Live music
Tanika Charles plays the Shadbolt with a band of locals
Despite her Edmonton / Toronto roots, the vocalist's band is "the Vancouver boys"
Will Chernoff
William Ross Chernoff—known as Will to friends and colleagues—is a musician who started Rhythm Changes in 2020.
Subscriber Fridays
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival looks at dissolving
The 2023 festival is canceled, and the non-profit is thinking to dissolve for good.
Subscriber Fridays
A complete guide to my FACTOR Artist Development grants
Here's my guide to both grants I wrote and received, now that they're fully complete
Subscriber Fridays
CD Baby, what are you thinking? Re: DIY Musician Podcast
All 5 of the DIY Musician Podcast 2023 predictions are misses; also, I make a prediction
2022 wrap-up: reaching 10,000+ people with the gig list
Big thanks to Rory Hislop, Tim Reinert, Nou Dadoun, and everyone who made it possible
Podcast
Ben Frost: Trumpet, Quartet, Pixies, Copyist, Climbing
Ben talks about his quartet album Pixies, released exclusively to Bandcamp on Dec. 2
Subscriber Fridays
Top 10 subscriber articles of 2022: gig recaps & launches
Is it fun and insightful? Can't get it anywhere else? Does it bring you local artists?
Live music
A jazz jam session for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank
The Infidels Jazz and Coastal Jazz will co-present a fundraiser for the local charity
Live music
Table for six, please
From a gig, a story about "online presence": a term that sanitizes the concept to death
Live music
Juno Hamilton on playing at Frankie's After Dark & Tyrant
At After Dark, a trio with Jesse Cahill & Ethan Birnie; at Tyrant, Juno is the leader
That feeling of post-apocalyptic vintage radio transmission
Eva Schubert releases her fourth album as a vocalist-songwriter, The Feel of Your Love
Live music
Teighan Couch, welcome to Vancouver (at 2nd Floor Gastown)
The Ottawa-born, VIU-studying vocalist plays with Sharon Minemoto for Saturday brunch