Concert Reviews

Sam Amidon at Drake Hotel

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…

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Lydia Ainsworth at Drake Hotel

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…

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College at The Drake Hotel

Photograph by Sarah Rix.  It’s 2011. Drive comes out. A new wave of nu wave enthusiasts are born, and the fascination of old meeting new came from the stellar soundtrack that ended up helping the…

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Concert Reviews

EMA at The Drake

Photographs by Maya Setton.  “I’m having one of those days when I can’t decide if I’m Cat Power or Iggy Pop.” Remarked EMA’s lead singer Erika M. Anderson. Unerringly true, this juxtaposition permeated the set….

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Jagwar Ma at The Drake Hotel

Jagwar Ma have been a ‘buzz’ band for quite some time following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Howlin. Saturday night’s show at The Drake Underground demonstrated their fan base is about more than…

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