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The big must-sees: A taste of the winter music festival

BIG Must-Sees: A sampler of some of the acts to catch at this year’s winter music and arts festival

After a series of pandemic-related false starts resulting in a cancelled 2021 festival, and a revised format, multi-weekend festival in April 2022, Calgary’s BIG Winter Classic is back in a big way for 2023, with a stacked roster and guaranteed stellar performances in the doldrum-defeating January music festival format we once knew and loved. 
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2022 On The Record: David Veitch's best albums of the year, including Fantastic Negrito, Father John Misty and Spoon - The Science

2022 On The Record: David Veitch’s best albums of the year, including Fantastic Negrito, Father John Misty and Spoon

The end of 2022 is rapidly approaching and as I think back to the year in new music: I am puzzled how, once again, the year’s most commercially successful music was mediocre at best and gawd-awful at worst.
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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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