2017 iHeartRadio MuchMusic Video Awards | #MMVAs @ MuchMusic, Toronto June 18, 2017 Photos By Morgan Harris ARKELLS BRANDON FLYNN DARREN CRISS DOVE OAKLEY IMAGINE DRAGONS KAT GRAHAM MARTHA HUNT SCOTT HELMAN SHAWN HOOK SHENAE GRIMES BEECH TASHA THE AMAZON TYLER OAKLEY MuchMusic [...]
Prozzäk @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto March 29, 2017 Welcome to The Hot Show. 1999 was a simpler timer. Bill Clinton was President, everyone’s biggest fear was Y2K and the internet was obsessed with a dancing baby. For kids born between the years 1988 and 1993 this was [...]
Milky Chance @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto March 18, 2017 As with most concerts, there are few elements more important than the crowd. It doesn’t matter who is on stage, if they lose the crowd the joy is more or less over. Luckily Milky Chance arrived to a crowd thirsty [...]
DATING ADVICE FROM A 200 YEAR OLD CARTOON CHARACTER AN INTERVIEW WITH MILO (AKA JAMES McCOLLUM) FROM PROZZÄK Ask any Canadian between the ages of 23-30 who Prozzäk is and watch their eyes light up in excitement. Thanks to heavy rotation on Much Music, anyone who was a kid [...]
CHARTING A NEW COURSE FOR FUNK AN INTERVIEW WITH TAYO BRANSTON OF FIVE ALARM FUNK Five Alarm Funk is not so much a band as it is an experience. Combining elements of Funk, jazz, and even gypsy rock, the group have created a fully unique and entirely intoxicating sound. Combine [...]
FALLING IN LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW ANGUS OF FAST ROMANTICS Recording an album is a lot like falling in love. It’s a long and sometimes messy affair, and often what you wanted at the start isn’t what you end up with. It’s a process Matthew Angus, [...]
Run The Jewels @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto February 19, 2017 “That was chaos. Absolute chaos” Rapper/Producer El-P tells the crowd following a particularly energetic performance of “Stay Gold”. While he may have been talking about one song, chaos is an excellent way to [...]
BROS @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto February 10, 2017 Ewan and Shamus Currie saunter onto the stage as if fresh from the pages of Creem Magazine circa 1973. It’s a miserable snowy February night and the crowd inside Lee’s Palace is hungry for a reminder of sunnier days. [...]
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS AND THE GREAT AMERICAN GUMBO AN INTERVIEW WITH PATTERSON HOOD OF DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Patterson Hood looks around at what is happening to his country and doesn’t like what he sees. Travel bans, protests, and a new President who seems to want to not only [...]
Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 3 Mass Appeal Records 2016 has been a difficult year to say the least. In the year we witnessed a Reality TV Star become Leader of the Free World leave it to Run The Jewels, the knock out duo of Killer Mike and El-P, to make sure we head into 2017 [...]
Phish Big Boat Jemp For many, the term “Jam Band” is intimidating. It conjures up images of four-hour concerts, 15-minute guitar solos and songs overstuffed with every conceivable instrument. Thanks to that mentality Phish, perennial leaders of the Jam Band experimental genre, [...]
15 YEARS LATER AND STILL EATING AN INTERVIEW WITH ZACH LIND AND RICK BURCH OF JIMMY EAT WORLD 23 years and 8 albums later Jimmy Eat World haven’t slowed down a bit. Gearing up for the release of their ninth album Integrity Blues the alt rockers stopped by Toronto for a packed [...]
INSIDE RYAN MacDONALD’S HONEST HEART AN INTERVIEW WITH RYAN MacDONALD OF THE HONEST HEART COLLECTIVE For a few years now, Thunder Bay-based independent group The Honest Heart Collective has been on an almost-constant trek along every stop on highway 17 to showcase its [...]
TURF – Toronto Urban Roots Fest @ Fort York Garrison Common, Toronto September 16-18, 2016 Day One Modern Space Fun, fun, fun. That was the order of the day for Toronto’s newcomer Modern Space. As a selected participant in Spotify’s Spotlight 2016 program, [...]
The Joy Formidable Wednesday June 15, 2016 The Mod Club Welsh power trio The Joy Formidable hit the Mod Club for NXNE and to support their latest album Hitch. Even the fact that the album has been released everywhere but Canada couldn’t damper the spirits of a pumped-up crowd [...]
Jeff Healey – A 50th Celebration @ Massey Hall, Toronto May 27, 2016 There is something timeless and eternal about the Blues. A song written as far back as the 1930s can still feel just as fresh and timely today as it did 85 years ago. Almost every type of music listened [...]
The Black Keys Turn Blue Nonesuch Records What would happen if Pink Floyd tried to make a blues record? Thanks to The Black Keys and their latest release, Turn Blue, listeners can now imagine such an album. The hard rocking duo have dialed back the bluesy influence of past [...]
Chromeo White Women Last Gang Records Chromeo have managed to put together a pretty good album, but they’re just too cool to admit it. Four years after Chromeo’s mainstream hit Business Casual, the Montreal-based duo are back with their fourth album, White Women. With [...]
