MUSIC PREVIEW: Colditus Winterruption
The biggest gigs this weekend are all part of the inaugural Winterruption festival, which stretches from Thursday all the way through Sunday, with some pretty big names in some common, and some not so common, venues. Opening night – Thursday – sees Toronto’s Weaves (above) headline a monster lineup at the Starlite Room. The indie […]
LISTEN HERE: Is it worth feeling sad and sorry all the time? Yikes!
“I care a lot more about the song than I do about her.” Whoa, man. That’s a dark burn from Edmonton songwriter Scott Deshane, frontman of a band called Yikes. He’s talking about his melancholy new song Tighter – about a personal and once-painful break-up. He says he wrote song several years ago with his […]
REVIEW: Emotional Impact of Disability Probed in Pulitzer-Winning Play
Cost of Living is about society’s marginalized people isolated by poverty or disability. It features four excellent performers who fashion fully-functioning characters out of subjects that are anything but functional. The play deeply probes the problems of living with disability, and the loss and the sacrifice that entails. It minutely examines the lives of people […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Alexisonfire, not broken up after all, returns to Edmonton
There are few things that can boost a band’s popularity more than breaking up. You do the tearful farewell tour, a lot of your fans show up to see you off, you make some retirement money, and everyone’s happy. Yet still a bit sad – until of course said band gets back together again. Behold […]
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
When it’s cold in Edmonton, we make art! READ more COMICS End of the Earth pays tribute to Neil Peart: You can trust Bob the Angry Flower:
REVIEW: Everybody Loves Robbie a Heartfelt Heartbreaking Musical Comedy
In the first moments of Northern Lights Theatre’s Everybody Loves Robbie, two young people are dancing up a frenzied give-her-all bubble gum roughhouse. The two are obviously lost in delirium – and each other. A few minutes later she pauses and asks plaintively, “Don’t you just love it when you’re making out and your partner […]
Bob the Angry Flower
To assume the best about another is a trait that has created modern society. NEXT: The great drummer Neil Peart is paid tribute in End of the Earth:
End of the Beat
RIP one of the greatest rock drummers of all time! READ another COMIC: In Bob We Trust:
LISTEN HERE: Nebular Wave wipes out the dinosaurs
The trick with creating instrumental music is how to name it. Composers of yore didn’t sweat it. Beethoven got to No. 5 and named it his Fifth. Boom. Done. Ever since, instrumental nomenclature has been a struggle. Like bands themselves, music without lyrics resists being named. For the guys in the Edmonton experimental acoustic-electronic trio […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Don’t hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself!
Best known for Keep Your Hands To Yourself, the Georgia Satellites land in Edmonton Saturday night to play a gig at the River Cree Resort & Casino. Since that hit, off the band’s 1986 eponymous release, the band has seen three of its four members move on, with only Rick Richards remaining from the roster […]
