Features

• Crowded House At Queen Elizabeth Theatre Aug 29. Pics by Jade Dempsey.

• Preview – Crowded House New Zealand pop band plays the QET this Sunday.

• Alejandro Escovedo At the Venue. Photos by Skot Nelson.

• Coffee report part deux – Les Deux Magots It’s French, people.

• Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival 2010 K’Naan, Grupo Fantasma, Lil’ Ed, Ex-Centric Sound System,

• Bicycle Music Festival in San Francisco ‘The high and pretty crowd were out in force, but so were the garden-variety freaks, the families, and assorted average folks. Most with bicycles, of course…’

• Concert photo gallery – Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts Day 2 Black Keys, Snoop Dogg, Sonic Youth, Metric…

• Tonight – Alex Chilton Tribute At the WISE Hall…

• Holy fucking shit! It’s Cirque du soleil… Review of Kooza (starts tonight in Vancouver) + pics…

• Vancouver Folk Music Festival Day II Crooked Still, Ladies of the Canyon, Watcha Clan and more…

• Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Jericho Beach Park, July 18, 2010 Brett Dennen, United Steel Workers of Montreal, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Colin Hay, Annie Lou and more

• Vancouver Folk Music Festival – July 16 2010 Gadelle, Shane Koyczan, Po’ Girl, Avett Brothers, Calexico, more…

• Preview – Vancouver Folk Music Festival Highlights: the beer garden.

• RIP Harvey Pekar American Splendor creator found dead in his Cleveland home…

• Weekend Preview – Fol Chen At the Media Club this Sunday (July 11).

• The Return of Neil Hamburger “Well, you get your lemon-sucking sourpusses in all crowds…”

• Lilith Fair at Ambleside Park, West Vancouver, July 1 2010 ‘Sugarland… pulled the diverse audience together and got them shaking their behinds…’

• Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings at the Commodore Ballroom Photos from the band’s June 20 Vancouver show…

• Photo Gallery – Animalopolis Opening night at the Ayden Gallery, June 11.

• Photo Gallery – She & Him M Ward and Zooey Deschanel in Toronto…

• First Aid Kit at the Media Club, June 6 2010 Harmonizing Swedish folk sister act…

• Massive Attack at Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, May 29 2010 Legendary Bristol trip-hop act on a rainy Vancouver night…

• Sex and the City 2 ‘… this movie actually actively pissed me off…’

• Public Enemy at the Garrick Theatre, Winnipeg, May 21 2010 - photos by Ailsa Dyson sometimes beautiful things happen in the heat on a long weekend in My Winnipeg sometimes a seriously amazing group like, Public Enemy runs into Queen Victoria’s [...]

• Photos – Hannah Georgas at the Venue May 22, Robyn Hanson photos.

• Hard Rock Cafe Seattle Opens ‘… it’s a rock ‘n’ roll town…’

• Moonlight Madness Burlesque ‘… spin those tassels…’

• Dandelion Records Vinyl records, iPhone holders and more on Main.

• Photo Gallery – Fucked Up at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, May 13 2010 ‘”The band said it was one of their 10 best gigs ever…”‘

• Vancouver Craft Beer Week – Good and Evil at Waazubee ‘… girls and beer…’

• Broken Social Scene Tour Toronto Record Stores – May 9 2010 Adrian M. Smith photos

• Olof Arnalds at the West End Cultural Centre, Nuna Festival, Winnipeg, May 7 2010 ‘… break us into/exquisite pieces…’

• Iron Man 2 Does it fly?

• Launch Party – Morrismore Models ‘… the look is Suicide Girls. Or the Cambie…’

• The Fugitives Tour Diary Pt III – Ontario and Quebec ‘… You just can’t see past your own shit…’

• Yeasayer at the Commodore, April 21 2010 ‘… even the sound guy blissfully sang along…’

• Movie Review – The Secret in Their Eyes Academy Award winner opens today in Van…

• 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…

• The Fugitives Tour Diary – Part II The Prairies, Speeding, and How I Suck at Drawing Dogs, by Brendan McLeod