Articles by Alan Ranta

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  The Revolution

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 22

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2018

  It's impossible to review a show by the Revolution and not mention Prince Rogers Nelson. The original, unnamed incarnation of the band was...

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  Dessa

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 22

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2018

  First off, a shoutout to Doomtree, the alternative hip-hop collective from Minneapolis, MI that count P.O.S and Cecil Otter among their mem...

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  FRANKIIE

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 22

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2018

  Vancouver twinkle-rock quartet FRANKIIE apparently drove all night from a set in Tofino to make it to the second annual Picnic-er Stage at...

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  Hollie Cook

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 22

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2018

  Having moved up in the lineup due to the unexplained absence of Kelis, Hollie Cook found herself opening for the Revolution in her first-ev...

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  I M U R

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 21

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2018

  If their set at the Picnic-er Stage was any indication, Vancouver electro trio I M U R probably aren't going to be just Vancouver's much lo...

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  !!!

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 21

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2018

  Last time I saw Sacramento dance-punk torchbearers !!! (aka chk chk chk) was at the Sasquatch Festival in 2011, and frontman Nic Offer was...

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  Reggie Watts

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 21

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2018

  How can you assign a rating to Reggie Watts? His irreverent, surreal style of whatever-the-hell-it-is-that-he-does is beyond classification...

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  DJ Shub

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 20

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2018

  Mohawk DJ, proud member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and godfather of powwowstep, Dan General arguably turned the most heads as a...