MUSIC PREVIEW: Women of rock, pop rule the stage
As we look forward to the back-to-back pop spectacular with Sarah Brightman and Pink at Rexall Place next week, there are definitely some worthwhile gigs happening this weekend, including an early show by New York’s The Pretty Reckless over at the Starlite Room on Friday night – featuring Taylor Momsen, one of the most colourful […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Austra extraordinary
Perhaps most interesting of an eclectic batch of artists coming through town over the next few days is Austra – the middle name of its extraordinary singer Katie Stelmanis, whose classical training shows through at each step and turn. Playing Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the Avenue Theatre, the Toronto synthpop act hit a chord with […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Kaleido festival amps up
From humble community event to major city festival, the Kaleido Family Arts Festival takes over the city this weekend along Alberta (118) Avenue – and once again they’ve amped up the live music with a heady mix of touring and local performers that’s sure to please almost every music lover. The Dodos are the headliners […]
WEEKEND MUSIC: Longterm family Junkies
The iconic Cowboy Junkies are in town this weekend for a pair of sold out shows at St. Albert’s Arden Theatre, on a weekend where there’s as much live music to see around Edmonton as there is in it. One of the original Canadian bands that crossed country with folk and rock music, the Cowboy […]
WEEKEND MUSIC: Monsters of musical history
Wishbone Ash is a band known more for its influence on others than its own music, the Mudhoney of its day – holding a place in music history in the vanguard of the progressive rock movement that developed in the late ‘60s. In short, right place, right time. Luck was with these lads. When the […]
WEEKEND MUSIC: Pop sisters still the indelible indie twins
They may be famous now, but Tegan and Sara remain the indelible indie pop twin sisters from Calgary. They parachute into Edmonton on Sunday night for a show at the Shaw Conference Centre. The girls began playing guitar and writing songs together at the age of 15, and, now, almost twenty years later, have amassed […]
The Dead live again at Winter Roots Roundup
It’s more than just a touch of grey – it’s an entire head of whatever hair is left, a Grateful Dead kind of weekend. The centrepiece of this year’s Winter Roots Roundup at Festival Place will be Mickey Hart, one of the two drummers – the “rhythm devils” – of the Grateful Dead. He and […]
WEEKEND MUSIC: Marilyn Manson show will go on!
There is no official statement yet, but it looks like Marilyn Manson is going to be OK following his collapse on stage in Saskatoon Wednesday night. Saturday’s show in Edmonton and all remaining shows “will be moving forward as scheduled,” according to the concert promoter. You know, it’s always fun and games until somebody loses […]
WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Every day is Movember!
As Paul McCartney Week draws to a close, it behooves us to remember that he wasn’t the only seminal influence in modern pop music – just a very, very big one. This is true whether modern musicians even know it or admit or not. Burton Cummings knows. Playing Saturday night at the Winspear Centre, the […]
MUSIC: Almost too much inspiration in new Maria Dunn album
For a good old fashioned socially-conscious folk singer like Maria Dunn, you couldn’t ask for a richer topic than Edmonton’s famed GWG clothing factory. It has everything: Labour unions, local history, the immigrant experience, women’s rights and – since the factory closed seven years ago – another illustration of the drawbacks of corporate globalization. Almost […]
