Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Marissa Nadler

  The Cobalt, Vancouver BC, August 7

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2016

  Hitting the stage early, then playing for almost an hour and a half straight, Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler's perfor...

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  Jay Mohr

  Funny For A Girl

  PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2016

  When a human being poses for a photograph, they tend to suck it in and plaster on a nice smile. They want to project the best image of them...

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  The Automatic Message

  "Tabloid" (video)

  PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2016

  Vancouver-based A/V duo Trevor Jacobson and Tanya Goehring have contributed an Automatic Message track called "Tabloid" to an upcoming comp...

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  The Cure

  Deer Lake Park, Burnaby BC, May 31

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2016

  With the Cure touring over 70 songs, and each individual show's set list totalling 30-something of them, no one knows exactly what they're...

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  SassyBlack

  No More Weak Dates

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2016

  The writing was on the wall for a while before it happened, but the officially announced breakup of Afrofuturist duo THEESatisfaction set C...

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  Cate Le Bon / Mega Bog

  The Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver BC, May 12

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2016

  Welsh ex-pat Cate Le Bon has grown a ton since 2011. Her fourth studio album and first for Drag City, Crab Day, was released only a month b...

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  Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds / The Vicious Cycles MC / Strange Things

  Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, May 7

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2016

  The rock was strong at the Rickshaw this night. With "Strange Things are happening" projected on the dual screens that flanked the stage, p...

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  Oiseaux-Tempête

  'Unworks & Rarites' (album stream)

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2016

  Their fourth release in four years, Unworks & Rarites sees Oiseaux-Tempête plumbing the depths of their vast archives to polish jewels of j...