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.

MusicFest Vancouver is back for a tenth year of bringing the world’s finest classical, jazz and world music artists to Vancouver, and its diverse 2010 program showcases the festival’s core mission to celebrate and promote live music in many styles and forms. This year’s lineup will include hundreds of international and local artists at the peak of their performing powers, ready to entertain thousands of music fans from August 6 – 15, 2010 in nine favourite Vancouver venues.

Every Tuesday on CiTR www.citr.ca your future favourite song. 11:30 PT AM or if you are in Mexico tune in at 13:30 and in Europe 20:30 PM 101.9 FM
We started the show with a band from the UK called Cougar, we played 4 songs from their single Stay Famous on Counter Records. Kind of Post rockish.

László Hortobāgyi, a self described time traveler, is one of my favourite musicians. Away from rock and world music etiquettes which he despises, he goes beyond the realms of conventional music. He is a connoisseur of music, a collector of bizarre sounds. An auditive inventor of landscapes of imaginary ancient cultures. He is the equivalent in music of HP Lovecraft in literature, Bosch (El Bosco) in painting or HR Gigger in visual arts. Maybe a combination of Jodorowski and the Quay brothers in cinema with a touch of sci fi. He absorbs the millenarian knowledge of the old civilizations to extrapolate it to modern technology.

INDIE WEEK is an artist-friendly festival that breaks bands to the European market by awarding the Best of the Fest an overseas tour with INDIE WEEK IRELAND. For many indie artists, an European tour is a rare thing. Regardless of who is voted Best of the Fest, INDIE WEEK works with all bands on a grassroots level to gain top-notch exposure, valuable networking opportunities and new fans. Canada’s premier indie music festival INDIE WEEK CANADA has extended its artist application deadline to Friday, July 16, 2010. Artists can apply online or by mail to participate in the 120+ band festival, taking place Oct. 13-17, 2010 in Toronto’s best rock venues.

What genre of music do you consider your work to be?
Difficult to say as I tend to draw from everything I hear around me and everything I make up in my head, I try to steal all the best things I find and mix them up into something new. Terms I have read when people wrote about my music are “attention deficit disorder music” other “electro-trash-punk”. You can say there is an energy from punk, a song form from pop, a beat from swing, a rhythm from techno, a craziness from novelty, a freedom from jazz and the fun of folk music. You can say many things but I’d rather see you dance now.

Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, taking place September 4-6 at Seattle Center, announces the Words & Ideas, Performing Arts, Spectacle, and Theatre program lineups. The creativity that defines Bumbershoot as one of the most culturally relevant festivals is founded on its 40-year history of programming not only top-notch music, but presenting arts of all disciplines, throughout Seattle Center’s theaters, exhibition halls, lawns, and other unique gathering places. This year, the Festival continues this tradition by offering a roster of arts programming that gives viewers opportunities to laugh, think, discuss, and experience Bumbershoot in new and exciting ways.

If you are not familiar with The Heavy then it means you missed their Jazz Fest performance at the Commodore Ballroom on Tuesday night opening for the Kid Koala project The Slew. They delivered an amazing, and energetic performance, driving the crowd into a frenzy, proving themselves worthy of a top billing at any venue in this or any other city. Simply put I love The Heavy

Vancouver´s favourite Mexican band has officially released their new CD called Tocadiscos, which means Turntable, “the name is an homage to the old sound of the vinyl records and we tried to give that sound to the whole record” told me Alfredo, the singer, guitarrist and main composer of the band when I was in Mexico City last year. The band used a lot of old instruments to give the CD an LP sound, Check out a song by song review of the album and a video shot at Hoko´s ofg Señor Pacheco

By Sylwia Osiecka. With the days growing longer and hotter, summer creeps up on Manchester and with this the great city festivals begin. May always springs with good stuff and this year one of the most vibrant flowers so far has been The FutureEverything Festival.
As Robinson says “It’s about how to be connected for your own wellbeing, [...] it’s not to preach. In a weird way it’s about being green and ecologically aware before that was on the world agenda.”. Well then boys and girls it’s a lesson to come.

VanMusic is a fast growing webzine dedicated to independent music. While our main focus is Vancouver, we are expanding our horizons. Its only logical as we have fans following us from around the world. We want to welcome three new contributors that will be reporting some of the newest bands from abroad. Van Music is always trying to keep showcasing some of the best independent acts around Vancouver and now expanding through the planet. Your future favourite band is here, in the avantgard of van Music. Come and meet them.

Kordan is a Brooklyn band that mesh lush textures, pulsating beats, and somber melodies to project dreams of a holographic future.

A Japanese indie music festival touring Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal

Fuck Buttons @ The Biltmore Cabaret
By Dean Belder
The Biltmore Cabaret is one of my favorite venues in Vancouver, in part due to the three block walk from my house, and tonight I was thankful for that. Sporting a slight limp we made our way the club to see the Fuck Buttons (with Guest).
I never did find out who “with Guest” actually was, and to be honest I’m not too interested to find out. While he proved himself good at mashing stuff up, he simply provided a tease, a …