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Calgary artists Tegan and Sara continue to build their media empire with new graphic novel

Back to School: Calgary artists Tegan and Sara continue to build their media empire with new graphic novel

It’s asked rather flippantly, but, well, an answer to the affirmative wouldn’t have been too surprising. What’s next? Tegan and Sara: The musical? Tegan Quin laughs but doesn’t dismiss the idea outright.
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Tara MacLean’s Song of the Sparrow minesraw pain to find beauty

From the ashes of adversity: Tara MacLean’s Song of the Sparrow mines
raw pain to find beauty

When PEI-born songwriter Tara MacLean, who now splits her time between there and Salt Spring Island, was approached to write a book about her life, it might have been tempting to armour up.
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RedPoint Media Buys The Scene magazine

 RedPoint Media Buys The Scene magazine

Today, Avenue’s parent company, RedPoint Media Group, announced that it has acquired the Calgary arts and entertainment guide The Scene magazine and theYYScene.com website.
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Calgary feminist film series to showcase the work of pornographer Erika Lust

A League of Their Own, A Night of Lust: Calgary feminist film series to showcase the work of artful pornographer Erika Lust

It’s hard not to automatically associate the seedier side of things with the term "adult theatre.” Neon matinees shrieking "PEEP SHOW” and “LIVE! NUDE! GIRLS!” on a smoky New York street, as leather-jacketed, bell-bottomed, late night denizens of the ’70s city bustle by hawkers trying to lure late-night lotharios inside.
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Matt Berry’s Guide To Middle-Age Charm and Radio Popularity

Matt Berry’s Guide To Middle-Age Charm and Radio Popularity

"How can I get my song on the radio?" As music director of Calgary alternative rock station X92.9, this has to be the question I get asked the most.
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Cold Specks to retire her name and reclaim her own after

Goodbye and Hello: After a lengthy hiatus, Canadian singer-songwriter Cold Specks to retire her name and reclaim her own after Block Heater appearance

What’s in a name? Roses, posies and stuff aside, it really is, for the most part, meaningless. Unless it actually means something. To you.
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Cheater Sheet For Block Heater: Picks to help you make your way through the Calgary Folk Music Festival’s 2023 winter wonderland

The Calgary Folk Music Festival presents their eighth annual Block Heater Festival, which, like its namesake, keeps your engine purring through the long, cold vagaries of late winter.
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Just released: Ritmo in your music marathon

Just Backdated: Alejandro Escovedo looking forward to keeping the pace in his musical marathon

It’s daytime on New Year’s Eve, and songwriter/guitarist Alejandro Escovedo and his wife Nancy Rankin are at Milton Riemer’s Ranch Park in the hill country of Dripping Springs, outside of Austin, Texas, ready to go for a hike after Escovedo finishes his interview.
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The big must-sees: A taste of the winter music festival

BIG Must-Sees: A sampler of some of the acts to catch at this year’s winter music and arts festival

After a series of pandemic-related false starts resulting in a cancelled 2021 festival, and a revised format, multi-weekend festival in April 2022, Calgary’s BIG Winter Classic is back in a big way for 2023, with a stacked roster and guaranteed stellar performances in the doldrum-defeating January music festival format we once knew and loved. 
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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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