Emily Whalen wrote a really awesome and detailed run-down of next week’s festival shows, which you can read by clicking here:
Emily’s Journal guide to the festival
(favourite line: “The Gertrudes feature some of Kingston’s most sensitive musicians.”
Rogalsky: Chris, when you play the theremin like that you come close to whacking me in the face [...]

KCVI student David Simon lets us know what’s up at the corner of Frontenac and Earl. Google image searched photo by Andrew MacKinnon.

Lucas - an Apple Crisp member, music-lover, and musician - discusses
“real” music: the appreciation of music not just as sound, but as part
of a broader social, physical, and artistic context. Click here for Part I.

Lucas Huang considers the way we’re listening now.
Photo by Lucas.

How alternative concert spaces stimulate the relationship between performer and audience.
By Brendan Kennedy

Kaitlin Schwan responds to “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization” by Douglas Haddow, from adbusters #79.