Edmonton's Up + Downtown Music Festival is excited to announce its limited-capacity return for 2021 with Purple City — a one-day festival ta...

We've all been at a party starting to wane around 3 or 4 a.m. when some party doctor puts Fela Kuti's "Roforofo Fight" on and injects pure e...

There's a strange tradeoff to indie rock shows hosted in churches. There's a rarefied atmosphere that makes these shows distinctly more inti...

There are a few things worth contemplating when sitting in a church. Why did the Flintstones celebrate Christmas? When concerts are in churc...

The capacity crowd seemed more determined to enjoy themselves than Destroyer's Dan Bejar as he took the stage for a solo appearance at Up+Dt...

The unvarnished charm that Jonathan Richman exuded during his performance at Up+Dt Festival was enough to vaporize any trace of pretence and...

Local Edmonton favourites Switches played a packed, all-ages community league office Sunday night (October 9), getting the audience moving t...

Back home for Thanksgiving after playing Austin City Limits and a date supporting M83, brother-sister duo Tennyson treated Edmonton to a liv...

With the Saturday night (October 8) of Up+Downtown Music Festival providing many options for concertgoers in Edmonton, none would be as loud...

"We're called Tropic Harbour, which is appropriately named for this weather."   Playing outside when winter starts to threaten in Edmonton...

Calgary post-punk-noise mainstays Dri Hiev played a late Friday night (October 7) set in support of their third EP, Place to Live. The crowd...