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SHOW TIME! Before I even get into all the awesome content we’ve gathered together for you in this issue, here’s a final shameless plug for our Uniter Fiver showcase. We’ve got a really great lineup for you on Jan. 19 at The Good Will Social Club: Kakagi, June Killing Stones, Tusk, Rosebud and Awaiting the Answer. Doors are at 8 p.m., show is at 9 p.m., and cover is $10 or $5 with student ID. Come join us and support new local music in Winnipeg! Beyond the show, we’ve got some extended music coverage within these pages for our annual New Music Issue. This week, we turn the spotlight onto many different aspects of our local music industry. Who’s working on streamlining booking for local acts and getting the word out? What’s it like to nerd out over gear when you're female? How do you like to discover new music? We’re answering a few of these questions, and we’re also profiling some groups who are working to better their communities through music. Punk/hardcore scene veterans Propagandhi are putting proceeds from their T-shirt sales to a good cause. A unique partnership on campus at the U of W offers jam spaces for students, and other local groups are dreaming up new ways to interact with musicians outside of the standard show context. We hope there will be something new for you to discover in this issue, whether you love punk or metal or folk or heartfelt indie ballads. Our local music scene is as strong as it is varied, and it thrives thanks to the support of so many dedicated music lovers. This one’s for you.

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WHOSE HOUSE? JASON’S HOUSE

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Four years ago, when musician Jason Tait moved back to Winnipeg after more than a decade in Toronto, he undertook a daunt- ing construction project. Despite having no prior building experience, the former Weakerthans drummer and current Baha- 1 2 3 mas and John K Samson drummer went about converting his detached garage into a home studio. “It was basically a lot of trips to the dump and watching a lot of YouTube tuto- rials,” Tait says. “I had an electrician mak- ing sure everything was to code, but I did the work myself. I was hanging drywall, doing insulation and soundproofing.” Tait took a conscious aesthetic approach to the studio as well. “I wanted to keep it very minimal,” he says. 4 5 “I intentionally didn’t want to hang art. I hated going into studios and seeing pho- tos of KISS on the walls. It’s not inspir- 1) GEAR DRAWERS the most expensive thing I’ve bought in my life, 4) BELL & HOWELL REEL-TO-REEL ing to me. It actually really bums me out. “We’ve got microphones in one drawer, guitar and I have two. So, as you can imagine, friends TAPE RECORDER I don’t want to look at those gross guys. pedals in the other. I wanted to keep things borrow them a lot.” “This is actually an old tape recorder that’s been I like how Tom Waits instructs his musi- clean and organized in here, because most modified into a tube amp. It’s a guitar amplifier cians not to look at anything before they studios are basically run by men, so they look 3) SNARE DRUMS and potentially a deadly shock hazard. It’s one come into the studio. Don’t doodle on the terrible. You’ll walk in, there’s these massive “(The drum on the far right) was used on of those things that I don’t really need, but I paper before you start drawing.” windows, a beautiful space, and it’s like, ‘Well, the first Weakerthans record, Fallow. I have bought because it’s so cool. It’s also great for The studio space has already gotten lots why don’t you throw a couple fucking plants in a bunch of $25 snares. Those are the ones I harmonica or reamping drums through.” of use, both by Tait and by his wife and here?’” used on the Bahamas record we just recorded. collaborator Julie Penner. (Bahamas singer-songwriter Afie Jurvanen) did 5) FENDER STRATOCASTER “I wanted to call the studio ‘Comes 2) COLES 4038 MICROPHONE some sessions with some notable, incredible “My brother passed away a couple years ago with the Drummer Studios,’” Tait says. “When (producer) Ian Blurton came to do Left musicians. He took those sessions back to very suddenly. He was a musician, too. He’d “We did John K Samson’s record here. and Leaving, he brought only one microphone Toronto and got me to record on those, which lived in New York since the late ’80s, but we’d My wife’s brother played violin on the 12 from Toronto. That was the Coles. I thought, was a dream come true. I can’t say who (the meet up on the road. He was playing with Nena, Years a Slave audiobook. He recorded that ‘This is the coolest microphone ever.’ It was musicians were), he paid for that surprise, and remember 99 Luftballons? We’d meet up in here. Julie just did some new Do Make Say designed by the BBC and was used on a lot of I can’t give it away yet. Basically, it’s people I Hamburg and hang out all night drinking. He left Think in here, and now she’s working on the Beatles’ records. I thought, ‘If I ever get admired when I was young who are also still behind a bunch of guitars. We gave most away Broken Social Scene as well. Lots of differ- some money, I’m gonna buy one.’ It’s probably very relevant.” to friends, but I kept a few for myself. I never ent things.” thought I’d love a Strat so much.”

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Big Fun Festival returns Jan. 25 to 29. Manitoba Music is launching its fourth It’s been 17 years since the University of Sage House music lessons More than 50 musicians from different annual January Music Meeting. This music Manitoba Swing Dance Club (UMSwing) On the day of the US presidential The Manitoba Conservatory of Music & genres – including hip hop, rock, punk, industry conference with a DIY ethos will formed. On Jan. 20, the group will inauguration, a group of angry and hopeful Arts (MCMA) is offering new students hardcore and pop – will perform at the run Jan. 26 to 29. It will include discussion celebrate at 7 p.m. with an open house local artists are hosting a fundraiser for six 30-minute lessons for a discounted sixth annual event. Julie Doiron, The groups, one-on-one meetings and net- where people of all ages will be able to Sage House. Noise Complaint is taking rate of $125, as long as their first class Wrong Guys and Greg MacPherson’s new working mixers with some of Canada’s top learn to swing dance for free. There will place Jan. 20 at the West End Cultural takes place before Feb. 28. The offer also project Figure Walking are a few of the music industry pros. There will also be a also be games, prizes and discounts Centre. For $20 at the door, the audience applies to current students who would performers audiences can check out at free panel discussion on creating safer to upcoming UMSwing events. Go to will get to see comedic and musical acts, like to switch to a new instrument. MCMA various downtown venues. Find more info spaces in the music community. Find umswing.ca for more info. including Lara Rae and Sweet Alibi. The teaches most instruments, genres and at bigfunfestival.com. more at manitobamusic.com. show starts at 8 p.m. voices. Find more info at mcma.ca. ARTS THE UNITER // JANUARY 19, 2017 5

VINYL SALON CREATES SAFER SPACES FOR MUSIC LOVERS Power group of woman DJs and vinyl lovers is growing the scene

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PHOTO BY MIKE SUDOMA ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTER Renee Girard and Chloe Chafe have watched Vinyl Salon grow through gigs and get-togethers.

