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February 2012:
| Friday
February 03 |
Sealed with a Kiss Presents:
No Sinner
w/ Capitol 6 and guests
No Sinner:
The band, consisting of singer Colleen Rennison, drummer Ian Browne, guitarist Eric Campbell and bassist Matt Camirand (of Black Mountain fame), is said to have been inspired by the likes of Big Mama Thornton, Janis Joplin, Etta James and THEM.
The result is smouldering blues-rock heavy on the soul, and the video for Boo Hoo Hoo, shot at the Waldorf Hotel, pays tribute to that old fashioned style.
Read more:
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Five+Vancouver+bands+watch+2012/5958859/story.html#ixzz1ki8iujDb
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $10.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat, Zulu
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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| Saturday
February 04 |
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** Early Show **
Doors at 8:00pm - Show at 8:45pm - Curfew 11:00pm
Tickets $6.00 at the door |
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Monday
February 06 |
The Biltmore Presents:
Randy and Mr Lahey LIVE!
from The Trailer Park Boys!
Doors at 8:00pm - Show at 9:00pm
Tickets $15.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat, Zulu, The Blltmore and Red Cat
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| Wednesday
February 08 |
Jody Glenham w/
The Butterfield Review and Old Mare
With two self-released albums and a Georgia Straight "Best of Vancouver 2009" accolade to her name, Jody Glenham is what BeatRoute Magazine calls “the type of indie chanteuse people trip over themselves to find.”
This Canadian songwriter/scotch drinker has showcased at NXNE, the WCMAs and Sled Island. In 2010, Glenham played her first International Jazz Festival in Vancouver B.C. She has shared the stage with a diverse catalogue of acts: singer/songwriters Matthew Barber, Justin Rutledge and Dan Mangan; Avante-Garde craftsmen (and women) Chad VanGaalen, Danny Michel, Christine Fellows and Veda Hille; and Pacific Northwest indie sensations FENCES and The Head and The Heart.
Doors at 9:00pm
Tickets $7.00 at the door
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| Friday
February 10 |
East Van Soul Club
Doors at 9:00pm
Tickets $7.00 at the door
The East Van Soul Club is both a two-man DJ crew (Jarrod "SlimRoy" O'Dell and Jonny "Jack Spang" Grayston) and also a vinyl-only monthly dance party, operated by these aforementioned soul obsessives. Sounds cover the spectrum of 60s soul regions and styles, blazing with Motown and Stax chart-toppers and raiding a decade full of criminally-unheard rarities with cuts out of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and everywhere inbetween. Tracks that you know will fuel the party, interspersed with floorfillers you've never heard before but can't possibly understand why not.
Join the Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/groups/eastvansoulclub),
follow us on the Twitter (@EastVanSoulClub), and come see what everyone is talking about.
Second Friday of every month at The Biltmore Cabaret.
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| Saturday
February 11 |
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** Early Show **
Doors at 8:00pm - Curfew 11:00pm
Tickets $8.00 (+ service charges) in advance at The Biltmore, Red Cat, Zulu
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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Those krazed VHS-hunting pupz from Everything Is Terrible! (everyone’s favorite found footage chop shoppe) are back with their third inner-eye-opening feature — containing a feat never before attempted in either human or canine history. EIT! asks but a few simple questions: 1) “What if we made a movie composed ENTIRELY out of dog-related found footage?”; 2) ‘What if this magickal movie, made up of thousands of other dog movies, was also a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 masterpiece The Holy Mountain?”; and, 3) “What if we went on the road performing an all-new “live in fur” show that picked up where Cirque Du Soleil and The Rock-A-Fire Explosion left off?” Well, let’s stop asking dumb rhetorical questions because this never-ending spiral of World-Pup winning, sunglasses-wearing, murder-solving, skateboarding pooches is real! This is it! Are you dog enough to go fetch it? ARFFFFFF!
Feast your shade covered eyes on this sneak peek of DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! No bonez about it this time! RUFFFFF!
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
GLORY DAYS VALENTINE'S PARTY
with all love&heartbreak dj sets by Glory Days resident deejays
My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
with a special guest deejay set by
BLOOD DIAMONDS
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Monday
February 13 |
BeatRoute Magazine and The Biltmore presents:
The Nightmare Before Valentines Day
w/ Gold and Youth (arts & crafts), Watermelon & Philoceraptor
+ Guest DJs
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $8.00 at the door
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Gold and Youth:
Formed in Victoria in the fall of 2008 and settled now in Vancouver, Gold & Youth (formerly known as The Racoons) has developed their craft on a considerable number of stages. Musically, Gold & Youth blend synthetic and organic textures. Sequenced bass and programmed drum loops are layered against the sound of a live band.
