Rudd rocks, stands on headXavier Rudd, the ultimate one-man band, who typically hits the stage with three didgeridoos, a guitar, stomp box, assortment of drums, banjos, harmonicas, bells, and a bass guitar, is bringing all of his gear, and himself, to Victoria once again. The fact that Rudd is self-taught and able to execute all of these talents by […] Continue Reading |
Julie Doiron gets over fear of recording, finallyBelieve it or not, Canadian singer-songwriter Julie Doiron had a fear of recording her music until now. That’s eight full-lengths she recorded while combating that fear. But after recording her ninth, she’s finally really starting to enjoy it. Doiron’s fears weren’t conjured up the way most people’s are. She didn’t imagine her albums growing fangs […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: November 14th, 2012 issueJulie Doiron So Many Days (Aporia Records) 3/5 The past three years have seen Canadian singer-songwriter Julie Doiron move from Montreal to Sackville to Toronto. Also, bear in mind that So Many Days is the last in a trilogy of Doiron solo records. It’s been said that good things come in threes. I […] Continue Reading |
Diamond Rings back and larger than lifeAsk most Canadian indie rock darlings who they’d like to collaborate with if they could pick anyone and the stock answer is usually someone from The Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, or that dude from the Black Keys. (I could just barf all over their hipster clothes.) But ask John O’Regan, better known as Diamond […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: November 14th – 27th, 2012Wednesday, November 14 Patrick Watson, Wake Owl Alix Goolden Hall, $25, 7 pm There used to be this owl that lived near my house. I’d hear him when I’d come home late at night, hooting from the darkness. I’m pretty sure he’d sneak up on me every once in a while. I never actually saw […] Continue Reading |
Metric impresses packed crowdA high-energy event from start to finish, Metric were full of intensity on the first stop of their Canadian tour at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. The Toronto rock band, who recently released their fifth album, Synthetica, played to a packed Victoria crowd on November 9. Stars, whose members also play in Broken Social Scene, did a […] Continue Reading |
Art show gives meaning to placeImages inevitably carry with them the artist’s meaning; if this meaning is not seen, it is lost. A new art exhibit entitled Understanding Place in Culture: Serigraphs and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge is a collection of indigenous artists’ work; the meanings behind the work can help the person viewing them understand the world and […] Continue Reading |
Death metal band Auroch worship at altar of LovecraftH.P. Lovecraft is one weird dude. Go ahead and Google image search his name. For every menacing looking head shot of ol’ H.P. is yet another menacing looking head shot of him with monster squid tentacles emerging from the back of this head. This, of course, is the perfect source material for a brutal death […] Continue Reading |
Good Person of Setzuan contemplates poverty, moralsPoor people can also be good people. Good Person of Setzuan, the current production of the University of Victoria’s theatre department, is ready to drive that point home. Conrad Alexandrowicz, the director, writer, and choreographer, will be bringing the enlightening play (based on Bertolt Brecht’s classic work) to audiences in November. Brecht asks many important […] Continue Reading |
Comics: October 31, 2012 issue |
