Posted on August 21, 2012
By Barry Hammond
Front Slider, Music, Theatre
“It’s all backwards causality. Cyclical time. The past is the future. The present is now. The future is the past.” That’s how Rocco Hercules Somershire – the greatest rock musician in the greatest British rock band in the world – explains how The Saints of British Rock could meet Merlin the magician, who gave them […]
Posted on August 21, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Front Slider, Music
You heard it from Black Mountain first – what may be a new genre of music called “apocalyptic surf.” Fans can check it out Thursday night when the Vancouver “psyche-rock” band plays the Starlite Room, promising to include music from its soundtrack to the indie film Year Zero – which has been described as an […]
Posted on August 20, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
Wait, didn’t the Smashing Pumpkins break up? They couldn’t have – because the band is coming to Rexall Place on Friday, Oct. 5. It’s part of a tour behind the new album, Oceania. Tickets start at $62 and go on sale Friday Aug. 24. Must have missed the reunion party there. But what the band’s […]
Posted on August 18, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Theatre
Jersey Boys sounded like a pretty lame premise for a hit Broadway musical. I mean, c’mon, the Four Seasons? Can you base an entire show on “Walk Like a Man”? As it turns out, you can. The story of four Guidos whose rose from the streets (literally — they started singing on street corners) to […]
Posted on August 18, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Music, The Latest
These days it’s hard to be surprised by a rock concert. It’s all spectacle now: explosions, lasers, columns of flames, 25 foot tall statues, all on a stage the size of a Borg ship covered by an infinity of lights. The music, even the band, seems almost secondary. Metallica’s sold out show at the Coliseum […]
Posted on August 17, 2012
By Barry Hammond
Film, Front Slider
Watching the Argentinean-Canadian co-production, “A Place Called Los Pereyra” – opening at the Metro Cinema Aug. 18 – brings to mind a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, […]
Posted on August 16, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider, TV and Radio, Visual Arts
Gird your loins, adventurers, for an upcoming “Comic-Con” exhibition of pop culture is bringing in the REAL Batman – which, as everyone knows, is Adam West. The star of the popular TV 1960s series – and lately as Mayor Adam West on Family Guy – is just one of the special guests expected at Edmonton […]
Posted on August 16, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
It’s Metallica weekend in Edmonton! The near-mythological metal band from California plays two sold-out shows at Rexall, Friday and Saturday nights. Everything else musical this weekend plays second fiddle, like it or not. The only major competition is the Edmonton Rock Music Festival at Hawrelak Park, with headliners like Prism, Blue Oyster Cult and April […]
Posted on August 15, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
Striker – an Edmonton speed metal band very much in the vein of early Metallica – has won the opening spot for this weekend’s Metallica concerts in a contest sponsored by the Bear radio station. They’ll play Friday and Saturday at Rexall Place. The band wasn’t immediately available for comment, but posted this statement on […]
Posted on August 14, 2012
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, Film
There’s no popcorn or soda for sale at Alberta’s most important movie theatre. There’s no marquee out front to say what’s playing. Inside, there are state-of-the-art digital and 3-D projectors, Dolby sound, leather reclining chairs and movies so new they’re not even in regular theatres yet. Crowds are never a problem. Most times there’s only […]
Posted on August 14, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
The Twitter-sphere, Blog-o-verse and Facebookopolis are abuzz today with news that one of Canada’s hottest new indie acts – The Weeknd, a.k.a. Abel Tesfaye – is coming to town. His cinematic music, which has been “going viral” on social media, performs at the Edmonton Event Centre on Wednesday, Sept. 26. Tickets are $40 and go […]
Posted on August 14, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
It’s always nice when an ex-Edmontonian comes back to visit. Break out the good bong. And show your love for Wes Borg when he returns to this year’s Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival – running Aug. 16-26 at innumerable theatres around town – the first time since his friend and partner Joe Bird died suddenly […]
