Vancouver
Shigeto
Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, June 6
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2015
As Michigan-based producer Zach Saginaw hit the stage, the man they also call Shigeto requested that people move closer, which he said woul...
Black Mountain
Malkin Bowl, Vancouver BC, June 6
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2015
One could hardly choose a more perfect setting for Black Mountain's first Vancouver show since 2012 than Levitation. This festival was prac...
Elephant Stone
Malkin Bowl, Vancouver BC, June 6
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2015
Based in Montreal since 2008, this was somehow Elephant Stone's first time playing in Vancouver. It didn't go exactly as planned, since fro...
TacocaT
Malkin Bowl, Vancouver BC, June 6
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2015
The rock gods weren't exactly kind to Seattle's TacocaT for this show. They survived a three-hour ordeal at the border, which cost them $20...
Black Wizard
Malkin Bowl, Vancouver BC, June 7
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2015
Vancouver's Black Wizard have experienced their fair share of turmoil in their years together, between their brief hiatus in 2011 after gui...
Curtis Harding
Malkin Bowl, Vancouver BC, June 7
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2015
Taking the Michigan gospel to Atlanta, where he sang backup for Cee-Lo Green, Curtis Harding's set at Levitation injected some much needed...
The Black Angels
Malkin Bowl, Vancouver BC, June 7
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2015
Austin's Black Angels are a tough act to review live. On record, their driving psych-rock sound is near perfection, even grander than worth...
Sun Ra Star System
China Cloud, Vancouver BC, June 5
PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2015
Not unlike the universe itself, it was hard to tell exactly when the Sun Ra Star System began. The septet started improvising while trumpet...