A look at the city’s artistic spaces Art can hardly exist without a space for it to exist in – be it a tangible or imagined space. Where theory and practice meet is also where audience and artist meet, and the sanctity of these spaces is where a local arts […]
Author: Adrien Potvin
Post-irony, Representation, and Global Culture
Finding the meaning in cynicism Last semester, a poem I submitted to the University of Guelph’s undergraduate literary and visual art magazine, Kaleidoscope, was accepted for publication. As part of the submission process, I was asked to write a little blurb about myself, so I wrote something really serious and […]
GAIN Music and Arts Festival Rocks Van Gogh’s
Three floors, two nights of metal, indie, hip-hop There’s a pretty great pun in Guelph and Area Independent and New Music’s (GAIN Music) acronym. If you’re a musician or electronics techie, you’ll certainly get it, but to clarify – in amplifiers, the gain level informs the ratio of an amplifier’s […]
Dan Mangan and Blacksmith Perform at River Run Centre
An evening of art-pop with two Canadian indie icons To kick off March, that awkward transitional period where everyone waits arms-crossed in anticipation for spring to just start already, Dan Mangan and Blacksmith, touring their new album Club Meds, performed at the River Run Centre on March 1, along with […]
Incline/Decline Hosts Night of Noise, Post-punk
Toronto/Guelph label brings Wolfcow, Foam, Dories The Army Navy and Airforce (ANAF) legion hall was treated to an evening of noisy, articulate punk on Thursday, Feb. 26, presenting the bands Wolfcow, Foam, and Dories. Greydyn “Wolfcow” Gatti, a genre-shapeshifting noise-punker from Toronto, performed the first set. Wailing, surreal vocals and […]
THEESatisfaction – EarthEE
Seattle art-rap mavericks release sophomore LP Since its earliest inceptions, hip-hop has always been a forward-looking cultural medium – in style, substance, and delivery – though perhaps not as obviously at all times. Repurposing timbres of the past (recent or distant) into new aesthetic forms, discourses on society and remedying […]
Jam Space: Musings on Sound and Culture
A primer on afro-futurism, liberation and mythology The Feb. 24 release of THEESatisfaction’s latest LP, EarthEE, sparked me to think of the tradition it operates in – perhaps more than the album itself. With spacey, transcendent textures, underscored by complex, polyrhythmic percussives, and socially-charged lyrics, the excellent experimental hip-hop album […]
Owen Pallett and Jennifer Castle
St. George’s Church hosts revelatory concert for Hillside Inside Churches can be strange buildings to watch a performance in. Regardless of religious affiliation, there are clear emotional, psycho-affective codes in the architecture of a church – perhaps socially codified – that are undeniably and, sometimes, vaguely powerful. When a performer […]
Festival Brings Three Floors of Punk, Indie
Off The Floor Festival rocks DSTRCT With all the festivals going on in Guelph – seemingly constantly – it always reminds one of the huge breadth of talent in the city, area, and country. Off The Floor Fest, hosted between downtown’s DSTRCT and Jimmy Jazz on Jan. 30 and 31, […]
Cairo – A History of Reasons
Toronto dream-pop quartet offers up a solid pop record Doing one thing really well is hard enough; some bands seem to do a bunch of different things fairly well without coming off as overly forced or, at worst, redundant. The latest LP from Toronto’s Cairo, A History of Reasons, acts […]
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