Photos by Randall Vasquez What the world needs now is love, compassion and understanding. Or a good dose of Green Day on their Revolution Radio tour. The iconic ‘90s band came to Toronto’s Budweiser Stage…
Photos by Randall Vasquez Even if they haven’t put out any new music in a while, OneRepublic can draw a crowd. The pop rock group has spent the last nine years steadily making solid pop…
Photographs by Dawn Hamilton. It’s not often you get a double bill featuring a warrior dragoness and a mighty queen bee, but that’s exactly what the audience got with the Rage and Rapture Tour that…
Canon Trip: A U2 Fan Experience
“Let’s make this a canon trip” my sister says as we discuss our upcoming trip to Cleveland. “What’s a canon trip?” I ask, without thinking. She responds with a MacPhisto like grin and says in…
Royal Blood at the Velvet Underground
Photographs by Neil Van It’s a standard radio station promotional idea to offer listeners an exclusive concert with a favourite artist in an intimate venue. More daring stations add a twist. Toronto alt rock station…
Photographs by Katrina Lat. Perched beneath the words “tragedy” and “comedy,” within the walls of the ornate Royal Alexandra Theatre, Father John Misty kicked off the tour promoting his most recent album, Pure Comedy, with…
Photographs by Neil Van Aimee Mann began her Danforth Music Hall show by joking that she has a lot of new songs, but that they can stand up in her “sad and depressing” canon. Mann…
Buddy Guy at Massey Hall
Photo courtesy of Jag Gundu / Massey Hall “If you don’t like the blues, you shouldn’t have showed up here tonight.” Buddy Guy speaks plainly, and there is truth in every word. The blues guitar…
Johnnyswim and Marc Scibilia at the Velvet Underground
Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano, collectively known as Johnnyswim, made the most of their Toronto debut. The Nashville-based duo is touring to support its second full-length album, Georgica Pond. Though they are not as well-known…