Articles by Alan Ranta

The Thing

Boot!

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2013

Scandinavian punk-jazz ensemble the Thing helped create one of the most incredible albums of 2012. It was a collaboration with Neneh Cherry...

Death / Tough Age

Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, November 1

PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2013

Death comes to us all eventually. In the case of the Detroit power trio, victims of bad timing and/or unadventurous A&R in the mid-'70s, th...

CocoRosie / Busdriver

Venue, Vancouver BC, October 24

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2013

Surrealism was in the air as the CocoRosie faithful came out in force, as hippy-gypsy Renaissance Fair ladies in frilly dresses that looke...

Widowspeak

Electric Owl, Vancouver BC, October 22

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2013

Brooklyn-based quartet Widowspeak laid down a smooth set at the Electric Owl this evening, braving a dense fog that blanketed Vancouver. Th...

Black Walls Announce 'Communion' LP

PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2013

Toronto singer-songwriter Kenneth Reaume is getting ready to unleash Communion, his sophomore album under the name Black Walls. Aimed for a...

Architect

Mine

PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2013

Daniel Myer has stepped up his game with Mine. Where 2010's Consume Adapt Create took a more minimal, industrial approach to IDM, Mine move...

Guitar Wolf

Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, October 9

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2013

Guitar Wolf have been at this "jet rock'n'roll" thing since 1987, and it shows. They burned the Rickshaw down with a veritable encyclopaedi...

Jacco Gardner

Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver BC, October 8

PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2013

It was a night of firsts at the Biltmore this evening. After a simple but cute set from the husband-and-wife duo of Ari Shine and Adrienne...