ANIMAL COLLECTIVE SPIRIT THEY’RE GONE, SPIRIT THEY’VE VANISHED (REMASTERED 2023) DOMINO RECORDS Animal Collective is a party for the ears, animating my life for the past two decades. Listening to Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve [...]
Great Lake Swimmers Uncertain Country Fontana North/Cadence Music Years ago, a friend described the experience of her toddler’s first show. It was Great Lake Swimmers, a band I hadn’t heard of until then. Yet the image of the [...]
REMEMBERING LEX GORE: A SPILL MAGAZINE MEMORIAL TRIBUTE BY SUSANA MEZA Five and a half years ago, I arrived in Toronto with a few heavy suitcases and the receipt of a 3-month payment for a bed in a dorm at the HI-Toronto Hostel. Feeling lost [...]
The The w/ Agnes Obel @ Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto September 19, 2018 A friend texts me shortly before I leave home “Front door of Sony Centre: photography and video recording prohibited this evening”. Friends sure know [...]
ILLUMINATION CONCERT SERIES – DEATH FROM ABOVE w/ TEENANGER & CASPER SKULLS @ THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE, TORONTO MAY 31, 2018 The Torontonian stop of the Canada wide Aurora Illumination Series was simply memorable. The Phoenix [...]
Drive By Truckers w/ Erika Wennerstrom @ The Mod Club Theatre, Toronto April 3, 2018 There is a leather box. It looks vintage, and it is empty and wide open on the side of a planter. Then there is a single playing card, a King, all alone. No one [...]
NO POP, NO POMP A CONVERSATION WITH LONELY VAGABOND A child is in their parents’ living room, somewhere in Canada — or at least I am assuming it is Canada where they are — and they are listening to The Association’s Greatest Hits. Trying to [...]
Diamanda Galás @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto November 26, 2017 It took me a decade to see Diamanda Galás a second time, and for many of those who were with me at the Danforth Music Hall on Sunday, November 26th, 2017, the wait was even [...]
Odonis Odonis + Beliefs w/ Chrysanthemum White Alder @ The Garrison, Toronto November 3, 2017 There are times in which you step into a venue not knowing what to expect, sometimes there is a veil of doubt regarding certain bands, however, last [...]
nTTx Of Beauty And Chaos WTII Records Every Sunday I go to the same local jazz bar to listen to the same handful of musicians play a similar repertoire over and over, and it is a good lesson on listening, music appreciation and objectivity. You [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Jacksons – Promotional Appearance @ Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto Photos By Susana Meza [sk_grid id=”23760″ initial_load=”20″ gallery_gap=”5″ max_load_more=”20″ [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
!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 [...]
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 [...]
