MUSIC PREVIEW: Walk Off the Earth on a Fast Run to the Top
Generally referred to as an “indie band,” Burlington, Ontario’s Walk Off the Earth finds influences and inspirations from all manners of music, with virtually no limits on what they might pull out of the musicsphere to craft their material – from more traditional guitars, bass, and drums, to banjos, glockenspiels, ukuleles, and even a theremin. […]
LISTEN HERE: Black Mastiff goes to space
Coincidentally, the subject of Black Mastiff’s new video for the song Star Base 77 is a French Mastiff named Babette – who is not black. She’s yellow. Via “Rotoscope” animation (the technique of tracing over real footage, made famous by Ralph Bakshi in his 1978 version of The Lord of the Rings), the rescue dog […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Shinedown, you crazy diamond
Florida act Shinedown blitzkriegs through the city Friday night as part of their “Attention Attention” World Tour, supporting their 2018 album of the same name. A concept album, it finds an individual in the throes of negativity and charts their course to becoming reborn as a new and positive one. The alt-hard rock band was […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Rocketman’s farewell hottest ticket in Edmonton
Sir Elton John rolls into town this weekend in the midst of his three-year, 300-plus date Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. At Rogers Place for a two-nighter Friday and Saturday, the legendary Rocketman had a slew of successive hit singles in the 1970s and 1980s, including Crocodile Rock, Daniel, Pinball Wizard, Don’t Go Breaking My […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Sonic all over the sonic map at Field Day
It’s just a little wish: Sonic 102.9 FM could be, you know, a little “heavier” – ‘cuz we’re a HEAVY town, man – but you have to admit they consistently play the widest variety of the new music, the alternative, the so-called “modern rock,” which is all over the map, sonically. Hence the name. Some […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Maiden tour named for video game
The legendary Iron Maiden are in town Friday as part of the North American portion of their “Legacy Of the Beast” Tour, which shares the name of a mobile game the group released in 2016. The turn-based RPG game features Iron Maiden’s infamous mascot Eddie; players collect combatants and fight infernal foes. The band’s last […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Founds Grounds Abounds
Two of the city’s most extraordinary promoters, Double Lunch Productions and Sweaty Palms, have joined forces to put on an epic series of shows called the Found Grounds Music Series at the Backstage Theatre (Old Strathcona Arts Barns), during the city’s Found Festival. Friday’s show is perhaps the pinnacle with Jessica Jalbert. She is of […]
WEEKEND MUSIC: Take these broken wings and learn to fly again
Any injured bird or small animal in Northern Alberta is fair game for the WILDNorth Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Society – which throws its annual “Wildlife Festival” this Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm in Queen Mary Park (10844 117 Street). Admission is free – do you hear me? FREE! The good cause is […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Cher and Cher alike
You can’t be too mad at Cher – who retired and then changed her mind, not once, not twice, but thrice! At least she has a healthy sense of humour about it. The show coming to Rogers Place on Saturday night is part of the “Here We Go Again” tour. (IMPORTANT NOTE: On Tuesday night […]
LIVE MUSIC: Metric system catching on
Metric brings their Art of Doubt tour to Edmonton this Sunday night at the Edmonton Convention Centre. The Toronto rockers, led by the incredible voice of Emily Haines, are no stranger to Edmonton of course, and it’s no surprise the itinerary for their newest release includes our fair city. The band have been regulars on […]
MUSIC: Bubbly Buble recipe: 2 shots of happy, 1 shot of sad, 1 shot of Frank
It was the goddamned media that anointed Michael Buble “the new Frank Sinatra” – followed shortly by media pronouncements that “Buble ain’t no Sinatra!” This is true! As far as we know, Buble has never threatened chin music on some crummy mook who fucked the deck, never called a female journalist a “ring-a-ding broad!” And […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Is Erin Costelo’s new album named after a candy bar?
Nova Scotia soul-Americana Erin Costelo shows a soaring energy and a steadfast resolve in her work, as she pushes back against the world, and sometimes even the industry that seems to want to fight against her. She plays Thursday, April 4 at The Almanac on the back of her second full-length, Sweet Marie, recorded in […]
