By: Staff – North By Northeast (NXNE) has announced the inaugural year of the Club Land Curator Series. NXNE is bringing back the club-hopping wristband with a twist, offering festivalgoers the chance to discover the hottest acts brewing in Canada’s music scene. Some of the best up-and-coming bands in the country have been hand picked by a … Continue reading
Photos by: Angelo Marchini – UK folk-rock singer-songwriter Laura Marling, who released her sixth album, Semper Femina, on March 10th, 2017 via More Alarming Records, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night.
By: Staff – Much turned up the volume on Toronto’s biggest block party today, announcing the next group of talent confirmed to take the stage at the 2017 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards. Arkells, Niall Horan, and Post Malone are the latest round of chart-topping performers set to belt it out at this year’s show. Much also … Continue reading
By: Staff – The National have announced details for their highly anticipated seventh album, Sleep Well Beast, which is set for release on September 8th via 4AD. The album, which marks the band’s first album since 2013’s Trouble Will Find Me, will feature the new song “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness”, which you can stream below. The National’s Aaron Dessner … Continue reading
Photos by: Kevin Tosh – Alt-Rock singer-songwriter Thurston Moore, who is best known as the singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth, and who released his newest solo album, Rock N Roll Consciousness, on April 28th, 2017 via Harvest/Caroline Records, which was produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Paul McCartney, Florence and the Machine, Coldplay, U2), performed at Neumos in Seattle … Continue reading
By: Staff – Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical will launch in North America with a free mini-concert on Yonge Street in Toronto on May 15th, which will be closed to traffic from Shuter to Dundas for the occasion. Mayor John Tory will welcome the cast of the musical, including stars Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington, … Continue reading
Photos by: Brendan Albert – Review by: Adam Harrison – Last night, Massey Hall played host to the sweet and sad tunes of Ryan Adams. Currently touring for his sixteenth studio album, Prisoners, Adams brought us more tales of melancholy as his 2015 divorce to singer/actress Mandy Moore inspired his latest record. However, there was nothing but love for Adams … Continue reading
Photos by: David Scala – New Jersey-based indie rock band Real Estate, who released their fourth album, In Mind, on March 17th, 2017 via Domino, which followed up their 2014 album, Atlas, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with New York City-based indie rock singer-songwriter Frankie Cosmos (aka Greta Kline, the daughter of Academy … Continue reading
By: Staff – Radiohead fans have always wondered where the highway on the cover of OK Computer was supposed to be, but figured the image was too fuzzy to identify — it may have even been a drawing for all we know. However, after Radiohead released concept art from the OK Computer era that showed more details … Continue reading
Photos by: Nicole De Khors – Ann Arbor, Michigan-based funk band Vulfpeck, who released their newest album, The Beautiful Game, in 2016, which followed up their 2015 album, Thrill of the Arts, performed at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto last night with Los Angeles-based R&B/Soul singer-songwriter Joey Dosik, who released his newest EP, Game Winner, on … Continue reading