Stones back-up singer comes to Edmonton Jazz Festival
You may not have heard of Lisa Fischer – the latest headliner announced for the Edmonton International Jazz Festival June 19-28 at venues around town – but a lot of famous people sure have. At the Winspear Centre Monday, June 22 with Carribbean dubstep band Grand Baton, Fischer has sung back-up vocals for The Rolling […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Who is Machi? I Am Machi
There’s a good reason there are so many two-piece drum-and-guitar bands in the vein of the White Stripes. You make more money when you split the take two ways. But seriously: having only two musicians in a band means it can do more with less, and go wherever it wants to, whether it comes to […]
Motley Crue to come back one more time
Omigod, Mötley Crüe is coming back to Edmonton – just months after promising to go away forever. Is there nothing these guys can’t get away with?! Technicality. The band has put Rexall Place on the map for Saturday, Dec. 12 in a slew of extra dates “due to overwhelming fan demand” for its Final Tour, […]
To the B’s: Brandt and Brody to hit Edmonton
Area country fans are advised to prepare themselves for the coming of a double shot of pure Western Canadian music in the form of two of our biggest male stars: Paul Brandt and Dean Brody. The two will share a bill at Rexall Place on Wednesday, Sept. 30, with the female opening act to balance […]
Sister Gray: Tell me what I’m supposed to be
Welcome to another music interview where promising new artists are told what famous bands they sound like, and then asked to respond. Edmonton’s own Sister Gray can be compared to Blondie or Joan Jett or the Bangles, almost any female rock band of yore, most especially Heart, because Sister Gray is fronted by two sisters, […]
McGowans rediscover True Spirit of 420
420 has to be the most redundant, ridiculous holiday ever invented. Every hour of every day is 420 for its most chronic celebrants. Why bother? “I guess it’s kind of like how people have Christmas in their hearts all year round, but still celebrate on that one day,” says Mark McGowan of the McGowan Family […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Mastodon mashes mammoth metal
Heavy metal comes to the forefront on this weekend’s schedule, as Atlanta’s Mastodon performs at the Edmonton EXPO Centre on Sunday. This quartet formed in 2000 after drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist Brian Kelliher moved to Atlanta from New York state, and met bassist Troy Sanders and guitarist Brett Hinds. They all share vocal duties. […]
Pat Benatar to hit us with her best shot
Long before Hit Me Baby One More Time came Pat Benatar to implore us to “hit me with your best shot” – metaphorically speaking, of course – announcing to all that the 1980s had arrived with a vengeance. Now it’s time to bring it all back! Like it ever left. Benatar is one of the […]
Mumford & Sons to rock out in Edmonton
Not since Dylan turned on and plugged in has there been such a buzz about folk music – and now the poster child for the neo-folk music movement that’s sweeping the nation is returning to excite us a second time. With rock ‘n’ roll! Mumford & Sons plays Rexall Place on Tuesday, Aug. 11, touring […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Take me to (Eric) Church
It’s one thing to make jokes about why you may be a redneck. It’s another thing to live the life. Here’s one: You may be a redneck if you think Eric Church is the Pope of Rednecks. Don’t you doubt it! Returning to Rexall Place on Sunday, the North Carolinian superstar displays deep country roots […]
