Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Sandro Perri

  Soft Landing

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2019

  We live in intensely strange times, like society is being run through a blender. The whole political spectrum is in flux, pop culture is a...

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  "Weird Al" Yankovic

  Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena, Victoria BC, August 21

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2019

  This review starts back in March of 1995, when a father drove his 14-year-old boy from Kamloops to the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver to experi...

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  The Mariachi Ghost

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 28

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2019

  If there was any doubt, the Mariachi Ghost prove that Canada's (comparatively) welcoming immigration policy is one of our country's greates...

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  Yamantaka // Sonic Titan

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 28

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2019

  The last time I saw Yamantaka // Sonic Titan perform was under very different circumstances. It was at the Vancouver Jazz Fest in 2014, whi...

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  Dirty Projectors

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 28

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2019

  Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors came out looking like they were going to the Catskills for the summer, with bandleader David Longstreth dressed...

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  k-os

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 27

  PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2019

  Back in 2002, seeing the video for "Heaven Only Knows" from k-os's debut album, Exit, was a revelation. His first two albums ended up being...

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  Haviah Mighty

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 27

  PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2019

  Fresh off scoring a Polaris Music Prize short list nomination for her debut, 13th Floor, rapper Haviah Mighty immediately showed why she ea...

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  Danny Brown

  Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 27

  PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2019

  Danny Brown's set started weird, ended weird, and I'm not entirely sure what happened in between.   Everything seemed normal enough for a m...