DEMF 2009 presents music you can feel By Andrea Keelan
Lance Writer
June 3, 2009 American Memorial Day weekend took place with a bang. Or more of a constant thumping, really.
 Office workers in downtown Windsor could hear the pulse coming across the river Monday afternoon. Some Windsor residents in the university area said they could hear the pounding as they lay in bed on the weekend, vainly trying to sleep.
No, it wasn’t a rogue construction crew, a metal stamping plant, or even Red Wings fans celebrating Detroit’s slaying of the Chicago Black Hawks Sunday afternoon. It was the ninth annual Detroit Electronic Music Festival taking place in Hart Plaza. >> | Misery Signals on tour in support of Controller By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor June 3, 2009 Control, of course, plays a prominent role in many peoples’ lives, and half-Wisconsin half-Canadian metal band Misery Signals is no exception. Although it is not a concept album, the themes in the aptly titled Controller, do well to deal with this.
 The band, composed of vocalist Karl Schubach, guitarists Stuart Ross and Ryan Morgan, drummer Branden Morgan, and bassist Kyle Johnson, is currently headlining the Weight of the World Tour to support Controller.
“Control plays a huge part in most peoples’ lives and we’re no different. Although most of us try to rid it of our lives it’s something that will always be there. >> | Art Gallery of Windsor summer preview By Josh Kolm
Lance Writer June 3, 2009 The aim of the Windsor Biennial program is reasonable enough: organize works from local artists created within the last two years in order to observe impulses in local contemporary art.
It ends up, however, being a lesson in talent used for a constructive purpose.
Be it paintings of guys lazing around in headbands and American Apparel briefs or a painfully ironic portrait of Tom Selleck, you wonder if these were meant to be released to the public or hung in a friend’s apartment for a good chuckle/conversation starter.
The work is well done, but seem silly next to the more ambitious pieces.
A strip of cast iron dozens of metres long is patterned in the staircase outside, and inside the walls, floors and furniture have been scuffed and mutated as part of a wonderfully borderless piece. >> |
