Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Story published in the Vancouver Sun on January 26, 2011. BY AMANDA ASH, VANCOUVER SUN Cultural boundaries don’t exist within Kiran Ahluwalia’s music. The India-born, Canadian-raised vocalist and composer holds four releases under her belt, which creatively melt sounds ranging from Portuguese fado to Celtic fiddle with her traditional Indian ghazals and Punjabi folk songs. […]
Published in Us Weekly, issue 832, January 24, 2011. Features reporting by myself.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Published online at Exclaim.ca on January 11, 2011. By Amanda Ash Jenn Grant’s music has always mirrored her emotions. Orchestra for the Moon, the Halifax, NS-based singer-songwriter’s debut, showed us her spunky, wide-eyed naivety. Then, her 2009 release,Echoes, brought us to a heavy place filled with heartbreak, loneliness and mourning. Now, with Honeymoon Punch, Grant is ready […]
Story published online at UsMagazine.com on January 10, 2011. Article features reporting by myself.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Published in the Vancouver Sun on December 16, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, SPECIAL TO THE SUN The masses couldn’t have picked a more worthy winner when they crowned Carrie Underwood as the 2005 American Idol. In just five short years, the country starlet has not only lived up to her title but charged ahead full […]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Published in the Vancouver Sun on December 1, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, SPECIAL TO THE SUN Vitaly Beckman doesn’t just pull furry rabbits out of top hats. Magic is an art for the Vancouver-based illusionist, and his brand of tricks are more akin to experiencing The Nutcracker than something you’d see at a five-year-old’s birthday […]
Monday, November 15, 2010
Published in the Vancouver Sun on November 15, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, SPECIAL TO THE SUN After decades of ingesting a cornucopia of narcotics and slinging back buckets of booze, the so-called Prince of Darkness is alive and kicking. Sure, Ozzy Osbourne (who turns 62 in December) is no longer at his physical or musical […]
Published in the Vancouver Sun on November 5, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, SPECIAL TO THE SUN If the Stone Temple Pilots had a reality TV show, they could easily give Intervention, The Hills and Jersey Shore a run for their money. But from what fans at the Pacific Coliseum could tell Thursday night, the San […]
Published in the Vancouver Sun on October 29, 2010. BY AMANDA ASH, SPECIAL TO THE SUN Sufjan Stevens has become his own subject of lyrical analysis. The 35-year-old singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist looked inward Thursday night, revealing his many different faces to a sold-out crowd at the Orpheum Theatre. Stevens’ latest 11-track record The Age Of […]
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Us Weekly cover story, Issue 821, November 8, 2010. Features reporting by myself. Justin Timberlake cheated on Jessica Biel with actress Olivia Munn during a three-day fling this past September, reports the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now). Timberlake, 29, and Munn, 30, a Daily Show correspondent who stars in the upcoming NBC series Perfect Couples, first met at a […]