The Vinyl Salon started as an intimate affair The salons felt more like small gath- “Especially in Winnipeg, we’re coming “For the second set of the fireworks, the and has grown into a city-wide hub for erings, Girard says, but the invites were from a very male-dominated DJ scene,” entire crowd started going crazy, which women-run entertainment in safer spaces. widespread enough that Chafe saw people Chafe says. “We really had this sort of was hilarious and a lot of fun,” Girard says. “Vinyl Salon started about two years from different corners of the music scene craving in the dialogue of safe spaces that The Vinyl Salon isn’t only about diver- ago, which is pretty crazy,” Renée Girard, start to come together. is popular right now. In those safe spaces, sity, safer spaces and feminism, Chafe manager of The Vinyl Salon, says. “It wasn’t a public group, but we started where are the female performers?” says. It’s about the music and the medium. She knew a lot of women who collected on Facebook,” Girard says. She invited Thanks to the groundwork built in “There’s also this desire to have that records and wanted to start something people who she wasn’t necessarily close to those first few gatherings and some guid- materiality again. And to listen to music with them. but knew well enough to know they had ance from established locals in the music kind of going backwards a bit to go for- The first events were born out of Girard’s an interest in vinyl. scene, The Vinyl Salon is expanding to wards,” Chafe says. “We’re trying to look desire for a power group where women Because the event was easy to access become the power group it was intended at how we interact with a world that isn’t could share, play and talk about music. online, those who were unable to attend to be, Girard says. just ourselves and some laptops.” “And not be overtaken by men, to be in person still had a chance to participate, Within the last six months The Vinyl Moving forward, the collective is plan- very honest,” she says. create dialogue and even form partner- Salon has been hired to play dance par- ning to sit down and talk about what The The original get-togethers were held in ships, Chafe says. ties across the city, including New Year’s Vinyl Salon has become and where they’d private homes, rather than bars or clubs. Chafe and Girard say The Vinyl Salon Eve at The Forks. While organizers of like it to go. It’s important that these con- “There was that intimacy that was able has received a lot of support and encourage- the Dec. 31 event weren’t sure if people versations happen as a group, Girard says, to happen,” Chloe Chafe, performer and ment from the local scene, where artists are were going to dance, The Vinyl Salon got because everyone has a say. collaborator, says. happy to see more diverse representation. everyone moving.

NON-TRADITIONAL CONCERTS Winnipeggers are finding new ways to share music

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Some Winnipeg organizations and musi- “Not having to pay cover charge, hold- cians are moving away from hosting tradi- ing it in a place that has gender-neutral tional shows. bathrooms and that is wheelchair accessi- Joy Balmana is the founder of Stream ble is super important to me. That’s why WPG, a non-profit concert series that uses I chose Fools & Horses as a venue, and Facebook Live to stream performances they were really down to collaborate in by local hip-hop, R&B and soul artists to that way.” viewers around the world. Balmana says audiences also enjoy “I feel like a lot of people still have this how accessible Stream WPG artists are idea that there isn’t a big hip-hop culture in on social media platforms like Facebook Winnipeg,” Balmana says. “But there is.” and Instagram. She says she created Stream WPG in “It’s like, ‘Hey, this artist followed PHOTO BY AIDAN CLOET 2016 to help connect emerging local art- me back! That’s so cool!’ The artists are Hip-hop/R&B artist Scribe performs his song "No Justice" for Stream WPG. ists to the audiences they deserve. gaining this audience that they may not “I’d go hang out in my friends’ studios, have had before.” cozy second-floor living room of Glend- Thordarson also credits house concerts and they’d be collaborating, performing New technological platforms like Face- inning’s home. The concert was a success for developing a sense of community and beatboxing, and it would be a collec- book Live aren’t the only way emerging and a tradition was born, which continues among Bicycle Face fans. tive of great musicians doing those things. Winnipeg musicians are growing their in 2017 even as the duo’s band, now called “It’s nice because there are built-in But when it came to actually performing, audiences. Bicycle Face, plays to larger crowds. conversation starters like, ‘How did you the crowds were really low, or the shows In 2013, synth-pop duo Theresa Thord- Glendinning says house concerts have find out about this show?’ And we’re such were few and far between.” arson and Ava Glendinning wanted to a distinct vibe that sets them apart from an active part – we introduce ourselves, The most unique element to Stream play live concerts but felt intimidated by shows at more traditional venues like The we tell silly stories, we interact with the WPG’s concerts is that anyone can watch traditional music venues. Good Will or The Handsome Daughter. audience,” Thordarson says. “It’s not an them. Hosted at Fools & Horses, Stream “We were pretty shy. We had played “If you say, ‘I’m playing a house con- anonymous thing.” WPG’s shows are free to attend, free to only one show. We weren’t really a band cert and it’s going to be really fun. It’s Learn more about Stream WPG at streamwpg. watch online and designed to be as inclu- back then,” Thordarson says. “We were still going to be a unicorn party, and then you com, and check out Bicycle Face at facebook. sive as possible. very shy about going into a public venue.” can hang around after and we’ll serve com/bicycleface. “I like the idea of barrier-free music,” The duo decided to play publicly any- hot chocolate,’ it gives people something Balmana says. way – not at a traditional venue, but the totally different to go to.” 6 THE UNITER // JANUARY 19, 2017 CKUW TOP 30 January 9 - 15, 2017

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26 NE Billy Bragg & Joe Henry Shine A Light Cooking Vinyl PHOTO BY THOMAS PASHKO 27 NE * Sonic Avenues Disconnector Dirtnap 28 NE * Matthew Good I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited Warner than gaudy showmanship. While it may 29 NE * Blue Rodeo 1000 Arms Warner THE HANDMAIDEN initially seem like an illogical approach 30 16 Wolf People Ruins Jagjaguwar to an intricate crime story, by the end of the movie it’s clear that it couldn’t be THOMAS PASHKO @THOMASPASHKO told any other way. Park asks a lot of his cast, but Tae-ri FEATURES REPORTER and Min-hee deliver in spades. Tell- ing an erotically-charged queer love story in an emotionally and socially repressive setting is a challenge for CALL FOR Playing at Cinematheque until Jan. 21 any performer (the film’s source novel, Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, was set in Three years after making his English- Victorian era Britain and the social VOLUNTEERS language debut with the excellent Stoker, stakes here are similar). acclaimed South Korean auteur Park But their hidden romance is just one WRITERS, ILLUSTRATORS Chan-wook (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) of a dozen secrets they’re individually AND PHOTOGRAPHERS has returned to his home country with keeping, each of them from a different The Handmaiden. set of people. The characters need to The film marks a new maturity for be playing multiple notes at once to the director, not simply because of its maintain the particular façade they’ve period setting, epic running time and presented to each character they’re envelope-pushing subject matter, nor with (as well as the audience). They due to a lack of his signature genre flour- rarely strike a false chord. ishes and thematic obsessions of revenge Some commentators have denounced Writers, contact the Volunteer Coordinator: and violence. Those elements are here, the film’s graphic sex scenes. Park’s Stephanie Berrington >> [email protected] but Park wields them with a newfound story is overtly feminist, following two You can also stop by The Uniter office (Room ORM14 in the Bulman Centre at the U of restraint and, in the process, crafts a women in a rigid and oppressive patriar- W) every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. for a volunteer orientation. Orientations will resume film that’s anything but restrained. chal social structure rebelling through Jan. 4. We’ll cover the basics and give you more of an idea of what writing for The Set in Japanese-occupied Korea, the love and outsmarting the men who try Uniter is all about, and after that you can get started anytime. film stars Kim Tae-ri as Sook-hee, a to exploit them. young member of a gang of Korean con The film’s detractors argue that the artists. She’s tasked by the group’s ring- scenes in question run counter to those Illustrators, contact the Creative Director: leader Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) to serve themes and are themselves exploitative, Bryce Creasy >> [email protected] as the handmaiden to a young Japanese meant to titillate. While a male film- Volunteer illustrators are visual artists who provide some of the eye candy that goes noblewoman (Kim Min-hee) while he maker directing a lesbian love scene along with many of our articles. We’ll send you an outline of technical requirements poses as a wealthy suitor. is almost certain to be problematic and a weekly list of possible assignments to choose from. The duo’s plan to have Fujiwara on some level, the scenes never struck seduce the heiress and steal her fortune me as gratuitous. Like everything else hits a major snag when she and Sook- in The Handmaiden, the scenes are Photographers, contact the Photo Editor: hee fall in love, embarking on an intense motivated by character and emotion. Daniel Crump >> [email protected] hidden affair. They’re graphic, but not lurid. It’s hard Park tells this story with a nonlinear to imagine the average movie sex scene If you’re looking for variety, our volunteer photographers cover events as well as narrative approach, structuring his facing the same criticism, despite the shooting fashion streeters, headshots and local landscapes. We’ll send you the film like a Russian nesting doll with fact that the problematic male gaze is assignment list and help you connect with the subjects. Get ready to share your shifting perspectives and timelines. often equally present. The onscreen sex photos with the city! While other filmmakers might use this in The Handmaiden is queer, kinky and as a flashy tactic to wow their audience, proud of it. Park has nobler ambitions. He weaves his narrative with an emphasis on theme and emotion rather ARTS THE UNITER // JANUARY 19, 2017 7

