Articles by Chris Boutet

The Salteens / Catlow / Leeroy Stagger / My Project: Blue

Victory Lounge, Edmonton AB - September 9, 2005

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

It was an uncharacteristically small and sedate Friday night crowd that awaited the Boompa Records Showcase tour's stop at Edmonton's Victo...

Novillero / Falconhawk / Field & Stream / Paper Moon

Sidetrack Café, Edmonton AB — August 13, 2005

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

To call any group a "bar band" would usually be an insult, but after watching Winnipeg rockers Novillero stomp and scream their way through...

Ladies and Gentlemen

Small Sins

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

Ever since Canada was first introduced to the Ladies and Gentlemen via the inclusion of their single "Stay” on the 2004 Boompa Records samp...

The Fever / Columbus / Mark Birtles Project

New City Likwid Lounge, Edmonton AB - June 30, 2005

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

If nothing else, you've got to give Edmonton's New City Likwid Lounge an A for ambition on this one; they took a real financial gamble flyi...

Whitey Houston

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

In a Canadian musical climate that seems to get a little more elaborate and overwrought with the emergence of each new Broken Social Scene...