Oprah returns to Edmonton in June
The last time Oprah Winfrey was in Edmonton someone gave her a “truck nuts” purse as a gift when she came on the stage. For those who don’t know: Truck nuts are known to locals as a decorative item you hang on your trailer hitch to resemble testicles. It’s a thing. Oprah, meanwhile, is one […]
LISTEN HERE: Kevin Maimann makes House Calls
EXCLUSIVE Hear new music from local ‘post glam dirt pop’ duo Kevin Maimann’s been going hard for years – as a journalist, currently a hard-nosed news reporter for The Star Edmonton (and formerly Edmonton Sun, plus GigCity) – and by night a prolific rock musician. His latest band, with musician and actor Pete Morley, […]
Dweezil Zappa to play Zappa in Edmonton
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree, as they say. The closest we will get to seeing Frank Zappa now is through his equally eccentric and talented son Dweezil, who has been proudly carrying the torch of his father’s music and unique worldview for years, with a quirky style evident in his own work, […]
Rockfest, Sonic Field Day reveal line-ups at Edmonton’s best outdoor venue
It looks like Hawrelak Park’s Heritage Amphitheatre is going to be Music Festival Central in Edmonton this summer. Two local music festivals revealed their line-ups on Monday – including Sonic Field Day, a newcomer to what many fans consider the city’s best outdoor venue. It’s not too big, not too small, great sightlines all around, […]
Dynamic doper duo Cheech & Chong bring O Cannabis to Edmonton
We never thought we’d live to see the day when freakin’ Tommy Chong would get to perform in his home province (he grew up in Calgary) – where weed would one day be legal! What a glorious time to be alive. He’s back with his American partner Cheech Marin for what is expected to be […]
REVIEW: Alan Parsons Live Project a mixed bag of magic in Edmonton
To be more famous for a throwaway joke in an Austin Powers movie than for recent music must be galling to such titans of progressive pop as … The Alan Parsons Project! Mwa, ha, ha, ha! Besides, it’s the Alan Parsons Live Project now – so named to distance itself from the original British 1980s […]
THEATRE PEOPLE: Darrin Hagen: ‘The man I am is because of the woman I was’
There was no Gay-Straight Alliance at Darrin Hagen’s high school in Rocky Mountain House in the late ‘70s – but there was a drama club. He was the only boy in the group. “It was no problem to find an all girl play and cast me in drag,” Hagen says. “Nobody seemed to mind – […]
Morrissey postpones Edmonton to October
Local reaction was swift to Saturday’s announcement that Morrissey’s April 18 concert in at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton has been postponed to October – “WOW, didn’t see that coming!” And then sarcastic people felt bad – because this was actually due to a “medical emergency.” The promoter passed on this note: “Due to a […]
MUSIC: Bubbly Buble recipe: 2 shots of happy, 1 shot of sad, 1 shot of Frank
It was the goddamned media that anointed Michael Buble “the new Frank Sinatra” – followed shortly by media pronouncements that “Buble ain’t no Sinatra!” This is true! As far as we know, Buble has never threatened chin music on some crummy mook who fucked the deck, never called a female journalist a “ring-a-ding broad!” And […]
Fleetwood Mac postpones again
Nearly a year after it was first announced, the Fleetwood Mac show in Edmonton this weekend has been postponed – again. Stevie Nicks is still recovering from the flu, a press release reads, so the Saturday, April 13 show in Rogers Place has been cancelled, along with five other dates, which will now moved to […]
LIVE LEAK: Folk fest reveals Hozier, Ani DiFranco, Blue Rodeo ahead of official announce
Back in the day, the most famous headliners at the Edmonton Folk Festival would be leaked long before the official annual announcement was made at the end of May. Exciting news just doesn’t keep! This year, the folk fest itself has decided to leak some names before anyone else can – including Hozier, and Ani […]
Ozzy postpones 2019 tour – but ‘I will be back!’
Heavy metal fans were almost expecting this – Ozzy Osbourne has been forced to postpone all his shows this year, including Edmonton in July. He’d come down with pneumonia earlier this year, which resulted in cancellations of dates in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. He was recovering at home in Los Angeles […]
