By Desmond Reynolds I was originally intending on writing a preview for the upcoming Academy Awards, but then I realized I, like the average filmgoer, haven’t seen the vast majority of any of the nominated films. Instead, I’ll be discussing here the Oscar-worthy, the mediocre, and the bad of the movies I did get…
A Song a Day
By Alexandre Darche My resolution for 2017 isn’t to get to the gym more often to work off that turkey belly. Nor is it to spend less and save more. Nor is it any other of those cliché motives that fade come early February. My resolution (on top of trying to write more) is…
Gaming for a Cause
By Alexandre Darche While many of us spent the second week of January participating in E-Week (congratulations Mech), Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) was taking place in Virginia for its 7th installation. E-Sport teams keep showing up in the news for their impressive revenues and their acquisitions by NBA teams. However, AGDQ is a…
You Were On Point, Phife: A Review of A Tribe Called Quest’s “We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service”
By Alexandre Darche 2016 has been plagued by the deaths of many of our favorite celebrities. This past March, the hip-hop community lost one of its pioneers, Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest. When I was in high school, their music sparked my curiosity to find music which was not just what was…
Bring Your Own Juice Brings the Laughs
Everybody likes to laugh on occasion, even uptight McGill students. McGill is known internationally as a serious academic institution, whose research areas include oncology, architecture, and mind control, to name a few. As I discovered at a preview for Bring Your Own Juice (BYOJ), if you look deeper into these topics, you can find comedy…
Album Review: Painting With
Animal Collective have always been an experimental group, as seen on their album Sung Tongs more acoustic folk focus as compared to the more indie rock sounding Feels. Their most recent release, Painting With, is a change of pace from their previous album Centipede Hz, being a much faster and condensed album with Panda Bear…
The Life of Pablo and Its Montreal Connection
Whatever grudges you might hold against Montreal, it’s hard to argue that our city isn’t a thriving breeding ground for creativity. You can see it through the weird music scene, the numerous festivals we host during the summer months, and even in the way the locals dress (my friends from out of town describe it…
In a Galaxy Far Far Away…
by Frederick Chagnon The holidays are generally synonymous with a few things: the stress of finals, the relief of having no more finals, more food than you have seen in 4 months, and of course Star Wars. What else are you going to do with all this free time if not binging on the adventures…
Some Eazy Christmas Music
by Alex Zelensky With the release of Straight Outta Compton earlier this year and with the holidays fast approaching, there is no better time to listen to Eazy E’s 5150: Home 4 Tha Sick. The album was released on December 10, 1992 and was the first EP released by Edgar “Eazy-E” Wright after the break-up…
All You Need is Ghost
by Alex Zelensky Meliora is the third studio album from Swedish doom metal group, Ghost. If you’ve never heard of them, Ghost is currently composed of the main vocalist Papa Emeritus III and five nameless Ghouls. The identities of all the band members have remained anonymous throughout the band’s years of activity. Papa Emeritus has…