An impressive sampling of Vancouver’s homegrown indie pop/rock was on the menu last Thursday night at the Biltmore Cabaret as part of Steam Whistle’s Unsigned Indie Music Series. All proceeds from the door went to Solidarity Rock, an artist-run organization that works to connect like-minded musicians, artists and creative people in Cuba and Canada, among […]
The Bonobo is actually a great ape, formerly known as the “dwarf chimpanzee.” Bonobo (Simon Green) is also a great musician, DJ and producer, who also was dwarfed at Fortune Sound Club last night by old ladies flashing their orangutan titties; some dude in a tropical shirt, MDMA-jiving roughly into everyone around him; some drunk chick crowd-surfing […]
During the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver Weekly had the pleasure of sitting down to interview Dan Mangan after watching him conduct his last workshop for the weekend. This particular event consisted of Dan, local Vancouverites E.S.L. and two Seattle exports The Head and the Heart and The Cave Singers. Needless to say they were […]
There were a lot of ghosts onstage at the Jeff Mangum show. Stories of the dead weave in and out of his lyrics but the ghosts of the rest of Neutral Milk Hotel also rested heavy onstage. The night was full of beautiful, heart-crushing songs but was ultimately bittersweet. The Vogue Theatre was packed with […]
An impressive sampling of Vancouver’s homegrown indie pop/rock was on the menu last Thursday night at the Biltmore Cabaret as part of Steam Whistle’s Unsigned Indie Music Series. All proceeds from the door went to Solidarity Rock, an artist-run organization that works to connect like-minded musicians, artists and creative people in Cuba and Canada, among […] 