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2022 On The Record: David Veitch's best albums of the year, including Fantastic Negrito, Father John Misty and Spoon - The Science

2022 On The Record: David Veitch’s best albums of the year, including Fantastic Negrito, Father John Misty and Spoon

The end of 2022 is rapidly approaching and as I think back to the year in new music: I am puzzled how, once again, the year’s most commercially successful music was mediocre at best and gawd-awful at worst.
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Sounds of Calgary: Best local albums we heard in 2022

Sounds of Calgary: Best local albums we heard in 2022

charming Summer Serenades of 2021. Sled Island, Wordfest, and others rolled along without a hitch.
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Have Yourself A Saucy Little XXXmas: Naughty But Nice a spicy holiday treat - The Science

Have Yourself A Saucy Little XXXmas: Naughty But Nice a spicy holiday treat

Playwrights/composers: Matt Board, Dan Perrott, Grant Tilly, Jeff Thomson, Jordan Mann and G.F. Handel with Joe Slabe. Music composed and/or arranged by Joe Slabe and Konrad Pluta.
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Acclaimed rock author Jason Schneider gets to the dark heart of Canadian

Suicide Diary: Acclaimed rock author Jason Schneider gets to the dark heart of Canadian punk legend Art Bergmann with new bio

When Ontario author Jason Schneider contacted legendary punk rocker Art Bergmann to write Bergmann’s biography, he wasn’t sure how it would go due to the many stories about the artist’s wild ways and crusty demeanour. 
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Bathroom reading: Documentary of the NYC indie-rock scene.

Bathroom Reading: Documentary of NYC’s indie-rock scene will send you back to the literary source

Meet Me In the Bathroom, the documentarized version of Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 oral archive of the late '90s/early aughts trajectory of New York rock ‘n’ roll revivalists like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Interpol, and LCD Soundsystem, though impressive for the sheer scale of its “you had to be there” found footage, might be better served as a visual companion to the book.
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CUFF.Docs turns 10: non-fiction film festival returns to theaters

CUFF.Docs Turns 10: Festival of non-fiction films returns to in-cinema experience

Hibernation is a little more entertaining this year and sociable. After a couple of online-only and hybrid events, the 10th edition of the Calgary Underground Film Festival-curated documentary fest, CUFF.Docs, will return to an exclusively in-cinema experience Nov. 23 to 27 at the Globe. 
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Animation Domination: Quickdraw's annual GIRAF event - The Science

Animation Domination: Quickdraw’s annual GIRAF event

Each year, the organizers behind GIRAF (Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival) search the world high and low for the most inventive, unique, beautiful, experimental and mind-altering animated films. 
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Local Haunts: Calgary spooky spots to get the goosebumps going this Halloween season

Local Haunts: Calgary spooky spots to get the goosebumps going this Halloween season

Click, Click, Click. That is the sound of your shoes hitting the hard pavement beneath your feet. You are outside on this cold autumn night trying to get home after a long day at work.
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Post-apocalyptic Predictions and Preoccupations

Post-apocalyptic Predictions and Preoccupations: Local band’s latest Arrangements a prescient, post-punk, pandemic prophecy

Upon first listen, Calgary’s own Preoccupations could easily have named Arrangements, their fourth studio album, Auspices instead. Even the band’s own name change from the controversial Viet Cong to Preoccupations would have been justly apt had they settled on Premonitions instead.
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Trooper's The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car

Hate Crime: Trooper’s The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car

The world is a negative place. Now, more than ever. People shroud themselves in the darkness and seemingly, purposefully, avoid the light, step into the raindrops, not between, or betwixt.
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