Jamie T at The Mod Club
December 9, 2014
Photographs by Sarah Rix. “It’s my birthday!” Screamed an audience member we’d later come to know as Alison. Jamie threw her a look from the stage; a gobby, arrogant smirk. And then as brash as…
Lowell at The Garrison
December 9, 2014
Lowell performed at the Garrison in Toronto on Friday December 5, 2014. Born in Calgary, she eventually migrated to the Yukon where she lived with her father in Carcross, near a mountain that once offered passage…
Wildlife, Dear Rouge, Royal Tusk, Le Trouble at The Phoenix
December 9, 2014
On December 4th, Torontonians lined up at the Phoenix to attend 102.1 The Edge’s Jingle Bell Concert Series. The line up included Le Trouble, Royal Tusk, Dear Rouge and Wildlife. Montreal-based-band, Le Trouble opened the…
Death From Above 1979, Phantogram at Sound Academy
December 8, 2014
Photographs by Sean Chin. Pairing up New York duo Phantogram with resurrected Toronto dance-punks Death From Above 1979 was ambitious in nature, but maybe not so practical in reality. A European crowd might be more…
Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Air Canada Centre
December 8, 2014
Trans-Siberian Orchestra is on a winter tour that takes them to 71 shows across North America. Only one Canadian performance north of the border was at the Air Canada Centre December 3rd. Released in…
Flosstradamus at The Danforth Music Hall
December 7, 2014
Photographs by Dakota Arsenault. As a diehard fan of the electric dance music scene, you can only imagine my excitement walking into The Danforth Music Hall to see Flosstradamus on Friday December 5th as part…
Dierks Bentley at General Motors Centre
December 7, 2014
Dierks Bentley performs in front of a sold-out General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario Canada in support of his new album ‘Riser’. In the Fall of 2010, Dierks Bentley played four shows in four nights…
Lydia Ainsworth at Drake Hotel
December 6, 2014
Composer, producer, singer extraordinaire Lydia Ainsworth has been secretly writing and recording songs over the past three years from bedrooms and basements between Toronto and Brooklyn. What began as pass-time sketches between composing music for…
Shakey Graves, Donovan Woods, Esmé Patterson at the Phoenix
December 4, 2014
Photographs by Fernando Paiz. After seeing Donovan Woods play a near-empty Drake Hotel earlier this year (then opening for Phox), it was nice to walk in on him playing to a much bigger crowd. Well,…