MUSIC: Local boy Ishan Morris getting major-iSH 13 Jul 2013 | 03:28 pm

It's real sick to see a local rapper breaking the iTunes Top 200, especially with a promising major label debut single. With a few throwbacks to earlier tracks ("Seize the Day", "How You Like Me Now")...

MUSIC: "Serpentine" / "Blood" by Flamingo Báy 5 Jul 2013 | 07:02 am

It would appear that Steel City is pretty consistent when it comes to churning out good-natured rock ensembles. Grungy, wistful Flamingo Báy think they're the next Nirvana. But that's okay, because if...

VIDEO: "Berlin Lovers" by Still Corners 4 Apr 2013 | 06:00 am

TRAILER: Zal Batmanglij's "The East" 4 Mar 2013 | 05:47 am

Shane Koyczan's To This Day project 21 Feb 2013 | 07:21 am

"If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror; look a little closer, stare a little longer; because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone w...

Blinded 8 Feb 2013 | 09:30 pm

I can smell the red in the room I can taste the bitter yellow I can feel the orange of the nurse's sleeve and the blue she gives me (to wash away the yellow) There's a putrid green rising in my thro...

MUSIC: The Dirty Nil / Northern Primitive split 30 Jan 2013 | 07:24 pm

Today is one of those messy days. It's at least 15 degrees (Celsius) warmer than it should be and the rain has been coming nonstop, leaving an ugly grey sludge on the blacktop and turning McTavish Str...

On tests, studying, and last-ditch efforts 25 Jan 2013 | 02:54 am

Why, there's a course in two cue cards. I don't cut class and I do most assignments. Essentially, this results in my catching up with my favourite TV series or reading a never-ending chain of novels ...

United State of Pop 2012 23 Jan 2013 | 08:31 am

Beta Love: honey, where'd you put the Ra Ra Riot? 22 Jan 2013 | 08:03 am

It was mid-November when I first heard the title track, "Beta Love"; 20 seconds in, I'd forgotten what Ra Ra Riot used to sound like. Their evolution, for lack of a better descriptor, has been positiv...