They've toured across Canada with The Von Bondies, as well as made festival appearances at Big Time Out (Cumberland), Olio (Vancouver), Deraylor (Whistler), Sled Island (Calgary), Pitter Patter (Toronto), and Rifflandia (Victoria). 2010 saw the band heading east, including a headlining appearance at the L.A. Lights Concert Series in Surabaya, Indonesia, and a seven-city tour of China, culminating in a show in Shanghai during the 2010 Expo. Playing the Big Sound Festival in Brisbane, Australia was an international highlight of 2011. Back home the band's notoriety as a stellar live act has seen them recently opening for the likes of The Temper Trap at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom and Metric at Victoria's Save-On-Foods Arena.
Recently signed to Arts & Crafts, the band is currently working on their debut full-length album with producer Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, New Pornographers, Dan Mangan) and mixer Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Wire, Grizzly Bear, Interpol). 2012 will see the band tour at home and abroad in support of the record and its various singles.
Philoceraptor:
Philoceraptor is a super-intelligent, super-predatory, super-violent, bitter, spiteful, unsuccessful, horny predator. Only sweat, dance, and song will appease it. |
| Tuesday
February 14 |
The Biltmore, Phillips Brewing, Discorder Mag and Tattoo Union Present:
Toonie Tuesday - Valentines Day Edition
Featuring
THE BALLANTYNES w/
PLEASURE CRUISE + The TEENAGE LIFESTYLE DJS
$2.00 cover all night! - $4.00 highballs! - $4.00 draught beer!
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| Wednesday
February 15 |
The Biltmore Presents:
Rae Spoon
album release party for "I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets"
with guests Tender Forever and ESL
Doors at 8:30pm
Tickets $10.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat and The Biltmore Offsales Counter
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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Saved By Radio’s Rae Spoon is a transgendered indie electronic musician who lives in Montreal.
I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets is Rae’s sixth full-length release. A pop/electronic album about the complexity of grief, it focuses on a particular experience of loss. Rae wrote the album in the wake of a friend’s sudden death. With palpable emotion, the songs map the topography of loss and of attachment that extends beyond death.
Musically, I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets is Rae’s most electronic album to date and marks progress in a journey that pulled Rae towards rock/electronic music. Using heavily programmed production, analog synths and distorted electric guitars, Rae has moved beyond experimenting to establishing their own style in the genre. The album features computer programming and beats by Lynne T (Montreal’s Lesbians on Ecstasy) and Berlin’s Alexandre Decoupigny. It was co-produced by Lorrie Matheson in Calgary, Alberta.
Rae has toured extensively over the past ten years in Canada as well as internationally. Through touring, they have managed to build a strong grassroots following. Rae was longlisted for Polaris Music Prize in 2008 (superioryouareinferior) as well as nominated for two CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards in 2010.
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| Friday
February 17 |
Ice Cream Social
You will dance. You won't be able to stop. I'm telling you. For real. The Ice Cream Social is a monthly dance party at the Biltmore featuring music from the 50's and 60's. Mostly the 60's.
With resident Disc Jockeys Cam Dales, Trevor Risk & Tyler Fedchuk.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10310528929
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Tickets $8.00 at the door |
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| Saturday
February 18 |
The Biltmore and Beatroute Magazine Present:
** Early Show **
Doors at 7:30pm - Curfew 11:00pm
Tickets $12.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat, The Biltmore, The River Vintage
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca |
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The Fresh and Onlys:
This has been a decisive year for San Francisco's the Fresh & Onlys – including invitations to play All Tomorrow's Parties and then they joined Deerhunter for a UK tour, extensive treks throughout the US, and standout performances at the Woodsist festivals in NY and Big Sur. Keeping with their notorious urgent pace the Fresh & Onlys released a handful of exclusive 7” singles, and Captured Tracks issued the lush and anthemic August In My Mind EP. Now to cap off the year, Play It Strange arrives from the infamous In The Red Records with a tour supporting Clinic across the US to follow. Play It Strange is the third full length album recorded in just over two years since the band's inception with previous albums out on Woodsist and Castle Face. This newest album is also the first recording done outside the band's own analog home studio. Hot on the heels of touring and arranging these new songs live, Play It Strange was furiously recorded and mixed in one week with Tim Green (Fucking Champs, Comets On Fire) at Louder Studios in order to better capture the muscularity and depth of the band's live performances. The Fresh & Onlys newest is a shimmering pop record full of infectious melodic hooks, led by singer Tim Cohen's hazy romanticism, and the incessantly propulsive rhythms of Shayde Sartin and Kyle Gibson.
