By Emily Senger
Listening to a new Nickelback album for the first time is kind of like reuniting with an ex-lover: you don’t really want to get involved again, but you insert the CD just to remember what it feels like. If its cheap thrills you seek, Dark Horse is filled with sexual prowess, drenched in Chad Kroeger’s… Continue reading Spun: Nickelback
This EP came compliments of a sticker saying that this would be the next Jack White prog blues, with Black Keys intensity and pure ZZ Top buzz and swagger. Destello– “flash,” in Spanish according to MySpace– is not any of that. Flash Lightnin’ starts it off with meek beginnings in “Coming on Strong,” which sounds… Continue reading Spun: Flash Lightnin’
By Ian Baker
In a genre that is all about commanding attention, The Author, Straight Reads the Line’s debut album, seems to pass by without much notice, despite the fact that making hardcore was about grabbing the listener’s attention in a death grip and not letting go for the entirety of an album. Straight Reads the Line have… Continue reading Spun: Straight Reads The Line
While many musicians go as quickly as they come, Disturbed has managed continued success and is enduring. “We’re succeeding by gaining fans, by going out and giving 110 per cent when we play a live show and each time we return to a city, the crowds have been gradually growing and to continue to do… Continue reading A Disturbing amount of staying power
Like a very welcome and comforting cup of Lady Grey on a cold day, holiday movie season has arrived. Higher quality films are starting to settle in, hoping to pique Academy voter interests as well as rake in the dough from people getting their yearly reprieve from work. Fear not lovers of irony, and those… Continue reading Holiday season on the silver screen
Christmas is a hard time. It’s often filled with kids on sugar highs, drunk grandmas and over-friendly uncles and must be even worse for those who must endure the hardships of spending the holiday with divorced parents. Four Christmases follows Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) who, for the past three years, have been… Continue reading Vaughn and Witherspoon face off against Christmas
Action workhorse Jason Statham is back in his old kick-butt ways, sporting the same ol’ black suit and black Audi to match in the third installment of the Transporter series. Statham is, as usual, charged with traversing the mean streets of Marseilles with only his fists, rippling abs and car as weapons. No matter the… Continue reading Statham does what he does best in Transporter 3
Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker toss all sorts of different elements into their music and then blend it into one smooth, lip-smacking concoction, just like a deliciously refreshing smoothie. Take some drum and bass, mix in a bit of grungy guitar, add a little bit of folk lyricism to it and then blend it together to reach… Continue reading Smoothie virtues
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning I wake up at 6 a.m. and haul my tired ass out of bed to go swimming at the University of Calgary pool. When I signed in at the desk last Wednesday morning I asked for a towel and was given one without hesitation. As I started to walk… Continue reading Throwing in the towel, throwing away your cash
By Brad Halasz
Men’s basketball The University of Calgary Dinos men’s basketball team continuesd their Canada West domination sweeping Saskatchewan 91-66 and 90-80 last weekend in Saskatoon.The wins put the team at a 9-1 record as they enter the semester break. Women’s basketball The University of Calgary Dinos women’s basketball team enters the semester break coming off two… Continue reading Sport shorts: Effah snags Tees award