Courtney MIller
Simple Plan isn’t just Taking One for the Team
February 26, 2016Simple Plan, of French-Canadian pop-punk fame, has returned after five years with a new album, Taking One for the Team. It follows 2011’s Get Your Heart On stylistically, with a backbone of classic Simple Plan style tunes, while also branching certain tracks to other genres. Simple Plan boasts the talents of lead vocalist and acoustic guitarist Pierre Bouvier, drummer and percussionist Chuck Comeau, lead guitarist Jeff Stinco, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Sebastien Lefebvre, and bass guitarist and backing vocalist David Desrosiers. Fun fact: Simple Plan are one of the only recent bands I’ve ever known who 16 years later…
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New Music Friday
February 21, 2016By: Jamal Dumas, Zed Hazel, Courtney Miller, and Jessica Whitesel Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/1Zjb5K8F8S8GsO9ugx6Pus “Scars” – Tove Lo Jessica Whitesel: I will cut this song a little slack since it…
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Album Reviews
February 15, 2016Savvie – Night Eyes Savvie is a Vancouver band lead by Savannah Leigh Wellman (previously of Redbird). They’re as musically together live as they are on the recording, a tell-tale sign of talented artists. Featuring Wellman’s powerful, sultry voice that…
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Review roundup
February 15, 2016Agent Carter Season two finds our favourite Strategic Scientific Reserve agent in Los Angeles. Once more, Carter teams up with Sousa, who is now chief of the L.A. branch, to solve a series of bizarre occurrences that all seem to…
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
February 12, 2016By: Jamal Dumas, Courtney Miller, Zach Siddiqui, and Jessica Whitesel Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/1ZeuUaLrsmZRaZy3E1weMm “Make Me Like You” (Gwen Stefani) Jessica Whitesel: What the hell, Gwen? You used to be…
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Dine Out Vancouver’s Winter Beer Hall made for a great night out
February 1, 2016Dine Out Vancouver held its first ever Winter Beer Hall this month, and given its success — being a sold out event — it’s unlikely to be the last. Big Rock Urban Brewery and Eatery hosted the event, turning their…
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Grizfolk produces music that is anything but grizzly
February 1, 2016Grizfolk is an alt-rock band from LA which has just released its debut album, Waking Up the Giants. Their hard work and determination shows through in their song-writing and flawlessly executed tunes. Although the whole album is amazing and endlessly…
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New Music Friday
January 29, 2016By: Sarah Finley, Courtney Miller, and Jessica Whitesel Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/4CH1iZJwz49z66jDNWyCVF “PILLOWTALK” (ZAYN) Jessica Whitesel: This song is pretty darn generic. As much as I like looking at…
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Brendon Urie becomes Panic! at the Disco
January 25, 2016Death of a Bachelor is Panic! at the Disco’s fifth album, and the only one so far to have the band consist solely of lead vocalist Brendon Urie. Urie plays all the instruments and sings all vocal parts on this…
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New Music Friday
January 22, 2016By: Sarah Finley, Courtney Miller, Zach Siddiqui, and Jessica Whitesel Check out and follow The Peak‘s Spotify account for the latest New Music Friday picks. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/5g5gsCOt3ZwwQKYdNxYxcA Heading Home (Gryffin Josef Salvat) Jessica Whitesel: This is a great song. I feel…
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