Final Black Sabbath tour comes to Edmonton
There seems to be something going around. Now Black Sabbath is calling it quits – but not before one last blast. The End: The Final Tour by the Greatest Metal Band of All Time (as it’s correctly billed) will pummel metal fans around the world, including here in Edmonton, Saturday, Jan. 30 at Rexall Place. […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Sonic Boom blows up real good
Borden Park hosts the city’s last big music festival of the year this weekend, as the now veteran Sonic Boom takes its position front and center in amongst a bevy of other music gigs. Now entering its eighth year, this has become without a doubt one of the city’s most important festivals, close to par […]
K-os theory: Was Jesus a woman?
Do you believe in God? “That’s your first question?” responds the unwitting interview subject – in this case the rapper K-os, aka Kevin Brereton, who’s probably the only hip hop headliner at the Sonic Boom alternative rock festival at Borden Park this Saturday and Sunday. This wasn’t just a random dumb question. K-os’s new album […]
COMICS: Heart of Wonderdick in Edmonton
A Torontonian taking the piss out of Edmonton? Break out the machetes! Relax, it’s just cartoonist Mike Winters, who may call the Centre of Canada home now, but his heart clearly resides in Dirt City. Winters’ weekly comic strip Cartoon Machine offers up caustic views on millennials, toxic relationships and … Edmonton Oilers draft picks? […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: DJ Marky makes his mark
DJ Marky – not to be confused with Marky Mark, for those old enough to remember Mark Wahlberg’s hip-hop alter ego – is making his Edmonton debut this weekend. The drum-n-bass DJ, whose audiences weren’t all that compelling in his home country Brazil, gained success upon moving to Britain in the late 1990s, including being […]
RADIO: Dirty Deeds done expensive
In the Bear radio station’s “Dirty Deeds” contest to win tickets to the sold-out AC/DC show at Commonwealth Stadium on Sept. 20, the first challenge was to call your wife and tell her your dog died … and another radio stunt goes over the line. Asked to explain themselves, the cast of The Paul Brown […]
Why do mosh pits spin counterclockwise?
It’s time again to bring hard science to bear on another pressing issue – to find out why “circle pits” at rock ‘n’ roll shows spin counter-clockwise. The rotational mosh phenomenon has been confirmed by a number of reliable sources – and no, pits don’t spin clockwise in the Southern hemisphere, like typhoons. The Coriolis Force […]
Expo-ing Stan Lee
Some say that that Stan Lee isn’t a human. There are online rumours that the iconic geek-chic god is like something from one of his own comics, some sort of machine that has the ability to create gold. Gold in the form of ideas that turn into heroes that turn into some of the biggest marketable brands […]
HOW RUDE! Tales of Fringe audiences
There are 203 plays at the 2015 Edmonton International Fringe Festival this year – many times more than the number of productions throughout the entire rest of the regular season, and with that comes many more patrons who never see any other kind of theatre but the Fringe, once a year. Sometimes in an inebriated […]
