Arts

With the momentum of four consecutive number one albums as City and Colour, prolific singer/songwriter Dallas Green stopped at the Royal Theatre for the first of two back to back shows Monday night. This is Green’s first solo tour since November of 2019, but he clearly hasn’t missed a beat. Most Camosun students may be […]

The War on Drugs I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Atlantic Records) 4/5 Modern masters of melancholy The War on Drugs are back with the very War on Drugs-titled I Don’t Live Here Anymore, 10 more reminders of how this band does sad rock better than anyone else right now. See “Living Proof” for proof of […]

Dennis MacKenzie The Guardian Angel Platoon (Independent) 4.5/5 Dennis MacKenzie is a Canadian veteran who has used musical therapy to cope with the trauma of being deployed in Afghanistan. Through the folk/rock songs on this album, MacKenzie tells the story of how his regiment lost 10 people—six in a single day. MacKenzie lost three of […]

Snotty Nose Rez Kids Life After (Distorted Muse/Fontana North) 3/5 The Vancouver-based hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids—made up of Darren Metz and Quinton Nyce—are originally from the small northern village of Kitamaat. The duo dropped their self-titled debut in 2017, quickly following it up with their second album, The Average Savage, that same year. […]

Hawksley Workman and Kevin Breit Breit Workman (Isadora Records) 3.5/5 With 17 solo albums (give or take, depending on how you count them) to his credit, Juno Award-winning multi-instrumentalist Hawksley Workman has teamed up with one of our nation’s finest guitarists, Kevin Breit, on their highly experimental debut instrumental album, Breit Workman. Known widely for […]

The Last Gang Noise Noise Noise (Fat Wreck Chords) 4.5/5 As a long-time staple of the Los Angeles punk rock scene, The Last Gang’s newest and third album Noise Noise Noise has been highly anticipated. This album features 10 punk songs that channel the band’s anger towards the ongoing pandemic that has taken lives and […]

Since I’m writing reviews for live theatre again because live theatre is actually happening again, I jumped at the opportunity to take in the opening night of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Written by American playwright Terrence McNally and directed by UVic theatre professor Brian Richmond, the play takes many risks, full-frontal […]

On October 15, Victoria singer/songwriter Leeroy Stagger released his new album, Dystopian Weekends. The album deals with some heavy themes: the song “Ventura,” for example, addresses Stagger’s feelings around grief over the loss of a friend. And it makes sense that there are heavy themes on the album, considering Stagger was working on it through […]