Photos by: Steve Danyleyko – Toronto-based hard rock trio Danko Jones, who released their sixth album, Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue, last October via Bad Taste Records, which was produced by Matt DeMatteo, who has worked with the band since their debut and has also worked with the likes of Barenaked Ladies, Ashley MacIsaac, and Big … Continue reading
Photos by: Steve Danyleyko – Vancouver-based blues rock trio Head of the Herd, who released their second album, By This Time Tomorrow, via Universal Music Canada, which features the title track that features Mother Mother’s Jasmin Parkin, and it was produced by Garth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Biffy Clyro), performed at The Rivoli in Toronto last night … Continue reading
Photos by: Steve Danyleyko – Community star, Donald Glover, (aka Childish Gambino), held an impromptu listening party at Trinity Bellwoods Park yesterday evening around 5pm for his new album, Because The Internet, out December 10th via Glassnote Records, which he played on a boombox Lloyd Dobler style. Afterwards, he took questions from fans about anything from … Continue reading
Photos by: Steve Danyleyko – In an evening of epic sensory exploration, Operanation: A Night of Temptation, which was held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto last night, and raised over $100,000 in support of the Canadian Opera Company’s (COC) Ensemble Studio, Canada’s premier training program for young opera professionals, was a night … Continue reading
By: Steve Danyleyko – Massey Hall once again welcomed iconic guitarist Joe Satriani for his “Unstoppable Momentum” world tour last night, in support of his fourteenth studio album of the same name that was released in May. This time round, Satriani surrounded himself with some fine talent, including Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa, Steve Vai) shifting between … Continue reading
By: Steve Danyleyko – With the familiar setting of Toronto’s Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto-based folk-rock quintet The Wooden Sky returned to where only a year ago they captured their video series of the same name last night in support of the White Ribbon Campaign to end men’s violence towards women. With a mixture of audience members from twentysomething indie fans … Continue reading
Photos by: Steve Danyleyko – The godfather of Canadian hip-hop Maestro Fresh Wes, who released his first full-length album in 13 years, Orchestrated Noise, on June 25 via Fontana North, and friends (including K-OS, Kardinal Offishall, Shad, Divine Brown, Rascalz, as well as Colin MacDonald and John-Angus MacDonald of The Trews and Lights), celebrated the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking career at Massey Hall last night.