Northwest CanCon

The Vancouver duo Japandroids rocked hard at Holocene November 30, near the end of their U.S. tour.

Photos of Amy Millan performing October 26 at the Doug Fir in Portland.

The Orchid Highway perform at the East End in Portland for the International Pop Overthrow.

The Rural Alberta Advantage perform live at Backspace in Portland July 7.

Mother Mother perform at Berbati’s Pan in Portland.

Click here to see exclusive photos of Serena Ryder performing live at the Doug Fir in Portland Feb. 5. (Click “back” on your browser to return to this page.) And keep your eye on this site for an upcoming interview with the double-Juno nominee!

The Dears have been around since the mid-1990s. The Montreal group has always been one of those bands that float in that ambiguous region between “emerging artists” and “rock stars”—they’ve had record deals, and nominations for a Juno and the Polaris Prize, but never had much commercial radio play. They’ve been compared to The Smiths [...]

Great Big Sea electrified a capacity crowd Oct. 12 at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland. It was the final show of the west coast leg of their current tour. “We’re going to leave it all on stage tonight,” singer Alan Doyle told the enthusiastic crowd. “And we’ve got a lot to give.” Stay tuned to [...]

[Update 9/17/2008: in his interview with Northwest CanCon, Dan talked about the challenges he's faced in trying to record his next album. Word on the street is that he will be in the studio in Toronto in November, with the intent to release it in Canada next spring. We'll let you know when it is [...]

Some musicians give solid performances that go off without a hitch but sound like you put their CDs in a changer and hit shuffle. Hayden is not one of those. Though he said he was having a bad humour day, it didn’t show in his performance Monday night at the Aladdin Theater in Portland as [...]