Kilmore Place is a five-piece rock band who has just recently broken into the music scene here in Vancouver with a style that is “nostalgically alternative”. And the reason why I say that is because not only do they possess similar D.I.Y. esthetics as their 1990’s predecessors, releasing and producing their latest EP, “…What Happened?” [...]
The future of popular music, it seems, is rooted in electronics. The advances in technology and glossy new production techniques have become essential ingredients for monetary success. Even the most stripped-down folk artists in pop music are guilty of dabbling with these advancements in the industry (see: Bon Iver’s “Woods”), though not always with the [...]
The early 2000s proved to be the peak years for raprock. Rage Against the Machine released its final album of original material in 1999 with The Battle of Los Angeles, while Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit were transitioning away from the stylistic dichotomies that made Hybrid Theory and Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water so [...]
Sitting on the patio of Steamworks, Romeo+Juliet make their identity and musical methodology abundantly clear. Simply put, they embody the star-crossed lovers whose namesake they covet: two overly romantic, hypersexual city kids. However, through some perverse subversion, they transfer their instinctual, animalistic tendencies into sleek electronic dance music. Essentially, it’s Shakespeare in neon tights.
And really, [...]
With the release of their 2009 full-length debut album, Post-Nothing (of which I briefly reviewed here), local noise-punks Japandroids not only put themselves on the international indie-rock map, but shamelessly propelled Vancouver into the center of their calculated madness. Outside of Vancouver, Post-Nothing was an unexpected gem that garnered the band a fair amount of [...]
Beer is such a trivial beverage. You either like it, or you don’t, and if you do like it, chances are you aren’t too picky. Sure, some beers are better than others, but for the most part, the taste of beer is overlooked in the name of a greater purpose: to get drunk. Of course, [...]
Yesterday marked a triple serving of excitement for Vancouver: Mother’s Day, the Canucks’ big win, and the 2010 Vancouver Sun Run.
Since Eudora’s already posted tribute to the moms and I’m far from qualified from giving justice to the Canucks’ game last night, how ’bout a series of haiku reviews of my Sun Run experience? (A [...]
On April 6th, Adam and I got to check out Yukon Blonde, with Red Cedar and In-Flight Safety at The Biltmore Cabaret. Before the show we got to sit down with Yukon Blonde guitar player/vocalist Brandon Scott, as well as touring bassist/Red Cedar vocalist/guitarist, Andy Bishop. We had a solid chat about upcoming Yukon Blonde [...]
Gentile, acousti-rock is a tricky genre. The divide between pop culture classic and overplayed, nausea inducer is frustratingly hazy and sometimes audiences just can’t tell the difference. For example, “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz could possibly be the greatest song ever written, but because I’ve heard it in passing more than any song in my [...]
Unlike other seasons, summer seems to be the only time of the year that has directly inspired an entire movement of music. Summertime music is completely inoffensive, soft-spoken, and expects little of the listener. It’s easily likeable, as it associates itself with bohemian beach busking and bikini babes swooning over acoustic mysticism. After all, there [...]
