Articles by Alan Ranta

Jesse Zubot Outlines Drip Audio Plans, Sets to Work on New Destroyer and Frog Eyes LPs

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2015

As we reported late last year, Jesse Zubot has revived his momentarily dormant Drip Audio imprint in the wake of his victory alongside Tany...

Kevin Morby / Jessica Pratt / Malcolm Jack

Electric Owl, Vancouver BC, February 21

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2015

This was a cool bill from start to finish. Vancouver's Malcolm Jack opened with selections from his dreamy Dada Plan project, all jangly so...

alice

how to be a human being

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

Irish composer Thomas McConville sure knows how to make an entrance. The Schematic-released how to be a human being is only his debut album...

Eskmo

SOL

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

Five years is a significant break to take between albums, but that's how long it was between the eponymous debut album of Los Angeles-based...

Via Tania

Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

The path to this album was a trying one. The career of Australian singer Via Tania, known to her family as Tania Bowers, started off huge....

Todd Glass / Ross Dauk

Yuk Yuk's, Vancouver BC, February 19

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

With a duo of piano and cello doing jazz standards, a little something to take the edge off, as Doug Stanhope would say, the ambiance at Yu...

Dana Gould / Chris James / Dino Archie

Comedy MIX, Vancouver BC, February 14

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2015

While most of the bill for this sold-out Northwest Comedy Fest showcase for former Simpsons writer Dana Gould was the same as for comic's c...

Hozier

Orpheum, Vancouver BC, February 15

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2015

Hozier is no hoser; Andrew Hozier-Byrne had a calming, genuine presence. He was clearly the star of this show as he came out onstage in fro...