After a successful experience at Canadian Music Week in Toronto, Victoria’s folk-pop artist Steph Macpherson has released her debut full-length album, Bells & Whistles, on independent label Cordova Bay Records. Her infectious, harmony-saturated folk-pop style is described as a splice of Stevie Nicks, Sarah Harmer, and Jeff Tweedy rolled into one musical entity, topped off with a…
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Guilty Pleasures with Eric Solomon
Perfectly timed to coincide with the release of his new album, Time Bomb, Eric Solomon performs this weekend at Guilty Pleasures concert fundraiser at Five Sixty. The former Vancouver based recording artist returns from his new LA home to perform some of his hi-energy pop to get the crowd primed. Solomon’s influences of 80’s synth pop, funk, soul and…
Polaris Music Prize – Long List Announced
First awarded in 2006, the Polaris Music Prize is annually awarded to the best Canadian full-length album. Chosen by a jury of 200 members of the Canadian music media the 2011 Long List was recently announced at The Drake Hotel in Toronto. From this long list of 40 nominees the jury will now choose the…
You Tube Star of the Month – June 2011
I stumbled upon this months sensational video from seeing a random tweet about a cover of Adele’s – Someone Like You by Eli Lieb. As it turns out there are a lot of great Adele covers online, amazingly mostly from men. So this month the YouTube star is really Adele who has inspired so many…
Heart – Red Velvet Car
Heart – Queen Elizabeth Theatre – February 26, 2011 Legendary rock band Heart wrapped up a 20 date cross Canada tour at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre this weekend, bringing them back to the city that gave them their start nearly 40 years ago. I last saw them 25 years ago at Pacific Coliseum during their big haired power…
Elton John – Rocket Man, Rocks Victoria
Elton John – Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena – February 15, 2011 Elton John kicked off his North American tour with his only Canadian dates and first ever visit to Victoria. The back to back shows filled Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena with 16,000 fans over the two night, the largest crowds the 6 year old venue has experienced. The buzz was definitely…
Andrew Allen : New Artist On Tour
I have the good fortune to see a lot of artists and bands perform live many of them are new me and along the way there are some hits and misses. One of the recent hits is Andrew Allen; a relatively new independant artist who is presently on the road touring in support of a…