Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Is and of The

  Heads Phased For Dreamless Sleep

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2011

  Drew Bandos may be a fresh-faced 20-year-old from Philly, but his music reveals an old soul. He's a multi-instrumentalist who records his t...

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  Low / Bachelorette

  Rio, Vancouver BC September 15

  PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2011

  After a minute of silent tuning and scattered muttering, Annabel Alpers began her laptop poptronica set as Bachelorette. Standing between t...

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  Explosions in the Sky / Twin Sister

  Vogue, Vancouver BC September 9

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2011

  Contrasting the expansive grandiosity and overall subtlety of the headlining act, Twin Sister are a slick five-piece band from New York. Wi...

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  Pregnant

  Life Hard : I Try

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

  The universe may not always give you what you want, but it will give you what you need. If that notion is truly so, the fourth album from N...

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  Butthole Surfers / 400 Blows

  Rickshaw, Vancouver BC September 3

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2011

  Brains turned to mush both literally and figuratively at the Rickshaw. Hailing from LA, 400 Blows provided a dose of vitriol-laced punk slu...

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  Blink-182 / My Chemical Romance

  Rogers Arena, Vancouver BC August 31

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2011

  Although they are both chart-topping, award-winning, platinum-selling bands, double headliners My Chemical Romance and Blink-182 were actua...

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  Noisia / Krusha

  Venue, Vancouver BC August 11

  PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2011

  With the hometown advantage and the anticipation for the notorious Noisia steadily building, Vancouver's Krusha delivered precisely what wa...

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  Shambhala Music Festival featuring Siriusmo, Spoonbill, Basketball, Dub FX

  Salmo River Ranch, Salmo BC August 5-8

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2011

  The reputation of Shambhala precedes itself, and all legends are true. There is nothing else like it, not of this magnitude. Free from the...