The Biltmore

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The Good in Everyone

As thousands flocked to English Bay to gorge on the remains of food carts and check out the fireworks, a modest—though nonetheless enthusiastic—crowd gathered behind…

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Discorder

Sprïng + Synthcake

The Biltmore on Monday: the occasion being Jo Hirabayashi of Sprïng’s birthday; the celebration being a full cover of Paul and Linda McCartney’s Ram, their…

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Dean Wareham

The ever-amicable Jody Glenham, whose recent EP, Dreamer, is a sun-soaked, yet bitter-pale satisfaction, continues to prove she’s a lauded Vancouver linchpin. Not only is…

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Next Music From Tokyo Vol. 6

Next Music From Tokyo (NMFT) has, for the last five years, consistently topped my list of favourite musical events in the city. The why isn’t…

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Loop

If you’re one of the faithfully devoted who’ve kept Loop in mind over the years, then you likely found yourself at the Biltmore on May…

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Hunting

I had high hopes for the album release party at the Biltmore for recent Nevado signees, Hunting, and did my best to keep them that…

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Grass Widow

Tuesday night at the Biltmore began like an old Western: at 9 p.m., the venue was a ghost town, saloon-style tables empty, and cans of…

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Music Waste 2012

The term “music wasted” comes to mean a lot of things over the course of a four-day music festival: physically exhausted, mentally fatigued, deaf, drunk,…

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