WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Zombies rock tonight
What we lack in big names this coming weekend we make up for in depth. The opening weekend of the National Hockey League season features more than enough reasons to get out of the house after the early game is over, including two release parties on Friday night (Fuquored and N.N.), and the major event […]
TRUE TALES OF THE ROAD: Paul Bellows bonds with his fans
Edmonton folk musician Paul Bellows was on the road quite a bit before he made it big in the business world as the founder of the Yellow Pencil web design company. So no – he doesn’t NEED to promote his new CD, Shipwreck Looking Out for a Beach, released Friday at the Haven, the day […]
WHO NAMED THE GUY? Gurf Morlix gets fired
“My parents were eccentric,” explains Gurf Morlix on his unusual given name. There’s not much more to tell. Sure, there were problems. Not as much as the boy named Sue, but there was a bit of childhood taunting, maybe, raised eyebrows and dumb questions, and it’s hard to introduce yourself in a loud bar. But […]
Blue Chair Don’t Swing Blue, but Lenny Bruce Lives On
Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night in a galaxy far, far away (but still in Edmonton, strangely enough), there was only one story slam. It was at The Blue Chair Cafe and it grew to be so popular that on some nights it even had to turn folks away. But things […]
Wool on Wolves, Morris top Edmonton Music Awards
Jeff Morris, Wool on Wolves and Hot Panda were the big winners on the second night of the Edmonton Music Awards – though anyone catching a couple of the smoking live performances can probably claim that title, too. Morris added to his Best Live Performance award from Sunday night with Best Solo Artist for his […]
Morris, The Red Threat first-night winners at Edmonton Music Awards
OK….so remind us again why the first annual Edmonton Music Awards were scheduled opposite the Junos? Or, as one hi-larious Tweeter noted last night “ Holding the #EMAs during the #Junos is a great way to emphasize #yeg’s absence from the national music scene.” Of course, to those packed into Haven Social Club for the […]
Go big and go home with the Edmonton Music Awards
If Niagara Falls could have its own music awards, why couldn’t Edmonton? You can’t argue with the logic that led local promoter/musician Danny Fournier to create the first-ever Edmonton Music Awards. Fournier was struck with the idea while going through submissions for a songwriting contest called Rockstar 101, which he was running through his label […]
MUSIC: Deon Blyan’s urban exposure at Haven Social Club
If Deon Blyan’s new album Turning to Wave is more about cities than it is about relationships, you probably can’t blame the guy. “I think I got sick of writing about girls,” the Calgary resident says, somewhere on the road in B.C. “I guess it had to happen eventually. It took on this theme of […]
Hot Picks, March 11: The one-woman Decemberists
Funny how we use the word “siren” to refer to almost any female singer who operates in a somewhat folky vein – when the “sirens” of Greek mythology were actually evil creatures who used their enchanting “siren songs” to lure sailors to a watery grave. Don’t you hate it when that happens? Christine Fellows ought […]