PHOTO BY DANIEL CRUMP Propagandhi members Todd Kowalski, Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky (not pictured - Sulynn Hago) are donating merch proceeds to Rainbow Resource Centre. PROPAGANDHI SUPPORTS THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY Band moved by RRC’s rural reach and the Orlando shooting

DANELLE CLOUTIER people were killed and 53 were injured in writing a song until it’s time to record. time, we’ve been making our songs as a June 2016. For him, lyrics are the hardest part. three-piece again, because Sulynn lives in VOLUNTEER @DANELLECLOUTIER Guitarist Sulynn Hago, who is the new- “Chris is really picky. I’m probably Tampa.” est addition to the band, lives in Tampa, more picky, probably to what they call a Hago is coming to Winnipeg to record They’re loud and they’re proud to support Fla. and was shaken by the attack. fault. It drives me crazy, and sometimes what will be her first album with the band. the LGBTQ+ community. “Being gay myself … it just really hit I’ll rewrite the same song so it’s not even “With recording, even as much as you Winnipeg punk/hardcore band Propa- close to home,” she says. “The things you similar to the first version,” Kowalski says. prepare, you never know what’s going to gandhi recently donated more than $5,000 don’t want to feel that are true. There’s so Their song “Dark Matters” on Failed happen,” she says. “Sometimes, whatever to Rainbow Resource Centre (RRC) much hostility or animosity towards the States is an example of that. It used to be challenge that a certain recording and an – some much-appreciated money for the community. There was a concrete event a song about genocide and the meaning album brings, it’s almost like that adds centre’s youth program. They raised the that made that real.” completely changed over the years. to the sound and the experience of the money by selling T-shirts with a rainbow Hago donated blood for the survivors Kowalski says the sound on the new album. I’m all for it.” flag and the band’s name. of the attack. album will be different than their 2012 Guitarist David "The Beaver" Guillas “It was really, really great. It’s exciting,” “The response was insane,” she says. album Failed States. will also join them on the record. RRC executive director Mike Tutthill says. She returned to the clinic three times “We always try to make it different. Shirts are still available “We’re always appreciative of donations.” before she could actually donate because Always always,” Kowalski says. “This for sale at propagandhi.com. The money will go towards food, bus it was so busy. tickets and supplies for youth who learn “I walked into the room and there was about healthy relationships, body image, a bunch of people – not everyone in seats harm reduction, positive self-esteem and because there’s that many people – people the history of the community. standing, sitting on the middle, little mag- Propagandhi first let the world know azine coffee table,” she says. of their support of the community back “There was a sense of a connection. It in 1996 when they released their second just felt really heartfelt. There was a som- album Less Talk, More Rock. Their pro- ber type grief in the room but almost this LGBTQ+ album upset the Nazis and care. This moral responsibility to fucking homophobes at their shows, but Propa- do something, as little as you can to sup- gandhi didn’t care. port the situation.” More than 20 years later, the band Propagandhi has long supported animal continues to support the community. rights and stood against racism, sexism, “I think growing up in rural Manitoba homophobia and government malpractices. in the ’80s also makes us really appreciate With so many horrible things happen- the outreach RRC does for people out- ing in the world, bassist Todd Kowalski side the city,” guitarist and vocalist Chris says he finds hope in the small things. Hannah says. He started the band with “This donation to Rainbow Resource drummer Jord Samolesky in Portage la Centre gives me hope,” he says. “Just any- Prairie, Man. body doing good stuff for people.” “It was an extremely homophobic time Propagandhi is working on their next and place,” Hannah says. “It makes me album and will hit the studio in March at sad to think back and wonder how many Private Ear Recording. kids had to go through it alone and hide “I think it has been the most fun we themselves or get shitkicked, tormented have ever had making a record because or excommunicated because our commu- we’ve somehow relaxed a little bit. But nity was so fucked.” we like to play fast. There’s always that,” Another reason the band decided to Kowalski says. PHOTO BY DWAYNE LARSON donate to RRC is because of the Orlando, It’s good news the band has a deadline, Fla. shooting at Pulse nightclub, where 50 because Kowalski says he’s never done The attack in Orlando "hit really close to home," guitarist Sulynn Hago says. THE COLUMN

