Articles by Andrea Warner

El Vez

Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, September 3

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2012

At first glance, El Vez looks and sounds like a joke. Bursting onto the stage in a glitzed-up, bell-bottomed twist on the classic Uncle Sam...

Passion Pit

Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, September 3

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2012

Because of the trek back to Vancouver from Seattle, this intimate KEXP live show was my only chance to see Passion Pit. It was also the onl...

Cat Power

Solace and Solitude

PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2012

Back when she was a mess, on stage as Cat Power and off stage as Chan (pronounced Shawn) Marshall, it was almost impossible to predict whic...

Cat Power Talks 'Sun' and Heartbreak

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2012

The last proper Cat Power studio album came out in 2006. If The Greatest had been Chan Marshall's resignation from the spotlight, or, as ma...

Baby Dee

Ironwood Stage & Grill, Calgary AB June 21

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2012

Hilarious and heartfelt barely scrape the surface of transgender performance artist-turned-cabaret singer Baby Dee's wondrous set on the se...

Willis Earl Beal

Ironwood Stage & Grill, Calgary AB June 21

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2012

There's no voice like Willis Earl Beal's. It's a growling, luscious, resonant sound that contorts itself wherever the tape loop takes it, f...

Samantha Savage Smith

Ironwood Stage & Grill, Calgary AB June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

"I just spilled a full beer on my guitar," Samantha Savage Smith said by way of introduction, taking the Ironwood stage on Sled Island's op...

Joe Pernice

Ironwood Stage & Grill, Calgary AB June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

The best part of music festivals like Sled Island: filling in long-standing gaps in one's musical vocabulary. For me, that's Joe Pernice, a...