By Michelle Swami August 11 – 14, 2017 Salmo River Ranch, BC VANCOUVER – This year marked the 20th anniversary of…
Shambhala, Shambhala Music Festival
By Arielle Lessard CALGARY – Blind Pilot has a rich, candid sound and has seamlessly expand from two pieces to six, and is getting a little bigger still with the addition of…
Anna Tivel, Blind Pilot, Commonwealth Bar and Stage, Good Will, Israel Nebeker, The Starlite Room
By Julijana Capone WINNIPEG —Always the chameleons, Holy Void have journeyed into hypnotic, experimental depths over the years, much like their psychedelic/shoegaze-leaning origins. But the Holy Void…
Astoria, Holy Void, Mill Creek Café and Catering, Palomino Smokehouse, psychedelic, The Slice, Transistor 66 record label, Vangelis
By Brittany Rudyck EDMONTON – Although it was requested of BeatRoute to make Amelia Aspen and Doug Organ sound cooler…
Amelia Aspen, Break’ Art Mix, Doug Organ, Le Plaisir, sci-fi pop, Synth
By Danni Bauer CALGARY – From the first note, The Bones of JR Jones connects straight to the iconic tonality…
blues, Jonathan Linaberry, The Bones of JR Jones
By Jodi Brak, Willow Grier, Michael Grondin, Arielle Lessard, Ian Tennant CALGARY — For outsiders, the general consensus with folk music…
Billy Bragg, Birds Of Chicago, Calgary Folk Music Festival, City and Colour, Cœur de Pirate, Cris Derksen, Dawes, Holy Fuck, Jason Collett, Joe Henry, John Paul White, Leif Vollebekk, Michael Kiwanuka, Son Little, The Cactus Blossoms
By Emily Blatta VANCOUVER – Best buds and business collaborators Dani Vachon and Emily Bach were once two strangers dabbling…
Working for the Weekend
By Jodi Brak CALGARY – After nearly a year of working with the newly minted organization The Prophets of Music, a non-profit artist mentorship…
alien, Brett McCrady, Drifting Through the Ordinary, EP release, Palomino Smokehouse & Bar
By Gareth Watkins CALGARY – There’s really only two things that you need to know about Echo And The Bunnymen: Fact…
Burton Cummings Theatre, Echo and the Bunnymen, MacEwan Hall, Music, PNE Amphitheatre, Union Hall
By Jackie Klapak CALGARY – Look Vibrant is a Montréal act chock full of enthusiasm, dancing, weird sounds, and lots of smiles. The five-piece noise pop band delivers…
Art-Pop, Look Vibrant
By Julijana Capone CALGARY – Real Love Summer Fest might be one of the younger, smaller, and lesser-known stops on the Manitoba festival circuit, but…
Real Love Summer Fest, Terminally Chill, Widowspeak
By Kevin Klemp EDMONTON – Vancouver’s Jesse LeBourdais has been a staple in the Canadian acoustic punk scene…
Buckingham, Friendship, Grief, Intensity, Silver Buckle
