MUSIC PREVIEW: Cowpunk high school reunion
Jr. Gone Wild is performing its long-awaited comeback show in southwest Edmonton on Friday night that will undoubtedly go down in the annals of local music lore. It’s going to be a cowpunk high school reunion! This band is legendary in local music circles, having been founded in 1982 after a false start in Calgary, […]
Don’t be afraid of Death Toll Rising – be very afraid
Things can get a little awkward when you try to explain to someone why your band’s last album was called “Defecation Suffocation.” Of course, for those well versed in extreme metal, such titles are par for the course. Edmonton band Death Toll Rising, which dropped the aforementioned album in 2010, doesn’t expect anyone to take […]
FOLK FEST: Free passes for seniors are history
No more free folk fest tickets for senior citizens, consarnit! Apparently there are more old timers than ever, so now to avoid overcrowding, they’ll have to pay like everybody else. At least the blow is being softened. When tickets for the 34th annual Edmonton Folk Music Festival go on sale June 1, senior day passes […]
JR. GONE WILD: Dumb enough to quit, smart enough to start over
Hate to burst your bubble, but the Jr. Gone Wild reunion was motivated by money. Give thanks to local promoter Frank Klemen, a longtime Jr. fan who felt it was so important that his favourite Edmonton alt-country band get back together that he wouldn’t take no for an answer. “It was up to me,” he […]
Zac Brown Band brings new face of country to Edmonton
While we’re on the subject of folk music’s amazing crossover powers, the highly decorated Zac Brown Band will be bring its honest to goodness Southern roots sound to Edmonton for the first time – playing Rexall Place on Sunday, Sept. 22. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 31. Gifted with serious guitar chops, though known […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Primus to get trippy
It turns out you didn’t actually have to decide whether to see Mumford and Sons or “xx” on Wednesday night – you could’ve gone to both shows, what with the Rexall curfew and a late set time for xx. Though maybe your bank account would’ve said differently. This weekend there’s a few shows worthy of […]
Monster Energy salute for those about to rock in September
Important disclaimer: Drinking Monster Energy drink will not turn you into a monster, though it might keep you moshing continuously through four monstrous rock bands coming to Edmonton on Monster Energy’s Rock Allegiance Tour. It’s a five-hour energy drink, right? Pulling into Rexall Place on Tuesday, Sept. 10 will be Volbeat, HIM, All That Remains […]
Queens of the Stone Age return to Edmonton in August
Every generation gets the prog rock band it deserves – or needs. Which is why there is great rejoicing among members of the so-called “Generation X” that Queens of the Stone age is returning to Edmonton – playing Wednesday, Aug. 7 in the Shaw Conference Centre; tickets go on sale Friday. This trippy California band […]
Record Store Reunion to celebrate coolest job ever
Like steam locomotive repairmen, harpsichord tuners and silent movie title card calligraphers, record store clerks are nearly extinct. People of the future will look back upon four decades, the 1960s to the 1990s, and no doubt have a few questions: What were “albums?” What’s a record store? Why was being a record store clerk such […]
Brad Paisley, Accidental Racist, plays Edmonton in October
Oh, man, we’re going to have some fun with Brad Paisley when he comes to Edmonton this fall on his “Beat the Summer” tour. The proudly redneck country singer – a mean guitarist and clever songwriter who knows how to push people’s buttons – plays Saturday, Oct. 26 at Rexall Place. Tickets go on sale […]
WEEKEND MUSIC: All that glitters is Gold and Youth
Within the next week Edmonton plays host to three major sold out shows: Carrie Underwood, Mumford and Sons, and Imagine Dragons. And while all will undoubtedly be extraordinary, one of the more intriguing live music options will happen at the Pawn Shop on Monday night – and you can still get tickets! Vancouver alternative band […]
Surviving punters assemble first and last Joe Bird album
If you believe in life after death, you could imagine Joe Bird in heaven laughing at his friends left to deal with all the recordings he made before he died suddenly in 2009 – music that was never released. His good friend Jason Kodie knows what he’d say: “I think Joe’s laughing. He’s pissing himself […]
