Toronto’s Poor Young Things have unveiled the details of their forthcoming tour in support of their forthcoming album The Heart. The Head. The End, out on May 21 via Bumstead Productions. The winners of the 2013 SiriusXM Emerging Artist of the Year awa…

Police will not lay charges

Calgary MP Rob Anders has once again drawn criticism for controversial comments, this time about the transgender community.Anders wants to stop Bill C279, a private member’s bill that would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and hate crime section of the Criminal Code to include "gender identity" and "gender expression" as grounds for discrimination.He says the bill’s goal is to give

Sled Island, Calgary’s indie music festival, announced their initial line-up yesterday. It is an interesting mix of artists.The initial line-up includes: legendary proto-shoegazers The Jesus and Mary Chain, epic instrumental post-rockers Explosions In …

Vernon, BC black metal band XUL have unveiled the dates of their upcoming cross-Canada tour. The band is currently offering a free stream of their 2012 debut album Malignance, give it a listen here. It’s also available for PWYC. They’re currently worki…

As much as I hate when houses get torn down for development, leave it to artists to give 9 houses quite an exit! Tonight, Wreck City opens its doors in a way that I’ve certainly never seen before. 100+ artists, …
» Continue Reading.

A local Muslim organization is speaking out against a controversial anti-Muslim film.

The group will be out this weekend, going door to door in a campaign to enable Calgarians to understand why the film has offended so many.
It’s good that they’re trying to communicate about the Muslim communities view of this problem.  I just don’t know if Calgarians will be receptive to their message.  

The privately owned parking lot near the prime minister’s constituency office asserts that protesting is prohibited. On the surface, this looks like the prime minister is impeding the constitutional rights of expression and peaceful assembly. I’m sure he finds this all quite convenient, but a large hidden issue in this is the privatization of public [...]

Montreal Electro-punk-dance-pop duo UN have announced the dates of their summer tour. Kara Keith and Jen Reimer is also offering a free stream of their debut album UN Titled. Check ‘em out on the following dates; Friday, June 14th, 10pm - Sneaky Dee’s (M for Montreal showcase) @ NXNE, Toronto Friday, June 21st, 6pm - Alexandria Centre @ [...]

This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Broadbent Institute’s “Union Communities, Healthy Communities” report discusses the significance of the labour movement in achieving positive social outcomes. And Rick Smith concurrently writes that the righ…

Let’s get one thing straight, the High Performance Rodeo has nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with an actual rodeo. There are no cowboys, there are no chuck wagon races and most importantly, there are no (sadly) mini-donuts. If … » Continue …

Calgary’s participation in Earth Hour has often been, um, let’s call it controversial.  (I also would have accepted lackadaisical.) But, if you’re looking for a fun way to celebrate the worldwide event, here are three events that will have partying …
» Continue Reading.

Well, after seven years of writing a daily blog and more than 4,200 posts, I’ve finally made it. But, of course, if you saw last night’s Top Chef Canada finale, you already know that. As you know, the finale was …
» Continue Reading.

If you’ve been paying attention to Calgary’s municipal election over the last week you would likely have heard about the Manning Centre, a $1,100,000 donation by the home builders to “in order to bring Preston [Manning] on board,” and the recent comments by Cal Wenzel on buying council members — earning influence for his industry [...]

Albertans hold fundraiser for B.C. Liberals B.C.’s governing party has been trailing NDP in latest election polls CBC News Posted: Jan 18, 2013 8:48 AM PTIf anyone in BC dares to claim that the CrustyClown Brigade aren’t Cons in laissez fa…

In a world where it sometimes seems that there are fewer sounds despite there being more bands than ever, new stuff from Ghostkeeper is always welcome news. If you had to put it in a record store rack it would probably go into ‘roots’ but the band draws from nearly every genre of music to create a sound [...]

For the past three years, I’ve been pleasantly amused by the city of Calgary’s painted utility box program, which sees the normally unsightly boxes painted by local artists, thus becoming a more colourful and lively edition to the neighbourhoods across …
» Continue Reading.

Oprah in Edmonton at Rexall PlaceOprah was Alberta bound earlier this week. Monday night she was in Edmonton (which she compared to Sibera due to the cold snap) and Tuesday night she came down to Calgary and gave Edmonton a shout out by mistake (no, no…

He may be a Ghostbuster, a tuba player, a funeral director and a Blues Brother, but if there is one thing that Dan Aykroyd, isn’t it’s a murderer. Yes, you read that right. In probably what is the funniest story …
» Continue Reading.

To celebrate today’s release of his fifth LP Thumbtacks And Glue via Boompa/Fierce Panda, Woodpigeon, aka Mark Andrew Hamilton, is offering a free stream of the album. Head here to check it out. This is Hamilton’s first album proper album since 2010′s Balladeer, plus 2011′s tour-only release Diamonds. The Calgary artist now calls Vienna, Austria home.