Gurf Morlix is an Austin-based musician, songwriter, and producer. He’s worked with Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale, Jimmy LaFave, Sam Baker, and BettySoo, among many other notables, and has put out a number of solo albums including the recently released Last Exit to Happyland (soon to be recommended in The Mindful Bard). Gurf recently took the… Read more »
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Ten-year-old alt rock phenomenon dZ has recently written a few songs. She’s also learned to play every instrument needed to record them. She’s also recorded them. And?don’t close the window!?she sounds great, rivalling many top alternative artists in vocal originality and energetic delivery. She’s currently working toward her first EP. Recently dZ took a moment… Read more »
DVD: Coraline Theatrical Release: February 6, 2009 DVD Release: July 21, 2009 Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Dawn French Director and Screenwriter: Henry Selick Producer: Bill Mechanic, Claire Jennings, Henry Selick Composer: Bruno Coulais Studio: Focus Features ?Find Our Eyes, Mistress, and Our Souls Will Be Free!? ?I saw pale kings and princes… Read more »
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Michael Bernard Fitzgerald is a Calgary folk singer-songwriter with a unique, passionate vocal style and a penchant for performing with colossal numbers of people on stage. Among other honours he was voted ?most promising songwriter? at the Calgary Folk Festival. Fitzgerald recently released The MBF Love EP, a wondrous collection of songs about love lost… Read more »
DVD: Séraphine Theatrical Release: 2008 DVD Release: June 5, 2009 Starring: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Genevieve Mnich Director: Martin Provost When the Poet’s Door to Madness Gets Blown Off its Hinges ?When I feel sad I go for a walk in the country and I touch the trees. I talk to the birds,… Read more »
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Ian McKay is the author of Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 (see Voice review here), the winner of 2009’s Sir John A. MacDonald Prize. McKay, who teaches history at Queen’s University, recently took the time to answer Wanda Waterman St. Louis’s questions about the book. Personal Connections The closest connection… Read more »
CD: Ravi Coltrane, Blending Times Label: Savoy Jazz Release date: 2009 Blending the Then, the Now, and the From-This-Album-Forward ?My mother, Alice Coltrane, passed away unexpectedly on January 12, 2007. I cannot fully describe the significance of this loss . . . My offering to her memory and to her meaning extends from this album… Read more »