MUSIC PREVIEW: Is Erin Costelo’s new album named after a candy bar?
Nova Scotia soul-Americana Erin Costelo shows a soaring energy and a steadfast resolve in her work, as she pushes back against the world, and sometimes even the industry that seems to want to fight against her. She plays Thursday, April 4 at The Almanac on the back of her second full-length, Sweet Marie, recorded in […]
TRUE TALES THE ROAD: Edmonton metal band rocks India
“I don’t think it’s advertised that there’s a giant heavy metal fan base in India,” says John Simon Fallon, guitarist for The Order of Chaos, “but certainly the response we got was overwhelming. There was one concert with 15,000 people and every single one of them was going insane over us. I guess you could […]
CHAOS brings Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, more much metal to Edmonton
If it wasn’t the Summer of Metal in Edmonton already what with Ozzy, Maiden and Priest on their way, the Chaos Alberta festival will put it over the top. Alberta’s newest rock festival, taking place July 26-27 at Kinsmen Park, features two titans of modern metal: Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson. Slayer will be playing […]
Bob the Angry Flower
And this is why we have labour unions. Next comic: Classic Canadian rock in End of the Earth! NEXT: Bill Benson makes a meme:
Bill Benson
Wait, people are Photoshopping Trump’s face? Next comic: Bob the Angry Flower is not a cannibal! He’s a plant. NEXT: There is no Hell like Can-Con Hell in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
That moment you start to notice the music Boston Pizza is playing Next comic: Bill Benson is a Photoshop ninja! NEXT: Far too much cannibalism in Bob the Angry Flower – and he is literally a vegetable!
Slight of Mind takes flight of fancy at the Citadel – just not in a theatre
A couple of years back when current Artistic Director Daryl Cloran first arrived at the Citadel, he kept getting lost. Joe Shoctor’s big brick playhouse had empty rooms, long hallways and all sorts of dark nooks and crannies. Never one to let a theatrical idea go to waste, Cloran searched for a vehicle that would […]
REVIEW: 19 Weeks tackles real life abortion dilemma in devastating detail
In 2016, Australian playwright Emily Steel wrote a raw, highly emotional, intensely personal play that she felt would end her career. At one time, she thought that women who had “late” abortions weren’t very smart or responsible – yet here she was, pregnant for 19 weeks, putting on a hospital gown and having an IV […]
REVIEW: Surreal Middletown sees characters askew in search of a plot
Will Eno is an American playwright whose works have gained some notoriety in the past decade or so – winning awards, attracting and often dumbfounding audiences. He takes ordinary situations and runs them through his cracked view of life. As a small American town in Middletown, currently in production from the U of A’s Studio […]
REVIEW: Colin James shows effortless blues-rock mastery in Edmonton
It’s been more than 30 years since Colin James made his debut – and he still remains a musical mainstay in Canada with his ability to blend gritty blues with hook-happy mainstream rock. It’s a schtick that’s worked well enough for him to pack the Jubilee Auditorium with 2,700 faithful fans on Thursday night. When […]
LISTEN HERE: Talltale unbelievable
EXCLUSIVE SNEAK SONIC PEEK Hear electro-pop artist’s new Japan-inspired single before official release Talltale – the stage name of Edmonton pop-electronic artist Tatiana Zagorac, because she is tall – was so inspired by her trip to Japan that she made a whole album out of it: Japanese Fever Dream, being released worldwide Friday, March […]
THEATRE PEOPLE: Jesse Lipscombe running race
Jesse Lipscombe is perfect for the Citadel Theatre’s latest madcap adventure – two political comedies running simultaneously in two different theatres inside the building, one in the Maclab, one in The Club on the third floor, with the same characters played by the same actors – who have to literally run up and down the […]