Disappears:
Drawing on a combined reverence for reverb, heavy tremolo, distortion, delay and repetition, Disappears play minimal rock music inspired by everything from Kraut to American gospel to punk. Started as a recording project in 2008, Disappears inevitably left the studio - supporting Wire, Deerhunter, Tortoise, German legends Cluster and beyond.
Initially designed to explore the simplicity of early American music and it's reinterpretation by UK acts of the mid 80's, founding member's Brian Case (The Ponys) and Graeme Gibson (Boas, Fruit Bats) started recording demos in search of something familiar but exciting. Eventually the tapes were passed onto Jonathan van Herik (Boas) and new comer Damon Carruesco, completing the group's line up. Throughout 2008 the band self released a series of 7" singles and a live album, signing to the Kranky imprint in 2009. Their debut album Lux was released in the spring of 2010. Sans a few early champions, Lux was initially met with little fanfare and went largely unnoticed. Dark and hazy, it showed the band experimenting with minimal arrangements married to the attitude of bands like Suicide and The Fall. A chance meeting with Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth proved not only instrumental in the band supporting Michael Rother on his Hallogallo tour (on which Steve played drums) but also to his eventual joining of the band following Gibson's amicable departure. Bolstered by Shelley's presence as well as the critical acclaim upon Guider's release, Disappears launched a series of successful tours in the US, United Kingdom and Europe.
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Wednesday
February 22 |
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Sometimes from bad luck or circumstance, amazing opportunities and transformations can arise. This is much the case for Maurice, a man, and a band, born and raised in Victoria BC Canada. From a major label signing, lofty expectations, and working closely with producer David Foster in Hollywood, to tumult and shattered dreams, out of a mishandled career path and naivety, Jean-Paul Maurice was able to pick up the pieces of a misdirected career path and take his music and art into his own hands.
Jean-Paul Maurice grew up as a MuchMusic kid, highly influenced by visions of rock stars and melodic love songs. A turkey baster was his first pretend microphone. Family photographs show him holding a plastic guitar while wearing a pink bandana and his sister's heart shaped sunglasses, professing at the age of 2 he wanted to be a rock star when he grew up.
In the fall of 2011, Maurice will release his second full length album, Songs In Sea. It showcases the monumental transformation of a sound. The album reflects and surmises the metaphoric irony which stands as a symbol for these recordings. The fluidity of the ocean and how it is always changing - the fluidity of music and how it is always evolving, the different emotions and stirring of life that emanates from the sea.
This album was born from very different circumstances then its David Foster-steered predecessor. Although the music still possesses the innate pop sensibilities that are Maurice's calling card, It is entirely independently made and self produced, having been recorded in a cabin, a bedroom and a basement, a huge step away from high end studios of Hollywood, the result of which was Maurice's debut release Young People with Faces, produced by Matt Hyde and David Foster, released in the spring of 2010.
This summer, Maurice was chosen to compete in Music BC's Peak Performance as one of the top 20 finalists vying for the $100,500 grand prize. Embarking upon another new chapter... this is Maurice.
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| Thursday
February 23 |
The Biltmore and Beatroute Magazine Present:
Howlin Rain
with guests Two Towns and Wayfinders
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $10.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat, The River, The Biltmore
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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San Francisco Bay Area-based power quintet Howlin Rain's third album The Russian Wilds passionately protests the currently popular notion that heroically conceived and executed rock music is a thing of golden ages passed. Having been formed by bandleader-singer-guitarist Ethan Miller in 2004, as a melodic offshoot of blazing new-psych innovators Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain soon caught the attention of uber-producer Rick Rubin, who signed them to his American Recordings label and involved himself deeply in their subsequent musical evolution thereafter. Rubin worked closely with Ethan for over a year and a half as he shaped and perfected the material being written for The Russian Wilds. Finally, the band entered the studio with producer-engineer Tim Green (The Fucking Champs, Nation of Ulysses), tracking at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, as well as at Trilogy Studios and Hyde Street in San Francisco, recording most of the overdubs at Green's Louder Studios in SF, where Tim mixed the album with crucial input from Rick.
Arriving Valentine's Day 2012, The Russian Wilds is a sprawling, Pynchon-esque labyrinth and a colorful, feeling-filled catalyst for hungry minds. It's the masterwork earlier studio sets and Howlin Rain's barn-burning live shows have hinted at given blood and bone by a group in their fighting prime. "There was a point when we were really trying to blend Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, Steely Dan's Gaucho and Bruce Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge of Town," says Miller. "I love the Boss' singing, where he's just blowing out his voice even when it's just a pop ballad moment. And we were inspired by some of the grooves and close mic stuff on Gaucho, and by how Electric Ladyland runs the gamut from super long jams to blues numbers to drifting psychedelic pieces. There's a sense of audacity to these records - a band chasing down strong, invisible connections - and there's moments like that on our record. We didn't always do the smartest or safest things [laughs]."
