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Photographs by Maya Setton. Scanning the dusty surrounds of The Horseshoe Tavern, the range of attendees became apparent. At most gigs, a certain dominant archetype sticks out. Blonde Redhead’s fan base, however, is anything but…
Photographs by Katrina Wong Shue. Is it possible to call the show messy without negative connotations? At Lee’s Palace on the final stop of her Art of Asking book tour, Amanda Palmer may have justified…
Photographs by Dakota Arsenault. If I could suggest one thing to TV on the Radio’s already manifold stage ensemble it’d be to kit out lead singer Tunde Adebimpe with a pair of sock puppets. The…
Photograph by Neil Van taken at Field Trip 2014. It seems apt that one of the first and most prominent A Tribe Called Red singles was the intrusively catchy Electric pow wow drum. How better…
I’m fighting every instinct right now that tells me to recount instrumental post-rock band This Will Destroy You’s performance at Lee’s Palace as an extension of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. It was an emotive, powerful set…
Photographs by Maya Setton. There was a giving spirit permeating Massey Hall for the first annual Dream Serenade benefit. To give back to The Beverly Street School, an educational safe haven for developmentally challenged children, Hayden…
From EDM outsiders, there’s a constant condescending narrative that runs along the line of “anyone can press a couple of buttons” without understanding what makes a great performance. There’s a massive amount of crowd control,…
Photographs by Maya Setton. Was a brother and sister folk-blues duo from Sydney, Australia ever not gonna be unfairly charming? Young, charismatic and wryly cheeky, Angus & Julia Stone seemed the kind of act a…
Photographs by Sarah Rix. There’s something to be said for a live performance that takes you somewhere, transports you to a place beyond the stage, the crowd. When a performance really resonates with you it…
