Reading Time: < 1 minuteFans wait over nine hours for Osheaga Festival Max Szyc | Fulcrum Contributor Photo by Charleena Fan MONTREAL’S ANNUAL OSHEAGA festival typically attracts festival-goers of all ages thanks to its eclectic lineups. This summer was no exception, as ‘80s electro-pop veterans New Order played back-to-back with modern folk-rock sensations Mumford and Sons at the festival’s …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFive albums to groove, chill, and definitely not study to this summer Max Szyc | Fulcrum Contributor The Knife Shaking the Habitual | Mute Records Sweden’s The Knife joins a wave of artists like David Bowie and Daft Punk who made long-awaited returns in 2013 after lengthy periods of (mostly) silence. While it was …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum critics take on a comic book and a graphic novel for those who know there’s no shame in reading books with pictures.
Reading Time: 3 minutes101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper Yann Martel | Vintage Canada 4 / 5 YANN MARTEL, THE author of Life of Pi, released another book in 2012 that was a polar opposite of his previous novel. 101 Letters to a Prime Minister is a non-fiction work that features the …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum movie critics review Admission and Oz the Great and Powerful.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Fulcrum hosts its first set of book reviews this year at last!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe PepTides Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe | Self-released 4 / 5 REVENGE OF THE Vinyl Cafe, from Ottawa’s own nine-piece outfit The PepTides, is an unusual album. What’s important to realize is that it isn’t really an album; it’s a soundtrack, written and recorded to coincide with each short story in Stuart McLean’s book …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum music critic Max Szyc reviews long-awaited new releases from Irish alt-rock legends My Bloody Valentine and Canadian death metal old-timers Voivod.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum film critics review the hit-and-miss humour of Identity Thief and the garden-variety romance of Safe Haven.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week’s reviews include new albums from Canadian indie rockers Ra Ra Riot and Tegan and Sara
Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum music critic Max Szyc reviews new releases from Ochre and The Joy Formidable.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week’s reviews include the much-anticipated sophomore effort from A$AP Rocky and the controversial 9/11 film Zero Dark Thirty.
Reading Time: 4 minutesCheck out film reviews for Django Unchained and Hyde Park on Hudson along with music reviews of Why? and Scott Walker.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week’s music reviews include Soundgarden, deadmau5, the Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra, and Ke$ha.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week, Fulcrum reviews give praise to Clous Atlas and Anna Karenina—and quite the opposite to the Twilight finale.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat did our reviewers think of the Red Dawn remake? How about new Deftones and Crystal Castles?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week’s reviews include new efforts from Converge and Flyleaf and the solo debut from Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week’s music reviews include the triumphant return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the new breakup guide from Taylor Swift.
Reading Time: 4 minutesHoly hit films! Check out this week’s rave reviews of The Master and Seven Psychopaths.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week’s film reviews are The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Celeste and Jesse Forever.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Reviews Vault contains online exclusive reviews for albums and movies both new and old.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week’s reviews are House at the End of the Street, starring Jennifer Lawrence, and The Killers’ new album, Battle Born.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAlbum reviews for Sept. 27, 2012 include Delhi 2 Dublin and Ottawa’s own Silvergun & Spleen.
