Posted on June 6, 2011
By Staff
Music, The Latest
Get ready for the “Punk Concert of the Decade” – and that’s enough of that nonsense. Tickets for go on sale Friday for Blink 182’s show at Rexall Place Saturday, Aug. 27. Opening will be Rancid and Against Me, which are popular modern punk bands very much in the spirit of the headliner. Blink’s drummer […]
Posted on June 3, 2011
By Staff
Comedy, Music, The Latest, Theatre, TV and Radio
So KISS snubs Edmonton for Fort McMurray (July 2, story here) and all we get is a lecture from Gene Simmons? Hey, we’ll take it! The legendary KISS bassist is also an accomplished raconteur – so we’re excited that the man of the big tongue in more ways than one will be doing a spoken […]
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 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 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 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 […]
Posted on May 24, 2011
By Staff
Music, The Latest
If you’re down with the whole idea that new art can be created from the discarded scraps of old art, then DJ Shadow is a regular Michelangelo. Performing Wednesday, July 13 at the Edmonton Events Centre – tickets are $30 and go on sale Thursday here – Shadow is pioneer in what is called “instrumental […]
