Fortune Sound Club - Vancouver, BC Oakland rapper Lil Debbie aka Jordan Capozzi visited Vancouver on Friday and delivered a spirited performance on a night where she could have easily packed it in and bailed back to her home by the Bay. Capozzi is a growing female force in the hip hop world. She is truly an example of an artist who knows how to create a buzz. At a time in music where social media and an onl ...

Rogers Arena - Vancouver, BC For three decades The Tragically Hip have been a fixture in Canadian rock. Beloved from east to west, Gord Downie, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair, Rob Baker and Johnny Fay have paid their dues. Their music has stood the test of time. The band sounds as tight today as it did in the days of long hair and denim. Prolific frontman Gord Downie marches on as one of the country's most re ...

Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre Virginia Instrumental rockers Karma To Burn invaded Vancouver's Rickshaw Theatre on a night filled with fist pumping and heavy music. The trio are touring Canada and the U.S in support of their sixth studio release Arch Stanton. K2B have gone through member shakeups, style switches and a reunion after a seven year hiatus. The current lineup of William Mecum, Eric Clutter and ...

FORTUNE - Vancouver, BC If the challenge facing a DJ is to each night grasp EDM lovers in their hands and for an hour long strive to keep them moving than Blockhead passed with flying colors on Thursday night at Fortune Sound Club. Seamlessly flowing from mix to mix, the New York based Ninja Tune artist put on a very impressive show. Often times over the course of a sixty minute set, the DJ finds moments of ...

Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC In The Valley Below are singer songwriter Angela Gail and singer songwriter/guitarist Jeffrey Jacob. The two have embarked on a tour opening for The Airborne Toxic Event. Tonight’s stop was a sold out Commodore Ballroom. The duo, whose name is a line taken from the Bob Dylan song One More Cup of Coffee, is becoming well established on the pop landscape. With their debut al ...

Fortune Sound Club - Vancouver, BC A diverse group of music lovers gathered Thursday in Chinatown at Fortune Sound Club. Vancouver was the second stop on a west coast tour for La Sera and King Tuff. It's an intriguing tour because of the contrast in styles that exists between the two artists. Both acts are certainly high energy and can turn up the volume if need be. However, the transition from thirty minut ...

Electric Owl - Vancouver, BC Bay area female rapper Kristine Flaherty aka K Flay graced the stage at The Electric Owl Monday night in support of her debut studio album Life As A Dog. Released this past June, Life As A Dog was funded by her fans online through Pledge Site. Her energy as a performer and her intensely personal and hard hitting rhymes are on full display on the album and were on full display at ...

Revue Stage at Granville Island - Vancouver, BC Six years has passed since Vancouverite Nat Jay released her acclaimed debut EP "Lights Across The Sky". With her newly released “All I Think When I Wake Up,” Jay proves that she has been anything but forgotten and the new album was certainly worth the wait. These days, it is hard to find a performer with as much heart, soul, songwriting ability and vocal powe ...

Die Antwoord PNE Forum - Vancouver, BC Tuesday night the traveling circus that is Die Antwoord rolled into East Vancouver’s PNE Forum in support of their latest album Donker Mag. To say a Die Antwoord show is ‘unique’ is putting it very lightly. Even the word ‘show’ isn’t all that fitting. Die Antwoord, as they have said, make "hyper-reality" and create "exaggerated experience." After a sixty minute set tha ...

Granville Island - Vancouver, BC Fringe Fest On a chilly September night, underneath white lights, a small throng of music lovers were treated to a performance from Vancouver singer/songwriter Louise Burns. Burns and her band, dressed all in black, offered up a stirring fifty minute set. The evening featured a collection of numbers off her 2011 debut; Mellow Drama as well as some off her latest release; The ...