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Goodbye and Hello: After a lengthy hiatus, Canadian singer-songwriter Cold Specks to retire her name and reclaim her own after Block Heater appearance
What’s in a name? Roses, posies and stuff aside, it really is, for the most part, meaningless. Unless…
Cheater Sheet For Block Heater: Picks to help you make your way through the Calgary Folk Music Festival’s 2023 winter wonderland
The Calgary Folk Music Festival presents their eighth annual Block Heater Festival, which, like its namesake, keeps your…
Just Backdated: Alejandro Escovedo looking forward to keeping the pace in his musical marathon
It’s daytime on New Year’s Eve, and songwriter/guitarist Alejandro Escovedo and his wife Nancy Rankin are at Milton…
BIG Must-Sees: A sampler of some of the acts to catch at this year’s winter music and arts festival
After a series of pandemic-related false starts resulting in a cancelled 2021 festival, and a revised format, multi-weekend…
Bathroom Reading: Documentary of NYC’s indie-rock scene will send you back to the literary source
Meet Me In the Bathroom, the documentarized version of Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 oral archive of the late '90s/early…
CUFF.Docs Turns 10: Festival of non-fiction films returns to in-cinema experience
Hibernation is a little more entertaining this year. And sociable. After a couple of online-only and hybrid events,…
Animation Domination: Quickdraw’s annual GIRAF event
Each year, the organizers behind GIRAF (Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival) search the world high and low for the most…
The Devil and Mr. Daniel: Spoon dish up their most rock ‘n’ roll record to date with Lucifer on the Sofa
I turn my camera on, but Britt Daniel does not. The Spoon frontman’s publicist insisted upon a Zoom…
Sled Island 2022: Getting to know Cardiograms
Another excellent Calgary band will take the stage tonight as part of Sled Island. The fantastic pop quartet…