Buckcherry Lit Up The Palace Theatre
Nothing melts winter’s icy grip better than some smoking hot rock-and-roll, which is exactly what we got Monday night at The Palace. We honestly can’t believe it took us so long to check out a show at this impressive opera-house style venue in downtown Calgary. Some context for our Eastern readers, The Palace is what […]
Pop Evil rocks The Gateway in Calgary
I found myself in a medium sized college venue on Sunday night. The room was starting to fill, and the line-up outside was still going strong, as Calgary locals The Path Less Travelled took the stage.
The Headstones: Picture of Health 25 years later – a Cautionary Tale
On a chilly Friday night, a sizable crowd descended upon Calgary’s Grey Eagle Casino Event Centre. Two names on the bill: The Matchstick Skeletons and the Headstones – the former, a new project with some familiar faces, and the latter something of a Canadian rock institution, celebrating a milestone in their now decades-long career. Longtime […]
grandson sells out first Calgary headline
grandson, along with local openers Open Air and Crooked Spies, absolutely packed The Rec Room in Calgary Friday night (Sept 7th).
Alexisonfire open up the Calgary Stampede
I think this is the first time there have been more mohawks than cowboy hats at the Stampede. And I’m not mad about it. A very large, enthusiastically screaming crowd greeted Alexisonfire as they took the stage Thursday night. George Pettit mouths “what. the. fuck.” at guitarist Wade MacNeil, seemingly in awe that 17 years […]
Shinedown // In This Moment // One Bad Son // 10 Years
Seeing a bill like this take me back to 1998 when it was still possible to go to a show and like every band on the bill. Nowadays with so much diversity within genres it has become rarer and rarer than I am a legitimate fan of all the bands we see one night. This […]
Nothin’ But Another Bottle tour 2018
The Lazys hit the stage first last Friday night on the western leg of the co-headlining Nothin’ But Another Bottle tour along side their rock and roll brothers, The Wild.
For one night only: Pennywise makes Calgary the capital of punk rock
It was a slushy Friday night in Calgary as punk rock fans invaded the University of Calgary’s MacEwan Hall. Local openers Bayonet took to the task of warming up the crowd. Delighting the crowd with tunes like Shit Hawks and Cougar Bait – which I believe could easily be an autobiography.
Dashboard Confessional stop by MacEwen Hall
At 7:20 pm on Monday night 200 or so people waited patiently for opener Gabrielle Shonk to take the stage at MacEwen hall. Ten minutes later their patient was rewarded as the young band took the stage. Playing their own brand of eclectic indie folk. Like a jazz band forgot about diminished chords and got […]
The rock gods smiled on Calgary, and blessed us with BLS
MacEwen hall was chalk full of rockers on Saturday night, the industrial looking college venue in Calgary making a perfect escape from the cold. An enthusiastic and heavily branded crowd greeted us as we walked into the large room, fired up from openers eyehategod and eagerly awaiting Corrosion of Conformity. There was puke on the […]