Posted on December 21, 2011
By Kevin Maimann
Front Slider, Music
Edmonton musician Colleen Brown is not one to let her thoughts fester. Her penchant for expressing sincere emotions pays off in a big way on her acclaimed third album “Dirt,” and it doesn’t stop at songwriting. The soulful folk-pop singer’s growing national profile has been helped along by CBC Radio 2, which would likely not […]
Posted on December 20, 2011
By Andrea Scharner
Front Slider, Music
Bad news for LMFAO fans – and for LMFAO itself – Wednesday’s show at Rexall Place has been postponed due to injury. The group known for such hits as Sexy and I Know It and Party Rock Anthem has pulled out of the three remaining dates on the Canadian tour after singer Sky Blu suffered […]
Posted on December 20, 2011
By Mike Ross
Music
Important disclaimer: local rock band Blue Goat is performing a Pink Floyd tribute inside the star dome at the Telus World of Science on Thursday – both the shortest day and longest night of the year – but you will not hear Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2. You may not have any pudding. […]
Posted on December 17, 2011
By Mike Ross
Music
Going into a tilt about the cesspool of immoral behaviour rampant in modern top-40 music, we encounter the curious case of LMFAO. Their name stands for (children, avert your eyes), “Laughing My Fucking Ass Off.” This is one band that lives up to its name. Returning Wednesday to headline Rexall Place (tickets), LMFAO was here […]
Posted on December 15, 2011
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest, TV and Radio
It’s not every day an American Idol winner turns up performing with a Singing Christmas Tree in Edmonton – but this is no ordinary Singing Christmas Tree. Nor is Ruben Studdard an ordinary American Idol winner. Here’s a funny twist: At the Jubilee Auditorium Friday through Sunday, this annual Christmas event (featuring a festively-garbed choir […]
Posted on December 14, 2011
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
Rock musicians always roll their eyes when asked for the 1,000th time where they got their band name, but we can learn a lot from the psychology of rock ‘n’ roll nomenclature. A band name can reveal much about the musicians who named it – personality, character, insanity – sometimes without them even being aware […]
Posted on December 10, 2011
By Mike Ross
Music
I crashed the meet ‘n’ greet at the 2002 Prince concert in Edmonton – and couldn’t get a word in edgewise because my wife kept badgering him about birthdays. See, Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe in birthdays because birthdays are pagan rituals. Besides, they’re not going to die, so what’s the point? Too many candles on […]
Posted on December 8, 2011
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
The teaming up of three of our top singer-songwriters inspires tantalizing visions of an Edmonton supergroup – Mike McDonald, Ben Sures and Paul Bellows – along the lines of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. They might even be convinced to wear some of those gay caballero costumes. Well, maybe not. The supergroup isn’t out of […]
Posted on December 8, 2011
By Albert Smith
Front Slider, Music
It’s always a treat when we get a visit from a British band – begging the question: Are British rock bands better than North American ones? Short answer: Yes. We’ll go to the scoreboard in a moment, but for now celebrate the return of Coldplay, playing April 17 at Rexall Place. The band has chosen […]
Posted on December 7, 2011
By Staff
Front Slider, Music
On the heels of the announcement of Cats at the Jubilee Auditorium comes news of another apparently feline-related act coming to that same building on Saturday, March 10 – Puscifer. What are the odds? And who named the band, you ask? It’s just Tool’s Maynard James Keenan up to some new tricks, that’s all. Puscifer […]
Posted on December 2, 2011
By Staff
Front Slider, Music
There is hot country and there is cool country – and Dwight Yoakam is definitely the latter. Still walkin’ that line between too cool for his own good and not hot enough to become the next Garth Brooks, Yoakam brings his high and lonesome cosmic California country sound to the River Cree Casino on Saturday, […]
Posted on November 29, 2011
By Kevin Maimann
Front Slider, Music
Don’t let them scare you. Polkadot Cadaver’s eccentric mash-up of rock, metal, dance, polka and everything in between is accompanied by some downright twisted lyrics that sometimes make strangers apprehensive about approaching the band. Take the chorus of lovably eerie ballad Chloroform Girl, for instance, on which singer Todd Smith croons, “It’s been three years […]
