Kate Reid

Posts by Kate Reid

• Concert Review – The Books at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Nov 26 2009

  ‘Diehard fans were chomping at the bit for new material and they got it straight away in the form of a disembodied floating head…’

• Concert Review – Grizzly Bear at the Vogue Theatre, Vancouver Oct 14 2009

  ‘Grizzly Bear may take a lot of flack for relying heavily on reverb, but when those mason jars lit like floating fireflies, those ghostly vocal echoes only added to the pantheistic atmosphere…’

• Review – The Hold Steady at the Vogue, Vancouver, Sept. 19 09

  ‘The Hold Steady got its start as a bar band and has kept its roots in the whiskey-soaked alleys of rock ‘n’ roll lore…’

• Review – Extract

  ‘Joel hasn’t been laid in months and he’s tempted by the new factory temp (played by the sultry – okay in this role, slutty – Mila Kunis…’

• List – Four Fictional Women I Want To Be (With)

  ‘VHS copies of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off were handed to Generation Y-ers the second they left the womb…’

• Concert Review – Destroyer at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, July 18 2009

  Destroyer Dan goes from arena to intimate in a two-night run in his hometown. Chatty doodieheads don’t spoil the show, writes Kate Reid.

• Concert Review – Death Cab for Cutie w/ the New Pornographers at the Pacific Coliseum, July 17 2009

  The little band from Bellingham makes its third arena-size appearance in Vancouver, bringing out the high school memories for our rapidly aging correspondent Kate Reid.

• Concert Review – Woolworm at the Media Club, July 2 2010

  ‘… think mid-’90s shoegaze mixed with screamo…’

• Review – Doves at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver May 21 2009

  ‘… Doves doesn’t just churn it out…’

• Concert Review – The Virgins at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, May 15 2009

  ‘… questions those snotty people we all love to hate…’

• Review – Vivian Girls at the Biltmore, Vancouver, April 29 2009

  ‘… Kickball Katy and the other two dingbats should STFU…’

• Concert Review – Friendly Fires at Richard’s on Richards, Vancouver April 8 2009

  ‘… the Bloc Party-loving ex liked to serve up the old pirate eye in bed…’

• Concert Review – Ariel Pink at the Media Club, Vancouver, March 21 2009

  ‘… those velour pants were a little (ahem) blatant…’

• Review – Thunderheist at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver Feb 28 2009

  ‘… the sexiest girl-meets-rooster story of 2008 was Thunderheist’s “Jerk It” video…’

• Review – Lily Allen, It’s Not Me, It’s You

  ‘… I feel her on the bed-hopping blame game…’

• Review – Matt and Kim at the Biltmore, Vancouver, Jan 28 2009

  Are hitched hipsters Matt and Kim making marriage cool?

• Review - Taboo Naughty But Nice Sex Show

  Kate Reid reviews the traveling prosthetic carnival and trade show that is the Taboo Naughty But Nice Sex Show. guttersnipe got in trouble with the girlfriend for this one.

• Review – Jon & Roy at Richard’s on Richards, Vancouver, Jan 16 2009

  Kate Reid reviews a sold-out Friday night show by Victoria band Jon & Roy, currently enjoying the fruits of having a song used for a car commercial. Wintermitts is more fun and less lamentable, sez Reid.

• Review - Glasvegas at Richard’s on Richards, Vancouver, Jan 11 2009

  Scottish band Glasvegas rolled through Vancouver recently on tour in support of its much-ballyhooed debut. Writer Kate Reid pulls no punches.

• Best of 2008 — Songs

  Kate Reid reviews her favourite tracks of the past year, including songs by Chad VanGaalen, the Hold Steady (she loves the Hold Steady!) and Sam Beam’s beard.

• Fan Death

  Never one to mince words, Kate Reid says the collaboration between Marta Jaciubek-McKeever and Dandilion Wind Opine is hard to ignore: ‘Veronica’s Veil’, their first single, ’sounds like an Italians Do It Better 7-inch of Kung Fu Panda asspounding the girl from Fiery Furnaces.’

• Review – Metallica at GM Place, Vancouver, Dec 2 2008

  Metallica is a band of contradictions—cool enough to cover Ennio Morriconne, but not cool enough to treat fans with respect, writes Kate Reid in her review of the band’s GM Place concert