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could I pull off while swinging my bass I'd gotten so used to playing alone that the middle distance? That was completely around and keeping time? when she first added in her harmonies, I out of the question. If I ever played sober, I've deliberately lost my place. To hear two voices weaving A shorter performance left no room for forgotten it. In retrospect, I can't truly together like that was entirely new to me. the nerves to subside to that quieter pres- DRY WIT sort out which parts of those experiences I remembered the awe I'd felt looking ence, to find a groove. I stepped on and off were pure wonder and what was just around at my bandmates, noticing their the stage-corner flooded with adrenaline, WITH ANASTASIA CHIPELSKI drunken glee. And before I got sober, I skill, hearing and seeing our offerings and not in the way I had hoped. quit rock ’n’ roll. of sound crashing together and creating I've been reassured that this perfor- @ANACHIPS I actually said that I quit music, but that something entirely new. It was the same mance was nowhere near as terrible as I was a half-truth. For a while after quitting feeling, just stripped down, dialled back had ranked it internally. But it was defi- STEPPING BACK ONSTAGE drinking, I'd still go out to shows, but my a bit. nitely humbling. After I sat down, my WITHOUT DRUNKEN ANTICS idea of an awesome Saturday night slowly That first "show" was beautiful and self-imposed trial concluded for the night, shifted to just me and my guitar, learning wonderful and scary. We played in a I was able to listen and really appreciate all I can't remember a time when playing sad country songs to play for my cats. I backyard cabana lit with candles and the other folks who were playing and to music wasn't a part of my life, but it messed around on an old vintage organ, Christmas lights on a warm September feel the warmth in that small, full room. became more public when I joined a band then I added a ukulele to the mix. night, and the "audience" was small but This wasn't about performance. It was at 15. That's also when I started drinking. At times I missed my badass onstage attentive and kind. about sharing a piece of something you As soon as I learned that stage nerves persona, but I couldn't scrape up any part After the first few songs, I found that love with others who might appreciate it. were inevitable, I figured out that I could of me that wanted to get wild just for the the nerves just became a low-level hum, It was about stepping into vulnerability just bypass all of that with liquor. sake of being wild, for the sake of a good kind of like that jerk in the front row for 12-15 minutes and then offering up an I loved music, but I loved the per- time, an epic show, an impressive story the who's talking loudly to his buddy through attentive ear to others doing the same. forming the most. Over the 13-odd years next day. Musically, I'd always tried to be the whole set. That I could handle. I was It wasn't about putting on an awesome I played in bands, I pretty much stopped brighter, harder, faster, stronger, and that mildly emboldened. performance, no, this was all for the love playing (aka practicing) at home, and I'd reflected in the rest of my life. My second venture was solo, just me of music. resign myself to band practice. But on My quest to soften up, to get un-tough, and my ukulele at an open mic night at These little expeditions revealed which stage, I'd push myself to the limit almost wouldn't be complete if I didn't play it out the Strong Badger Coffee House. Here I skills I still had, and which I'd have to every time. in song as well. Slowly but steadily, I ven- found not just nerves, but relentless waves rediscover and rebuild in a sober mind The way those familiar songs exploded tured out of my kitchen and played music of pure fear. I opened my mouth and space. Building up a higher level of out of us on stage thrilled me to no end. I for audiences that were not entirely cats. didn't recognize my own voice. Every- comfort playing for others, along with loved watching my bandmates come alive In the fall, I teamed up with an old thing felt thin and tinny, both sped up the ability to brush off little missteps or under the stage lights, and split my time friend to play some songs at a house party. and impossibly slow all at once. malfunctions, all come with time. As a between grinning at them and staring Before I played for a larger crowd, I had Every little detail threw me off. Ukulele musician, it seems I'm young again. hard into the audience, daring them to to play for her. Even though I was in the a little out of tune? Just stop the song. Anastasia Chipelski is the Managing Editor of The return our challenge. I drank anything comfort of my own kitchen I was terrified. How about making eye contact with Uniter and has no regrets about trading in badass that was dropped in front of me. Outwardly, I kept my composure, but people? Sure, throw another log onto the for twee. Two out of two cats don’t mind the Every show was a test. Could I play any after three songs, my shirt was soaked terror fire. Move a bit, really, anything change either. faster or harder? What other silly antics through in my own sweat. other than sitting rigidly and staring into

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Choosing just five new local bands to All in all, we’ve got quite a fun mix of showcase in our annual Uniter Fiver contest bands to discover or further explore at our is a pretty tall order. This year, we started annual Uniter Fiver showcase (Jan. 19 at with 16 amazing submissions and put them The Good Will Social Club - see page 3 for to readers and local music lovers to choose more details). And before the show, take a the final five. minute to get to know these guys and hear The final result is a wide range of sounds what they’ve been up to in the early stages spanning some of Winnipeg’s favourite of their careers. genres. The grand winner of this year’s Last year’s Fiver winners have also been contest (chosen by an industry panel), keeping busy recording, writing, playing Kakagi blends Wilco-influenced guitar and touring since last January. Catch up lines with distinctly Manitoban echoes. with The Middle Coast, Deep Dark Cave, June Killing Stones mix their melodies up Adam Hanney & Co., Fox Lake and with playful instrumentation. Tusk veers Ashley Bieniarz on page 13. towards a more experimental, post-grunge -Anastasia Chipelski // @Anachips sound. Rosebud’s deceptively simple, reflective indie sound tugs at heartstrings, and Awaiting the Answer keep the double- kick steady under soaring metal riffs.

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THE WINNER: KAKAGI

Kakagi (pronounced ke-KA-gi) is a new Kakagi recorded their first EP with band whose name is derived from a small Collector’s Studio and released it in lake in northwestern Ontario. November 2016. Their music, like their name, blurs the “We recorded all together live off the borders between Winnipeg and Ontario, floor and then the vocals,” Brodovsky says. drawing inspiration from places and scenes. “It can be messier, but there’s more energy Since the inauguration of their band in when you’re playing all together. We had September 2015, the group has been mov- two days, so we wanted to get as much ing full steam ahead. done as possible.” “It’s the first time I’ve played in a band Brodovsky says they had three more where all four members are like ready to songs alongside the EP. The two others go,” Jacob Brodovsky, the band’s guitarist created during that same period and in the and vocalist, says. “We’re all here, and past month have just added five new songs we’re all committed. It’s so great, because to their back pocket. it’s just a matter of putting in the hours “Every tune is different, but usually and doing the legwork.” I write a lot about places, (local places, The band consists of Brodovsky, Max places in cities), sort of scenes … that’s Brodovsky (drums), Jonathan Corobow what I’ve been doing lately,” Brodovsky (bass) and Jesse Popeski (guitar). Though says. “Spadina Streetcar I wrote sitting the band came together just a year and a in a streetcar in Spadina.PHOTO BY KEELEY The BRAUNSTEIN-BLACK third song, half ago, this tight-knit ensemble shares “Small Town,” is about a small town in more than just a jam space. Manitoba that’s been my most consistent “Max (and) I are brothers. Jonathan the source of content.” bass player is one of Max’s best friends, With a video premiering this January, and Jesse and I are best friends. We’ve Brodovsky says they’re hoping to book a been playing together since I was like 10,” tour and head west for May. Then after Brodovsky says. “It just kind of naturally they return, they plan to record again in came together.” the fall. Brodosvky explains all the band mem- “This is my third band, and I really like bers used to work at a camp near Lake playing in bands, but I’m also kind of at of the Woods, and Kakagi was one of the point right now where it’s either now their favourite lakes to go canoeing on. It or never,” Brodovsky says. “So I kind of seemed like a good fit for the group. want to put everything I have into it and “I have a big map of Lake of the Woods see what we get.” up in my apartment, and a week before Keep your eyes and ears peeled for our first show last January, I had to come Kakagi’s video, premiering at the end of up with a band name on a deadline,” Bro- January by Canadian Beats. dovsky says. “I was staring at the map as I -Talula Schlegel // @talulacora was talking to Max about what we should name our band. It was a lot better than anything else we’ve come up with.”

