Bad Religion to play Edmonton after all
It’s good to see at least one headliner from the cancelled Tail Creek Music Festival has salvaged an Edmonton gig out of it. Bad Religion will now play the Union Hall on Saturday, June 27 – same date the California band was to appear at the Shaw Conference Centre with Limp Bizkit for Tail Creek. […]
5 Edmonton cats to dig at the jazz fest
Beyond the avant-garde atonal adventures of The Bad Plus, or the emotionally powerful pianowork of Fred Hersch or The Rolling Stones’ favourite background singer Lisa Fischer, the Edmonton International Jazz Festival is loaded with local ringers. Accomplished musicians to a fault, Edmonton’s jazz cats largely lurk in the shadows of the festival schedule, but they […]
INTERVIEW: It’s all beautiful to Lisa Fischer
When they call Lisa Fischer the “best back-up vocalist in the world,” they’re not joking. She can sing, sure, but there’s a lot more to it than that. The Rolling Stones, Luther Vandross, Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, Sting, Beyonce, Alicia Keys, and Nine Inch Nails are just a few of the people she’s worked with. […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Festival upon festival
Yellowknife and Edmonton share a kinship of mutual insanity that develops every summer – because we’re all desperate to get as much fun out of it as possible. They even have midnight sun festival called “Raven Madness Days.” We can relate. Doesn’t get dark much around here, either, and this solstice weekend is when festivals […]
Tail Creek cancelled, EDM show goes on
The writing was really on the wall about this one. News that the Tail Creek Music Festival has been cancelled is unfortunate, but it comes as no surprise. Organizers had made the decision to move the outdoor event to the Shaw Conference Centre June 26-28 to feature Limp Bizkit and Billy Talent, among others, but […]
North Country Fair lineup Dunn like dinner
This weekend will be musician Mike Dunn’s sixth year at the North Country Fair – the annual indie music jamboree that happens on the shortest nights of the year near the shores of the mighty Lesser Slave Lake – and now he has a chance to level up. After several stints playing the event with […]
Pallbearer brings light to doom at Farmageddon
A strange thing happened at the Farmageddon heavy metal festival on Sunday afternoon, during a set by the black metal band Xul: The sun came out. This put an end to the pall of heavy rain clouds that had set a stormy pastoral scene on the farmer’s field near Ryley, Alberta, hosting metal acts from […]
Neil Young postpones Edmonton appearance
The expected political debate to arise from the appearance of Neil Young in Edmonton is going to have to wait. The Canadian folk-rock legend has postponed his July 3 show at Rexall Place, which was part of a special tour to support the “Honour the Treaties” campaign in the fight against Tar Sands development. No […]
Janet Jackson comes to Edmonton
‘Tis indeed the Year of the Diva. The one and only Janet Jackson is the latest female superstar to be announced for Edmonton’s already busy concert schedule. She performs at Rexall Place on Friday, Sept. 4, part of Jackson’s Unbreakable World Tour, in support of her upcoming album. Tickets are $29 to $125 – with […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Ed Sheeran sheer brilliance
Is there anyone hotter in the music world right now than Ed Sheeran? That’s a rhetorical question. You don’t need to answer: Of course he is. No surprise. Sheeran has a knack for attracting all manner of fans with all manner of musical genres. He’s definitely got the pop melodies down pat. His love of […]
