Elliott BROOD – Aug. 6 at the Hayloft Dancehall, Prince ...
Far from the bustle of city life, under soft yellow barn lights, the veteran folk-rock trio of Stephen Pitkin, Casey Laforet and Mark Sasso reminded us of the joy live music can bring. On a sticky summer evening in Eastern ...
The Tragically Hip – Saskadelphia; why roots fans make ...
The Tragically Hip have never fitted into a roots music genre. Their guitar-driven rock sound generally has always hugged the centre-line of the rock ‘n roll highway. The nightly cover of “Train Kept-a Rollin’” – frequently introduced as “a song ...
Robert Connely Farr confronts his mortality on his new single…and ...
Robert Connely Farr’s new single, “Ain’t Enough,” has a not-so-subtle message that we’re all receiving these days. Robert, Vancouver’s resident preacher of southern blues-country-grunge delivers a simple sermon: we all need more of our friends, more of our family, ...
Jeffrey Barrett’s favourite music of 2020
A year from now, your phone will be showing you “One Year Ago Today” photos; photos of landscapes, and your cat, and the neighbour’s Christmas lights down the road. But that doesn’t mean you should completely forget about 2020. For ...
The Moonshinin’ Music Fest live stream – Dec. 6 from ...
As it is the season, venues and performers are putting aside their inner concerns for more benevolent efforts, such as the Moonshinin’ Music Fest Live Stream, Saturday evening, Dec. 6 at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver. Organized and hosted by ...
Oh Susanna – Nov. 7 online
Suzie Ungerleider is working. At the start of 2020, Suzie, a.k.a Oh Susanna, was opening for the Jim Cuddy Band’s Countrywide Soul tour at Vancouver’s famed Commodore Ballroom. For Suzie, the gig was an opportunity to showcase her fierce vocal ...
The North Sound – As the Stars Explode
As the Stars Explode, the second full-length album from The North Sound, brings 11 new songs (plus spoken word intro and outro) from Saskatchewan-based singer-songwriter Forrest Eaglespeaker. Currently comprising Forrest and vocalist/partner Nevada Freistadt, The North Sound is an idea ...
Paul Reddick and the Gamblers – Alive in Italia
In 2001 on his award-winning album Rattlebag, Toronto bluesman Paul Reddick sang, “…there’s no good place to have the blues,” and now almost 20 years later, he is testing that theory with his recent Stony Plain release Alive in Italia. ...