FISHEYE: Get Down Down Down Down
Shout Out Out Out Out fan. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city. More Fisheye fotos here.
Trombone Shorty headlines eclectic night of music
The live music offered on an average Edmonton Friday night borders on the absurd, sometimes. U.S. performers often marvel at how active our club scene still is, long after most of theirs were replaced by drum machines and disco balls, as a certain song once noted. They’re amazed we pull it off. I don’t have […]
FISHEYE: North Country Spiders From Mars
This is Darren Radborn of the AwesomeHots at North Country Fair, wearing his disgusting paper Bowie mask from Amsterdam. There are strange things done in the midnight sun. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city. More […]
Command Sisters take their sound to Nashville
Have you ever been to an actual hootenanny in Nashville? At ages 15 and 12 respectively, Charlotte and Sarah Command,will go you one better: they’ve played one. The sisters recently spent two weeks in Nashville, performing at eight different venues in a whirlwind tour of the music city but had time to chat on the […]
POETRY: the deep meaning of rap-rock lyrics
Who knows where the cookie came from in Limp Bizkit’s 1999 hit Nookie, nor why the song’s subject was told to stick it up her ‘Yeah.’ I also never quite deciphered what Kid Rock meant by “bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy.” Angry rap-rock bands provided a smorgasbord of horribly juvenile lyrics, and perhaps that’s […]
LADIES’ MEN: Josh, Keith and Burton scheduled to woo your wives
When Josh Groban says he’s going to “do one for the ladies,” he’s not just kidding around – they’re ALL for the ladies. That goes double for Keith Urban. Attention females of Edmonton: Both of these amazingly hot hunka hunka burnin’ love superstars are coming to Edmonton this September. Groban takes the stage […]
Out on a limb with radiohead: Local fans tweet their say
And on the fourth day there was The King of Limbs. Earlier that week, on Feb. 14, Radiohead announced on its website that the group’s new album was finished and would be released on Feb. 19. But last Friday morning, fans awoke to discover the album released a day earlier. The Internet, in particular Twitter, […]
Roots and Blues Roundup II in full swing this weekend
If you want to know where we’re going, we have to know where we’ve been. So take heed, all your alt-country punks and neo-folkies – some originators are coming to show us how it’s done at the Winter Roots and Blues Roundup II. Running at venues around town until Monday, this five-day multi-media festival features […]
MUSIC: For Sister Gray, girl power’s just downright shrewd
It’s a good thing the three male members of Sister Gray aren’t starved for attention. Because when your band is fronted by two fetching fashionistas in their early 20s, you’re not going to get much of it. When the indie-rock quintet takes the stage, all eyes are on lead sisters Jenesse and Brittany Graling. “They’re […]
MUSIC: Portrait of the artist as a young mogul
“It’s going to be a crazy year,” promises Joe Gurba of his plans for 2011 for his not-quite-fledgling label Old Ugly Recording Co. That isn’t to say that it hasn’t already been exciting; his profile around Edmonton has been elevated through the last two months as he’s celebrated and promoted the release of his alter […]
