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Sounds of Calgary: Best local albums we heard in 2022

Sounds of Calgary: Best local albums we heard in 2022

charming Summer Serenades of 2021. Sled Island, Wordfest, and others rolled along without a hitch.
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Acclaimed rock author Jason Schneider gets to the dark heart of Canadian

Suicide Diary: Acclaimed rock author Jason Schneider gets to the dark heart of Canadian punk legend Art Bergmann with new bio

When Ontario author Jason Schneider contacted legendary punk rocker Art Bergmann to write Bergmann’s biography, he wasn’t sure how it would go due to the many stories about the artist’s wild ways and crusty demeanour. 
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Post-apocalyptic Predictions and Preoccupations

Post-apocalyptic Predictions and Preoccupations: Local band’s latest Arrangements a prescient, post-punk, pandemic prophecy

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.
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Trooper's The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car

Hate Crime: Trooper’s The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car

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.
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Laura Hickli release their simply beautiful musical storm

Perfect Pair: 36? and Laura Hickli release their simply beautiful musical storm with two-sided serenade

“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.
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Historias de la carretera con cantos ¡Coro! ¡Coro! Coro

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ABBA: Stories from the road with sing-along phenomenon Choir! Choir! Choir!

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.
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The loneliness of a long distance strummer

Laura Jane Grace: The loneliness of a long distance strummer

Around the same time Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! was experiencing serious episodes of gender dysphoria, Social Distortion played Calgary’s MacEwan Ballroom.
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Mariel Buckley unveils stunning, naked second album

Here and Now: Alberta songwriter Mariel Buckley unveils stunning, naked second album

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.
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Wake Up the World: Calgary's Grindcore Band

Wake the World: Calgary Grindcore act continue to spread the noise with their latest Thought Form Descent

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.
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The Devil and Mr. Daniel: Spoon prepara su disco de rock 'n' roll

The Devil and Mr. Daniel: Spoon dish up their most rock ‘n’ roll record to date with Lucifer on the Sofa

I turn my camera on, but Britt Daniel does not.  The Spoon frontman’s publicist insisted upon a Zoom interview, so I’m momentarily thrown when I realize the next 24 minutes and 46 seconds will be spent interviewing someone embodied only by an ominous black box labelled ‘BRITT DANIEL,’ that faintly flashes every time his gravelly drawl breaks the silence like some sort of Texan HAL 9000.
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