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Click, Click, Click. That is the sound of your shoes hitting the hard pavement beneath your feet. You are outside on this cold autumn night trying to get home after a long day at work.
Upon first listen, Calgary’s own Preoccupations could easily have named Arrangements, their fourth studio album, Auspices instead. Even the band’s own name change from the controversial Viet Cong to Preoccupations would have been justly apt had they settled on Premonitions instead.
The world is a negative place. Now, more than ever. People shroud themselves in the darkness and seemingly, purposefully, avoid the light, step into the raindrops, not between, or betwixt.
“Run away with me. We could make beautiful music together.”  It’s a cliché from songs, cartoons and movies, but, in the case of singer/songwriters Laura Hickli and Taylor Cochrane, it fits. It fits them in a way this world perhaps hasn’t, what with Hickli’s, um, interesting childhood and Cochrane’s journey as an autistic person living with ADD, but, despite or more likely because of these nuances, the couple do, indeed, make beautiful music together.
Nearly 2,000 voices, filling one of the most acclaimed acoustic halls in the world. That might sound like performance of Handel’s Messiah – but there’s a twist.
Around the same time Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! was experiencing serious episodes of gender dysphoria, Social Distortion played Calgary’s MacEwan Ballroom.
Oh God! Ooohh God, friends, give it up. Give up your pretenses, give up your sick pride. Give up your moments of shame, and give up the secrets that keep you from connecting your soul – your real soul, not the one you dress up for daily display – to the soul of another.
They couldn’t be musically more dissimilar. But they are, in fact, kindred spirits, with the one blazing the trail for the other, decades before, and lighting the way for where they now find themselves. Legendary Calgary instro-rock act Huevos Rancheros.
There are few local bands that make us giddier than 36? Especially when they have new music on the way. The brainchild of sweet, sweet idiot savant Taylor Cochrane, when the collective drops something new you pay attention, because their sonic journey is unlike so many others — challenging, exciting, disarming, wonderful and so extraordinarily unique.
Another excellent Calgary band will take the stage tonight as part of Sled Island. The fantastic pop quartet released their debut last year, Sweet Despair.

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