Get going: Jaw-dropping music video makers OK Go bring their elaboratately choreographed tunes to the Commodore Ballroom tonight in support of electronic-flavoured new album Hungry Ghosts.
Get informed: Acclaimed journalist and bomber jacket enthusiast Gwynne Dyer will point out some of the many, many ways the world is currently going to hell in a handbasket -- ranging from such hot topics as the rise of ISIS to the spread of Ebola -- in a lecture at Simon Fraser’s downtown campus called “The New World Disorder.”
Get punch drunk: Big Apple-based experimental bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers play an all-ages show at the Vogue tonight in support of T Bone Burnett–produced new album The Phosphorescent Blues. Gabriel Kahane opens.
Get boomed at: Not to be confused with Edmonton’s upcoming Sonic Boom Festival headlined by Alexisonfire, our own Sonic Boom Festival will be a quieter affair featuring musicians and composers specializing in chamber music. The event kicks off tonight at Pyatt Hall with a panel discussion featuring Vancouver ProMusica’s composer-in-residence Aaron Gervais and guests Corey Hamm and Nicole Li.
Get read to: As part of the Vancouver Public Library’s ongoing Incite reading series in the Alice MacKay room, three authors will read tonight from new Canadian memoirs with three new Canadian voices. Cathie Borrie reads from The Long Hello, which explores the emotional rewards and challenges that she experienced while caring for her mother, who was living with Alzheimer’s disease. Lynette Loeppky reads from Cease, a memoir about her experience as the sole care-giver to the woman she had been planning to leave, and Kara Stanley reads from Fallen, the story of her husband’s life-changing brain and spinal cord injury.
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