Cam Penner tore up the blueprints when he and Vancouver producer Jon Wood started work on To Build a Fire, but there’s no denying that what they’ve made has a wild and ramshackle...
Chrysanthemums & Maple LeavesA Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra production. At the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre on Saturday, May 18. No remaining...
For a band that’s been around for almost 30 years, Yo La Tengo sounds remarkably invigorated on its 13th and most recent studio release, Fade. So it’s surprising to hear that the...
It’s hard to imagine a better cover for Stornoway’s second full-length, Tales From Terra Firma, than Kirini Kopcke’s watercolour of a lone voyager sailing a double bed across a...
Just about everywhere you look, school music programs are under fire as an unaffordable luxury, despite endless studies showing that learning music is an effective path to...
The Ends of the Earth
By Jacqueline Turner. ECW Press, 101 pp, hardcover
Jacqueline Turner’s new poetry collection, The Ends of the Earth, is a delicious surprise—and not because...
Nancy Allen Lundy has the rare distinction of having been screamed at in the middle of a performance by Tan Dun—and it’s a memory she treasures.
The occasion was an otherwise...
The Hummingbird Brigade (Reigning Parade)
Clarinetist and bandleader James Danderfer describes the Hummingbird Brigade as “New Orleans brass band–inspired”, but what he’s actually...
The vinyl LP comes with a lyric sheet. So does the official CD release, on Indiana-based indie Jagjaguwar. But the prerelease doesn’t, which puts the Straight at a distinct...
In an ideal world, says Simon Shaheen, music should be without borders, and he’s put that dream into practice by collaborating with artists as diverse as Sting, Quincy Jones, and...
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