Well it’s well and truly over now — time to reflect on the wonder that was the Edinburgh Fringe Festiva. How sad that it had to end! I will forever imagine Edinburgh as a city overflowing with creative people, despite the fact that a whole lot of them will have packed up and left the… Read more »
Producer: Atlantic Records Tracks: 13 Rating: 10 Wow! The first Billy Talent album (2003) was a pleasant surprise to me, and I’ve only just got over that initial impression. Now here it is, Billy Talent II (2003), and there’s a whole new set of mind-numbing tracks to learn. Actually no, mind numbing is the wrong… Read more »
I awoke this morning as usual to the news and was shocked to hear about the tragedy a few hours earlier in Australia. Steve Irwin was dead. The friendly and excitable conservationist, known best for his television series The Crocodile Hunter was killed by a stingray while filming a nature documentary in Queensland. What a… Read more »
God’s Pottery: The Concert for La Vert Rating: 9 We are all God’s pottery, and thanks to Gideon Lamb and Jeremiah Smallchild we can sing all about it at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where these two are “saving La Vert everyday at 4:00.” This comedy musical production is a big hit at the Fringe, but… Read more »
Something I will always remember from my childhood in central Alberta is the collection of oil pumps that dotted the prairies with black and orange steel, noisily pumping day-in, day-out. One was across the road in a neighbour’s field, I passed several on the way to school, and there was a commemorative one in Memorial… Read more »
Label: B-Unique Released: 7 March 2005 Tracks: 12 Rating: 7 Staying on the theme of Brit-rock, this week’s music review is of England’s Kaiser Chiefs, a band who are not currently charting in Canada but are booming in the United Kingdom. I think that warrants a good look at the band and their music. This… Read more »
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has faced criticism from Lebanese citizens this week as she announced plans to travel to Israel to continue peace talks (Canadian Press, Nasrallah). As America sends aid workers into Lebanon, it is my position that they are also blatantly still selling the weapons to Israel that are being used… Read more »
What makes us human? It’s a pretty rich question, and as a student of anthropology, it is one that I am deeply interested in. Is it our strong technical abilities to manipulate the physical world? Our capacity for an ordered language based on arbitrary symbols and sounds? Simply our brain size? Or is it the… Read more »
Producer: Domino Records Released: 23 January 2006 Tracks: 13 Rating: 10 Is it just me or has Britain been busy re-learning how to play instruments recently? A nation swallowed up by discos and synthesizers for the last 20 years at least, the Arctic Monkeys are on the crest of a wave of musical talent from… Read more »
Producer: Fat Wreck Chords Released: 2002 Tracks: 18 Rating: 8 Welcome to “Music to Eat Lunch to,” a chance for me to share a healthy music obsession with a wider audience than the one assembled in my living room! Hopefully I can spark flames of interest in your hearts for the rich and meaningful tracks… Read more »