Three year anniversary of Katrina just passed and it’s looking like another hurricane is going to hit Louisiana just as the Republican National Convention gets going. Semi-related, a hurricane from New Orleans is going to hit Vancouver on Saturday October 18 as Quinton and Miss Pussycat just announced a show at the Biltmore. Quintron and [...]

On Monday September 1st, Victory Square will see a slightly higher class of people loitering around the park all day. Between 2 and 9pm, the good people at The Only Magazine will be staging the fourth annual Victory Square Block Party. This free event will feature an eclectic lineup of local bands including [...]

Mixtape time! Get it here or from the link on the sidebar. This one has some local love with The Good News and Dandi Wind. Some synth pop with M83 and Ladytron. And a little zip zap rap with Three 6 Mafia and The Cool Kids. Oh yeah, and the new Oasis in on it [...]

On Tuesday September 16 at The Plaza, Intimate Productions presents Miss Kittin and The Hacker live. You probably remember this electroclash duo from their 2001 hit Frank Sinatra. That was an expeically rough year for a lot of people so the video is below to refresh your memory. (Careful it has a couple naughty words)

Miss [...]

Intimate Productions, purveyors of all your house music needs in Vancouver, have recently announced the Lotus Long Weekend on Sunday August 31. This will be the five year anniversary bash of their Sunday evening parties which span over three different venues: The Lotus, Lick and Honey. To sweeten the deal (see what I did there), [...]

Isaac Hayes sadly passed away on Sunday. With luck, Issac Hayes’ thetan will possess some young musician and inspire them to make some great music. Here’s a mixtape of some newish soul that Hayes would approve of. As an added bonus, every single one of these artists is in the Church or Scientology… not really… [...]

Dave Dirk is this week’s super special guest mixtape-er. Get it here or from the link on the sidebar. Dave can be seen every week at Sake Bomb Fridays at The Eatery on 3431 West Broadway. He’s also been known to play the Lotus Long Weekend either solo or tagteaming as Bunsen Vs Beaker alongside [...]

This week we have a very special mixtape from none other than Trevor Risk that can be downloaded here or from the link on the sidebar. You can see Trevor DJing at a plethora of Vancouver clubnights including, Mondays at Shine, Tuesdays and Thursdays at Republic and Saturdays at The Modern. He’s also in a [...]

Stacked is one of the only consistently busy weekday clubnights in Vancouver. Popular for its high class DJs, Betti Forde and Trevor Risk (well, maybe just Trevor) and its super cheap highballs, Stacked has been a gay ol time every Tuesday at Celebrities for the past four years. An insane accomplishment considering the average [...]

This mixtape starts and finishes with songs from two terrific albums: War on Drugs’ Wagonwheel Blues and Arabian Prince’s Innovative Life. Check out War on Drugs if you like Bob Dylan. Check out Arabian Prince if you like electrorap by an original member of NWA. Conor Oberst, Jamie Lidell, The Black Angels and more [...]

The Pemberton Music Festival is next weekend. I can’t for the life of me remember when someone tried to do something this ambitious in BC. Because we’ve never had anything like this, now is a good time to get yourself acquainted with some good music festival traditions. Take Reading for example. At the Reading Festival [...]

Mixtape time! Get it here. As a fun little treat because Madonna seems to be in the news, there’s a track by Ciccone Youth, a Sonic Youth side project inspired by Madonna. Also, enjoy two great old tracks by Les Rythmes Digitales, a project by Stuart Price, who produced Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor [...]