Alex Hudson

Posts by Alex Hudson

• Movie Review – This Movie is Broken

  ‘… watch Brendan Canning go ballistic with headbanging and showgirl kicks on “Meet Me in the Basement”…’

• Concert Review – Atlas Sound at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, Oct 30 2009

  ‘… There’s no excusing the utter shitstorm that ensued. Cox had several tantrums during the set, berating the crowd and comparing the performance to “working in a mall and being covered in fucking vomit.”

• Concert Review – The Dodos at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, Oct 26 2009

  ‘”Two Medicines” was chugging and robotic, while “Fables” was so sweetly catchy that it could have almost passed for a nursery rhyme…’

• Concert Review – Two Hours Traffic w/Spiral Beach at the Biltmore, Oct 1 09

  ‘If Two Hours Traffic was lacking in weirdness, the same cannot be said about opener Spiral Beach. The band members walked on stage looking like extras from a Siouxsie and the Banshees video…’

• Concert Review – Pink Mountaintops at the Rickshaw Theatre Sept 27 2009

  ‘The band wasn’t able to top the majesty of Outside Love, but it still offered a compelling reminder of what makes the album so good…’

• Concert Review – The Dead Weather at the Commodore Ballroom, Aug 21 2009

  ‘With her [Alison Mosshart's] black hair matted across her face, she stroked and gyrated around her mic stand; it couldn’t have been any more erotically suggestive if it were stripper pole…’

• Concert Review – Japandroids at the Rickshaw Theatre, Aug 7 2009

  ‘Japandroids clearly considered the show a victory lap… King dedicated the breakout hit “Young Heart Sparks Fire” to “every fucking one of you”, and both he and Prowse repeatedly marveled at the size of the audience…’

• Concert Review – The Decemberists at the Vogue Theatre, July 22 2009

  ‘The set closed with Worden and Stark trading off vocal leads on a raucous version of Heart’s “Crazy on You,” during which audience members pawed at Colin Meloy’s legs as he performed the guitar leads…’

• Concert Review – Animal Collective at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver May 24 09

  ‘… the moshers became acquainted by stroking one another’s beards…’

• List – The 10 Best F-Bombs in Music

  ‘… there are 2 different methods to laying an effective F-bomb…’