REVIEW: Zombies bring psychedelic ’60s back to life
Keyboard solos have become a lost art – as Rod Argent reminded everyone at the Zombies on Sunday night. The 66-year-old founding member of the British band pounded the keys like a lion, and made them roar like nobody’s business. With fellow founding lead singer Colin Blunstone and the support of a tight band, the […]
WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Zombies rock tonight
What we lack in big names this coming weekend we make up for in depth. The opening weekend of the National Hockey League season features more than enough reasons to get out of the house after the early game is over, including two release parties on Friday night (Fuquored and N.N.), and the major event […]
TRUE TALES OF THE ROAD: Chilliwack’s trash can jam
Don’t upstage the headliner if you want to work in this town again. This is part of “Vegas rules,” in old school showbiz lingo, an unwritten code of performer conduct that discourages warm-up bands from attempting to blow their headliners off the stage. It’s just common courtesy. But sometimes it can’t be avoided – especially […]
Men Without Hats dream of aliens
The road tales were fun. Now it’s time to conduct another microscopic examination of another seemingly trivial matter in the world of rock bands – the band name. This week’s guest: Men Without Hats, a new wave blast from the past this Friday at the Century Casino. The very process of naming a band goes […]
TONIGHT: Artists for Life, Pink Floyd, Raygun Cowboys, Bobby Cameron
The only funny thing to say about Artists for Life – tonight at the Catalyst Theatre – is that the very title suggests there might be artists who are NOT for life. Even death metal bands are into life. It’s just so bleedin’ obvious, isn’t it? As is the desire to support worthy charities like […]
The basic difference between “white” blues and “black” blues is that one loves the blues, whereas the other HAS the blues. We’ll have to make an exception for Johnny Winter, literally the whitest of the white bluesmen, who’s sharing a bill with the equally legendary harmonica James Cotton at the Polish Hall tonight. Both have […]
