Jake Russell
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Fringe ArtsPut Your (Jazz) Hands In the Air
If you’ve ever found yourself bored on a slow Sunday night in Montreal, yearning for the excitement of the weekend to continue, Concordia graduate and musician Brandon Goodwin is looking at you—and wants to jazz up your life.
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Special IssueKill Decision
How long before the “kill decision,” the critical choice to fire and take a life, is shifted from humans to software?
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Fringe ArtsFrom Australia, With Love
If you’re at all familiar with the melodic hardcore music scene, Northlane have surely come under your radar by now.
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Fringe ArtsHealing Hands
The solo ambience of Mekele plays like the soundtrack to a dream—waves of synths wash over you and soothing vocals ease your thoughts into warm bliss. The experience is relaxing and even healing—and that’s precisely Mekele’s intention.
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Fringe ArtsSmoking and Sipping
A skateboarder with long headbanging hair who has an affinity for heavy metal music, it’s hard to compare hip-hop producer Tommy Kruise to anyone else in the music industry.
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Fringe Giveaway—M for Montreal Show Tickets
Want to see Montreal indie pop band TOPS play the M for Montreal festival along with experimental duo Phèdre and local fusion group Pat Jordache? We have a pair of tickets for you and a friend!
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Fringe ArtsLet It Enfold You
If you’ve never before beheld the glory of a full-dome theatre, you’ve come to the right city—Montreal’s multi-platform venue La Societé des Arts Technologiques is continuing to break ground in the international arena by screening experimental works in its massive exhibition dome, the SATosphere.
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Fringe ArtsSurviving the Great White North
To most Canadians, the High Arctic is a place shrouded in mystery.
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Saxophones & Zombies: Saxsyndrum’s “Future Circus” Halloween Launch
If you’ve got jazz fever or a dancing itch that simply must be scratched, I highly recommend a large dose of Saxsyndrum’s super-catchy medicine.
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Special IssueWho Watches the Watchers?
In schools and workplaces, the concept of “if you see something, say something” is often employed to encourage transparency about peer misconduct.
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Fringe ArtsIn the Blink of an Eye
An afterimage is a ghost image on your retinas, an impression that light makes on your eyes that remains present even after you close them.
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Fringe ArtsThe Tallest Of Mountains
Bear Mountain is a fitting name for a band emerging from the Canadian woods of the Pacific Northwest—their sound, however, samples music from all corners of the Earth, most notably the Congo.
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Fringe Giveaway—Advanced Screening of “Bad Grandpa”
Get your prune juice and vodka ready.
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Fringe ArtsStop! Motion Time
Stop motion animation is a tricky craft, requiring ingenuity and a steady hand of surgeon-like precision. Indeed, manually animating puppets (or clay characters) frame by frame is like a big game of Operation on a three-dimensional scale.
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Fringe ArtsA Decade of Resistance
As university students in the progressive metropolis of Montreal, it’s our responsibility to stay informed and on top of current events both at home in Quebec and abroad—so Cinema Politica is back to make sure the world’s pressing issues stay at the forefront of Concordia’s collective consciousness.
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Two Saxxy Gentlemen
Jazz might be the last genre you’d expect to see at POP Montreal. After all, some might say it’s best reserved for middle-aged couples sipping wine in tasteful-yet-stuffy establishments, not for the unwashed youth at one of the city’s biggest indie festivals. Saxsyndrum is challenging the status quo by merging electro dance music with sweet saxophone licks to revitalize jazz in a whole new way.
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Ghosts In the Machine
This year’s Film POP has decided to take the spooky approach for their theme, but has ditched the washed-up clichés in favour of legitimately spine-tingling subjects—like the bone-chilling whispers of the dead through electronic voice phenomenon.
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Get Inside the Circle
Few students can say they’ve made the transition from journalism to hip-hop artist, but that’s precisely what Simon Tousignant, better known by his rapper alias ST, has done.
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Hunters and Foragers
If you’re taking a walk in St. Henri this week and come across two people rooting through plant life on the side of the road with a homemade cart, don’t be alarmed.
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