Interviews The Chris Davis Concern: a two-trumpet project After Dark Chris goes into what he and Brad Turner will play, plus the tension around self-promotion
Paid-members only Interviews Connor Lum, back from the ships, starts Jazz at the Bolt The saxophonist's chordless trio is the first set on Saturday; he tells us where he's at
Reviews Jim Head - Prismatic Calling Jim Head the Canadian answer to mid-career Kurt Rosenwinkel isn't far-fetched.
Podcast Noah Franche-Nolan: Piano, Cellar trio album, New York Noah talks about his debut as a leader: a piano trio album to be released on Cellar Music
Interviews Tanika Charles plays the Shadbolt with a band of locals Despite her Edmonton / Toronto roots, the vocalist's band is "the Vancouver boys"
Paid-members only Music business The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is seemingly dissolving The 2023 festival is canceled, and the non-profit is planning to dissolve for good.
Reviews Heyday: RJ LeBlanc's fusion of math rock, shoegaze, and groove Montréal bassist Rémi-Jean LeBlanc's fun fourth album, Heyday, does jazz and indie rock
Paid-members only Music business A complete guide to my FACTOR Artist Development grants Here's my guide to both grants I wrote and received, now that they're fully complete
Paid-members only Music business CD Baby, what are you thinking? Re: DIY Musician Podcast All 5 of the DIY Musician Podcast 2023 predictions are misses; also, I make a prediction
Lore 2022 wrap-up: reaching 10,000+ people with the gig list Big thanks to Rory Hislop, Tim Reinert, Nou Dadoun, and everyone who made it possible
Podcast Ben Frost: Trumpet, Quartet, Pixies, Copyist, Climbing Ben talks about his quartet album Pixies, released exclusively to Bandcamp on Dec. 2
Reviews Harry Bartlett taught me something about Charlie Haden Review by Chris Fraser of BC/Toronto guitarist Bartlett's second trio album, Wildwood
Paid-members only Lore Top 10 Updates of 2022: gig reviews, launches, interviews Is it fun and insightful? Can't get it anywhere else? Does it bring you local artists?
Live music A jazz jam session for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank The Infidels Jazz and Coastal Jazz will co-present a fundraiser for the local charity
Paid-members only Live music Table for six, please From a gig, a story about "online presence": a term that sanitizes the concept to death
Reviews The highly-anticipated Ostara Project album: our review 10 months ago, we covered the supergroup at their launch. Now, their debut album is out
Paid-members only Interviews Juno Hamilton on playing at Frankie's After Dark & Tyrant At After Dark, a trio with Jesse Cahill & Ethan Birnie; at Tyrant, Juno is the leader
Reviews That feeling of post-apocalyptic vintage radio transmission Eva Schubert releases her fourth album as a vocalist-songwriter, The Feel of Your Love
Paid-members only Interviews Teighan Couch, welcome to Vancouver (at 2nd Floor Gastown) The Ottawa-born, VIU-studying vocalist plays with Sharon Minemoto for Saturday brunch
Podcast Will Stroet of Will's Jams: Amis avec tout le monde album Will's story reveals that kids' music is surprisingly correlated with all arts careers
Reviews Alvaro Rojas, the restless guitar & string quartet master His latest record, Music for 22, is full of genre-bending and collaborative adventure
Paid-members only Music business You're too old for this, part 2 featuring Rollie Pemberton The no good, very bad Cadence Weapon tour outcome; tour economics is a trending topic
Reviews Mama Danced: LJ Mounteney sings the Basement Suite Blues LJ's blues / roots album has great range and features several Vancouver jazz musicians
Reviews Diana Panton finally ended her trilogy. What's different? From pink to RED to the new album "blue", the vocalist has patiently added maturity