Has lockdown made you cancel your world tour? Make an album. Quarantined and can’t play a live show to a sweaty crowd? Release a single. Isolated and can’t throw a Blu party? Embark on a virtual tour of promotion. Stay at home order got you missing festivals and after hours clubs? Become a l…

Taylor Gorrie has been interviewing people for her Taylorpedia video series since she was nine years old.

HERITAGE. Ownership. Nimbyism. Environmentalism. Consumerism. Reconciliation. A satirical look at the contemporary cultural debate in Canada comes to the stage of Magnus Theatre in a new play by Drew Hayden Taylor. In a story based on actual events from the recent past, wild rice is at the c…

Event: Outsiders (Shostakovich 5 and Strings)

Cambrian Players production of Four Weddings And An Elvis by Nancy Frick (presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.) opened to a full house last Wednesday night in their new theatre at 818 Spring St.

TWO MCs and one DJ. They (still) be getting down with no delay. What does 20 years of beats, rhymes, shows and brotherhood look like? It looks like Wax Philosophic.

The Wake the Giant music festival is returning in 2020 with tickets already available online.

NOTE to self; cell phone reception is extremely weak when riding a B.C. ferry. After several dropped calls I finally connect, once again, with East Coast rock and roller Matt Mays. There’s a certain familiarity on the other end of the phone, a place we’ve both been before.

Caly Norris hadn’t been at the Buskers Festival for very long Sunday before she already had a balloon animal and watched a man juggle lit torches.

Paul James is one of the most exciting and energetic Canadian musicians — past and present.

It’ll be old home weekend at the Thunder Bay Blues Festival this year. Much of the very best in classic Canadian popular music will be on hand at Marina Park on the weekend of July 5-7 with R&B, modern country, alt-rock and some surprises in the mix. A Canadian Bluesfest is the event’s n…

Denver McKinnon couldn’t let his family head for camp on Friday without completing a time-honoured and tasty family tradition — heading to Ribfest.

The Live On The Waterfront concert series hit its stride Wednesday night at Marina Park. Featured acts included Five Alarm Funk, The Martin Blanchet Jazz Quintet: Cafe Paris as well as the band Hunt and Gather.

IT’S BEEN a minute since Edwin has visited Thunder Bay, yet he can still recall fond Northern memories spanning decades in his career as both a band frontman and solo artist.

WHO doesn’t love Sloan? You know, those east coast dudes with the catchy choruses and shaggy hair who have had so many singles you’d be hard pressed to find a music lover who couldn’t sing along at least a few songs. Sloan are mighty Canadian indie-rock kings; they are also a Juno-Award winn…

WHILE reading Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One, it became very clear that there was only one director who could turn this book into a movie. Fortunately, Warner Bros. felt the same way.

FOUR Canadian music events are joining an international pledge to fight inequality in the industry by vowing to have gender parity across their lineups by 2022, the Canadian Press reports.

‘MUSICIANS form incredibly strong bonds with their instruments. I think it’s to do with what they represent to us. My guitar is my voice. I’ve spent so many hours using it to communicate my emotions and ideas. Many people who watch my videos or see my shows have never heard me speak except t…

NOT EVEN Mother Nature can keep a metal god down. Max Cavalera is many things to many people. An inspiration and an influencer.