Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, “Falling Slowly” Once was the sleeper Irish romance of the summer of 2007, about a pair of nameless musicians falling in love through song. This is the song and scene people remember the most. Request it at one of the seven weddings you’re going to this season. Madonna, “This Used […]
Tara Thorne
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Cool your jets
Despite what the rest of these pages want you to believe, summer is the actual worst. Between hay fever, swamp ass and the ever-rising cost of your cat’s flea medication–to say nothing of living in a city that in the summer seems to trade working for all-hours porch-lounging while bumping Top 40–June through early September […]
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Tracks
Mia Wasikowska walks four camels across Australia, obviously. Based on Robyn Davidson’s true 1977 story, this festival delight also stars Adam Driver as a field photographer for National Geographic who stands in for most of Robyn’s human interaction. Wasikowska continues to build on a varied, interesting resume in diverse films including The Kids Are Alright, […]
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Hottest movies of summer
Carbon Arc The local movie series kicks off its fourth anniversary with the excellent Lukas Moodysson jam We Are the Best!, about a pre-teen punk rock trio, on June 27. (The day before catch the Thrillema entry The Sacrament.) Also on the docket are Hedwig and the Angry Inch (July 17), The Guild (July 18 […]
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Scott Jones’ attacker sentenced
The man who stabbed Scott Jones on a New Glasgow street last fall was sentenced to 10 years in prison today, minus time served. Jones was left paralyzed from the waist down. Shane Matheson pled guilty in March. “There’s a lot of effort going into awareness,” the profoundly positive Jones told Adria Young ahead of […]
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22 Jump Street
The 2012 reboot of the non-beloved 1980s cop series (people only remember because Johnny Depp was on it) was one of the year’s biggest and best surprises, the laziest of ideas well-cast, well-written and well-executed. They actually tried. In addition to establishing Clone High’s evil geniuses Phil Lord and Christopher Miller as comic powerhouses (you […]
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Journeys
“There’s a fine balance to it,” says Journeys’ Lindsay Dobbin of the band’s improvisational approach. “We’re not super-theoretical musicians. Improvising for a group of people who have never met but know music very well—playing music might have a different type of communication. What we have is just lovers of music and our own experience playing […]
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Soft Spot
The shoegaze quartet Soft Spot has only been together for a few scant months, with just one piece of recording available for listening at its Bandcamp (softspothfx), but the two minutes of grunge guitars and buried vocals leave the listener wanting more. That wish should be granted in a few more months, the band reports. […]
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Konyon Ca$h
Like many aspiring musicians, Konyon Jallah AKA Konyon Ca$h started out in high school. “We were all hanging out, and always wanted to be famous, that’s how they all start,” says the affable Jallah, of his once-equally aspirational friends. “I was making some songs with them. They all already quit, but I am a committed […]
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Vicious
“We’re going on our cross-Canada Devastation to the Nation tour,” enthuses Jake Gracie, singer of and guitar player for Vicious. “It’s going to end here. We’ve been invited to play Calgary Metalfest, we’re absolutely stoked. The whole tour is booked around that festival.” The metal trio was once a quintet, but has settled into the […]
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New Music 2014
Help yourself to these sweet 15 local bands in our 2014 New Music Issue. Read up in print and head to thecoast.ca to check out the tracks online that will be the brightest diamonds in your summer playlists—whether you’re piling into the Jeep on another epic beach mission or sitting in a darkened bathroom in […]
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OUTeast mode
A bassline thumps through the walls of Neptune Studio, but back here in this mirrored rehearsal room it’s quiet. The three women who created OUTeast three years ago, and run it still–Andria Wilson (producer), Jenna Dufton (programmer) and Krista Davis (special projects)–sit by a window minutes after announcing the new festival’s lineup. Opening Thursday, June […]