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Ian William Craig

Cradle For The Wanting, Ian William Craig’s second release on Recital, is the musical equivalent of several Jackson Pollock paintings layered on top of one…

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Dead Soft

There’s something special about a Dead Soft show. Maybe it’s the earnestness with which the band performs, or the genuine, innocent excitement that they coax…

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Destroyer

Destroyer and Frog Eyes are both the kind of bands that are geographically nebulous, even to the people that share a city with them. Although…

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Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

It was a hushed and expectant air that greeted guests to the Biltmore Cabaret on a humid Wednesday evening, and descending its steps was more…

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Adrian Teacher & the Subs

There is no genre of music safe from Adrian Teacher‘s ever-widening reach. As his new project, Adrian Teacher and the Subs, effortlessly proves with the…

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Toe

“I’ve waited ten years for this!” There were obviously many in the crowd at a surprisingly packed Electric Owl on a Monday night that thought…

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Weed

It’s taken Weed one phenomenal 7” single, an EP, and a long-play (2013’s Deserve) to seemingly wrap up their experiments in no-fi production, or at…

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Next Music From Tokyo, Vol. 7

Every year, the same too-weird-to-be-true story makes the rounds just before, and then hyperbolically during, the annual event that is Next Music From Tokyo. The…

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Music Waste Fundraiser II

The Toast Collective is one of those undeniably charming miniature venues that so perfectly describe Vancouver’s underground music culture. At times it has been a…

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Quiet City #16

The spring equinox on March 20 marks the first day of our hemisphere’s ascent from ice, snow, and cold, but in Vancouver — where no snow…