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.
I turn my camera on, but Britt Daniel does not.
The Spoon frontman’s publicist insisted upon a Zoom interview, so I’m momentarily thrown when I realize the next 24 minutes and 46 seconds will be spent interviewing someone embodied only by an ominous black box labelled ‘BRITT DANIEL,’ that faintly flashes every time his gravelly drawl breaks the silence like some sort of Texan HAL 9000.
Another excellent Calgary band will take the stage tonight as part of Sled Island. The fantastic pop quartet released their debut last year, Sweet Despair.
At the end of 2021 we put the spotlight on the best Calgary albums we heard from the year in an attempt to get local folks more acquainted with the amazing talent making music in the city.
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.
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.)