Zerbin, Tupelo Honey double winners at Edmonton Music Awards
Let’s get this out of the way: People are going to complain about the Edmonton Music Awards – this year’s crop of winners including Tupelo Honey, Zerbin and people’s choice selection Killinger, as revealed in the second annual awards ceremony Saturday night. Haters are going to mutter that the EMAs do not accurately represent the […]
FOOD: Shawarma is superb at Dahlia’s Mediterranean Bistro
Seems like just yesterday that Montreal expat Fadi Smaidi, scion of a Lebanese food dynasty in Canada’s coolest city, opened Dahlia’s Mediterranean Bistro (10235 124 St.), named for his young daughter on Edmonton’s yet-to-be coolest street, 124th. The reasons for Smaidi’s pilgrimage to this particular northern waste are obscure to me but now, three years […]
Second Red Hot Chili Peppers show added
Nothing like “overwhelming demand” to put the wind in your sails – the Red Hot Chili Peppers turn out to be so huge in Edmonton that a second show has been added on Thursday, Nov. 22 at Rexall Place. The first on Nov. 21 has sold out. Minus John Frusciante, the legendary Californicating band is […]
THEATRE: The Adulteress marks play No. 70 for Stewart Lemoine
Stewart Lemoine has written more plays than the average Albertan will see in his or her lifetime – a lot more. He’s one of our most prolific playwrights, not just in Edmonton, but anywhere in the world. The world premiere of the The Adulteress Thursday at the Varscona Theatre makes play No. 70, for those […]
Rush returns to Rexall Place Sept. 30
Are you Geddy-ing excited? Are you ready for a Lifeson lesson? Do you squirt Peart in your hair? OK, those are terrible. But the clues added up to today’s big announcement that Rush will be returning to Rexall Place on Sunday, Sept. 30. Tickets will go on sale “soon.” Details to come. The venerable Canadian […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Coldplay dazzles thousands with amazing tour opener
It was spectacular. It was amazing. Every other concert this year at Rexall Place will be measured against Coldplay. Edmonton got the first North American glimpse of the Mylo Xyloto world tour on Tuesday night – opening on a mammoth set cascaded in neon colors to the tune of the “Back to the Future” theme, […]
EDMONTON RADIO: Garner Andrews, morning man of mystery
Garner Andrews can’t stand public speaking. He admits he even freaked out a little bit before delivering a toast at his brother’s wedding, and stresses “for months” over the prospect of doing a band introduction on stage – and yet he has no problem talking to 50,000 people on Sonic radio every morning. “That doesn’t […]
Roxette returns to play Rexall Place Sept. 10
Now here’s a blast from the past – Roxette is coming to town. The Swedish pop duo perhaps best known for The Look – as in “you got The Look,” still holds up, eh? – will play Rexall Place on Monday, Sept. 10, backed up by a comparable Canadian blast from the past Glass Tiger. […]
Linkin Park to headline Sonic Boom 2012
Sonic Boom 2012 shall be outdoors, Weather Gods be damned, and should sleet come, at least we’ll have Linkin Park and Incubus to warm us up. This festival happening Sunday, Sept. 2 at the Northlands grounds will be Linkin Park’s first appearance in Edmonton, believe it or not. Incubus – another hard rocking band from […]
Alberta film and TV producers tremble as budget axe falls
Alberta’s film and television producers are waiting for the bombs to drop as details emerge on the impact that federal budget cuts will have on the National Film Board, Telefilm Canada and the CBC. The most damage will likely come from the announcement by the CBC that it will reduce spending on independent productions, according […]
WHO NAMED THE BAND: Nashville Pussy raises the badass bar
The challenge in picking a really cool band name is that you have to live up to it. This shall now be known as the Nashville Pussy Impetus. The band plays the Pawn Shop Sunday with the like-minded Supersuckers. (Cussing below, reader discretion advised.) “You can’t call yourself something great and then suck,” says lead […]
REVIEW: Trans-Siberian Orchestra equal parts pleasure, pain
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra brought every trick in the book to the Jubilee Auditorium on Monday: Fog machines, dry ice, projectors, lasers, strobe lights, a huge set, a seven piece string ensemble, a choir and enough flame canons to warm of the faces of those sitting in the second balcony. In a show equal parts pleasure […]
