Adrian Mack writes for the Georgia Straight on a number of topics, including music, film, and fascist death cults. He’s also frequently spotted around town playing a 1962 Gretsch round badge three-piece drum kit with a champagne sparkle finish. Adrian is unapologetic about his interest of UFOs, he likes to tease Skeptical Inquirer readers, and he’s a pioneer in the field of naming one of your kids after the drummer in the Clash.
Speaking of antisocial—and proudly so—the annual North West Metal Fest is now taking applications to fill its two-day bill. Promoter Jason Crone, of Left Hand Path Tattoo, told...
It’s an unlikely marriage, but “Vancouver’s hardcore bar” meets highbrow in this month’s The Wire magazine. The long-running U.K.–based journal of experimental music turns its...
You force the music section to go out clubbing with Richie Sambora, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two recently released major-label CDs, and two tickets to a...
You’ve conquered the world at least once, with an indelible summer hit called “Young Folks” that sat on the pursed and whistling lips of nearly every human being on the planet....
Pat’s Pub has played host to some of the more interesting and outré musical acts that have passed through Vancouver recently. Now, after two years of featuring bands like indie...
In further Jack White news, the pasty-faced star was on the guest list for Airbourne’s sold-out Plaza show last Saturday, along with the currently-recording-in-Vancouver AC/DC,...
There were lots of disappointed folks who didn’t make it into the Raconteurs’ sold-out Commodore show last Sunday, but a chance encounter with two of the band members in Gastown...
It didn’t make the final five, but Red Cat Records co-owner Dave Gowans is perfectly happy with the Main Street store’s performance in a CBC Radio 3 survey to determine the best...
In early February, after a four-year break, beloved Vancouver indie-pop band the Salteens announced plans to release two new songs per month, available for free from the band’s...
Nobody should be surprised to see the New Pornographers and Destroyer representing Vancouver at this year’s Sasquatch Music Festival, but how about the Choir Practice? Despite...
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