Music

The Martlet’s Valentine’s Day Playlist 2.0

It’s midnight on Valentine’s Day and something’s gone wrong. After a consensual and sober-minded decision to get in bed together, you and your boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other/Tinder pity date are knocking boots,…

Hip Hop Karaoke turns up at Lucky Bar

The room is dim, loud and packed. Bartenders work in a blurred frenzy. Some people sit. Others stand. Most dance. Onstage, two skinny white dudes in V-necks and Birkenstocks give…

My most underrated albums of 2015

Eartheater — Metalepsis Metalepsis is an album by Alexandra Drewchin that earned praise on Bandcamp and in Britain’s Fact magazine but truly deserves more recognition. The album is an ambient hybrid of…

The best decision I made in 2015

In a haze of essay-writing near the end of term, I bought a ticket to the Dec. 14 Vancouver stop on Miley Cyrus’ Milky Milky Milk tour. I’d hoped that…

Starships and soundscapes: How John Williams makes Star Wars sing

When the first teaser trailer for The Force Awakens premiered last November, it didn’t take much to get me excited. The promise of new stories and adventures in the galaxy…

Adele could’ve had it all, but only gets halfway

“Everybody tells me it’s ‘bout time that I moved on And I need to learn to lighten up” So sings Adele in “River Lea,” halfway through her new album 25.…

Keys N Krates talk doing it live, Victoria, and fear of missing out

This time of the year can be stressful. The air is frigid, the days turn to night before they’ve even really begun, and those assignment due dates that felt like…

The Sylvia Platters play on namesake with upbeat debut

Ever wonder what happened to the bands featured on the original American Pie soundtrack? Get ready to be re-introduced to the kind of mature pop rock that helps make high…

Music the only way forward for Towers and Trees songwriter

Towers and Trees, a Victoria-based indie-folk band, became known in 2012 for “Montreal,” a song about running away to the east “where the action is.” For a young Adrian Chalifour,…

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