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For the last few year’s I have conducted my own jury pool to vote on the Polaris Music Prize nominees. Celebrating the best Canadian music has to offer, regardless of sales or genres, Polaris has…
Photos by Sean Chin. Chef’s are the new rock stars and while you don’t always get to meet your favourite rock stars you can still appreciate their work, especially close up. Touring around Ricarda’s at…
Photos by Neil Van. Hard rock comes in so many varieties, there is just about something for anyone if you want loud guitar riffs and pulsing drum beats. You can head bang, scream, mosh, do…
New York collective Merk has been gaining a ton of buzz recently with their hot video for Tear Drops. They have a brand song Loco that is just as infectious. The five piece group is…
So while I basically took all the summer off (no Tip Sheet since April) that doesn’t mean I won’t go back to doing them. Like most people summer is a busy time. You have patios…
With the recent passing of Horror legend George A. Romero, we here at Contra Zoom thought we should honour him by dedicating an episode of Make/Remake to him. In this Make/Remake series we discuss how…
Photos by Dale Benvenuto. The month of August seems like the best time for country music fans in the Toronto area, between the Boots & Hearts Festival and acts like Jason Isbell and Zac Brown…
Photos by Sean Chin & Dale Tidy. Even though this was my third time at Osheaga, I was just as excited, as I was the first time I went as a novice festie goer. One…
Photos by Janine Van Oostrom. Despite being almost forty-five minutes late there was a wondrous excitement in the air as Queen + Adam Lambert were to come out. Queen currently only subsists of two original…
