live music reviews

The doors opened twenty minutes late last Friday as an eager line-up formed outside the Biltmore Cabaret. Russian Circles fans clearly made up the majority

Sitting on a wooden church pew is not generally regarded as being comfortable. However on a bleak and rainy evening there are fewer places more

I confess that I thought this gig was going to take place at your standard music venue. After a bout of journalistic internet sleuthing I

The Rickshaw Theatre’s a wild place to see a show, let alone even get to. There’s a vibrant sting of energy in the area. You’re

I told you so. Didn’t I tell you so? “You don’t want to miss this, Vancouver.” If you went to the Biltmore Cabaret on Tuesday

It takes something special to make a room shaped like a laundry chute, feel like a theatre.  The Strumbellas are a band that seems to

What do you get when ten talented artists from Iceland get together to play dramatic chamber-pop music? An Icelandic sensation that will make you get

Warming up the stage for the very talented Dum Dum Girls and the musically savvy Kurt Vile, Young Prisms quickly wooed loyal followers at the

Father Murphy are a trio from Treviso, Italy who began by tuning their instruments for a prolonged time – or were these priestly musicians actually

Album releases are some of the strangest parties I’ve ever been to. If you show up even a little early, no one is there. It’s

The triple-feature at the Biltmore Cabaret last Friday played out like two completely different evenings: The first, filled with solid, back-to-basics country western-infected rock that

Well, you’ve gotta hand it to Gauntlet Hair. For a band that only recently started getting attention, Gauntlet Hair’s audience has a high percentage of