Payback Time

Unsuspecting pop music fan outraged by pop music concert

Aug 22

You force the music section to take Lisa Jean Helps to a Milli Vanilli reunion tour, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choosing. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

You should have warned us that the Dirty Projectors are awful hipster bullshit

Aug 2

You hide the music section’s Paxil, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choosing. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.

Georgia Straight's music reviewers just need to, like, get mellow, man

Jun 20

You dose the music section’s Kool-Aid with brown sunshine, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choosing. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Payback Time, you've gone soft on us

Jun 13

You dose the music section’s morning latte with Ex-Lax, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a LiveNation club show of your choosing. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Pet project pre-occupied reviewer from the doggone Rammstein show

Jun 6

You get your Shih Tzu to dump on the music section’s front lawn, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a LiveNation club show of your choosing. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.

To scissor kick, or not to scissor kick?

May 16

You force the music section to listen to Van Halen III in its entirety, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and (for this week only) a bounty-pack of CDs off the Straight ’s Top 50. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.

Payback Time could come to an end to allow more kicks to the balls

Apr 25

You force the music section to act as Courtney Love’s lawyer, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choice taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Maybe Kickstarter can help you fund a better Payback argument

Apr 18

You force the music section to take Michael Mann to the next general meeting of the Broke Vancouver Independent Musicians Association, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choice taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks.

Deep Purple got lost in the Darkness

Mar 7

You force the music section to take triangle lessons, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choice taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.

Advancing the fine art of voicing your rage

Feb 22

You force the music section to take a Pentax K100 on vacation, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choice taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Run-of-the-mill rawk review ruffles a Hopeless Bonito

Jan 18

You force the music section to referee a steel-cage death match between Elton John and Madonna, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choice taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.

Guns N’ Roses N' Snoozes

Jan 4

You force the music section to wear Axl Rose’s fur-coat-and-biker-shorts outfit, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choice taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.