Articles by Alan Ranta

Jamie Lidell

Fortune Sound, Vancouver BC, April 2

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2013

Jamie Lidell may be spending most of his time in the U.S. these days, but the electro-soul singer still has all of his English eccentriciti...

AM & Shawn Lee Gear Up for 'La Musique Numerique,' Plot "Sounds of Summer" North American Tour

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2013

Blue-eyed soul singer AM and multi-instrumentalist funk beatsmith Shawn Lee have joined forces again. But the duo are changing pace a bit f...

Sole

"People Piss Me Off" (Prod. by Loden)

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2013

The late prophet Bill Hicks used to joke about forming a People Who Hate People Party ("Come to our meeting! 'Are you gonna be there?' Yeah...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Foxygen

Media Club, Vancouver, BC, March 23

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2013

The style of California's Foxygen is clearly well informed. They can blast through all manner of '60s psych rock at will, framed in the fas...

Veronica Falls / Brilliant Colors

Media Club, Vancouver, BC, March 22

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

They may be called Brilliant Colors, but the San Francisco outfit's set this evening was neither brilliant nor colourful. To their credit,...

Karl Bartos

Off the Record

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2013

Karl Bartos was a member of Kraftwerk from 1975 to 1990, during the creation of such influential albums as Radio-Activity, The Man-Machine...

Fol Chen

The False Alarms

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2013

A collective from the Los Angeles-area led by producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass, Fol Chen have spent a few years honing an electronic t...

William Ryan Fritch

"The Cost, the Value of Health"

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2013

Oakland, CA resident William Ryan Fritch is a multi-instrumentalist composer. He has recorded a couple albums under the name Vieo Abiungo a...