Besides Miller, Howlin Rain comprises Raj Ojha (drums, percussion), Cyrus Comiskey (bass), Joel Robinow (keyboards, guitar, vocals) and Isaiah Mitchell (guitar, vocals). These musicians have drawn upon the basic vocabulary of classic rock but then stretch and reshape it to more arcane and ambitious ends. The results present a unique aural vision that expresses the fantastical and the practical in equal measure, resonating quite nicely with the work of kindred spirits such as Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, Wooden Shjips, Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Vetiver. This New Cosmic California movement shares an exploration of song-grounded, psych-touched, emotionally charged boogie and blues; they are, in short, the next generation to carry on the viscerally charged spirit of the musical pioneers that once rendered the Fillmore and Winterland stages magic in decades long passed. Where Howlin Rain differs from some of their compatriots is their penchant for conjuring simmering soul grooves in unexpected places, marrying blue-eyed soul influences to strutting highway-ready rock. In addition, their latest work reflects increased focus on sophisticated harmony vocal arrangements, adding exciting new dimensions to their ouevre.
Howlin Rain has performed at major festivals in the U.S. (Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Bumbershoot) and in Europe (Green Man, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Azkena), and has toured with The Black Crowes, Queens of the Stone Age, and Black Mountain, as well as sharing bills with Mudhoney, Roky Erickson, Terry Reid, Okkervil River and The Meat Puppets. After their period of intense woodshedding over these past few years, Howlin Rain is looking forward to seeing this new music blossom on concert stages around the world! |
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February 24 |
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In the early months of 2002, Denis "Sasquatch" Barthe came up with a vision for a new band with Greg Cavanagh. Combining influences such as Black Sabbath, Slayer, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Faith No More. That band became Cradle To Grave. Enlisting the help of other mutual friends/local musicians they filled out the rest of the band's line up. With Sasquatch's history with speed/thrash metal legends Aggression (CAN), label interest in CTG was very high. A demo was made and the band signed with Year of the Sun. 2004 saw the release of the band's self titled full length which did very well. Even spawning a music video for the single "Projectile" (which saw regular rotation on MuchMusic's Loud program). The next few years saw the band playing almost every other weekend up and down the West Coast, picking up and letting go new members along the way. Sasquatch and Greg being the only two mainstays. In 2007, CTG started working with Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad, Steve Vai) to produce the album "Texas Medicine" (Also released on Year of the Sun). The album was received well and got many great reviews. Shortly after though, everyone went their separate ways to pursue other interests. Almost three years later, Greg and Sasquatch met up and discussed/redifined what they wanted CTG to be. Enlisting the help of Brian Langley (Infernal Majesty, Tyrants Blood) on guitar, Ken Firomski (Empyria) on bass and Shawn Hoskins (Scissortooth) on drums. Cradle To Grave is now doing shows and getting new material together for the next album. |
| Saturday
February 25 |
Live Nation Presens:
with guests
** Early Show **
Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 8:00pm - Curfew 11:00pm
Tickets $15.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat
Buy tickets online at: www.livenation.com and Rogers Wireless Box Office
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Their sound is as hard to describe as their name is to say. Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, better known as USS, are like a campfire after-party with a jungle-rave vibe, progressively two-stepping their way to a dance folk cuddle. Pure intention is the scope they aim through; eliciting dance-floor eruptions is what they’re known for. Science rap on breakbeat tracks anyone?
Ash Boo-Schultz and Human Kebab hail from the towns of Markham and Stouffville, ON., respectively and respectfully. Although they attended rival high schools, vocalist/guitarist Ash and hypeman/turntablist extraordinaire Kebab didn't collide until years later. While employed by the same local golf course, fate ushered them both into a beer fridge that needed reorganizing.
A sudden alchemy filled the air between the artists. It was love at first random concept - the catalyst moment to their self-proclaimed "long, drawn-out, overnight success."
The memories are many. In 2008, the band maimed mainstage at 102.1 The Edge's Edgefest alongside Sam Roberts, Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots. Next was the World Electronic Music Festival, playing alongside drum n' bass pioneers Andy C., Mickey Finn and DJ SS. Crossing into 2009 and over the US border, USS veered to the infamous Viper Room in Los Angeles and then showcased the legendary Mercury Lounge in New York City. That spring, they shattered the Sonic Boom Festival in Edmonton to the frenzy of 11,000 fans. A spot at the Toronto International Film Festival, three successful western Canadian tours, two CASBY Awards for Best New Artist and Favourite New Single, a Canadian Independent Music Award for Favourite Group of the Year, a Canadian Organization of Campus Activities Award for Best Emerging Artist, and even an Applied Arts Magazine Award for album packaging for Questamation, along with global digital sales have the world embracing the strange they want to see.
