Category: Entertainment

Great music for an even greater cause? Yes, you read correctly! On September 5th 2016, join countless attendees for an evening filled with lively ambiance and an even livelier ensemble of musical artists consisting of Noyze, Tricia Fitz, and Chair Warriors; all local artists from the Greater Montreal Area. Alternative, ambiant, and mesmerizing music, will be played as a way of showing support for individuals diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome. Tourette Canada is inviting you to come be a part of this fantastic fundraising event for patients, as well as families, affected…

  It was a grueling, stressful, unimaginably difficult 8 months of rehearsing, but Vanier’s Music Department has finally completed its three night run of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The two-and-a-half hour-long musical production is Sondheim’s love letter to the classic fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, weaving an intricate narrative from the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Cinderella. Unfortunately, the fairy tale aspect of the musical ends with the story, as the music itself is a challenge even for…

On January 28th, nearly three years after her previous album, Rihanna drops her eighth and latest full-length record, Anti. Despite this being the biggest gap between releases in her career, the album was worth the wait. A lot of anticipation surrounded the release of the album as the singer had been working on it since November 2014. Three promotional singles came out prior to the album’s release, yet none of them made it to the final track list. Once Anti hit the shelves, however, curiosity was at its highest amongst…

A lot of things can be learned from the collaboration of Joshua Castillo and Marie-France Lantin, two Vanier students forming a jazz band. For one thing, when students from wildly different disciplines get together, amazing things can happen. Perhaps more importantly, fitting music into a non-musical career path is both incredibly challenging and very much worthwhile. Joshua, a jazz guitar student in the Music program, and Marie-France, a lifelong singer currently studying Science, first met through a mutual friend, and it was a shared love of music that quickly brought…

Rating: 6.5 Boots, a.k.a. Jordy Asher, a producer, singer and songwriter, who’s mostly known for having worked with Beyoncé on her self-titled record, released his solo debut album on November 13th. However, AQUARIA has a sound that’s miles away from the diva’s carefully produced R&B hit. There’s a dreary atmosphere surrounding the album; from the obscure tone of the lyrics to the entrancing, apocalyptic sound of the electronic music framing them, there’s a distinct darkness attached to the work itself that is both shiver-inducing and incredibly interesting. The first few…