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…
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….
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
