Sled Island

Torche

Dickens Pub, Calgary AB, June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

As festival-goers on the east side of downtown Calgary scrambled to find a Sled Island venue that hadn't been evacuated because of the floo...

East Village Block Party feat. Mark Mills and Smalltown DJs

East Village Riverwalk Plaza, Calgary AB, June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

It was hard to tell who had gathered a bigger crowd at the East Village Block Party, Mark Mills or the cresting Bow River. It wasn't diffic...

The Weir

Dickens Pub, Calgary AB, June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

Calgary lurch-metal crew the Weir seemed completely unfazed by the impending disaster of their hometown, although their atmospheric, doom/N...

Biblical

Dickens Pub, Calgary AB, June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

We all know how festivals go: bands get billed together because they fit, or kind of fit, or barely fit. In this case, Toronto's Biblical s...

Burning Love

Ship & Anchor, Calgary AB, June 19

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2013

Spinal cord damage notwithstanding, the few full-out moshers in the bar got what they wanted when Toronto's dirtied-up hardcore wrecking cr...

Code Orange Kids

Ship & Anchor, Calgary AB, June 19

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2013

Much ballyhoo has been made about these Pittsburgh, PA kids who have concocted an unholy brew of first-gen death metal and emotional hardco...

Sled Island Expands 2013 Lineup with OFF!, KEN Mode, THEESatisfaction, the Thermals

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2013

Sled Island previously announced a number of its headline acts for 2013, and now the organizers of the annual Calgary event have confirmed...

Sled Island Adds Iceage, Superchunk, Ryan Hemsworth, John K. Samson to Lineup

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2013

Last month, Calgary's Sled Island festival unveiled a handful of headliners committed to play the 2013 edition, including Jesus and Mary Ch...