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The Victoria Event Center will become ENCORE BY PAPARAZZI in 2025

The Victoria Event Centre (VEC), a space previously dedicated to bolstering emerging new artists and good music, will be converted into ENCORE BY PAPARAZZI in 2025. 

Could the new Wicked movie spark a return to classic movie-musicals?

The film version of Dancing Through Life makes you think this is how it was always intended to be —  crescendoing alongside an upbeat dance number, where huge, cylindrical spinning…

Tyler, The Creator’s latest project explores new depths of identity

Chromakopia is yet another victory lap for the California native, following 2021’s Call Me If You Get Lost, a personal story of identity and fatherhood, and the winning vulnerability heard…

Offbeat: CFUV shares top September albums

Top played September albums at CFUV 101.9FM.

The story within Marah in the Mainsail’s ‘Bone Crown’

Now that it’s autumn, if you’re looking for an album with some eerie fall vibes and a Hallowe’en-y feel, then Coyote Kid’s 2017 album Bone Crown might be for you. 

The unbearable weight of grief and joy in Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ ‘Wild God’

On his new record Wild God, Nick Cave’s melancholy is transfigured into joy.

Offbeat: CFUV shares top August albums

Top played August albums at CFUV 101.9FM.

Here’s how to support your favourite artists from Bands on the Roof

Campus Kick-Off happened last week, and Bands on the Roof was a hard-to-miss highlight. Fifteen local acts — many students — took the stage to welcome students back to campus

There’s a new king of the jungle on the Victoria music festival scene

It’s clear that Phillips Backyard is here to stay. This year, armed with an extraordinary lineup and enough craft beer to fill Victoria’s inner harbour, the 2024 Reverb Weekend was…

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