Forget the mothers, guitars and brigades. Wolf Parade drummer Arlen Thompson, surely an expert on all things lupine, has two picks for the leaders of the wolf pack.”I love our (former) rehearsal-spacemates, AIDS Wolf,” he laughs. “And Steppenwolf.” But Haligonians don’t echo that sentiment. “This Heart’s On Fire” isn’t “I’m on Fire,” but Kijiji’s invisible […]
Contrived
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Contrived’s comfort
I first heard of Contrived as an undergraduate student in Kingston, Ontario. Some friends who grew up in Cole Harbour were gushing one morning about a band of fellow Haligonians who had stayed at their broken-down student house on Albert Street and shared their beer. The day after the show at the now-defunct 477 Club, […]

