Kickstarter Controversy Causes Trouble For Vancouver Game Studio

Funding a Kickstarter is never a sure thing, but it’s safe to say that once your project gets funded, it’s only a matter of time until the champagne is broken out. For Vancouver studio Victory Square Games, that celebration never happened. Victory Square’s game Elementary, My Dear Holmes!, which we talked about last month, reached […]

Panning For Drifters Gold at The Railway Club

Wow, Friday already. How did that happen so quickly? I must have lost sense of time while tripping to White Poppy’s self-titled debut LP, which dropped on Not Not Fun Records last week, and the few cold cellar demos on Pan’s Bandcamp. Or maybe I sped through the days, evading imaginary traffic cops, while jamming […]

Four Intense Dudes; Los Angeles Rockers Pound The Biltmore

Walking down the stairs of The Biltmore Cabaret on Monday night, the smell of sweat and cheap beer assaulted my nostrils. Leather and denim-clad punks moshing to Vancouver band B-Lines gave a strong impression that this crowd was running on party fumes. I was still mentally preparing myself for a night ending with me wearing […]