The wide scale audience singalongs and dancefloor pandemoniums are sure to continue. USS are singing and scratching up new storms, alongside producer Tawgs Salter (Lights, Elliot Yamin, Josh Groban). The studio's secluded sanctuary allows for frequent intermissions of wondering the woods, wishing on stars, and quiet moments of self-reflection.
"Uplifting lyrics on ska - plus jungle music - equals immune system support."- Ash Boo-Schultz
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered that upbeat, positive music relaxes the
inner lining of the arteries and reduces blood pressure. When
science meets spirit, you’re being the strange you want to see in the world. Welcome to USS and the soundtrack of possibility. |
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Tuesday
February 28 |
WACHU CONCERT SERIES 10
Ali Milner ( alimilner.com)
Ali Milner is making her mark on the indie/jazz charts delivering pure sound and amazing vocal depth, with a modern edge for a classic genre that has been described as shades of Sam Cooke and Nora Jones rolled into one. Despite her young age, she is an experienced artist who has been recording and performing live since the age of 14.
Star Captains ( starcaptains.com)
Their music carries the spirit of 70s soul, complimented with modern sound design and instrumental technology. A beat-laced fusion of analog synthesizers and classic guitar tones played through tube-driven amps provides the edgy instrumental tracks behind hypnotic lead vocals.
Olav ( olav.ca)
Electronic Musician // Producer // Nice Guy
David Ward ( davidwardmusic.com)
Seemingly unencumbered by the usual conventions, there’s a surprise around every corner with David. His music has been labeled a “rare, bold foray into melodic experimentation”, both “stunning and poetic”
Doors at 8:00pm - Show at 9:00pm
Tickets $12.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat, Zulu
Buy tickets online at: wachu.org
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March 2012:
| Saturday
March 03 |
30:LIVE and The Biltmore Present:
The Growlers
and Free City Collective
THE GROWLERS (Los Angeles)
Growing in stature, the Growlers journey to the land of Vancouver, bringing with them their free spirited love and new wave rock wisdom. Join us for their debut in Vancouver where we will party like 1999 has happened six more times.
FREE CITY COLLECTIVE (Vancouver)
Home grown 5 piece bring to the Biltmore stage a fresh act for 2012, with new recordings and a new blend of suburbian psych rock, their tracks will swiftly become the ongoing anthem for a British Columbian summer. This will be one for the annuals of Van music.
**Early Show** - curfew 11:00pm
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $13.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat and The Biltmore
Buy tickets online at: www.thegrowlers.eventbrite.com
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Tuesday
March 06 |
Live Nation Presents:
NNEKA
with guests Gardens & Villa
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Were she not a musician, Nneka might have made an excellent investigative journalist. Or perhaps she'd have been a philosopher. In truth, an element of both those disciplines informs her art. Because throughout her third album Soul Is Heavy, Nneka constantly asks questions. She interrogates friends, lovers, her Nigerian countrymen, politicians, God, the universe... and, most importantly, she questions herself.
"It wouldn't make any sense if I only pointed fingers," she admits. Her music and attitude are probing, even confrontational, yet never didactic. "It's important that you recognize yourself as part of the system, too, and that the only way we can make things work is by realizing we are part of the same entity."
Born and raised in Warri, in the Delta region of Nigeria, Nneka Egbuna watched as the city and its citizens wrestled with the impact of new-found affluence. Three decades later, electrical blackouts are still a part of daily life in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation plagued by petrol shortages, where tribalism and disparity of wealth and political power further entrench divisions of class. "All that has a lot to do with why I am the way I am, despite the fact that I have now been able to travel a great deal, and see the world from a different angle."
At the age of 19, Nneka left Africa to Hamburg University, where she studied anthropology even as her musical career was building steam. With its marriage of timeless grooves, contemporary technology, and 21st century black consciousness, her 2005 debut Victim Of Truth was lauded by the British press. "As good as The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," trumpeted The Sunday Times. Its 2008 follow-up, No Longer At Ease, impressed rock star Lenny Kravitz so profoundly that he immediately tapped her to accompany him on tour. In 2010, selections from both albums -- including the international hit "Heartbeat" -- were compiled for her US debut, “Concrete Jungle”, which showed North America what the rest of the world already knew: Nneka is a unique, formidable talent to be reckoned with.
