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Go off with Don Brownrigg’s <i>Fireworks</i>

Go off with Don Brownrigg’s Fireworks

With five years between records, a refreshed and renewed Brownrigg is back.

Don Brownrigg is a busy man.

By Sara Connors Jun 6, 2019

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Corey Hart's joyful comeback

After 20 years out of the game, Hart's back with a new EP and arena tour hitting Halifax on June 4.

On March 17, Juno Awards host Sarah McLachlan began her induction of Corey Hart into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame: "At the age of 17, Corey Hart recorded five songs on five cassettes and walked them into the lobby of the Montreal Forum to leave them for Billy Joel and his band.

By Tara Thorne May 30, 2019

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The Remains of Leanne Hoffman

The singer-songwriter cuts to the heart of things on her first full-length: “You can forgive yourself and move on from things.”

It doesn't feel right calling the new release from Leanne Hoffman a debut album.

By Jonathan Briggins May 30, 2019

Leanne Hoffman What Remains Erin Costelo Kellie Loder The Carleton

OBEY XII: Zamani

The 18-year-old R&B legacy makes the music only she can.

Zamani w/Strange Froots Friday, May 31, 4pm George Dixon Centre Greenspace 2501 Gottingen Street free (all ages)

By Brennan McCracken May 30, 2019

OBEY Convention XII Obey George Dixon Centre Zamani

OBEY XII: Slaylor Moon

Exploring the voice, queer love and the possibilities of songwriting.

Sydney Koke, who has played with infamous Vancouver punks Shearing Pinx and rising rock trio The Courtneys, says she loves all sorts of music—but something keeps pulling her back to the weirder fringes of sound.

By Brennan McCracken May 30, 2019

OBEY Convention XII Obey Radstorm

OBEY XII: Debby Friday

Messy, complex noise music representing “our organic and non-organic parts of our existence.”

For Vancouver's Debby Friday, there's something natural about music that sounds distinctly non-human.

By Brennan McCracken May 30, 2019

OBEY XII: Eartheater

The undefinable multi-instrumentalist offers pure delicacy and dark experimentation.

As Eartheater, New York multi-instrumentalist Alexandra Drewchin creates lavish experimental songs rich with influences, sounds and references.

By Stephanie Johns May 30, 2019

OBEY Convention XII Obey DANSpace

OBEY XII: Tomoko Sauvage

Porcelain harmonics provide beautiful unpredictability.

Flutters, loops, scrapes, ripples, drips and bubbles create worlds of lush, meditative sound with the work of Tomoko Sauvage.

By Stephanie Johns May 30, 2019

OBEY Convention XII Obey Fort Massey United Church

OBEY XII: Nick Schofield

Soothing ambient sounds borne out of insomnia.

Like so many creative rabbit holes, the idea behind Nick Schofield's first ambient record, Water Sine, presented itself after dark.

By Brennan McCracken May 30, 2019

OBEY Convention XII Obey Fort Massey United Church

The form and fun of Snotty Nose Rez Kids

The Vancouver duo combines hip hop with their Indigineous culture: “It goes hand in hand, really.”

Snotty Nose Rez Kids w/DJ Kookum, Lex Leosis Friday, May 24, 9pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15, showpass.com

By Morgan Mullin May 23, 2019

Snotty Nose Rez Kids OBEY Festival Hopscotch Festival Darren Metz Young D Quinton Nyce Young Trybez Kitamaat Village Vancouver Reflections Cabaret

Between the light with shadow

After two years in three studios, two EPs emerge.

After a long but gentle gestation, shadow—a five-piece band led by Bethany Fulde—is ready to release the fruits of its two-year labour: A double EP, one titled the dark and the other, fittingly, the dawn.

By Maggie Rahr May 9, 2019

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