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Jessica Moss

The room is mostly silent. There’s a couple sitting at one of the tables beside the stage and they talk in a whisper, possibly wary…

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The Cribs

The Cobalt was dark and smelled strongly of beer. The graffiti on the walls and on the tables sat proudly, unharmed, like a badge of…

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Music Waste 2017

Over the last few years in Vancouver, we’ve watched more venues shut down than we have found new ones opening up. Because of this, what…

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Kikagaku Moyo

How do you review a show when you were moshing for half of it? I’ll try to pull apart the experience from the torrents of…

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The Velveteins

Tanglers instantly transported me from the Cobalt to a bluesy, folky beach concert, with people dancing playfully around a bonfire, the tall flame flicking its…

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Cory Hanson

Thursday night at the Cobalt featured Los Angeles headliner Cory Hanson touring his new album The Unborn Capitalist from Limbo, where he trades in the…

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Daughters

If you’re someone that has kept their finger even remotely on the pulse of alternative music, you are as aware as I am that we…

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The Shrine & Ho99o9

Metal shows can sometimes be a kind of satanic church service, and on October 26 at the Cobalt, HEDḰS, a local stoner thrash band, opened…