After our long summer holiday, we’re back in action! Please come see us at these two venues:

Saturday Sept 11 -The Cobalt 917 Main w/Gord Grdina Trio and Castle Sky. Free before 10pm, $5 after. We are on around 11pm. Show starts at 10pm sharp.

Thursday Sept 20th – The Wise Hall 1882 Adanac w/Pawnshop Diamond and Caleb Stull of Parlour Steps. We are on at 11pm. Show starts at 9pm sharp.

Rastaboyz.com reviews Toussaint new album

Vancouver, B.C. – The VIFF 25th Annual Film & TV Forum kicks off with an expanded issue of the successful creative documentary pitch forum, Storyville Vancouver and follows up with thematic streamlined programming on DOC Day, FILM Day, TV Day and New Filmmakers’ Day. The five days of seminars, workshops, master classes and networking opportunities are scheduled for presentation at the Vancouver International Film Centre from September 28 – October 1, plus New Filmmakers’ Day, October 2. From the creators of groundbreaking dramatic and reality-based series, and from Oscar-winning editors to international buyers and commissioning editors, the Forum hosts the very best of filmmakers from around the world

This whole policy of no cameras at gigs is done. Obviously many places state no professional cameras, or no cameras with interchangeable lenses, but what does that even matter any more. With Canon, Panasonic, and Nikon all selling products that you can slip in your pocket capable of shooting photos that one could make billboard ads with being allowed into the shows, often by people not knowing what they are really doing, so where does that really leave this policy? I could understand if they didn’t want people to make money off the photos, okay, but how can you stop the people with the pocket cams from making money, where is the difference. Chances are those people are going to take the photos and post them in a public forum, say facebook or myspace, and often without context.

Blending epic storytelling with modern progressive metal to create an interesting dynamic that includes an oboe of death and classical violin.

This upcoming Saturday September 4th will be a night of film, rock n’ roll & mayhem to kick off and raise funds for the upcoming screening tour for the No Fun City documentary

Free City Collective, one of BC’s most Musical and Energetic acts, are releasing their long anticipated EP ‘Western Volture’ to the Masses at this, their EP RELEASE PARTY!

This will be a HUGE kickoff to the Brand New Bi-Monthly LIVE MUSIC Series, happening every 2nd FRIDAY @ The Forum on Granville Strip. This night will feature the dopest, most original Live Music in Van-City…!

New Venue for the New Forms Festival which celebrates its 10 year anniversary. A milestone for this electronic, preformance, artistis, digital and avant gard festival. All events at W2/Storyeum – 151 West Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC. The Festival and Exhibition Opens on Sept 10th, featuring over 15 art installations and performances by a number of Vancouver’s emerging electronic artists. Sept 11th focuses on the next level of dub infused music with SLUGABED, BLUE DAISY, ILLUM SPHERE, and NASTY NASTY. Sept 12th showcases BEAT NATION, a collective of Indigenous artists working in traditional and new media environments. Sept 17th, New Forms serves up a new experience on the dance floor with SCOTT W, JASON LEV and OMAR-S, one of the most influential dj/producers in House and Techno today.

The Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres (PAARC) is pleased to present Swarm: A festival of artist-run culture, that will span September 9 and 10 and offer a wide and compelling array of contemporary art exhibitions and projects.

Mahler, Rachmaninov and Wagner meet The Magnetic Fields, the history of gospel and the world’s greatest undiscovered jazz at this year’s VIFF. Here are just a few of the offerings on view.

“I hate nature!”, a common phrase uttered by today’s teenagers that raises the question: are we capable of evolving as a species fast enough to save this planet? The aim of our annual environmental series is to bust through preconceptions of ruin and passivity and to share with audiences some of the most scintillating and galvanizing art being made these days.

The 70s era of rock n’ roll was a time when the purchase of an album was a sacred rite of passage, attending a concert equivalent to a mass religious experience, when the image and art of the rock n’ roll performer merged as one. CRASH KELLY wants to take you back… Ladies and gentlemen, please adjust your Hi-Fi players for the next rock n’ roll transmission. Crash Kelly is the soulchild of Sean Kelly, a Toronto session musician who has toured and recorded with some of the biggest names in Canadian music. After years of playing sideman to various and sundry artists, the Rock n’ Roll animal in Sean could no longer be contained. In 2002, Crash Kelly was born.

With the more than 10000 people, the 6 unique and wonderful stages, the costumed characters, the funky psychedelic art, the lights, the lasers, the beautiful Salmo River Ranch, the many smiling faces, the five minute best friends, the long term connections and reminders of eternal truths, Shambhala is an amazing experience.

Connor McGuire is a 23 year old singer songwriter from White Rock BC.

It’s a rare and fine thing when a new voice arrives, fully-realized, on the music scene. From the first note of Aaron Cadwaladr’s folk-roots infused debut release Wade Through the Dark, it’s evident that this West Coast-based singer-songwriter has an exceptional combination of originality and maturity – an earthy yet sophisticated sensibility sure to garner him a focal role among the new generation of artists on this province’s vibrant indie music scene.