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ARTS, Festival, Music

NYC no wave art icon Lydia Lunch keeps finding new ways and new means to challenge the status quo

If you recorded the first song you ever wrote live with your band Teenage Jesus & The Jerks at Max’s Kansas City — New York’s Ground Zero of bohemian wrecksody — when you were 16 years old, well, it just ain’t gonna get any more real than that.

ARTS, Music

5 Questions With Carter Felker: Drinking on the job while guided by his inner critic

Calgary songwriter Carter Felker’s new album, Even the Happy Ones are Sad, is a medley of moments snatched out of the parlours, bedrooms and evening news stories of the characters who inhabit his songs.

ARTS, Music

Dream-pop of Calgary’s Summer Bruises a soothing sonic salve

A start to a story that doesn’t usually end well. In fact, it’s usually followed by a missing person’s report and possibly a cross-Canada manhunt and standoff in a motel on the outskirts of town.

ARTS, Music

Yves Jarvis undergoing ch-ch-ch-ch-changes with his jet-setting new album The Zug

Indulge me. One of the first sentences I was paid to write, almost 30 years ago, was one that kicked off a profile and interview with legendary guitarist and vocalist John Hammond, who was coming to town that week.

ARTS, Festival, Film, Things to do

The Boys Are Back In Town: Trailer Park Boys Bubbles, Ricky and Julian ready to cheers Calgary Expo’s 15 years

They are, arguably, as much a part of Canadian comic TV character lore as Bob and Doug, and Red Green. (We’ll leave the King of Kensington and Louis Del Grande out of this discussion, for proper respect.)