Lil Dicky at The Mod Club
October 11, 2014
If Sir David Attenborough was to study the social behaviours of the great white human male, he’d find no richer environment than a Lil Dicky gig. Mod Club was plastered wall to wall with milky…
Coheed and Cambria at Kool Haus
October 3, 2014
Photographs by Sean Chin. Chances are, you don’t quite understand Coheed and Cambria. I’d consider myself a fan, having heavily thrashed most of their discography, yet admittedly I’m not sure I ever really understood them…
EMA at The Drake
October 1, 2014
Photographs by Maya Setton. “I’m having one of those days when I can’t decide if I’m Cat Power or Iggy Pop.” Remarked EMA’s lead singer Erika M. Anderson. Unerringly true, this juxtaposition permeated the set….
YACHT at The Hoxton
September 28, 2014
Photographs by Sarah Rix. Just to clarify, that was a cult meeting, right? The signs were all there: Opulent stage hangings, a dynamically charismatic central figure, the audio contract booming over the PA stating “If…
starRo at The Danforth Music Hall
September 15, 2014
Photographs by Maya Setton. It’d be absurd to describe the sound of multi-instrumentalist producer starRo (née Shinya Mizoguchi) without first addressing the sight of him. Clad in an elaborate pancho and topped with an Akubra…
Chet Faker at The Danforth Music Hall
September 15, 2014
Photographs by Maya Setton. There was a palpable air of excitement as the crowd waited for Chet Faker (Nicholas James Murphy) to take the stage. In the 3 years since his home recorded Blackstreet cover…
Metronomy, Dawn Golden at The Hoxton
September 12, 2014
Photographs by Sarah Rix. The opening of Metronomy’s Hoxton gig was like catching a storm’s first drop of rain. One moment the air was still, then the next, heavy with a deluge of sound. Slick…
Humans of Fan Expo 2014
August 31, 2014
Fan Expo is a sprawling miasma of everything pop culture. Walking the corridors and halls of the convention, the weight of what’s in front of you is hard to ignore. From the early days of…
Passenger, The Once, Stu Larsen at Sound Academy
August 17, 2014
Photographs by Neil Van. Sweet, quaint, delightful. Any and all of these adjectives could be fittingly applied to St Johns, Newfoundland folk trio The Once. It’s important to note that these words would be apt…