live music reviews

Walk into The Vogue. Two drinks for $32.00. Down the aisle to stage right. Shit there’s a lot of people. Wow. Wait. Hold the phone

To be perfectly honest, my first gut reaction to the atmosphere on Tuesday night at The Strumbellas concert was something of an ‘uh oh’ moment.

Each and every artist who took to the Venue stage on Monday night brought their own genre-bending style of music and live performance. Hipster femme

Lake Street Dive (LSD) is two parts jazz, one part pop, and one part sex appeal. Alright, that formula is based on absolutely nothing, but

At the height of the first heavy fall of rain in Vancouver, Cowpuncher, War Baby, and Hallow Moon were set to play November 2 at

I enter The Biltmore Cabaret and immediately hear Mike Doughty (founder of Soul Coughing) telling me to “Get onto the bus that’s gonna take you

Halloween may be over, but Martha Wainwright is still conjuring spirits. Less than a year after the French-Canadian chanteuse floored spectators at The Rio Theatre,

If you’ve seen Chelsea McMullan’s 2013 documentary My Prairie Home, you’ve heard Calgary musician and author Rae Spoon describe coming of age as queer in

Deer Tick must be one of the hardest working bands around. In the four years since they graced The Media Club’s floor and played a

photo by Daegal Almond[/caption] With day one of Vancouver’s freezing fog touching down on the city, we prepare for a night of ‘70s horror synth

The first time I heard Braids I was at Cindy Robert’s home in Sunnyside, Calgary. Cindy’s first language is French Canadian, making her arguably cooler