The weekend’s live music lineup stays strong into tonight (April 13), Vancouver music fan, with loads of local goodness to boot.
The Rickshaw Theatre hosts A Benefit for Girls Rock Camp Vancouver. A local lineup featuring power-pop balladeers Bend Sinister, hardcore band Anchoress, fuzz-packed garage punkers the Vicious Cycles, noise-pop band Slow Learners, and finally, ON LOCK and Mete Pills.
While most, if not all, the musicians performing at the event are dudes, it’s surely an honour to help out with such a worthy cause. Girls Rock Camp Vancouver works to empower and build self-esteem in local female youth from the ages of eight to eighteen, using music creation, performance and positive mentorship over the course of a one-week camp. As the volunteer-run organization’s website states;
“The objective of our camp is to provide space [for thirty] female youth to build self-esteem through music creation and performance. Throughout the week, campers learn a key instrument and are coached through the experience of playing within a band setting. Campers also attend workshops with talented female mentors in subjects such as Songwriting, Self-Defense, Image and Identity, Zine-making, Screen-printing. The week finishes with the ultimate experience of playing a live show in front of an audience of family, friends and screaming fans.”
Tickets cost $15 at the door or $12 if you grab them in advance at Red Cat, Zulu or Neptoon Records. Doors open at 8 p.m.
Also on tonight, a trifecta of Canadian indie rock descends upon the Biltmore Cabaret with Charlottetown’s Two Hours Traffic, Toronto’s Zeus and Regina rockers Rah Rah. THT brings its new LP Foolish Blood to town and Zeus recently released the Cover Me EP which features the Torontonians’ twist on song like Stone Temple Pilots’ “Vaseline,” Michael Jackson’s “Who Is It?” and R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix).” Doors for this one open at 7 p.m. and tickets cost $16.50 (probably a bit more at the door).
Finally, legends of punk rock Bad Religion delivers True North, its sixteenth full-length since 1982, to the Vogue Theatre with some killer accompaniment from post-harcore New Yorkers Polar Bear Club. Unfortunately, Against me!, who were also on the bill pulled out of the tour due to drummer issues (classic). Veterans of countless concerts, Bad Religion have a massive catalogue to draw from and fans will surely be in for a few classics as well as some new tunes, like this one…
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