lass Tiger 31 Halo Entertainment Group Into the eye of the “Glass Tiger”… Not too many bands (let alone Canadian) can say that they’ve been together for more than 31 years, but the [...]
The Tea Party – 20 Years Of Transmission @ The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto November 30, 2017 With a career spanning decades, The Tea Party, playing on a late Thursday night at the Horseshoe Tavern’s 70th [...]
Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now Sub Pop Records Displaced American (now in England) singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop releases this nine-track album, Memories Are Now, to critical fanfare. [...]
Crystal Lake True North Artery Recordings The metalcore ebb and flow of Crystal Lake… Tokyo’s hardcore/metalcore 4-piece band Crystal Lake has been around for longer than [...]
Port Juvee Crimewave Independent Despite their success and wide acclaim in 2014 with their EP Revenge, Calgary, Alberta’s own garage rocking Port Juvee have come a long way since [...]
Sam Roberts Band TerraForm Secret Brain/Universal Music Canada Enter….the TerraForm!!! It’s incredible to imagine that the Juno Award-winning Sam Roberts Band has been [...]
Hooton Tennis Club Big Box Of Chocolates Heavenly Recordings Chris X hears a Hooton! To be honest, the title of the album didn’t grab me (enter obvious Forrest Gump [...]
Yellowcard Yellowcard Hopeless Records Walking off into the sunset… If you’ve consumed enough music genres through whatever means you have, then Yellowcard is a name that some [...]
Various Artists Money Maker (2016 Re-Issue) Studio One Vibe out with this rare, reggae classic!! So here we have a re-issue of an original old school LP (and rare in Studio [...]
Deerhoof The Magic Polyvinyl Records A surreal San Francisco treat since 1994! Zany. Weird. Bizarre. Unorthodox. Quirky. Supernatural. Absurdist. Unconventional. This is the spectrum of [...]
Diarrhea Planet Turn To Gold Dine Alone Records No Sphincter Paralysis when hearing four guitars at the same time??? …Sphincter Paralysis…what an awesome name for a [...]
Pkew Pkew Pkew Pkew Pkew Pkew Royal Mountain Records How many Pop-Punk musicians does it take to finish a two-four of beer? ZZZZZZZZZ…..hmmmmm….what? Another Pop [...]
Ron Hawkins Spit Sputter And Sparkle Pheromone Recordings Hawkins doesn’t sputter on this album! The Lowest Of the Low frontman Ron Hawkins skillfully crafts [...]
Nada Surf You Know Who You Are Barsuk Records Life after 20 years…a softer pop sound? Having gone to their concert in Toronto on November 17th, 2015 at the Horseshoe Tavern [...]
The Lowest Of The Low @ The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto December 5th, 2015 Memories of 90’s jangle pop! This was the night that frontman Ron Hawkins and the gang [...]
Nada Surf @ The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto November 16th, 2015 Just what we needed….Nada Surf delivering the existential goods! At exactly 10:10pm, the band from [...]
Den Sorte Skole Indians & Cowboys Independent The global Black School goes old, old school turntablism!!! No soundscape boundaries. Trying to pigeonhole these [...]
IAMX Metanoia Metropolis Records Electronic sunshine of the insomniac mind! Creating the moniker IAMX in 2004 as a way of being true to himself and being more creatively independent with his [...]
The Tea Party @ Massey Hall, Toronto September 26th, 2015 Promoting their latest album, The Ocean at the End (2014), and touring while celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Edges of [...]
