Motley Crue to hit Edmonton on farewell tour
Start the waterworks. Motley Crue, the most bad-assed badass rock band of all time, is going away – and they won’t be coming back! Announced yesterday at a press conference, the band will play one final tour and that will be it: 70 dates across North America, including Tuesday, Nov. 18 at Rexall Place in […]
Heavy metal tenor finds passion in opera
Opera is doing a good job staying “hip” – that is, relevant to a younger generation who unanimously reject the “hipster” label that allegedly applies to anyone 35 or younger. Heavy metal is hip, isn’t it? Opera has a lot in common with heavy metal: Drama, pageantry, passion. At some point the two genres meet […]
MUSIC: Jamuary brings new spirit to jam culture, also jam
Of course they’re going to be selling homemade jam at the jam band gig celebrating jam culture in Jamuary – Saturday, Jan. 25 at the Newcastle Pub featuring Edmonton’s preeminent jam band the McGowan Family Band and other like-minded jammy jammers. Somebody’s bound to get the munchies there. You can buy CJSR’s “Rad Staff Jam,” […]
DOC AS A GAME: Fort McMoney oiling up for Round 2
The future of the Sim City version of Fort McMurray depicted in Fort McMoney – half documentary, half interactive video game – did not turn out very well. Changes suggested by 309,000 viewer-gamers between Nov. 25 and Dec. 22, 2013 may have reduced greenhouse gas emissions in the Northern Alberta boomtown by 58%, but the […]
Young Drunk Punk has Edmonton roots
Before Bruce McCulloch became a dad who wears pyjamas in the daytime and lives in the Hollywood Hills, before he became a comedy star in Kids in the Hall, he was a young drunk punk in Edmonton. There’s the perfect title of the one-man show he’s bringing to the Arden Theatre on Jan. 27: Young […]
The Book of Mormon comes to Edmonton
The Book of Mormon – the musical – is coming to Edmonton, but fans of the popular Broadway show written and produced by the creators of South Park will have to wait more than year to see it. Part of Broadway Across Canada’s next touring season announced this week, the Book of Mormon will play […]
Is EPS domestic violence ad too shocking?
There’s a disturbing television commercial you may have seen over the holidays: Close-ups of weeping women whose faces are covered in cuts and bruises, their mouths sealed with duct tape. Sinister music and panicked voices on the telephone are heard in the background. The women are actors. The message is real: “Speak out. They need […]
REVIEW: Timberlake goes for soul overkill
Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience was more than just a pop concert. It was soul overkill. Any possibility of subtlety or spontaneity was mercilessly crushed under a relentless barrage of pure bombast, over-arranged, over-played, overwrought. Timberlake may want to be like Prince, but he is the Meat Loaf of R&B. You can’t blame the guy. […]
MUSIC: Mixtape Club launches with Vonnegut tribute
It didn’t take Jesse Northey long to become ensconced in Edmonton’s music scene. He’s only been here two months. The University of Lethbridge recording program grad quickly landed jobs mixing sound at the Artery, one of our coolest music venues, and as an engineer at Riverdale Recorders, whose clients include some of Edmonton’s coolest bands. […]
