When a metal band lays down a layer of American Psycho plastic setting up, be warned: tonight, there will be blood. Little did we know how m...

Flown in for a single parachute date by the venue, Witch were a gamble that split the city's living as Edmonton's demigod Faunts played on t...

Those who chose the costume weirdness of Hank + Lily over the one-night exhumation of punk legends Les Tabernacles on the other side of town...

Why do people hop onto rollercoasters or watch slasher movies in the dark? The caffeine rush, essentially - and that same force making your...

Anticipation is bipolar — sometimes revving it up inside your heart leads to disappointment. In the case of Gogol Bordello’s delayed return...

Many words have been written about former punks gone to field, now saggily fronting country or blues bands. An easier way to put it is that...

The Edmonton Folk Fest gets accused pretty much every year of having an inferior indie line-up to Calgary’s version — and also of being unbe...

Gunshots and cash registers have been in music before — think Pink Floyd’s "Money” and pretty much every 50 Cent song. But only globetrotter...

A preface: Paul Arnusch is smartly dressed in black, waiting on stage with the Faunts in front of every geek in town at Video Games Live. Th...

In other cultures it would be an honour to have dead octopi and entrails thrown at you during a performance — that is if you were a band of...

After a recent spate of idiot violence in Edmonton from thugs and cops alike, it oddly became briefly fashionable to sport ironic black eyes...

Imagine the nightmare: stuck on the highway in the middle of Alberta, night creeping in. That’s especially scary for Eastern readers what wi...

"Some of these guys here have been at — what? — eight shows this tour,” the mountainous Clay Shea bellowed. He stopped for a second, his voi...

How many times have Tom, Rob and John played to these same bricks? Punkin’ out the Bronx in the ’80s, sending off the Rev in the ’90s, and n...

Few venues in Canada are as suited for good-natured testosterone rock as the Starlite thanks to its sermon-on-the-mount, uphill roll to the...

This is going to be tough, but lay down that sneer for a second and admit that you love Van Halen and that it’s all right for old people to...

I can’t speak exactly to Alejandro Escovedo’s sex appeal due to orientation disadvantages, but it’s certainly a thing to wrap lips around. T...

"It’s an open challenge to any band to take the stage in the New Year’s rock-off tonight,” Vancouver promoter Rob Wright yells into the mic...

To any not in attendance for Robbie Fulks, I understand. It’s hot, you’ve spent your country dollars on Wilco, Neko Case and the annoyingly...

Holger Petersen grins constantly, but this month, he’s especially sunny because Stony Plain Records is 30 years old. The word "independent”...