Posted on June 3, 2011
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
So long, U2. Thanks for the “concert of the decade.” Now it’s time for the next concert of the decade: Supertramp at Rexall Place on Sunday night (June 5). We need another decade. Tell you what: Let’s consider 2011 up to U2 in Edmonton on June 1 the ‘10s, and everything here and after as […]
Posted on June 1, 2011
By Staff
Music, The Latest
The folk fest has sold out – in a good way. Weekend passes for the annual Happening on Hill Aug. 4-7 at Gallagher Park are gone. They went in the first two hours after they went on sale today (June 1). It is said demand was so great that the phone lines crashed, the online […]
Posted on June 1, 2011
By Staff
Front Slider, Music
It’s a beautiful day in Edmonton when love comes to town, where anticipation wasn’t better than the real thing – in a place where the streets literally have no name. Just ask the people walking down 82nd Avenue, or “Whyte,” as some folks insist on calling it. Perhaps Bono and the Edge and the Other […]
Posted on May 31, 2011
By Staff
Comedy, Music, The Latest
Here’s a show that’s going to sell out in the blink of an eye – Tegan and Sara at the Myer Horowitz Theatre on Wednesday, July 6. Well, maybe: the big discussion online yesterday was whether the $75 the pair are commanding for tickets was highway robbery. The twin sister goddesses of alternative rock from […]
Posted on May 30, 2011
By Staff
Comedy, The Latest, Theatre
“I saw Tommy Lee at an awards show, and I got crabs just from looking at him!” “I may have said in an interview in People magazine that I thought Renee Zellweger was so thin that she looked like the lost Olsen triplet. And I may have said that she hasn’t eaten since Chicago … […]
Posted on May 30, 2011
By Staff
Music, The Latest
Again we ask a musical question: Rise Against what? Why, everything, of course – and we have a dandy subject for a WHO NAMED THE BAND feature when the mainstream punk band (not an oxymoron) returns to Edmonton, at Rexall Place on Saturday, Oct. 8 with Flogging Molly and the Black Pacific in support. Tickets […]
Posted on May 30, 2011
By Albert Smith
Front Slider, Music
The floodlights are on at Commonwealth Stadium. They’re building something that looks like the timewarp machine from Contact. Is Jodie Foster coming? Something’s going on. You can feel the excitement in the air, the local media has gone on full paparazzi alert, fans are staking out the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, the TV weather forecasters are […]
Posted on May 29, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Music
Free advice for Lauryn Hill: Fire your soundman. Fire your bass player. Fire your drummer. Keep your backup singers. And for God’s sake, please chill out just a wee bit. These are really the only conclusions a discerning music fan can draw from Hill’s terribly disappointing show Saturday, May 28 at the Edmonton Event Centre. […]
Posted on May 26, 2011
By Mike Ross
Family, Front Slider, Music
When Ron Walker isn’t pow-wow dancing, he’s a youth worker who specializes in easing aboriginal kids through the culture shock of moving from small towns to the big city. More than 10,000 Slave Lake residents were put in that situation rather suddenly last week when a terrible forest fire destroyed a third of the town. […]
Posted on May 26, 2011
By Staff
Music, The Latest
The few, the proud, the Marines, the metal bands known by one name only – these are the true heroes of our time. At least when it comes to their fans, the ones for Judas Priest particularly compelled to shout “PRIEST!” accompanied by the universal devil horn salute. Once again, in case there’s still any […]
Posted on May 26, 2011
By Mike Ross
Music
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 […]
Posted on May 24, 2011
By Albert Smith
Front Slider, Music
It would’ve been nice to talk about the whole Christian rock thing with the Grammy-winning Christian rock band Switchfoot, which played at Rexall Place May 27 as part of YC Alberta , the annual Christian youth conference – but sadly, like the Rapture, it was not meant to be. The good news: One of the […]
