The ever-diverse RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest in Ottawa announced its first wave of artists with some big headliners throughout the July 4 - 14, ranging f...
Let's agree that most YouTube videos of cover songs by high school students are meant to entertain a small circle of friends and earn derisive snorts much beyond the school grounds. Few are so pure in intention and strikingly beautiful in execution that they break the heart of the original artist.
Now based in New York, Carl Newman has returned to Vancouver to headline a show -- appropriately, as part of a birthday bash concert series for The New Pornographers' hometown.