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Kate Nash gives more than she gets
Taste of Chaos chills in Vancouver
Confident Cat Power grows up
Black Keys devastate with two-man assault on Vancouver
Eddie Vedder goes solo in Vancouver
Justice deafens the masses
Avril Lavigne pleases her screaming tween legions
New York Dolls do their legacy proud

Kate Nash gives more than she gets

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

Queens of the Stone Age sing the booze

By Mike Usinger
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.

Duran Duran rides new-wave nostalgia trip

By Janet Smith
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.
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Raconteurs first among equals in Vancouver tour opener

By Mike Usinger
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.

Taste of Chaos chills in Vancouver

By Shawn Conner
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.

Confident Cat Power grows up

By Ken Eisner
At the Vogue Theatre on Thursday, April 10

Hercules and Love Affair put the sweat back into disco

By Martin Turenne
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.

Black Keys devastate with two-man assault on Vancouver

By Mike Usinger
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.

Immersed in Black Mountain's mind-bending psychedelia

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

Bruce Springsteen takes Vancouver down E Street

By Shawn Conner
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Eddie Vedder goes solo in Vancouver

By Adrian Mack
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.

All too easy for Foo Fighters

By Adrian Mack
Foo Fighters

Justice deafens the masses

By Martin Turenne
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 sings it straight from the heart

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