Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Hari Kondabolu / Sean Devlin

  Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver BC, February 25

  PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2016

  JFL Northwest didn't announce this gig as a sell-out, but the room filled steadily until the last few stragglers were forced to lounge awkw...

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  Diane Coffee / Eric Campbell & the Dirt

  The Cobalt, Vancouver BC, February 20

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2016

  Sometimes, it all just seems to click, the right bands in the right venue coming together at the right moment. Perennial favourites at Art...

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  Venetian Snares

  Traditional Synthesizer Music

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2016

  Winnipeg's Aaron Funk has an obvious darkness in him — the breakcore legend has a child-killing-themed album called Doll Doll Doll — yet he...

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  Nash the Slash

  Children of the Night

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2016

  Much like the great Canadian electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack, Toronto's James Jeffrey Plewman (a.k.a. Nash the Slash) was an incompara...

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  Kim Gray

  "Perfume Ghost" (video)

  PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2016

  Vancouver's Kim Gray (of Skinny Kids fame) is getting ready to drop a new garage pop album under his own name called Perfume. Due out in th...

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  Saroos

  'Tardis' (album stream)

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2016

  The improbable German trio Saroos are putting out their fourth album, Tardis, on the Notwist-run imprint Alien Transistor, slated for relea...

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  Super Furry Animals / Dead Meadow

  Imperial, Vancouver BC, February 4

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2016

  This psychedelic double-bill descended upon Vancouver care of the organizers behind Levitation, a festival at which openers Dead Meadow had...

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  David Cross

  Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC, February 2

  PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2016

  David Cross hasn't gone on a stand-up tour in six years, since the release of his 2010 album, Bigger and Blackerer, which was then his firs...