live music reviews

Last Sunday night I enjoyed a wonderful and intimate evening of music and laughs at the Backstage Lounge located on Granville Island. On the bill

On Saturday, the Waldorf Hotel parking lot hosted Vancouver kings (and queen) of ’70s tinged psychedelic rock, Black Mountain, and friends, in a late summer

First and foremost, I MUST give huge respect to the crowd at the Commodore on August 25. The crowd is always one of my biggest

If you missed out on the privilege of having your face melted by Metallica this weekend, you may have sadly just accepted your un-molten fate

Three amazing local bands were playing at FIVESIXTY on Friday night so I headed there for the early show. Facts were up first led by

Driving to Squamish on Sunday wasn’t nearly the ordeal it was on Saturday, or so I heard through the grapevine. Good thing too, because I

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

It’s easy to expect a band that broke onto the airwaves almost 30 years ago to be running out of steam by this point. I’m

I headed to the Waldorf early on Friday night so I was able to check out their fab night market, the Chosen Ones, a very

The scream of a harmonica really gets me going. A rustic and wild soul lives inside every mouth harp, which is something they are sometimes

Wow! Wow, wow, wow – those are pretty much the best words to describe Thursday night’s show at the Biltmore. Review done!  Okay, I’ll share

I never would’ve guessed how oddly this evening would start off. As the bus I was on approached the corner of Hastings and Main, where