New Music: Sleep
By Thomas Johnson, April 26 2018 —
On the one hand, in a branch of rock as prone to cliché as stoner metal, it might have been laying it on a little thick releasing your first studio album in 15 … Read the rest
By Thomas Johnson, April 26 2018 —
On the one hand, in a branch of rock as prone to cliché as stoner metal, it might have been laying it on a little thick releasing your first studio album in 15 … Read the rest
By Jason Herring, March 28 2018 —
The 2018 lineup for Sled Island — Calgary’s shining yearly music and arts festival and without a doubt the best week of the year — made me practically scream with excitement. High on … Read the rest
By Matty Hume, March 5 2018 —
The magic of I’m Bad Now, the third album from Halifax’s soft post-punks Nap Eyes, is that it plucks the glory days of escapist protest-folk straight out of the ‘70s and right into … Read the rest
By Thomas Johnson, November 10 2017 —
Young Thug & Future – Super Slimey
2017 has already brought out the best in Future and Young Thug. A week after dropping a popular self-titled album in February, Future released HNDRXX. … Read the rest
By Jason Herring, November 9 2017 —
Another act of racism occurred this week at the University of Calgary. Posters stating “It’s okay to be white” were found scattered throughout campus. The Rock displayed the same message for students returning … Read the rest
By Matty Hume, October 26 2017 —
A sound exists within the wave of psychedelic indie rock, somewhere in between Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Tame Impala, personified by Calgary quartet Raleigh. On Sept. 29, the group released their third full-length … Read the rest
By Thomas Johnson, September 28 2017 —
The Outfit, TX — Fuel City
Fuel City is a fictitious, claustrophobic and diesel-doused urban utopia of The Outfit, TX’s making. It sits somewhere between Atlanta’s futuristic strip-palace nocturnality, the unholy menace of … Read the rest
By Jason Herring and Tina Shaygan, September 25 2017 —
A war of paint played out on the Rock outside near MacKimmie Tower on Monday after students returning from the weekend were greeted with a confederate flag on the campus … Read the rest
By Thomas Johnson, September 15 2017 —
Since their days as a middling quintet amid the New York garage rock boom that blossomed with The Strokes and Interpol, The National have been steadfast in their consistency. They’re like comfort food … Read the rest
By Sean Willett, July 28 2017 —
The mystery of who cleaned the paint off of one of the University of Calgary’s iconic rocks has been solved.
Hamish Tregarthen, a second-year student studying anthropology and women’s studies, worked with a … Read the rest