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Under Review: Baby Blue, Dead Soft

There are peculiar abandoned slices of time, when a certain tone, tune or track washes over you, like a lush, deep turquoise musical wave, and…

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Peach Pit

It was a truly Vancouver variety pack at Peach Pit’s Being So Normal album release show. The carefully assorted line-up offered fun for the whole…

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The Pack A.D.

Promoting their upcoming album Positive Thinking, The Pack A.D. took to The Cobalt May 12 and 13 to play back to back hometown shows. Combined…

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MOSFETT

“Vancouver definitely gives you a hopeless vibe, but it isn’t truly hopeless yet.”

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Dead Soft

There’s something special about a Dead Soft show. Maybe it’s the earnestness with which the band performs, or the genuine, innocent excitement that they coax…

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Big Smoke

“I completely disagree with Vancouver being the ‘No Fun City.’ We may be isolated but it’s easy to find fun stuff — If you know…

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Tim the Mute

The man behind the scrappy twee punk project Tim the Mute, is Tim Clapp, and he can only be described as someone operating on another…

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The Pizza Underground

On November 23, at the Rickshaw Theatre, The Pizza Underground, Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band, were set to co-headline with the slightly erotic…

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Dead Soft

Dead Soft by Dead Soft A debut album is like a snapshot of a band. It gives as complete a picture as listeners can find…