REVIEW: Alice in Chains pleases several generations with grunge metal mayhem
You can’t argue the success that Alice In Chains has enjoyed of late – with the group’s latest album Rainier Fog earning a Grammy nomination, and summit positions on the Billboard and iTunes charts. But to more discerning ears, how a band that earned much of its notoriety in the grunge-fueled 1990s could still be […]
Morrissey postpones Edmonton to October
Local reaction was swift to Saturday’s announcement that Morrissey’s April 18 concert in at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton has been postponed to October – “WOW, didn’t see that coming!” And then sarcastic people felt bad – because this was actually due to a “medical emergency.” The promoter passed on this note: “Due to a […]
Sister Act fills Mayfield pews with wimple-ful whopper of soul and comedy
The musical Sister Act is no Come From Away – but it is the kind of durable example of song and dance entertainment that Broadway is famous for. The musical is taken from the smash 1992 Whoopi Goldberg movie with songs added by Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, etc.), lyrics by […]
FUN HOME A DARK HOME: Local cast shines in Varscona musical
“You can’t go home again,” said author Thomas Wolfe. Perhaps you can physically go back – but the old Regent Theatre where you first saw Casablanca and Robin Hood is now a strip mall. You can’t build forts any more in Brown’s Fields out back – they don’t exist. And memories of Mom and Dad […]
MUSIC: Bubbly Buble recipe: 2 shots of happy, 1 shot of sad, 1 shot of Frank
It was the goddamned media that anointed Michael Buble “the new Frank Sinatra” – followed shortly by media pronouncements that “Buble ain’t no Sinatra!” This is true! As far as we know, Buble has never threatened chin music on some crummy mook who fucked the deck, never called a female journalist a “ring-a-ding broad!” And […]
Bob the Angry Flower
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Bill Benson
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End of the Earth
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Fleetwood Mac postpones again
Nearly a year after it was first announced, the Fleetwood Mac show in Edmonton this weekend has been postponed – again. Stevie Nicks is still recovering from the flu, a press release reads, so the Saturday, April 13 show in Rogers Place has been cancelled, along with five other dates, which will now moved to […]
REVIEW: Mad Mad Mad Mad World at the Citadel!
“We are all walk-ons in other people’s lives,” British playwright Alan Ayckbourn once said. It sounds really wacky – the Citadel is presenting a theatrical concept that boggles the mind. It’s two interconnected full-length plays that add up to one comedy. The two run at the same time in two different theatres with different audiences, […]
LIVE LEAK: Folk fest reveals Hozier, Ani DiFranco, Blue Rodeo ahead of official announce
Back in the day, the most famous headliners at the Edmonton Folk Festival would be leaked long before the official annual announcement was made at the end of May. Exciting news just doesn’t keep! This year, the folk fest itself has decided to leak some names before anyone else can – including Hozier, and Ani […]
Ozzy postpones 2019 tour – but ‘I will be back!’
Heavy metal fans were almost expecting this – Ozzy Osbourne has been forced to postpone all his shows this year, including Edmonton in July. He’d come down with pneumonia earlier this year, which resulted in cancellations of dates in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. He was recovering at home in Los Angeles […]
