FREE.WEEKLY. VOLUME VOLUME 71 // ISSUE 16 // JAN 19 THE 2017 NEW MUSIC ISSUE THE FIVE FAVOURITE NEW LOCAL BANDS AS CHOSEN BY YOU: KAKAGI // AWAITING THE ANSWER // JUNE KILLING STONES // ROSEBUD // TUSK THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG CDI_Uniter_Winnipeg_generic.pdf 1 2017-01-03 1:02 PM ASK ABOUT OUR EVENING CLASSES THAT FIT YOUR SCHEDULE C M a trained Y CM MY professional CY Prepare for an exciting new career in one of our accelerated CMY professional programs and be job ready in less than a year! K Get the skills and experience you need to excel in your field and create your own future. Apply today! 1.800.675.4392 NEWCAREER.CDICOLLEGE.CA Symbol of Courage We’d love to tell you more. Special offer: admission only $5 until January 31, 2017 humanrights.ca #AtCMHR THE UNITER // JANUARY 19, 2017 3 ON THE COVER Kakagi, winners of this year's Uniter Fiver, will headline the showcase at The Good Will Social Club on Jan. 19. 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. – Anastasia Chipelski ONLINE EXCLUSIVE VISIT UNITER.CA FOR AN EXTENDED GALLERY OF THIS WEEK'S WHOSE HOUSE. @THEUNITER @THEUNITER FACEBOOK. 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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.” ARTS AND CULTURE BRIEFS MEG CRANE // ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR @MEGCRANE Big Fun Industry conference UMSwing Fundraiser for Discounted 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.