Motley Crue ‘not worthy’ to open for Alice Cooper
If Motley Crue truly plans to retire for good at the end of their 2014 tour, they sure went out with a flash-bang during their nearly two hour set Tuesday night at Rexall Place. The excess of your average ’80s hair metal show was exceeded with such ease – MORE dry ice, MORE pyrotechnics, MORE […]
Foo Fighters bring Sonic Highways to Edmonton
It has been said that the Foo Fighters are the ultimate cover band. They don’t cover songs. They don’t tribute specific bands. They cover entire decades! If this is a complaint (and it was, from the New York Times, no less), it’s a lame one because who wouldn’t want one’s formative decades brought to vivid […]
REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac plays to its strengths
For a band so relentlessly intent in telling us to forget yesterday – as in their 1977 hit Don’t Stop, Fleetwood Mac sure makes a lot of money keeping the past alive, as evidenced by the full house at Rexall Place Saturday night on their current “On With the Show” Tour. In the years before […]
Keith Urban is back in Edmonton in July
Do not accuse Keith Urban of being one of these “bro-country” guys who’s only concerned with sex, drinking and driving, not necessarily all in that order or all at the same time. This New Zealandic country superstar’s muse is more basic: He’s a sucker for a love song. There is no way else to explain […]
Nickelback to return to Edmonton in March
Can we all just admit that bashing Nickelback is so old that even pointing out that it’s old has itself become old, and move on already? There are far more hateful bands to hate on, for as someone wise once said, haters gonna hate. With that, the news is out that Nickelback has announced an […]
Linkin Park to play Rexall in February
Linkin Park is the band that one prominent nu-metal peer claims he caught tracking their guitars. Their guitars! Yes, please be advised that portions of many live concerts in all genres of music will often contain pre-recorded backing tracks. It is industry practice. We’re working on a campaign to get parental warnings printed on concert […]
Taylor Swift in Edmonton summer of 2015
Players, it has been said, are going to play. That’s why they call them players. Same with haters, heart-breakers and fakers. The musical question now is what you call those who “shake it off” – shakers or shaker-offers? Ponder as excitement builds for Taylor Swift’s return to Edmonton. She plays Aug. 4-5, 2015 at Rexall […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: The B’s of Brainy Beats
The reason there are so many weird rappers in Edmonton is because Edmonton has no rap scene! Just kidding. There are a number of gifted hip hop artists working in town, if not exactly making a living at it. The scene is so small and isolated that people elsewhere would laugh at the prospect we’re […]
Better Alf an Oo than no Oo At All
Area classic rock fans are rejoicing that The Who is coming to Edmonton as part of their 50th anniversary tour. Man, has it been that long? Sure has. So a year of anticipation won’t be much more compared to half a Century of rocking! Featuring originals Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend – the only originals […]
Tragically Hip to encore Fully Completely in Edmonton
In case you didn’t get your fill of Fully Completely the first time around, the Tragically Hip is bringing it back for an encore. The reissue of the band’s third album will coincide with the “Fully and Completely tour” across Canada in 2015. The Hip plays Rexall Place Thursday, Feb. 12. Tickets go ON SALE […]
Bryan Adams returns with the best years of his life
If Bryan Adams got his first real six-string in the summer of 1969, he would’ve been nine years old at the time. “Me and some guys from school had a band and we tried real hard,” he sings. “Jimmy quit, Jody got married. I should’ve known we’d never get far.” These events must’ve happened at […]