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| Saturday
March 17 |
Timbre presents:
William Fitzsimmons
with Denison Witmer
American singer-songwriter, on tour to support his latest release "Gold In The Shadow"
**Early Show** - curfew 11:00pm
Doors at 8:00pm - Show at 8:30pm
Tickets $17.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat and Zulu Records
Buy tickets online at: www.northerntickets.com
Charge By Phone 604-569-1144 at Northern Tickets box office (Vogue Theatre 918 Granville Street)
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Tuesday
March 20 |
The Biltmore Presents:
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $8.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat, Zulu and The Biltmore
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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The Rooney frontman revels in everything from energetic synths to smooth guitars, while cleverly commenting on life and love. Most importantly, the album supports an important cause as all profits from album sales will go to benefit the Tibetan Healing Fund. Double Capricorn is dance rock for the thinking man and so much more.
In between touring with Rooney, Schwartzman began penning ideas for a solo project in 2007. Over the years, those ideas evolved and morphed drastically. During early 2011, he was free from his past record label and reeling from a recent breakup all at once. So he hunkered down in his personal studio with a clear vision of what he wanted to achieve musically. That vision became Double Capricorn.
"I wanted to go for it and completely embrace the idea of a solo record without anyone else's input," Schwartzman declares. "There were no label obligations, and I felt completely free. I decided to take ownership over it and put my best foot forward with music I really believed in. It's a true solo album in the respect that I played and produced everything." |
| Friday
March 23 |
Sealed with a Kiss Presents:
White Rabbits
with guests
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $15.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat, Zulu
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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| Saturday
March 24 |
Timbre presents:
Sharon Van Etten and The War On Drugs
A co-headline show featuring:
SVE: Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, on tour to support her Jagjaguwar debut release "Tramp".
TWOD: From Philadelphia, indie rock band on tour to support their latest Secretly Canadian release "Slave Ambient".
**Early Show** - curfew 11:00pm
Doors at 7:00pm - Show at 8:00pm
Tickets $15.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat and Zulu Records
Buy tickets online at: www.northerntickets.com
Charge By Phone 604-569-1144 at Northern Tickets box office (Vogue Theatre 918 Granville Street)
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Saturday
March 31 |
The Biltmore presents:
John K Samson and the Provincial Band
with Shotgun Jimmie
**Early Show** - curfew 11:00pm
Doors at 7:00pm
Tickets $15.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat, The River, Champion Jack's, The Biltmore,
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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JOHN K. SAMSON TO RELEASE NEW SOLO ALBUMPROVINCIAL
Full Length Album From Weakerthans’ Frontman Out Jan 24th
John K. Samson, singer-songwriter for critically lauded indie rock band The Weakerthans, will release his first full length solo album, Provincial, thisJanuary 24th via Epitaph Records. The record contains newly recorded versions of songs from Samson’s previous two acclaimed EPs, “City Route 85” and “Provincial Road 222,” alongside a collection of beautifully evocative new tracks. Provincial is now available for pre-order at the Epitaph Store.
Provincial travels four routes woven into the prairie landscape of Manitoba, the Canadian province where Samson lives. It finds familiar landmarks and forgotten ones; it mines the precise and particular. For a video glimpse of Provincial’s prairie roadmap, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfqLrWMMPZ4
“Heart of the Continent,” describes the sense of loss and despair that haunts the former site of a Winnipeg landmark, set against a backdrop of lilting country folk. The melodic rocker “When I Write My Master’s Thesis,” details a young academic’s struggle to hold his life together as he tries to complete his research of a forgotten institution in tiny Ninette, Manitoba, while "www.ipetitions.com/petition/rivertonrifle/" is a song in the form of an online petition to honor the valiant hockey player Reggie “The Riverton Rifle” Leach.
They are hymns for the departed and rockers for the living, songs about dying villages, Icelandic longing, snowplows, broken glass, satellites, hockey skates, and staff room romances. In creating these sonic portraits, Samson talked to relatives, friends and strangers; he visited archives, a tuberculosis sanatorium turned RV Park and a forgotten cemetery. The resulting album contains 12 fierce, tuneful, vivid stories united by a deep sense of place.
The Weakerthans were born out of the Winnipeg-punk-scene. The group’s breakthrough album Reconstruction Site and its celebrated follow up Reunion Tour deftly merged a melodic punk with Bob Dylan-Ray Davies lyrical insights, earning a wider fan base and establishing Samson as a songwriter of immense talent. Paste Magazine wrote of Reunion Tour, “If such a prize existed, it would be the leading candidate for this year’s Punk Pulitzer.” |
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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April 2012:
| Thursday
April 05 |
The Biltmore Presents:
The Wedding Present (Performing 'Seamonsters' in its entirety)
with Pinky Piglets and guests
The Wedding Present will be touring in 2012 to promote their hugely anticipated eighth studio LP, their first for four years… but will also be playing their 1991 album ‘Seamonsters’ in full. ‘Seamonsters’ was their most successful album in North America… and the first to be recorded for them by Steve Albini (at Pachyderm Disc studios in Minnesota). North American audiences have been begging The Wedding Present to play this critically acclaimed album live ever since the band started their ‘classic album’ tours in 2007, so expectations are sky high.
