Posted on October 6, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Music, The Latest
You gotta hand it to Billy Corgan. Here we were at Rexall Place on Friday night with our faded hoodies, our toques as fashion statements, our old piercings put back in. We were all ready. Even though we were many years older, nearing or at middle aged, we were ready. Ready to go back to […]
Posted on October 5, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
The thrill in seeing Bob Dylan again comes from the powerful aura of uncertainty that surrounds him at all times. What is he going to do this time? What’s he going to do when he performs with Mark Knopfler at Rexall Place on Tuesday, Oct. 9? Maybe trade guitar solos? That would be a riot. […]
Posted on October 4, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
It doesn’t seem to matter that the only original member left in The Smashing Pumpkins is Billy Corgan. Truth be told, he’s always been the driving force of the band – so it’s fitting he owns the name, of course. And long as he’s carrying the banner, the Pumpkins will remain a major force in […]
Posted on October 4, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
Here’s another allegedly redneck country singer who’s recently spilled over to the mainstream – Eric Church, who’s making his Edmonton debut not in some bar, but in the “big room,” the hockey arena, the one and only Rexall Place. The North Carolina singer performs Tuesday, Feb. 5 (2013), part of his “Blood, Sweat and Beers” […]
Posted on October 3, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music
The Cuban music scene is rich enough beyond the Buena Vista Social Club that there’s room for at least one hardcore band – but Arrabio may be the only one in Cuba, at least according to the band members. “Talking about Hardcore in Cuba there is no other band, it is only Arrabio playing Hardcore […]
Posted on October 3, 2012
By Mike Ross
Film, Front Slider, Music, Theatre
To have someone from the Yukon come all the way to Edmonton to present a “reconstituted” 1923 silent movie about the REAL Klondike is real treat for locals who are sick of the FAKE Klondike. On the recent moronic rebranding of our formerly bogus festival Klondike Days as K-Days, Whitehorse filmmaker and musician Daniel Janke […]
Posted on October 1, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
Hot on the heels of the glorious “Rush” of Canadian nostalgia comes news of another legend of Rock ‘n’ Canadiana: Heart – whose unforgettable songs were the soundtrack to many a gladly wasted youth around these parts. The band plays Monday, March 11 at the Jubilee Auditorium. Tickets go on sale Oct. 12. The soul […]
Posted on October 1, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
Diana Krall, it has been imagined, is both the piano player and the sultry chanteuse who lies atop the piano while she sings. You don’t get a rare double threat like this every day. It’s only once in a while – in this case Tuesday, Feb. 12, when the star of Canadian jazz performs at […]
Posted on September 27, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
It’s hard to understand how Rush can hold such an important place in musical history – especially in Canadian musical history – and yet have as many haters as fans. Not unlike Nickelback. Why do Canadians love to hate some of our own bands? Is it just because they’re successful? Do we prefer the more […]
Posted on September 26, 2012
By Barry Hammond
Film, Front Slider, Music
When Ken Burns’ 10 part series on the history of jazz premiered in 2001, you can just imagine German filmmaker Stefan Immler watching the segments on New York, Chicago, St. Louis, or Kansas city in his new home-town and screaming, “Hey! What about Washington, D.C.?!” He’d have a point – and makes it beautifully in […]
Posted on September 20, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
A pair of seminal metal bands are in Edmonton this weekend, with death metal act Obituary playing the Pawn Shop on Friday night, followed the next evening by thrash metal artists Anthrax at EEC. If metal isn’t your scene of choice, there’s classic rock, indie pop, indie rock and even folk to be heard this […]
Posted on September 19, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
The metal band Anthrax only had one problem with its name – in the tense few weeks following Sept. 11, 2001, when packets of deadly bacillus anthracis spores were mailed to several media outlets and politicians around North America. Seventeen people were infected, five died. The Edmonton Sun newsroom even got a delivery of suspicious […]
