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Yolk of the Golden Egg Dandi Wind Summer Lovers Unlimited Dandi Wind’s new album Yolk of the Golden Egg is a sonic journey that challenges every spectrum of electronica. Caught somewhere between a surreal utopic musical vision, and something that could only have been...
Bad Religion “blistering punks”
Bad Religion September 14 2008 Commodore Ballroom It’s hard to imagine a 15 year-old frontman Greg Graffin and his school friends deciding to form Bad Religion, the most epic, accomplished and inspiring punk rock bands. How could one envision such libertarian punk...
Stanley Park Singing Exhibition
August 31, 2008 Day One It was one of those lazy late summer afternoons that you could eat with a spoon. While most music festivals tend to have an anxious, apprehensive tension amongst the crowd, the grounds were covered by hippies, young parents, and even the...
pemberton 2008
In many ways, this year's Pemberton festival turned all of us concert-goers into experimental subjects for how a festival should be organized. During the past week, I've read several reviews in many of the local papers, but none of which captured the entire sentiment...
Kurt Cobain Journals
[Riverhead Books, 2002] Don’t read my diary when I’m gone. OK, I’m going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please read my diary. Look through my things, and figure me out. Perhaps it is a bit unusual to be seeing a reactionary review of Kurt Cobain’s...
the dandy warhols at richard’s on richards
the dandy warhols richard's on richards june 18.08 Yes! Everytime the Dandy Warhols come to the city there's a definitive buzz of excitment amongst the local hedonists and Vancouver hipster bohemians. Announced less than two weeks before the show, The Dandys decided...
e.s.l
Eye Contact E.S.L E.S.L’s debut album Eye Contact is a fantastical, muscial-theatrical type hybrid that seems to bridge together the innocence of black and white films with modern day anxieties. The album opens with a rhythmically-driven track which is backed up by...
there will be blood
Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film is a gritty tale of jealousy, greed and revenge, set at the turn of the twentieth century when the American oil industry was just beginning. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, a self-made man who starts his own drilling...
a proof of love?
Proof of Love Old Man Luedecke Black Hen Music A follow-up from the critically acclaimed album Hinterland, Old Man Luedecke’s new album captures the ad lib words and feelings of the tender hearted. Recorded in two days flat, Old Man sums up the spirit of the ages and...