REVIEW: Snoop Dogg lights up Edmonton
There were some surprising things about Snoop Dogg’s concert at Rogers Place on Wednesday night. The cool thing was how much old stuff he played, songs from the ‘90s, songs people grew up to. They gave the show an air of nostalgia. The vibe in the crowd was chill – and surprisingly there didn’t seem […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Enchanting Basia Bulat
This Sunday, sensational folk songstress Basia Bulat will play at Festival Place in Sherwood Park. With her mom teaching piano and guitar, the Ontario native has been surrounded by music since the youngest of ages, so it’s no surprise that the bug hit her whilst at college, and Bulat released her first EP by 2005. […]
LISTEN HERE: No one expects The Spanish Flies!
EXCLUSIVE! Listen to local rock quartet’s newest single Mr. Evil one day before its release! Feliam (Fel) Gamarra moved with his family from Peru in 2010 and wound up in Edmonton four years ago. The musician wasted no time ensconcing himself in the local music scene – forming a “psychedelic power pop” band called […]
A vegan in beef country: Morrissey comes to Edmonton in April
Wait, isn’t Morrissey that famously ornery deep-thinking British vegan singer-songwriter who’s gotten into such hot water for his outspoken views – and now he’s coming to Edmonton for the first time in more than 20 years? Yes, the same. How can we resist? Morrissey has announced a Canadian tour – his first since 2000 – […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Next: From End of the Earth, a (fake) attack ad against Jason Kenney! Now do you want to see Bill Benson in female form? Of course you do:
Bill Benson
Rumours that Bob the Angry Flower has been torn asunder may be exaggerated: Now read THE TRUTH ABOUT JASON KENNEY in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
From a FAKE AD comes rumours of a personal nature in the new BIll Benson: The true dangers of A.I. explored in Bob the Angry Flower:
CONCERT REVIEW: Mother Mother thrills, challenges Edmonton in sold out show
There’s no logical reason why Mother Mother should prosper in a cookie-cutter music industry bent on presenting the Next Best Thing, only to dupe listeners with yet another derivative result of generic engineering. But then, this Vancouver quintet has been clogging the cogs of the starmaker machinery for the last 15 years with an eclectic […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Good times at the Arden
Matthew Good has been a fixture of Canadian alternative rock radio since there was such a thing. He’s the go-to handy modern rock Can-Con for a rainy day – and it was a rare day his music wasn’t heard several times on Edmonton’s own Sonic 102.9 radio. He was their poster boy. Not so much […]
PLAYBOT: We Are Not Alone talks ALIENS
Before Drake was cut off at the Grammy Awards, he was about to deliver a talk on his famous Drake Equation, estimating the odds of Earth being visited by aliens. Oops, wrong Drake. It was American astrophysicist Frank Drake who came up with an algorithm in 1961. Do the math from these (somewhat paraphrased) variables: […]
Bob the Angry Flower
In today’s End of the Earth, there are consequences for being an Oilers fan: Bill Benson files this EXCLUSIVE report from the 2019 Grammy Awards:
Bill Benson
Can you identify the throwaway gag characters in the new Bob the Angry Flower? This Oilers-bashing End of the Earth comic is from 2018 – but it still holds up:
