Category: Tour

The Mahatma Gandhi quote “Be the change you want to see in the world” most definitely applies to the upcoming “Malahat Revue” tour. The tour will include artists Aidan Knight, Hannah Georgas, Jeremy Fisher, and Said the Whale performing as a collective on a 10-day long tour around British Columbia. The collective will be changing [...]

Read Pt.1

My initial impression of Andrea Ramolo, when I met her, can be summed up into two words: “Bold” and “Outdoorsy”. Why? When I approached her, she spoke to me as if she already knew me, like an old friend, like no introduction was necessary. The outdoorsy part, well her attire screamed indie folk songstress [...]

Last Friday was, in my opinion, perfect. I got to see Said the Whale for my birthday, I couldn’t ask for more than that! The show was at the Starlite room in Edmonton, AB. I’ve mostly been going to shows held in the basement of Starlite, at the building’s smaller venue called Brixx, so [...]

Singer/songwriter’s are usually well respected for their finely crafted songs and lyrical poetry, yet many times they are plain hard to understand and relate to. Enter Andrea Ramolo, the Toronto based indie artist, who is currently on a 90+ show tour which will take her and bandmate Jason Skiendziel all across Canada. Her musical path [...]

Read Pt. 1 of: Recreating a Landmark Album Live (Requires a Daft Amount of Homework)

Step 5: Take it on the Road
The first show was at Hunter’s Ale House in Charlottetown, a small venue with a tiny stage and small sound system – somewhere between the cramped home studio and the professional venue we [...]

In fall of 2009, I said on a whim to my band-mate, “Hey, we should do a Daft Punk show with our band, Scientists of Sound. We could do their album ‘Homework’ live – nobody has done that before.” “Great!” my band-mate replied, and that was that. About a week later, it started to set [...]

Junkyard Poets are a talent-loaded six piece band who play a distinctive mix of rock, pop, jazz, blues, rapcore, and piano ballads. Fronted by award winning songwriter Jared Salte, their percussive and industrial beats with pop piano stylings create a sound that can jump from Rage Against the Machine or Nine Inch Nails, to Coldplay [...]