Dillon Francis @ The Hoxton [Show Review]

It’s a Thursday night in Toronto and the beginning of Easter Weekend as our lovely photographer, Kat Kwan and I head down to The Hoxton. It’s also, coincidentally, almost the [...]

Two Fresh @ Wrongbar 01.23.13 [Interview & Show Review]

Genre: Electronic, Trap

On the night of January 23, 2013, I had the opportunity to have a chat with Two Fresh. The twin brothers, Sherwyn and Kendrick Nicholls, were about to begin their [...]

Madeon @ The Hoxton 12.27.12 [show review]

Genre: Electronic

On Thursday, The Hoxton played host to Madeon. Toronto had been hit by its first major snowstorm of the year a day earlier, but you wouldn’t have been able to [...]

Wintersalt Music Festival – San Francisco 12/28 + 12/29 [Review]

Genre: Club, Drum & Bass, Electro House, Electronic, Hip Hop, House, Moombahton, Nu-Disco, Progressive House, Trap

This last weekend, on Friday and Saturday nights, Eye Heart SF and BLAP Productions put on a New Years Eve (almost) festival called Wintersalt. They outfitted a huge warehouse in [...]

Bassnectar @ Sound Academy 10.11.12 [Show Review]

Genre: Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Funk, Glitch Hop, Trap

  Nine o clock on a Saturday night in Toronto. The pier is quiet, and the Sound Academy is dark. The doors haven’t opened yet. A few are already in [...]

Crystal Castles @ Kool Haus 11.03.12 [show review]

Genre: Electronica, Synth Pop & Indie Dance

The beloved synth ravers returned home for an unforgettable performance at the Kool Haus. Meanwhile, the release of their third studio album draws near….

Red Bull 3Style Chicago World Finals 2012 Wrap-up

Genre: Hip Hop, Mashup

I, personally, have never heard a crowd chant “USA! USA! USA!” at anything other than a drinking competition, or an air show. The crowd at Metro sure as f*** were [...]

Red Bull 3Style World Championships Prequalifiers Night 3 Recap

Genre: Hip Hop

We are scaling a mountain, and as your personal 3style Sherpa, I think it only fair to tell you that while it looks like we have arrived at the peak [...]

Red Bull 3Style World Championships Prequalifiers Night 2 Recap

Genre: Hip Hop, Mashup

Chile, you had me at hello. And by “Chile” I mean DJ Drummer, and by “hello” I mean the Chicago Bulls theme song. These Latin Djs, amirite? I could end [...]

Red Bull 3Style Night 1 ReCap

If, at any point you were nervous about there being a lack of youth in brightly colored clothes and flat brimmed hats out dancing their asses off on a Tuesday [...]

Exit Festival Serbia day 4: Little Dragon, Knife Party, Buraka Som Sistema, Maceo Plex & more [photo gallery & editorial]

Genre: Alternative, Deep House, Dubstep, Electro House, House, Tech House

I began the fourth and last day of Exit listening to Little Dragon’s performance at the Fusion Stage, which probably could hold about 1,000 people, and was pretty full for their 10:30pm performance.

Exit Festival Serbia day 3: Plan B, Erykah Badu, Richie Hawtin, Claude VonStroke & more [photo gallery + editorial]

Genre: Dubstep, Electro House, Hip Hop, House, Tech House, Techno

By Day 3, we were all walking wounded, but had no intention of slowing down. It wasn’t so much the constant partying that had people worn down, but mostly the fact that this festival had 15 stages spread out over a kilometer.

WEMF Festival Report

Genre: Electronic

WEMF is definitely a name that goes far back into Canadian Electronic history. It’s one of the events that signals the waning of summer, but always ends it with a [...]

Mid-Season Report: Ibiza’s newest party, ENTER.

Genre: Techno

Every Thursday in the heart of Ibiza you could go out and dance to numerous international DJs in the best clubs the world has to offer. Guetta has his F*** [...]

HARD Toronto Review: Justice + M83

Genre: Electro House, Electronic

The French successfully invaded Fork York this past Saturday, leaving the local populace in disarray with ringing ears and dizzyingly good vibes. Leading the invasion were Generals Xavier De La [...]

Mad Decent Block Party 2012: Toronto [show review + photo gallery]

Genre: Dubstep, Hip Hop, Moombahton, Techno, Trap

    Strap yourself in folks, because this one is a doozy! While we’re at it, why don’t you check out the Mad Decent Block Party 2012 Mix provided by Paul [...]

Exit Festival Serbia day 2: New Order, Luciano, Netsky & more [photo gallery + editorial]

Genre: Electronic

I began my second night chilling to Hercules and Love Affair’s performance. Their three vocalists were awesome and put on a great performance for the crowd. Their down tempo disco, [...]

Exit Festival Serbia day 1: Avicii, Jacques Lu Cont, Sub Focus, TEED & more [photo gallery + editorial]

Genre: Electronic

Before I begin with my reviews of individual acts, I must make a correction with regards to my festival preview article. We inappropriately called Exit “Serbia’s biggest music festival,” when [...]

Full Flex Express tour ft. Diplo, Skrillex et al steams through Ottawa

Genre: Electronic

The second last night of the Bluesfest in Ottawa was quite possibly the loudest and most mesmerizing thanks to the tour’s conductor Sonny Moore (Skrillex). If the night was metaphorically [...]

LMFAO finish off North American tour party rocking Ottawa

Genre: Electronic

The second night of Bluesfest in Ottawa was heavily pop-infused with performances by tween favourite Carly Rae Jepsen, Dragonette, and half of the crew from LMFAO. Redfoo, the one with [...]