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24 Hours of Radio Art 2017: Jan 17-18, 6:00AM to 6:00AM
What is radio art? How might radio art challenge mainstream conceptions of radio as a medium? What does it mean to shape or alter the…
Joshua Gabert-Doyon
Real Live Action
Mint Records Day Party @ Sled Island
What do we mean when we talk about a show having ‘energy’? We like to talk about energy as if it’s something incommunicable and completely…
Real Live Action
Weird Canada Showcase @ Sled Island
The dawn of the hot dog craze is upon us, riding in on the fanfare of street food and food carts. It’s a gimmick so…
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Laurel Halo
Waiting at Victoria’s Swartz Bay terminal, browsing Instagram, I came across a picture from Laurel Halo’s account, taken in Puget Sound presumably on a return…
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John Wiese
I was at The Getty last August. The afternoon hovered around 30°C: desultory conditions for tourists like myself. So, walking around the museum’s grounds, I…
Real Live Action
Sarah Davachi
There’s a wonderful play in Davachi’s music. It suggests the workmanlike deployment of the tools at hand (all that gear) and the focus towards sound….
Features
Kiss Painting
Enter the basement laboratory that is Kiss Painting. It’s dingy and abrasive, made up of images, stories, moods. Everything is carefully placed, with dead noise…
Features
Open Letters
No punk elitism, no bullshit, Open Letters has a strict all-ages show policy. The band, comprised of bassist Kyle Shields, guitarist Reuben Houweling, and drummer…
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Connect_icut
Something cuts through the near-complete static of Connect_icut’s (alias Samuel Macklin’s) sound. The music is lined with something, often a recurring set of glitchy noise,…
Under Review
Modern Charms
Modern Charms by Modern Charms Modern Charms’ self-titled debut starts strong, with a set of well-arranged tracks which let the listener get a sense of…