Posted on April 30, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music, The Latest
Holy hot Texas tamale! Not since Steve Earle shacked up with that redhead firebrand Allison Moorer has there been such a power music couple as seen in the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Featuring Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, both formidable modern blues stars in their own right, The Tedeshi Trucks Band plays Friday, June 22 at […]
Posted on April 30, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
Naming a band is like branding a cow. The band cringes at the process, but once done, there’s just a scar. The cow, or band, as the case may be, eventually doesn’t even notice its brand, which loses any original meaning beyond conferring identity and ownership. “It’s just the name of the band, man!” say […]
Posted on April 28, 2012
By Albert Smith
Culture, Music, The Latest
Let’s get this out of the way: People are going to complain about the Edmonton Music Awards – this year’s crop of winners including Tupelo Honey, Zerbin and people’s choice selection Killinger, as revealed in the second annual awards ceremony Saturday night. Haters are going to mutter that the EMAs do not accurately represent the […]
Posted on April 28, 2012
By Adrian Lackey
Front Slider, Theatre
With all the elements Stewart Lemoine has put into his latest play The Adulteress – an outspoken woman who lost her eye in an office accident, an awkward meeting between two prospective tenants who both want the same room, a landlord caught in the middle – you’d think we’d have another rip-snorter on our hands. […]
Posted on April 28, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Culture, Lit
A.M. Dellamonica – an Edmonton-bred fantasy writer whose first novel Indigo Springs won the “Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature for the Fantastic” – has a fresh sequel on the shelves called Blue Magic that may be even more fantastic. Now living in Vancouver with more than 30 short stories to her credit, she […]
Posted on April 28, 2012
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, Front Slider, Lit, Visual Arts
Wilfred Walker, son of the late Edmonton artist, author, musician and conservationist Ella May Walker, offered up a revealing detail about his mother as he addressed a recent gathering at the Prince of Wales Armoury that officially opened an online archive exhibit about her. “There was a nudist colony on Lake Wabamun,” Walker began. “Our […]
Posted on April 26, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
Putting aside the question of whether electronic music fans are crazier than rock fans – Northlands seemed to think so when they refused to allow alcohol to be sold at this weekend’s Elements Music Festival until a judge ordered the decision reversed – there are more basic questions for those who don’t know their “house” […]
Posted on April 26, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
Most of our favourite bands in the city will be somewhere this weekend, with two intense gigs on Sunday night featuring many of the city’s best-known acts. On Saturday night, the rest are probably nominated for an Edmonton Music Award, with several notable local acts also performing during the awards ceremony at the Royal Alberta […]
Posted on April 26, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music, The Latest
Nothing like “overwhelming demand” to put the wind in your sails – the Red Hot Chili Peppers turn out to be so huge in Edmonton that a second show has been added on Thursday, Nov. 22 at Rexall Place. The first on Nov. 21 has sold out. Minus John Frusciante, the legendary Californicating band is […]
Posted on April 25, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider
We know these jokers: Kenny Robinson and Darren Frost, two Canadian comics so foul-mouthed, filthy-minded and bereft of any shred of decent morals or values or good taste whatsoever that sheer decorum prohibits repeating their jokes here, unless parental discretion is advised. They return for the aptly-named “Rank and Vile Show” at Yuk Yuk’s Friday […]
Posted on April 24, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music
Every year the whirlwind of concert season has its share of good news and bad news – which do you want first? OK, bad news. Sadly, Sinead O’Connor has bowed out of a scheduled appearance to headline the inaugural Interstellar Rodeo at Hawrelak Park July 27-29. “With enormous regret I must announce that I have […]
Posted on April 24, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
We now have eyewitness evidence that things were better in the old days. For musicians. Tommy “The Senator” Banks remembers – age 75 and still going strong, he has a lot to remember – “In the 1960s, within one block of Jasper Avenue on either side, between 100 Street and 109 Street, there were 18 […]
