Colin Harris
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
With an approach that sits somewhere between those of artists like Dirty Beaches and Women, Damon McMahon’s solo project Amen Dunes offers an edgy introversion with his second LP.
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Special IssueThe Scary Big Picture
More and more, we hear doomsday scenarios of a not-so-distant future of resource wars and destruction of nature, looming over human advancement like a giant anvil from a childhood cartoon. It’s easy to lose hope of any solution with a problem this big.
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Special IssueHow Sustainable Is Concordia?
An institution that spends upwards of $450 million annually can have a huge impact on the future of sustainability, depending on how it chooses to spend its money.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
There’s nothing like the smell of fresh Satanism in the morning. Mysterious masked Swedish melodic metal sextet Ghost are playing Montreal this weekend as part of their first North American tour, reviving ’80s…
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NewsCelebrating Diversity at ConU
The International and Ethnic Associations Council will hold Concordia’s first Cultural Diversity Week starting Monday, Jan. 23.
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Fringe ArtsLived Spaces & Fragmented Voices
“Art is a futile act of generosity,” said the famous existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, in that the artist cannot guarantee his or her meanings safe passage to the audience. But perhaps it’s when the viewer is merely given elements to order and designate meaning that the most personal, artistic narrative can take shape. Tel Aviv-born multimedia artist Zohar Kfir will…
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OpinionsEditorial
This year is set to be full of headlines and blog links clogged with mudslinging and giddy political punditry from our neighbours to the south, as we enter the ever-important election year where every politician’s every move is designated newsworthy.
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Fringe ArtsAfter the Eviction
While there may not be a physical camp in Montreal’s financial sector anymore, Montreal’s chapter of the Occupy movement is still working towards their goal of direct democracy. Grindhouse Wednesdays, a film and music event active since 2009, hosted an Occupy Special with musical performances, improv and film to raise funds for the movement.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
With the lure of a snake charmer, John Dwyer returns from the dark with Thee Oh Sees wielding a demon punk power.
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Special IssueThe Great Leveller
It’s been hailed by many as the great leveller, in that a blogger with no budget has the potential to get as many viewers as the biggest broadcaster. But does the Internet really make news more democratic? There’s an enormous potential online for news equality, but the ideal can’t outrun reality.
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OpinionsNah’msayin?
I was heading to the seventh floor of the Hall Building last week, making for the familiar lunchtime queue of students. Like them, I was eagerly awaiting scoops of vegan goodness from everyone’s favourite anarcho-syndicalist communo-hippie soup kitchen, the People’s Potato.
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Fringe ArtsThe Psychobilly & The Sitar
It’s Thanksgiving weekend when I call King Khan, and when he picks up he’s making a dinner of butter chicken and dal for his friends in Memphis. They’re all going down to Jay Reatard’s grave before it gets dark to pay their respects. This fall’s Tandoori tour has brought Khan—real name Arish Khan—and his quartet up and down …
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Fringe ArtsA Pixelated Infatuation
Data Romance has had quite a year. It started with scoring the soundtrack to Life Cycles, a film about the evolution of the bicycle. By the beginning of the summer, they were releasing their debut EP. The Vancouver duo has since been playing around the continent, showcasing their heavy electronics and blissed-out vocal hybrid sound to an ever-growing audience.
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Fringe ArtsYou Know We Made It Up
Sometimes it takes a little change to remember why you started playing music in the first place. The songwriting duo of Jesse LeGallais and Scott Delaney have been playing together for over ten years, recently embarking on a new musical journey as C T Z N S H P, a reductive take on indie sounds of past projects.
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Fringe ArtsCounting the Space Between
On the seventh floor of the EV Building, around the corner from Café X, there’s a very special kind of laboratory. It lives and reacts to the people inside it, combining the technological, the ecological and the philosophical.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
Youth Lagoon’s Year of Hibernation came out of nowhere (well, Idaho), and quickly found itself sitting pretty on the dream-pop shelf. -
Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
Los Angeles duo High Places are dressed in low frequencies and heavy percussion on Original Colors, finding their roots in electronic club sounds pushed through a deep, minimalist filter.
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
When Elyes Baccar began filming uprisings in his home country of Tunisia at the end of 2010, there wasn’t a plan of what his feature documentary would become. With a filmmaker’s intuition he just captured the energy, knowing it would be something big.
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Fringe ArtsRage Against the 1%
Protest music need not be produced by a Lennon-sized performer to get the world’s attention anymore. Using their Bandcamp account, Miami’s Young Circles voice their support for the Occupiers by donating all revenue from their single “Ninety-Nine Percent” to Occupy Wall Street.
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NewsMcGill Society Puts Occupy in Perspective
Spending a Thursday night in a crowded Plateau apartment living room may not sound out of the ordinary, until you hear the scope of conversation: radical, systemic change. A hand-written sign on the door read, “Global Cuts, Global Struggles…