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $16.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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| Friday
April 06 |
The Biltmore Presents:
Oberhofer
with guests Pond and Oh No! Yoko
2012 is shaping up to be a big year for Oberhof er. A nnounc ed t oday v ia S pin Magazine, the debut record by the Tacoma native, titled Time Capsules II, will be released on March 27th by Glassnote. This album is a bold and exciting statement for Brad Oberhofer, recorded in Brooklyn last fall with legendary producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, The Rolling Stones, Morrissey among others).
Oberhofer is hitting the road this spring and embarking on an extensive string of dates, with a confirmed appearance at Coachella
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $10.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat, The Biltmore
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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| Thursday
April 12 |
Trying to nail down the disparate genres explored by the Wooden Sky isn’t an easy task. When pressed, the band tosses out tags like “folk rock”, but the words don’t hint at the nuances in their sound. Since 2003, the Toronto collective has been pushing the limits of folk and country, adding pieces of outside influence and slowly growing their own unique sonic aesthetic. It’s all led them to If I don’t come home you’ll know I’m gone, a massive undertaking that sweeps through rock and roll subgenres with the deftness of the Allman Brothers, the songwriting focus of Wilco, and the experimental sonic cacophony of the Flaming Lips. It’s a career-defining record, grown and built organically over months spent living, writing, and recording in cramped apartments between Toronto and Montreal.
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $15.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat
Buy tickets online at: tickets.com
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| Saturday
April 14 |
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After months of testing their limits and trusting their instincts, Bear in Heaven will emerge in April 2012 with I Love You, It's Cool,an album so vivid and visionary that it meets and even exceeds the confidence and calm its title suggests.
In 2010, Beast Rest Forth Mouth delighted listeners with the unexpected-futuristic rock music that didn't sound alien or bound to ostracize. Taking these songs from coast to coast and continent to continent, they learned that having fun with this music was copacetic, that they could delight a crowd while defying musical binaries. I Love You, It's Cool turns that realization into a peerless set of instant anthems.
Indeed, some of these songs are ready for the floor. In one a perfect guitar figure spirals through colossal drums and slabs of synthesizers. Elsewhere bliss booms in icy keyboards reflecting off a relentless throb. It's inescapable.
The intricacy and edge of Bear in Heaven's music is sharper than ever before. The programming is both complex and compelling, whether in the refracted rainbows or woven noisy matrices. Certainly, in places it feels like a hit, with hooks that instantly catch and bridges that curl a finger-lyrically, stylistically, temptingly-toward the dance floor. Bear In Heaven's mix of nostalgia and need is immediately relatable, too, bringing the band's exploratory sounds a little closer back to home before they exit in momentary space-rock ascendance, a readymade rock-club banger that erupts into a bold new direction.
I Love You, It's Cool is the first time Bear in Heaven has sounded so unapologetic and so evolved, so risky and so redeeming, so focused and so finessed. After years of restless exploration, this feels like a definitive arrival. I Love You, It's Cool is music written in the present tense but ready to speak to the future. The work is its own rarified reward |
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Wednesday
April 18 |
The Biltmore Presents:
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $12.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Zulu, Red Cat, The Biltmore offsales
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
Onsale Friday Jan 13/12
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“Heartbreaking...a fragile, f***ed up little wonder” – NME
“Extraordinary and genuinely haunting...a creativity that won’t stay cooped up for long” – Sunday Times Culture
“Magical...”Learning” is the bravest album of the year” – Clash
Perfume Genius is Mike Hadreas, a Seattle songwriter whose jarring 2010 debut album, Learning, was called “an album of rare, redemptive beauty…one of the most uniquely endearing and quietly forceful debut albums of recent years” by Drowned In Sound, and established him as one of the most singular songwriters today. The bulk of Learning sprung from a time of self-imposed isolation in his mother’s suburban home following a period of trauma and self-destruction. The album was actually mastered from second-generation MP3s, as Hadreas had lost the original recordings, and this distant, abraded sound reinforced its harrowing tales and haunting melodies.
“No secret/No matter how nasty/Can poison your voice/Or keep you from joy.” – Perfume Genius, “Normal Song”
Though Learning’s voyeuristic window into Hadreas’s experiences resonated intensely with many people, his new album Put Your Back N 2 It is much more universal, addressing intimacy, power, family, secrecy, and hope not just through his impressionistic lyrics, but the music itself, which is as lush as Learning was stark. It’s a gorgeous soundtrack for anyone trying to keep it together in everyday life, and about moving forward. “I don’t want it to seem like I’ve been through more than other people,” Hadreas says. “Everyone has stuff. Staying healthy can be more depressing and confusing than being fucked up. But I want to make music that’s honest and hopeful.”
