Month: August 2016
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Interview: Royal Red Brigade
Regina’s Royal Red Brigade have a new album coming out on August 28th, called On Crimson Shores. We talk to Jason Thiry about their music. Regina kinda punk kinda rock band (we’ll figure that out in a minute) Royal Red Brigade are a few albums in, and they have a new record coming out on…
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Roadies
Cameron Crowe’s new music show, Roadies, plays on his ideas from Almost Famous, but it often comes down with a case of The Newsroom Syndrome. There are so few great films about rock music, probably because there are so few filmmakers who understand what makes great rock. When Hollywood makes a rock n’ roll movie,…
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Interview: Snake River
We interview Regina’s Snake River have a new album called ‘Sun Will Rise,’ featuring a harder edge and the return of the character Reginald McKruski. Regina’s Snake River is releasing their third album, ‘Sun Will Rise,’ continuing the narrative of a character they created named Reginald McKruski. Featuring Christopher Sleightholm, John De Gennaro, Whistlin’ Jeff…
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Five Great Comic Book Adaptations
The idea of a Comic book movie can be a blanket term that doesn’t always mean heroes in tights: here are five really great adaptations. Look at Hollywood these days and you’ll see that superhero adaptations have captured the zeitgeist of pop culture. Major studios are looking to develop their own universes trying to break…
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Dog Patch Music Festival Musings (and The Dead South)
Jade Palmer travels to the Dog Patch Music Festival, buried in a Northern Saskatchewan forest, to discover festival life and Regina band, The Dead South. This is no ordinary insect. In the depths of the boreal forest it waits to strike its next unassuming victim. It knows no age, no gender, only the sound of…
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Concert Review: Sturgill Simpson (Saskatoon)
Sturgill Simpson has brought an amazingly talented band with him as he tours across Canada to promote his latest album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth. I was pleasantly surprised to see such a great crowd for Sturgill Simpson on Saturday night at O’Brian’s Event Centre. Other than a few music nerds I know, I wasn’t…
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SotW: The Avalanches – ‘Frankie Sinatra’
In The Feedback Society’s SotW (Song of the Week) we take a look at one track that has us hitting repeat over and over again. The Avalanches ‘Frankie Sinatra’ Album: Wildflower ‘Since I Left You’ was one of the best albums of the 2000s (and particularly expensive on vinyl these days), from a group of…