Vancouver albums
Colin Sankey: Colin Response
He did that thing I wondered about
Will Chernoff
William Ross Chernoff—known as Will to friends and colleagues—is a musician who founded Rhythm Changes in 2020.
Live music
1000th show in 2026?
10 Things: Infidels hits 500, Cole Schmidt weekend with Ginger & Bruno, Alice in Wonderland, Hear and Now, Renee on podcasts
Live music
2 jazz accordionists walk into a strip club
Our own man on that rare jazz instrument came down to Tyrant after his gig at Zameen and sat in with the Nebula Project
Community Stories
Reacting to the Straight “Vancouver’s scrappy music scene”
Nerding out in search of a relevant, substantive question via yesterday’s Georgia Straight piece on local artists and venues
Live music
Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project comes to town
With trumpeter Wayne Tucker, reedist Xavier Del Castillo, guitarist Rafael Rosa, bassist Eduardo Belo, & drummer Ben Zweig
Subscriber Fridays
“Few can match my ancient nerd-dom”
10 Things: Gordy Smurf 4, Allison Burik solo, Devlin & Hong, DRMHS single, Putumayo, jazzfest funding, noise policies
Subscriber Fridays
C#
10 Things: wholesome Allison Burik / Mili Hong trio, Nebyu / Cole / Dean, attendance, funding, Patreon, and inside baseball
Subscriber Fridays
2025 jazz Junos: nominees and people of our scene
The 54th Junos will happen here in Vancouver on Sunday, March 30. Nominees got published on Tuesday, including some of us
Subscriber Fridays
“My job is very boring, I'm an office clerk”
10 Things: Echo Beach, Todd's and other lists, Grammys and jazz crimes, fulsome coverage, Sarah Hanahan returns, Kaia Kater
Subscriber Fridays
New series are very much still a thing
10 Things: The Hargrove, Coastal Cravings; back to Apollo's at long last; shows by Róisín Adams, Sean Fyfe, and Jason de Couto;
Subscriber Fridays
He's one of them now
10 Things: Bona & Frisell, Arooj Aftab, Elisa Thorn, Stephane Wrembel, Hugh Fraser, Stacie McGregor, and an initiation
Subscriber Fridays
The second one already?
10 Things: Red Gate, Fort Langley, "neighbours", Jodi & Jon, radio, Berklee pop, Wine Wednesdays, & farewell to a peer site