WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Slaughter Fest invades Avenue

Posted on June 14, 2012 By Michael Senchuk Music

As Alberta music fans shift their attention southward to Calgary for the impending Sled Island music festival, there are definitely still some shows in Edmonton worth checking out. On Friday night a new Edmonton electro band called Terrace plays its first live show ever at the Haven Social Club; and on Saturday a lengthy list […]

JAZZ FEST: A user’s guide – Botti and beyond

Posted on June 12, 2012 By Mike Ross Culture, Front Slider, Music

It’s not who you know, it’s who you don’t know – and that’s the key to enjoying a good jazz festival. This wisdom, above, comes from Kent Sangster, artistic director of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, which runs through July 1 at venues around town with headliners like Wayne Shorter and Chris Botti and many […]

CONCERT REVIEW: The Wailers spread love at Open Sky

Posted on June 10, 2012 By Robin Schroffel Music

The skies sure opened wide Saturday evening at the Open Sky Music Festival – but that didn’t stop the revelry at Hawrelak Park’s Heritage Amphitheatre. Girls danced in the downpour, teenagers wrapped themselves up like ghosts in soaking sleeping bags, and dreadlocked students made friendly conversation while the weather howled through the festival grounds and […]

Interview with a Wailer: High times and kindred spirits at Open Sky

Posted on June 8, 2012 By Mike Ross Music

You don’t have to smoke marijuana to play reggae properly – but it helps. “God knows!” declares Barrington Brown, aka Koolant, the new lead singer for the Wailers – who, at the age of 27, hasn’t been alive as long as Bob Marley has been dead. Koolant is nonetheless a stone-cold, real-deal Jamaican Rasta-man who […]

Colin James to play the Jubilee Auditorium Nov. 15

Posted on June 4, 2012 By Albert Smith Music, The Latest

He just came back to say … I’m back! Man, that Colin James joke never gets old, and yes, the multi-stylistic Vancouver veteran will return to perform at the Jubilee Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 15. Tickets go on sale Friday. A man who never wears out his welcome in this town, James is touring with […]

INTERVIEW: The 8 Labors of Henry Rollins

Posted on June 3, 2012 By Mike Ross Comedy, Front Slider, Lit, TV and Radio

As a stand-up comic with a gift for going over the top, Henry Rollins makes Denis Leary look like Steven Wright – but he’s not really a stand-up comic. As a motivational speaker, Rollins is more motivational than Tony Robbins and Gene Simmons rolled into one – but he’s not really a motivational speaker. As […]

Folk fest sells out in record time, Justin Bieber, too

Posted on June 1, 2012 By Albert Smith Music, The Latest

Stop whatever has replaced presses: The Edmonton Folk Music Festival has sold out. Again. Like anybody didn’t see that coming. “It was crazy,” says producer Terry Wickham, who reports that 1,200 people showed up at the folk fest office to buy tickets in person at 9 p.m. Friday morning, where it’s usually around 400. Online […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Deer Tick about to pop

Posted on May 31, 2012 By Michael Senchuk Music

What appears to be a quiet weekend for original live music is livened up by a number of highlights that include a CD release party for local favourites Scenic Route To Alaska, a 20th anniversary gig for punk veterans Chixdiggit, and perhaps the biggest draw of all, Deer Tick at the Starlite Room. Friday Fall […]

Rise Against to rock Edmonton Expo Centre Oct. 7

Posted on May 18, 2012 By Albert Smith Front Slider, Music

In trying to figure out what Rise Against is rising against – everything that needs it – consider how big this punk rock band has become and how playing the big rooms automatically makes one part of the mainstream. So, hey, one less thing to rise against. Cross that off your list, boys. But mark […]

Hip Hop in the Park a new age hippie happening

Posted on May 17, 2012 By Mike Ross Music, The Latest

Hip Hop in the Park – a free festival taking place Saturday at the Louise McKinney Park – is more like the folk fest than any stereotype of a dangerous gangsta rap music event imagined by people who are afraid of rap music. “We’re more like new age hippies,” says producer Melissa L.A. Bishop. “We’re […]

CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTS: Refused, Nazareth, Buddy Guy

Posted on May 16, 2012 By Albert Smith Music, The Latest

There’s something about the Scandinavian culture that leads itself to great rock bands – could be that ancient Viking blood coursing through veins of the citizenry, filling them with latent urges to explore, hew things, quaff mead from a skull. Good times. It seems to bubble over into its rock scene, which is why news […]

Hayloft Acres a little patch of heaven for area musical farmer

Posted on May 10, 2012 By Mike Ross Music, The Latest

Well, said the Musical Farmer, thumbs in his armpits, it’s plantin’ time again, time again to sow the seeds of lifelong ambition and grow another healthy organic crop of positive musical vibes to reap a bountiful harvest of good gigs – and high time to take this farming metaphor behind the barn and kill it […]

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