PHOTO BY CALLIE MORRIS connect with kakagi at facebook.com/kakagimusic AWAITING THE ANSWER

Most of the members of Awaiting the where I won’t do it properly, and I’ll hurt Answer found each other online, mostly my voice and have to take a month off.” through random posts on Kijiji. They According to McDougall, proper scream- come from a wide variety of musical back- ing is using more breath than throat, because grounds, but they’ve come together with when you use your throat, you’re scraping the common goal of bringing a new sound air across your vocal cords, damaging them, to Winnipeg’s metal scene. and then you can’t sing anymore. Kevin Toporowsky is the guitarist for When creating their music, Toporowsky the band. He and Dave McDougall, the and guitarist Aaron Davis usually send vocalist, sat down to talk about how their riffs to each other and just write whatever diverse backgrounds change their sound. they feel like. Then the other members help “(Dave’s) a rock vocalist. In his mind, he’s structure the song into the final product. going to hear something a lot different than “Usually Aaron and I will come up with we will,” Toporowsky says. “We all think in a riff or even half of a song and send it a different way. It just kind of pushes things through the chat, then we get into a room,” in a different direction … It pushes the Toporowsky says. “Then Jordan rewrites it sound in a unique direction, instead of, say, because his drums extend a certain way, then four guys who listen to Metallica.” Dave rewrites it againPHOTO to BY putKEELEY in BRAUNSTEIN-BLACK the vocals.” “We argue about what our style is. I “That’s one thing I had to show these want to say alternative metal, they want to guys. They knew how to play really cool say metal core,” McDougall says. “We have riffs, but they didn’t know how to put it that riffy stuff that’s not all just chugging together worth shit,” McDougall says with on the low string … I think (the guitarists) a laugh. “Couldn’t structure from a riff to a do that very well.” chorus or something like that … It’s not just The influences and favorite bands of 20 minutes of one riff and then screaming.” Awaiting the Answer change between it’s When creating their EP, their entire members. Dave is more of a modern metal writing process depended on tacos. fan, citing alternative metal bands like “The whole EP was taco-fuelled,” Tool, where a few of the other members Toporowsky says. “Every Tuesday of every take inspiration from classic metal bands week – and I’m not kidding, this is for like Pantera. three months straight – Dave would come In order to fit in with Awaiting the over to my place, and I would just play the Answer, McDougall had to change his vocal riffs over and over again, and he would style to fit with the harder sound required write lyrics to it.” for the metal genre. And that meant learn- “Pen in one hand, taco in the other,” ing how to scream. McDougall says. “I had to learn how to scream when I -Justin Luschinski // @scholarj started, ’cause I didn’t know how to, and I’m still learning how to. There’ll be a gig

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JUNE KILLING STONES

June Killing Stones is a locally grown band and we can usually manage to grab that united in their value of community and person’s idea and jump on board.” positivity. Brothers Joshua and Jake Letke- Learn values post-show chats with man were working on their craft for years Winnipeg audiences, who he says are very before putting together a group. discerning. “When I was 10 years old, we started “The feedback’s been awesome,” he says. playing together,” Jake says. “There’s so many great musicians, and a lot Going from jamming for fun to becom- of great music has come from here, so I know ing a band was a bit of a process, Joshua says. it’s a big compliment when someone comes “Jake and I were trying to find members up after the show and says something.” for a long time. We went through a few Learn says he’s always excited to see people that never worked out, so we were members of other local bands at their shows. basement-bound for a while,” he says. “And Most June Killing Stones audiences also then, luckily, we found Josh.” include members of Moravcik’s large family, Both drummer Josh Learn and bass who have begun to share their own ideas. player Gaia Moravcik discovered the broth- “They’re the reason we switch up our set ers through Kijiji. list actually,” Moravcik says. “My dad will “Oddly enough, the same place you’d yell out songs he wants to hear.” find all of the nice used things you can buy The band calls Moravcik’s dad their for your house,” Learn says. “man in the audience” for his ability to “They found a used drummer on Kijiji,” know which songs are going to go over well Moravcik says. “Then they put out a bass and at what point. player wanted ad. I was just wanting more Their debut video “Leap” is in keeping music in my life … sure enough, I found with that collaborative quality, featuring the best group I could have hoped for. I the band members having fun with friends was pretty blown away by the tracks that and family under a sunny prairie sky. they had.” -Melanie Dahling // @sugardahling Collectively, they’ve found they nat- urally communicate well and are on the same page, which Joshua says makes for some memorable live performances. “We have a crazy musical synergy live,” Joshua says. June Killing Stones has a knack for spon- taneity and going with the flow. “We’ve even just jumped into songs that we weren't expecting to play,” Moravcik says. “Someone will come up with an idea,

PHOTO BY DANIEL CRUMP connect with june killing stones at facebook.com/junekillingstones ROSEBUD

The duo behind Rosebud took a rather casual On the album, Rempel plays cello and approach to forming the two-person band, guitar with loop pedal and does the vocals, and that’s how they continue to operate. while De Avila does all the drumming, Zach Rempel says it’s common for musi- harmony and other instrumentation. cians to start off by performing and then come “It was just a small project at first, and out with an album, but he and Nathaniel De it worked out just fine just to record and Avila have done things the other way around. everything with two people,” Rempel says. Although they’ve been playing together since For live shows, Rempel says they plan early 2016, until recently, they didn’t even to bring friends along to help play all the have a Facebook page. instruments. “A lot of songs weren’t finished until we He says they write songs about their recorded them. I think that had something experiences, how they live, their friends to do with it,” Rempel says. and their favourite bands. They started writing songs and playing “A lot of youth and growing up kind of together rather informally in early 2016 and stuff, being lonely and getting your shit then decided to become a band. together,” Rempel says. “We spent the year recording, producing Rempel hasn’t been a part of a band like music for an album,” Rempel says. They this before, althoughPHOTO BYhe KEELEY played BRAUNSTEIN-BLACK cello in recorded the album in houses and a Men- youth orchestra when he was younger and nonite church basement. has played cello for other bands. He also Since then, they’ve performed only once. says he’s been writing songs for a while. Despite going public when they played a “This would be my first project going out house concert in May, De Avila and Rem- alone, with Nate,” Rempel says. pel remained quite elusive online. After graduating from the University Rosebud could be found on Sound- of Manitoba where he studied linguistics, Cloud with one song, “Starcrossed” and no Rempel says he liked the idea of having a information about the band itself. project to work on outside of his respite job. However, that’s expected to change before “Making music sounded like a good fit,” The Uniter Fiver when Rempel says their Rempel says. first album, Night, will be ready for release. De Avila, on the other hand, has been in “It’s going to be online. Hopefully we’ll bands before and has a degree in music. have some CDs for the show, but I’m not “So, he knows what’s up pretty good,” sure about that,” Rempel says. Rempel says. With Night available for listeners, he Rosebud will be coming to Facebook says they’ll get started on their social media soon. Or not. Potential fans can ask them presence and expects they’ll have “the about it at The Uniter Fiver. Facebook thing going” by the time of The -Meg Crane // @MegCrane Uniter Fiver.