The hypnotic songs on Put Your Back N 2 It are tender and moving, but they are also surreal and grand, recalling at times the universality of lullabies and hymns, faraway folk songs, the dramatic arc of a film score, and the almost spiritual quality suggests a kind of opiated gospel. He cites as a primary influence not one of the indie icons to which he’s sometimes compared (Cat Power, Bon Iver, Thom Yorke), but The Innocence Mission (“not their sound, but their timelessness”). |
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April 21 |
The Biltmore Presents:
Damien Jurado (Secretly Canadian Recording Artist)
with guests Peter Wolf Crier
**Early Show** - curfew 11:00pm
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $13.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat, Zulu, The River Vintage and The Biltmore Offsales
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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It's hard to find an entrance point into Damien Jurado's discography. You could start from the beginning, 1997's Waters Ave. S., but that record is filled with the sort of angsty, electric Pac NW indie-rock that is largely uncharacteristic of his catalogue as a whole. You could start with his first folk-leaning LP, 1999's Rehearsals for Departure, which has one of the best and most tender songs he's written, "Eyes For Windows", or 2002's comparatively upbeat I Break Chairs, but there's not much to make either stand out from the pack. If nothing else, Jurado has been oddly cursed by his own consistency.
Produced by the increasingly ubiquitous Richard Swift, Saint Bartlett, Jurado's ninth record is, finally, a striking departure. So much so that only the sound of his voice keeps you from thinking this could be the work of someone else. The change is noticeable right off the bat, announced by the lushly stringed baroque pop of "Cloudy Shoes", and it continues throughout, with meditations on 1950s girl-group balladry, thorny Neil Young-esque guitar rock, and cavernous chamber-pop.
Swift deserves a fair amount of credit for the reinvention that's on display here, and his ear for instrumentation does wonders for these songs. The woodblock percussion that backs "Arkansas" gives the tune a slight ramshackle bent, while Swift applies the perfect amount of guitar fuzz to turn "Wallingford" into a gentle stomper. Most impressively, the application of subtle space in "Kalama" lends a new gravitas to Jurado's voice, effectively making him bigger than his own sound. |
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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| Friday
April 27 |
Sealed With A Kiss Presents:
Doors at 8:00pm
Tickets $15.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Ticketmaster, Red Cat, and Zulu Records
Buy tickets online at: www.ticketweb.ca
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May 2012:
| Saturday
May 12 |
Timbre Presents:
The Boxer Rebellion
with special guests Canon Blue
From London, indie rock band, on tour to support their latest release "The Cold Still".
**Early Show** - curfew 11:00pm
Doors at 7:00pm - Show at 8:00pm
Tickets $17.00 (+ service charges) in advance at Red Cat, Highlife and Zulu Records.
Buy tickets online at: www.northerntickets.com
Charge By Phone 604-569-1144 and at the Northern Tickets box office (located at the Vogue Theatre 918 Granville Street).
Onsale Friday Jan 20/12
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Color Magazine & Antisocial presents
Glory Days
w/ My! Gay! Husband! and Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno
**Late Show!** - Doors 11:00pm
Cover price - $10.00
Free Skateboard Check at Coat Check courtesy of Color Magazine & Antisocial
Photos by Lindsay's Diet - Visuals by Marek & Kellen
11:00pm - 2:00am
For GLORY DAYS Large Party & Birthday Party Guestlist Requests pls msg
GLORY DAYS does NOT have an Open Guestlist but GLORY DAYS does have a Guestlist to accomodate large parties(10+over) wanting to attend GLORY DAYS.
GLORY DAYS is a weekly Saturday nite social at The Biltmore Cabaret that hosts local and internationally touring live bands and deejays.
Past guests have included Diplo - Metronomy - Fan Death - Ladyhawk - Amanda Blank - Jeremy Jay - No Age - Thunderheist - Ninjasonik - Juiceboxx - Totally Michael - Franki Chan - Circlesquare - Harlem Shakes - DJ Sega - DJ Gantman - DJ Skeet Skeet - The Cobrasnake - Rony's Photobooth and countless other amazing local and international acts and artists.
Doors 11pm unless otherwise posted.
Cover varies from $10.00 (with local bands and deejays) to $15.00 (with out of town bands and out of town deejays)
Glory Days Facebook Page
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 1 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=46933888093&oid=40674305875
Glory Days Cartoon Trailer 2 by Ben Jacques www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161854320190&oid=40674305875 |
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