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All photos by Andrew Mazurak at the Pyramid in Winnipeg.
By Andrew Mazurak
Happy New Year everyone!
Finally had a chance to throw together these photographs I took from one of the best shows from last year! Japandroids and Mac DeMarco stopped through Winnipeg in mid-December and brought one hell of a good time with them.
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All photos by Andrew Mazurak at the Rose in Winnipeg.
By Andrew Mazurak
Well if you haven’t seen or heard of our bi-monthly fundraiser festival pandemic that started at the Lo Pub back in the summer and moved on over to the Rose n’ Bee, then get your ass out to the next one in February! This last slew of our fine Winnipeg artistic friends first included Mitten Claps (listen to their 2012 EP here) who got the night rollin’:
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By Andrew Mazurak
Buck 65 made his way through town an enlisted Winnipeg’s Rob Crooks and Edmonton’s Colleen Brown who helped Buck with their endearing cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire”. Here’s some photos and we’ll have a review to follow in our upcoming August/September issue out August 9th, which is also the same day as our second Stylus Launch Party at the LO PUB featuring pretty much everyone from NO LABEL COLLECTIVE!!
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Feist kicks off the festival by rocking out pretty damn late into the night!
By Andrew Mazurak
Well well well.. another year and another blistering hot weekend+ at Birds Hill Park for the 39th annual Winnipeg Folk Fest. A lethal consumption of alcohol was consumed, glorious costumes became tattered strips of nothing, and Stylus was there to slam ‘em back, crash, puke, dance, interview, force food into guts, force coffee into brain, buy many and many dollar watermelon slices, wander through the trees in the dark, hug the shrug guy and shrug at the hug guy with the rest of you. I for one had a great time documenting what bands I could and hereeeee weee gooo: Continue Reading »
Photo by Andrew Mazurak at the Pyramid Cabaret in Winnipeg.
By Andrew Mazurak
Neon Indian got a little more than they expected from a frenzied Winnipeg crowd back in Spring.
Playing catch-up but here are a couple photos of the group as they were literally/apparently slapped by the face by madness.
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Photo by Andrew Mazurak at the WECC in Winnipeg.
By Andrew Mazurak
Toronto’s Austra came to town in late November expecting colder weather than that which welcomed them. Despite our less than wintery wonderland of a city being unseasonably warm, the WECC warmed up damn quick as the sold out crowd danced their asses off for opener Young Galaxy who just came through town a few months earlier with Junior Boys:
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Photo by Mike Chiasson at the Marquee Lounge in Winnipeg.
By Andrew Mazurak
Sound Republic brought in Kray-kray-zie Bone and Wish Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to Winnipeg’s Marquee Lounge & Event Centre a few Fridays ago and the night was not so tame. At midnight we arrive to the front doors to find a couple wasted girls verbally brawling a couple bouncers. One gets taken down to the pavement out front as the other screams.
Ouch..
Photo by Andrew Mazurak at the Walker in Winnipeg.
The Arctic Monkeys came through Winnipeg with Chicago’s Smith Westerns at the Burton Cummings earlier this month and it ended up being a verrrry surprising affair.
Let it be known that Stylus was among the (small?) fraction to see Smith Westerns and we agreed with the majority of this fraction that it was not an overly satisfying part of the evening. It may have been that the band was on a larger stage than their look/sound/performance could handle.. but this was only the seventh show on a stretch with the Arctic Monkeys.. so there is really no excuse for such a drab Winnipeg showcase. And this is coming from many attendees who fell for their 2009 self-titled debut and this years stellar Dye It Blonde..
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Photo by Mike Chiasson at the Lo Pub in Winnipeg.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart were recently in Winnipeg to play an amalgamated show with Montréal’s Suuns at the Lo Pub. Opening for these two would-have-been separate shows were Jersey’s Big Troubles and Montréal-based Valleys. Tons of the Stylus fam was on hand to take in this faux Battle of the Bands: National Edition that saw each act compliment one another as if it were a single renegade tour of rising face melters.
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Photo by Andrew Vineberg.
This past week, two huge previous Polaris nominees stormed through the West End Cultural Centre–The Besnard Lakes who, as you can tell from above, played with their purple haze of their smoke machine and bright lights and Malajube who played with their mystique Français and proggy catchy numbers. After the jump are some photos of those bands and The Soft Province (who, in case you’re as confused as I was, features Jace from Besnard Lakes as well) as taken by Andrew Vineberg and stay tuned for a review. Continue Reading »
Photo by Mike Chiasson for Stylus Magazine.
Among the fury of touring band activity this Fall, Braids were one of the first groups to quickly change venues due to the Albert’s ongoing issues. Luckily the Lo Pub picked up this washed out Montréal based band before they went the way of Japandroids (I’m in that video right thurr!) who had to cancel their much-anticipated show. Continue Reading »
The Monday after Folk Fest always feels strange.
Maybe it has something to do with the confinement of clothing.. or the loss of brain cells.. or the dreaded j.o.b.. or the sound of engines replacing instruments.. or the feeling of intrusive pavement.. or our sunburned everything. Either way, the 38th Annual Winnipeg Folk Fest has wrapped up in traditional fashion and here is a bushel of photos from some of the favourites that this year had to offer:
Toots & the Maytals:
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Better late than never, (effing email issues) here a batch of wicked photos from the grand opening of Magna Musee, a gallery located on Ross Ave, deeper into the grey areas of the Exchange. The night included many surprises and performances, some of which were captured by the wonderful Denise McMullin, shown after the jump.
We who are in-tuned to the fainter vibrations know of ghosts and ghouls around all the time–but now that all Hallow’s Eve approaches, the supernatural bubbles to the surface of the mire more quickly. But F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N is a video installation at aceartinc. by Susan MacWilliam that explores the validity of an infamous Winnipeg seance, or lack thereof–and the jump cuts and repetition will either make you feel sickly uncomfortable, or just at home.
Last week, our very talented (and prolific) photographer Cheyenne Rae took a bunch of photos of one of her fav bands, the Wooden Sky. All the photos after the jump!
