Month: June 2015
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Inside Out
Disney Pixar’s Inside Out proves once again that the venerable storytellers aren’t afraid to tackle some heavy themes and emotions with creativity, wit, and warmth. In a theatre packed with kids and reeking of old baby spit-up, I saw Disney Pixar’s Inside Out with my boyfriend and his 11-year-old daughter. She is the same age…
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Interview: Viet Cong
Craig Silliphant chats with Calgary’s Viet Cong before Jazzfest and Sled Island about the nature of their music and this fucked up world at large. I catch up with Scott “Monty” Monroe from Viet Cong on tour, as he restrings his guitar in a parking lot in Connecticut. I’ve been instructed not to ask him…
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Interview: Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart
Just like the fabled Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Montreal acts Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart have come together to create something new and delicious. You’ve got your chocolate in my peanut butter! No, you’ve got your peanut butter in my chocolate! Or should that be, you’ve got your Suuns in my Jerusalem in My…
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Interview: Swervedriver
Hot on the heels of the release of their latest album, ‘I Wasn’t Born to Lose You,’ we sit down with Adam Franklin from Swervedriver. It’s not much of a secret that we at The Feedback Society are huge fans of Oxford, England band Swervedriver. So we jumped at the chance to interview frontman Adam…
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Shooting Guns at The Juno Awards
Chris Laramee from doom rock purveyors Shooting Guns gives us the mean and dirty low down on being nominated for, and attending, the Juno Awards. My group SHOOTING GUNS was nominated for the 2015 JUNOS in the Metal/ Hard Rock category. Our drummer/ mastermind Jim threw our name in the ring (which you have to…
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Entourage (The Movie)
We take a bullet for the team and see a movie made for the bro douche contingent — the big screen adaptation of HBO’s Entourage. I always try to keep an open mind about the movies I watch; I firmly believe in seeing a film just to make up my own mind about it, even…