Photographs by Maya Setton. It’d be absurd to describe the sound of multi-instrumentalist producer starRo (née Shinya Mizoguchi) without first addressing the sight of him. Clad in an elaborate pancho and topped with an Akubra…
Photographs by Maya Setton. There was a palpable air of excitement as the crowd waited for Chet Faker (Nicholas James Murphy) to take the stage. In the 3 years since his home recorded Blackstreet cover…
Photographs by Olivia Leung. Before their performance at the Mod Club, I had the chance to talk to both a founding member, Tony Kakko, and the newcomer, Pasi Kauppinen, of Finnish metal band Sonata Arctica….
In today’s media landscape and typical music cycle, three years seems like a heck of a long time to go without playing a show in a major music market. The Boston-formed, New York-based band Hooray…
Tyler Hilton returned to Toronto on Sunday night leaving smitten twenty-something females in his wake. The California-based singer-songwriter elicited screams and squeals from the intimate, predominately female crowd at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club during…
Photographs by Lee-Ann Richer. Originally from Greece, Yanni is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer, primarily in the style of Contemporary Instrumental New Age music. He has been active for the past 34 years,…
Photographs by Neil Van. What is a good song? As subjective as this question is, we might be able to agree on couple of elements that most, if not all, “good” songs share with each…
I laid out a lot of my nostalgic feelings and memories for Panic! at the Disco when I saw them earlier this year, then playing at Toronto’s Sound Academy. While the weather’s gotten warmer and…
The Temper Trap came to Toronto to play an intimate show at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club even though they are currently not touring a new album. In fact they haven’t released an album since…
