Genre: Electronic
Category: Show Review
Designer Drugs Play Mod Club Friday the 13th
Editors note: Nicholas Firan provided photos of the night – you can view them in full quality here. I consider myself very lucky to have seen Designer Drugs tear up Webster Hall in New York City twice this year, both times having left with fond memories and ears ringing. With that in mind I had been looking forward to this show for a few weeks now, and judging from the...
Genre: Electronic
Category: Show Review
Grum Destroys Wrongbar
Saturday July 24th will always be remembered as a hot, sticky day. The outlook throughout the day was rather glum. The wall of rain that soaked Toronto during the afternoon was definitely a worry with many people thinking of reconsidering their plans for the night. For others, the showers was not going to pose a problem. By 10:30 the line wasn’t huge at all, but the...
Genre: Alternative
Category: Featured Artist, Show Review
Listen to new shit: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
I recently visited Halifax and really really liked it; alot more than a Toronto-snob grade 12-version of myself would. In the over-saturated music market that is Toronto, we often lose sight that music is not just about bands coming to YOU in the biggest city in Canada. In a smaller town, bands come through less often, but the shows are usually in better venues and to...
Genre: Alternative
Category: Concert Footage, Show Review
The Heavy Perform at Breaks, Beats, & Culture (HD Video...
I had the opportunity to hit up Breaks, Beats, & Culture last weekend, and see a host of fantastic (and free) shows on their stage. The Heavy, who I started following a couple years back after a show at Lee’s Palace with the Elastocitizens. They’re a sick blend of bluesy rock, with funk, soul, and hard rock undertones. The only thing that’s truly heavy about...
Genre: Electronic
Category: Concert Footage, Features, Show Review
Wolfgang Gartner Plays Mod Club (HD Video)
If you were one of the unfortunate few not at the Mod Club two nights ago, I have bad news for you: you missed what is definitively the best DJ set I have seen in the last three years. Wolfgang Gartner took the electro scene by storm last year with his #1 selling (2009) track on Beatport ‘Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony’. He had a string of other hits last year,...
Genre: Hip Hop
Category: Concert Footage, NXNE 2010, Show Review
De La Soul Plays Yonge and Dundas Square June 20th During NX...
On June 20th, one of the greatest hip hop groups of all time took the stage at Yonge and Dundas Square in front of an audience of such a size rivalled only by that of Iggy Pop’s crowd the night before. To say that the De La Soul set was the most hype hip hop party I’ve ever been to is no hyperbole. As a matter of fact, I have truly never seen such masterful performers...
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Category: Concert Footage, NXNE 2010, Show Review
Kid Sister Plays Yonge and Dundas Square June 20th During NX...
The Kid Sister show was one that I looked forward to with some pause for concern. I had only familiarity with but three tracks and as many comments about her stage show to go on. Now that I’ve seen her show my perception of her music hasn’t changed, which is probably a good thing. Her performance was pretty legit, and she is indeed a good enough rapper. Her presence on...
Genre: Alternative
Category: Concert Footage, NXNE 2010, Show Review
Wavves Plays Yonge and Dundas Square June 19 During NXNE 201...
Wavves took the big stage on a hot afternoon following Surfer Blood’s set, and from the minute they took the stage until their last, they oozed Wayne’s World. I hadn’t heard them before, but their garage band’esque lo-fi rhythms and stage personality more than made up for my ability to sing along with their tracks. A friend who had seen them earlier in the...
Genre: Alternative
Category: Music Videos, Show Review
Arcade Fire Plays Danforth Music Hall Saturday June 12th
The Arcade Fire’s first full length, Funeral, reached its height at the same time that the rest of the world started asking themselves, “What is Paul Martin putting in the water?” about Canadian music. Good old 2004. The band exploded the already healthy and somewhat envied Montreal music scene wide open on to the rest of the country and continent. Their sophomore album...
Genre: Alternative
Category: Concert Footage, NXNE 2010, Show Review
Surfer Blood Plays Yonge and Dundas Square June 19 During NX...
The afternoon of the 19th was a hot one at the free NXNE 2010 stage in Yonge and Dundas Square. The sun was between two buildings for several hours, and was beating down on the concert goers from the cloudless sky. Surfer Blood was the first act for me this particular afternoon, though bands had been playing all day. They were introduced by Damien from Fucked Up who labelled them...
