The timing was too perfect not to be deliberate. It was as though Canada Post had expressly arranged to end the postal strike in order that this CD arrive in my mailbox during the Calgary Stampede. What better time to […]
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It’s been raining here for days. Lo-fi weather. A prolonged grey soak is actually the perfect condition under which to really immerse your senses in Wallscenery Demos’ newly released third album half asleep. half awake. Conjuring up images of the […]
Sometimes the nicest things are found in the most unexpected places. Recently a friend attended a coffee house musical evening in Rossland BC, where she was smitten with a performance by Kyla Hanna, a singer-songwriter from the Kootenays. Knowing that […]
With the release of Meet Me at the Moon, Emma Hill and her Gentlemen Callers travel further down the dusty road from the folk pop inclination of last year’s Clumsy Seduction to delve ever deeper into the roots of country […]
They used to be called EX~PO. But while EX~PO originally began as the solo project of front man Dean Marino, who gradually recruited band members to fill in the gaps in performance, it is in the present incarnation as Papermaps, […]
For a musician who got his start “screaming his head off and stomping on distortion pedals” in a geek/punk band, Dave Hadgkiss has done a musical one-eighty on his debut album as Folk Thief. There is not a punk sneer […]
Vancouver’s Mud Bay Blues Band have been peddling their brand of blues in bars across British Columbia for over thirty years. Despite the vagaries of music trends and fashion, and the untimely death of two band members, the band has […]
The raucous psychedelic cow-punk party band sound of Entire Cities has matured into something a little more restrained on their second album, I Hope You Never Come Home. Ultimately this release feels a bit more mature than the band’s debut album, Deep River, and […]
I thought it kicked all kinds of ass, that very first house concert I ever hosted. Olenka and the Autumn Lovers mesmerized that packed living room, pretty much everybody bought CDs, and we somehow ended up with more bottles of […]
They may well be contenders for the title of Canada’s hardest working party band. True road dogs they are, Diana Catherine and the three burly men who comprise the Thrusty Tweeters, as they tour their infectious bluesy rock up and […]
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