Big Wreck returns to rock Edmonton Event Centre with Albatross May 4

Posted on March 6, 2012 By Albert Smith Music, The Latest

It’s about time Big Wreck came back. Everybody else has – plus we still hear a lot of Big Wreck music on the radio. They must’ve done something right. The melodic rock band whose distinctive riffs are powered by guitar whiz Ian Thornley is back after a 10 year “hiatus” with a bang – a […]

Between rock and a hard place, Needles to Vinyl scratches out its story

Posted on February 8, 2012 By Mike Ross Music, The Latest

There are a handful of rock bands in Edmonton that have been branded “too mainstream” – which is a laugh because isn’t becoming successful the goal of every rock band? What the critics might really mean is that these poor bands are not cool enough for this particular school: where the modern rock status quo […]

TONIGHT: Austra or Feist, take your pick of one-named sirens

Posted on November 18, 2011 By Michael Senchuk Music

This weekend featured back-to-back reunion shows at the Edmonton Event Centre: The Tea Party Friday and the hotly-anticipated Death From Above 1979 Saturday. Tonight there are also two effervescent one-named ladies gracing us with their presence: Austra and Feist are both in town. Good things come in twos. Friday Ruby Jane – The Full Moon […]

The Tea Party returns: No politics, just music and maybe a lot of money

Posted on November 16, 2011 By Kevin Maimann Front Slider, Music

The Tea Party reunited just in time to get into an unwelcome mix-up with the American political movement of the same name – which prompted a stir about the band and its Internet domain, teaparty.com. Estimates floating around on the value of the name have hovered around a million bucks. While drummer Jeff Burrows admits […]

WHO NAMED THE WAIF: Feist and the marketing of music

Posted on November 15, 2011 By Albert Smith Music, The Latest

After a hot summer of hot pop divas, a wave of winter waifs is upon us. Define waif? These are not rocker girls, nor pure folk singers. There are the kind of female singers whose poppy yet genre-bending songs do not generally contain references to alcohol consumption, explicit sexual acts or pleas for the DJ […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: One long, long weekend of greatness

Posted on November 10, 2011 By Michael Senchuk Music

Long weekends tend to spread the good gigs out – so we bring you a special five day weekend music update. Your lawn does’t need any more mowing, it’s too early to worry about Christmas lights, so get out and support live music in Edmonton! Best bets: Alex Vissa (Thursday); Peter Katz and the Barr […]

The Devil Wears Prada loves the messengers, hates the message

Posted on November 9, 2011 By Kevin Maimann Front Slider, Music

The cover of The Devil Wears Prada’s latest album Dead Throne looks positively evil. If you were to judge by the jagged upside-down skull bathed in an eerie glow, you would probably guess they’re a metal band … and you’d be correct. But you might not guess they’re a Christian band. “Metal and God can […]

OBITUARY: Dave Brockie of GWAR writes on the death of guitarist Cory Smoot

Posted on November 4, 2011 By Staff Front Slider, Music

Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus of GWAR, has released a second statement in the wake of the sudden death of bandmate Cory Smoot on Thursday morning. The band’s show on Friday, Nov. 4 at the Edmonton Event Centre went ahead as scheduled. Brockie sent the following out on Friday: “After a restless night spent hurtling […]

REVIEW: Big Sugar almost too cool for its own good

Posted on November 4, 2011 By Mike Ross Music, The Latest

It may be possible to read too much into what was really a pretty decent rock show, but the members of the Big Sugar Collective on stage at the Edmonton Event Centre on Thursday night were trying too hard to be too cool for their own good. This is disturbing. They didn’t need to prove […]

WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Jack Semple at the Hilltop Pub, Leon Russell sold out

Posted on November 4, 2011 By Michael Senchuk Music

You didn’t really think we’d have another weekend like the last one, did you? Still, there are some great options for live music fans this weekend, with the Chad VanGaalen and Cuff the Duke on Friday night; and a couple of gentlemen with epical long careers on Saturday – Ray Sawyer, the frontman for Dr. […]

Band members, fans mourn sudden death of GWAR guitarist Cory Smoot

Posted on November 3, 2011 By Staff Music

Just a day before GWAR plays Edmonton comes terrible news: The sudden death of band member Cory Smoot. The guitarist, whose stage name was Flattus Maximus, was found dead Thursday morning as the band was about to come into Canada. GWAR’s Canadian publicist confirmed the news. GWAR’s tour – and the Edmonton show Friday at […]

BEHIND THE MONSTER: GWAR’s human side also angry

Posted on November 3, 2011 By Albert Smith Comedy, Music, Theatre

Interviewing Dave Brockie is not much different than talking to Oderus Urungus, his alter-ego front-demon in GWAR. One is a loudmouthed, opinionated alien monster that hates humanity. The other is a loudmouthed, opinionated artist that hates humanity. Other than that, they’re exactly the same. Of course Brockie doesn’t hate humanity. It’s satire. Playing Friday at […]

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