Nouvelle Vague at the Venue, Feb 5 2010

Nouvelle Vague at the Venue, Feb 5 2010

Guttersnipe ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ of the French band, which had hundreds of showgoers swooning into their cups at its Vancouver show last Thursday night. Ria Nevada reviews, Michael Caswell shoots.

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(Some of) Pitchfork Music Festival Lineup Announced

Pavement, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, St. Vincent, Raekwon, and Cass McCombs are among the performers just announced for this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival.

New You Say Party! We Say Die! Video, Tour Dates

Still riding high on the release of its third album XXXX, the Vancouver new wave party band is back with a new video and some April tour dates.

The 16th Victoria Film Festival

Films – and footwear – are the focus of the ‘Cousin Oliver’ of the Canadian Film Festival circuit. In between gastronomic pursuits, Rachel Fox reports.

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Heidi Montag Pratt

Heidi Montag Pratt

‘The girl can’t win,’ writes Scurrilous Ephemera reporter Stephanie MacDonald. ‘First she’s horsey, then when she gets a major surgery overhaul she looks like a crazy cyborg created by an alien who once saw a picture of a human in a scrap of a page in Maxim magazine.’

reviews

Rhapsody In Blue – The VSO Performs Gershwin, Feb. 6, Orpheum Theatre

Rhapsody In Blue – The VSO Performs Gershwin, Feb. 6, Orpheum Theatre

How could Mike Herle not love it? It’s Gershwin, aka the music from the Woody Allen movie Manhattan.

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Nouvelle Vague’s Olivier Libaux

Nouvelle Vague’s Olivier Libaux

Olivier Libaux of the new wave/punk covers band on working with lovely French singers and (not) dating co-workers. Oh, and a little about the music, too (but not too much).

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