Anti-Venue Tour Preview
June 17, 2016
With Canada being in such close proximity to the United States, there are endless opportunities to bridge two of the most thriving music communities. Such is part of the objective of the Anti-Venue tour, a…
Bestival Toronto Day 2: The Cure, Grimes, Daughter
June 16, 2016
Review by Mehek Seyid & Dakota Arsenault + Photos by Neil Van & Sean Chin. By the time the second day rolled around, things at Bestival had changed a bit. Gone was the scorching weather…
Review by Dakota Arsenault & Mehek Seyid + Photos by Neil Van & Sean Chin. The sun was scorching, but that was the good news as it was originally supposed to thunderstorm through Saturday afternoon. Walking…
Photos by Randall Vasquez. UK ensemble Florence and the Machine returned to Toronto just one year after their initial celebration of their third album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful at last year’s Bestival. As…
Photographs by Neil Van Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm was a critical darling that perfectly encapsulated the romantic and wishfulness of youth. Since its release in the mid-2000s, the band found new sonic paths across multiple records,…
Filmed by Dawn Hamilton. Internationally acclaimed singer and songwriter Yuna sits down with LiL’s Mehek and gives us an exclusive one-on-one conversation about her new album Chapters at Canadian Music Week. They discuss her ever…
Lights discusses Midnight Machines
May 13, 2016
Filmed by Dawn Hamilton. Juno award winning artist Lights talks with Mehek during Canadian Music Week. They compare the differences between touring with a full band and with an acoustic set. She tells us about…
Skepta at the Danforth Music Hall
May 10, 2016
Photo by Sarah Rix (2015) It’s hard to imagine that mere hours before his sold-out show at the Danforth Music Hall, Skepta arrived from a whirlwind promotional effort in Japan in support of his highly…
As we approach the mid-point to 2016, there are still plenty of emerging artists on the horizon to take note of in the coming months. Universal Music Canada invited us for a sneak peek at…