Squamish Valley Music Festival announced their biggest lineup yet this morning with top acts including Enimen, Bruno Mars, and Arcade Fire. The festival that started out as a big ol’ party in a field up the Sea to Sky Highway is reaching new heights with am impressive range of talent this year. Squamish Valley Music […]

Just ahead of the 48th annual Variety Show of Hearts Telethon on Global BC, January 25th and 26th, legendary BC rocker Jerry Doucette is teaming up with four other local bands and putting on a concert on January 18th in New Westminster that will also benefit Variety. Jerry Doucette and Bands in a Show of […]

WinterBites Music and Winter Festival in the Comox Valley runs January 16th to January 31, 2014 with a series of activities and events that will warm your spirits and entertain the family this season. WinterBites Music and Winter Festival The Comox Valley is known for its farm-to-table restaurants and fresh seafood, outdoor adventures, its arts […]

Free concerts and the CBC in Vancouver go hand-in-hand, and while it’s a little too chilly — and soggy — to host their popular outdoor Musical Nooners at this time of year, they are bringing back the CBC Toque Sessions free concert series. Now in its 5th year, the CBC Vancouver’s Toque Sessions free concert […]

Vancouver has its share of awesome history and food-focused tours but there’s one experience coming up that will be truly unique — a Vancouver Punk Tour. Not only will you have the chance to reach into punk history with this two-hour driving tour around the city, it will be followed by a private D.O.A. concert […]

The holidays are upon us and that means it’s time for the 5th annual Jon and Roy’s Holiday Special! This year’s lineup features CBC Radio 2 Drive’s Rich Terfry (aka Buck 65), Horse Feathers, Mother Mother’s Ryan Guldemond with guests, and Scott Stanson and David Lang of Current Swell. The event will be a revue, […]

Moist was a Discman staple of most good Canadian kids who grew up in Vancouver in the 1990s. Silver, Creature, and Mercedes 5 and Dime heavily rotated on CFOX while kids like me from Surrey would take the SkyTrain, then a bus, to all-ages shows at the Pacific Coliseum. We’d catch triple bills of our […]

Although it was announced earlier this year, it’s only recently sunk in that the Red Robinson Show Theatre at the Boulevard Casino will get a new name when the casino changes over to the Hard Rock Casino brand this December. The theatre, named after local rock and roll radio legend Red Robinson — inducted in […]

Vancouver is known as being the origin of the California Roll, Greenpeace, the Occupy movement, umbrella etiquette, mass-produced yoga pants, fake snow, and Chinese buffets but did you know that we can add hip hop to the list? As Questlove from The Roots says, “Not everything cool came from Detroit or Muscle Shoals. This came […]

Fans will have the chance to see Paramore at the PNE Forum in Vancouver on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 as they set out on their “The Self-Titled Tour” across North America. The eagerly anticipated tour celebrates Paramore’s new album, “PARAMORE,” which debuted at #1 on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 upon its April release. In addition, “PARAMORE” […]