PREVIEW: Hugh Cornwell likes it when you’re moody
When Hugh Cornwell left The Stranglers in 1990 he’d gone as far as he felt he could with the veteran English rock band. Behind him he left a series of classic punk and new wave albums (The Raven, Feline, Gospel According To the Meninblack among them) charges of misogyny and a style that took as […]
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Just how much funk is TOO MUCH funk? Three-alarm Funk? Four-Alarm Funk? Don’t accuse the members of Five-Alarm Funk of being too eclectic – that’s kind of the whole point, as writer Damon Sparks discovered when he chatted with the band. Five-Alarm Funk plays tonight at Haven Social Club, that little slice of basement music […]
FUNK ALERT! Alarm set to attack Edmonton with skanktastic beats, riotous horns, disruptive attire
Almost exactly one year ago, Canada was tied with the U.S. in overtime of the gold medal hockey game at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The air was tense across the nation, and not far from GM Place where the game was being played, one band waited for what might be the best or worst gig […]
