ENTER SHIKARI w/ CAN’T SWIM @ THE MOD CLUB THEATRE, TORONTO OCTOBER 3, 2019 The show had just sold out at the Mod Club Theatre on a misty, chilly night. In the venue, there was a visible fandom for UK band Enter Shikari. About a third of [...]
Cadence Weapon w/ Hua Li (化力) & Fat Tony @ Velvet Underground, Toronto November 3, 2018 Hua Li (化力) opened for Cadence Weapon to a crowd of about 20 people. She rapped and sang about old boyfriends and their new girls and how she is feeling [...]
Twenty One Pilots Trench Fueled By Ramen The band with the unidentifiable genre is back. Twenty One Pilots have released their fourth LP Trench after the mainstream success of their 2015 release Blurryface. Introductory track [...]
Bananarama @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto February 23, 2018 Bananarama comes to Toronto for the first time ever and greets a sold out crowd at the Danforth Music Hall during a February thaw. Immediately you notice that the crowd is made of [...]
AWOLNATION Here Come The Runts Red Bull Records Aaron Bruno comes back in a louder way since his 2015 release “Run.” The rustic and 70s inspired artwork might make listeners believe that AWOLNATION has taken a more organic route than his [...]
Flobots w/ Tropidelic @ The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto January 17, 2018 The polar vortex in Southern Ontario couldn’t keep fans of Flobots away from going to the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern for the “Rise + Shine Tour”. A small [...]
BØRNS Blue Madonna Universal Music/Interscope Records For a young man of 26, BØRNS sure knows how to make a dynamic album. Blue Madonna is his second record since 2015. Compared to his 2015 record Dopamine, Blue Madonna sounds more colourful and [...]
Silversun Pickups w/ Minus The Bear @ Rebel, Toronto November 12, 2017 A rainy, nearly above freezing night couldn’t stop true fans from going to REBEL; the newly renovated and renamed nightclub Sound Academy, for the Silversun Pickups show. [...]
Elbow w/ C Duncan @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto November 6, 2017 The nearly 100-year-old Danforth Music Hall’s iconic red, neon sign glowed with “Tonight: Elbow” on a clear, early November day. Elbow’s crowd was an average [...]
The Used The Canyon Hopeless Records “Where is the rock music these days?” millennials ask. Well, The Used are back with their first new album since 2014, The Canyon, that touches base with all eras of rock music. They take [...]
Moses Sumney w/ Angelo De Augustine @ The Mod Club Theatre, Toronto October 5, 2017 The beginning of October is the last chance to really go outside and do something at any time of day before the Canadian winter approaches; like go to a live [...]
Dan Deacon Spiderman Of The Rings Carpark Records The best way to describe the music of 2007 is that emo rock was at its peak in popularity and sound, and hip-hop was as ever present as it is today. Dan Deacon’s Spiderman of the Rings [...]
Tobacco Ripe & Majestic Rad Cult To narrow down exactly what Tobacco’s latest record, Ripe & Majestic, sounds like would be to say it’s a good combination of merging the old and the new. What I mean by that is in his songs [...]
Slow Leaves Enough About Me Independent Imagine it’s June and you’ve taken a vacation to Newfoundland and you walk into a pub with fairy lights and wood furnishings. A band is playing and it’s probably going to sound like Slow [...]
Downturns Dust Independent Brampton, Ontario based indie/post-punk band Downturns formed in 2014 and have released their second EP Dust. The lead vocalist James Murray’s voice lunges with pleading emotion and with a scatter like a ‘50s do-wop [...]
