Shamir with Hana at the Mod Club
November 23, 2015
Photographs by Olivia Leung. On the final night of his tour supporting his debut album Ratchet, both Shamir and his adoring clinic put on a clinic for an awesome show at the Mod Club Friday…
Sinkane with Steven A Clark at the Drake Hotel Underground
November 21, 2015
New York City’s Sinkane were here earlier this year opening for Hot Chip at the Danforth Music Hall. Their groovy Spiritualized with hints of afrobeat instantly hit all my right heart strings. Their brief set…
EL VY with Soren Juul at the Opera House
November 19, 2015
Photographs by Sarah Rix. Another reason I don’t doubt my esteemed colleague Sarah Rix is she’s the reason I ventured out last night to the Opera House to catch EL VY. Seeing the name on…
Shakey Graves with Those Darlins at The Danforth Music Hall
November 10, 2015
Photographs by Neil Van. I had never heard Shakey Graves before walking into the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto on November 8. I knew the name from this year’s Osheaga Festival, but I never ventured to…
Kurt Vile with Waxahatchee at the Phoenix Concert Theatre
October 27, 2015
Photographs by Sarah Rix. Roughly 18 months after he last packed the Phoenix in Toronto, Pennsylvania guitar guy Kurt Vile and his Violators returned packing the room again, this time armed with a new album,…
Disclosure with Claude von Stroke at the Direct Energy Centre
October 19, 2015
Photographs by Neil Van. A lot has happened for British duo Disclosure since I last saw them almost two years ago at a packed Danforth Music Sauna. Their Sam Smith-introducing “Latch” became a US Top…
Luna at the Danforth Music Hall
October 16, 2015
Even back in their day when they formed in the wake of 1991’s alternative explosion, NYC’s Luna were never fashionable. Despite falling under the “if it ain’t Genesis it’s alternative” tag, the band never really…
Protomartyr at The Horseshoe Tavern
October 13, 2015
I was supposed to catch Detroit’s Protomartyr a couple of years back when they were supporting Parquet Courts at the fabled Horseshoe Tavern but other circumstances prevented that date from happening. So it was comforting…
L7 with Sista Fista at the Danforth Music Hall
September 9, 2015
Photographs by Dawn Hamilton. The grand reunion trend continued last night bringing some extra heat to a city already baking in a late resurgence of summer. Los Angeles four-piece L7 returned to Toronto following a…