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Off the Wall is the sexiest album of all time
July 6, 2015In the last 20 years I’ve had more exposure to Michael Jackson as a cultural punchline than as a musician. What some people seem to forget is that before he was a mega star, before he was a smooth criminal, before he was a controversial figure, and before he became a joke, he was simply an amazing musician. My pick for sexiest album of all time looks past all that controversy — even past Thriller. My pick for the sexiest album of all time is Michael Jackson’s 1979 release, Off the Wall. All things considered, this album is great simply…
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Four of the sexiest and least sexy songs
July 6, 2015Top 4 Sexiest "Sexy" Songs “Sexual Healing” by Marvin Gaye Leave it to legendary R&B crooner Marvin Gaye to make a slow burning torch song that is simultaneously raunchy and romantic. Singing about how he’s “hot just like an oven,”…
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The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is Transcendental
July 1, 2015The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is now one of the top ten jazz festivals in the world. It is a beast of a music festival, open to everything from free-form experimental, to jazz-pop, to R&B. To Catch even just a…
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Icons of apartheid jazz at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival
July 1, 2015Jazz legends drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim sit at opposite ends of musical expression in the struggle for black liberation in South Africa. Like many other black musicians, Moholo and Ibrahim left the country in the 1960s under…
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No surprises on Yukon Blonde’s latest album
June 29, 2015Kelowna’s Yukon Blonde hail from the class of indie rockers that captured the hearts and ears of young Canadians at the end of the last decade. At the time, the BC indie scene was exploding with great music from the…
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Patrick Watson’s newest album is MGMT meets the Beatles
June 22, 2015Patrick Watson is a Canadian singer-songwriter born in Lancaster, California and raised in Montreal, Canada. His music style has been described as a mixture of cabaret, classical, and indie rock, and he is often recognized for his melancholy lyrics and…
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Of Monsters and Men lose some of their whimsy
June 22, 2015I have found my summer road trip album. Beneath the Skin, Of Monsters and Men’s latest release, is the kind of high-energy music that makes you want to roll your windows down and drive off into the sunset. It is…
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Awolnation hit the ground running
May 29, 2015Fresh off the release of their second album Run on March 17, Awolnation is beginning its Run 2015 Tour, hitting locations all across the US and Canada before heading to Europe in August. As Vancouver is one of their first…
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Chad Brownlee ends his When the Lights Go Down Tour in Vancouver
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2277" align="aligncenter" width="817"] Photo courtesy of The Windsor Star.[/caption] I’ve never seen so many cowboy boots stomping in unison on the Commodore’s ballroom floor. Ending his Canadian tour at home, Chad Brownlee was joined by Canadian Country Music Award…
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Rubacava’s new EP is one hell of an album
April 7, 2015Every so often, a down-to-earth musical group magically appears that rattles your bones and makes you think, ‘Wow, I guess not all Vancouver bands sound the same after all.’ Rubacava, led by BFFs Sylvie Bridgman and Dan Ponich, is one…
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