Photos by: Brandon Newfield – Danish pop/soul band Lukas Graham, who released their second album, Blue Album, on June 16th, 2015 via Warner Bros., which featured the singles “Mama Said”, “Strip No More”, “7 Years”, “You’re Not There”, and “Take the World by Storm”, and which followed up their 2012 self-titled debut album, performed at Rebel in Toronto last night with … Continue reading
Photos by: Daniel Hager – Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli, who released his newest mixtape, Awful People Are Great at Parties, in October 2016, which featured production by 6th Sense, J Rhodes, Sir Tim, Cory Mo, Phil 4 Real, Hi Tek, Thanks Joey, Kaytranada, J Dilla, and Thaddeus Dixon, performed at the Showbox in Seattle on January 24th with hip-hop artist K. Valentine, and rapper Styles P, who … Continue reading
Photos by: Andrew Gomez – Los Angeles-based alt rock band Silversun Pickups, who released their fourth album, Better Nature, on September 25th, 2015 via New Machine Recordings, which was produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M., Weezer, One Direction, Taylor Swift), performed at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles last night.
Photos by Callie Craig – Indie Rock singer-songwriter Lady Lamb, who released her second EP, Tender Warriors Club, on December 1st, 2016 via Mom + Pop, performed at the Hideout in Chicago last night.
Photos by: Janine Van Oostrom – Vancouver-based indie rock quintet Mother Mother, who will release their sixth album, No Culture, on February 10th via Universal Music Canada, which will follow up their 2014 album, Very Good Bad Thing, performed at 102.1 The Edge in Toronto last night!
Photos by: Timothy Nguyen – Multi-platinum-selling alt-rock band AFI, who released their newest album, AFI (The Blood Album), on January 20th, 2017, which featured the songs “Snow Cats” and “White Offerings”, and which followed up their 2013 album, Burials, performed at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver last night with indie pop band The Chain Gang of 1974, … Continue reading
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – Indie Rock band Cherry Glazerr, who released their newest album, Apocalipstick, on January 20th, 2017 via Secretly Canadian, where the band again worked with Joe Chicarelli (The White Stripes, The Shins, The Strokes) and Carlos de la Garza (Bleached, M83, Tegan and Sara), performed at the Velvet Underground in Toronto last night with Los … Continue reading
Photos by: Brendan Albert – UK singer-songwriter Tom Chaplin, who is best known as the frontman of Grammy-nominated alt-rock band Keane, and who released his debut solo album, The Wave, on October 14th, 2016 via Island, performed at the Mod Club in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Katie Kuropas – UK folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner, who released his sixth album, Positive Songs for Negative People, on August 7th, 2015 via Xtra Mile, which featured the singles “The Next Storm”, and “Josephine”, performed at the House of Blues in Chicago last night with Hamilton-based alt-rock band Arkells, who released their new album, Morning Report, on August 5th, 2016, which featured … Continue reading
Photos by: Katrina Lat – New York City-based indie rock band The Lemon Twigs, who released their debut album, Do Hollywood, in October 2016, which was produced by Jonathan Rado of indie-rock band Oxygen, and which featured the singles “These Words”, and “As Long As We’re Together”, performed at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto last night with Toronto-based indie rock band Sportsfan, who … Continue reading