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LIVE! Mount Eerie – I Would Be Speechless if I Wasn’t

May 16, 2012

Phil Elverum was in town on Tuesday night. Performing solo at the Wunderbar under his stage name Mount Eerie. For those of you that weren’t there, I’m so very sorry (more so if you were stuck at Rexall). You see, Phil is a musician’s musician. I know that because I met The Joe beforehand, and [...]

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LIVE! The Black Keys / Arctic Monkeys

May 14, 2012

Ended up seeing The Black Keys / Arctic Monkeys show at the last minute here in Edmonton on Saturday night. Click here for my thoughts and pics over at Gig City. A couple firsts for me – FIRST time shooting a Grammy award winning act; and FIRST time shooting at Rexall Place. The latter wasn’t quite as [...]

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Coldplay at Rexall Place

April 18, 2012

Click here to read the review I wrote for Gig City on last night’s Coldplay show at Rexall Place here in Edmonton. In short – OH MY GOD it was incredible. My wife proclaimed it the best show she’s ever been to. Granted, she doesn’t make it to near as many gigs as I do [...]

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LIVE! (With Pics) – The Wooden Sky / Sunparlour Players at Pawn Shop / Remaining Itinerary

April 16, 2012

First off, my apologies to the opening band Van Funk & the Lebarons. It took a lot longer to get parking than I had figured, so I missed their first couple of songs, and thus the window of opportunity for taking photos of them. They probably wouldn’t have minded anyways, but rules are rules after [...]

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LIVE! John K. Samson (with Pictures!) / Remaining Tour Dates

April 2, 2012

You know what it’s like to be in a theatre that’s completely silent except for one musician on stage. Yeh, that. I hadn’t been to a show for a while until last night, so I was pretty excited to get to see John K. Samson after hearing his new record, and I wasn’t disappointed. Nobody [...]

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LIVE! Library Voices / Doug Hoyer / The Fight at Pawnshop (PICS!)

January 30, 2012

Photos by Aaron Vanimere / Words by New Music Michael Last weekend Library Voices were in town. I mean, you obviously knew that if you’re a regular reader, or follow me on twitter – or hell, just about any local music fanatics you follow on twitter. But yeh, it’s true. And, lucky for us, photographer [...]

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Live Bands Seen In 2011: 169

December 15, 2011

With the Prince show Tuesday night, it looks like my live music calendar is done for the year, making the grand total of bands see equal to 169. Of those, I saw 15 twice, so the total sets I saw for the year was 184. A lot of people think that’s an obscene number, but [...]

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2011’s Five Most Magical Moments In Live Music

December 5, 2011

It has been an insane year for live concerts. I bitch and moan about bands not travelling to Edmonton as much as I’d like, and yet I still got to see more than my share of shows – in fact, as of today, I’ve seen 168 different live bands perform in 2011, with a total [...]