At a Thursday night Dick’s on Dicks show Kate Nash put out far more energy than she got back from a capacity crowd.

Josh Homme's refusal to pander to the masses meant QOTSA's beer-chugging fans had to wait for the heavy artillery to arrive on-stage at the PNE Forum.

The former most shaggable men on Planet Earth showed their sense of humour and showmanship was still intact at G.M. Place on Tuesday night.

Shelby Lynne

Last Sunday (April 20), the Raconteurs made Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom the launching pad for their current North American tour. The show wasn’t exactly seamless—blown lines here and there and confused looks between bandmates made it obvious that the quartet hasn’t completely mastered every song off its just-released sophomore album, Consolers of the Lonely. Still, that somehow didn’t matter.

Before the people who push the magical elixir known as Rockstar got involved, Taste of Chaos was better (if unofficially) known as the winter Warped Tour. Last night’s grey skies and cool temperatures were enough to make you glad you were inside the barn-like confines of the PNE Forum, as opposed to roasting under the summer sun at Thunderbird Stadium.

At the Vogue Theatre on Thursday, April 10

There’s the type of disco everyone knows about, the kind people had in mind when they started wearing Disco Sucks T-shirts back in the late ’70s. That’s the disco of the Village People and the Bee Gees—the campy soundtrack to countless wedding receptions, and the musical equivalent of an open-necked, leopard-print polyester shirt.

There were many ways to measure how devastating the duo of Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney were over the course of a cathartic hourlong set. An easy one was the frenzied action at the merch table.

Black Mountain. At the Commodore Ballroom on Saturday, April 5

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Vedder’s first solo show proper, on Wednesday at the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts, relied as heavily on Vedder’s solitary studio experiments.

Foo Fighters

Justice’s Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay may have been playing the Commodore on Tuesday, but the French neo-rave artists treated the gig like it was at G.M. Place.

Bryan Adams. At St. Andrew’s–Wesley Church on Thursday, March 20