Posted on January 31, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music, The Latest
Pondering where it cut like a knife in the summer of ’69 is going to get a lot easier when Bryan Adams comes to Rexall Place on Tuesday, June 19 – to explain it all for us in song. Tickets go on sale Monday. Adams is expected to evoke a rush of incontinent nostalgia from […]
Posted on January 26, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
A couple of acts that hit their peak in the 1990s come to Edmonton this week, with the pop brothers Hanson on Friday, and country crooner Neal McCoy on Saturday. And there’s plenty of local talent on display as well, culminating in an all-day live music festival at Winston Churchill Square on Sunday, Tip Of […]
Posted on January 24, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Front Slider, Music
The Jezabels are returning to headline the Starlite Room on Thursday, April 26, just a couple of months after opening for Hey Rosetta at the Myer Horowitz Theatre. The Australian quartet is fronted by Hayley Mary, who struck a chord with most attendees at that show, being compared by some to Metric’s Emily Haines, by […]
Posted on January 24, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music
There is a lot to be said for a good, full-on, raging … heavy metal tune. It really gets the blood pumping. There’s nothing quite like it when experienced live, up close, perhaps inside the mosh pit itself, or surfing on top of it, if one dares. Some fun. But as history has shown so […]
Posted on January 23, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
Scientists are unclear on the exact length of time represented by an “MMMBop” – a subjective temporal paradox wherein a long period of time is perceived as a short period of time. “It’s a reference to how time passes really quickly in your own life,” explains Isaac Hanson, who discovered the existence of the MMMBop […]
Posted on January 23, 2012
By Albert Smith
Front Slider, Music
The jury’s out on whether there is much of a cross-over audience between the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Kathleen Edwards – because both are playing on the same night in Edmonton, Monday, April 9, the former at the Jubilee Auditorium, the latter down the road at the Myer Horowitz Theatre. Tickets for both shows go on […]
Posted on January 21, 2012
By Albert Smith
Culture, Music, The Latest
Much effort is made on the part of record companies, concert promoters and radio stations to guess the music “kids today are into.” The people at Axe Music don’t need to guess. They know, thanks to its annual Axetremefest school program, which brings a complete professional sound and lighting rig into selected Alberta high schools […]
Posted on January 20, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest, Theatre
One usually doesn’t think of how much energy it takes to run a theatre show, but Mile Zero Dance is about to change that – and set a new level for “audience participation” at the same time. All of the acts featured in Saturday night’s “Unplugged Salon” at the Westbury Theatre (10330 84 Avenue) will […]
Posted on January 20, 2012
By Albert Smith
Front Slider, Music
Time for another buzz band you’ll probably not get a chance to see in a small theatre again: Said the Whale, winner of best new group at the 2011 Juno Awards, is playing the Myer Horowitz Theatre on Wednesday, April 25. Crafting a crisp, snappy, happy, jingly-jangly poppy sound into a threat of modern rock […]
Posted on January 19, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
With the weather transitioning over the weekend to more normal temperatures, there’s no excuse not to head out and catch some live music. Friday’s schedule is a bit light – but Saturday night more than makes up for it. Friday African Guitar Summit – If you’re looking for something completely different from the city’s usual […]
Posted on January 19, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Front Slider, Music
The last time Saskatoon’s Library Voices was in town, the band was pelted by grapes. True story. “Just part of the fun of being on tour,” according to lyricist and synth player Michael Dawson. Heck, by the end of it, the seven band members were catching them in their mouths. That all went down the […]
Posted on January 18, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music
Imagine two identical figure skaters, both brilliant and amazing enough to win a gold medal. One skates to Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor, the other to You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi. Who wins? The answer is of course obvious, as is the idea that the music selected by a […]
