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Robert Plant Carry Fire (Warner Music Canada) 2.5/5 Robert Plant’s Carry Fire is a really good blend of light rock and sad, heartfelt ballads. At least “May Queen” and “New World” fit those bills. After that, the album is a genre jumble, alternating between tribal chants, world-music-influenced string and drum work, and Plant’s glass-like voice, […]

As a relatively new fan of Louise Burns, I couldn’t pass up attending her show at Lucky Bar on Friday, October 20. When I sat down with a beer at one of the little tables inside the bar, I knew I would be in for a treat, and, boy, did I get one. I was […]

The Racquet Club The Racquet Club (Rise Records) 4/5 Anyone who has followed Blair Shehan through his bands Knapsack and The Jealous Sound knows the man is an incredible songwriter, and writes incredibly powerful melodic indie/rock tunes. Now, Shehan is back fronting The Racquet Club, with Samiam guitarist Sergie Loobkoff in the lineup as well, […]

A horde invaded downtown Victoria on Saturday, October 7 for the annual Zombie Walk, and there was even a few surprise attendees for spectators to check out. Tourists who weren’t running in fear were either scratching their heads with morbid curiosity or taking advantage of the numerous photo opportunities. The walk always brings great representations […]

Diane Barnes’ My Stroke of Luck is a beautiful and entertaining one-woman production depicting Barnes’ real-life experience of having a stroke while being a single mother and a doctor. Barnes, who is obviously well trained in acting and has a natural ability for displaying human emotion, had the audience’s attention from start to finish. The […]

One of the great solo productions at the Victoria Fringe Festival this year was Mark Hughes’ one-man show, Tragedy + Time Served = Comedy. In the show, the Vancouver-based comic takes the audience through his troubled past, where neglect, abuse, crime, and addiction run rampant. Never afraid of a faux pas, Hughes finds the humour […]

How often do you think of where the music you listen to came from? How did it progress over time? Heavy metal as we know it today wasn’t always so heavy, and Diamond Head has been around to see a lot of the progression. Now, the legendary band, who cut their teeth in the New […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a play like Bed and Breakfast. Maybe because I directed plays in high school, I appreciate watching two cast members play a handful of different characters, as they did in this play. Once the actors (one of whom, Mark Crawford, wrote the play) found their theatre legs, […]

Incantation Profane Nexus (Relapse Records) 4.5/5 Pennsylvania death metal band Incantation’s tenth studio album, Profane Nexus (which we just couldn’t pass up reviewing here at Nexus; I mean, come on), deserves space in your record collection. Throw some vinyl out if you have to make space for it: this album is clear and concise yet […]