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Chris Dumont (left) and Torquil Campbell recorded their third record nomadically, contrasting their Vancouver-themed 2006 effort.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

A duo driven by fear

With best friend and bandmate Chris Dumont, Stars’ lead singer Torquil Campbell whistles a decidedly different tune.Continue...

Despite a chaotic slew of contributions to their sonic landscape, Last Flowers give an air of finding and rocking their niche.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Facing straights

Last Flowers take inspiration from their icons and filter it into a decidedly more punk pop and hardcore nexus.Continue...

With a Juno nomination for Alternative Album of the Year, the group gears up to perform tracks from their latest record Champ live at the award show. Famous for work with Beck and Elliot Smith, Rob Schnaff mixed Champ cleanly to showcase the band’s advanced songwriting.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Be a champ

The members of Tokyo Police Club have grown up tremendously since their first EP release in 2006 and their music is following suit.Continue...

Until his 11 year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) comes into the picture, professional stuntman Johnny’s (Stephen Dorff) life resembles that of a stagnant car spinning its wheels.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Minimalism, maximized

In Sofia Coppola’s latest picture Somewhere, the audience is taken for a ride with a character seemingly going nowhere.Continue...

After Jason Couse (foreground) stepped up to front the new incarnation of The Darcys, the band turned on the internal pressure to focus fully on releasing new material. Drummer Wes Maskrell (background) cited the band’s mantra for writing as, “it better be fucking good.”
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Rebuilding with voices

After gaining notoriety as the band who were down but not out, The Darcys came out of this year’s Canadian Music Week heralded as the best live band in Canada.Continue...
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Mother Mother finds it

The Vancouver-based quintet release their third and most synth-heavy album to date.Continue...

Maya Bielinski moves through Kathleen Jerome and Kevin Tanner’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s short fiction “The Happy Prince.”
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Creatively complex creatures

In Vogt’s final series, layered stories obscure meaning, but ultimately shine through chemistry and choreography.Continue...

Blake Macfarlane (left) and Emre Amasyali have spun parties together since their second year, often getting bodies moving with smorgasbord bass tracks combining dubstep, house and techno.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

The cathartic powers of heavy bass

The folks behind Sloppy Footwork get ready to turn up the bass and bring people together with their monthly gig.Continue...

In Much Ado About Nothing, Hero and Beatrice are cousins struggling with young love, Hero with classic Count Claudio and Beatrice with notorious playboy Benedick.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Engulfing ardour

Vagabond Theatre brings one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies to the era of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ rollContinue...

Hooded Fang’s Daniel Lee, April Aliermo, Julia Barnes, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Lane Halley, Lorna Wright and D. Alex Meeks are a self-described septet of friends, lovers and roomates.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Hoods & fangs

Hooded Fang’s lead singer Daniel Lee catches up with the Journal Continue...

  • 9 years 10 months ago

Playing guitars with boys

Joel Plaskett, David Myles and Kurt Vile strummed to audiences at their respective gigsContinue...

Art for AIDS was a multi-faceted exhibit, displaying jewelry, canvas art, photography and fashion up for auction alongside performances by the QISA Dance team (pictured above) and Saki Uchida.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Changing lives with creativity

Keep A Child Alive ignited Wallace Hall with their fourth annual charity art show and auction for AIDS.Continue...

The Zoobombs performed a highly anticipated and gloriously noisy show at The Mansion on Tuesday night, filtering their apt classic rock and funk influences through Japan’s trademark tradition of decidedly frantic rock ‘n’ roll chaos.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Tokyo Rock

The Zoobombs performed a highly anticipated and gloriously noisy show at The Mansion on Tuesday night, filtering their apt classic rock and funk influences through Japan’s trademark tradition of decidedly frantic rock ‘n’ roll chaos.Continue...

Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri Hepple (Ruth Sheen) grapple with life as a happily married couple amongst their mostly dejected friends.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Premiere year

Another Year is a study of sorts, telling the story of needy and melancholic people making sense of their lives.Continue...

When he first started playing music, Philadelphia native Kurt Vile’s father got him a banjo instead of a guitar. He said it didn’t take him long to embrace the open tuning and strum the five strings as though they were six.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

The name’s Vile, Kurt Vile

Kurt Vile is coming to town armed with The Violators and tunes from his sophomore record, Smoke Ring for My Halo.Continue...

In their collaborative exhibition at Union Gallery Body of Work, Laura Stewart blurs the line between nature and its distorted forms with bright paintings, Bronwyn Loucks grapples with the body’s presence in real and imagined space in her abstract and ethereal works, while Katie Strang investigates the language of human form using life-like wire sculptures.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Bustling bodies

Fourth-year BFA students Laura Stewart, Katie Strang & Bronwyn Loucks bring their Body of Work to Union Gallery.Continue...

Laura Laing and Edward Larocque (from left) shine as leads Cunegonde and Candide.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Candidly Candide

The Department of Drama’s production of the classic musical extravaganza Candide opens today and is worth every penny of its $12 admission price.Continue...

Lubna Azabal is captivating in the lead role of Nawal Marwan, a woman who leaves her twin children with the mission of finding their younger brother after her death.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Polarizing stigmas & emblems of love

Incendies may not have come home from the Oscars with an award, but the story is a potent one of
tremendous magnitude, narrating a woman’s backstory in order to unravel her dying requests.Continue...

When Darryl Smith was feeling a little apprehensive about putting music on hold for law school, he banded together with his mates from summer camp to conceive Writers’ Strike.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Strike the drums, tickle the synths

Armed with their thundering drums and palpable synths, the band who say they believe in Bruce Springsteen anthems and Beach Boys harmonies are coming to Clark Hall Pub next Thursday.Continue...

It’s clear the film’s fresh and confident director John Wells formerly worked in television as he brings a primetime edge to The Company Men.
  • 9 years 11 months ago

Plutocratic people

The Company Men tells the tale of three men grappling with life after the 2010 economic crash.Continue...

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