Jessica O'Brien

Gang Signs Make Love to Your Ears

Gang Signs do indeed know how to put the ‘party’ into an album release party. While there were no piñatas or rounds of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey (though that would have been a

Ghostly Debut Good for Dancing in the Dark

Gang Signs recently tweeted that they would like to describe their music “as the highs and lows of buying shoes online”.  Internet shoe shopping obviously fills them with restless desire

The Squamish Hills are Alive with Music!

It was a quintessentially Canadian scene, soaring mountains, lush fields and 10,000 tipsy people singing along to the Hip. LIVE at Squamish’s Saturday lineup was predominantly Canadian but diverse. There

Zinesters Take Over Main Street

This week Main Street and its environs will be the stage of MagScene on Main. There will be three days of interactive events hosted by cutting edge arts and literary

Gold Panda Shines Brightly

Gold Panda was meant to be experienced on warm summer nights like this. His ambient music is full of joyful, glitchy beats and swirling, oriental samples that transport you to

The Haunting of Jeff Mangum

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