Fold Paper at Block Party. Sled Island 2023. Photo by Michaela Neuman. It’s a big week for music…
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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…
Sled Island 2022: 5 to see for Thursday
You’re back? Does that mean you actually had a good opening night of Sled, perhaps enjoying some of…
Sled Island 2022: 5 to see on Wednesday
Pretend for a second you have just awoken from a, let’s say, three-year coma. Sure, you'll likely want…
Sled Island 2022: Getting to know Julius Sumner Miller
At the end of 2021 we put the spotlight on the best Calgary albums we heard from the…
Shane Ghostkeeper: Calgary alt-rock artist’s namesake band releases an album that’s true to his culture, search for the truth
It’s a good thing that Calgary songwriter Shane Ghostkeeper’s Northern Alberta uncles love pure country music. If they…
NYC no wave art icon Lydia Lunch keeps finding new ways and new means to challenge the status quo
If you recorded the first song you ever wrote live with your band Teenage Jesus & The Jerks…
After festival cancellation, Sled Island opens up an arts-quenching Lemonade Stand
As the old saw goes: When life gives you a pandemic, you make a lemonade stand that doesn’t…
Sled Island cancels 2020 event
Another Calgary festival casualty — and this one hurts a little more. For the second time in its…
Sudan Archives named guest curator for 2020 Sled Island
Spring is here! OK, not technically (or even kinda), but one of the sure signs that things are…