New site combines social media and music
by Aaron Chatha Vivoscene is an interactive media website set up like a social media network that combines a variety of music reviews, news, interviews and articles. Vivoscene is a music website. The label...
Category: Arts
Escape to Milk Tiger Lounge
by Gabrielle Domanski Tucked away on Fourth Street, between a hair studio and a food mart, only steps away the bustling 17th Avenue S.W. strip, stands Milk Tiger Lounge. With only a small white...
Music documentary takes artistic look inside Feist’s world
by Edward Osborne Look At What The Light Did Now is the spellbinding story of iconic Canadian singersongwriter Leslie Feist. For anyone who has been caught humming one of Feist’s catchy singles or for...
Blues band forges on, with or without radio play
by Blaine Meller It’s quite the conundrum. Rock radio executives won’t play you because they say your sound is too blues, and blues radio stations won’t play you because your sound is too rock....
The buzz about coffee shop art
by Claire Miglionico When it comes to Calgaryborn and -raised photographer Jeremy Fokkens, it was the vibrant and art-engaged atmosphere at Higher Ground Cafe in Kensington that made showcasing his art there so appealing....
Canadian power duo Bonjay add new twist to live shows
by Sarah Kitteringham The duo that makes up Canadian dancehall/R&B/ indie-rock hybrid Bonjay are an affable pair. Vocalist Alanna Stuart and beats and effects creator Ian “Pho” Swain answer a call from the Reflector...
WWII Enigma machine display to be revamped by MRU students
by Edward Osborne Mount Royal students may soon be contributing to the Military Museums’ display of the historic Enigma machine. The code-breaking contraption that changed the course of the Second World War is on...
Noise 101 – CD Reviews for Nov. 4
Chemical Brothers Further With the average song length at almost seven minutes, The Chemical Brothers waste no time packing their newest album with head-spinning beats, layered samples and fist- pumping rhythms. Further is an...
Haunting war poem is given new passion in musical play
by Kevin Rushworth With each passing year, the “greatest of wars” slips further from public recollection. In four years, it will be the 100th anni- versary of the beginning of the First World War....
The real Bob Saget
by Bianca Dayrit When people think of Bob Saget, Danny Tanner, the loving father from Full House or that animated G-rated host for America’s Funniest Home Videos comes to mind. Saget’s character on Full...
