Arts

If you’re missing being able to dress to the nines for a night on the town, Twelfth(ish) Night, based on William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, or What You Will, is an opportunity to bring out your Sunday best. Audience members can have a glass of champagne with the cast before the show, as well; these […]

Monday, March 19 Paint your heart out! Swing by the Hawk & Hen, located at 531 Yates Street, for an evening of art, cocktails, and fun from 7 pm until 9 pm. Local artists will help rookie painters make an art piece worth keeping. Tickets are $47.25; see paintnite.com for more info. Thursday, March 22 […]

The Last Gang Keep Them Counting (Fat Wreck Chords) 2.5/5 This is the first full-length album by The Last Gang, a ’77-punk trio from Orange County. Despite only having three members, they fill the sound spectrum. Guitarist/vocalist Brenna Red’s vocals are reminiscent of Joan Jett, and the bass and drums work well together. The lyrics […]

Spielbergs Distant Star (By the Time It Gets Dark) 4.5/5 Mix a trio of Norwegian musicians, a pinch of early-2000’s nostalgia, some drums, and guitar, and what you have is a recipe for Spielbergs’ debut EP, Distant Star. A hybrid of Blink-182, Gob, and HIM, this group delivers the angsty, first-pumping stuff of my teens. […]

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats Tearing at the Seams (Stax Records) 4/5 After two and a half years, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats have just released their second album, Tearing at the Seams, and it was worth the wait. This is a timeless album, listenable from start to finish. Rateliff and company bring […]

Bison guitarist/vocalist Dan And says it’s good for people in bands to get out of their comfort zone by playing with lots of different musicians. And the guitarist/vocalist for the Vancouver sludge-metal band is about to practice what he preaches: Bison’s show in Victoria—where And used to live—will feature the band playing older material, with […]

Rachel Beck Rachel Beck (Independent) 4.5/5 Prince Edward Island’s Rachel Beck breaks away from The Beck Sisters—the group she fronts with her sister Amy—on her self-titled debut album. This seven-track release provides various sounds while staying true to Beck’s singer-songwriter roots. The songs “Nothing in Between” and “Reckless Heart” showcase Beck’s edgy lower notes, while […]

Performance art offers to artists and audiences a rich language to resist and challenge sources of power and to make the invisible visible. Cassils—a Los Angeles-based artist originally from Montreal who will perform their Becoming an Image at UVic this month and then follow it up with a talk the next night at Legacy Gallery […]