Sunday night, the 43rd Annual American Music Awards were handed out at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. Host Jennifer Lopez kicked off the star-studded night of music with a electrifying performance, hinting at what’s to come from her upcoming Las Vegas residency, singing a ballard version of “Waiting for Tonight” before an all-out dance to…
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Florence and the Machine – How Big tour
Florence + the Machine – Rogers Arena – October 25, 2015 Last night, Florence and the Machine brought their How Big Tour to Vancouver’s Rogers Arena. The London based group are touring in support of their latest release “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” but performed tracks from their catalogue of hits. “Sweet Nothing”, “You’ve Got…
2015 Polaris Short List Posters Revealed
The Polaris Music Prize has revealed the 10 posters and artists for each of the 2015 Short List performers. In addition, a commemorative 10th Anniversary Polaris poster designed by Montréal’s Pat Hamou was also unveiled. The limited edition posters are now available for pre-sale and viewing on polarismusicprize.ca and will also be on sale at the Polaris…
Make Music Vancouver 2015
Wednesday evening, the streets of Gastown will once again be filled with the sounds of music. For the fourth year, Make Music Vancouver presents a day of music, hundreds of music acts, absolutely free! The grass-roots volunteer run event shuts down Water Street in Vancouver and transforms the pavement into a series of stages and performance spaces….
Top 10 Grossing Concert Tours of 2014
After a record breaking 2013 at the box office, 2014 continued live music’s rise. This year’s attendance wained slightly after last year’s 30% gains but due to higher ticket prices the overall box office grew 3.4% nearly hitting $2billion for the Top 10 Grossing Tours alone. One Direction claimed the top spot on the year…
49th Academy of Country Music Awards winners
Sunday night, the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas welcomed the who’s who of country music as they gathered to celebrate their own at the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan returned as hosts for the second year (4th year for Shelton), making use of their good rapport…
It’s a BECKstravaganza!
In December 2012, Beck released his latest album, Song Reader, at 20 songs it’s a long player. The unique thing with this release is that in order to hear the songs you must play them yourself, not just on a CD or mp3 player but real instruments. Song Reader is in sheet music form only. …