Sled Island

Willis Earl Beal

Ironwood Stage & Grill, Calgary AB June 21

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2012

There's no voice like Willis Earl Beal's. It's a growling, luscious, resonant sound that contorts itself wherever the tape loop takes it, f...

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet

#1 Legion, Calgary AB June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2012

The sixth edition of Calgary's annual Sled Island festival started out with a bang at the downtown Legion. Having hosted festival highlight...

Hot Snakes

Dicken's, Calgary AB June 21

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2012

Sled Island has always struck a good balance between talented new bands and important older ones. Hot Snakes' Thursday night set fell into...

B.A. Johnston / Ketamines / Korean Gut / Cousins

The Area, Calgary AB June 21

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2012

This afternoon event, hosted at Calgary farm/beehive/community space the Area, provided an excellent start to the day's proceedings, with n...

Samantha Savage Smith

Ironwood Stage & Grill, Calgary AB June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

"I just spilled a full beer on my guitar," Samantha Savage Smith said by way of introduction, taking the Ironwood stage on Sled Island's op...

Joe Pernice

Ironwood Stage & Grill, Calgary AB June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

The best part of music festivals like Sled Island: filling in long-standing gaps in one's musical vocabulary. For me, that's Joe Pernice, a...

Sled Island Adds Hot Snakes, Lou Barlow, the Spits, CFCF to Lineup

PUBLISHED May 1, 2012

After months of teasing us with leaks and hinting at big things to come, the organizers at Calgary's Sled Island festival have finally let...

Sled Island Adds Tim Hecker, Craig Finn, Reigning Sound, How to Dress Well to 2012 Lineup

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2012

Back in February, Sled Island announced a number of headlining acts who would be stopping by the Calgary event this June 20 to 23, includin...