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Shred Kelly rocking Summer Sounds and Flats Fest
Alternative Folk-Rock band Shred Kelly from Fernie are excited to announce their 2024 summer tour. Following a successful 17-date album release tour in support of their 2023 LP Blurry Vision, the band is pumped to get back on the road this summer.
The Laundry Room at Goward House
Preview: http://www.artopenings.ca/laundry.html
Summer & The Sinners – Can’t Keep a Good Girl Down
Let me preface this review by saying Iā€™ve known Summer since she was barely out of her teens and coming out to sit in or jam at various venues I was playing at around Victoria BC. Iā€™ve watched her career with great interest and she has ...
The Legendary Downchild Blues Band announce The Longest 50th Anniversary Tour
Grand OnStage presents the acclaimed, JUNO Award-winning band at Kingston Grand Theatre November 10
Anion Tape Review
Find someone who thinks tapes arenā€™t cool and Iā€™ll shove my Sony Walkman up his bum. Tapes are still rad and this Anion tape is no different. Itā€™s red in colour and resembling the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack cassette tape ...
Yvonne Blomer: the City's Poet
Yvonne was interviewed for the Sept/Oct 2015 issue of YAM magazine, where she discussed her role as Victoriaā€™s Poet Laureate.
The Hip release first in series of new singles
Bumblebee is the first of five never-before-heard songs.
TV on the Radio
Iā€™ve heard from numerous sources that the dance floor at the Commodore is supported by a layer of tennis balls, but Iā€™ve never had cause to believe it until TV on the Radio unknowingly put this hearsay to the test. During a visceral tak...
Studio Visit with Marie-AndrƩe Allison, March 2022
http://www.artopenings.ca/marie-allison-2022.html
E-Choppers For Mobility
Bruce Deanā€™s story is one of inspiration and creativity. After a skiing accident left his knees badly injured he was prescribed a mobility scooter to help him get around, something he personally viewed as ā€œa death sentence.ā€ He did...
In the House with CADENCE WEAPON (and his Fridge Full of Condiments)
I'm a white rocker, born of Abbotsford. All through high school I associated rap music with delinquents farting bass out of Honda Civics and punching people. But time passed, and at SXSW in Austin this past March, I stumble upon the Canadia...
Sarah Harmer: Looking Back & Stepping Up
Kingston artist up for 2021 JUNO Award for Alternative Adult Album of the Year

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