Tag: the Grad Club

Charlotte Cornfield’s new album finds catharsis in illness

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Psoriasis, an autoimmune disease that causes a painful skin condition reminds Charlotte Cornfield what’s most important in life: family, then work. Coming to Kingston on March 6, Charlotte Cornfield, a Toronto folk-rock singer-songwriter will perform her new album inspired by her experiences with...

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Reuben and the Dark play Grad Club

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Reuben Bullock is proof that it’s never too late to find your passion.                                               On Mar. 6, Reuben and the Dark will perform songs from their 2018 album Arms of a Dream at the Grad Club. Bullock, the troupe’s lead singer, started his music career as a solo act but...

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Reuben and the Dark finds the bright side

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Despite Reuben and the Dark taking stage at the Grad Club this Saturday and many times prior, their frontman never planned on being a performer.  “I’m realizing what my own role is as a performer,” singer Reuben Bullock said.  Prior to his success, he simply “wanted to play songs before [he] ended...

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Winter poetry slam brings the heat

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My only exposure to slam poetry before Monday night was Jonah Hill screaming “Cynthia” in 22 Jump Street. But there I was, trying to find a chair in a lamp-lit room of The Grad Club to watch my first poetry slam.  I know that social circles beyond my own exist at Queen’s, but looking around The Grad...

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Young Rival kicking off Ontario tour in Kingston

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Young Rival is returning to Kingston on Jan. 27 to give us a taste of their new psychedelic sound.   The Hamilton band hasn’t stopped moving since the release of their most recent album Interior Light. They recently supported Toronto band Born Ruffians on their North American tour and then finished...

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QPOP! packs a punch

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Last weekend, QPOP! breathed life into campus’ nightlife. The second annual QPOP! festival was held on campus this past weekend at The Underground, Clark Hall Pub and The Grad Club. This year, QPOP! brought 15 indie bands to campus. The line-up included popular Queen’s musicians, such as The...

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Butler’s back home

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Mike Butler is coming back to an old home. A former Queen’s graduate with a degree in math and economics, Butler returns to Kingston this Saturday night not as an accountant, but as a country singer. “I put out an EP a few months back in 2013 which I recorded here in Toronto. It’s my first solo project...

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Passionate play

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If you play music with a passion, you must do it for yourself. That’s Nils Edenloff’s motto. “If you just keep playing music for yourself, eventually your audience will respond to it at some point,” he said. Canadian indie rock band Rural Alberta Advantage tributes this piece of advice to their success....

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Limestone foundation

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The Gertrudes’ vocalist Annie Clifford describes their music as “the kind of thing I’d want to listen to before I die.” She said “Six Jars,” the second track on their new release, Till the Morning Shows Her Face to Me, would be a good song for someone’s mortal end. “It has this transcendent feeling,”...

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