Edmonton
The Weeknd
Rexall Place, Edmonton AB, November 30
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2015
Hearing the opening guitar chords of "Real Life," chords that sound triumphant even as they hint towards melancholy, you can't help but thi...
Slipknot / Suicidal Tendencies / Beartooth
Rexall Place, Edmonton AB, October 18
PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2015
Last night (October 18), Rexall Place was enveloped in metal with the old, the new and the phantasmagorically blue as Beartooth, Suicidal T...
Duotang
Yellowhead Brewery, Edmonton AB, October 11
PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2015
Winnipeg post-punk group Duotang were a going concern at a time when two-piece bands consisting only of bass and drums weren't common ̵...
Ought
Rocky Mountain Ice House, Edmonton AB, October 11
PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2015
"Did everyone have a large meal before coming here tonight?" Ought's wiry frontman, Tim Darcy, asked in the middle of his band's hectic set...
The Wet Secrets
Freemasons' Hall, Edmonton AB, October 10
PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2015
A later start time meant that there was a large and friendly turnout for the Wet Secrets just before one a.m., but it dwindled by set's end...
Never Young
Starlite Room, Edmonton AB, October 10
PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2015
The first thing you hear from Never Young is the sound of gurgled electronics before the band rips into a frenetic rendition of "Like a Ver...
Moon King
Starlite Room, Edmonton AB, October 10
PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2015
Moon King got off on the right note as they started off with the sounds of "Apocalypse," a slow build-up of soft guitar that exploded into...
Sóley
DECL Office, Edmonton AB, October 9
PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2015
After a mix-up with the festival schedule that left Sóley Stefánsdóttir without a solo set, the former member of Icelandic supergroup Seabe...
