Ria Nevada

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• Broken Bells at the Commodore Ballroom, May 26 2010

  ‘… hands-down the best rendition of “Crimson and Clover” I have ever heard…’

• Evelyn Evelyn at the Venue, Vancouver, May 17 2010

  ‘The pair could maintain their stone-faced expressions no longer…’

• Review – Band of Skulls at the Venue, April 24 2010

  ‘… Richardson maintained a mysterious, glazed-over expression…’

• La Roux at the Commodore, April 18 2010

  ‘… I had fallen into the hot tub time machine…’

• Conan O’Brien at the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, April 14 2010

  ‘… when life gives you lemons, you bring out the Self-Pleasuring Panda…’

• Spoon at the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, April 11 2010

  Austin-ites put on a great show on its Transference tour…

• Review – Sia at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, April 10, 2010

  ‘… incredibly difficult not to be charmed by her playful and buoyant personality…’

• Kinnie Starr and Jay Malinowski at the Biltmore Cabaret, March 18, 2010

  ‘She [Starr] laid down some carnal rhymes… that had the women hooting and hollering, and their male companions squirming…’

• 311 and the Wailers at the Commodore Ballroom, Mar 2 2010

  Reggae legend opens for punk/metal hip-hop act

• Review – Yacht at the Biltmore Cabaret, Feb 19, 2010

  The Portland band delivers an interactive and theatrical show at the start of its See Mystery Lights tour.

• Review – 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.

• Concert Review – Pointed Sticks at the Rio Theatre, Vancouver, Dec 19 2009

  ‘… considering some in the audience were teenagers there to see their teacher Napier-Hemy shred on guitar, it was both slightly incongruous and also weirdly apt to hear Jones croon lyrics like, “Anytime you’re around I feel good/Every time you’re gone I feel blue”…’

• Concert Review – Magneta Lane w/Fine Mist at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Dec 15 2009

  ‘Lexi Valentine’s vocals hearken back to the likes of Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow mixed with the tone of current throwback singers such as Zooey Deschanel…’

• Concert Review – Blind Pilot at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, Dec 3 2009

  ‘As Nebeker stumbles through the lyrics of a couple of his songs, the crowd is won over by his charm as he confesses, “You guys seem to have a special effect on me”…’