Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Kim Gray

  "Tropical Low Life" (video)

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2016

  If you're already missing Halloween, Vancouver troubadour Kim Gray is bringing it back to the forefront thanks to his new video for "Tropic...

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  YlangYlang

  "Uncertain Landscapes"

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2016

  Montreal-based leftfield producer Catherine Debard has piled up a number of intriguingly esoteric releases over the past few years. Going u...

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  Alice Cooper

  Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver BC, October 19

  PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2016

  Growing up in the '80s, there were three big Als in my life: Alan Alda from M*A*S*H, 'Weird' Al Yankovic, and Alice Cooper. I never had the...

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  La Chinga

  "Gone Gypsy" (video)

  PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2016

  Vancouver power trio La Chinga dropped their sophomore album, Freewheelin', through Small Stone Records early on in 2016. It's a pure testa...

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  Das Rad

  "Hollow Pines"

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2016

  Sad to say, but Toronto noise mongers Das Rad have recorded their last two songs. The heavy power trio are going to play one last show on O...

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  Dwayne Perkins

  Take Note

  PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2016

  Many artists have made an art of subtlety, but that is a road less traveled in the world of standup. Usually, it's the brashest and/or most...

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  Tomaga

  "Tuscan Metalwork"

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2016

  Whenever the London, UK-based duo of Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen aren't collaborating in the Oscillation, they develop the cure for...

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  Bill Hicks

  Revelations

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2016

  I don't believe it was random chance that Netflix added Sam Kinison's 1991 special Family Entertainment Hour on the same day that they adde...