By Mike Dunn EDMONTON – Jon Christensen has been leading Edmonton’s Raygun Cowboys for nearly 20 years, and while the road made…
Dancefloor boogie, Raygun Cowboys, The Rocky Mountain Icehouse
By Esmée Colbourne “The voice gets a bit richer as you get older, which is a nice sound but a…
Merge Records, Teenage Fanclub, The Creation Years
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By Christine Leonard CALGARY – It’s funny how the holiday season casts an aura around everything that makes the world…
Blue Grotto, Capital Ballroom, Dorothy of Oz, Flying Steamshovel, Palace Theatre, Quaschnick, Republik, Rickshaw Theatre, Rockwater, Station On Jasper, The Dudes
By Mike Dunn CALGARY – As he gears up for a new record, Edmonton singer-songwriter Ayla Brook finds, as most…
Ayla Brook, The Empress Ale House, The Sound Men
By Christine Leonard CALGARY – Flushing out the old year like the holes in your favourite ball, Major Minor’s Christmas Punk…
Bring on the Storm, Forbidden Dimension, Frank Mona, Gratuitous Platypus, Julius Sumner Miller, Major Minor Music Project, Mohkinstsis Vol. 1, No More Moments, Paradise Lanes, Pizza Bath, Punk Rock Christmas Bowling YYC, School of Rock Calgary, Season’s Greetings Mohkinstsis Vol. 1, the Old Wives
By Trevor Morelli When a band’s bio describes them as “endless screams of disappointment,” you know the project is…
Amigo's Cantina, Scream Therapy, The Palomino, Tunic
By Sarah Allen CALGARY – It has been awhile since Black Phoenix Orchestra (BPO) graced our pages, but there is more epic psychedelic wisdom…
Black Phoenix Orchestra, Conversation Killers, Dickens Pub, John David, Telly
By Trevor Morelli CALGARY – As 2018 winds down, One Bad Son’s rock ‘n’ roll train keeps on chugging. Last…
Average Joe's Sports Bar, Bo’s Bar and Grill, One Bad Son, Prairie, The Gateway, The Starlite Room
By Trevor Campbell CALGARY – Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, “You can’t go home again.” Well, feel free to flip that…
Boney M., Club Regent Casino, Grey Eagle Resort and Casino, River Cree Casino, TCU Place
By Jenny Grant EDMONTON – Despite Neil Young’s rallying cry of “rock and roll can never die,” the death knell has…
Sparrow Blue, The Station on Jasper
By Patrick Saulnier CALGARY – “I’m not a number! I’m a free man!” With a band called Crooked Spies,…
Crooked Spies, High Plains, HighKicksMas, Raised By Wolves, Ship & Anchor Pub, Spotify
By Christine Leonard CALGARY – Liverpool, England, may be nicknamed “the Pool of Life,” but it was the primordial ooze…
Conan, Temple, The Astoria, The Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