PHOTO BY CALLIE MORRIS

TUSK

If there’s a more quintessential origin story Regardless of the labels, TUSK brings than TUSK’s, it would be tough to find it. forward a mix of moody, evocative melodies Brothers Tyler and Brett Hesford met that play off of their favourite bands – Nine Eric Jaworski and Colton Unruh through Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, music supply shop Long & McQuade. Radiohead and Marcy’s Playground. Jaworski was trying out some guitars “It’s that singing under the mix and com- when Brett overheard him, came over and ing out to a scream and then going back, invited him to jam. and that was kind of the thing in the ’90s,” “It was pretty spontaneous,” Jaworski Unruh says. recalls. “The biggest thing within our music is Since that first jam in March 2016, the delivering emotion,” Tyler adds. foursome has been committed to making They say they’ve been lucky in that their music and have managed to hit up most of hard work has been met with plenty of Winnipeg’s smaller music venues with their enthusiasm from Winnipeg audiences. brand of shoegaze psychedelic grunge. “I think the scene now is so vibrant,” Brett “We’ve gotten a lot closer in the last year says. “I used to go to the Zoo a few years ago, of having played together,” Unruh says. and there would be 10 people there.” The Hesfords come from Morris, Man., They say they’ve had great turnout for while Jaworski and Unruh hail most rec- their shows so far and are excited to be play- ently from Brandon. Despite everyone’s ing alongside the city’s other up-and-com- full-time jobs, the group has been working ing acts. on an EP that will hopefully be released “I used to geek out over the Winnipeg on the band’s first anniversary this March. music scene when I was in Brandon,” “A lot of our songs are written in jams, Jaworski admits. and we record everything and go back and “This whole experience has given me a pick our favourite parts, so with doing it lot of faith in the Winnipeg music scene,” that way everything starts from an organic Unruh says. place,” Unruh says of their process. As for the name? “It’s all feelings and how you feel the “I think a name has to do with a kind time,” Brett adds. of imagery that it sets in your mind,” Brett Tyler says that while shoegaze is the says. “I feel that this imagery is very strong genre that seems to describe them best, and it’s moving forward, travelling. It can there’s too much variety in their songs to be powerful.” really nail it down. Judging by the band’s forward momen- “We’ve got punk. Some of our songs are tum so far, they hit the nail on the head. more grunge-y, alt-rock,” he says. “I think -Alana Trachenko // @alana_wpg my favourite is progressive post-grunge.” “But most things that are post-(grunge) are dialled down, and we’re heavier than some grunge,” Jaworski adds.

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WHAT’S UP WITH LAST YEAR’S FIVER BANDS? CATCHING UP WITH THE TOP FIVE FROM 2016

THE MIDDLE COAST The trio has been working hard since winning last year’s Fiver, including touring 150 days in the last year, from Victoria to Montreal. Many dates were in ADVICE FOR NEW BANDS: support of Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, “Play tons. That's always been our and they’ll be playing with him at thing is we love hitting the road Festival du Voyageur as well. and playing as many shows as we “We used the prize really well. The can, and we've certainly become a better band because of that.” Collector time was fantastic,” Dylan MacDonald says. Their new album is slated for release this spring, and The Middle Coast will plan more tours and summer festivals around that.

ADAM HANNEY & CO. FOX LAKE Hanney has toured coast to coast in the last Fox Lake played a few shows in the year, including stops at BreakOut West in summer, and released a two-song EP ADVICE FOR NEW BANDS: Regina and a few festivals in Winnipeg. mixed with Craig Boychuk in October. They’ve also released three music videos in ADVICE FOR NEW BANDS: Since then, “we've been focussing on “Play lots. Play with people who the past year. “I had a blood clot in my writing, finishing up some songs that aren't just your friends or bands “I mean I'm still figuring it out, who sound like you and get out chest, and I did cancel two tours that we so I don't know what advice I could were in pieces and not quite complete,” there and apply for grants. And do were supposed to go on in 2017,” Hanney really give. Don't be bad. Be good.” Neil Exell says. They plan on recording a it yourself – a recording is better says, “but I took that time to just write a full-length in the spring and getting back than no recording.” bunch of music.” Hanney plans to tour in to playing live once the new songs and a April and write a new album as well in the new set are ready to go. next year.

ASHLEY BIENIARZ DEEP DARK CAVE Through the Fiver, Bieniarz says she made Over the last year, the band has been lots of new connections, many of whom writing and working towards releasing she now considers her friends. She’s also an EP this summer, as well as developing ADVICE FOR NEW BANDS: been working with Roland Deschambault the visual elements to their show. “(We’re) ADVICE FOR NEW BANDS: - formerly of Manitoba Music, now “Get out there and just start doing putting together videos for pretty much it … it's supposed to be a learning “Know the business. If you're working with BreakOut West - in a every single song we do live,” Jeremy Koz process, you're allowed to make serious about it, the business is as mentorship role. mistakes, and you're allowed to says. The band will also launch a website, important if not more important “I've completely kind of changed my have fun with it.” deepdarkcave.com, along with some lyric than the music.” sound since the Uniter Fiver,” Bieniarz videos very soon. “It's all about stepping says. “It's grown, and it's louder and stones,” Koz says, “that's what (the Fiver) more energetic.” She’s fallen in love with really did for us, is we were able to really performance and plans to release some of start creating a portfolio as a new band.” her older songs and covers every month over the next year.

-Anastasia Chipelski // @Anachips

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AGENCY HELPS LOCAL BANDS FIND THAT FIRST DATE Local promoters get together to support music community

SUPPLIED PHOTO TALULA SCHLEGEL Bands making use of First Date Touring's services include local duo Basic Nature.

