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Intergalactic, planetary: UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA and VINYL WILLIAMS
LA’s trippy Vinyl Williams opened up for pop-pysch-oloigsts Unknown Mortal Orchestra on July 26 at the Imperial in Vancouver. Together, they tore a rift in the space-time continuum and filled it with multicoloured and prismatic pretty sounds. See the photos, read the reads.
August 9, 2015
Time (Clock of The Heart): CULTURE CLUB’s comeback, memories and moments
A story about a girl, her first concert and what happened 30 years later when she saw that band again: this is the story of Culture Club’s comeback at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, BC on July 18.
July 21, 2015
Epic UK shoegazers RIDE returned to Toronto, epically
Long live the shoegaze kings from Oxford, England! RIDE returned after a far-too-many-year’d hiatus to play a Toronto theatre and I was there and they sounded remarkable. Here’s a run down of my history with this epic band.
June 24, 2015
HOT CHIP (Huarache) lights up Toronto at the Danforth Music Hall
There are few things as reliably wonderful as a Hot Chip gig. I’ll explain why if you click on this link. Here are photos and a review from the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, on June 3rd.
June 5, 2015
In Photos: JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Perform “Psychocandy”
Photos from Jesus and Mary Chain’s faithful “Psychocandy” tour stop in Vancouver at the Vogue Theatre on May 13.
May 20, 2015
Gallery: All hail SLEATER-KINNEY. No, really. HAIL THEM.
They mattered in the 90s and they matter now – here are photos from Sleater-Kinney’s robust and confident return to form at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on May 6th. The Goddess saw all that they had made and she said it was good.
May 10, 2015
Best Live Act: Scotland’s Incomparable YOUNG FATHERS
Edinburgh Scotland’s Mercury Music prize-winning musical patchwork quilt of awesome, the Young Fathers, played Vancouver’s Fortune Sound on April 30. And rather quite blew us all away. Here are the photos.
May 5, 2015
METZ: Album Number II and the Alex Edkins Interview
Three years on from their rad debut, Toronto punk pals METZ release their latest album “II”. Here’s an interview with singer Alex Edkins on the subjects of new music, touring and dream festival lineups.
May 4, 2015
THE KAISER CHIEFS: smooth moves along the greatest hits highway
An impressive outing from a tired and croaky Ricky Wilson and Co – the Kaiser Chiefs provided arena-sized moves and a lot of heart on April 21 at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.
April 26, 2015

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