The 8 Best Kids in the Hall characters
Most real comedians will admit – grudgingly – that great minds sometimes think alike. This is why the case against Saturday Night Live for allegedly ripping off This Hour Has 22 Minutes shouldn’t hold up. The bit is about the “Prophet Muhammad” being a particularly difficult Pictionary clue. This joke is obvious in light of […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Sepultura cannot be stopped
The mighty metal men of Sepultura have been sighted and are expected to launch a monster assault on the City of Edmonton this weekend. Citizens are advised to take all the usual precautions. Playing Saturday night at the Starlite Room as part of the renowned act’s 30th anniversary tour, a five week barnstorming journey across […]
Road trip! Stevie Wonder to play Calgary
OK, Calgary, we’ll trade you Madonna straight across for your Stevie Wonder show. “Throw in McDavid and we’ll think about it,” came the reply from one Calgary entertainment journalist. Maybe not. Anyone up for a road trip? Wonder plays the Saddledome on Sunday, July 12 as part of the Calgary Stampede. Tickets are $90 to […]
What happened to BT?
The dark cloud over the sudden cancellation of Breakfast Television – city TV’s news-talk-variety show that’s run every weekday morning in Edmonton since they were called the A-Channel back in the 1990s – at least seems to have a small silver lining. BT is gone, the majority of its staff laid off, part of a […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Marystown wants it both ways
With the steel howling like a lonely train, a rough ‘n’ ready four-four wheel drive, a rasp of whiskey and smoke and sturdy like blue jeans on Ford trucks comes another worthy contender in the Edmonton indie folk country rock world: Marystown, playing Saturday night at the Pawnshop. One should look carefully at bands labelled […]
Dead Venues doc honours Edmonton’s fallen clubs
“One day your pet’s going to die. One day your club’s going to close. Nothing lasts forever, and that’s too bad.” Leave it to Jr. Gone Wild founder and Edmonton music legend Mike McDonald to deliver the stinging slap of truth – deftly summing up the heart of a new documentary about Edmonton’s music scene. […]
Kraftwerk kommt zu Edmonton!
Before electronic music became a thing, before DJs became “performers,” there was Kraftwerk – the famed German electronic group that set the bar for all electronic music to follow. Now there is great rejoicing that the group is coming to town. Kraftwerk launches a short North American fall tour in Edmonton, of all places, at […]
Ripoff artists who should be sued
The $7.4 million judgement against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke for allegedly plagiarizing the late Marvin Gaye in the song Blurred Lines is very encouraging for fans of originality. And with Sam Smith rolling over and crying uncle after Tom Petty’s publisher pointed out that Stay With Me contains a similar chord progression and even […]
Edmonton braces for Invasion of the Tenors
Historians look back on the Invasion of the Tenors with interest. It started with Luciano Pavarotti, the late great Italian opera singer who sold his soul to Mephostopheles and led the way to the popularization of opera the world over, spawning a new genre: Popera. Tenors – considered the sexiest range of the human male […]
Jason Aldean to Burn It Down in Edmonton
The only things “country” about Jason Aldean are the hat and the twang. In all other respects he’s a pop star. He ain’t no Johnny Cash. That’s the word from old people shouting at the kids to get off their lawns. For the new breed of male country stars and their young, predominantly female fans, […]
