Vancouver Magazine
Beijing Mansion Hosts Chinese Restaurant Awards New Wave 2023 Dinner
A Guide to the City’s Best Omakase
5 Croissants to Try at the 2023 Vancouver Croissant Crawl
The Best Drinks to Bring to a Holiday Party (and Their Zero-Proof Alternatives)
The Wine List: 6 Wines for Every Holiday Wine Drinker on Your List
Nightcap: Spiked Horchata
PHOTOS: Dr. Peter Centre’s Passions Gala and the BC Children’s Hospital’s Crystal Ball
Gift Idea: Buy Everyone You Know Tickets to the Circus
5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (December 4-10)
Escape to Osoyoos: Your Winter Wonderland Awaits
Your 2023/2024 Ultimate Local Winter Getaway Guide
Kamloops Unscripted: The Most Intriguing Fall Destination of 2023
2023 Gift Guide: 7 Gifts for People Who Need to Chill the Hell Out
2023 Gift Guide: 8 Gorgeous Gifts from Vancouver Jewellery Designers
Local Gift Guide 2023: For Everyone on Your Holiday Shopping List
The singer-songwriter movement of the early 1970s was the sound of baby boomers coming to grips with adulthood. Mourning their generation’s failure to deliver a cultural revolution, the likes of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor turned inward, taking comfort in gently plucked acoustic guitars and their own mellifluous voices. Yet despite being so much a product of its time, the genre has proved timeless-especially in the U.K., where today’s artists still pay tribute to the sound and sentiment of the original article. Beth Orton emerged in the early ’90s, attracting an unlikely audience among techno ravers, who found in her spare, melancholy songs the perfect early-morning “comedown” soundtrack. Following a motherhood hiatus, she returns this month with The Sugaring Season, her first album in six years (Venue, Oct. 16, 2012). In a similar vein: Ed Sheeran and Michael Kiwanuka-age 21 and 24, respectively-became bona fide stars in Britain during the past year; the former’s vulnerable tenor and mop of ginger hair have made him an unlikely heartthrob among bookish girls, while the latter recalls the soulful balladry of Bill Withers and Van Morrison (Queen Elizabeth Theatre & Commodore Ballroom, Oct. 4, 2012).