By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
August 31, 2010

Toronto (via Vancouver)’s Paint is bringing their colourful sound to Phog Lounge on Sept. 10. The band will be in town promoting their second full-length album, 2009’s Can You Hear Me?
Paint has faced major changes since its inception. Vocalist and guitarist Robb Johannes moved from Vancouver to Toronto in 2009, after writing and recording Can You Hear Me? with his previous Vancouver bandmates, to pursue Paint professionally, and had to re-staff the band upon his arrival.
“I was the only one with enough loose screws to pick everything up and try to pursue this as a career. I kind of had the least to lose. There was a bit of instability in the beginning when we settled in Toronto,” explained Johannes.
“The change was pretty significant, in terms of the drive as opposed to just doing this as a hobby and finding people willing to go all the way with it. That’s tough because you ask a lot of people when you do that. You’re asking people to give up everything that they know and every sense of reality they have and just go for it. It’s hard, and it’s still hard,” he continued.
As soon as the new line-up was secured, they began writing songs together and currently have almost a full-length album’s worth of songs, but the band isn’t rushing to get into the studio, rather they’re concentrating on promoting themselves as a live entity. >>

By Matthew A. Terry
Lance Writer

August 31, 2010

The 2010/2011 school year marks the 50th anniversary of UWindsor’s School of Visual Arts, which they are celebrating with several events on Sept. 3 and Sept. 4.
It is the start of a year-long series of events titled “Intersections,” which will include several talks and a conference later in the year.
The School of Visual Arts will be starting the weekend with a keynote address – delivered by faculty member Iain Baxter&, considered as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist and the first to adopt a corporate persona – and a cocktail party on Friday, Sept. 3 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the LeBel Gallery.
On Saturday, Sept. 4, the school will be holding an open house and art sale from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
“The show is being called a salon,” said Professor Lee Rodney of the School of Visual Arts.
“It’s an idea from the 19th century where they had a yearly [art show] with enough art to cover the walls. It’s a very egalitarian way of running a show.”
“Typically they are carefully and meticulously managed. It’s more of a wild-card show,” Rodney continued.
The art sale is intended to raise funds for scholarships to the School of Visual Arts.
Fifty per cent of all funds raised from the sale will be returned to the artist, and the remaining 50 per cent will go toward the scholarship fund.
Alumni, current students, and artists from across the country will be putting work forward in the sale. >>

By Clara Musca
Lance Writer
August 31, 2010

CJAM 99.1 FM welcomes its new Music Director, Murad Erzinclioglu.
Erzinclioglu has been involved at the campus-community radio station since 2002, with his Jammy award-winning show Productive Confusion, and has also served on the Board of Directors.
Originally from Welland, ON, Erzinclioglu moved to Windsor eight years ago to study Visual Arts and Communications at UWindsor. Over the years he has achieved many local endeavours including writing for Upfront Magazine and the Lance, founding and organizing the Harvesting the FAM festival, has worked with Artcite and the Media City Film Festival, and is the producer for Rose City Sessions. He’s also currently in charge of the Windsor Scene column in WAMM Magazine.
Erzinclioglu’s interest in music journalism began when he was very young. In fact, his experience dates back to elementary school when he started writing about alternative rock bands for his school paper.
“My parents were really big on music. I was raised on Bob Marley, Elvis, Beatles, Jethro Tull, The Doors—a lot of classic stuff. I was always interested in music in general,” recalled Erzinclioglu.
“I remember when I was in Grade 4, my sister just started high school and there was this huge snow storm. My sister and I were stuck in the house for a week, and we had just gotten cable TV, so we spent the entire week watching MuchMusic and learning about bands, and what Canadian indie was at the time.”
Since getting on board with the music department at CJAM, Erzinclioglu has been eager to get a good start on his new a job—a job that he has wanted for many years. >>