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A lot of the focus at Sasquatch Festival this year will be put on its big-name headlining bands like Mumford and Sons, The Postal Service, The Lumineers, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. But it’s the smaller, up-and-coming bands playing the May 24-27 music festival that has founder Adam Zacks the most excited. Zacks, who started […]

A few days ago we told you about some of the summer music festivals planned for the greater Victoria area, including the recent lineup announcement for Rock of the Woods in the Cowichan Valley. But a couple of infamous festivals happening in Washington State have also recently announced their lineups and they’re looking good. Real […]

Wandering through the jam-packed Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre before legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld performed tonight was a surreal experience: as I pondered whether or not to buy a beverage to enjoy with the show, I stumbled into a tall man wearing a Hawaiian shirt; another, with zany hair; another, wearing ill-fitting clothes. No one was trying […]

Rock of the Woods, taking place July 26-28 in the Cowichan Valley, announced its lineup May 2 at a launch party in downtown Victoria. Festival organizers unveiled a lineup that includes Seattle folk-rockers The Cave Singers, San Fran psych-soul band Monophonics, Canadian songstress Hannah Georgas, and Victoria’s Jon and Roy. Also on the bill are […]

Mark Leiren-Young had his life changed when he moved to Williams Lake, BC in 1985 for a job as a newspaper reporter. Leiren-Young’s award-winning 2009 book Never Shoot a Stampede Queen has now been adapted to the stage, so his adventures from that time are flooding back again. “The wildest part is this is like […]

Watching Mötley Crüe play live is many things: entertaining, fun, funny, morbid, and a good chance to ruminate on pop culture. And a chance to pretend you’re riding a motorbike, which long-suffering singer Vince Neil implored the Victoria (or, uh,”Vancouver area,” as he once awkwardly said after a too-long pause trying to remember where the […]

Halifax indie rocker Rich Aucoin has more on his mind than just pumping up an audience when he hits Victoria Wednesday. Currently on a cross-Canada tour opening for K-OS, Aucoin is using the rare opportunity of being on the west coast to indulge in one of his favourite past-times: surfing. “When I can’t surf I […]