Cynic, Intronaut, Dysrhythmia at the Venue July 26th presented by Live Nation
Have we established that I'm a huge prog nerd? Good. Here's three progressive metal bands I saw in one night.
Dysrhythmia's music is hard to describe withou...
Author: Morbid Alex
Mother Died Today, Archspire, First Reign and Woods of Ypres at the Biltmore Cabaret. June 26th presented by the Invisible Orange.
I missed Mother Died Today's final Vancouver show, and judging by the songs on their Myspace, I would hav...
Author: Morbid Alex and photo by Dean McLean
"Mattress hails from the desert of Las Vegas. Shadowed in neon lights and creeping like a sci-fi prophet, Mattress explores the nuclear love song. A prison work chant shrouded in buzzing synthesizers, Mattress looks into the future and hope...
Author: Tanya Harding
The Spitfires, Battle Snakes & The Jolts @ The Media Club June 19th
By: Denis Maile
On this night of rock n roll The Jolts opened the show because their bassist was busy eating poutine. To make up for this The Jolts had not 1, but 3 dif...
Author: Denis Maile
METAL METAL METAL by Morbid Alex
Show review: Fallen Decade, Sinned, Tyrants Blood and Pestilence at the Rickshaw Theatre.
Local thrashers Fallen Decade were the bills openers, and in my opinion they have the sort of live show which cou...
Author: Morbid Alex
Look but Don't Touch! OR ELSE!!! An interview with the Voodoo Dollz's Little Miss Risk by the Skinny Magazine.
The Skinny: How long have you been dancing burlesque with Big John Bates in the Voodoo Dollz and did you bring all the ideas ...
Author: by the Skinny Magazine
Thundermonkey Remembered by Gaalen Engen.
There is a tight-knit committed group of musicians in Vancouver who have made melodic expression their life, regardless of the hardship. They are tireless warriors frequenting the shadowed hollow...
Author: Gaalen Engen
A Seven Inch Mixdown by Rene Milord:
First up is an Albertan band called MYELIN SHEATHS with a disjointed, noisy, poppy, post-punk EP. It’s kind of sloppy, perhaps better live? Hozac Records 047 (at Pat’s Pub, May 6)
Next up ...
Author: Rene Milord
An interview with David Hayden of BOATS! By Tanya Harding
Boats! are a Sacramento power pop punk band, brother band to The Enlows and typically could fit nicely with the Tranzmitors, and I am sure have before on tour but here and now the...
Author: Tanya Harding
The Bobblehead Speaks!
The Skinny sits down with legendary DOA frontman Joe “Shithead” Keithley
by Kristina Mameli, the Skinny
“We still raise shit, we’re still good live and we keep trying to say stuff about what’s g...
Author: Kristina Mameli
Vancouver Killing Spree proves it’s really not about murder
by Kristina Mameli, the Skinny
Despite its rather aggressive moniker and sound, the gentlemen of Vancouver Killing Spree are amongst the most honest and genuine you’ll...
Author: Kristina Mameli
The Wrecktals – Speaking their mind from time to time.
An interview with bassist Christoph Leon
by Denis Maile of The Skinny
DM: How did you come up with the band name?
CL: As a reminder to never take ourselves too seriously, re...
Author: Denis Maile
The Stolen Organ Family Band
Horse Treats (Indie)
It pays to have an open mind in this business of writing about music and putting it to press, especi...
Author: Nathan Pike
Scatterheart w/ Bike and Los Furios @ The Commodore Saturday March 27 2010
Love: A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward another, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a s...
Author: Nathan Pike
I entered Pat's Pub on Friday March 12th in the year of our lord 2010 to experience Motorama for the first time. There were three bands in the evening and Motorama opened. When I say opened, I mean OPENED. This power trio of punk dug int...
Author: Gaalen Engen
Blue Oyster Cult appeared at the PNE years back and gifted their audience with a towering fury of ten guitars driving their howling classic,”Godzilla”. The overpowering glory of their stringed abundance ground itself into the memory of...
Author: Gaalen Engen
Find someone who thinks tapes aren’t cool and I’ll shove my Sony Walkman up his bum. Tapes are still rad and this Anion tape is no different. It’s red in colour and resembling the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack cassette tape ...
Author: Dennis Maile
C: Hey this is Chainsaw from Skinny Mag. How did you get the band name Lightning Swords of Death?
A: The band name, initially it was a favorite movie. But then later it became a kind of acid we were all fond of.
C: Hence the initials...
Author: Chainsaw
History 101 with Vancouver’s first punk band the Furies
By Kristina Mameli, the Skinny
In anticipation of the Skinny Magazine’s second annual Xmas party, (an event for which there are absolutely no valid excuses for missing), t...
Author: Kristina Mameli
Tony Dallas GETS LUCKY
An interview with the luckiest drummer in Vancouver, Tony Dallas
by Tanya Harding
Getting asked to go on tour to Europe and then to the States with one of Canada's fastest shooting stars of a band, Fan Death, is...
Author: Tanya Harding
SKINNY MAG WENDY 13 INTERVIEW
1. HOW HAS THE MUSIC SCENE CHANGED SINCE THE CLOSURE OF THE COBALT?
TOTALLY BLEAK.....ALL LIKEMINDED SHOWS ARE NOW MOVED TO OTHER VENUES WITH INADEQUATE SOUND CAPABILITIES....GAWD I MISS JOHNS SOUNDSYS...
Author: wendy thirteen
Interview with the 2 cofounding members:Lana Ryma(Drummer)&Aramis Starfish(Vocals & Bass)@Bamboo Cafe,Gastown
Darren: how did "The Furniture" get started?
Lana:I had been with "Ten Days Late for many years followed by"The No No Spot...
Author: Darren Lulka
Believe me, we were as shocked as you are that our intrepid reporter/notorious rocker Billy Hopeless somehow wangled a phone interview with Devo co-founder Gerry Casales. Without further ado, Hopeless does Devo:
BH - The first thing I’...
Author: Billy Hopeless
“We weren’t necessarily going for an animal name,” Bison BC co-guitarist/ co-vocalist James Farwell tells me when I ask about the name Bison. “We’d tossed around these Godawful made up words - ‘what looks good in a good metal fo...
Author: Allan MacInnis
The Beige
El Ángel Exterminador
by Nathan Stafford
Sophomore release from local exploratory jazz/pop project
El Ángel Exterminador is a CD I can listen to all day long. The vocals are nice, but not in-your-face, and not really use...
Author: Nathan Stafford