Tag: polaris music prize
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Shooting Guns VS Nosferatu
Saskatoon’s favourite doom rock band, the Polaris Prize and Juno-nominated Shooting Guns, will do a live soundtrack to Nosferatu at the Roxy on October 28th. For the last few years, the Riversdale Business Improvement District and The Roxy Theatre have been putting on a series for lovers of film and music called, Silence is Golden.…
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Interview: Basia Bulat
Basia Bulat is touring through Canada to support her new album, Good Advice, graciously taking the time to sit down with Craig Silliphant to chat. The first thing I ask Basia Bulat is whether I’m pronouncing her name correctly. She assures me that I am, and then feigns surprise that I might not know how…
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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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Interview: Tanya Tagaq
Tanya Tagaq is a force of nature, on the stage and off. We interview her about her activism, controversies, and a bit about music too. I was very lucky to get an interview for Planet S Magazine with Tanya Tagaq, whose album Animism won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize. It’s a record that is accessible…
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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra are channeling a smart contradiction of hope and despair on Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything. ‘Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything’ [‘FOGF’] is the first Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra album since the birth of Ezra, the son of bandmates Efrim…