The sky was crisp and the weekend was sprawled out in front of me. A solo music weekend in Victoria was just what the doctor ordered after a long six-day work week. Time to shed my employee state-of-mind and let the Rifflandia Festival vibes worm their way into my dancing bones. Not a tall task […]
If you want to know what being at a Godspeed! You Black Emperor concert is like, rig up a high-quality sound system somewhere in the Antarctic and turn them on so that you get that electronic silence right before you push play on your music device. Then find a glacial pool deep enough to wade […]
I walked up to The Biltmore before the show began with a set interview with FIDLAR’s Zac Carper. A white van was parked outside the main entrance with a crowd hanging under a cloud of smoke. The band was smoking weed in the van. Perfect. Brandon Schwartzel (bassist) was kind enough to introduce himself and […]
Ashley Little’s latest novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang is so fierce and raw and compelling that you won’t want to put the book down until you know exactly what becomes of the Black Roses: five “bad bitches” – runaways, strays. They are five lonely pups, forced to be wolves, so young, on the streets of […]
If Twitter and Facebook haven’t satiated the public’s appetite for all things Chris Hadfield, then Random House has just the thing. On October 29, retired astronaut (and Internet celebrity) Chris Hadfield will release his first book An Astronaut’s Guide To Life on Earth. Hadfield endeared himself to the world with social media updates that included […]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lgog8c4FnE[/youtube] In the new video for “I’ve Been Life”, Cody ChesnuTT takes us on a tour through New York’s historic Bedford Stuyvesant neighbourhood (whose past inhabitants include the Notorious B.I.G. and Jay Z), accompanied by a group of colourfully clad stilt walkers known as the Brooklyn Jumbies. The track drips with an oldschool soul sound […]
The sky was crisp and the weekend was sprawled out in front of me. A solo music weekend in Victoria was just what the doctor ordered after a long six-day work week. Time to shed my employee state-of-mind and let the Rifflandia Festival vibes worm their way into my dancing bones. Not a tall task […] 