MUSIC: Lionize feelin’ irie about their odd stoner image
Fact: if you play in a band that blends reggae, classic rock and heavy, Black Sabbath-y grooves, people are going to assume you smoke pot. The stoner rock tag is slightly perplexing to Nate Bergman, who does vocals and guitar for Maryland band Lionize. After all, he ponders, doesn’t all rock sound better when you’re […]
The best thing about those old Bugs Bunny cartoons – aside from the high quality violence you just don’t see anymore – was the music. They used full-blown orchestras in those days, creating an evocative canon of music that became its own genre: cartoon symphonies. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra takes a crack at it at […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: from Motown to E-town to Downtown with the Pale Moon Lights
Pale Moon Lights, with Concealer, Jody Shenkarek and Fear and Worry Sat at 8 p.m. The ARTery, 9535 Jasper Ave It was almost like seeing the Pale Moon Lights for the very first time at last December’s CD release for Notebook Magazine’s Great Northern Revival compilation. They’d been around for years, but the three-piece – […]
MUSIC: Casino gigs all in the Temptations
On an average night, a casino lounge in Edmonton is a long way from the big time, when Otis Williams and his bandmates in the Temptations were cranking out hit after hit, eventually putting the Motown legends in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But when the lights go up, and the MC has […]
GIGGLE CITY: Marcus Beaubier
Our guest this week is Marcus Beaubier, performing at Yuk Yuk’s (in the Century Casino) tonight (Saturday, Feb. 19) Warning: The following contains explicit content not suitable for children. Q. If you could be any Canadian celebrity, who would you be, and why? A: Some sort of weird hybrid of Gord Downie from the Tragically […]
Snooki hits Edmonton tomorrow!
We wanted to bring you some high culture for the big launch of GigCity.ca – so we know you won’t be disappointed that Snooki is coming to Edmonton to help us celebrate the Jersey Shore Family Day Long Weekend! That’s right: The most talked-about star or Jersey Shore will be appearing at the Union Hall […]
Music … and a few other gifts, besides
Edmontonian Rhea March isn’t just building a team of talented young musicians. She’s building a family. March has spent the past four years assembling a roster of gifted Albertan songwriters under age 22 for her non-profit U22 Productions. U22 shows youngsters the ropes of the music industry through mentorship, performance coaching, booking, management, promotion, recording […]
LPs? For the record, the aficionados are sticking around
Independent record stores are an endangered species. We must do our best to preserve these little music shops and their fragile natural habitat away from encroaching box stores and other predators. For without record stores there would be no more … Record Store Clerks. We need Record Store Clerks. Who else will tell us what’s […]
Rihanna gets Loud in Edmonton June 22
Poetic justice 101: Chris Brown proves himself a complete twit after he didn’t win a Grammy (complaining on Twitter: “This industry is based on politics and a**-kissing!”) – while the woman he was convicted of assaulting has turned into an even bigger star than ever. In the wake of collecting a trophy for best dance […]
Death Cab for Cutie gets sensitive in Edmonton
Welcome to another episode if Who Named the Band? Our guest today is Death Cab for Cutie, which brings its breezy yet sensitive brand of morbidly artistic pop rock music to the Shaw Conference Centre on Tuesday, May 24. In addition to past sensitive new-age rockers like Soul Meets Body or I Will Follow You […]
Rammstein rams Rexall, Mother Mother moves up to Edmonton Events Centre
The concerts are really starting to pile up here. Now it’s Rammstein coming to Rexall Place on Friday, May 13 – a full-blown, flaming-phallus, exploding arena-rock spectacular from the German techno-metal band that makes Marilyn Manson look like Marilyn Monroe. Maybe because it’s all in German it sounds scarier. They could do The Beer Barrel […]
