![]() ![]() Patrick’s Day and the Pogues go hand-in-hand. Hit the menu below and plan (and pace) your weekend accordingly. All that and the McElroy Brothers doing a live episode of their infectiously silly podcast! There's too much good stuff this weekend to spend 48 hours of it sleeping off the first 24. The Timbers take the field, the glory days of Saturday morning television are resurrected, and the rainy nights and darkened alleys of classic Hollywood noir are brought to black & white life at Cinema 21. Let's see if we can figure out a shitshow-free holiday weekend together (unless that's exactly what you're looking for, in which case, we got those too!) KMRIA keeps tradition alive with a soused tribute to the Pogues at the Doug Fir, Kells kicks off its yearly festival that turns downtown green, and The Aces close out their good feelin' run at the Siren. ![]() Patrick's Day, but it doesn't have to end there, in a green-beer induced blackout following some shitshow or another you can't remember. Feelings sound so good cranked up to 11.It's often called Amateur Hour, but it doesn't have to play that way. And their whoa-oh refrains will slay at festivals this summer. ![]() The electronic-spiked I’m Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner) and Arc of Bar are both claustrophobic and widescreen, and not unlike a pumped-up Placebo. North East South West, meanwhile, is a Canadian punk take on patriotic country music, with a chorus that sounds like they’ve got a battalion behind them. The title track has rousing get-in-a-moshpit-and-hug-your-mates choruses but it’s also pleasantly grown-up: emo-rock for those who still wear plaid shirts and skate shoes but who also now brew their own craft ale. The duo have nailed the art of the crunching, life-affirming crescendo. ![]() Previous records had a lo-fi garage edginess to them – skittish drums, lyrical yelps, cavalcades of crunch – but Near to the Wild Heart of Life, their third album, is so luxuriously gnarled it roars out of the speakers like the Revenant bear. Few others do gorgeous distortion like Vancouver’s Japandroids. ![]()
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