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

Harry Bartlett taught me something about Charlie Haden

Review by Chris Fraser of BC/Toronto guitarist Bartlett's second trio album, Wildwood

Subscriber Fridays

Top 10 subscriber articles of 2022: gig recaps & launches

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

Live music

Table for six, please

From a gig, a story about "online presence": a term that sanitizes the concept to death

Vancouver albums

The highly-anticipated Ostara Project album: our review

10 months ago, we covered the supergroup at their launch. Now, their debut album is out

Live music

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

That feeling of post-apocalyptic vintage radio transmission

Eva Schubert releases her fourth album as a vocalist-songwriter, The Feel of Your Love

Live music

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

Vancouver albums

Alvaro Rojas, the restless guitar & string quartet master

His latest record, Music for 22, is full of genre-bending and collaborative adventure