City and Colour brings Little Hell to the Jube January 25
Going unplugged turned out to be a great career move for Dallas Green, who became “City and Colour” (Dallas = City, Green = Colour) for a solo career that one could argue far outshines his work in his punk band Alexisonfire – or at least opened up his songwriting gifts to a new audience. Said […]
WHO’S IN THE BAND: Bachman & Turner tonight at the Jube
It’s all well and good if you’re Pearl Jam and stay together 20 years before some bigshot Hollywood director makes a movie about you. That’s easy. Twenty? Try 20 DIFFERENT bands over 50 years, Sonny Boy, when you’re actually entitled to be called “classic rock” and you argue about who was in the room when […]
EIFF REVIEW ROUND-UP: From Fightville to Bob and the Monster
Did anyone actually sit in a movie theatre on such a beautiful weekend? Don’t worry, film buffs – the Edmonton International Film Festival continues through Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Garneau Theatre, Empire City Centre and other venues around town. From heavy documentaries to road trip movies to romantic comedies to stuff we still can’t […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Pearl Jam rocks Twenty out of Ten
This concludes Pearl Jam Week in Edmonton. We hope you enjoyed the band’s spectacular show at Rexall Place on Friday night, and the Cameron Crowe documentary about how it all came to be so spectacular, Pearl Jam Twenty, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Ten, the band’s breakthrough album. Some numerology is at work here. The […]
WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Edmonton goes retro
I don’t think there’s any doubt what the biggest show of the weekend will be, with the raucous Pearl Jam playing Rexall Place on Friday night. But there’s some retro performances as well, from such artists as the Irish Rovers, the Headpins and Lee Aaron, and Art Garfunkel scattered throughout the days. The Edmonton International […]
Awolnation gets real at the Starlite
There’s a lesson to be learned from Aaron Bruno’s success as Awolnation: stick with what you love, and eventually that passion will be rewarded. Awolnation had a surprise hit this year with the dark song “Sail,” selling more than 80,000 downloads in Canada alone to date. But it came after a marked change in direction. […]
Winter Lights kickoff party goes Oct. 15
It’s a little taste of winter before the snow actually falls. Now, there are two ways to look at such a proposition: you either dread winter generally, in which case it sounds nuts, or you find ways to dread winter a little less, in which case it sounds like fun. Let’s go with the latter, […]
EIFF REVIEW: Meaty female roles let Oscar winners shine in Cloudburst
Remember how as a kid you used to recoil when grandma zoomed in for a big wet smooch and a cheek pinch? But you secretly liked it, didn’t you? Now imagine two grandmas kissing each other. Now try to get that image out of your head. These are just some of the emotions at play […]
Local artist scores $5,000 commission from AGA
Dara Humniski is going to be covered in acrylic paint for an entire week – and you get to watch. The 29-year-old Edmonton artist has been awarded a $5,000 commission to paint two giant blank walls inside the Art Gallery of Alberta, a total of nearly 700 square feet on the West and North walls […]
EIFF STAR WATCH: Pearl Jam, Omi Vaidya, Brenda Fricker, Joshua Leonard – and you!
It wasn’t a coincidence – it was a conspiracy! The fact that Pearl Jam had a day off on the same night that EIFF screened the new Pearl Jam documentary, Twenty, was “not an accident,” confirms EIFF programmer Guy Lavallee. “It was very specifically targeted to play between the Calgary and Edmonton shows. But they […]
LMFAO returns to make us laugh f***ing a** off a second time Dec. 21
Somebody has to say it: LMFAO blew Ke$ha off the stage. The wacky song and dance collective fronted by a couple of afro-ed dudes named Redfoo and Skyblu delivered a tremendous display of fun, groove, style, explicit sex, some nudity, giant blow-up animals and no redeeming lyrical content whatsoever. It’s all about partying. And the […]