NEWS REPORTER @TALULACORA buyers in these areas to try to book the themselves, it’s also important to know best shows possible. On average, our there are resources to help. bands go on tour between two to four “I wouldn’t say that it’s ever too early to Community members engaged in the that a lot of bands starting out do not weeks at a time.” think about how you’re going to market Manitoba music community are finding have. Talent buyers generally take the The agency’s hope is to grow both in yourself and how your business is going new ways to provide for musicians, and band more seriously if they have someone roster size and in visibility. They aim to be to be run,” McManus says. “It’s become one new music resource is shaping up to reaching out for them.” a go-to agency for promoters when they more and more important for artists to offer something different. The agents, including Carroll, Adam need to provide resources for a band. think at earlier stages about what their First Date Touring (FDT), a booking Soloway, Bucky Driedger, David Schel- “Often artists spend the first part of audience might be in certain markets and agency created in January 2016, came to lenberg and Mischa Decter, are all local their career … making music, figuring out how to connect with them.” fruition with hopes of fostering support bookers and promoters who came together what they want to do musically, honing Each artist is at a different point in for the community of DIY bookers and with a like-minded vision and first-hand their craft as musicians, making them- their individual trajectories. McManus the bands they love. experience. selves great songwriters,” Sean McManus, emphasizes the need for artists to be sup- “(FDT provides) the opportunity to Carroll explains that there aren’t many executive director of Manitoba Music, ported throughout these diverse points in share your music outside of Winnipeg and companies in Canada that provide the says. “But that means when it comes time time, and calls upon community mem- create connections and access to music kind of consultation and background that to professionalize … there’s a huge skill bers and resources alike to be a part of communities around the world,” Gil Car- FDT does and that they have something set, a huge knowledge base that’s needed this growth. roll, FDT booking agent, says. unique to offer the bands they work with. for artists.” “I think a big part about how people “We’ve all played in touring bands “We discuss with the band what cities McManus explains that musicians get into this business is by helping out and have made a strong effort to connect they want to target or help identify the are entrepreneurs and that their band their friends, you know?” McManus says. with promoters, talent buyers and venues markets that these bands could find suc- is a business with a specific brand that “We always encourage artists to think across North America and in Europe,” cess (in),” Carroll says. “Then we connect needs promoting. Though he believes it is about that. There are a lot of folks out Carroll says. “We have the connections with local concert promoters and talent important for bands to learn these skills there to help you out.”

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JUSTIN LUSCHINSKI

CAMPUS REPORTER @SCHOLARJ

If a student wants somewhere to practice Currently there is no way to get a with their band, they can do it on cam- degree in music at the U of W. The uni- pus at the University of Winnipeg (U of versity has a few programs around cul- W). But if that same student wanted a tural studies and the history of art, but ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLE FUNK formal music degree, they would have to nothing like the U of M or the Canadian look elsewhere. Mennonite University. Sarah Jo Kirsch is a graduate of the Still, there is a musical presence here The MCMA offers a few courses that “I have gotten nothing but feedback University of Manitoba (U of M) music on campus. are worth university credits, mostly music saying that they wish the program had program who earned a degree in vocal Norine Harty and Renise Mlodzinski ensemble band or performance, as well as a been here in their first or second year,” performance. She enjoyed her time there, are the executive director and music direc- few that focus on music theory. According Mlodzinski says. “(A few people) have said but she worries that music programs, and tor, respectively, of the Manitoba Conser- to Harty and Mlodzinski, they are looking they chose to come to the U of W because liberal arts programs in general, need vatory of Music and Arts (MCMA). Since to expand what’s offered, but they’re cur- there’s a music presence here … there’s a more support to thrive. the MCMA partnered with the U of W in rently sticking with the credit programs culture of music.” “I think that liberal arts colleges in gen- 2014, Harty and Mlodzinski have worked already available. “We have some students who come eral are being squashed,” Kirsch says. “The hard to help those on campus discover a They offer other services as well, such here every day, twice a day, just to prac- first thing that goes when times are tight passion for music. as free band practice rooms for students tice,” Harty says. “People who are in are things that aren’t seen as practical. “Even if they don’t come here to study and reduced rates for university students bands who need a refresher will come “Having that presence of art, of the first for a degree, they have an opportunity to looking to take music lessons. Harty and here and do that.” human, reactive art, all of these systems be lifelong makers and lovers of music,” Mlodzinski say that the response to the Learn more about the MCMA at mcma.ca we’ve created are mirrored in our music.” Mlodzinski says. MCMA in the U of W has been great.

PROFILE - DR. CATHERINE TAYLOR PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND ADMINISTRATION IN THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION, PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND COMMUNICATIONS

ALANA TRACHENKO

CITY EDITOR @ALANA_WPG

WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU Over the years, Dr. Catherine Taylor has become READ?: The book I’ve loved the best that the University of Winnipeg’s (U of W) resident expert when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues and I read in the last year was All the Light We advocacy. Cannot See. It’s just a gorgeous book. Taylor took a job at the U of W in 1988, or as WHAT WAS YOUR WORST GRADE IN she puts it, the dawn of time. UNIVERSITY?: A C+ on my first English “They were starting up this really innovative, essay. I was fresh out of high school with exciting writing program,” Taylor says. Originally 98 per cent and 100 per cent in my two from Ontario, where she grew up and taught for … English courses … I was a little worried some time at Trent University, Taylor says Winni- about classical history, but I was totally peg is now home. down with Shakespeare … I was a little Those who’ve taken her classes have seen her horrified. combined passion for language and LGBTQ+ topics, though it might be surprising to learn that WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU’VE LEARNED Taylor actually comes from a systems analysis FROM YOUR STUDENTS?: I’ve learned to background. That foundation led to her extensive be continually surprised and delighted by research on transgender, Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ the depth of intelligence and passion that people throughout the province and country. 20-year-olds bring to their lives. It’s an “My heart was really solidly in the world of lan- inspiration to me. guage,” Taylor recalls. “I had to decide how I was going to live my life as a researcher, and whether I would forsake my beloved world of literature and language for more of a world of social justice-mo- tivated social science, and I did. And it’s been the most wonderful decision I’ve ever made.” PHOTO BY ALANA TRACHENKO CAMPUS COMMENTS STREETER QUESTION ANASTASIA CHIPELSKI What’s your favourite way to discover new music? MANAGING EDITOR @ANACHIPS

Sabrina Koehn Chloe Korade Lochlan Wilson Kara Leckie Robby Islam Age 39 Age 20 Age 21 Age 18 Age 22 Studying Political Science Studying Linguistics Studying Biology Studying Sciences Studying Theatre and Film

A “On Youtube, because I’m in school all A “Usually it’s through friends, A “Recently, I’ve been using Spotify a A “I discover music through my friends. A “Spotify. They have a discover … button year, and I don’t get a chance to listen to because I trust their opinions on lot, letting it suggest things, but I also They always suggest songs to me.” that shows you all the new music out the radio, and so when I go to Youtube, music the most.” have one friend who lives in Edmonton there.” I just (look up) the year of 2016, and then who sends me links to new music, and it’s I catch up on all the music.” usually a good indicator of what I like.”

