POST PANDEMIC LIVE REVIEW: Tales From a Sober Person at a Day Rave

POST PANDEMIC LIVE REVIEW: Tales From a Sober Person at a Day Rave

Never in my life did I think I’d be saying this – but I missed the smell of a bar. I missed the way my shoes stuck to the floor. I missed strangers stumbling into me and slurring sorry. I anticipated a certain degree of uncertainty at my first show in over a year – […]

MUSIC PREVIEW: HELLYEAH pays tribute to late drummer Vinnie Paul

MUSIC PREVIEW: HELLYEAH pays tribute to late drummer Vinnie Paul

The Texas heavy rock supergroup HELLYEAH has its origins in the 2000 “Tattoo the Earth” mega-tour – which featured such legendary bands as Slayer, System of a Down, Sepultura, Lamb Of God, Slipknot, Sevendust, Dropkick Murphys, and many others. It was just a glimmer of an idea at the time, featuring the guitarist from the […]

MUSIC PREVIEW: Walk Off the Earth on a Fast Run to the Top

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. […]

MUSIC PREVIEW: Rocketman’s farewell hottest ticket in Edmonton

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: Festival season begins!

MUSIC PREVIEW: Festival season begins!

It’s a big weekend for festivals, but none in town are bigger than the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, which gets underway Friday. Once again the organizers have done a stellar job attracting a magnificent array of talent in a vast variety of sub-genres and instrumentation from around the world. You might think they’ve put together […]

MUSIC PREVIEW: Surf in Turf

MUSIC PREVIEW: Surf in Turf

Thursday night finds Australia’s Ocean Alley performing at Station On Jasper. The Australian psych-reggae-surf band has gained a lot of popularity and critical acclaim in their home nation, and are now hoping to explore the world, buoyantly looking to expand their sonic reach. Led by vocalist-guitarist Baden Donegal, the band formed in 2011, and has […]

LIVE MUSIC: Metric system catching on

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 […]

REVIEW: Ed the Sock getting game back

REVIEW: Ed the Sock getting game back

Yes, Children of the ‘80s, it’s true – we’re old. But if we are at all like Ed the Sock was on Wednesday night at Union Hall, maybe, just maybe, we are still relevant – not to mention all these years later able to appreciate good, honest comedy. As part of Ed’s current “War on […]

PLAYBOT: Weird story behind The Nutcracker

PLAYBOT: Weird story behind The Nutcracker

Everybody knows The Nutcracker – the 100-plus-year-old ballet with music by the great Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But what is this thing really about, anyway? In a nutshell – do you see what I did there? – someone seems to have spiked the kids’ eggnog on Christmas Eve. Either that or the story’s creator Ernst Theodor […]

MUSIC PREVIEW: Stars to shine on Edmonton

MUSIC PREVIEW: Stars to shine on Edmonton

Stars is just one of the bands associated with Broken Social Scene – but it’s one of the biggest. Playing the Myer Horowitz Theatre Monday night, Stars will be featuring music from their 2017 album, There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light. The group is led by Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan, both of whom […]

MUSIC PREVIEW: USS growing on us

MUSIC PREVIEW: USS growing on us

From humble origins as a two clever dudes from Toronto who were hated for daring to mix alternative rock with electronic dance music, USS is starting to grow on us. The signs are all there: Cool hits in high rotation on the radio, on Sonic 102.9 at any rate, and a show at the Ranch […]

MUSIC PREVIEW: They Might Be Giants stomp into Edmonton

MUSIC PREVIEW: They Might Be Giants stomp into Edmonton

The Gods of indie rock have smiled on Edmonton once again – They Might Be Giants is coming to town. At the Starlite Friday night, this unusual band has spanned genres and decades with the sort of introspective, esoteric, insufferably quirky and intelligent pop music that’s so hard to pin down it comes unravelled in […]

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