,” the opening track on How’s It Goin’?, starts out as a jangly pop instrumental, bathed in the sepia tone haze of ‘90s college rock slackerdom. Continue reading “Human Music – How’s It Goin’?”
by Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell
Guitarist and vocalist Stefan Braun of four piece noise group Pop Crimes sat down with Stylus to lay down the deets of their band and shenanigans. Also starring Aaron Johnston, Ken Prue and Kevin Strang Pop Crimes are getting ready to hit the stage on July 3rd for a 7” release. Continue reading “Pop Crimes :: Loud as hell”
by Broose Tulloch
Five years ago Graham Hnatiuk was a well-respected Winnipeg blogger attending university when he had the epiphany to drop out and rock on. But first he would have to overcome a crippling (and at the time, untreated) depression. Continue reading “Hearing Trees :: A marriage of poetry & rock”
by Seamus Hamilton-Pattison
If it ever made sense for a Canadian city to tip its trucker hats to outlaw country music, it’d make sense in Winnipeg. The mixture of “good ol’ boy” congeniality and whiskey-and-beer soaked brazenness that defined the greatest works of Cash, Nelson, Jennings and many more distinctly parallels our gritty little underdog of a city.
Heartworn Highways is a concert series the Park Theatre kicked off in the dead of this past November and is billed as an “Outlaw Country Workshop.” Conceived by the Park Theatre’s own Kevin Mozden, Micah Erenberg and the Buffalo Band, the series has been an exploration into the rawest side of the country genre, with our local artists sharing the bill and mixing their own brash, outlaw-inspired originals with numerous covers of old country classics, all backed up by the Buffalo Band themselves and hosted capably by Erenberg. According to Kevin Mozden, the “diverse and talented pool of country musicians” in Winnipeg were perfect to bring back “the nostalgia of outlaw country.” Continue reading “Heartworn Highways :: Outlaw Country Workshop continues at Park Theatre”