The anatomy of a break up
by Pol Nikulin For every one successful band, there seems to be an abundance of those that do not make the cut. Whether it is skill level or personality differences, bands can break up...
Category: Arts
Ten years in the making
by Selina Renfrow With a decade firmly under its belt, the Alberta College of Art and Design’s annual ArtaWEARness showcase shows no sign of slowing down its momentum. For this year’s event, the ACAD...
Noise 101 : Reflector CD Reviews for March 4 Edition
Choice Cut by Sean-Paul Boynton It takes some serious guts, or maybe just a missing inner sense of concision, to put out a triple album as a studio recording of new material. The two...
A safe haven for cinephiles
by Sean-Paul Boynton Before digital video, IMAX, and Avatar, there was Super 8mm and 16mm film. Largely used by amateur moviemakers during their heyday, these formats have also been adopted extensively by both indie...
Finding that perfect balance
by Sean-Paul Boynton “I think you really need that combination of the academic and the practical. To spend time with the instrument, that creates a huge upside to teaching.” To say that Tyler Hornby...
Working outside the system
By Michael Bull With the transition to university status in full swing, Mount Royal is becoming more and more well known. However, there are still a few parts of the campus experience that tend...
The saddest of all last calls
by Sean-Paul Boynton “Different enough to entertain.” Those words, displayed on the front wall, personified what made The Warehouse and Underground – a multi-level, multi-genre music club, the former catering to larger bands and...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Feb 11 Reflector
Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton When the Pet Shop Boys released their album Behaviour at the dawn of the 1990s, it was clear that the preeminent disco kings were no longer content on making us...
Remembering their roots while bringing the beats
Calgary hip-hop crew the A-Squad Boyz are touching on their African roots and both their experiences and backgrounds by introducing distinctly Angolan kuduro beats into the city’s underground music scene. Once known as the...
