Random music news for Saturday, September 9, 2023
At some point, the Hollywood writer’s strike will end and Bill Maher will return to work on HBO. He’ll have to answer to his writers for saying this. On to music news for
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Vancouver
Lil Baby was a no-show at a festival in Vancouver. Naturally, the crowd rioted
Crowds had gathered for hours on Sunday at the Breakout Festival at the PNE Amphitheatre in Vancouver. But when it was announced that Lil Baby was too ill to perform–a message that came
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Vancouver bands coming together to support Rocket Norton of PRiSM
It’s been a long few years for Rocket Norton, the former drummer for Vancouver-based PRiSM. In 2021 he was diagnosed with rectal cancer and endured months of chemotherapy and radiation. He was given
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Random music news for Friday, January 22, 2021
More shroom research. Just sayin’. Let’s try some music news for January 22, 2021. No Glastonbury this year. Again. The Rio, a Vancouver music venue, has turned itself into a sports bar to
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RIP Mr. Chi Pig
The above image is from Ken Chinn’s AKA Mr. Chi Pig’s last-ever interview with BeatRoute Magazine, and pretty much says everything you need to know about him – Punk rock ’til the very
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Vancouver’s Skookum: How to hold a big outdoor multi-day music festival downtown
There are precious few cities on the planet that can hold a massive music festival smack in the middle of (or at least very close to) downtown. There’s New York City (Central Park),
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Foo Fighters facilitate mother-daughter act in Vancouver (except it wasn’t a mother-daughter act)
If you’ve been following the Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold Tour, you’ll know that Dave has been bringing members from the audience up onstage to perform with the band. We’ve seen a bunch
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If Seth Rogen is doing transit announcements in Vancouver and Toronto, why can’t Terry from FUBAR do the same in Calgary?
With Seth Rogen now providing the guest voice for both Toronto and Vancouver transit, Terry Cahill from FUBAR (think Bob and Doug meet Beavis and Butthead with a big dollop of Trailer Park
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U2 Opens Their Joshua Tree 30 Tour in Vancouver [UPDATED with Fan Review]
As a way to buy time before the next album, U2 is on the road doing something they’ve never done before: playing their iconic The Joshua Tree album from front-to-back. Now that it’s
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In Radio News…
These next three months make up the busiest and craziest quarter for radio. For most companies, September 1 marks the beginning of the broadcast calendar, a time to jam as much revenue into
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I Like This: Pigeon Park
These guys are out of Vancouver and were winners of the CFOX Seeds competition. Their just-released EP, Stripes, was produced by Garth Richardson.
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