REAREND IN VIEW: Our top stories of 2012

REAREND IN VIEW: Our top stories of 2012

The most popular stories GigCity published in 2012 started in January with a viral video of “strange sounds in the sky” that prompted a local debunker to create a hoax video to prove the original was a hoax, but the plan backfired when her video went viral, too, as did the article we wrote about […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Hopped up on Timbits

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Hopped up on Timbits

The music universe usually heads into its annual slow-down period around Christmas – but you wouldn’t know it by Friday night in Edmonton. Even with the Jingle Bell Rock gig moved to Sunday (and downgraded from the Shaw to the Edmonton Event Centre), it’s still a toss-up what to see. The guy from Poison or […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: This Lund is your Lund

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: This Lund is your Lund

Pop quiz: Can you … Break a horse? Light a fire? Gut a fish? Read the sky? Track the deer? Dig the well? If you answered yes to at least four of the above, then you may just have a chance to be a lucky survivor when the oil runs out and there’s a “rip […]

WHO NAMED THE BAND: Mother Mother a double threat

WHO NAMED THE BAND: Mother Mother a double threat

Mother Mother started out as a single “Mother” – a word frontman Ryan Guldemond picked it for its “ominous yet benevolent connotation.” He’s just described the sound of his own band, known for a song called Hayloft, with its spooky chorus: “My daddy’s gotta gun, you’d better run!”; or more recently Let’s Fall In Love […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: So long, EEC!

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: So long, EEC!

If the history of Edmonton’s volatile live music scene has taught us anything, it’s that when one bar goes down, another pops up somewhere else – but there’s always a lot of sadness, as if we’d lost a close friend. Or at least a familiar acquaintance. We’re still heartbroken over the closure of the Sidetrack […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Dan Mangan to rock Winspear Centre

There’s a incredible bill on Monday, Nov. 5 as Dan Mangan and Rural Alberta Advantage play a sold out show at the Winspear Centre. Mangan is perhaps Canada’s version of Bon Iver – at least in terms of his “indie” buzz if not his lack of mellowness – an incredible songwriter, musician and singer whose […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Too many CD releases? Not enough CD releases!

With such an eclectic sound, Less Than Jake has never found incredible success on any charts, but the Florida ska-punk act’s longevity is certainly proof enough that the concept can work, and perhaps even makes a case for sonic experimentation. Playing Sunday night the Edmonton Event Centre, the band has survived more or less intact […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: What a feeling, what a Rush

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 […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Fogerty holds up

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 […]

WHO NAMED THE BAND: Living with Anthrax

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 […]

MORE GIGS: The Sheepdogs, Mother Mother hit town in December

The summers fill with outdoor festivals, the winters with cool indoor gigs. Behold the great cycle of life! The latest on the sked is the Sheepdogs (right), the fast rising Saskatoon foursome playing Friday, Dec. 14 at the Edmonton Event Centre – almost exactly one year after the band’s last appearance in town. Since then, […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Rock legends descend on Edmonton

While the calendar continues to be dominated by the Edmonton International Fringe Festival, never let it be said that this city doesn’t honor musical legends, as three bands that saw the peak of their careers in the 1980s and 1990s perform around town this weekend – The Cult, Refused, and the Headpins. The Edmonton Blues […]

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