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The Sunday Service

By 8:30pm on February 12, the Fox was completely at-capacity. The Sunday Service, the long-running weekly improv show, didn’t start until nine, but the dimly…

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Usd.

Vancouver ambient electronic artist Spencer Davis has moved away from his Nervous Operator pseudonym to record under a new name. Usd.’s genre is self‐described as industrial dub…

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Wetface

Horses: freedom, liberation, unbridled power. Records: best enjoyed in the presence of others. Celebrating their first day in business, feelings of liberation and communion filled…

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Vancouver's Waste-Makers

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in mid-April, I arrived at the Strathcona store-front apartment of Mark Richardson, one of the main Music Waste festival organizers,…

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Hallow Moon

“There’s something special about feeling connected to the past and present through music.” After opening for an array of revered acts — including the Growlers,…

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Jam Space

I arrive at an industrial back alley door next to a busy Clark Drive. In between workshop garages and bikes, hardcore quartet Keep Tidy —…