Rainbow Trout Music Festival and Fishing Derby
Two weeks before the start of Rainbow Trout Music Festival and Fishing Derby, backcountry roads across Manitoba were being shut down due to raging wildfires and tinder dry conditions. Continue Reading »
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!!!
Hillbilly Highway – Scott Nolan live at the Park Theatre
by Sheldon Birnie
Scott Nolan could be to Manitoba what Guy Clark is to Texas. A songwriter’s songwriter with an attention to the minutia of everyday life; drawing from a vast, detailed knowledge of all those who’ve walked the line before him; capable of delivering a heartbreaking line followed easily by a knee-slapper the next. Continue Reading »
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!
The Magnificent 7s – All Kinds of Mean
Samantha Savage Smith – Tough Cookie
The Magnificent 7s – Making Friends and Getting Mean across the Continent
By Sheldon Birnie
Winnipeg’s Magnificent 7s are a hard traveling, hard rocking bluegrass band. Preparing to release their sophomore album for local imprint Transistor 66, Matt Magura and Andy Bart recently sat down with Stylus to chat about All Kinds of Mean over a couple pitchers of Two Rivers. Continue Reading »
BIG FUN FESTIVAL
By Kaeleigh Ayre
Winnipeg music fans will be able to shake, rock and roll off the snow this January with the inaugural Big Fun Music Festival. Continue Reading »











