Photos by Katrina Wong Shue Monster Energy drinks may be doing more harm to the youth of today than we’d like to admit, but I will give them credit for one thing – They sure…
Weezer and Pixies at Budweiser Stage
July 22, 2018
Photos by Randall Vasquez. Every time I don’t think I’m old, I refer to the CDs and – sigh – CASSETTES I grew up with and how a lot of them are coming up on…
Black Pistol Fire at the Phoenix Concert Theatre
June 19, 2018
I love this time of year in Toronto. It’s almost officially summer, and when the weather cooperates like it has been for the most part, there’s nothing better than walking from venue to venue when…
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS TO SPROUT AGAIN
April 13, 2018
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to experience Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live in concert, I probably don’t have to tell you how they’re one of the most intense and emotionally inspiring…
DAN AUERBACH AT THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL
April 4, 2018
I recently read how the first ever rock ’n’ roll concert was 65 years ago, officially making the genre a senior citizen. Despite not even being a twinkle in my daddy’s eye when the Moondog…
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Rebel
February 10, 2018
Photos by Angelo Marchini I’ve often wondered what possesses bands to tour in the dead of winter, especially in barren wastelands like Canada when the February chill has really set in. Aside from the fact…
LiL MIX Volume 68: Iconic Canada
July 1, 2017
After what seemed like a tepid lead-up to our country’s sesquicentennial (probably because no one wants to try even pronouncing that word), we are being inundated with all things Canadian as the big 1-5-0 rapidly…
If you ever want to get woolly rocker Warren Ellis more riled up than he can be with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, have him talk politics. The Australian-born ambidextrous instrumentalist is no doubt…
The Sad Fate of Grunge...and Chris Cornell
May 21, 2017
Pardon the expression, but the music fascination and tragedy that has always lingered around grunge never seems to want to die. The “scene” that famously percolated in early-’90s Seattle lost another of its founders recently,…