May 8th, 2012
Events with food in their names always get our mouths watering.. even if they don't actually serve any food. Laugh at the Butter Chicken comedy show, drink as much as you please at the Sake Social,...
May 5th, 2012
May 25 to 27, local women will form a band, write a song and perform it—in three days. A family of campers and mentor Kathryn Calder (of the New Pornographers) talked to VO about the experience.
Apr 30th, 2012
Inti Illimani offered an unforgettable concert last week at the Chan Centre (UBC), taking the audience through an emotional, musical journey through Latin America.
Apr 28th, 2012
Brooklyn indie-poppers The Drums will be hitting Vancouver in less than two weeks, at Venue on May 8. Everything about the band is classically simple, from their music, to their clean-cut American...
Apr 25th, 2012
It's business as usual for the Raves. But when "business as usual" means visionary, velvet-black noise pop, who's complaining? Read on to find out why this Danish duo is so damn...
Apr 25th, 2012
Beyonce, for all the girl-power affirmations, reinforces old patriarchal standards by sexing up her image for the male audience (see above).
Apr 24th, 2012
Vancouver musicians must get out of town and play more often to the suburbs.
Apr 17th, 2012
Blunderbuss is a fitting title for Jack White's first shot at a solo album. Old-fashioned, lightweight, but ultimately its share of firepower accomplishes what it was made to do. From honky-tonk...
Apr 2nd, 2012
Vancouver's Dan Mangan won New Artist of the Year award at the Juno awards on Sunday. The charismatic singer and songwriter also won Alternative Album of the Year for his third album, Oh Fortune....
Mar 27th, 2012
I was born at the dawn of the space age in a nation not yet formed, subject of an Empire that no longer exists. I remember staring starstruck up at Sputnik, that first resounding Soviet shot across...
