Ornette Coleman, legendary jazz saxophonist and free jazz innovator, died this year at 85-years-old. His angular, noisy, and unpredictable approach to the language of jazz inspired and alienated both contemporaries and followers throughout his career and after, and his impact is unmistakable and important. If Coltrane was the patron saint […]
Author: Adrien Potvin
Guelph’s many festivals
The Guelph “Fab 5” festivals—encompassing the Guelph Film, Jazz, and Dance festivals, Hillside, and the Eden Mills Writer’s Festival—are staples of Guelph’s arts scene. The festivals bring the community together to celebrate the vitality and resilience of the arts, and also celebrate artists of all stripes from across the country […]
A guide to Guelph’s music scene
With its proximity to Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph is both a popular stopover for regional and national bands to visit, and it boasts its own impressive local music scene as well. Bands ranging from noise punk to hip-hop are always playing around downtown on any given weekend, so keep an […]
Cool local stores in downtown Guelph
I have a weird relationship with that word “quirky.” When the marketing powers that be get a hold of its Diet-Coke-of-hipster evocations and slap it on anything even remotely evading mainstream sensibilities, it loses more meaning than it ever had to begin with. You could call the places listed below […]
Tyson and the Trepids – 130 King EP
Tyson Brinacombe waxes on defunct DIY space in poppy new album With an unmistakably tall, long-locked stature, Tyson Brinacombe is a man of many modes and a staple of many local bands. All this granted, he is, above all, a traditionalist in the best sense of the word. This isn’t […]
Michael Snow – a Retrospective
Influential multimedia artist speaks at Guelph At 85-years-old, Canadian sculptor, photographer, and sound artist Michael Snow is a sort of national treasure. His lecture on March 25 at War Memorial, the ninth installation of the annual Dasha Shenkman lecture series, acted at once as a retrospective, an elaboration on his […]
Faith Healer – Cosmic Troubles
Edmonton psych-rocker releases new LP Psychedelic music holds a place dear to me and, surely, others whose musical tastes came into their own in high school and onward. Who can forget the first time listening to the Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request, or Can’s Tago Mago, or Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic […]
An Interview with Tyler Belluz
Del Bel frontman talks recording, movies, and live performance AP: So, how did the project come together, initially? TB: I was asked to score a B-movie in the States. Essentially, we came together in a barn, and we did a big recording session, and we weren’t necessarily looking to start […]
Album of the Week: Naked City
Naked City – Naked City A landmark in experimental music, the debut album of alto saxophonist John Zorn’s Naked City project is a maddeningly intense potpourri of grindcore, noise punk, jazz, surf rock, and pretty much any other genre bastardization one can think of. In 26 gut-punch songs, the group […]
Fine Arts at Guelph – a Glimpse at New Work
Studio art program works on display at Zavitz The annual Juried Art Show, in which the studio art program’s upper-year undergraduate students present their work to be juried and exhibited, was held this past Friday on all floors of Zavitz and in the painting, sculpture, and extended studios. Curator Sarah […]
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