CD Review: Bottle It In by Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile Bottle It In Matador Score: B+ Laying back in his now signature slacker-twang tone, Kurt Vile’s latest solo effort Bottle It In creates an atmosphere of extended jams and lyrical mantras throughout...
Tagged: music
You’ve got that one song that I like
By Kennedy Enns, Web Editor It’s been a long, hard year with #MeToo taking over social media. Positive change is happening and it seems that people have begun actually listening to survivors. But that...
X 92.9 announces X-Fest 2016
Calgary’s biggest alt-rock festival doesn’t disappoint By Bigoa Machar After being rained out of Fort Calgary last year, the 2016 rendition of X-Fest looks to come back strong this year, and it packs...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Mar. 22
WZRD WZRD 2012 – Universal Records WZRD’s self-titled album is the first record released by the group created by Kid Cudi and his friend Dot da Genius whom he met while working at...
A summer summary
Catch up on the campus news you missed Rachael Frey News Editor The Bella is on her way April 26 was a good day for Calgary musicians and music-lovers when Mount Royal University broke...
Expolatino promises sun and spice.
It’s one of the last festivals around before school begins once more, which makes it all that much more appealing. Expolatino’s 15th anniversary is bound to be better than ever this coming weekend. Check...
Queens are kings at the Jubilee
By Vinciane de Pape All too often, Calgary music fans are given the great disservice of experiencing a band’s half-hearted, lackluster performance. Unfortunately, sitting between the east and west coasts means that we’re usually...
Calgary Folk Fest delivers on all fronts
By Sean-Paul Boynton When the sun finally decided to keep on shining throughout the weekend after a gloomily rained-out Friday, the 2011 Calgary Folk Music Festival truly came alive. In this reviewer’s opinion, the...
Bigger Fish Fryin’ causes ripples in Live PA pond
By Brandon McNeil It’s comforting to know that even though music’s popularity has shifted towards the digital-sound-layering-wave of electronic there are still artists out there involved with the genre that don’t rely on overdone...
Sled Island preview: Cursive
By Jesse Graham I was first introduced to Cursive when I was a fresh faced fifteen-years-old. Having been recently broken up with by, at the time, the love of my life, I laid in...
