A Life In Love With Music
An Open Letter to Titus Andronicus and Okkervil River by someone who has never seen either live, about their gig in Vancouver on June 20th at the Vogue Theatre. Includes massive gallery of…
Read more →You can be full of shit and still wonderful. Are the UK’s current most-hyped indie rock band WU LYF one or t’other? Or both? Or neither? Read this, have a listen to “Go Tell Fire to the…
Read more →What happens when you lose a Stanley Cup hockey bet with a Boston music blog? You write about Ryan’s Smashing Life and how much you like Ryan and his blog. And you actually mean it. ‘Cos…
Read more →Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys brought his deadpan and wholly charming narrative (and props!) to the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver on June 4. Before popping backstage to chat with him, I…
Read more →Sloan brought an enormo list of songs from their 20-year back catalog to the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on June 3rd and it was rockin’. Still woulda liked to have heard “Underwhelmed”…
Read more →UK alt-folkies STORNOWAY brought a coded setlist, a saw, face-paint, a bunch of multi-instrumentalists, the ability to quieten a post-hockey crowd and some SERIOUS pretty to Vancouver’s…
Read more →Beloved Canadian alt-rockers Wolf Parade have called it quits. Here’s a rundown of their epic, final show in Vancouver, on May 30 at the Commodore Ballroom. Includes truly rad photos by…
Read more →Stand up and be counted, YEASAYER. Or sit down. You know, whatever. We’ll just put you in a line up, make you sit on a ratty sofa and in-our-own-heads, drool over you. This is the…
Read more →YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY! YEASAYER! More relaxed, more handsome, and more ridiculously funky than ever before. Live shots by Kris Krüg, commentary by me.
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