What does it mean when your favourite band disappears from social media? We Are The City, a progressive indie rock band from Vancouver, deleted all of their Instagram photos, tweets, and their Facebook page in the middle of 2015. Many fans were perplexed by their behaviour. “What happened to We Are The City?” was a […]
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Since 2001, the start of the new year has always marked a special period for Canadian cinema. Founded in 2001 by TIFF, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival celebrates the best Canadian films (both short and feature-length), and this year marks its 15th anniversary. In a world dominated by Hollywood films, it is exhilarating for people
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Although surprisingly short (38:56 minutes in length), the new Born Ruffians album, RUFF, indulges listeners with the familiar sounds of Luke Lalonde’s vocals and classic Ruffian guitar riffs. In contrast to their previous album Birthmarks, Ruff contains songs that are less poppy, but rather reminiscent of old school rock. The opening of the second track
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On September 24, VUSAC hosted their first concert for a series called “Cat’s Eye Concerts” and was able to score a very special artist—Jazz Cartier. In April, he released his debut album Marauding in Paradise and was longlisted for a 2015 Polaris Music Prize. Born in Toronto, Jazz has been working very hard on writing
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If you could take Larry Clark’s Kids and merge it with Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, you would get a film like Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story. Directed and written by Eva Husson in her directorial debut, the film explores the vivid sexuality of a group of teenagers in Biarritz, France. The plot centres
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