2013 Winnipeg Folk Festival: Ongoing live coverage with tweets, photos, videos, interviews
Posted by: Paul Little • July 11, 2013 @ 5:15am
The Winnipeg Folk Festival has certainly undergone some changes over the years.
It was devastating news in 2002 when I learned of Layne Staley's passing. He had so much character, angst, and emotion in his vocal delivery. Although Alice In Chains had been dormant for years, with Jerry Cantrell still popping out solo albums, I was hopeful that he would put the band back together after he got a few things out of his system.
At Motley Crue on Tuesday night, I saw people older than my parents and almost as young as my child, but the majority of us on the floor were cascaded in our twenties. Fan enthusiasm for this event was quite strong -- the girl behind me couldn't have lived a day in the 80s but this was her seventh time seeing the band.
Something was missing at the Bon Jovi concert on Friday night, but it certainly wasn't fan enthusiasm.
The set list was balanced by playing 8 songs from the 80s, 4 from the 90s, 8 from the 2000s, 3 brand new tracks, and one full cover.
Album Review: Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent
Posted by: Randy Hazzard • April 2, 2013 @ 7:41pm
If the volume in your head phones is too loud, brace yourself. You will not be gracefully welcomed into Killswitch Engage's latest offering, Disarm the Descent. You will be welcomed to relentless screaming and pounding guitars.
Tegan and Sara, the Canadian folk pop twin sister duo, have been performing together for almost 20 years and making records for nearly 15. With six studio releases under their belt, floating mostly between indie folk and rock, the sisters' seventh record (Heartthrob, released on January 29, 2013) takes them head on into a commercialized pop sound.
Album Review: Myq Kaplan & Micah Sherman - Please Be Seated
Posted by: Tony Hinds • September 25, 2012 @ 4:59pm
"I was not the lead in that movie." – Micah Sherman
"You mean -- you weren't the lead in that Matthew McConaughey movie?" – Myq Kaplan
If you were to describe Please Be Seated, I would probably turn up my nose at first: An album of comedic songs written/performed in an almost Simon and
2012 Winnipeg Folk Festival: Friday Photo Gallery & Round-Up
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • July 7, 2012 @ 12:01am
Friday at the Winnipeg Folk Festival is always the first full day, with daytime workshops and concerts taking place at the various smaller stages throughout the festival grounds. While the workshop idea isn't completely unique to Winnipeg, for many artists, it's not only a new idea but in some cases, even intimidating.
2012 Winnipeg Folk Festival: Thursday Photo Gallery & Round-Up
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • July 5, 2012 @ 5:45pm
Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of the previous day -- especially with our Thursday choice for "Artist of the Day", Good Old War, leading off the night -- we arrived to Bird's Hill Park for Day 2 of the Winnipeg Folk Festival before the first notes chimed off the main stage.
2012 Winnipeg Folk Festival: Wednesday Photo Gallery & Round-Up
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • July 5, 2012 @ 12:52am
Arriving to Bird's Hill Park and the Winnipeg Folk Festival grounds a bit late on the first night of the festival unfortunately meant missing some very talented artists in Snowblink and James Vincent McMorrow (luckily this wasn't our only opportunity to hear either of them, as they'll both be part of the "Your Indie Heart" workshop on Friday afternoon).
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