Colin Harris
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OpinionsCampaigning on Econo-phobia
There’s nothing like pandering to the fear of the unknown. The Conservatives knew what they were selling in these elections, and did a fantastic job selling it.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
It’s pretty rare to find an album that’s both as varied and consistently brilliant as this. Leeds-based quintet Vessels harness an arsenal of gear to create textural, fluid post-rock on Helioscope, a record that is leaps and bounds ahead of their previous work.
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NewsHigh Times on Parliament Hill
Staggered cheers and clouds of smoke wafted from a sea of umbrellas in Ottawa as the Peace Tower struck 4:20 p.m. on Wednesday. Hundreds of marijuana aficionados took part in the annual gathering in the nation’s capital, filling the front lawn of Parliament Hill.
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Fringe ArtsA Little Bit Country
Sometimes wishful thinking can lead to great things. Portland-based musician Henry Jamison is the voice of The Milkman’s Union, his solo moniker that now has expanded to a full band.
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Fringe ArtsPeace Signs for the New World
It seems that young Brooklyn-based folk singer Sharon Van Etten’s sound gets bigger with each album.
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Fringe ArtsOn the Hunt for Bad Vibrations
It’s easy to get lost in the slow-building desert rock of The Black Angels, even without the drugs.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
It’s always been somewhat of a stretch to call even the catchiest moments of Animal Collective songs pop. Panda Bear (a.k.a. Noah Benjamin Lennox) seemed to drive the band’s most flagrant hooks, and that’s arguably why he’s the most successful on his own.
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Fringe ArtsRunning With the Bull
As far as writing and production goes, for now Bundick is keeping the fun to himself.
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Fringe ArtsAloof is Out, Be Yourself
“It’s not about getting laid, it’s about being a woman’s fantasy,” are the words of Hans Comijn, seduction artist.
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Fringe ArtsGo Big or Go Home
In a decade where independent bands are finding ways to scale back the size of their live show, Idlers thrive on their traveling caravan work ethic.
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Fringe ArtsWandering Symphonies
A promising wall of sound is coming out of Ottawa. Instrumental indie quartet My Dad vs Yours have just released their second full length album Little Symphonies, a record which guitarist Jose Palacios describes as both nostalgic and uplifting.
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Fringe ArtsMath Pop for the Masses
These days it seems like pop music has become an increasingly effortless affair. But it doesn’t have to be that way, necessarily.
Sacramento’s Tera Melos started out playing schizophrenic math rock, a genre named after the careful counting required for its polyrhythmic sound -
Fringe ArtsAll You Need Is Joie
Maybe they aren’t pounding out tribal rhythms anymore, but Akron/Family’s freak-folk roots are still intact.
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Fringe ArtsHow To Bare Your Soul
In part because of accolades from a certain three-pronged hype machine, Tom Krell’s solo-project known as How To Dress Well has enjoyed a growing international audience for the better part of a year now.
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Fringe ArtsNew Sound, Old Tricks
Richard White wields the six-string in The Besnard Lakes, a group that much prefers studio methods of the past to the bedroom recordings so popular today.
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Fringe ArtsTop 10 of 2010
This album is the drunk guy that just wants to have a good time. It’s the realization that you’re just one of millions—but there’s power in that. It’s the trials and tribulations of a mid-level New Jersey punk band.
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Fringe ArtsBlack Mountain Aren’t Hippies Anymore
Black Mountain is giving Canadians reasons to get excited about our music scene.
Starting off as that cool and trippy up-and-coming band from the West Coast, they are now catapulting to new heights with global success.
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Fringe ArtsFestival du Nouveau Cinema
With computational matter as his paintbrush, local multimedia artist Navid Navab experiments with sound and how we perceive it.
Navab studied electro-acoustics at Concordia last year. “No matter what, I always try to make sure there is enough for the audience to delve into,” he said.
