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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.
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.
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.
You’re back? Does that mean you actually had a good opening night of Sled, perhaps enjoying some of the acts we recommended?
Pretend for a second you have just awoken from a, let’s say, three-year coma.
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.
It’s a good thing that Calgary songwriter Shane Ghostkeeper’s Northern Alberta uncles love pure country music.
If you recorded the first song you ever wrote live with your band Teenage Jesus & The Jerks at Max’s Kansas City — New York’s Ground Zero of bohemian wrecksody — when you were 16 years old, well, it just ain’t gonna get any more real than that.
Calgary songwriter Carter Felker’s new album, Even the Happy Ones are Sad, is a medley of moments snatched out of the parlours, bedrooms and evening news stories of the characters who inhabit his songs.

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