BeatRoute Magazine AB Edition September 2019
BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise. The paper started in June 2004 and continues to provide a healthy dose of perversity while exercising rock ‘n’ roll ethics. Currently BeatRoute’s AB edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton (by S*A*R*G*E), Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120
BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise. The paper started in June 2004 and continues to provide a healthy dose of perversity while exercising rock ‘n’ roll ethics. Currently BeatRoute’s AB edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton (by S*A*R*G*E), Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120
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The Guide<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
Dance-pop nerds<br />
SOFI TUKKER provide<br />
the sountrack to your<br />
best night ever<br />
You might know electronic music duo<br />
SOFI TUKKER best from a 2017<br />
iPhone X commercial featuring a poop<br />
emoji happily lip-syncing along to<br />
their song “Best Friend,” a track that<br />
also showed up in the soundtrack for<br />
Ocean’s Eight and FIFA 18.<br />
The duo’s specific brand of<br />
multilingual dance-pop has bridged<br />
cultural divides, and their ability to pull<br />
influences from around the world has<br />
turned them into a widely soughtafter<br />
act, capable of shutting down<br />
a dance floor. Their latest single with<br />
Colombian group Bomba Estereo,<br />
“Playa Grande,” is performed in Engligh,<br />
Spanish, and Portuguese.<br />
Based in New York, Sophie Hawley-Weld<br />
and Tucker Halpern met<br />
while performing separately at a music<br />
gala at Brown University. During his<br />
set Halpern spontaneously remixed<br />
one of Hawley-Weld’s songs, and the<br />
next day they contacted each other.<br />
That willingness to try just about<br />
anything has translated into the music<br />
they make together through their<br />
project SOFI TUKKER.<br />
Despite being two Ivy League music<br />
nerds and receiving enough accolades<br />
to earn a couple of Grammy nominations,<br />
SOFI TUKKER enjoy settling<br />
into their roles as the providers of your<br />
party playlist, and want to be the backdrop<br />
to having the night of your life.<br />
Their debut full-length album,<br />
Treehouse, was inspired by the kind<br />
of unapologetic, childlike spirit that<br />
allows you to be yourself to the fullest<br />
extent. It’s the same spirit that the duo<br />
hope to see when they look out over<br />
the crowd on their latest tour, aptly<br />
titled “R.I.P. Shame.”<br />
SOFI TUKKER performs October 2 at<br />
The Palace (Calgary) and October 4 at<br />
the Commodore Ballroom (Vancouver).<br />
By BEN BODDEZ<br />
BEATROUTE<br />
Publisher<br />
Julia Rambeau Smith<br />
Senior Editor<br />
Glenn Alderson<br />
Associate Editor<br />
Brad Simm<br />
Creative Director<br />
Troy Beyer<br />
Contributing Editors<br />
Sebastian Buzzalino<br />
Josephine Cruz<br />
Dayna Mahannah<br />
Melissa Vincent<br />
Contributors<br />
Max Asper • Ben Boddez<br />
Morgan Cairns • Jonathan Crane<br />
Jesse Gillett • Kathryn Helmore<br />
Jeevin Johal • Brendan Lee<br />
Christine Leonard<br />
Dave MacIntyre • Dayna Mahannah<br />
James Olson • Jennie Orton<br />
Johnny Papan • Tory Rosso<br />
Yasmine Shemesh •<br />
Graeme Wiggins • Helena Zhang<br />
Contributing Photographers<br />
Lindsey Blane<br />
Sebastian Buzzalino<br />
Kira Clavell • Bev Davies<br />
Michaela DeCiantis-Wong<br />
Jesse Gillett • Joshua Grafstein<br />
Preet Hundal • Olivia Jaffe<br />
Amanda Leigh Smith<br />
Céline Pinget • Kezia Nathe<br />
Darrole Palmer • Travis Shinn<br />
Dave Today • Daniel Topete<br />
Coordinator (live music)<br />
Darrole Palmer<br />
Advertising Inquiries<br />
Glenn Alderson<br />
glenn@beatroute.ca<br />
778-888-1120<br />
Distribution<br />
<strong>BeatRoute</strong> is distributed in<br />
Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary,<br />
Edmonton, Winnipeg and<br />
Saskatoon<br />
Contact us<br />
2405 East Hastings St.<br />
Vancouver, BC<br />
V5K 1Y8<br />
e-mail:<br />
editor@beatroute.ca<br />
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@beatrouteBC<br />
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@beatroutemedia<br />
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