Articles by Jibril Yassin
Teen Suicide
"It's the Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir the Honeypot"
PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2016
In many ways, getting a return statement from Teen Suicide is amazing in and of itself; their 2013 breakup seemed destined to send the band...
Metric / Death Cab For Cutie
Rexall Place, Edmonton AB, March 29
PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2016
Seeing Metric and Death Cab for Cutie on the same tour poster seems almost like a dream. At first glance, there's maybe not much overlap be...
Laura Sauvage
Extraordinormal
PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2016
Building on the momentum from her previous EP, Americana Submarine, Extraordinormal is the debut full-length from Les Hay Babies' Vivianne...
B Boys
No Worry No Mind
PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2016
The title for Brooklyn band B Boys' first release, No Worry No Mind, is a funny one. In the context of their music — broody, artsy post-pun...
Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls
Union Hall, Edmonton AB, March 6
PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2016
Walking on to the sound of falling rain and kicking things off with the triumphant opening that is "The Next Storm," Frank Turner & the Sle...
The Cult
Hidden City
PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2016
On the Cult's tenth studio album, Hidden City, the long-running British act seem to have hit a new creative streak. Hidden City is the band...
Mötley Crüe / Alice Cooper
Rexall Place, Edmonton AB, December 12
PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2015
How was it determined that Alice Cooper would be not co-headlining but opening for Mötley Crüe on what is deemed their "Final Tour"? The De...
The Weeknd
Rexall Place, Edmonton AB, November 30
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2015
Hearing the opening guitar chords of "Real Life," chords that sound triumphant even as they hint towards melancholy, you can't help but thi...
