From Nashville to Edmonton, The Frolics are Ripe for success
Posted on January 4, 2012 By Kevin Maimann Front Slider, Music
Edmonton music fans have heard the sad story too many times: a hard-working local band builds a strong buzz, wins our hearts, garners national acclaim … and then skips town. Rapper and ex-poet laureate Cadence Weapon left for fresh waters in Montreal, Christian Hansen and the Autistics took off to Toronto, songstress Wendy McNeill is […]
Winter festival season heats up with Deep Freeze
Posted on January 2, 2012 By Mike Ross Family, Front Slider, Music, Theatre
OK, now we have too many winter festivals. Between Metropolis, Winter Light, Silver Skate, Ice on Whyte and other assorted subzero carnivals stretching over the desolate months with nothing much else going on in the most Northern metropolis in the world with the highest murder rate in Canada … scratch that lead. Edmonton doesn’t have […]
Metropolis lights up city without burning taxpayers
Posted on December 30, 2011 By LH Thomson Culture, Family, Front Slider
You have to hand it to the folks behind Metropolis, Edmonton’s newest festival (three words we seem to use every other week these days.) Organizer Guiseppe Albi wanted $1-million to stage the two-month long celebration, which kicks off with the New Year’s Eve festivities in Churchill Square, with fireworks at midnight, and features music, food, […]
GIGGLE CITY: Hometown boy Toby Hargrave builds a ‘nice’ reputation
Posted on December 30, 2011 By Mike Ross Comedy, Front Slider
You have to wonder how stand-up comics feel about working a crowd on New Year’s Eve – getting more hammered than usual, going crazy at midnight, kissing complete strangers on the lips and ending the night by weeping and vomiting on the bathroom floor. The audience members are even worse. Seriously, don’t worry how Toby […]
METAL: Striker at the gates of gone
Posted on December 28, 2011 By Kevin Maimann Front Slider, Music
When faced with going big or going home, Striker will always choose the former. The Edmonton metal band has earned most of its success thousands of miles away. The group just returned from Nashville where it recorded its second album with renowned metal producer Michael Wagener, who was at the helm for such classic albums […]
LMFAO rescheduled to Feb. 6 – please wiggle responsibly
Posted on December 22, 2011 By Andrea Scharner Front Slider, Music
Sky Blu should have plenty of time to heal his sprained wiggle before LMFAO’s rescheduled date in Edmonton – Monday, Feb. 6 at Rexall Place. Tickets are on sale now. Seats held for the original Dec. 21 show will be honoured for the new date, or refunds available until Jan. 13. The original show had […]
Nerds of Edmonton love new trailer for The Hobbit
Posted on December 21, 2011 By Albert Smith Culture, Film, Front Slider
The Edmonton geek-o-verse has given a guarded thumbs-up to the new trailer for The Hobbit. The Peter Jackson film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first successful novel comes to theatres Dec. 14, 2012. Kris Hansen, who says he has the word “geek” tattooed on the back of his neck and is manager of Warp 1 Comics […]
MUSIC: Colleen Brown digs deep in Dirt
Posted on December 21, 2011 By Kevin Maimann Front Slider, Music
Edmonton musician Colleen Brown is not one to let her thoughts fester. Her penchant for expressing sincere emotions pays off in a big way on her acclaimed third album “Dirt,” and it doesn’t stop at songwriting. The soulful folk-pop singer’s growing national profile has been helped along by CBC Radio 2, which would likely not […]
LMFAO concert postponed until February
Posted on December 20, 2011 By Andrea Scharner Front Slider, Music
Bad news for LMFAO fans – and for LMFAO itself – Wednesday’s show at Rexall Place has been postponed due to injury. The group known for such hits as Sexy and I Know It and Party Rock Anthem has pulled out of the three remaining dates on the Canadian tour after singer Sky Blu suffered […]
WHO NAMED THE BAND: The Sheepdogs a credit to their breed
Posted on December 14, 2011 By Mike Ross Front Slider, Music
Rock musicians always roll their eyes when asked for the 1,000th time where they got their band name, but we can learn a lot from the psychology of rock ‘n’ roll nomenclature. A band name can reveal much about the musicians who named it – personality, character, insanity – sometimes without them even being aware […]
The Amazing Kreskin knows what you’re thinking: ‘No, he doesn’t’
Posted on December 13, 2011 By Albert Smith Comedy, Front Slider
You had to feel for the Amazing Kreskin during his appearance at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival this summer. Here’s this 76-year-old self-described “mentalist” doing his same old schtick – dealing with scraps of paper (including his paycheque) and torn-up playing cards on a windy day with poor sound and poor sightlines on an outdoor […]
EDMONTON RADIO: Yukon Jack’s Big Yap worse than his bite
Posted on December 12, 2011 By Mike Ross Culture, Front Slider, TV and Radio
No one is safe from Yukon Jack’s Big Yap – not even Yukon Jack. The Bear radio personality dropped several bombshells during a recent interview: He wasn’t born in Canada, he’s not into hockey, he’s in favour of gay marriage, he’d rather listen to gangsta rap than rock ‘n’ roll and – perhaps most damning […]
