Fringe Arts

  • Wandering Symphonies

    My Dad vs Yours Prepare to Bloom

    Colin Harris — Published March 8, 2011 | Comments

    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.

  • “THIS IS A PARTY!”

    Andrew WK Wants A Reaction From You

    Adam Kovac — Published March 8, 2011 | Comments

    Andrew WK wasn’t always real. I don’t mean that as in, he didn’t physically exist. He clearly does, as his hulking frame, long hair,

  • Full-Time Poetry

    All This Could Be Yours Talks “Weightless, Insubstantial, Ordinary Mortality”

    Isadora Arredondo — Published March 8, 2011 | Comments

    Joshua Trotter’s debut poetry collection, All This Could Be Yours, won immediate favourable reviews for no reason other than its authenticity and aesthetic simplicity.

  • SPLIT WRITS

    An Assortment of Short Poems

    Nicole Fu,Lizy Mostowski,Ashley Opheim,Erica Helmsley,Gabrielle Steinberger — Published March 8, 2011 | Comments

    Dalliance,
    Is that what this is?
    Dalliance,

  • Concerning Links & Literature

    An Open Letter from the Lit Arts Editor About the Future of the Section

    — Published March 8, 2011 | Comments

    Dear People Interested in the Literary Arts Section of The Link, I have some grim news. Next year there will be no Lit section. (!)

  • “Every Corner of the Room”

    Local Folk Singer David Simard Wants More From the Stage

    Peter Murray — Published March 7, 2011 | Comments

    Smoke twists and twirls through the air of a dimly lit, wood-paneled room. The hollow acoustic instruments seem an elaborate extension of the floor and walls. The melody of the space blends into itself and a voice guides you down a hallway. This is one of the many atmospheres woven by the songs of David Simard.

  • Circus of the Mind

    A Journey Towards the Boundaries of Consciousness

    Peter Murray — Published March 2, 2011 | Comments

    “It’s not just a spectacle, but something that the audience is intimately involved in,” said Shannon Collier, one of the organizers of Atem, an event that will combine guided meditation, improvisational music and circus acts.

  • Parlovr Not a Fightr

    In Studio With Montreal’s Parlovr

    Dan Hawie (The Silhouette, McMaster University) — Published February 28, 2011 | Comments

    Parlovr’s frame of mind is a bit of a head-scratcher. If you mispronounce the band’s name as, say, “Parlover” instead of the correct “Parlour,” the band members will gladly yield to your mishap.

  • Puro Instinct — Headbangers In Ecstasy

    Ashley Opheim — Published February 28, 2011 | Comments

    Turquoise sonic and padded melodies like e-mails like moss gardens like death petals make you feel when you don’t care

  • Math Pop for the Masses

    Tera Melos Find Their Voice Through Upbeat Experiments

    Colin Harris — Published February 28, 2011 | Comments

    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