Timber Timbre at Lee’s Palace
December 15, 2014
Photographs by Dakota Arsenault. Credit where credit is due: Timber Timbre know how to set the mood. Touring their fifth album (April 2014’s Hot Dreams), the band packed in a crowd for the second of…
Photographs by Fernando Paiz. It’s that special time of year when bands we know and love are wrapping up long and arduous touring schedules, playing shows close to home for friends and family who’ve missed…
Asking Alexandria with blessthefall at The Phoenix
December 14, 2014
Asking Alexandria performed along with bless the fall at the Phoenix concert theatre in Toronto on Friday December 12, 2014. Asking Alexandria represent everything exciting and altogether invigorating about the hardest hitting rock n’ roll, both past…
Netsky at The Hoxton
December 14, 2014
Drum and Bass (DnB) live at the Hoxton. Those words put together in that order are a recipe for an epic night of heavy bass lines, floor shaking and ground breaking energy radiating from the…
Sam Amidon at Drake Hotel
December 13, 2014
Back in Toronto’s stylish Drake Hotel’s underground after about two years, Sam Amidon, son of folk artists Peter and Mary Alice Amidon, isn’t your usual folk artist. A multi instrumentalist on the road with his…
The Hold Steady at The Horseshoe Tavern
December 12, 2014
Photographs by Ryan O’Shaughnessy. Imagine Jarvis Cocker and Jim Morrison had a baby that grew up to front The Tragically Hip in Gord Downie’s place. That is Craig Finn, and they are The Hold Steady….
Gwar with Corrosion of Conformity at The Opera House
December 11, 2014
Photographs by Dale Benvenuto. Full disclosure, I never heard Gwar before yesterday. Sure I’ve heard all about them, but never actually listened to a Gwar song. For 30 years, the Richmond, Virginia horror-metal band have…
O-Town with Todd Carey at Lee's Palace
December 10, 2014
Photographs by Angelo Marchini. A sold-out crowd lined outside Lee’s Palace on Monday, December 8th to relive their youth watching 90s boyband group O-Town. Having recently reformed after 10 years apart, with a new album,…
Cold Specks with AroarA at Lee’s Palace
December 10, 2014
Cold Specks and AroarA performed at Lee’s Palace in Toronto. The 26 year-old Canadian singer under the sobriquet Al Spx has been a byword for rare talent and depth of feeling since her arrival in late…