Craft Beer Week is just around the corner, but local breweries are celebrating early by toasting a handful of home-brewed groups with their own signature suds. The Canadian Band...
Since its inception, Cloudscape Comics Society has galvanized local cartoonists into creating anthologies touching on everything from urban sword-swinging fantasies to real-world...
Despite the history-evoking name, the time for Anciients is now. The local metal quartet is riding a wave of hype over its pummelling and prog-leaning debut LP, Heart of Oak,...
Monomania (4AD)
To the surprise of no one, prolific Atlanta indie-pop savant Bradford Cox and the rest of Deerhunter sifted through a ton of material before arriving at their...
Posthardcore crew Needs’ upcoming Rare Earths LP recently faced a delay at a Nashville, Tennessee, vinyl-pressing plant over a sample clearance issue, but luckily linguist-...
This fall’s Distort Vancouver fest will be the last for the celebration of punk, crust, and hardcore. After wrapping the various concerts running at venues around town from...
At the Pacific Coliseum on Friday, April 12
Even if Marianas Trench’s live show hadn’t revolved around a fairy tale full of porcelain princesses, wicked queens, and a toy-soldier...
Friday (April 5) marks the 19th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, though it’s the life of the singer-songwriter that will be celebrated at Fortune Sound Club’s Nirvana Night....
At Rogers Arena on Monday, April 1
Well, you can’t say we weren’t warned. Heading into her Vancouver performance, Rihanna had already left crowds across Western Canada waiting an...
Sleep Fever (Panospira)
Ambient sound collagist prOphecy sun’s 2012 set Bird Curious featured a song she recorded as she rode her bike through the city, but her latest album Sleep...