Subscriber Fridays
1000th show in 2026?
Infidels hits 500, Cole Schmidt weekend with Ginger & Bruno, Alice in Wonderland, Hear and Now, Dacey, Renee on podcasts, jazzfest 2011
Will Chernoff
William Ross Chernoff—known as Will to friends and colleagues—is a musician who founded Rhythm Changes in 2020.
Subscriber Fridays
2 jazz accordionists walk into a strip club
Ben Rosenblum, City Pop, Surrey band cuts, BJP, festival tariff talk, Thomas Marriott, Wayne Tucker, Kickstarter, Kneebody
Subscriber Fridays
Reacting to the Straight “Vancouver’s scrappy music scene”
Nerding out in search of a relevant, substantive question via yesterday’s Georgia Straight piece on local artists and venues
Free Weekly
Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project comes to town
With trumpeter Wayne Tucker, reedist Xavier Del Castillo, guitarist Rafael Rosa, bassist Eduardo Belo, & drummer Ben Zweig
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“Few can match my ancient nerd-dom”
Gordy Smurf 4, Allison Burik solo, Devlin & Hong, DRMHS single, Putumayo, jazzfest funding, noise policies
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C#
Wholesome Allison Burik / Mili Hong trio, Nebyu / Cole / Dean, attendance, funding, Patreon, and inside baseball
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2025 jazz Junos: nominees and people of our scene
The 54th Junos will happen here in Vancouver on Sunday, March 30. Nominees got published on Tuesday, including some of us
Subscriber Fridays
“My job is very boring, I'm an office clerk”
Echo Beach, Todd's and other lists, Grammys and jazz crimes, fulsome coverage, Sarah Hanahan returns, Kaia Kater
Subscriber Fridays
New series are very much still a thing
The Hargrove, Coastal Cravings; back to Apollo's at long last; shows by Róisín Adams, Sean Fyfe, and Jason de Couto; radio
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He's one of them now
Bona & Frisell, Arooj Aftab, Elisa Thorn, Stephane Wrembel, Hugh Fraser, Stacie McGregor, and an initiation
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The second one already?
Red Gate, Fort Langley, "neighbours", Jodi & Jon, radio, Berklee pop, Wine Wednesdays, & farewell to a peer site
Subscriber Fridays
10 Things (the first one)
This style is what I’m going to bring you whenever I have 10 or so (a lot of) things to tell you about. Let’s get into it