Events and Entertainment

Welcome to The Playground, a place for Vancouver parents and their awesome kids. Every Wednesday I post a roundup of upcoming family-friendly events and activities.

Rock show. Rave. Throw you lightas up ballads. Sick on CD, killer live. James Murphy and company can certainly do it all and they did last night at Malkin Bowl .

Dan Mangan 's Nice, Nice, Very Nice was released on vinyl today! To honour this occasion we got some random guy to take a PhotoBooth image of himself holding the album. Oh wait... no...

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool with you, shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). Today's photo was shot by ng.

I never write music stuff because I'm rarely up past 11, but when I heard Public Enemy was coming last week, I couldn't say no.

We had a live twitter feed running with the hashtag #nightatmov during Volume 1 of A Night At MOV with Conor Holler so that our audience could interact with the show, and we really had no idea so many people actually would! Here's some of my favourit

Have you been to our sister site, CalgaryIsAwesome.com , lately? Brock Mitchell is absolutely killing it over there with his series of live song recordings, Shot at the Dark. Below is one they recently did with Vancouver's very own Said The Whale.

With 21,931 artists, boasting 97,239 tracks, the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool with you, shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). Today's photo was shot by Matt Schroeter .

Once again, VancouverIsAwesome.com is co-sponsoring Vancouver's favourite (and only) televised variety Show - Paul Anthony's Talent Time at the Biltmore! This Wednesday's show is a doozy and has a secret musical guest.