New Music Revue: March 21, 2012 issueSchool of Seven Bells Ghostory (Vagrant/Ghostly) 4/5 School of Seven Bells, a dream-pop indie-rock shoegaze band from New York, are back with their third studio album. This band is adorable: their songs draw you in and feel like comfortable dreams, the kind you never want to end. Recently, School of Seven Bells downgraded in size, […] Continue Reading |
Go to capitalism cityTime and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent (Arbeiter Ring Publishing) is a commanding political reassessment of the urbanization of rural cities post-industrialization. The 150-page discourse by Rohan Quinby explores fatalism in the capitalistic movements that encode and dictate the constructs of human civilizations. Using political and philosophical theories […] Continue Reading |
New exhibit shows rural horror, highway beautyAnyone who grew up on the island – or even in British Columbia – knows the appeal of seeing a highway in the middle of the night, enveloped by never-ending forest. Some islanders might even know all too well the horror of stumbling across a sinister problem in a rural trailer park or a car […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: March 21-April 3Friday, March 24 Electric Six, Bend Sinister Club 90NE9, $16, 7 pm You can go to this show, you can dance real slow, infect the whole human race, but you can’t ignore their techno. You can juke, you can lock, you can pop, you can spacewalk, spend your days asking why, but you can’t ignore […] Continue Reading |
Students relish filmmaking experienceFourth-year students in the University of Victoria’s writing and film production class recently found out during a class project what kind of dedication it takes to transition from theoretical students to hands-on filmmakers. The students, including one who teaches dance at Camosun College, filmed The Cult of Quick Repair over a couple of very long […] Continue Reading |
Little Scream makes big noise through her musicShe’s an American citizen. She was born in Iowa and grew up along the Mississippi River. Years ago, in an act of romance, she moved to Montreal and assumed the moniker Little Scream. Who is this mystery woman? Is she a spy? No, it’s nothing that dramatic. Little Scream is the stage name of Montreal-based […] Continue Reading |
Plants and Animals remain sincerePlants and Animals don’t believe in quick fame. The Montreal-based indie rockers have been releasing music since 2005 with the goal of making the best music they can possibly make as artists. Sound cliché? Absolutely. Still, the band’s sincerity truly shines. “We live in an era of quick fame and quick descent,” says guitarist/vocalist Nicolas […] Continue Reading |
Movie review: A SeparationA Separation is the first Iranian film to win an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars. In fact, it’s the first Iranian film to win many of the awards it has taken home. It’s well deserved, too: with this movie, writer/director Asghar Farhadi is credited for making the most […] Continue Reading |
Show goes down the rabbit holeThe death of a child, the earth-shattering event that the play Rabbit Hole is centered around, is like a deep cut to the soul: it changes everything life could have been and keeps thoughts and dreams tethered underground. But Sylvia Rhodes, director of Langham Court Theatre’s production of the bittersweet Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is concerned […] Continue Reading |
Sampson, storytellerJohn K. Samson is the highly praised singer and lyricist for Manitoba-based rockers the Weakerthans. The release of his first solo album, Provincial, coincides with the release of his first book, Lyrics and Poems 1997-2012 (Arbeiter Ring Publishing). Long recognized as a stellar songwriter, Samson takes us through the lyrical years from the Weakerthans’ first […] Continue Reading |
