BOMBINO
Tuareg blues rocker Bombino performs at The Imperial on Sunday, July 22. Nigerien singer-songwriter Omara “Bombino” Moctar, sometimes referred to as ‘The Jimi Hendrix of Niger’ knows his way around an electric guitar. Live and direct from Agadez, Niger, North Africa.
FLASHER
Post-punk D.C. trio play tracks from their marvellous debut album, Constant Image, at the Fox Cabaret on Saturday, July 21 with Champion Lawnmower and Pudding. “Skim Milk”.
MARYZE
Montréal-based electronic pop musician Maryze (Maryse Bernard) dropped a summer single on July 13, “Their Hearts,” produced by Solomon K-I.
Her first single “B.O.Y.” reached No. 33 on Spotify’s Viral 50 Canada charts in May. Born and raised in Deep Cove, Maryze is planning to release an EP in the fall and debuted some of the tracks live in Montréal last week @barleritzpdb.
NICO
Warhol superstar and Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico is featured in a couple of Phillippe Garrel films at The Cinematheque this week. Tonight, The Inner Scar (1972) screens at 7 p.m. followed by The Virgin’s Bed (1970) at 8:15 p.m. Visit thecinematheque.ca/philippe-garrel-definitions-of-love for complete schedule.
KING PRINCESS
Brooklyn singer/songwriter King Princess (a.k.a. Mikaela Straus) performs tonight at the Biltmore Cabaret at 7 p.m. Her debut EP, Make My Bed, came out in June on Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records. “1950”.
MAT ZO
British producer Mat Zo brings all-House DJ set to Celebrities Underground on Saturday, July 21st w/ support from UNIONdjs. “BBC Radio One Essential Mix”.
LET’S EAT GRANDMA
U.K. band Let’s Eat Grandma, featuring Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth, start their North American tour in Vancouver at the Fortune Sound Club on Aug. 30. “It’s Not Just Me,” from their new album, I’m All Ears, released June 29 on Transgression Records.
POLYGON GALLERY
Brady Cranfield presents The Rita, Mourning Coup and the BC Hydra DJ crew in a Friday Night Music concert on July 27.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
This week the Park Theatre is screening Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, on its 50th anniversary.
LOTTE REINIGER
Trick Studios (Elizabeth Beecherl and Carla Patullo) have made a new short animated documentary about the pioneering work of German animator Lotte Reiniger, Lotte That Silhouette Girl, that will screen at Leg in Boot Square with Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed on Aug. 6 as part of the Vancouver Biennale CineFest.
