2017 Beaches International Jazz Festival @ Jimmie Simpson Park, Toronto July 9, 2017 As soon as I got to Jimmie Simpson Park for the last half of Sunday’s performances I knew it was going to be a good time because a very upbeat version of the already upbeat theme song from [...]
2017 Beaches International Jazz Festival @ Jimmie Simpson Park, Toronto July 7, 2017 The Beaches International Jazz Festival kicked off its 29th edition with The Happy Pals, and I cannot think of a better band to do so since it is not possible to talk about jazz in Toronto [...]
PIG Swine & Punishment Metropolis Records It is late and I hear thunder in the distance and the night is bound to get better thanks to PIG and friends. I had forgotten how late it really was because I kept raising the volume, while listening to this superb remix album of [...]
Jean-Michel Jarre w/ Marco Grenier @ The Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto May 9, 2017 Walking South on Yonge Street towards the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts I laugh, thinking that twenty years ago I would have never even dared to dream of this moment that is [...]
The Foreign Resort @ The Hideout, Toronto April 22, 2017 There are many times in which I walk into a venue not knowing what to expect at all, I simply go in and listen and discover, it makes me feel like those baseball recruiters who would travel long distances to find new [...]
SHE IS LOST A CONVERSATION WITH THE FOREIGN RESORT You have done extensive touring, a lot of it in USA where you’ve been over 15 times, what draws you to come back and play again? First of all, we have good fans in the United States, although it is expensive for us to [...]
Rational Youth w/ YlangYlang @ This Ain’t Hollywood, Hamilton April 1, 2017 When a good friend casually mentioned that she was going to head down to Hamilton to see Rational Youth, I did not hesitate for a second, and asked if I could join her. She said yes, and a week [...]
Mr Kitty A.I. Negative Gain This is what I had to say about Mr Kitty’s 2013 album Life: Twenty years from now I will listen to this with nostalgia and tenderness, and it will still ring true in my ears and my heart, it is one of the few records of this decade that will [...]
The Skatalites Foundation Ska Sudio One Foundation Ska is the much anticipated reissue of a wonderful double CD set (Also available in vinyl), with recordings from the mid-1960s, the period in which The Skatalites were first active, before reuniting two decades later. Many of [...]
Andy Black w/ William Control & Palaye Royale @ The Opera House, Toronto February 15, 2017 The crowd in front of Toronto’s Opera house had gathered quite early and the queue turned around the block. Hundreds of fans were shivering in anticipation (and the cold) for [...]
for all the emptiness mt Independent If you are looking for new dark electronic music to dance to, the search is over — for all the emptiness’ mt EP is it. The EP starts with ”seduced by a disease”. The lyrics ”is this love or is it a [...]
!Bang Elektronika with nTTx and DJ Lazarus @ Coalition, Toronto February 3, 2017 As I reached Coalition, Sam, the hardworking and ever smiling doorman of many Toronto alternative events, announced that nTTx was doing a sound check; they were playing a revamped version of [...]
Drab Majesty The Demonstration DAIS Records Deb Demure’s powerful voice, the beat of hypnotic synthpop, layers of cosmic energy, and lyrics that can be read as contemporary magic spells: this is Drab Majesty. I became aware of Drab Majesty thanks to Psychic TV. Drab Majesty [...]
