USS, Death from Above in Jingle Bell Rock doubleheader at the EEC
Stop it already with the holiday creep! It’s not even Halloween and we’re already thinking about Christmas. The signs are inevitable – and one is the announcement of the annual Jingle Bell Rock event for charity. This year’s bash for a good cause is a doubleheader. The first show features Toronto’s dance-rock outfit Death from […]
REVIEW: Zombies bring psychedelic ’60s back to life
Keyboard solos have become a lost art – as Rod Argent reminded everyone at the Zombies on Sunday night. The 66-year-old founding member of the British band pounded the keys like a lion, and made them roar like nobody’s business. With fellow founding lead singer Colin Blunstone and the support of a tight band, the […]
Avril Lavigne’s Four Step Program of Romance and Revenge
And so the young ladies of Edmonton did commune with the Alpha Elders of the Tribe of Womyn in a not-so-secret shamanic ritual to learn the mysterious ways of the Goddess Incarnate. In short, it was another Avril Lavigne concert [2022 edit: She performs Thursday, May 19 at Rogers Place] Like it or not, pop […]
CONCERT NEWS: George Canyon, sold-out Selena Gomez and more Jon Lajoie
It takes a real man to cry – and an even realer man to make that man cry. George Canyon may be that man. Find out when the archetypical cowboy country singer pulls into the River Cree Casino on Saturday, Dec. 10, bringing with him a heady mix of good ol’ Canadian boy country rockers […]
WHERE THEY ARE NOW: Christian Mena, Sabor Divino and Maracujah
Christian Mena was supposed to have become this big-deal Broadway star when he went away to join the touring production of Rent. How he wound up living back in Edmonton with a wife and kids and running a restaurant is a good topic for a VH1 “Behind the Music” special. But since there’s no tragedy, […]
Edmonton’s ‘Princes’ of punk party with Yakuza rockers in Tokyo
Local punk rockers N.N. somehow missed all the deadlines for most of North America’s major new music festivals in 2010 – but at least they made it to Japan. On a website for a guitarist they all admired – Tokyo’s Nikolas Faraguna – they noticed a banner for Japan Music Week. On a lark, they […]
WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Zombies rock tonight
What we lack in big names this coming weekend we make up for in depth. The opening weekend of the National Hockey League season features more than enough reasons to get out of the house after the early game is over, including two release parties on Friday night (Fuquored and N.N.), and the major event […]
Underground supergroup Darlings of Chelsea unleash ‘Panic’
Darlings of Chelsea have been around. Names like The Black Halos, Robin Black and CJ Sleez are likely familiar to anyone following the underground music scene across Canada over the past decade or more, and in 2009, a few longtime rockers who paid their dues as members of the above banded together in Toronto to […]
