Apocalyptic Pagan rock opera to premiere at North Country Fair

Here’s a devilish scenario: What if – of all religions – Paganism turns out to be the correct one? Like, hey, didn’t see that coming. Imagine: The Mother Earth Goddess, aka Gaia, has been beaten and raped by humanity. Her husband, meanwhile, doesn’t know because he’s been asleep for several hundred years following an epic [...]

GIGBITS: Bummed out artists, Mark Meer in plastic, Joe Bird Award

Look on the bright side – at least there won’t be another election for the next four years. Even so, a number of Edmonton arts people are deeply bummed today, for some reason. Some of the usual suspects chimed in on Facebook: Music promoter John Armstrong: “So what’s next? Can we impeach him? Are there [...]

ROCK BITS: Rock the vote, kids rock, roots rock weirdo and Mel’s rockpile

  Hockey or the damned election – that’s all anybody ever talks about in Edmonton at this time of year, year after year after year. From the Department of Pointing Out the Painfully Obvious comes this observation: Artists all over town are ever so slightly leaning to the side of the commie pinko bleeding heart [...]