Articles by Anna Alger

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks / Soccer Mommy

Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, August 3

PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2018

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks took their "Hard Sparklin'" tour across the border yesterday, playing a laidback and witty show that was a hell...

Gorillaz

The Now Now

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2018

Just over a year since their apocalyptic fifth record, Humanz, Gorillaz are already back; mastermind Damon Albarn wrote The Now Now on the...

Florence and the Machine

High As Hope

PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2018

Florence Welch is raw and unbridled on High As Hope, her first record since 2015's How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. Lead single "Hunger" p...

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Hope Downs

PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2018

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever made a name for themselves across the Pacific from their hometown of Melbourne last year, upon the release...

Bernice Create Sibling Releases By Following 'Puff' EP with 'Puff' Full-Length

PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2018

Toronto band Bernice's new album Puff shares a name with their debut EP, but while their initial offering was a heavily produced melding of...

Kadhja Bonet

Childqueen

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2018

There is a grandiose yet ethereal feeling to Kadhja Bonet's work. She first emerged out of L.A. with her 2016 EP The Visitor, a startlingly...

Bernice Transform Themselves to Make 'Puff LP' Into a Full Band Experience

PUBLISHED May 24, 2018

Toronto's Bernice have released the musical sibling to 2017's Puff EP. Puff LP: In the air without a shape is a wondrous and curious rework...

David Byrne / Benjamin Clementine

Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver BC, May 23

PUBLISHED May 24, 2018

Legendary Talking Heads frontman, solo artist and collaborator David Byrne presented his ambitious tour in support of American Utopia to a...