Articles by Al Smith

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  HEALTH / Nü Sensae / MYTHS

  Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC February 4

  PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2010

  If you've seen HEALTH play a show or two, you know their shows are viscerally exciting and brutally energetic, which made the low turnout a...

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  MYTHS / Pompoir / Student Teacher

  Pat's Pub, Vancouver, BC January 9

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2010

  MYTHS is the latest project from Lief Hall of the gone, but definitely not forgotten, Mutators, and the buzz surrounding them is palpable....

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  Casiotone for the Painfully Alone / To Bad Catholics / Edo Van Breemen

  Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC January 8

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2010

  The last scheduled Vancouver appearance for Owen Ashworth's Casiotone for the Painfully Alone was over before it began thanks to a car acci...

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  Magik Markers / Sic Alps / Shearing Pinx

  Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver, BC December 18

  PUBLISHED Dec 28, 2009

  It takes a decent number of people to make Vancouver's hangar-like Rickshaw Theatre look well-attended. But this show pulled it off and man...

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  Neon Indian

  Shine, Vancouver, BC November 16

  PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2009

  The meteoric rise of 21-year-old Alan Palomo, doing business as Neon Indian, is an example of new media hype at its runaway-train finest. A...

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  Jonas Reinhardt / Sinoia Caves / Valet

  Little Mountain Studios, Vancouver, BC November 7

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2009

  Opening the show was Valet, the current moniker of Portland, OR experimental musician and sometimes live Atlas Sound member Honey Owens. Pl...

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  Blues Control / Solars / Gross Xmas

  Little Mountain Studios, Vancouver, BC November 2

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2009

  Noise-positive Vancouver concert promoter and record label Twee Death consistently puts on the most interesting shows in town, but they can...

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  Broadcast / Atlas Sound

  Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC October 30

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2009

  According to our sources, Atlas Sound's van broke down outside of Seattle, leaving Bradford Cox to make the trip to Vancouver minus his ban...