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Sled Island

Sled Island: More Bands, Plaza Schedule

May 16, 2012

My favorite festival of the year – SLED ISLAND in Calgary – is inching up on us closer and closer. I already have a hotel booked, and just sent in my vacation request today, so barring unforeseen circumstances I’m all set (I’m continuing on from Calgary to hook up with one of my favorite music [...]

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Sled Island 2012 – Full Lineup Announcement (OMG Terry Malts! Honheehonhee! Role Mach! Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet!)

May 1, 2012

“The Sled” has already had two prior announcements of acts scheduled to perform at this year’s festival, which will occur June 20-24 (I just looked at the big calendar on my wall to remind me of those dates, as there’s giant stickies all over the calendar that week): the headliners, which were announced in late [...]

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Sled Island Adds More Acts

April 4, 2012

Back in late February Calgary’s Sled Island music festival announced their headliners. Earlier this week they announced some more acts: Antlers Doldrums Duchess Says Finn, Craig (from The Hold Steady) Hecker, Tim How To Dress Well Reigning Sound Sadies They also announced the comedy component of the festival will now run four nights (doubled from [...]

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Sled Island – 2012 Headliners

February 28, 2012

Regulars will remember I traveled down to Calgary for Sled Island last June (as did regular contributing ace photographer Aaron Vanimere), and had an absolute blast. Great bands, great venues, definitely a worthwhile trip for anyone in the western provinces or states. I’m definitely planning on heading down again this year, and with that in [...]

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LIVE! Chad van Gaalen / No Gold at Myer Horowitz (Pics & Dates)

November 15, 2011

A couple of Fridays ago our campus theatre, aka Myer Horowitz, played host to a Sled Island reunion of sorts, as Chad van Gaalen and No Gold performed. There’s nothing more that can really be said about van Gaalen. He performed at most of the new music festivals this year, he’s from Calgary, he’s perhaps [...]

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Album Drops – September 27 2011

September 27, 2011

Notable new music releases for this week include a pair of albums from renowned Canadian artists Malajube, and Dan Mangan. Here’s the full list. Alberta Cross – The Rolling Thunder (ATO/Red). Appeared at this year’s Sled Island music festival in Calgary; pictured above. Big Troubles – Romantic Comedy (na). In Edmonton opening up for Pains [...]

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The End of the Festival Season

September 9, 2011

With Sonic Boom 2011 over, the music festival season has officially concluded, at least for me and other prairie Canadians (there’s still a few festivals to occur, but all of them are in the far reaches of the United States or Eastern Canada). So I thought it might prove interesting to review all the festivals [...]

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On Tour: Zola Jesus

July 27, 2011

Zola Jesus impressed the hell out of both The Colonel (who took the photo to the left at Sled Island) and I at Sled Island. She is a truly remarkable performer, with an even more extraordinary voice. You can catch her this fall during her just-announced tour in support of her newest album “Contaus” on [...]