GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR @ THE VOGUE THEATRE, VANCOUVER MARCH 11, 2022 It is late Friday night at the Vogue Theatre. The lights dim and a hush falls over the crowd. All is dark. One by one, eight people walk on stage, pick up their [...]
LEIF VOLLEBEKK @ THE VOGUE THEATRE, VANCOUVER FEBRUARY 2, 2022 After having his fall concerts cancelled, Leif Vollebekk has finally made to Vancouver. Having just released a new live EP, Vollebekk is embarking on an international tour [...]
LEIF VOLLEBEKK NEW WAVES (LIVE RECORDINGS ’19-’21) SECRET CITY RECORDS Following his 2017 breakthrough album Twin Solitude with the soul-baring songs of New Ways, Leif Vollebekk continues to deliver deeply emotive indie folk music. [...]
MOTHER MOTHER @ COMMODORE BALLROOM, VANCOUVER DECEMBER 2, 2021 “It feels good to be here,” says Ryan Guldemond, frontman of indie rock band Mother Mother, “Rejoicing in friendship and family and music once again. This time is precious.” [...]
GOOD DAYS DON’T SHED LIKE SKIN DOES A CONVERSATION WITH DWI As the bass player for the indie rock band The Zolas, Dwight Abell is a veteran of the Vancouver music scene, and he is set to kickstart his own solo project, under the moniker [...]
Andy Shauf Wilds Arts & Crafts Listening to an Andy Shauf album is similar to watching a Wes Anderson movie. Both present immaculately produced worlds, full of quirky characters and narratives that reflect reality, or at least reality [...]
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine A Beginner’s Mind Asthmatic Kitty Records Sufjan Stevens has never been one to shy away from gimmicky concept albums. After all, his discography includes two 50+ song albums dedicated to Christmas, [...]
José González Local Valley Mute José González is back. Local Valley is the first new album by González in six years, following the 2015 release of Vestiges & Claws. This album also marks the first album featuring songs in all three of his [...]
Chet Faker Hotel Surrender BMG “Music does something.” So begins Chet Faker’s opening monologue on his sophomore release Hotel Surrender. To call it his sophomore release is a bit if a misnomer – while this is technically the second Chet Faker [...]
UP FOR THE CHALLENGE A CONVERSATION WITH KELCEY AYER OF LOCAL NATIVES Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Local Natives was promoting their fourth album Violet Street. This included a major tour, as well as recent performances on major network [...]
Local Natives Sour Lemon Loma Vista Recordings Local Natives has been busy since the release of Violet Street in 2019. They are back, and their newest project is a four-song EP called Sour Lemon. The opening track, “Lemon,” features [...]
Bahamas Sad Hunk Brushfire Records With the release of Sad Hunk by Bahamas, Afie Jurvanen makes the transition from cool grooves to self-aware dad jams. It is a glorious transformation. The incredible 2018 album Earthtones saw Jurvanen exploring [...]
Peach Pit You And Your Friends (Deluxe Version) Columbia Records With the release of their sophomore album You and Your Friends, Vancouver-based indie darling Peach Pit cemented their reputation as upcoming indie rockstars. Building on the [...]
Half Moon Run The Covideo Sessions Crystal Math/Glassnote Records Half Moon Run is at the top of their game. Formed in Montreal in 2009, they released the Juno Award-winning album A Blemish In The Great Light in 2019, easily their best music so [...]
Aidan Knight Aidan Knight Next Door Records Since the release of his previous album, Each Other in 2016, Aidan Knight has undergone huge personal change: he moved to Berlin and back to Canada, celebrated the birth of his first child, and went [...]
Haley Blais Below The Salt Tiny Kingdom Music Inc. With the release of her debut album Below the Salt, Haley Blais has set herself on the road to indie pop stardom. The Vancouver-based bedroom pop star has released a handful of EPs and singles [...]
Matt Pond PA Songs of Disquiet 131 Records Matt Pond and Chris Hansen have been making music together for over a decade under the name Matt Pond PA. Their most recent batch of songs, an EP titled Songs of Disquiet, is soothing and pleasant, yet [...]
Royal Canoe Glacial (Live) Paper Bag Records Royal Canoe is known for pushing boundaries of what we can imagine. Its music videos are surreal and its songs feature distorted vocals over layers of bizarre synths and creative percussion. If any [...]
We Are The City RIP Light Organ Records RIP is We Are The City’s long-awaited fifth album, combining musical and lyrical themes from their entire discography into one cohesive art piece. Though the back half drags a bit and there are the [...]
Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka Polydor/Interscope Michael Kiwanuka has built himself a reputation as an innovative, talented, and soulful musician. How does one possibly follow an album like 2016’s Love & Hate? With his third release, [...]
BON IVER w/ SHARON VAN ETTEN @ PACIFIC COLISEUM, VANCOUVER SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 A Bon Iver live performance is not your typical concert. If you want a show to dance to, this is probably not it. However, if you want to experience a mind-blowing [...]
Bon Iver i,i Jagjaguwar Justin Vernon is an artist. Having established himself as an indie-alternative legend, his influence in the music world stretches from Kanye West and Chance the Rapper to James Blake, The National and beyond. He has [...]
THE NATIONAL @ DEER LAKE PARK, BURNABY (BC) AUGUST 28, 2019 “Kate Staples and Hannah Georgas.” Matt Berninger gestured towards the two women to his left as he and his bandmates took their places on the stage at Deer Lake Park. He was referring [...]
A DREAM OF WHAT IT COULD BE A CONVERSATION WITH KELCEY AYER OF LOCAL NATIVES Things are changing for Local Natives, an indie rock band from Southern California. Having recently released their fourth album Violet Street, they also just played the [...]
