Weekenders May 17-22
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NEWS
Raekwon//Mastodon//TwinShadow//Yelawolf//blahhblahhblahh
Some solid event listings updates to begin Winnipeg’s always excellent slew of spring shows goes like this:
Raekwon the Chef of the infamous Wu-Tang Clan is bringing his freshly sharpened tongue to the Marquee Lounge and Event Centre on Feb. 27th.
April 7th see’s the latest addition to Shady Records and southern boi Yelawolf to the Pyramid Cabaret.
For those whose ears are heavy-set, the Heritage Hunter Canadian Tour is stomping through town with an epic line-up of co=headliners Opeth and Mastodon. Also Ghost will be opening things up, which is a nice addition considering they were supposed to open for Alcest last year and had to drop out.
And lastly, the Pyramid Cabaret had a nice little facebook update today announcing Twin Shadow here on August 8th!!
STYLUS’ FAV ALBUMS of 2011
Sup, internet? We like music, reviewing music, and making lists of our favourite music.
This is the first year we’re putting our year-end lists online, and not in the magazine. Because, you can’t really right-click text that’s in a magazine, now can you?
Har har har har–CUE THE LISTS!!!
STYLUS’ FAV SHOWS of 2011
If you hadn’t noticed, we at Stylus like to get out, go to shows, and sometimes even take pics for you wonderful readers.
Now that the year is done, as is the tradition, a handful of our writers picked their favourites, and some even wrote about their very favourites. This is our way to let you know what’s been hip in the indie world, big arena world, and which holes-in-the-walls we’re frequenting, but this is all subjective of course and you’re always more than welcome to volunteer for Stylus yourself.
Stay tuned tomorrow for everybody’s top albums!
Far Less than 99% of the Protestors
Photo manip by Taylor Burgess
By Conrad Sweatman
On November 17, a forum on downtown safety organized by the Downtown BIZ was scheduled to take place at the Lo Pub. Panelists consisted of a University of Manitoba sociologist, a Winnipeg Free Press crime reporter, and reps from the Winnipeg Police Service, the BIZ, and Portage Place. Given some of the things that went down at the BIZ’s recent CEO Sleepout – costumed protestors crashing the stage, swarming CEOs, handing out pamphlets – I suppose I should’ve been less surprised by the spectacle that the event quickly devolved into, rallied by a handful of people in opposition to the BIZ. Continue Reading »
Living With Lions play Music Trader in-store!
By Janet Adamana
Fresh off the European EastPak Antidote Tour with metal-core heavy weights, A Day To Remember and August Burns Red, is ’90s-esque punk rock Vancouverites, Living With Lions. After playing their biggest crowds to date, to sold out shows of up to 4000 people, the boys are back on home soil. They’re crossing the country on the five-city Canadian Hangover Tour, starting in Toronto.
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Socalled // 10-12-11 // WECC
Stephen Kurz hit up the WECC back in sunny mid-October to shoot the Canadian rapper/producer Socalled.
Here’s what he saw:
Prince and Roger Waters and KRS-One.. OH MY!!!
By Andrew Mazurak
Talk about icons.
A few days ago it was announced that Prince will be electrifying the MTS Centre on December 8th! Now considering that my baby girl’s due date is on the 15th.. should I be worried that his music might induce an early pregnancy? I think the story would outweigh the trauma! Mum probably wouldn’t agree..
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INCITE, Journal of Experimental Media
With a week left to go in INCITE’s Kickstarter campaign, we emailed Brett Kashmere, editor of the Pittsburgh film zine which has strong ties to our own reputable Winnipeg film scene. The image above, if you haven’t recognized it, is from Jaimz Asmundson’s The Magus which is discussed in the upcoming issue which is going to be printed. There’s still plenty of time to become a backer for the mag, like I have, and have an opportunity to get physical copies of the zine that straddles the line between a serious journal and an art zine, as well as receive plenty of other rare incentives, which are also discussed below.
Stylus: The theme of the new issue is New Ages. What parallels have you drawn between today’s use of New Age symbolism and its origins?
INCITE: The theme, “New Ages” is meant to provoke a range of interpretations and readings. Most obvious is the reference to the “New Age” spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century, and which gained mainstream awareness during the height of self-absorbed Reaganomics and the rise of corporate power. While it’s easy to ridicule New Age-ism for being a wishy-washy brand of quasi-religious mysticism, it is also rooted in the concepts of self-improvement, physical and mental health, and environmental responsibility. This duality—of alternative spirituality based in holistic health, environmentalism, meditation, and simple living, and its pop commercialization (i.e. whale music CDs sold in strip malls)—produced a values-based sociopolitical phenomenon that was hard to take seriously.
Over the past decade, there has been a clear renewal of interest in New Age symbolism. How do we account for the current fascination with New Age ideas and aesthetics among many of media artists, many of whom grew up in “New Age” households? As ironic appropriation? As a desire to reconnect with some of the original core principles of the movement, such as non-Western medicine, environmental causes, organic farming, etc? As ’80s-era nostalgia? This is one of the questions that permeate through the issue. The Web 2.0, via services such as YouTube, has made it possible to instantly re-experience the media memories of our recent past or stoke a younger generation’s enchantment with a past not their own. In an era marked by both religious and political fervor and cynicism, it’s hard not to see the positive in reclaiming an inclusive, optimistic, if naive, spiritual movement. Continue Reading »
Coupla Qs: The Ripperz
Winnipeg’s The Ripperz (Chris Sawatzsky, Mark Wiebe, and Travis Warkentin) can largely attribute their amazing live act to their die hard fans. Their new album You Are the Moon comes out tomorrow when they play the West End Cultural Centre, doors opening at 7 p.m. Here’s a recent interview they did on Peg City Groove.
Kent Davies: You’ve been playing for ten years but it’s really been in the last few years that you’ve managed to put out a couple albums and get a huge following. What happened?
Mark Wiebe: Basically the lack of absence. Chris went to Vancouver for a couple years so we couldn’t do much with out him.
Chris Sawatzsky: Then I moved home and had a band to come home to. It energized us to take the band to another level.
KD: Basically your show has become one big rock-sing-a-long. Do you keep that in mind when you’re writing music?
CS: Yes I do. When I’m writing I always think this parts going to be awesome when the crowd sings it.
Darryl Reilly: Do you have a Ripperz Hymn book that you hand out before the show starts?
CS: We were joking about choir robes last show but there’s no lyric sheets. I don’t know if we’ve ever wrote up our lyrics. I’ve seen some people type them up and they’re quite wrong.
KD: Have you changed lyrics because people keep getting them wrong?
CS: No but we encourage our fans to just sing what you think is there.
MW: Whatever feels right for them.
