Free. Weekly. 7 // Issue 68 // Volume Weekly. Free. o ctober 17 ctober THE reunion ISSUE The BONADUCES RETURN with their first new music since ‘98 LIKE TO KNIT? STITCh ‘N BITCH IS FOR YOU STUDENTS IN DEBT: YOUR PROBLEMS ARE (KINDA) S OLVED Michael Feuerstack anita Daher Mariachi Ghost The official s TudenT new spaper of The universiTy of winnipeg the uNIter // october 17, 2013 03 EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN. When Winnipeg melodic-punk heroes The Bonaduces reunited a few years ago, there were no plans for anything big, other than just playing for fun. Now, for the first time since the band’s landmark 1998 record- ing The Democracy of Sleep, the beloved four piece is releasing something new. It’s just a digital single, something the band is attempting to sell short (how very Rob Gordon of them), but even still it’s exciting. Managing Editor Nicholas Friesen had a chat with the band’s Doug McLean and his label cohort Shad Bas- sett about their collective, Parliament of Trees, and all things Bonaduces. We’ve also got interviews with the art rock monster that is Mariachi Ghost, ex-Snailhouse troubadour Michael Feuerstack, reviews of Gravity and Casting By, as well as a piece about how knitting is bad ass. Stay cool, Winnipeg. online exclusives This week, check out The Next Reel, with a behind the scenes look at Greg Macpherson’s new video for “1995”, which was made by our own Nicholas Friesen and Daniel Crump. on the cover you can grab a free download of Kalle Mattson’s “Darkness” from the Ottawa viral sensation’s Doug McLean (pictured here) is joined on the cover new 7”. Mattson plays the Park Theatre on by his Bonaduces bandmates Bob Somers and Chris Sunday, October 20 with label mates The Bonaduces. 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I together makes your own city’s shortcom- ful neighbourhood for the same price that never take me anywhere but here. can only say that I like it here. I will con- ings that much harder to swallow. might get me a ramshackle hut in a differ- Plus, as satisfying as it was to successfully tinue to think, to be critical of my home. I But then, seeing things through a tour- ent city. I like that I can wander my city navigate an unfamiliar bus/sky train/sea will compare it with places I deem success- ist’s rosy-coloured shades certainly affects streets for hours on end without getting bus system without an experienced Van- ful – like Vancouver – but remember that your perception. I spent a weekend in Van- shin splints from walking uphill. couver native holding my hand, it was even Vancouver has its issues too. couver at the end of September, and when Plus, Vancouver is home to a little thing more satisfying to watch those same experi- I mean, they can’t even open the back I wasn’t busy inhaling as much fresh fish as called The Real Housewives. Such a thing enced Vancouver natives struggling to exit door of the bus. I possibly could, marvelling at the natural would scarcely fly in Winnipeg. out the back door. “Back door please!” No Laina Hughes is a writer from Winnipeg. Pick up beauty, traipsing down bustling sidewalks I can’t say one city is better than the one is immune to those things. a copy of her book Wolseley Stories at Mcnally or seeing one of my all-time favourite other. Winnipeg is my home. Vancouver is I don’t mean to dismiss all our failings. robinson. bands at a picturesque amphitheatre as a exotic-vacation-destination. It was great to Winnipeg is still breathing, but barely. I rainbow spread across a sky that had freshly dumped rain on the twinkling city below, I thought of my own city. I couldn’t help but compare. Pardon the verbosity, but it was all some- what overwhelming. I know comparing Vancouver to Win- nipeg is like comparing apples to, well, smaller, flatter apples. But here was a city with mountains to one side and ocean to the other. A functioning, easily navigable transit system. A downtown that didn’t shut down after 5 pm, and densely popu- lated neighbourhoods that offered plenty of necessary goods and services within walking distance. Winnipeg will never be Vancouver, though. And I don’t think we should strive to be. Winnipeg has a certain plucky charm that bigger cities lack. We have a ways to go, for certain, and there are many ways in which we can turn to other cities for exam- ple. But I think we’re well on our way to being our own great thing. Vancouver’s splendour is blatant, while Winnipeg has hidden treasures, pockets of beauty buried among industry. That’s part of Winnipeg’s charm – finding these secret spots and revelling in them. This charm is evident in our people, too. We toe the line between big city and small town. Jeans and Jets jerseys are appropriate attire for nights out at our classiest restau- rants. Driving your car fast down Portage Avenue on a Sunday night is both the cool- est and lamest thing to do with your time. I’ll always have a soft spot for the West chartinG charTs as of Tuesday, ocToBer 15, 2013 Bandcamp cKUW uMfM 1. Alec Holowka Aquaria Independent 1. Unbelievable Bargains Fun Times, Why Not Independent 1. Royal Canoe Today We’re Believers Nevado 2. KEN mode Entrench New Damage Records 2. Federal Lights We Were Found … Aporia 2. Grand Analog Modern Thunder The Shadow Cabinet 3.