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.
At the end of 2021 we put the spotlight on the best Calgary albums we heard from the year in an attempt to get local folks more acquainted with the amazing talent making music in the city.