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Fucked Up wins the 2009 Polaris Music Prize
The winner of the $20,000 prize for best Canadian album has gone to Fucked Up for their 2008 work The Chemistry of Modern Life. The highly controversial group, originally from Toronto, plays high-energy punk rock with virtosity and lyrical intellect. The lead...
The Arctic Monkeys at Malkin Bowl, Vancouver
Sunday, September 20 2009 Seeing the Arctic Monkeys is like an experiment in trying to understand the classic nonchalance of the British. Is it a cool kind of aloofness, or are they knowingly being arses? Coinciding with a beautiful sunset in Stanley Park, the...
I got lazy, but now I’m getting better…
Hello all, The tail end of the summer offered little promise as I was spending all of my time in front of the computer, but getting very little done. It had something to do with True Blood, Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone (original), Mad Men and Big Love. I'm not...
In the desert: the art of sustainability
For Sustainability Television The Arizona State University Art Museum is putting together an exhibit to depict environmental issues through initiating dialogue through artists and the public. The exhibit, Defining Sustainability, will run between August 26th to...
V-Fest Day Two Highlights
After the rains settled, we headed back to Deer Lake Park for the second installment of the Vancouver Virgin Music Festival. Still disappointed from missing out on the previous night's headliners, The Roots, the glorious beaming sunshine gave the warm forebodings of a...
Virgin Fest 09 Photo Gallery
Decided to put up the rest of the festival's photos. Here we have Metric, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Sonic Youth, and of course, Ben Harper and the Relentless7. Just for the record, these photographs are 100% unadulterated, undoctored, just pure talent. No...
Virgin Music Fest 2009: Day One
Ladies and gentlemen, the 2009 V-Fest was altogether epic — two days of blistering heat, one pelting lightning thunderstorm — couldn't sway the spirits of 22 bands and their some 15,000 fans. The morning and early afternoon were spent getting used to the grounds; the...
Crystal Castles
@ the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC June 4 Crystal Castles gave a blistering electronic performance that meshed together their digital eccentricities and powerful rhythms, producing an overwhelmingly cathartic, organic flux of a dancing crowd surrendering to their...
Kaskade
Commodore Ballroom May 29, 2009 For Exclaim! Magazine DJ extraordinaire Ryan Raddon, aka Kaskade, knows how to make people dance. The Chicago-born DJ/ producer for Ultra Records vamped up his newest full-length album The Grand, also playing a full and varied set-list...