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Concert Reviews
Weezer brings the Garage on board
By Mike Usinger
Front man Rivers Cuomo led a well-oiled team through an intimate Friday night show at GM Place, proving himself as one of the most oddly captivating front dudes in the history of rock ’n’ roll.
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Sigur Rós produce mysterious noise
By Adrian Mack
Given that its homeland is facing an economic crisis that outstrips even that of the U.S., there was something poignant about seeing Iceland’s Sigur Rós divested of strings and horns at the Chan Centre on Tuesday.
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Sheryl Crow keeps it classy
By Steve Newton
The George W. Bush–bashing megastar’s Saturday-night performance at GM Place mixed messages with hits and made for one hell of a class act.
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Cancer Bats feast on Vancouver's young blood
By Bryce Dunn
Toronto’s fearless black-clad, bloodsucking harbingers of heavy, led by the larynx-shredding Liam Cormier, blew the tiles off the sweat-dripping Media Club at their Sunday-night show.
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We Are Wolves bite down on lo-fi dance
By Adrian Mack
The Montreal absurdist three-piece does what it does with efficiency, humour, and a certain shabbiness, and kept the East Side party kids dancing like fools on Saturday night.
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C.R. Avery stays true to his roots
By Ben Rogers
Vancouver beat box balladeer and spoken-word iconoclast C.R. Avery performed to a sellout crowd at the Rio Theatre on Broadway last Friday. Joined by a string quartet and gospel trio The Sojourners, Avery delivered a seamless performance in what the keytar-wielding boho blues poet called “an evening of three vignettes”–– though it seemed like a thousand.
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The mixed identities of Alicia Keys
By Martin Turenne
On-stage, freed from glossy production tricks and backed by an ornery seven-piece band and three gospel singers, the singer was dynamic, rearranging several of her biggest hits for maximum visceral impact.
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Raconteurs pretty damn spectacular
By Jenny Charlesworth
With the sold-out crowd’s pulse pounding something fierce, Jack White and the Raconteurs took the stage at Malkin Bowl on Thursday night for a classic-rock showcase of the most epic proportions.
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Against Me! keeps the Vancouver connection alive
By Mike Usinger
Many will have left one of 2008's most inspirational shows convinced of the need to drop out of high school, start a slash-and-burn punk band, and see North America from the back of a banged-up Econoline.
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Spiritualized by the sheer power of sound
By John Lucas
Jason Pierce and company’s intertwining of divine virtues and earthly hedonism reinforced the show’s real lesson: that truly great music can take your brain apart and reassemble it in all sorts of interesting ways.
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Janet Jackson gives fans an endurance test
By Mike Usinger
The second-most-famous member of the Jackson clan delivered a lengthy set at GM Place, reminding concert goers that there’s an argument to be made for the power of restraint.
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Carlos Santana still stunning the masses
By Steve Newton
On Sunday night, the 61-year-old guitar legend brought a 10-piece band to GM Place and proved that his playing has only gotten fiercer with age.
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Airbourne tears up Vancouver
By Lucas Aykroyd
The Melbourne maniacs proved in their hour-long performance that when it comes to delivering full-tilt pub-rock songs about rocking, drinking, women, and rocking, few bands can rival their live ferocity.
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Stone Temple Pilots comeback proves an arena-sized failure
By Deena Cox
One of the grunge-eras most loved and hated acts played the part of rock stars at Saturday night’s performance at GM Place but failed to get more than cued claps and whistles out of a sparse crowd.
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Beck pays homage to rockers of the past
By Ken Eisner
Beck showcased his latest album, Modern Guilt, at the Orpheum on Thursday night as a tribute to what's come before, with splashes of SoCal fun and fury and shots of Satanic Majesties Stones thrown in too.
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Oasis left with nothing to say
By Jenny Charlesworth
For once, Liam Gallagher didn't shoot his mouth off on Wednesday night. But that was no surprise, given the absence of action on-stage and an utter lack of chemistry between the hirsute band and its fans.
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Jack Johnson pleases crowd with campfire tunes
By Sarah Rowland
At Thunderbird Stadium on Thursday, August 21
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Radiohead warms up to ride out the rain
By Adrian Mack
With a mesmerizing display of its methods, the U.K. band had the young and excited crowd in the palm of its hand during a two-hour love-in at Thunderbird Stadium.
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Mötley Crüe keeps it stupid at GM Place
By Adrian Mack
With an incoherent sound and Tommy Lee filming fans' oversized boobs during a sloppy 90-minute set, the headliners were blown away by Papa Roach at Crüe Fest.
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Feist makes a big splash
By Gregory Adams
The Juno winner couldn’t stop talking about all things nautical at her Deer Lake Park show, often leaving her adoring crowd of so-called mer-people standing in quiet awe at her performance.
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Coldplay shows solidarity in Pemberton's dust
By Martin Turenne
The Englishmen proved on Sunday why their brand of triumphant pop is tailor-made to the scale of an outdoor mega-festival at night.
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Tom Petty earns rapturous Pemberton Festival reception
By Adrian Mack
Day 2 of the festival finds Black Mountain raising the dead, the Tragically Hip getting out there, Sam Roberts whipping up a cyclone, and Tom Petty delivering the hits.
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Pemberton Festival serves up good filthy fun
By Mike Usinger
Getting to the Pemberton Festival for day one wasn’t easy, but the sheer variety of talent on hand made the trek worth it, says our Music Editor Mike Usinger.
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Akon raps up hip-hop's global repackaging
By Martin Turenne
The Senegalese-born rapper, along with Haitian-born Wyclef Jean, Jamaica’s Sean Paul, and Canada’s own Kardinal Offishall, has taken rap and churned it through his native country’s traditions to create thrilling new forms of pan-cultural pop.
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Stevie Wonder lays the love on thick
By Steve Newton
Few voices have brought as much joy and happiness to the troubled human race, and the singer-songwriter did not disappoint the faithful with a two-hour set bursting with uplifting tunes at GM Place on Saturday night.
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