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WHERE ARE THE WOMEN GEARHEADS? Many barriers keep women out of the music scene

DANELLE CLOUTIER

VOLUNTEER @DANELLECLOUTIER ILLUSTRATION BY JUSTIN LADIA

Spotting a woman who works in a music Some customers were surprised that I at least playing with science and engineer- So, there’s a whole lot of work to do. shop is like playing I Spy. There are could restring a guitar, as if that’s a secret ing-related toys. Girls are less likely to be But there are also some opportunities. plenty of women passionate about music, only guys are let in on. In the store and encouraged to learn how machines work. I was lucky to have a mentor in audio but there are few women gearheads in on the phone, customers asked me to pass Maybe if they were, learning about music engineering who believed in me and didn’t the music world. According to Women’s them off to my male coworkers. gear would seem like more of an option. treat me any differently for being a woman. Audio Mission, “less than five per cent Some crossed the line: I was asked Even if women get into gear later in Women’s Audio Mission was also a of the people creating the sounds, music out while on shift, which was horribly life, online forums for gearheads aren’t the huge inspiration. The San Francisco-based and media in the daily soundtrack of our awkward. But worse were the few months most female-friendly places. The popular organization touts itself as the only pro- lives are women.” when a guy memorized my work sched- forum Gearslutz may ward off women just fessional recording studio in the world I worked on the sales floor at a music ule, came into the store every time I was with its name. built and run by women. It offers training shop for a couple of years and sold amps, working, texted me (he knew my number One thread on Reddit’s guitar subred- programs and workshops, in areas such as guitars, drums, band instruments and all because he sold me my phone) and forced dit discusses sexism in guitar shops, and audio engineering and mic-building. their accessories. me to hug him. It didn’t stop until I quit some users take the opportunity to be Even though I live in Winnipeg and I spent my nights and weekends obsess- the job. outrageously sexist anonymously. can’t actually take the workshops, know- ing over recording and mixing music, I I also identify as gay. I’ve never felt While some posts actually acknowl- ing there is a community of women like had just started classes in audio engineer- comfortable being open about it at work, edge sexism in guitar shops, many com- me makes me want to fight harder in this ing, and I had already been playing guitar, because it seemed like one more barrier to ments say that women don’t experience industry. saxophone and drums for years. I thought being taken seriously at my job. sexism, and guitar and amp boxes should Danelle Cloutier is an audio engineer and jour- it made perfect sense for me to work there, Young girls aren’t introduced to machines have half-naked women on them because nalist in Winnipeg. but it seemed like customers didn’t feel the in the same way boys are. Some boys have sex sells. As one user wrote, “women have same way. spent afternoons learning about engines, or boyfriends, men have hobbies.” COMMENTS THE UNITER // JANUARY 19, 2017 17

GETTING GRADES APPROVED Process aims to strike a balance between oversight and expediency

JESSE BLACKMAN

PHOTO BY ALANA TRACHENKO VOLUNTEER @JSSBLCKMN Grades move through an approval process before being released to U of W students.

University of Winnipeg final grades will be to student records, who then run a statis- CCI score. If a statistically significant por- Gender Studies and Disability Studies available by Jan. 27 at the latest. Between tical analysis called the course comparison tion of a class deviates from their normal DRC Chair says. Their Committee checks the end of exams and the release of marks, index (CCI) and return the data the next grade range, the DRC may ask the instruc- for missing grades and grading errors such there is an important approval process that day giving departments two days to con- tor to explain the discrepancy. as final grades that are not allowed like a B-. takes place at the departmental level. firm grades are ready for posting. This year, the grades submission Urban and Inner City Studies’ (UIC) “The grade submission deadline, for the “(The CCI) takes all the students in deadline was on Jan. 13. Only a handful DRC works with instructors to approve fall and winter terms, is 10 working days a class,” Russell explains, “and compares of department DRC chairs answered grades that set “standards — course out- after the end of exams,” Colin Russell says. their grades in this course to the grade questions about how their committees comes, reading load, type and difficulty Russell has been the University’s Reg- that they got in their other courses,” approve grades. of assignments across the UIC curricu- istrar since 2006. excluding students who have not com- The goal, according to the DRC Chair lum.” Students can expect to receive an Departmental Review Committees pleted three courses. for Rhetoric, Writing, and Communica- accurate assessment of their preparedness (DRCs) have been responsible for approv- Currently, CCIs are provided for tions, “is to ensure that final grades are for courses across the University. UIC ing final grades since the senate, the information only. accurate, transparent, and fair.” The DRC has decided on a rough guideline of an university’s academic governing body, del- “The assumption is that if you are typi- compares an instructor’s mark sheet, average of C+. Instructors are consulted egated approval beginning for the spring cally a C student, you should probably get course outline, and their pending grades. based on the CCI reports. term of 2012. a D if you did poorly or a C+ if you did If an issue arises questions are asked until “The academic standards committee,” Each department has a DRC com- well,” Russell says. “It would be somewhat the committee is satisfied. according to Russell, “would review from prised of faculty. The committee signs off unusual for you to get an A+”. The Department of Modern Languages time to time so that there was centralized on course outlines, investigates academic The index works on a class level. “If and Literatures follows a similar process. review of how the delegation (of grade misconduct, and considers grade appeals everybody in the class is a C student and “The DRC respects our faculty col- approval) has gone. That hasn’t been in addition to grade approval. they all get A+s,” Russell elaborates, then leagues, and recognises that grades belong done yet, but it will probably be done DRCs review grades and submit them that would lead to a high deviation, a high to Senate, not to us,” the Women’s and pretty soon.”

COMMENTS IMMIGRATION IS NOT A BLACK AND WHITE ISSUE Responsibility lies with everyone when considering newcomer policies

KYLA CRAWFORD

VOLUNTEER STAFF @KYMACRA

Throughout 2016, and spawned in part by than encouraging “cultural diversity the Syrian refugee crisis, political leaders with different groups keeping their own across the globe declared their stances on customs and languages.” ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLE FUNK migrants. These ranged from German This percentage was higher than that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s temporary of U.S. citizens, 53 per cent of whom range from committing a harmful freedom and law and order are important open-door policy for asylum seekers to agreed with the former statement. crime to failing to submit the proper to uphold. president-elect Donald Trump’s blanket This disconnect between public documentation. What is most important in 2017 is ban on migration from “any nation that opinion and the popular idea of Canada Subsequently, an article by the to maintain an open, informed and has been compromised by terrorism.” as a welcoming society underlies the BBC applies the term “Far-Right” in respectful dialogue across political, In Canada, these sentiments have problem with the way media and association with Le Pen, encouraging a cultural and ideological boundaries. It been mirrored by conservative leadership politicians have been informing the partisan review of the article, regardless is important to not dismiss an opinion hopeful Kellie Leitch’s proposal to screen public on the subject of immigration. of the reader’s political bent. because it is coming from someone immigrants for their Canadian values, Polarizing statements made by political Members of the public also have a who has been deemed “illegal,” or from and Justin Trudeau’s vows to improve the leaders, and their subsequent reportage, responsibility to realize that issues of someone who has been classified as immigration system. do little to inform readers on the immigration are not easily resolved, and Liberal or Conservative. Because Canadian citizens recently complexities of immigration policy. that subscribing to certain political or Canada, and Winnipeg in particular, voted in favour of a Liberal majority, For instance, the leader of the moral ideologies are not going to reveal a are top destinations for immigrants, and it is easy to make the assumption that French National Front party Marine straight answer. there are cultural and economic benefits public opinion is aligned with that of the Le Pen recently declared that children Although Merkel’s open-door policy to be had because of this. Hopefully this current leader. of illegal immigrants should no longer seems the most ethical, she has herself will remain the case in 2017. However, a recent study conducted have access to free education. 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